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SB 11 - This act revises the salary schedules for all county elected officials except for officials in first classification counties which have charter forms of government.

(1) SB 11 equalizes the compensation for county accessors, clerks, recorders of deeds when the office is separate from that of the circuit clerk, in second, third and fourth classification counties.

(2) The county coroner will become a member of a county salary commission.

(3) Associate county commissioners' salaries will be two thousand dollars less than the salaries of presiding commissioners in all counties.

(4) In second, third and fourth classification counties, county elected officials will be eligible for a cost of living adjustment (COLA). The COLA cannot exceed the percentage increase given to other employees of a particular county.

(5) The act also provides for a review of county salaries every ten years by the General Assembly.

(6) The county commission of any noncharter county may appoint the county presiding commissioner as county hazardous waste manager. The additional compensation for this duty will be three thousand dollars.

Other provisions pertain to particular county officials.

TOM MORTON