(1) The commissioner shall appoint a warden, a receiver, and other necessary employees for each of the state penal and correctional institutions. The compensation of these officers and employees may include maintenance. The commissioner may require these officers and employees to wear uniforms and to adopt, amend, or rescind administrative regulations governing dress and grooming standards of these uniformed officers and employees.
(2) The department shall make the contributions required by KRS § 61.592 for participation in the hazardous duty retirement program by its employees in those positions in state correctional institutions and the Kentucky Correctional Psychiatric Center with duties that regularly and routinely require face-to-face contact with inmates.

Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 196.160

  • Biennium: means the two (2) year period commencing on July 1 in each even- numbered year and ending on June 30 in the ensuing even-numbered year. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • branch budget: means an enactment by the General Assembly which provides appropriations and establishes fiscal policies and conditions for the biennial financial plan for the judicial branch, the legislative branch, and the executive branch, which shall include a separate budget bill for the Transportation Cabinet. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Commissioner: means commissioner of the Department of Corrections. See Kentucky Statutes 196.010
  • Department: means the Department of Corrections. See Kentucky Statutes 196.010
  • State: when applied to a part of the United States, includes territories, outlying possessions, and the District of Columbia. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010

(3) For those employees included in subsection (2) of this section and those whose primary workplace is a state correctional institution or the Kentucky Correctional Psychiatric Center, the department shall institute a career retention program, including salary improvements earned through extended time in qualifying public service. Salary improvements shall be effected by increasing the base salary of each employee in the career retention program by a set monthly amount after the employee’s completion of the first two (2), four (4), six (6), eight (8), and ten (10) years of employment served after, and not prior to, July 1, 2002. The amount of the base salary increase to be awarded an employee after the employee’s completion of a qualifying amount of public service under this subsection shall be as set out in the executive branch budget for each biennium following the 2002-2004 biennium in an amount calculated to recruit and retain qualified correctional personnel. Salary increases required by this subsection shall be in addition to any other increase authorized by law.
Effective: July 15, 2002
History: Amended 2002 Ky. Acts ch. 219, sec. 1, effective July 15, 2002. — Amended
1992 Ky. Acts ch. 211, sec. 32, effective July 14, 1992; and ch. 445, sec. 3, effective July 14, 1992. — Amended 1990 Ky. Acts ch. 460, sec. 2, effective July 13, 1990. — Amended 1984 Ky. Acts ch. 401, sec. 1, effective July 13, 1984. — Amended 1982
Ky. Acts ch. 344, sec. 12, effective July 15, 1982. — Amended 1962 Ky. Acts ch.
106, Art. X, sec. 6. — Amended 1958 Ky. Acts ch. 126, sec. 25. — Amended 1952
Ky. Acts ch. 50, sec. 31. — Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective
October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 216aa-8.