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Section 36-1-6 - District attorneys; salaries.

NM Stat § 36-1-6 (2019) (N/A)
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A. For fiscal year 2000, district attorneys who serve in a district that does not include a class A county within the district shall receive an annual salary of seventy-four thousand four hundred eighty-one dollars ($74,481) and district attorneys who serve in a district that includes a class A county within the district shall receive an annual salary of seventy-eight thousand four hundred one dollars ($78,401).

B. For fiscal year 2001 and all subsequent fiscal years, the annual salary for district attorneys shall be established by the legislature in an appropriations act.

History: 1953 Comp., § 17-1-3.4, enacted by Laws 1976 (S.S.), ch. 18, § 1; 1978, ch. 173, § 1; 1980, ch. 132, § 1; 1982, ch. 31, § 1; 1986, ch. 49, § 8; 1988, ch. 136, § 6; 1990, ch. 117, § 1; 1995, ch. 168, § 1; 1999 (1st S.S.), ch. 7, § 1.

Repeals and reenactments. — Laws 1976 (S.S.), ch. 18, § 1, repealed former 17-1-3.4, 1953 Comp., relating to salaries of district attorneys, and enacted a new 17-1-3.4, 1953 Comp.

The 1999 amendment, effective May 21, 1999, combined former Subsections A and B into present Subsection A, raising the salaries of all district attorneys, and added present Subsection B.

The 1995 amendment, effective June 16, 1995, substituted "seventy thousand two hundred sixty-five dollars ($70,265)" for "sixty four thousand one hundred twenty five dollars ($64,125)" in Subsection A, and substituted "seventy-three thousand nine hundred sixty-three dollars ($73,963)" for "sixty seven thousand five hundred dollars ($67,500)" in Subsection B.

The 1990 amendment, effective May 16, 1990, rewrote this section which read "District attorneys shall receive a salary of forty-seven thousand five hundred eighty-six dollars ($47,586) a year."

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Section 36-1-6 - District attorneys; salaries.