In every county of the state having a population of more than twenty-four thousand (24,000), but less than forty thousand (40,000), and having located within it a city with a population of not less than twenty thousand (20,000), according to the latest Federal Decennial Census, in which county there is employed a juvenile officer, an assistant juvenile officer may be appointed by order of the associate district judge with the consent of the chief judge of the judicial district in which said county is located. The assistant so appointed may receive as his annual compensation the sum of not more than Six Thousand Dollars ($6,000.00), payable monthly; provided, however, no part of said salary or salaries shall be paid out of the court fund, or from state appropriated funds; and provided further, that such salary may be set by order of said chief judge upon concurrence of a majority of the county commissioners of such county.
Laws 1971, c. 296, § 1, operative July 1, 1971. d