KRS 15.757: Procedure for voluntarily changing status from part -time to full -time

Commonwealth's attorney.

(1) (a) Any part-time Commonwealth's attorney may voluntarily become a full -time

Commonwealth's attorney effective January 1, 1997, or at the beginning of

any subsequent budget cycle by:

1. Not engaging in the private practice of law after the time he becomes a

full-time Commonwealth's attorney; and

2. By giving written notice to the Prosecutors Advisory Council not less

than ninety (90) days prior to the begi nning of the budget cycle at which

he is to become a full-time Commonwealth's attorney, of his intention to

do so.

(b) The Prosecutors Advisory Council shall review all requests from part -time

Commonwealth's attorneys and shall approve such requests based on available

funds, population, caseload data, and other relevant information.

(2) A circuit which has been authorized to have a full -time Commonwealth's attorney

shall not revert to part-time status for that position.