18-3-303. Fees or salary; restriction upon employment; failure to perform official duties.

(a) Each county attorney and their deputies shall receive such fees, salary or both as allowed by the board of county commissioners. When counties have consolidated the office of county and prosecuting attorney pursuant to W.S. 18-3-301(b) the salary of county and prosecuting attorneys shall be apportioned between the counties by agreement of the boards of county commissioners, but a county which has consolidated may independently employ a deputy county and prosecuting attorney. The boards of county commissioners of each county which have consolidated shall meet once every four (4) years to set such salaries.

(b) The board of county commissioners, or boards of county commissioners when counties have consolidated pursuant to W.S. 18-3-301(b), may prohibit county and prosecuting attorneys or their deputies from engaging in the private practice of law directly or indirectly. This section shall not prohibit the county and prosecuting attorney from completing all civil cases not in conflict with the interests of the county or counties, in which he is counsel and pending in court before he takes office.

(c) The county attorney shall not receive any fee from or prosecute or defend any individual or corporation in any civil or criminal suit or proceeding at law in which this state or his county or counties may be a party.

(d) If the attorney fails, neglects or refuses to perform any official duties enjoined upon him by law he and his sureties are liable on his official bond in a sum not less than one hundred dollars ($100.00) and not more than five hundred dollars ($500.00), in the discretion of the court having jurisdiction.

(e) Repealed by Laws 1981, Sp. Sess., ch. 22, § 2.

(f) Repealed by Laws 1981, Sp. Sess., ch. 21, § 3.