Georgia § 35-1-3 - Subsistence allowance for law enforcement officers.
Full text of Georgia Official Code of Georgia Annotated § 35-1-3 — Subsistence allowance for law enforcement officers., with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 35-1-3. Subsistence allowance for law enforcement officers.
The governing authorities of the several counties, municipal corporations, and other political subdivisions of this state are authorized to designate and set apart a portion of the compensation, whether payable on a salary or fee basis, to sheriffs, deputy sheriffs, patrolmen, policemen, and other law enforcement officers, as a subsistence allowance, which allowance shall not exceed $5.00 for each day actually spent by such sheriff or other law enforcement officer in the performance of his duties. Nothing in this Code section shall affect any pension system which was being operated by any county, municipal corporation, or political subdivision of this state on March 9, 1956, nor shall this Code section affect any rights of any person under any pension system which was being operated by any county, municipal corporation, or political subdivision on March 9, 1956. (Ga. L. 1956, p. 741, §§ 1, 3.) Editor's notes. - By a 1963 resolution (Ga. L. 1963, p. 316), the General Assembly ratified an executive order of the Governor dated March 9, 1962, which suspended until the convening of the 1963 Session of the General Assembly any income taxes due the state attributable to the inclusion in gross income of amounts received as subsistence allowances in accordance with this Code section.
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