KRS 15.765: Salary of county attorney -- Expense allowance -- Compensation adjustment

-- Private practice of law permitted.

(1) Each county attorney shall receive for prosecutorial duties an annual salary to be

paid out of the State Treasury which shall be th e total compensation as county

attorney which he received during the calendar year 1976, but which in no event

shall be less than twenty thousand dollars ($20,000); except, however, the annual

salary of each county attorney shall be equal to that of each C ommonwealth's

attorney who is not prohibited from the private practice of law as provided in KRS

15.755(5), effective January 1, 1990.

(2) Each county attorney shall be paid each month the sum of five hundred dollars

($500), which sum is declared to be the equivalent of the minimum sum that each

county 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.

(3) In order to equate the compensation of county 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 Gov ernment 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 pursuant to 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.

(4) The county attorney shall not be prohibited from engaging in the private practice of

law.