15.755 Compensation of Commonwealth's attorney and staff -- Monthly expense allowance -- Compensation adjusted -- Private law practice regulated. - Kentucky Statutes

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15.755 Compensation of Commonwealth's attorney and staff -- Monthly expense allowance -- Compensation adjusted -- Private law practice regulated. (1) The compensation of each Commonwealth's attorney shall be paid out of the State Treasury. (2) The compensation of the staff of each Commonwealth's attorney shall be paid out of the State Treasury. (3) In each judicial circuit containing a city of the first or second class or an urban- county government, or a city of the third class and a population of sixty-eight
thousand (68,000) or more, or which has a full-time Commonwealth's attorney, the
Commonwealth's attorney shall not engage in the private practice of law. The
population of a judicial circuit shall, for the purpose of this statute, be determined
by the most recent federal decennial census enumeration. All other
Commonwealth's attorneys shall not be prohibited from engaging in the private
practice of law. (4) Each Commonwealth's attorney who is prohibited from engaging in the private practice of law shall receive as compensation for his services the sum of twenty-six
thousand dollars ($26,000) per annum. (5) Each Commonwealth's attorney who is not prohibited from engaging in the private practice of law shall receive as compensation for his services the sum of fourteen
thousand three hundred dollars ($14,300) per annum. (6) Each full-time Commonwealth's attorney of the state shall be paid each month the sum of one thousand dollars ($1,000) and each part-time Commonwealth's attorney
shall be paid each month the sum of five hundred dollars ($500), which sums are
declared to be the equivalent of the minimum sums that each Commonwealth's
attorney will expend each month in the performance of his official duties directed to
be performed for the Commonwealth. The aforementioned sum shall be paid out of
the State Treasury. (7) In order to equate the compensation of Commonwealth's attorneys with the purchasing power of the dollar, the Department for Local Government shall
compute by the second Friday in February of every year the annual increase or
decrease in the consumer price index of the preceding year by using 1949 as the
base year in accordance with Section 246 of the Constitution of Kentucky which
provides that the above elected officials shall be paid at a rate no greater than twelve
thousand dollars ($12,000) per annum. The Department for Local Government shall
notify the appropriate governing bodies charged by law to fix the compensation of
the above elected officials of the annual rate of compensation to which the elected
officials are entitled in accordance with the increase or decrease in the consumer
price index. Upon notification from the Department for Local Government, the
appropriate governing body may set the annual compensation of the above elected
officials at a rate no greater than that stipulated by the Department for Local
Government. Effective: July 15, 2010
History: Amended 2010 Ky. Acts ch. 117, sec. 16, effective July 15, 2010. -- Amended 2007 Ky. Acts ch. 47, sec. 8, effective June 26, 2007. -- Amended 2002 Ky. Acts ch. 182, sec. 1, effective July 15, 2002. -- Amended 1998 Ky. Acts ch. 69, sec. 3,
effective July 15, 1998. -- Amended 1996 Ky. Acts ch. 175, sec. 1, effective July 15,
1996. -- Amended 1994 Ky. Acts ch. 508, sec. 4, effective July 15, 1994.