Section 16-21-1107 - Appointment of employees(a) The Prosecuting Attorney of the Sixth Judicial District shall have the power to appoint the following employees without confirmation of any court or tribunal, if the prosecutor receives a federal grant award therefor, at such salaries as are indicated in this subsection or as are authorized in grants awarded from the Drug Law Enforcement Program of the Office of Intergovernmental Services of the Department of Finance and Administration: Drug unit division chief | $43,372 |
Civil litigation attorney | $36,608 |
Trial attorney | $38,071 |
Financial investigator | $32,972 |
Civil litigation investigator | $25,056 |
Administrative assistant | $26,275 |
Secretary | $20,248 |
(b) The Prosecuting Attorney of the Sixth Judicial District shall have the power to appoint deputy prosecuting attorneys to handle cases involving violence against women if the prosecutor receives a federal grant award therefor pursuant to the Violence Against Women Act of 1994, Pub. L. No. 103-322, without confirmation of any court or tribunal, at such salaries as are authorized in the grant.(c)(1) The positions created in subsection (a) of this section shall be in addition to those created by §§ 16-21-113 and 16-21-1102, and other Arkansas Code provisions.(2) In the event additional funding becomes available, the prosecuting attorney may employ such additional employees and have expense allowances as are authorized in the grant awards of the program.(d) All law enforcement investigative positions shall have peace officer jurisdiction throughout the Sixth Judicial District and may serve process issuing out of all courts within the state.(e)(1)(A) The Prosecuting Attorney of the Sixth Judicial District shall administer the grant.(B) Expenditures may be made only for purposes of the grant.(C) All moneys from the grant are:(i) Appropriated on a continuing basis;(ii) Subject to the prosecuting attorney's financial management system; and(iii) Subject to audit by Arkansas Legislative Audit.(2) It is the explicit legislative intent that nothing in this section or §§ 16-21-1108 and 16-21-1109 shall be construed to decrease, supplant, or be substituted for employee positions, salaries, expenses, maintenance and operation expenses, or capital equipment expenditures which the office of the Prosecuting Attorney of the Sixth Judicial District will receive through quorum court appropriation from and after January 1, 1999.Acts 1993, No. 997, § 7; 1995, No. 803, § 7; 1997, No. 522, § 1; 1999, No. 1234, § 2; 2005, No. 2201, § 9.