Okla. Stat. tit. 57, § 57-69
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Meals for county jail and correctional facilities
Official statutory text
personnel.
In order to protect the health and safety of certain law
enforcement personnel and the citizens of this state, and to provide
the state with the benefit of proper security within the county
jails and correctional facilities of this state, all jailers, jail
directors, keepers of the jail, sheriffs, deputies, correctional
employees, or any other law enforcement personnel working within the
county jail or correctional facility may, upon the approval of the
sheriff or facility head, be served the same meals served to the
prisoners within such county jail or correctional facility. There
shall be no cost to the law enforcement personnel for such meals.
The county sheriff or facility head shall pay for these meals out of
the funds appropriated to the county sheriffs or the State
Department of Corrections. The county and all of its officers and
agents are hereby prohibited from recouping the cost of such meals
either directly or indirectly or otherwise considering such costs or
their impact when establishing the charges to municipalities for
housing municipal prisoners in the county jail; provided, a
municipality may negotiate the manner of establishing such charges.
In order to protect the health and safety of certain law
enforcement personnel and the citizens of this state, and to provide
the state with the benefit of proper security within the county
jails and correctional facilities of this state, all jailers, jail
directors, keepers of the jail, sheriffs, deputies, correctional
employees, or any other law enforcement personnel working within the
county jail or correctional facility may, upon the approval of the
sheriff or facility head, be served the same meals served to the
prisoners within such county jail or correctional facility. There
shall be no cost to the law enforcement personnel for such meals.
The county sheriff or facility head shall pay for these meals out of
the funds appropriated to the county sheriffs or the State
Department of Corrections. The county and all of its officers and
agents are hereby prohibited from recouping the cost of such meals
either directly or indirectly or otherwise considering such costs or
their impact when establishing the charges to municipalities for
housing municipal prisoners in the county jail; provided, a
municipality may negotiate the manner of establishing such charges.
Status: in_force · Read it on the official government site
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