30:8-19 - Resolution of board of chosen freeholders to take over custody of jails; filing; effect - New Jersey Statutes

30:8-19.  Resolution of board of chosen freeholders to take over custody of  jails;  filing;  effect
    It shall be lawful for the board of chosen freeholders of any county in this  state to assume and thereafter to exercise the custody, rule, keeping and  charge of the county jails in their respective counties, and of the prisoners  therein, whenever any such board shall decide, by the affirmative votes of  two-thirds of all its members, so to do, and shall file a certificate of such  decision attested by the director and the clerk of such board, in the office of  the secretary of state.  When such certificate shall have been so filed, the  custody, rule, keeping and charge of the county jail in such county shall be no  longer in the sheriff of that county, but in the board of chosen freeholders  thereof, and in such jailer, keeper or warden as they shall appoint for that  purpose.