HB452ENROLLED
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HB452
SS4B758-2
By Representatives Underwood, Kiel, Yarbrough (N & P)
RFD: Local Legislation
First Read: 19-Mar-25
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First Read: 19-Mar-25
Enrolled, An Act,
Relating to Colbert County; to amend Section 45-17-230,
Code of Alabama 1975, to further provide for the compensation
of the sheriff.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA:
Section 1. Section 45-17-230, Code of Alabama 1975, is
amended to read as follows:
"ยง45-17-230
(a) Commencing with the next term of office, the The
Sheriff of Colbert County shall receive total compensation of
fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) per annum payable from the
county general fund in equal installments in the same manner
as other county employees are paid. This compensation shall be
in lieu of any salary, monthly expense allowance, or fees paid
as compensation to the sheriff.
(b) Beginning October 1, 2025, the sheriff shall
receive an expense allowance to increase the sheriff's total
compensation to ninety-six thousand dollars ($96,000) per
annum payable from the county general fund in equal
installments in the same manner as other county employees are
paid.
(c) Beginning January 18, 2027, the sheriff's total
base salary shall be ninety-six thousand dollars ($96,000) per
annum payable from the county general fund in equal
installments in the same manner as other county employees are
paid. This salary shall be in lieu of the salary provided in
subsection (a), the expense allowance provided in subsection
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subsection (a), the expense allowance provided in subsection
(b), and any other salary, expense allowance, or fees paid to
the sheriff which shall be void.
(d)(1) Beginning October 1, 2025, the sheriff shall be
entitled to all uniform increases in compensation provided to
county employees.
(2) The amount of any uniform increase granted to the
sheriff shall be based on the sheriff's total compensation.
(3) Any uniform increase in compensation granted to the
sheriff during a term of office shall be paid as an expense
allowance until the start of the next term of office.
(4) At the beginning of each term of office, any
uniform increase in compensation provided to the sheriff
during the previous term of office shall be converted to
salary, and any converted expense allowance shall be void.
(e) Any expense allowance provided pursuant to this
section shall be treated as salary for retirement purposes. "
Section 2. This act shall become effective on October
1, 2025.
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1, 2025.
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Speaker of the House of Representatives
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President and Presiding Officer of the Senate
House of Representatives
I hereby certify that the within Act originated in and
was passed by the House 01-Apr-25.
John Treadwell
Clerk
Senate 10-Apr-25 Passed
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