City of Frankfort v. Triplett

PALMORE, Judge.

The City of Frankfort was reclassified from a 3d to a 2d class city in 1956. Later in the same year its electorate adopted the city manager form of government, KRS 89.400 et seq. In January of 1958 the police judge appointed the appellee, Harry Trip-lett, as clerk of his court, whereupon the board of commissioners enacted an ordinance fixing the clerk’s salary at $250 per month and purporting to prescribe his duties. (We say “purporting” because, among other things, the ordinance directed the clerk' to collect all fines, forfeitures and costs imposed by the police court, a duty…