§ 23-12. Court administrator and support personnel.

(a)

There is established an administrator of the municipal court, who shall be appointed by the county administrator after receiving the recommendation of the municipal court en banc, and shall be an employee of the unified government.

(b)

The compensation of the administrator of the municipal court, as well as that of all subordinate personnel in the office of the administrator of the municipal court, shall be fixed in the same manner as the compensation of all other unified government employees is set and shall be included as a part of the unified government's overall pay plan.

(c)

The administrator shall prepare and issue all process of the court, administer oaths, file and preserve all papers, docket cases, and shall perform such further acts as may be necessary to carry out the duties, responsibilities and administration of the court. The administrator shall receive, account for and pay to the chief financial officer or his designee daily all fines, costs, and forfeited bonds paid into the court. The administrator shall make reports to the state judicial administrator and furnish information when requested by the judicial administrator or a departmental justice on such forms furnished by the judicial administrator and approved by the supreme court.

(d)

The administrator of the municipal court shall, upon appointment and before entering upon the duties of office, execute to the unified government such bond as the unified government board of commissioners may require, which shall be approved by the unified government and filed in the office of the unified government clerk, conditioned for the faithful performance of the duties required by law and for the faithful application and payment of all monies that may come in the administrator's hands in the execution of the duties of the office. The unified government shall pay the cost of such bond.

(Code 1988, § 23-9; Ord. No. O-23-98, §§ 1, 2, 5-21-1998)