Senate Bill No. 53–Committee on Government Affairs

 

Prefiled January 30, 2003

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Referred to Committee on Government Affairs

 

SUMMARY—Increases compensation of district attorneys and sheriffs. (BDR 20‑21)

 

FISCAL NOTE:  Effect on Local Government: Yes.

                           Effect on the State: No.

 

CONTAINS UNFUNDED MANDATE (§§ 1, 3)

(Requested by Affected Local Government)

 

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EXPLANATION – Matter in bolded italics is new; matter between brackets [omitted material] is material to be omitted.

 

AN ACT relating to public officers; increasing the compensation of district attorneys and sheriffs; providing for such increase in compensation to be paid retroactively; authorizing a county to request and receive a waiver from the increases in compensation in the event of insufficient financial resources; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN

SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

 

1-1  Section 1. NRS 245.043 is hereby amended to read as follows:

1-2  245.043  1.  As used in this section:

1-3  (a) “County” includes Carson City.

1-4  (b) “County commissioner” includes the Mayor and supervisors

1-5  of Carson City.

1-6  2.  Except as otherwise provided by any special law, the elected

1-7  officers of the counties of this state are entitled to receive annual

1-8  salaries in the base amounts specified in the following table. The

1-9  annual salaries are in full payment for all services required by law to

1-10  be performed by such officers. Except as otherwise provided by law,

1-11  all fees and commissions collected by such officers in the

1-12  performance of their duties must be paid into the county treasury

1-13  each month without deduction of any nature.

2-1  ANNUAL SALARIES

 

2-2                     County      District            County             CountyCountyCounty   Public

2-3  Class      County          Commissioner   Attorney         Sheriff  Clerk      Assessor     Recorder     Treasurer    Administrator

 

2-4     1            Clark     $54,000[$100,800][$84,000]$72,000$72,000$72,000$72,000     $72,000

2-5                                              $155,744$134,262

2-6     2        Washoe       39,600[96,000][78,000]66,000  66,000   66,000   66,000   66,000

2-7                                                137,484110,632

2-8     3Carson City       18,000[72,360][60,000]51,360  51,360   --------   51,360   --------

2-9                                                  98,70781,846

2-10            Churchill       18,000[72,360][60,000]51,360  51,360   51,360    --------   --------

2-11                                                 98,70781,846

2-12              Douglas       18,000[72,360][60,000]51,360  51,360   51,360    --------   --------

2-13                                                 98,70781,846

2-14                   Elko       18,000[72,360][60,000]51,360  51,360   51,360   51,360   --------

2-15                                                 98,70781,846

2-16          Humboldt       18,000    98,70781,84642,840   42,840   42,840   42,840   --------

2-17                  Lyon       18,000[72,360][60,000]51,360  51,360   51,360    --------   --------

2-18                                                 98,70781,846

2-19                    Nye       18,000[72,360][60,000]51,360  51,360   51,360   51,360   --------

2-20                                                 98,70781,846

2-21    [4   Humboldt       18,000    68,34054,00042,840   42,840   42,840   42,840   --------]

2-22    4          Lander       18,000[68,340][54,000]42,840  42,840   42,840   42,840   --------

2-23                                                 93,22373,662

2-24         White Pine       18,000[68,340][54,000]42,840  42,840   42,840   42,840   --------

2-25                                                 93,22373,662

2-26    5          Eureka       15,240[60,300][43,200]38,400  38,400   38,400    --------   --------

2-27                                                 82,25658,929

2-28               Lincoln       15,240[60,300][43,200]38,400  38,400   38,400   38,400   --------

2-29                                                 82,25658,929

2-30              Mineral       15,240[60,300][43,200]38,400  38,400   38,400    --------   --------

2-31                                                 82,25658,929

2-32             Pershing       15,240[60,300][43,200]38,400  38,400   38,400    --------   --------

2-33                                                 82,25658,929

2-34                 Storey       15,240    82,25658,92938,400   38,400   38,400    _____   _____

2-35    6     Esmeralda       12,000[47,880][38,400]33,600  33,600   33,600    --------   --------

2-36                                                 65,31452,382

2-37               [Storey       15,240    47,88043,20038,400   38,400   38,400    --------   --------]

 

2-38      Sec. 2.  A board of county commissioners may apply to the

2-39  Committee on Local Government Finance for a waiver from the

2-40  increases in annual salaries of the elected officers of the county set

2-41  forth in the table of annual salaries contained in NRS 245.043, as

2-42  amended by this act, if the board determines that the financial

3-1  resources of the county are insufficient to pay those increases in the

3-2  next fiscal year. The Committee on Local Government Finance shall

3-3  grant such a waiver if it finds that the financial resources of the

3-4  county are insufficient to pay those increases in the next fiscal year.

3-5  Sec. 3.  Except as otherwise provided in section 2 of this act,

3-6  the increases in annual salaries of the elected officers of a county set

3-7  forth in the table of annual salaries contained in NRS 245.043, as

3-8  amended by this act, must be paid retroactively to January 6, 2003.

3-9  Sec. 4.  The provisions of subsection 1 of NRS 354.599 do not

3-10  apply to any additional expenses of a local government that are

3-11  related to the provisions of this act.

3-12      Sec. 5.  This act becomes effective upon passage and approval.

 

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