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67C.131 Salaries for members of legislative council -- Authorization to hire staff persons.

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Page 1 of 1 67C.131 Salaries for members of legislative council -- Authorization to hire staff persons. (1) 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 <br>percent (80%) of that amount that is permitted for county commissioners on July <br>14, 2000, as provided by Section 246 of the Kentucky Constitution. In order to <br>equate the compensation of legislative council members with the purchasing power <br>of the dollar, the Department for Local Government shall compute by the second <br>Friday in February of every year the annual increase or decrease in the consumer <br>price index of the preceding year. The Department for Local Government shall <br>notify the appropriate governing bodies charged by law to fix the compensation of <br>the above elected officials of the annual rate of compensation to which the elected <br>officials are entitled in accordance with the increase or decrease in the consumer <br>price index. Upon notification from the Department for Local Government, the <br>appropriate governing body may set the annual compensation of the above elected <br>officials at a rate no greater than that stipulated by the Department for Local <br>Government. (2) Each legislative council member may hire one (1) full-time staff person. Effective: July 15, 2010 <br>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 <br>ch. 189, sec. 16, effective July 14, 2000.