Sec. 3. (a) A legislative body shall, by ordinance or resolution, fix the annual compensation of all appointed officers, deputies, and employees under its jurisdiction. This may be done by adopting schedules of compensation. The schedules of compensation may include a provision for salaried employees whose salaries are paid on an annual basis. Salaried employees shall work a regularly scheduled work week, in accordance with the schedule of compensation.

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Terms Used In Indiana Code 36-3-6-3

  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Attorney: includes a counselor or other person authorized to appear and represent a party in an action or special proceeding. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • Year: means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
     (b) The city-county legislative body has jurisdiction over all appointed officers, deputies, and employees:

(1) of the consolidated city, except those of special service districts; or

(2) whose compensation is payable from the county general fund or any other fund from which the county auditor issues warrants for compensation.

A special service district legislative body has jurisdiction over all appointed officers, deputies, and employees of the special service district.

     (c) This chapter does not affect the salaries of judges, officers of courts, prosecuting attorneys, and deputy prosecuting attorneys whose minimum salaries are fixed by statute, but the city-county legislative body may make appropriations to pay them more than the minimums fixed by statute. Beginning July 1, 1995, an appropriation made under this subsection may not exceed five thousand dollars ($5,000) for each judge or full-time prosecuting attorney in any calendar year.

[Pre-Local Government Recodification Citations: 17-1-24-18.1 part; 17-1-24-18.3 part; 17-1-24-18.4 part; 18-2-1-9 part; 18-4-5-2.1 part; 18-4-5-7 part.]

As added by Acts 1980, P.L.212, SEC.2. Amended by P.L.44-1986, SEC.2; P.L.16-1986, SEC.78; P.L.279-1995, SEC.22; P.L.280-1995, SEC.24; P.L.2-1996, SEC.291.

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