Sec. 53.0091. COMPENSATION IN EL PASO COUNTY

(a) Each bailiff appointed under Section 53.002(c) shall be paid an annual salary out of the general fund of El Paso County. The appointing judge shall set the salary in writing, but except as otherwise provided by this section, the annual salary shall be set at $18,000 on August 26, 1985, and thereafter the $18,000 annual salary shall increase as provided by Subsection (c).

(b) Bailiffs appointed under Section 53.002(c) who held office as bailiffs under Chapter 817, Acts of the 62nd Legislature, Regular Session, 1971 (Article 2292l, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), or under Chapter 532, Acts of the 67th Legislature, Regular Session, 1981 (Article 2292o, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), on August 25, 1985, are entitled to receive at least the same annual salary or compensation under this section as they received under those Acts on August 26, 1985.

(c) For those bailiffs whose annual salary is set at more than $18,000 as provided by Subsection (b) or (e), any salary increase to become effective in the annual budget of El Paso County for any calendar or fiscal year budget, as the case may be, must be uniform and, except as provided by Subsection (e), the bailiffs are entitled to at least the same salary increase in those budgets that is approved by the commissioners court for a majority of county employees other than deputy sheriffs. In the annual budget of El Paso County for October 1, 1986, to September 30, 1987, or any subsequent calendar or fiscal year budget, as the case may be, any increase in the salaries of bailiffs in El Paso County must be uniform, and bailiffs are entitled to at least the same salary increase in those budgets that is approved by the commissioners court for a majority of county employees, other than deputy sheriffs.

(d) A person appointed to succeed a bailiff who held office as bailiff under Chapter 817, Acts of the 62nd Legislature, Regular Session, 1971 (Article 2292l, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), or under Chapter 532, Acts of the 67th Legislature, Regular Session, 1981 (Article 2292o, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is not entitled to be paid the same annual salary paid to the bailiff he succeeds, but is entitled to receive the annual salary as provided by this section so that the bailiffs' salaries under this section will become uniform with the passage of time. A person appointed to succeed any bailiff before October 1, 1986, is entitled to the $18,000 annual salary set by Subsection (a). A person appointed to succeed any bailiff on or after October 1, 1986, is entitled to the $18,000 annual salary set by Subsection (a) or the salary set on the date the bailiff is appointed for a Grade 20 of the El Paso County Job Guide Designation for a new employee under Grade 20, whichever is greater. A bailiff whose annual salary is set on September 30, 1986, at $18,000 under this section is on October 1, 1986, entitled to any salary increase provided for under Subsection (c) or the salary set on October 1, 1986, for a Grade 20 of the El Paso County Job Guide Designation for a new employee under Grade 20, whichever is greater. After October 1, 1986, all salary increases for bailiffs shall be uniform as provided for in Subsection (c). If a substantial number of those job titles or positions listed on the effective date of this section under Grade 20 of the El Paso County Job Guide Designation are removed from Grade 20 or the El Paso County Job Guide Designation is replaced with some other system for setting employees' salaries under those job titles or positions listed under Grade 20 of the El Paso County Job Guide Designation, on the date a new bailiff is appointed, the starting salary being paid at that time by El Paso County to the functional equivalent of Grade 20 of the El Paso County Job Guide Designation shall be used in place of Grade 20. In determining the functional equivalent of Grade 20 under this section, the job titles, positions, or their equivalent listed under Grade 20 on August 26, 1985, shall be considered as the only factors.

(e) Notwithstanding Subsections (c) and (d), any bailiff who continues in office under Section 11, Chapter 157, Acts of the 69th Legislature, Regular Session, 1985, and whose annual salary from El Paso County is greater than $21,000 on August 25, 1985, may not receive a salary increase until the bailiff's salary is equal to the salaries of those bailiffs whose salaries are set on August 26, 1985, at $20,832. The salaries of those bailiffs appointed under Section 53.002(c) who were El Paso County deputy sheriffs on August 25, 1985, and whose salaries are over $18,000 but under $20,832 on that date are set at $20,832 on August 26, 1985, notwithstanding Subsection (a), and those bailiffs are entitled to the same salary increase that is granted under Subsection (c) to other bailiffs in the annual budget of El Paso County for October 1, 1985, to September 30, 1986.

Added by Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 148, Sec. 2.71(a), eff. Sept. 1, 1987. Amended by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 1074, Sec. 6, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.