Section 26.010

Title IV EXECUTIVE BRANCH

Chapter 26

Effective - 01 Jan 1993, see footnote   

  26.010.  Salaries of governor and lieutenant governor. — As total compensation for all duties to be performed by them, the governor shall receive an annual salary of seventy-five thousand dollars plus any salary adjustment provided pursuant to section 105.005, and the lieutenant governor shall receive an annual salary of forty-five thousand dollars plus any salary adjustment provided pursuant to section 105.005. The salaries shall be paid at the times and in the manner provided by law.

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(RSMo 1939 § 13397, A.L. 1943 p. 869 §  1, A. 1949 S.B. 1008, A.L. 1955 p. 574, A.L. 1967 p. 97, A.L. 1977 H.B. 520, A.L. 1984 S.B. 528, A.L. 1992 S.B. 676 Adopted by referendum, Proposition C, November 3, 1992)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 11775; 1919 § 10985

Effective 1-01-93

Revisor's Note: Salary adjustment index is printed, as required by §105.005, in Appendix E.

CROSS REFERENCE:

Lieutenant governor to discharge governor's duties, when, Const. Art. IV, Sec. ll(b)

(1991)  Lieutenant governor not entitled to be paid compensation at the salary level of governor based on governor's presence or absence from the state but based only upon serving as acting governor.  State ex rel. Ashcroft v. Blunt, 813 S.W.2d 849 (Mo. en banc.).

(1991)  Where powers, duties and emolument of governor shall devolve upon lieutenant governor upon absence from state or other disability of the governor, absence from the state does not mean physical absence of governor but means effective absence which effectively debilitates or prevents governor from exercising the duties of his office.  State ex rel. Ashcroft v. Blunt, 813 S.W.2d 849 (Mo. en banc).