2011 Kentucky Revised Statutes CHAPTER 67C RESTRUCTURE OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN COUNTY CONTAINING CITY OF FIRST CLASS 67C.131 Salaries for members of legislative council -- Authorization to hire staff persons.
KY Rev Stat § 67C.131 (1996 through Reg Sess) What's This?
67C.131 Salaries for members of legislative council -- Authorization to hire staff
persons.
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The salary of the members of the legislative council of a newly consolidated local
government created by the provisions of KRS 67C.101 to 67C.137 shall be eighty
percent (80%) of that amount that is permitted for county commissioners on July
14, 2000, as provided by Section 246 of the Kentucky Constitution. In order to
equate the compensation of legislative council members 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. The Department for Local Government 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 in accordance with 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.
Each legislative council member may hire one (1) full-time staff person.
Effective: July 15, 2010
History: Amended 2010 Ky. Acts ch. 117, sec. 62, effective July 15, 2010. -- Amended
2007 Ky. Acts ch. 47, sec. 56, effective June 26, 2007. -- Created 2000 Ky. Acts
ch. 189, sec. 16, effective July 14, 2000.
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