TITLE 36
Public Officers and Employees
CHAPTER 36-6
Salaries and Traveling Expenses
SECTION 36-6-2
§ 36-6-2 Salaries of other general state
officers.
(a) Until December 31, 1998, the salary of the lieutenant governor shall be
fifty-two thousand dollars ($52,000) per annum; the salary of the secretary of
state shall be fifty-two thousand dollars ($52,000) per annum; and the salary
of the attorney general shall be fifty-five thousand dollars ($55,000) per
annum; the salary of the general treasurer shall be fifty-two thousand dollars
($52,000) per annum. After December 31, 1998, the salary of the lieutenant
governor shall be eighty thousand dollars ($80,000); the salary of the
secretary of state shall be eighty thousand dollars ($80,000); the salary of
the attorney general shall be eighty-five thousand dollars ($85,000); and the
salary of the general treasurer shall be eighty thousand dollars ($80,000); and
they shall thereafter be adjusted as set forth in § 36-6-1.
(b) The general assembly shall annually appropriate such sum
as it may deem necessary to carry out the purposes of this section; and the
state controller is hereby authorized and directed to draw his or her orders
upon the general treasurer for the payment of that sum, or so much thereof as
may be required from time to time, upon receipt by him or her of properly
authenticated vouchers.
History of Section.
(P.L. 1951, ch. 2769, § 1; G.L. 1956, § 36-6-2; P.L. 1962, ch. 147,
§ 2; P.L. 1967, ch. 219, § 1; P.L. 1973, ch. 166, § 1; P.L.
1978, ch. 145, § 1; P.L. 1981, ch. 360, § 1; P.L 1986, ch. 287, art.
31, § 1; P.L. 1998, ch. 282, § 1.)