44TH LEGISLATURE - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - FIRST SESSION, 1999

RELATING TO DISTRICT ATTORNEYS; INCREASING THE SALARIES OF DISTRICT ATTORNEYS; AMENDING A SECTION OF THE NMSA 1978; MAKING AN APPROPRIATION.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:

Section 1. Section 36-1-6 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1976 (S.S.), Chapter 18, Section 1, as amended) is amended to read:

"36-1-6. DISTRICT ATTORNEYS--SALARIES.--

A. Except as provided in Subsection B of this section, district attorneys shall receive an annual salary of [seventy thousand two hundred sixty-five dollars ($70,265).

B. District attorneys who serve in a district that includes a class A county within the district shall receive an annual salary of seventy-three thousand nine hundred sixty-three dollars ($73,963)] eighty-five thousand dollars ($85,000).

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."

Section 2. APPROPRIATION.--Two hundred sixty-four thousand five hundred thirty dollars ($264,530) is appropriated from the general fund to the administrative office of the district attorneys for expenditure in fiscal year 2000 for the purpose of paying salaries and benefits for district attorneys. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2000 shall revert to the general fund.

Section 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.--The effective date of the provisions of this act is July 1, 1999.