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 HB413
 209203-2
 By Representative McCampbell (N & P)
 RFD: Local Legislation
 First Read: 11-FEB-21
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                              A BILL
                         TO BE ENTITLED
                             AN ACT
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           Relating to Sumter County; to provide for the manner
 of selection of the chair and vice-chair of the county
 commission; to provide for the compensation of the chair and
 vice-chair; and to repeal Section 2 of Act 176 of the 1973
 Regular Session (Acts 1973, p. 217), as amended.
 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA:
           Section 1. This act shall only apply in Sumter
 County.
           Section 2. Beginning the first November following
 the effective date of this act, the county commission shall
 select its chair and its vice-chair by majority vote during
 the organizational meeting required by Section 11-3-1(e), Code
 of Alabama 1975, or, for any year during which no election for
 county commission takes place, the county commission shall
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  select its chair and its vice-chair by majority vote during
  the first meeting in November.
            Section 3. (a)(1) Beginning on the first day of the
  first month after the effective date of this act, the annual
  expense allowance of the chair shall be an amount so that the
  salary of the chair and expense allowance of the chair equals
  80 percent of the annual compensation paid to the Judge of
  Probate of Sumter County in the preceding fiscal year ending
  on September 30, including any compensation increase provided
 to the Judge of Probate by law. The expense allowance provided
 in this subdivision shall be in addition to any salary
 provided to the chair of the county commission by law.
           (2) Beginning on the first day of the first month
 after the effective date of this act, the monthly expense
 allowance of the vice-chair of the county commission shall be
 in the amount of two hundred fifty dollars ($250) per month,
 to be paid on a monthly basis from the county general fund.
           (b)(1) Effective beginning the next term of office
 for the county commission, the annual salary of the chair
 shall be an amount equal to 80 percent of the annual
 compensation paid to the judge of probate of Sumter County in
 the fiscal year ending on September 30 prior to the
 organizational meeting required by Section 11-3-1(e), Code of
 Alabama 1975, including any compensation increase provided to
 the Judge of Probate by law. The salary provided by this
 subdivision shall be in lieu of any other salary provided by
 law to the chair as a member of the county commission.
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              (2) Effective beginning the next term of office for
  the county commission, the annual salary of the vice-chair
  shall be increased by monthly payments from the county general
  fund in the amount of two hundred fifty dollars ($250) per
  month. This monthly amount shall be in addition to any other
  salary provided by law.
              Section 4. Section 2 of Act 176 of the 1973 Regular
  Session (Acts 1973, p. 217), as amended by Act 80-39 of the
  1980 Regular Session (Acts 1980, p. 50) and Act 84-557 of the
 1984 Regular Session (Acts 1984, p. 1179), is repealed. All
 other laws or parts of laws which conflict with this act are
 repealed.
             Section 5. This act shall become effective on the
 first day of the third month following its passage and
 approval by the Governor, or its otherwise becoming law.
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