§ 2-18. Compensation.

(a)

Justices of the Peace serving as Quorum Court members shall receive per diem compensation for attending any official, regular, special or committee meeting of the Quorum Court in the sum of one hundred ten dollars ($110.00) provided, the per diem compensation of any Justice of the Peace during any one calendar year shall not exceed the amount of eight thousand thirty-five dollars ($8,035.00). Compensation amounts are established by Act 1170 of the 83rd Arkansas General Assembly, 2001, pertaining to maximum and minimum salaries for elected County officers, and said Act is herein adopted as if set out word for word.

(b)

Per diem compensation is hereby defined as a per calendar day allowance, exclusive of allowable expenses, which shall be paid a Justice of the Peace for attending any official, regular, special or committee meeting or meetings of the Quorum Court during any single calendar day without regard to the duration of such meeting or meetings.

(c)

Beginning January 1, 1983, each Justice of the Peace shall be compensated for travel to and from any official, regular, special or committee meeting of the Quorum Court at the rate per mile established by ordinance for County officials.

(d)

Attendance at a meeting of the Quorum Court shall be verified by roll call by the Court Secretary. Attendance at a committee meeting of the Quorum Court shall be verified by the committee chairman, who shall file with the County Clerk written reports of those Justices attending committee meetings. Such reports shall be filed within thirty (30) days following the committee meeting.

(e)

Any Justice of the Peace who shall preside over a Justice of the Peace Court, shall do so without compensation.

(f)

Each year that the General Assembly changes the minimum per diem compensation and the maximum yearly compensation shall result in an automatic increase of such.

(Ord. No. 83-3, Arts. 1—5, 2-11-83; Ord. No. 83-44, Art. 1, 12-8-83; Ord. No. 89-43, Arts. 1, 2, 12-28-89; Ord. No. 92-2, Arts. 1, 2, 1-14-93; Ord. No. 93-22, Arts. 1—6, 10-21-93; Ord. No. 94-5, 3-10-94; Ord. No. 95-22, Art. 1, 7-13-95; Ord. No. 96-46, Art. 3, 12-16-96; Ord. No. 97-28, Arts. 1, 2, 11-14-97)

Note— Section 2 of Act 320 of the 87 ^th Arkansas General Assembly, 2009, established the compensation amounts for Justices of the Peace to be one hundred twenty-five dollars ($125.00) per diem and not to exceed ten thousand three hundred seventy-six dollars ($10,376.00) during any one calendar year. Section 3 of Act 320 of the 87 ^th Arkansas General Assembly, 2009, established a cost-of-living adjustment of three percent (3%) per annum beginning January 1, 2011, and on each January 1 thereafter. The amount shall be added to the minimum and maximum salaries and per diems of elected county officers. During the 2014 Budget Process, the Quorum Court approved an increase to their per diem compensation to two hundred dollars ($200.00).

State law reference

Compensation of elected County officers, A.C.A. § 14-14-1204.

Cross reference

Court Secretary, § 2-19.