(a) The Sheriff of Pickens County is authorized to operate a jail store andcontract telephone installation for inmates within the confines of the countyjail. The jail store and inmate telephones shall be operatedto serve the needsof the county jail population.(b) Any and all monies collected under subsection (a) shall be deposited bythe Sheriff of Pickens County, or his or her appointed agent, in any banklocated in Pickens County selected by the sheriff into a fund known as thesheriff’s jail fund.(c) The sheriff’s jail fund, as provided in subsection (b), shall be drawnupon by the Sheriff of Pickens County, or his or her appointed agent, and shall be used exclusively for law enforcement purposes in the public’s interest in the discharge of the sheriff’soffice as the sheriff sees fit.(d) Any and all monies collected as outlined in subsection (a) prior to May22, 1997, shall be transferred into the sheriff’s jail fund created by this section.(e) The establishment of the sheriff’s jail fund as provided in thissection and the use of the funds shall in no way diminish or take the place ofany other source of income nd created by this section.(e) The establishment of the sheriff’s jail fund as provided in thissection and the use of the funds shall in no way diminish or take the place ofany other source of income established for the sheriff or the operation of hisor her office.(f) The Department of Examiners of Public Accounts is authorized to auditthe monies annually and submit a copy of the audit to the sheriff within 30days of its completion.(Act 97–534, p. 935, §§ 1–6.)
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