2014 Statute
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22a-228. Same; travel allowances and expenses; fees, expenses and compensation, how paid; deputy coroners, compensation. (a) Deputy district coroners shall receive a salary or other compensation as may be prescribed by the county commissioners of a single-county judicial district or the county commissioners of the county with the largest population in multiple-county judicial districts. (b) Each coroner and deputy district coroner shall be allowed and paid the allowance prescribed under the provisions of K.S.A. 75-3203a, and amendments thereto, for each mile necessarily and actually traveled in the course of official duties as coroner or deputy district coroner, except that in lieu of such allowance the district coroner and deputy district coroner may receive a monthly car allowance as fixed by the county commissioners of a single-county judicial district or the county commissioners of the county with the largest population in multiple-county judicial districts for the operation of such coroner's car. The amount of the car allowance may be different for the district coroner and the deputy district coroner as specified by the county commissioners of a single-county judicial district or the county commissioners of the county with the largest population in multiple-county judicial districts. (c) The annual salary provided for the district coroner in K.S.A. 22a-227, and amendments thereto, the annual salary or other compensation provided for deputy district coroners under this section, the compensation authorized for a district coroner for holding an inquest in subsection (n) of K.S.A. 22a-230, and amendments thereto, and the other fees and expenses authorized to be paid under this section to coroners and deputy district coroners shall be paid by each of the counties in the judicial district in the proportion that the population of each such county bears to the total population of the judicial district. The board of county commissioners of the county having the largest population of the counties contained in such judicial district shall provide for the payment of such salary, other compensation, fees and expenses from a fund to be set aside by the board of county commissioners and to which each county in the district shall contribute its share of such payments 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. |
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