Kan. Stat. Ann. § 28-222
The board of county commissioners may employ a cook and an assistant for the county jail at a reasonable wage and shall pay all expenses for feeding the prisoners in the county jail. No contract shall ever be made with the sheriffs for feeding such prisoners.
L. 1937, ch. 233, § 15; L. 1943, ch. 164, § 13; L. 1947, ch. 253, § 13; L. 1949, ch. 266, § 15; L. 1971, ch. 137, § 1; July 1.