KRS § 64.527 Annual computation of consumer price index for determination of rate of adjustment of compensation of certain elected county officials.
AI-assisted research summary: The Department for Local Government must calculate the yearly consumer price index change and notify the governing bodies that set compensation for certain county officials. After notice, the governing body may set annual compensation, but not above the Department’s stated limit.
64.527 Annual computation of consumer price index for determination of rate of adjustment of compensation of certain elected county officials. In order to equate the compensation of jailers who do not operate full service jails, constables in counties having an urban-county form of government, justices of the peace, county commissioners, and coroners 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 by using 1949 as the base year in accordance with Section 246 of the Constitution of Kentucky which provides that the above elected officials shall be paid at a rate no greater than seven thousand two hundred dollars ($7,200) per annum. 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. Effective: July 15, 2010 History: Amended 2010 Ky. Acts ch. 117, sec. 43, effective July 15, 2010. -- Amended 2007 Ky. Acts ch. 47, sec. 37, effective June 26, 2007. -- Amended 1998 Ky. Acts ch. 69, sec. 26, effective July 15, 1998; ch. 441, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1998; ch. 595, sec. 2, effective July 15, 1998; and ch. 610, sec. 4, effective July 15, 1998. -- Amended 1992 Ky. Acts ch. 350, sec. 1, effective July 14, 1992. -- Amended 1986 Ky. Acts ch. 374, sec. 22, effective July 15, 1986. -- Amended 1982 Ky. Acts ch. 385, sec. 20, effective July 1, 1982. -- Amended 1978 Ky. Acts ch. 384, sec. 582, effective June 17, 1978. -- Amended 1976 (1st Extra. Sess.) Ky. Acts ch. 14, sec. 38; ch. 17, sec. 19, effective January 1, 1978; and ch. 20, sec. 6, effective January 2, 1978. -- Amended 1976 Ky. Acts ch. 283, sec. 1. -- Created 1974 Ky. Acts ch. 254, sec. 1. Legislative Research Commission Note (7/15/98). This section was amended by 1998 Ky. Acts chs. 69, 441, 595, and 610. Where these Acts are not in conflict, they have been codified together. Where a conflict exists between Acts chs. 595 and 610, Acts ch. 595, which was last enacted by the General Assembly, prevails under KRS 446.250.