(a) As used in this section, county means Calhoun County and county official means each local Calhoun County official covered by Chapter 2A of Title 11.

(b)(1) Commencing July 1, 2007, the following county officers shall receive the following additional expense allowances payable in biweekly installments from the funds from which their salaries, compensation, or expense allowances are paid.

a. The county revenue commissioner shall receive an expense allowance of seven thousand eight hundred dollars ($7,800) per annum.

b. The county license commissioner shall receive an expense allowance of five thousand six hundred dollars ($5,600) per annum.

c. Each county commissioner shall receive an expense allowance of ten thousand dollars ($10,000) per annum.

(2) The chair of the county commission when serving as chair shall receive compensation the same as currently set per annum for the chair of the county commission per term of service as chair payable in equal biweekly installments.

(3) After June 7, 2007, each county official shall receive uniform increases in compensation in the same manner as provided in Section 11-2A-4, provided, however, that the county revenue commissioner serving on June 7, 2007, shall receive the increases even though the county revenue commissioner is receiving an amount as provided in subsection (3) of Section 11-2A-2. Longevity increases of county officials shall be based on the average of longevity increases of all county employees as shown on county pay scales, as determined by the county commission, with the previous and continuing use of the average of longevity increases of all county employees being ratified and approved. Longevity increases for county officials shall be based on the official's most recent period of time of continuous, uninterrupted service as a county official. County officials shall be entitled to receive longevity increases for up to the same number of years a county employee is entitled to receive longevity increases. Past service as a county employee shall not be counted in determining the number of years a county official may receive longevity increases. Compensation increases provided for in this section shall be calculated based on the compensation of the officials being received at the time the increases become effective for county employees. The inclusion of funds in the county budget, at the time of its approval, to cover the costs for compensation increases, as provided in this section, shall be considered the granting of an increase for whatever type of compensation increase funds are included in the county budget when it is approved. Compensation increases, as provided for in this section, shall be due without being subject to the limitation contained in subsection (b) of Section 11-2A-4.

(c) Unless allowed by the constitution and state law to be paid as salary, compensation increases provided for in this section to incumbent county office holders shall be paid as an expense allowance until the beginning of the next term of office whereupon the expense allowance shall be included in the base salary for the office holder and the expense allowance shall be void.

(d) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, the starting salary of any successor county official shall be the salary of his or her predecessor, including all cost-of-living increases of his or her predecessor in office, but not including longevity increases, merit raises, or bonuses received by any of his or her predecessors in office.

(e) Deductions from the expense allowances provided under this section shall be made for supernumerary programs, the State Employees' Retirement System, or any other retirement programs as provided by law, the same as if the expense allowances were salary.

(f) This section shall be read in pari materia with Section 40-6A-2. All compensation paid under this section to any county official whose compensation is prorated under Section 40-6A-2 shall be and continue to be prorated and paid from the same funds and in the same manner as provided under that section.