Said funds shall be expended in such manner as shall be fixed, and in accordance with such rules and regulations as shall be adopted, by resolution of the board, by such officers as the board shall by resolution determine; provided any cash allowance to a prisoner shall be made only after individual study of the needs and merits of each case, and, provided, further, that no cash allowance to a discharged jail prisoner shall exceed $25.00, to be paid on the day of discharge. The board may contract with an incorporated welfare or charitable group organized for the rehabilitation of indigent discharged jail prisoners.

L.1973, c. 24, s. 2, eff. Feb. 8, 1973.