Section 4-44-14 - H class counties; salaries and expenses. - New Mexico Statutes

4-44-14. H class counties; salaries and expenses. 

A.     Officers elected or appointed in an unincorporated county of the H class shall receive the following annual salaries: 

(1)     county commissioners, one dollar ($l.00); 

(2)     treasurer, one dollar ($1.00); 

(3)     assessor, one dollar ($1.00); 

(4)     sheriff, one dollar ($1.00); 

(5)     county clerk, one dollar ($l.00); 

(6)     probate judge, three thousand five hundred five dollars ($3,505); and 

(7)     county surveyor, not to exceed ten dollars ($10.00) per day for each day actually employed under orders by the board of county commissioners, such employment not to exceed fifty days in any one year.  

B.     The elected H class county officials listed in Subsection A of this section, except probate judge, in addition to the salaries prescribed shall be entitled to receive as per diem expense the sum of not more than fifteen dollars ($15.00) while in actual attendance at county commission meetings or while engaged in the performance of their official duties for the county.  However, the total per diem expense allowance for each elected H class county official listed in Subsection A of this section shall not exceed three hundred fifty dollars ($350) in any fiscal year.  Such per diem expense shall be in addition to any allowance for sheriff's mileage or for other out-of-county expenses allowed for all officials by law and shall be budgeted, paid and audited as provided by laws governing expenditures of county funds.