{"data":{"id":"us-ky/krs-78.5302","jurisdiction":"us-ky","citation":"KRS 78.5302","heading":"Duties of county attorney as employer.","body":"(1) Any county attorney who employs persons paid from the county attorney's\ndelinquent tax fees, from federal or state grant funds received for the county\nattorney's delinquent child support collection responsibilities, or from any other\nfunding source not sub ject to the control of the fiscal court, urban -county\ngovernment, or Prosecutors Advisory Council, or any county attorney who\nsupplements the wages of a County Employees Retirement System or Kentucky\nEmployees Retirement System member from these sources, s hall participate as an\nemployer in the County Employees Retirement System or the Kentucky Employees\nRetirement System in the manner prescribed in this section.\n(2) It shall be the responsibility of each county attorney, participating as an employer in\nthe County Employees Retirement System or the Kentucky Employees Retirement\nSystem, to determine membership in the appropriate retirement system for each\nemployee being paid in the manner described in subsection (1) of this section. In\nmaking this determinatio n, the participating county attorney shall consider whether\nthe job function of each affected employee is related to the prosecutorial duties of\nthe county attorney's office and is therefore subject to Kentucky Employees\nRetirement System membership, or th e legal representation of the fiscal court and\nother county officers and is therefore subject to County Employees Retirement\nSystem membership, and the county attorney shall certify the same to the board on\nforms provided by the board. For persons already participating in the County\nEmployees Retirement System or the Kentucky Employees Retirement System,\nwhose wages are supplemented by the participating county attorney, the county\nattorney shall make the required contributions for the supplementary wages to  the\nperson's current retirement system.","path":["KRS Chapter 78"],"source_url":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/statutes/statute.aspx?id=24725","current_through":"Includes enactments through the 2026 Regular Session","vintage":"09/05/2026","retrieved_at":"2026-09-05T20:49:38Z","sha256":"fe30e96a0872f8276fa94f2c6c1ad7c15e4ffab5b8a916e3919c62f22f70eb47","source_id":"us-ky","stale":false,"prev":"us-ky/krs-78.530","next":"us-ky/krs-78.531"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}