22a-228. Same; travel allowances and expenses; fees, expenses and compensation, how paid; deputy coroners, compensation.
22a-228
22a-228. Same; travel allowances and expenses; fees, expenses andcompensation, how paid; deputy coroners, compensation.(a) Deputy district coroners shall receive a salaryor other compensation as may be prescribed by thecounty commissioners of a single-county judicial district or the countycommissioners of the county with the largest population in multiple-countyjudicial districts.
(b) Each coroner and deputy district coroner shall be allowed andpaid the allowance prescribed under the provisions of K.S.A. 75-3203a, andamendments thereto, for each mile necessarily and actually traveled in thecourse of official duties as coroner or deputy district coroner, except thatin lieu of such allowance the district coroner and deputy district coroner mayreceive a monthly car allowance as fixed by thecounty commissioners of a single-county judicial district or the countycommissioners of the county with the largest population in multiple-countyjudicial districtsfor the operation of such coroner'scar. The amount of the car allowance may be different for the district coronerand the deputy district coroner as specified by thecounty commissioners of a single-county judicial district or the countycommissioners of the county with the largest population in multiple-countyjudicial districts.
(c) The annual salary provided for the district coroner in K.S.A.22a-227, and amendments thereto, the annual salary or othercompensation provided for deputy district coronersunder this section, the compensation authorized for a district coroner forholding an inquest in subsection (n) of K.S.A. 22a-230 and amendmentstheretoand the other fees and expenses authorized to be paid under this section tocoroners and deputy district coroners shall be paid by each of the countiesin the judicial district in the proportion that the population of each suchcounty bears to the total population of the judicial district. The board ofcounty commissioners of the county having the largest population of thecounties contained in such judicial district shall provide for the payment ofsuch salary, other compensation, fees and expenses from a fund tobe set aside by the board of county commissioners and to whicheach county in the district shall contribute its share of suchpayments on or before the first day of each month.
History: L. 1963, ch. 166, § 3; L. 1965, ch. 164, § 11; L. 1969,ch. 143, §3; L. 1973, ch. 175, § 55; L. 1974, ch. 361, § 5;L. 1993, ch. 214, § 4; July 1.