Section 473.739

Title XXXI TRUSTS AND ESTATES OF DECEDENTS AND PERSONS UNDER DISABILITY

Chapter 473

Effective - 28 Aug 2010   

  473.739.  Compensation for attendance at training session, certain public administrators, expenses shall be reimbursed, when (certain counties of the first classification). — 1.  Each public administrator in counties of the first classification without a charter form of government who does not receive at least twenty-five thousand dollars in fees as otherwise allowed by law shall receive annual compensation of four thousand dollars and each such public administrator who does not receive at least forty-five thousand dollars in fees may request the county salary commission for an increase in annual compensation and the county salary commission may authorize an additional increase in annual compensation not to exceed ten thousand dollars.

  2.  Two thousand dollars of the compensation authorized in this section shall be payable to the public administrator only if he or she has completed at least twenty hours of instruction each calendar year relating to the operations of the public administrator's office when approved by a professional association of the county public administrators of Missouri unless exempted from the training by the professional association.  The professional association approving the program shall provide a certificate of completion to each public administrator who completes the training program and shall send a list of certified public administrators to the treasurer of each county.  Expenses incurred for attending the training session shall be reimbursed to the county public administrator in the same manner as other expenses as may be appropriated for that purpose.

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(L. 1984 S.B. 601 § 13, A.L. 1987 S.B. 65, et al., A.L. 1990 S.B. 580, A.L. 1996 S.B. 719, A.L. 1997 S.B. 11, A.L. 2000 S.B. 542, A.L. 2010 S.B. 808)

(2000) In determining amount of annual compensation to be paid to public administrators, more specific provisions of this statute apply over those of section 50.333.  State ex rel. Pate v. Mooney, 22 S.W.3d 766 (Mo.App.E.D.).