07
LC 34 1103
Senate
Bill 310
By:
Senator Powell of the 23rd
AS
PASSED
AN
ACT
To
amend an Act placing the sheriff of Jefferson County upon an annual salary,
approved March 10, 1965 (Ga. L. 1965, p. 2226), as amended, particularly by an
Act approved April 11, 1979 (Ga. L. 1979, p. 3642), so as to change the
provisions relating to the compensation of the sheriff; to provide for an
effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
BE
IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:
SECTION
1.
An
Act placing the sheriff of Jefferson County upon an annual salary, approved
March 10, 1965 (Ga. L. 1965, p. 2226), as amended, particularly by an Act
approved April 11, 1979 (Ga. L. 1979, p. 3642), is amended by revising Section 2
as follows:
"SECTION
2.
Any
supplemental salary that is being paid to the sheriff of Jefferson County from
county funds, as of July 1, 2007, as authorized by Code Section 15-16-20, shall
be increased by $10,000.00 on July 1, 2007. The compensation so fixed shall be
paid in equal monthly installments from the funds of Jefferson County. This
amount shall be in addition to any salary, supplements, and additional
compensation for services which are paid pursuant to state law or county
ordinance which are being received on July 1, 2007, and which are paid from the
funds of Jefferson County. In addition thereto, the sheriff shall receive an
additional salary equal to the amount which the sheriff would, but for this Act,
be entitled to receive as turnkey fees allowed sheriffs for receiving and
discharging prisoners from jail. Said additional amount herein authorized shall
be paid monthly. All of the sums herein authorized are hereby determined as
salary for said sheriff and said salary shall be paid from the funds of
Jefferson County. The sheriff of Jefferson County is hereby authorized to
receive rewards which he or she may be entitled to receive notwithstanding the
capacity in which such sheriff was acting at the time of becoming entitled to
such rewards, and such rewards are hereby determined to be a part of the salary
of such sheriff notwithstanding any other salary to which such sheriff is hereby
authorized to receive. Nothing herein provided shall prohibit the governing
authority of Jefferson County from increasing the amount of any supplement or
compensation for additional duties which the governing authority may lawfully
pay to the sheriff on or after July 1, 2007."
SECTION
2.
This
Act shall become effective on July 1, 2007.
SECTION
3.
All
laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed.