18-3-107. Annual salaries of certain officers; additional compensation prohibited; exception as to traveling and other expenses; compensation of county commissioner; appointment and salaries of deputies, clerks, stenographers and other assistants.

(a) County officers shall be paid as follows:

(i) The county assessor, part-time county and prosecuting attorneys, part-time county attorneys, county clerk, clerk of district court, county sheriff and county treasurer in their respective counties shall receive as annual salaries:

(A) Repealed By Laws 2009, Ch. 142, § 2.

(B) From and after January 1, 2007, not less than ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00) nor more than seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000.00);

(C) From and after January 3, 2011, not less than ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00) nor more than one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000.00).

(ii) Full-time county attorneys and full-time county and prosecuting attorneys shall receive as annual salaries:

(A) Repealed By Laws 2009, Ch. 142, § 2.

(B) From and after January 1, 2007, not less than thirty-five thousand dollars ($35,000.00) nor more than eighty-five thousand dollars ($85,000.00);

(C) From and after January 1, 2009 and to the extent permitted under the constitution and statutory law, not less than thirty-five thousand dollars ($35,000.00) nor more than the salary authorized for a district attorney under W.S. 9-1-802(d).

(iii) Salaries shall be paid in equal monthly installments. The board of county commissioners of each county shall meet not later than June 1, 1978, and on or before the same date each four (4) years thereafter, for the purpose of setting salaries, which shall not be changed during the term of each official for whom a salary is determined.

(b) The salaries provided in subsection (a) of this section shall compensate county officers for all of the duties prescribed by law to be performed by them, and no such officer shall receive from federal, state or county funds any additional or separate salary or compensation other than as above specified. This restriction shall not apply to traveling and other expenses nor to compensation allowed for office or house rent when expressly provided by law nor to other benefits provided to all employees of the respective county.

(c) Each county commissioner will be paid such compensation as the board of county commissioners determines by resolution. No county commissioner may receive more than the lowest compensation paid any elected county officer in the same county who serves full-time as specified in W.S. 18-3-106.

(d) The board of county commissioners shall meet not later than June 1, 1978, and on or before the same date each four (4) years thereafter for the purpose of setting their salaries for the following four (4) years, commencing January 1. The salary amount, when determined, cannot be increased during the period for which established. In addition thereof, each commissioner shall be paid his actual expenses while away from his home on official county business and not exceeding the same mileage allowance as received by state employees for each mile actually and necessarily traveled other than in a county owned vehicle in going to and returning from the meetings of the board and in the discharge of the duties of his office. Only one (1) mileage allowance shall be allowed per vehicle per trip. No commissioner's salary or expense for any purpose shall be charged to any account other than the county commissioner's account in the county budget. No commissioner shall be allowed any other salary from the county other than that herein stipulated.

(e) By and with the consent of the board of county commissioners of the respective counties, the county assessor, county clerk, clerk of the district court, county and prosecuting attorney and county treasurer in each county in the state may appoint one (1) or more deputies for each of the above-named offices who shall receive an annual salary of not less than twenty percent (20%) of the above named officer's salary to be established by the board of county commissioners and also appoint such other clerks, stenographers and assistants as may be necessary to properly administer the affairs of any county office.

(f) Subject to legislative appropriation, the state will pay a portion of each county and prosecuting attorney and assistant county and prosecuting attorney's salary as provided in this subsection. The state will pay fifty percent (50%) of the salary of the county and prosecuting attorney per year to each qualifying county. The state will pay thirty thousand dollars ($30,000.00) or fifty percent (50%) of the salary of each assistant to the county and prosecuting attorney, whichever is less, per year. Payments under this section shall be made annually on or before June 30. In any fiscal year in which the legislative appropriation is insufficient to make all payments authorized by this subsection, the state treasurer shall provide a reduced payment by multiplying the payment authorized under this subsection by a fraction, the numerator of which is equal to the remaining legislative appropriation for the program for the biennial budget period and the denominator of which is equal to the total payments to be made under this subsection for the current fiscal year.

(g) The board of county commissioners of the respective counties may appoint one (1) or more assistants or staff positions, whose salary shall be established by the board of county commissioners, as may be necessary to properly administer the affairs of the board of county commissioners. Persons appointed to an assistant or staff position shall not perform any duties statutorily delegated to any other county elected official.