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Sec. 24-9. Limitation of confinement for failure to pay fine
and costs.[385]

If any person is confined in jail until his fine and costs, or
costs where there is no fine, are paid, such confinement shall
not exceed five days when the fine and costs, or costs where
there is no fine, are less than five dollars, when less than ten
dollars it shall not exceed ten days, when less than twenty-five
dollars it shall not exceed fifteen days, when less than
fifty dollars it shall not exceed thirty days, and in no case
shall the confinement exceed two months. (Code 1959, § 24-9.)