KRS 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 r egulations 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.