15.755 Compensation of Commonwealth's attorney and staff -- Monthly expense
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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 consolidated local government, a city with a
population equal to or greater than twenty-five thousand (25,000) based on the most
recent federal decennial census, or an urban-county government, or a city with a
population equal to or greater than eight thousand (8,000) but less than twenty
thousand (20,000) based on the most recent federal decennial census 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.