The Sheriff of Pickens County gets an additional allowance and later a salary set at 63% of the District Judge of Pickens County’s annual salary, with payment and funding handled by the county and county commission.
(a) Commencing on May 1, 1999, the Sheriff of Pickens County shall be entitled to an additional expense allowance totalling the salary and expense allowance in an amount equal to 63 percent of the annual salary paid by the State of Alabama to the District Judge of Pickens County, which shall be in addition to all other expense allowances, compensation, or salary provided by law. (b) Beginning with the expiration of the term of the incumbent sheriff, the annual salary for the sheriff shall be increased to an amount equal to 63 percent of the annual salary paid by the state to the District Judge of Pickens County, payable in equal monthly installments and at that time, subsection (a) shall become null and void. (c) The salary prescribed for the Sheriff of Pickens County pursuant to subsection (b) shall be 63 percent of the annual salary prescribed by law for the District Judge of Pickens County, and shall increase in the amount as the salary of the district judge is increased by law. If the implementation of any increase in the salary of the District Judge of Pickens County increases the salary of the sheriff during his or her term of office, the increase shall be paid as expense allowance until the beginning of the next term of office, whereupon the amount of the expense allowance shall be included in the salary for the sheriff and the expense allowance at that time shall become null and void. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the county shall pay the salary increase during a term of office at the beginning of the next fiscal year after the implementation of the increase if payment of the increase shall at any time become authorized by an amendment to the Constitution of Alabama of 1901. (d) Any expense allowance provided for by this section and the annual salary of the Sheriff of Pickens County provided for by this section, whether enacted herein or implemented after April 29, 1999, shall be payable in equal installments out of the general fund of the county, out of the county public highway and traffic fund, or any other fund available to the Pickens County Commission, as the Pickens County Commission shall direct.