§36-22-6. Payment of expenses of special investigations; when investigations to be instituted by county solicitors.

(a) The expense of a special investigation when ordered as provided in Section 36-22-5 shall be paid from the county treasury, upon a warrant properly drawn. After the report is made, the sheriff shall file with the county commission a detailed sworn statement of his expenses accompanied by the written approval of the officer directing the investigations, and the county commission shall audit and allow only so much thereof as it shall find reasonably necessary unless it is approved by the Governor or Attorney General, in which event they shall allow the amount approved. The allowed expenses must be paid in each case from the county treasury upon a warrant drawn according to law.

(b) Every district attorney shall direct the sheriff to make an investigation and report as provided in Section 36-22-5 when a written request to that effect setting forth the alleged violation of the law is presented to him signed by 25 reputable citizens of the county.

(Acts 1909, No. 81, p. 107, §2; Code 1923, §10191; Code 1940, T. 54, §10.)