§20-7-1a Conservation officers salary increase based on length of service.
§20-7-1a. Conservation officers salary increase based on length of service.
(a) Effective the first day of July, two thousand two, each conservation officer shall receive and be entitled to an increase in salary based on length of service, including that heretofore and hereafter served as a conservation officer as follows: For five years of service with the division, a conservation officer shall receive a salary increase of six hundred dollars per year payable during his or her next three years of service and a like increase at three-year intervals thereafter, with these increases to be cumulative. A salary increase shall be based upon years of service as of the first day of July of each year and may not be recalculated until the first day of July of the following year.
Conservation officers in service at the time the amendment to this section becomes effective shall be given credit for prior service and shall be paid such salaries as the same length of service will entitle them to receive under the provisions hereof.
(b) This section does not apply to special or emergency conservation officers appointed under the authority of section one of this article.