196.160 Appointment of personnel for each institution -- Dress and grooming requirements -- Contributions to hazardous duty retirement program -- Career retention program. - Kentucky Statutes

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196.160 Appointment of personnel for each institution -- Dress and grooming requirements -- Contributions to hazardous duty retirement program --
Career retention program. (1) The commissioner shall appoint a warden, a receiver, and other necessary employees for each of the state penal and correctional institutions. The
compensation of these officers and employees may include maintenance. The
commissioner may require these officers and employees to wear uniforms and to
adopt, amend, or rescind administrative regulations governing dress and grooming
standards of these uniformed officers and employees. (2) The department shall make the contributions required by KRS 61.592 for participation in the hazardous duty retirement program by its employees in those
positions in state correctional institutions and the Kentucky Correctional Psychiatric
Center with duties that regularly and routinely require face-to-face contact with
inmates. (3) For those employees included in subsection (2) of this section and those whose primary workplace is a state correctional institution or the Kentucky Correctional
Psychiatric Center, the department shall institute a career retention program,
including salary improvements earned through extended time in qualifying public
service. Salary improvements shall be effected by increasing the base salary of each
employee in the career retention program by a set monthly amount after the
employee's completion of the first two (2), four (4), six (6), eight (8), and ten (10)
years of employment served after, and not prior to, July 1, 2002. The amount of the
base salary increase to be awarded an employee after the employee's completion of
a qualifying amount of public service under this subsection shall be as set out in the
executive branch budget for each biennium following the 2002-2004 biennium in an
amount calculated to recruit and retain qualified correctional personnel. Salary
increases required by this subsection shall be in addition to any other increase
authorized by law. Effective: July 15, 2002
History: Amended 2002 Ky. Acts ch. 219, sec. 1, effective July 15, 2002. -- Amended 1992 Ky. Acts ch. 211, sec. 32, effective July 14, 1992; and ch. 445, sec. 3, effective
July 14, 1992. -- Amended 1990 Ky. Acts ch. 460, sec. 2, effective July 13, 1990. --
Amended 1984 Ky. Acts ch. 401, sec. 1, effective July 13, 1984. -- Amended 1982
Ky. Acts ch. 344, sec. 12, effective July 15, 1982. -- Amended 1962 Ky. Acts
ch. 106, Art. X, sec. 6. -- Amended 1958 Ky. Acts ch. 126, sec. 25. -- Amended 1952
Ky. Acts ch. 50, sec. 31. -- Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective
October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 216aa-8.