Ala. Code § 36-6-10 (1975) Voluntary Diminution of Salary

• Library: Alabama Statutes
• Edition: 2023
• Currency: Current with legislation from the 2023 Regular and Special Sessions.
• Year: 2023
• Citation: Ala. Code § 36-6-10 (1975)

It shall be lawful for any person who is an officeholder in or of the State of Alabama or any county or municipality thereof or holding any civil office of profit under this state or any county or municipality thereof whose compensation, salary or fees is fixed by law for his services and which compensation, salary or fees cannot be or shall not be increased or diminished during the term for which he shall have been elected or appointed under the provisions of Sections 118 or 281 of the Constitution of Alabama or Amendment No. 328 thereof to voluntarily diminish the compensation, salary or fees fixed by law to which he is entitled to such extent as he may desire.

Any person desiring voluntarily to diminish the salary, fees or compensation to which he is entitled and which is fixed by law shall sign and acknowledge an instrument in writing designating the office or position held by him and stating or declaring the amount to which he desires to diminish his salary, fees or compensation. This instrument must be acknowledged by him substantially in the form provided by law for acknowledgment of conveyances, and the acknowledgment may be taken by any officer authorized to take acknowledgment and proof of conveyances in this state. This instrument signed and acknowledged shall, where the person executing and acknowledging the instrument is an officeholder of or in the service of the state, be filed with and recorded by the Department of Finance. This instrument signed and acknowledged shall, where the person executing and acknowledging the instrument is an officeholder of or in the service of a county in the state, be filed with and recorded by the probate judge of the county which he serves. This instrument signed and acknowledged shall, where the person executing and acknowledging the instrument is an officeholder of or in the service of a municipality of the state, be filed with and recorded by the custodian of the records of the municipality.