Ark. Code Ann. § 14-14-1212: Coroner medicolegal death investigation training - Authorization for salary adjustment for certified county coroner - Definition

(a) As used in this section, "certified county coroner" means a county coroner who has obtained a certificate of satisfactory participation and completion of medicolegal death investigation training from the Arkansas Commission on Law Enforcement Standards and Training under § 14-15-308 or a certificate in medicolegal death investigation from an agency approved by the American Board of Medicolegal Death Investigators.

(b) The quorum court of each county that has a certified county coroner is authorized to fix by ordinance the annual salary of a certified county coroner within the schedule of maximum salaries under § 14-14-1204 .

(c) Beginning September 1, 2017, and on each September 1 thereafter, the compensation schedule prepared under § 14-14-1210(c) shall reflect a separate maximum annual salary for a certified county coroner with a salary adjustment made under subsection (b) of this section and § 14-14-1204(i) .