§ 2-2-85. Compensation, employment, etc., of assistants.  


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  • The tax commissioner of the county shall receive a base annual salary of thirty-six thousand six hundred dollars ($36,600.00), to be paid in equal monthly installments out of county funds. All fees, commissions, costs, fines, percentages, forfeitures, penalties, and other perquisites of whatever kind received and collected by the tax commissioner shall be paid over to the fiscal authority of Henry County. All such funds collected by him for the county during the immediately preceding calendar month shall be remitted to the fiscal authority of Henry County with a detailed, itemized statement showing the collections and the sources from which such funds were collected. It is specifically provided that the salary provided herein for the tax commissioner shall be in lieu of all fees, commissions, costs, fines, percentages, forfeitures, penalties, and other perquisites of whatever kind, including those commissions allowed by Code Section 48-5-180 of the O.C.G.A., relating to commissions of tax commissioners. The tax commissioner is authorized to employ such clerks and other assistants as he deems necessary and to prescribe their duties and set their salaries, but the number of such clerks and assistants and the salaries thereof shall be subject to the final approval of the board of commissioners of the county.

(Ga. Laws 1958, P. 3127, Act No. 345, § 4A; Ga. Laws 1969, P. 2761, Act No. 293, § 1; Ga. Laws 1974, P. 3060, Act No. 1121, § 1; Ga. Laws 1979, P. 4189, Act No. 328, § 4; Ga. Laws 1981, P. 4006, Act No. 363, § 4; Ga. Laws 1983, P. 4518, Act No. 124, § 4; Ga. Laws 1984, P. 4698, Act No. 1066, § 4; Ga. Laws 1986, P. 4171, Act No. 986, § 4; Ga. Laws 1989, P. 4824, Act No. 303, § 5)

Editor's note

Ga. Laws 1925, P. 660, Act No. 277, § 5 provided for the compensation of the tax commissioner. The following acts amended the 1925 act but did not specifically amend § 5; Ga. Laws 1941, P. 873, Act No. 168, Ga. Laws 1961, P. 2007, Act No. 4.