(a) In addition to all salaries, travel, and other expenses now provided or allowed by law to be paid to them, each member, including the chair, of the County Commission of Escambia County, shall be paid or reimbursed by the county for actual expenses incurred in the performance of his or her duties outside the county of his or her residence, including expenses incurred in attending conventions of the National Association of County Commissioners and the Alabama Association of County Commissioners. Expenses for attending conventions shall be limited to necessary expenses of travel to and from such officer's home to the place of such convention and to reasonable expenses actually incurred for maintenance during the time he or she is participating in such convention. Provided, that the total amount of expenses allowed to all of the members of the county commission, including the chair, shall not exceed three thousand dollars ($3,000) in anyone year.
(b) Each member of the county commission, including the chair, shall submit a statement of his or her expenses to the entire membership of such body for its approval. It shall not be necessary for such statement to be accompanied by receipts or vouchers, but the statement shall be sworn to by each person submitting the same. Such expenses shall be paid out of the county treasury upon the approval of the chair and the entire membership of the county governing body upon the warrant of the chair that such payment is due.
(c) All payments heretofore made by such counties to members of its county governing body as reimbursement for such expenses are hereby validated.
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