Code of Alabama
Ala. Code § 14-6-96 (2026)
Fumigation of Jails, Etc., Where Persons with Infectious, Etc., Diseases Confined.
✓ official Alabama Legislature (ALISON) text, current July 2026
Any apartment of any jail, prison or almshouse in which any person affected with any infectious, contagious or communicable disease shall have been confined shall be fumigated immediately upon the removal of such person, the fumigation to be done under the direction of the sheriff, chief of police or town marshal or the keeper or manager of the almshouse, in their respective places, and the expense thereof to be paid out of the funds of the county if the institution be a county institution and of the town or city if the institution be a town or city institution.
(Acts 1911, No. 303, p. 356; Code 1923, §4869; Code 1940, T. 45, §175.)
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 1
case, 1980–1980 · leading case: Nicholson v. Choctaw Cnty., Ala., 498 F. Supp. 295 (S.D. Ala. 1980).
Nicholson v. Choctaw Cnty., Ala., 498 F. Supp. 295 (S.D. Ala. 1980). “The plaintiffs’ eighth cause of action against Sheriff Donald Lolley and the Board of Corrections arises under Alabama Code § 14-6-96 and § 14-3-41, which require the sheriff to fumigate the jail periodically and to remove the prisoners found to have contagious diseases.”
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