2013 Kentucky Revised Statutes CHAPTER 441 - JAILS AND COUNTY PRISONERS 441.115 Jail staff training program -- Jailer's training expense allowance -- Eligibility allowance.
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441.115 Jail staff training program -- Jailer's training expense allowance -Eligibility allowance.
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For the purpose of raising the level of competence of jailers and jail personnel,
the department shall maintain a jail staff training program to provide training for
jailers and jail personnel consistent with the standards promulgated pursuant to
KRS 441.055 and shall keep records of jailers and jail personnel who
satisfactorily complete basic and annual continuing education. The training
program shall include training on the human immunodeficiency virus infection
and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome approved by the Cabinet for Health
and Family Services. A curriculum advisory committee composed of jailers,
their representatives, and recognized professionals in the field of jail
administration shall advise the department concerning the training needs of
jailers and jail personnel. The jail staff training program shall be directed and
staffed by knowledgeable persons who have sufficient experience, training,
and education in jail operations. The department shall not charge a fee for
training jailers, their deputies, or jailers-elect.
Beginning in August, 1982, each jailer shall receive an expense allowance to
help defray the costs of his participation in the jail staff training program. The
expense allowance shall be in the amount of three hundred dollars ($300) per
month payable out of the State Treasury. Expense allowance payments shall
be discontinued if the jailer fails to satisfactorily complete annual continuing
training. Expense allowance payments shall be resumed following a
discontinuance for failure to satisfactorily complete basic or annual training only
upon the jailer's satisfactory completion of the training.
The allowance authorized in subsections (2) and (4) of this section shall be
considered as operating expenses of the jailer's office and shall not be
considered as part of his compensation. Jailers shall not be required to keep
records verifying the expenditures from the allowance provided by the state.
In order to receive the expense allowance for their first year in office, jailers
who have been elected to office for the first time, shall, before taking office,
successfully complete a training program designed for new jailers and
conducted by the personnel of the jail staff training program. This provision
shall not apply if the jailer-elect is ill and unable to complete the training before
taking office. In such cases, the jailer-elect shall successfully complete a new
jailer training program during his first year in office in order to receive the
expense allowance. The county or urban-county government in which the
jailer-elect serves shall pay out of the jail budget, once he takes office, all
necessary and reasonable travel expenses incurred by the jailer-elect in
attending the new jailer training program.
All jailers shall successfully complete the training required. If a jailer does not
successfully complete the required training within the time specified, he or she
shall not receive the expense allowance specified in subsection (2) of this
section until he or she successfully completes the required training.
Effective:June 26, 2007
History: Amended 2007 Ky. Acts ch. 85, sec. 324, effective June 26, 2007. -Amended 2005 Ky. Acts ch. 99, sec. 652, effective June 20, 2005. -- Amended
1998 Ky. Acts ch. 426, sec. 604, effective July 15, 1998. -- Amended 1992 Ky.
Acts ch. 211, sec. 121, effective July 14, 1992. -- Amended 1990 Ky. Acts
ch. 443, sec. 34, effective July 13, 1990. -- Amended 1986 Ky. Acts ch. 436,
sec. 1, effective July 15, 1986. -- Amended 1984 Ky. Acts ch. 141, sec. 15,
effective July 13, 1984; and ch. 415, sec. 15, effective July 13, 1984. -- Created
1982 Ky. Acts ch. 385, sec. 12, effective July 1, 1982.
Formerly codified as KRS 441.017.
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