642.01 LOCKUPS; ESTABLISHMENT. The governing body of any city may purchase, build, or lease, maintain, and regulate, one or more lockups for the detention of persons charged with offenses against its ordinances and bylaws, or for the confinement of persons sentenced to imprisonment for violation of these ordinances and bylaws. Under regulations prescribed by the […]
642.02 CONSTRUCTION, REPAIR; PRESENCE OF JAILER. Subdivision 1. Approval, standards required. The commissioner of corrections shall not approve any plan for the construction of a lockup, or repairs to an existing lockup at an estimated cost of more than $5,000, unless the plan meets the standards established by the commissioner’s rules. Subd. 2. Jailer or […]
642.03 TEMPORARY POLICE STATIONS AND LOCKUPS IN CERTAIN CASES IN CITIES OF FIRST CLASS. When, in the opinion of the board of police commissioners of any city of the first class in the state, or of any board of the city having charge, control, and direction of the administration of the police department of the […]
642.04 PRISONERS SENT TO JAILS OUTSIDE CITY. When, in any statutory or home rule charter city, no jail exists, which in the judgment of the city council, or other governing body, is sufficient or suitable for the detention of persons lawfully under arrest in the city, the council, or other governing body, may cause persons […]
642.05 LAWFUL CUSTODY OF PERSON. The detention or imprisonment of any person lawfully arrested in one city but detained or imprisoned in another under the provisions of this section and section 642.04 shall in no manner jeopardize the lawful custody or detention of such person. History: (10880) 1921 c 251 s 2
642.06 COUNTY JAIL; USE BY CITY OF FIRST CLASS. Any city of the first class in this state, now or hereafter operating under a home rule charter, and now or hereafter containing a city hall building on land contiguous to the county courthouse and jail grounds, may enter into contract with the county in which […]
642.07 CHIEF OF POLICE; DUTIES. The chief of police shall cause every lockup under the chief’s care, and the bedding therein, to be kept clean, wholesome, and free from vermin. The lockup shall be kept in good repair and maintained so as to protect the health, comfort, safety, and well-being of inmates and staff. Each […]
642.08 JAILER FOR OPPOSITE SEX; COMPENSATION, DUTIES. The chief executive officer of every city having a lockup shall appoint some competent person of good character and of the sex other than that of the chief of police as a jailer, who shall have exclusive charge of all persons of the jailer’s sex committed thereto, and […]
642.09 INSPECTION; AGENT OF COMMUNITY HEALTH BOARD; SHERIFF. The agent of a community health board as authorized under section 145A.04 of every city having a lockup shall inspect the same once a year, with reference to its sanitary condition, make a written report thereof to the commissioner of corrections upon blanks furnished by the commissioner, […]
642.10 CONDEMNATION OF LOCKUP. When the commissioner of corrections shall become satisfied, from the report of a local agent of a community health board as authorized under section 145A.04 or sheriff or from the report of any agent the commissioner may appoint and authorize to examine lockups, or from the commissioner’s inspection that any lockup […]
642.11 CONDEMNATION; HOW ENFORCED. If any lockup condemned by the commissioner of corrections shall thereafter be used while the order of condemnation is in force, it shall be the duty of the commissioner to bring an action in the district court in the county where the lockup is, for the purpose of enforcing the order […]
642.12 INMATES; LIQUOR AND CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES; PROHIBITION. No sheriff, jailer, police officer, or other person in charge of any jail or lockup, under any pretense, shall give, sell, or deliver to any prisoner therein any contraband, as defined in section 641.165, subdivision 1, unless a reputable physician certifies in writing that the health of such […]
642.13 PENALTIES. Every sheriff, jailer, police officer, or other officer or person in charge of any jail or lockup who shall violate any preceding provision of this chapter shall, for each such violation, be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on a second conviction shall be adjudged to be incapable of holding the office of sheriff, […]
