67.7 - SALARY PENDING CHARGE.
67.7 SALARY PENDING CHARGE.
An order of the governor suspending an impeachable state officer
from the exercise of the office shall, from the date of said order,
automatically suspend the further payment to said officer of all
official salary or compensation, except as herein provided. If
articles of impeachment are duly voted against said officer during
the general assembly first convening after said order, and the
accused is convicted thereon, all right to said suspended salary or
compensation shall be deemed forfeited by said officer. If said
articles are not so voted, or if the said officer be acquitted on
duly voted articles, the said suspended salary or compensation shall
be forthwith paid to said officer, unless an indictment or its
equivalent, growing out of the officer's misconduct while in office,
is then pending against the said officer, in which case said salary
or compensation shall be paid to said officer only on the officer's
acquittal or the dismissal of the charges. Section History: Early Form
[C35, § 1124-e1; C39, § 1124.1; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71,
73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 67.7]