Expense allowance; salary.

(a) The Revenue Commissioner of Colbert County shall be entitled to receive an additional expense allowance in the amount of five thousand dollars ($5,000) per annum, which shall be in addition to all other expense allowances, compensation, or salary provided by law. The expense allowances shall be payable in equal bimonthly installments from the General Fund of Colbert County.

(b) Effective beginning with the next term of office, the annual salary of the Revenue Commissioner of Colbert County shall be increased by five thousand dollars ($5,000) and the expense allowance provided for in subsection (a) shall be null and void.

(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in addition to any other compensation provided to the Colbert County Revenue Commissioner, the Colbert County Revenue Commissioner shall continue to receive any cost-of-living or other salary increases granted by the Colbert County Commission to other elected officials in the county.

(d) The provisions of this law are remedial and curative and shall be retroactive to October 1, 1997. All salary supplements and expense allowances paid from the County Treasury to the person holding the office of Colbert County Revenue Commissioner during the period beginning October 1, 1997, and ending on May 26, 2017, in accordance with this section are ratified and confirmed.

(Act 2017-452, §§1-4.)