2011 Vermont Code
Title 32 Taxation and Finance
Chapter 15 SALARIES AND FEES
§ 1142 Probate judges

§ 1142. Probate judges

(a) The annual salaries of the probate judges in the several probate districts, which shall be paid by the state in lieu of all fees or other compensation, shall be as follows:

(1) Addison $ 48,439

(2) Bennington 61,235

(3) Caledonia 42,956

(4) Chittenden 91,395

(5) Essex 12,000

(6) Franklin 48,439

(7) Grand Isle 12,000

(8) Lamoille 33,816

(9) Orange 40,214

(10) Orleans 39,300

(11) Rutland 86,825

(12) Washington 66,718

(13) Windham 53,923

(14) Windsor 73,116

(b) Probate judges shall be paid by the state their actual and necessary expenses under the rules and regulations pertaining to classified state employees. The compensation for the probate judge of the Chittenden district shall be for full-time service.

(c) A probate judge whose salary is less than 50 percent of the salary of the most highly paid probate judge shall be eligible only for the least expensive medical benefit plan option available to state employees or may apply the state share of the premium for which the judge is eligible toward the purchase of another state or private health insurance plan. A probate judge whose salary is less than 50 percent of the salary of the most highly paid probate judge may participate in other state employee benefit plans. (Amended 1961, No. 278, { 1, eff. Aug. 1, 1961; 1965, No. 195, { 2; 1967, No. 339 (Adj. Sess.), { 1; 1969, No. 294 (Adj. Sess.), { 14; 1971, No. 105, { 2; 1973, No. 117, { 5; No. 154 (Adj. Sess.), { 2, eff. March 15, 1974; No. 266 (Adj. Sess.), { 20; 1975, No. 118, { 94, eff. April 30, 1975; 1977, No. 109, { 19, eff. July 3, 1977; No. 222 (Adj. Sess.), { 7, eff. July 2, 1978; 1979, No. 59, { 3; No. 141 (Adj. Sess.), { 11; 1981, No. 91, { 8, eff. July 5, 1981; 1981, No. 249 (Adj. Sess.), { 15, eff. July 4, 1982; 1983, No. 88, { 4, eff. July 3, 1983; 1983, No. 243 (Adj. Sess.), { 8; 1985, No. 93, { 4; 1985, No. 225 (Adj. Sess.), { 8; 1987, No. 121, { 6; 1987, No. 183 (Adj. Sess.), { 10; 1989, No. 67, { 5; 1989, No. 277 (Adj. Sess.), { 7, eff. July 8, 1990; 1991, No. 189 (Adj. Sess.), { 8, eff. May 19, 1992; 1993, No. 171 (Adj. Sess.), { 2, eff. June 1, 1994; No. 227 (Adj. Sess.), { 4; 1995, No. 177 (Adj. Sess.), { 3; 1997, No. 28, { 3, eff. May 15, 1997; 1999, No. 40, { 4, eff. July 4, 1999; 2001, No. 66, { 4; 2001, No. 116 (Adj. Sess.), { 1, eff. May 28, 2002; 2003, No. 66, { 318; 2003, No. 156 (Adj. Sess.), { 9, eff. July 11, 2004; 2005, No. 66, { 5; 2007, No. 47, { 3; 2009, No. 4, { 119, eff. April 29, 2009; No. 4, { 123, eff. Feb. 1, 2011; 2009, No. 154 (Adj. Sess.), { 199, eff. Feb. 1, 2011; 2011, No. 1, { 6, eff. Feb. 2, 2011.)