Alabama § 45-58-80.25 - Salary Supplement for Circuit and District Judges and District Attorney.

§ 45-58-80.25. Salary Supplement for Circuit and District Judges and District Attorney.

(a)(1) The Shelby County Commission shall pay an annual county salary supplement to each circuit judge and the District Attorney of the Eighteenth Judicial Circuit and to each Shelby County District Judge. Each county salary supplement shall be paid from the county general fund.

(2) The amount of the annual county salary supplement paid to each of these officials shall be as follows:

a. For the fiscal year beginning October 1, 1997, and ending September 30, 1998, an amount equal to 25 percent of the State of Alabama base pay or salary of the official.

b. For the fiscal year beginning October 1, 1998, and each fiscal year thereafter, an amount equal to 30 percent of the State of Alabama base pay or salary of the official.

(3) This annual county salary supplement shall be in lieu of any other county salary supplement provided by law to these officials.

(4) The county salary supplement shall be paid to each official in equal monthly installments.

(5) If employees of the county receive a cost-of-living salary increase in any year, each official entitled to an annual county salary supplement as provided in this section shall receive a percentage increase to the annual county salary supplement equal to the percentage rate of the cost-of-living increase given to county employees. This increase to the annual county salary supplement shall be in addition to any other increase provided in this section and shall thereafter be considered as a part of the annual county salary supplement of the official for all purposes, including, but not limited to, for the purpose of calculating future increases.

(b) The county salary supplement provided in this section shall terminate as to a particular official if, by legislative act or court order, the method of compensating the official is restructured so as to either effectively remove or to remove and include in the compensation paid by the state, the local government supplement. The termination of the supplement in such case shall become effective upon the legislative act becoming law and being implemented or any such court order becoming final.