(a) Effective June 1, 2023, the Revenue Commissioner of Chambers County shall receive an additional expense allowance so that the expense allowance and the salary of the revenue commissioner is equal to eighty-four thousand dollars ($84,000) per year payable in equal monthly installments. This expense allowance shall be in addition to any other salary, expense allowance, or compensation the revenue commissioner is receiving. The expense allowance provided by this subsection shall be treated as salary for retirement purposes.
Terms Used In Alabama Code 45-9-241.20
Chambers: A judge's office.
year: means a calendar year; but, whenever the word "year" is used in reference to any appropriations for the payment of money out of the treasury, it shall mean fiscal year. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
(b) Effective beginning the next term of office after May 10, 2023, the annual salary of the revenue commissioner shall be eighty-four thousand dollars ($84,000) per year and at that time subsection (a) shall be void.(c) Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 11-2A-4, Code of Alabama 1975, or any other law to the contrary, effective beginning October 1, 2024, and thereafter, pursuant to the provisions of this act, the revenue commissioner shall be entitled to the same uniform increases in compensation, such as cost-of-living increases, received by any other elected county officer. The uniform increases shall be paid to the revenue commissioner as expense allowances during the term of the revenue commissioner and shall be treated as salary for retirement purposes. At the end of each term, the amount of any uniform increases during the term shall be added to the permanent salary of the revenue commissioner effective beginning the next term of the revenue commissioner.(d) The expense allowance and salary provided by this section shall be paid from any fund or funds from which the salary of the revenue commissioner is currently paid.
