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Arizona Revised Statutes Title 22. Justice and Municipal Courts § 22-117. Payment of compensation and expenses

Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

A. Justices of the peace shall be allowed by the board of supervisors, as a county charge, the following:

1. Space.

2. Equipment.

3. Supplies.

B. In a county with a population of less than one million five hundred thousand persons, the state shall pay forty percent of the compensation and employee-related expenditures of a justice of the peace, and the county shall pay sixty percent of the compensation and employee-related expenditures of a justice of the peace, except that the county shall pay the full amount of the employer contribution of the state retirement system or plan or any county health plan.

C. If a county is subject to subsection B of this section, the state treasurer shall remit the compensation and employee-related expenditures payable by the state to the county treasurer, and the county shall disburse the monies to the justice of the peace.

D. In a county with a population of one million five hundred thousand persons or more, the county shall pay one hundred percent of the compensation and employee-related expenditures of a justice of the peace.

E. If a county is subject to subsection D of this section, the following apply:

1. The county's contribution to the hospitalization and medical care of the indigent sick and for the administrative costs of implementing §§ 36-2901.01 and 36-2901.04 shall be reduced pursuant to § 11-292, subsection R in an amount that is equal to the difference between the total costs that the county paid pursuant to subsection D of this section and the amount that the county would have paid if the county were subject to subsection B of this section.

2. Pursuant to § 41-563, subsection D, the economic estimates commission shall increase the county's base expenditure limit in an amount that is equal to the difference between the total costs that the county paid pursuant to subsection D of this section and the amount that the county would have paid if the county were subject to subsection B of this section.

F. The total amount that may be expended in any fiscal year by the state treasurer for justice of the peace compensation and employee related expenditures reimbursement shall not exceed the amount appropriated in the general appropriation act for this purpose, together with additional amounts appropriated by any special legislative appropriation for justices of the peace.

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