Section 15-12-26

Contract counsel system — Commission to choose counsel; employment contract.

(a) In any county or circuit where a contract counsel system is chosen as a method of providing indigent defense, the circuit indigent defense commission shall choose one or more contract counsel.

(b) Each contract counsel chosen shall be employed pursuant to a contract containing terms and conditions as deemed necessary between the attorney, firm, association, corporation, or partnership, as the case may be, and the circuit indigent defense commission. The contract shall be subject to the approval of the presiding circuit judge. Unless the contract is disapproved by the presiding circuit judge within 30 days of the execution of the contract on behalf of the circuit indigent defense commission, the contract shall be deemed approved.

(Acts 1995, No. 95-757, p. 1770, §2.)