For purposes other than determining compensation for the various county officers enumerated in § 8-24-102, the counties are divided into classes as follows: Counties having a population of four hundred thousand (400,000) or more shall constitute counties of the first class; Counties having a population of one hundred fifty thousand (150,000) or more, but less […]
For the purposes of determining the compensation to be received by the various county officers, “general officers” includes assessors of property, county clerks, clerks and masters of chancery courts, clerks of probate courts, clerks of circuit courts, clerks of general sessions courts, clerks of criminal courts, juvenile court clerks, county trustees and registers of deeds. […]
The county legislative body in any county shall make the necessary appropriation and pay to the sheriff of its county the maximum salary fixed by § 8-24-102, and the authorized expenses fixed by law for the operation of the sheriff’s office, including the salary of all the sheriff’s deputies, which shall be the sole manner […]
Each official whose salary is required to be supplemented from the county general fund shall keep a book account of all fees collected and make an annual report of the collections to the county mayor. No funds shall be paid from the general funds of the county to supplement salaries until such report has been […]
If the total fees collected by the officials enumerated in § 8-22-101, after deduction for the legally authorized expenses of the office, including, but not limited to, salaries of deputies and assistants, are not sufficient to pay the salary required by § 8-24-102, then the remainder of such salary shall be paid out of the […]
In the event that the fees, etc., collected by the sheriffs in any of the counties within §§ 8-24-101 — 8-24-103 and 8-24-106 — 8-24-109 do not in any month amount to a sum sufficient to pay all other necessary and legitimate expenses incurred in the proper and efficient administration of the sheriff’s office, including […]
If in any county there is, or may hereafter be created, a special chancery, circuit, criminal, county or probate court where the clerk and master or clerk is clerk of the special court by virtue of such clerk’s office in the county, no additional salary shall be allowed such clerk and master or clerk for […]
The county legislative bodies of the different counties shall, at their first session in each and every year, make such allowance as they, in their discretion, think sufficient to compensate their sheriffs for ex officio service. Code 1858, § 4564; Acts 1870-1871, ch. 38, § 1; Shan., § 6404; Code 1932, § 10708; impl. am. […]
Sections 8-24-102, this section and 8-24-114 shall not be construed to repeal or modify in any way any private act of the state fixing any salary of any county mayor in an amount greater than the minimum salaries set out in § 8-24-102. In determining whether the salary of any such county mayor has been […]
The county legislative bodies of the various counties are hereby granted authority to fix the salary of any county mayor in an amount in excess of the amount guaranteed in § 8-24-102 or § 8-24-113.
The compensation of county commissioners of any county having a population of not less than one hundred thousand (100,000) nor more than six hundred thousand (600,000), according to the United States census of 1970, shall be not less than twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) a year, but any such county may by private act provide for […]
