A. The basic salaries of county officers upon which all salaries and future increases or decreases thereof shall not be less than Nineteen Thousand Dollars ($19,000.00) per annum nor shall they exceed Forty-nine Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($49,500.00) per annum.
B. The board of county commissioners, or if the county has elected to come under the County Budget Act, the budget board members of the county, shall set the salaries for all elected county officials within the limits allowed by law.
C. The annual salaries fixed by this act shall be paid either monthly or twice a month, by order of the board of county commissioners, for each month or fraction thereof the incumbent lawfully occupies and holds title to such office.
Added by Laws 1959, p. 96, § 5. Amended by Laws 1968, c. 412, § 19, eff. Jan. 13, 1969; Laws 1969, c. 14, § 1, eff. Feb. 10, 1969; Laws 1974, c. 72, § 1, emerg. eff. April 19, 1974; Laws 1978, c. 234, § 1, eff. Jan. 8, 1979; Laws 1981, c. 257, § 1, eff. July 1, 1981; Laws 1982, c. 191, § 1, operative July 1, 1983; Laws 1989, c. 56, § 2, operative July 1, 1989; Laws 1993, c. 109, § 1, eff. July 1, 1993; Laws 1993, c. 239, § 8, eff. July 1, 1993; Laws 1998, c. 195, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 1998; Laws 2000, c. 133, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2000; Laws 2019, c. 27, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2019; Laws 2021, c. 65, § 3, eff. Nov. 1, 2021.