Compensation of clerk and register.

(a) The person holding the office of clerk and register of the circuit court in Cullman County shall receive an annual supplemental salary, paid from the county treasury. The salary supplement shall be fixed at an amount equal to the supplemental salary upon which the Democratic Party based its assessment of filing fees for candidates for the office of Circuit Clerk and Register of Cullman County in the 1982 primary election.

(b) All salary supplements and expense allowances paid from the Cullman County Treasury to the person holding the office of Clerk and Register of the Cullman County Circuit Court during the period beginning on January 16, 1977, and ending on September 30, 1984, are ratified, confirmed, and approved by this section.

(c) The salary supplement authorized by subsection (a) shall be made retroactive to the fiscal year beginning on October 1, 1984.

(Act 85-643, p. 981, §§1-3.)