Section 17-8-12 Compensation of election officials.
Section 17-8-12
Compensation of election officials.
(a) The inspector and clerks shall each be entitled to base compensation of fifty dollars ($50). The compensation of the election officials shall be paid as preferred claims, out of moneys in the county treasury not appropriated, on proper proof of service rendered. In all counties in which the compensation of election officials is prescribed by local law or general law of local application at an amount in excess of the amount prescribed, the compensation of the election officials shall not be decreased under this section and the county commission may increase the compensation so prescribed. In those counties in which compensation of election officials is set at an amount in excess of five dollars ($5) per day, but less than fifty dollars ($50) per day, the provision of the local law or general law of local application relative thereto is superseded and the compensation prescribed herein shall be the total compensation of election officials in the counties.
(b) In addition to the compensation provided in subsection (a), each clerk shall be entitled to supplemental compensation paid by the state to ensure that the total compensation paid to each shall be in an amount of at least seventy-five dollars ($75) per day, and each inspector shall be entitled to supplemental compensation paid by the state in an amount that ensures that the total compensation of an inspector is at least one hundred dollars ($100) per day. Upon completion of a local election school or being certified as a qualified poll worker by the probate judge, or both, each clerk and inspector shall be entitled to receive an additional twenty-five dollars ($25) per day in compensation from the state. The increase provided for in this subsection shall not increase or decrease any salary supplement paid under a local law which is in effect on October 1, 2005. The provisions of this subsection shall only apply to those statewide elections for which county expenses are reimbursed by the state as defined in Chapter 16. The provisions of this subsection shall not apply to special county or other elections held at any time other than at the time of holding statewide elections.
(Code 1876, §290; Code 1886, §386; Code 1896, §1643; Code 1907, §419; Code 1923, §509; Code 1940, T. 17, §198; Acts 1943, No. 311, p. 299; Acts 1947, No. 127, p. 38; Acts 1970, Ex. Sess., No. 30, p. 2652; Acts 1981, No. 81-674, p. 1099; Acts 1993, No. 93-639, p. 1095, §1; Act 2000-671, p. 1338, §1; Act 2006-327, p. 705, §1; §17-6-13; amended and renumbered by Act 2006-570, p. 1331, §41.)