Attorney General Opinion No.

Laurel D. McClellan Kingman County Attorney 349 N. Main Kingman, Kansas 67068

Dear Mr. McClellan:

As Kingman county attorney, you request our legal opinion concerning the board of county commissioners' authority over county employees. Specifically, your inquiry is whether the board of county commissioners has the power to supervise or manage county employees' work hours in the offices of elected officials and/or appointed department heads. Further, you ask whether they may use time clocks to monitor these work hours.

K.S.A. 19-2601 provides:

"Every county officer shall keep his or her office at…