Relating to the compensation of county officers

This bill relates to required considerations for determining the salary of county officers. The bill requires a county compensation board to use the statistical mean of certain law enforcement positions for comparison. The bill provides that in determining the average salary of police chiefs employed by cities of similar population to the population of the county, the county compensation board shall use the salaries of city police chiefs employed by cities with a population between one thousand less than and one thousand more than the population of the county. The bill provides that in the case of noncompliance with provisions for recommending and setting salaries of county officers, the attorney general may bring an action against a county for a writ of mandamus to compel the county to comply with such provisions.