Arkansas Code Title 16. Practice, Procedure, and Courts § 16-13-1410. Law clerks--Appointment--Powers and duties--Salary

(a)(1) Each judge of the Sixth Judicial District may appoint a law clerk, who may also serve as master, who shall be a graduate of a law school approved by the State Board of Law Examiners.

(2) Each law clerk shall serve at the discretion and under the direction of the judge.

(b)(1) The powers and duties of the law clerks shall be to administer oaths and affirmations, to take acknowledgments, affidavits, and depositions, to serve as master, and to conduct pretrial and prejudgment hearings and recommendations for disposition to the circuit, chancery, or probate judge.

(2) The law clerks may be assigned such additional duties at the discretion of the respective judges as are not inconsistent with the Constitution and laws of the State of Arkansas.

(d)(1) The salary of each senior law clerk for the Sixth Judicial District previously set by this section and by county ordinance shall be amended to provide for an increase of the minimum salaries of four percent (4%) as of July 10, 1987; another increase of four percent (4%) beginning December 26, 1987; and another increase of four percent (4%) beginning December 24, 1988, unless a higher salary is provided by any other legislative act or county ordinance.

(2) The salary of each junior law clerk for the Sixth Judicial District set by this section and by county ordinance shall be amended to provide for an increase of the minimum salaries of four percent (4%) as of July 10, 1987; another increase of four percent (4%) beginning December 26, 1987; and another increase of four percent (4%) beginning December 24, 1988, unless a higher salary is provided by any other legislative act or county ordinance.

(3) All of the salaries shall be paid by Pulaski County. All of the salaries shall be paid bi-weekly by Pulaski County.

(4) When the county quorum court raises salaries for county employees, it shall also raise salaries an equivalent amount for the employees provided for in this subsection.

(5) The employees covered by this subsection shall be treated by Pulaski County in the same manner as other Pulaski County employees for all other purposes.