Bill Text: GA HB300 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Putnam County; compensation of board members; provide

Spectrum:

Status: (Passed) 2011-04-20 - Effective Date [HB300 Detail]

Download: Georgia-2011-HB300-Introduced.html

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11 LC 28 5387/AP

House Bill 300 (AS PASSED HOUSE AND SENATE)

By: Representatives Channell of the 116th, Kidd of the 141st, and Hudson of the 124th

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT

To amend an Act creating the Board of Commissioners of Putnam County, approved September 8, 1879 (Ga. L. 1879, p. 334), as amended, particularly by an Act approved February 13, 1957 (Ga. L. 1957, p. 2130), an Act approved April 11, 1979 (Ga. L. 1979, p. 3496), an Act approved March 30, 1987 (Ga. L. 1987, p. 4819), an Act approved March 30, 1993 (Ga. L. 1993, p. 4410), and an Act approved April 1, 1996 (Ga. L. 1996, p. 3804), so as to provide for certain compensation of the members of the board; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:

SECTION 1.

An Act creating the Board of Commissioners of Putnam County, approved September 8, 1879 (Ga. L. 1879, p. 334), as amended, particularly by an Act approved February 13, 1957 (Ga. L. 1957, p. 2130), an Act approved April 11, 1979 (Ga. L. 1979, p. 3496), an Act approved March 30, 1987 (Ga. L. 1987, p. 4819), an Act approved March 30, 1993 (Ga. L. 1993, p. 4410), and an Act approved April 1, 1996 (Ga. L. 1996, p. 3804), is amended by revising the first unnumbered paragraph of the 1957 amendatory Act, as amended, as follows:

"Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid that the chairperson of the Board of Commissioners of Putnam County shall receive a salary of $750.00 per month. The other members of said board shall receive a salary of $650.00 per month. They shall receive no other compensation or per diem, except that the chairperson and members of said board shall receive $50.00 per diem subsistence for each day each is required by the duties of his or her office to be out of Putnam County on official business for the county by approval of a majority of the members of said board and shall receive $100.00 per month local mileage allowance; and in addition thereto, each member furnishing transportation out of the county on such official business shall receive the current mileage rate paid by the state or federal government per mile traveled. The salaries and compensation shall be in lieu of any other salary, per diem, or compensation except for those health, retirement, and deferred compensation benefits currently in place and being paid to the commissioners and those salary adjustments authorized by Code Section 36-5-27 of the O.C.G.A. (Training), Code Section 36-5-28 of the O.C.G.A. (COLA), and Code Section 36-5-29 of the O.C.G.A. (Longevity). Any loss of compensation or benefits to the members of the board of commissioners as the result of a temporary discontinuance of said compensation or benefits for any reason shall be paid retroactively on the first day of the second month following passage of this Act."

SECTION 2.

All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed.