Section 115.035

Title IX SUFFRAGE AND ELECTIONS

Chapter 115

Effective - 01 Jan 1978, see footnote   

  115.035.  Compensation of election commissioners. — 1.  In each county which has over nine hundred thousand inhabitants, each election commissioner shall receive a salary of seven thousand two hundred dollars per year, payable from the county revenue.

  2.  In each city not situated in a county, each election commissioner shall receive a salary of six thousand dollars per year, except the chairman and the secretary of the board, who shall each receive a salary of seven thousand five hundred dollars per year, payable from the city revenue.

  3.  In each county of the first class containing the major portion of a city which has over three hundred thousand inhabitants, each election commissioner shall receive a salary of five thousand two hundred dollars per year, payable from the county revenue.

  4.  In each city which has over three hundred thousand inhabitants on January 1, 1978, and is situated in more than one county, each election commissioner shall receive a salary of five thousand two hundred dollars per year, payable one-half from the city revenue and one-half from the revenue of the county containing the major portion of the city.

  5.  In each county containing a portion but not the major portion of a city which has over three hundred thousand inhabitants, each election commissioner shall receive a salary of four thousand eight hundred dollars per year, paid proportionally from the city revenue and the county revenue.  The city shall pay such proportion as its population within the county is to the total population of the county as determined by the last preceding federal decennial census.

  6.  In all other counties which now or hereafter have a board of election commissioners, each election commissioner shall receive a salary of two thousand six hundred dollars per year, payable from the county revenue.

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(L. 1977 H.B. 101 § 2.045)

Effective 1-01-78