A board of county commissioners may provide additional cumulative increments to the salary of any qualifying appraiser employed in the office of the assessor as an incentive for obtaining greater qualification levels up to the following amounts:

A. an additional five hundred dollars ($500) a year for holding an "Appraiser 1" certificate;

B. an additional one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500) a year for holding an "Appraiser 2" certificate;

C. an additional two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) a year for holding an "Appraiser 3" certificate; and

D. an additional three thousand dollars ($3,000) a year for holding an "Appraiser 4" certificate.

History: 1953 Comp., § 15-38-1.4, enacted by Laws 1977, ch. 138, § 2; 2015, ch. 78, § 1.

Cross references. — For powers of board of county commissioners as to hiring and setting of salaries of county employees and deputies generally, see 4-38-19 NMSA 1978.

The 2015 amendment, effective July 1, 2015, adjusted the qualification incentive pay for qualifying appraisers employed in the office of the assessor; in the introductory sentence of the section, after "may provide", deleted "as qualification incentive pay the following", and after "office of the assessor", added "as an incentive for obtaining greater qualification levels up to the following amounts"; in Subsection B, after "additional", deleted "one thousand dollars ($1,000)" and added "one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500)"; in Subsection C, after "additional", deleted "one thousand dollars ($1,000)" and added "two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500)"; and in Subsection D, after "additional", deleted "one thousand dollars ($1,000)" and added "three thousand dollars ($3,000)".