(a) The Prosecuting Attorney of the Fifteenth Judicial District shall have the power to appoint the following employees if the prosecutor receives a grant award therefor, without confirmation of any court or tribunal, at such salaries as are indicated below, or as are authorized in grants awarded from the Office of Intergovernmental Services of the Department of Finance and Administration and the Arkansas Drug Law Enforcement Program:
Law enforcement project coordinator ..................… $26,000
Law enforcement field supervisor ..................… $22,000
Law enforcement undercover officer ..................… $16,500
Law enforcement undercover officer ..................… $15,125
Bookkeeper-secretary ..................… $14,000
Bookkeeper-secretary ..................… $11,000
(b)
(1) The positions created in subsection (a) of this section shall be in addition to those created by § 16-21-113 and other Arkansas Code provisions.
(2) In the event additional funding becomes available, the prosecuting attorney may employ such additional employees and have expense allowances as are authorized in the program grant awards.
(c)
(1) The office of the Prosecuting Attorney of the Fifteenth Judicial District shall administer its Drug Law Enforcement Program grant from the Office of Intergovernmental Services of the Department of Finance and Administration.
(2) Expenditures may be made only for purposes of the grant.
(3) All moneys from the grant are appropriated on a continuing basis and are subject to the prosecuting attorney's financial management system.
(4) All law enforcement agent positions shall have peace officer jurisdiction throughout the Fifteenth Judicial District and may serve process issuing out of all courts within the state.
(d) It is the explicit legislative intent that nothing in this section shall be construed to decrease, supplant, or be substituted for employee positions, salaries, or expenses, nor maintenance and operation expenses or capital equipment expenditures which the office will receive through quorum court appropriation from and after February 1, 1991.
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