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