15.2-1609.2 - Sheriffs' salaries; salaries of certain full-time deputies; maximum limits.
§ 15.2-1609.2. Sheriffs' salaries; salaries of certain full-time deputies;maximum limits.
A. The sheriffs of the counties and the cities of the Commonwealth and theirfull-time deputies shall be paid salaries for their services and allowancesfor the necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their duties, to bedetermined as hereinafter provided.
B. The annual salaries of the sheriffs of the counties and cities of theCommonwealth shall be as prescribed in the general appropriation act, exceptas otherwise provided in subsection C.
C. Any sheriff whose salary in the year ending June 30, 1980, included anincrease under deleted provisions of former § 14.1-74 shall receive the sameamount of such increase for the terms in which he continues in office.
D. The annual salary of each full-time deputy sheriff who is primarily acourtroom security officer, a correctional officer or a law-enforcementofficer shall be determined by the sheriff in whose service he is employedand shall be reported to the Compensation Board by the sheriff at the time hefiles his report for the allowance of the expenses of his office as providedin § 15.2-1636.7 and at any time thereafter when the sheriff effects a changein the salary or employs a new such deputy sheriff. Such salaries asdetermined by the respective sheriff shall conform to the requirements setforth in subsection E and shall not in the aggregate exceed the aggregateallowance by the Compensation Board for personal services to the respectivesheriffs for such deputy sheriffs.
However, notwithstanding any contrary provisions of this section and of §15.2-1636.8, the salary of any full-time deputy sheriff who, in addition tohaving primary duties related to courtroom security, corrections or lawenforcement, also supervises other deputy sheriffs, or who is designated aninvestigator by the sheriff in whose services he is employed, shall be fixedand determined by the Compensation Board. Nothing in this section shallprohibit the Compensation Board from setting salary levels of civil processofficers in localities having a population of more than one hundred thousandat a level equal to salary levels of deputy sheriffs who are primarilycourtroom security, correctional, or law-enforcement officers.
E. The salary range of any full-time deputy sheriff who is primarily acourtroom security officer, a correctional officer or a law-enforcementofficer and, if employed on or after July 1, 1974, also has a high schooleducation or the equivalent thereof, shall be no less than that of acorrectional officer within the classification and pay system for stateemployees and shall be administered in accordance with regulations for thatsystem administered by the Department of Human Resource Management. TheGovernor shall provide the Compensation Board the salary range andregulations within that system as of July 1, 1980, and as of any subsequentdate on which changes in the salary ranges and regulations may be adopted.
F. The salary of any deputy sheriff shall not exceed ninety percent of thesalary of the sheriff by whom he is employed.
(Code 1950, §§ 14-81, 14-86, 14-86.1; 1952, c. 331; 1954, c. 683; 1956, c.609; 1958, c. 349; 1960, c. 505; 1962, cc. 292, 439, 510, 572; 1964, cc. 386,656, §§ 14.1-73, 14.1-74; 1966, cc. 16, 364, 704; 1970, c. 678; 1971, Ex.Sess., c. 155; 1972, c. 617; 1973, c. 519; 1974, c. 271; 1976, c. 595; 1978,c. 588; 1980, cc. 587, 588, §§ 14.1-73.1:1, 14.1-73.1:2, 14.1-73.1:3; 1981,cc. 383, 406; 1983, c. 600; 1985, c. 406; 1998, c. 872; 2000, cc. 66, 657.)