§ 1.24.040. Failure to pay or secure a fine—Commitment to workhouse.

Upon the failure of any person to pay or secure any fine imposed by a judge of Division I, Division II or Division III of the metropolitan courts, he shall be committed to the metropolitan workhouse and there required to perform such manual labor as may be required of him until such fine is paid off at the rate provided for county workhouses in Tennessee Code Annotated, or any amendments thereto. No prisoner shall be discharged upon the act of insolvency nor before such fine has been worked out, fully paid or secured, or unless he is pardoned or paroled in accordance with the provisions of the Metropolitan Charter.

(Prior code § 1-1-8)