11-601. County charges

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County charges are:

1. Charges against the county incurred by virtue of any provision of this title.

2. Salaries of county and precinct officers, deputies and employees and necessary expenses incurred in the conduct of their offices.

3. Expenses necessarily incurred in the support of persons charged with or convicted of crime and committed therefor to the county jail.

4. Sums required by law to be paid to grand and trial jurors and indigent witnesses in criminal actions.

5. Compensation of interpreters in the prosecution or defense of criminal actions who have been appointed by the presiding judge of the superior court as official interpreters for justice courts and courts of record of their county. Such interpreters shall be paid such salaries as the board of supervisors may determine.

6. Necessary expenses for the support of county hospitals and indigent sick whose support is chargeable to the county.

7. Compensation of physicians for making examinations in insanity cases upon the request or order of the superior court.

8. Contingent expenses necessarily incurred for the use and benefit of the county.

9. Every other sum directed by law to be raised for a county purpose or declared to be a county charge.