§ 45-27-11 — Salaries of Certain Officers

(a) Commencing on July 1, 2000, the Tax Assessor, Tax Collector, and Sheriff of Escambia County shall be entitled to receive a salary of sixty thousand dollars ($60,000) per annum. This salary shall be payable in equal monthly installments from the general fund of the county and shall be in lieu of any other compensation or expense allowance heretofore provided by law.
(b) Beginning with the expiration of the current term of the incumbent judge of probate, the annual salary for the judge of probate shall be sixty thousand dollars ($60,000) per annum adjusted for any cost-of-living raise granted after July 1, 2000, to the county officers covered in subsection (a). This salary shall be payable in equal monthly installments from the general fund of the county and shall be in lieu of any other compensation or expense allowance heretofore provided by law.
(c) In the event the offices of the tax assessor and tax collector are combined into the office of the revenue commissioner, the revenue commissioner shall receive the same annual salary provided to the tax assessor.
(d) From time to time, any officer covered by this section shall receive any cost-of-living salary increase to the same extent as other county employees, which increases shall be in addition to the salary otherwise provided by this section.

Legislative History

(Act2000-317, p. 502, §§1-4.)