05 LC 21
8438S
The
House Committee on State Planning and Community Affairs - Local Legislation
offers the following substitute to SB 343:
A
BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
AN ACT
To
amend an Act placing the judge of the Probate Court of Clayton County on an
annual salary, approved February 7, 1950 (Ga. L. 1950, p. 2068), as amended,
particularly by an Act approved April 13, 2001 (Ga. L. 2001, p. 4331), so as
to change the compensation of the judge of the probate court; 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 judge of the Probate Court of Clayton County on an annual
salary, approved February 7, 1950 (Ga. L. 1950, p. 2068), as amended,
particularly by an Act approved April 13, 2001 (Ga. L. 2001, p. 4331), is
amended by striking Section 1 thereof and inserting in its place a new section
to read as follows:
"SECTION
1.
The
salary provided in this section for the judge of the probate court shall be his
or her full and complete compensation; and all fees or other emoluments now
allowed, or hereafter allowed by any authority of law, for which said judge is
entitled heretofore and which he or she earns or receives by reason of being the
probate judge whether under color of the office of probate judge or not shall
henceforth be county funds and accountable as such in the same manner as other
county funds received by said judge of the probate court. The judge of the
probate court shall receive an annual salary of $104,120.83 payable in equal
monthly installments from county funds. Such amount may be increased by
cost-of-living adjustments, to be paid in equal monthly installments from the
funds of Clayton County. In addition, said judge shall also receive those fees
authorized to be retained under Code Section 15-9-68 of the O.C.G.A., regarding
vital records fees, as limited by any resolution of the governing authority of
Clayton County pursuant to Code Section 15-9-68 of the
O.C.G.A."
SECTION
2.
This
Act shall become effective on July 1, 2005.
SECTION
3.
All
laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed.