Rule 5.1. Salary subsidies for juvenile probation officers

ALABAMA RULES OF JUVENILE PROCEDURE

RULE 5.1.

Salary Subsidies for Juvenile Probation Officers

For those juvenile probation officers who are not part of the state courts' personnel

system and who are not covered by Rule 9, Alabama Rules of Judicial Administration, the

Administrative Office of Courts shall allocate to each county salary subsidies for juvenile

probation officers at a ratio of one salary subsidy per 15,000 population or fraction thereof.

The total number of salary subsidies to be allocated to each county shall be based on the

2000 federal decennial census or the last federal decennial census, taking the lower

number of the two. The Administrative Director of Courts shall review the salary-subsidy

allocations annually and may choose to increase the allocations, provided, however, that

the Administrative Director of Courts cannot decrease the allocations below the minimum

level of one salary subsidy per 15,000 population or fraction thereof.

The Administrative Office of Courts shall expend funds to provide a salary subsidy

of $22,000 or one-half of the total salary actually paid to a juvenile probation officer,

whichever is greater, for the number of juvenile probation officers' subsidies provided to

a county based on the ratio provided above. If the annual general fund appropriation

allocated to the Administrative Office of Courts for the funding of the Juvenile Probation

Officers' Program is reduced by the State Legislature in any fiscal year or is reduced by

the Governor through proration in any fiscal year, or if both events occur, the funds

expended by the Administrative Office of Courts for the salary subsidies for those juvenile

probation officers covered by this rule shall be reduced by a percentage equal to the

percentage of that reduction or those reductions

rs' Program is reduced by the State Legislature in any fiscal year or is reduced by

the Governor through proration in any fiscal year, or if both events occur, the funds

expended by the Administrative Office of Courts for the salary subsidies for those juvenile

probation officers covered by this rule shall be reduced by a percentage equal to the

percentage of that reduction or those reductions.

Court Comment to Rule 5.1 Adopted Effective April 27, 2011

Because the allocation of salary subsidies for juvenile probation officers in counties

that are in the state courts' personnel system are covered in Ala. Code 1975, § 12-5A-

5(b)(1) and (b)(2), and Rule 9, Alabama Rules of Judicial Administration, this rule provides

for the allocation of salary subsidies for juvenile probation officers in those counties that

are not in the state courts' personnel system, i.e., Jefferson, Madison, Montgomery,

Morgan, and Shelby Counties. The 2000 federal decennial census is used as the baseline

because it was in 2000 that the other 62 counties were brought into the state courts'

personnel system.

[Adopted eff. 4/27/2011; Amended 5-1-2014, eff. 7-1-2014.]

Comment to Amendment to Rule 5.1 Effective July 1, 2014

The changes to Rule 5.1 are intended to clarify the impact of a shortfall of funding

on the salary subsidies provided by this rule.

Note from the reporter of decisions: The order adopting Rule 5.1 and the Court

Comment to that rule, effective April 27, 2011, is published in that volume of the Alabama

Reporter that contains Alabama cases from ___ So. 3d.

Note from the reporter of decisions: The order amending Rule 1, Rule 2, Rule

3, Rule 5, Rule 5.1, Rule 6, Rule 8, Rule 8.1, Rule 12, Rule 13, Rule 14, Rule 15, Rule

18, Rule 20, Rule 24, Rule 26, Rule 28, and Rule 31 effective July 1, 2014, is published

in that volume of Alabama Reporter that contains Alabama cases from ___ So. 3d.