Section 14-3-48 Employment - Exemptions; holidays. - Alabama Statutes

Section 14-3-48

Employment - Exemptions; holidays.

No convict shall be required to perform any labor or task for which he has been declared unfit or incapable by a physician employed by the Board of Corrections. Convicts sentenced to the penitentiary, or to hard labor for the county, shall not be required to work on Sunday, Christmas Day, the Fourth of July or on Thanksgiving Day; provided, however, that convicts may be required to work and perform any labor or task necessary to the health and welfare of the convicts confined in the prisons of Alabama, and such convicts so required shall be given a holiday for every such Sunday, Christmas Day, the Fourth of July or Thanksgiving Day upon which they are required to work.

(Code 1886, §§6541, 6544; Code 1896, §§4619, 4655; Code 1907, §§4487, 4490; Code 1923, §§3637, 3640; Code 1940, T. 45, §50; Acts 1953, No. 834, p. 1125.)