§2057.  Compensation; salary and expense fund

The state tax collector for the city of New Orleans shall receive in addition to the salary of six thousand dollars per annum provided by Section 21 of Article 14 of the Constitution of the State of Louisiana*, for the year 1921 a sum of nine thousand dollars per annum, making a total salary of fifteen thousand dollars per annum to be paid to him in monthly installments, which said fifteen thousand dollars per annum salary shall include his salary of six thousand dollars as fixed by Section 21 of Article 14 of the Constitution of the State of Louisiana for the year 1921 and nine thousand dollars to be paid to him from the salary and expense fund of his office as hereinafter referred to.

There shall be in the office of the state tax collector for the city of New Orleans, a salary and expense fund, which shall be allowed each year for the state tax collector, for the payment of compensation for all services required of him by law and for the payment of clerical and all other expenses of his office, including the salaries of all deputies, in the sum of sixty-six thousand dollars per annum in addition to the amounts provided by Section 21 of Article XIV of the Constitution and required to be appropriated by the legislature.  The state tax collector shall deposit into the salary and expense fund any amounts appropriated by the legislature to his office as required by Section 21 of Article XIV of the Constitution.  He shall also deposit annually to his own salary and expense fund amounts fixed for his office by this and the preceding paragraph, which he shall deduct and withhold for that purpose from any funds collected by him and comprising any or all state, parish, school, levee district, and other taxes, including all special taxes collected by him and now required by law to be paid by him into the state treasury or to any authority designated by law to receive the same, which said amounts shall be credited by him to his salary and expense fund.

In the performance of all duties required and imposed upon him by law, the state tax collector is authorized to fix the compensation of his deputies and clerical force and to pay from the salary and expense fund provided in R.S. 47:1910 all the clerical and all other expenses, including his own salary and the salaries of all deputies and clerical assistants, and the premiums on bonds required of himself and any deputy in charge of public funds.  All of the expenditures herein authorized shall be paid by the state tax collector by warrants or checks drawn upon the salary and expense fund created for his office.

The said state tax collector shall draw one-twelfth of all appropriations for his office monthly on his own warrants or checks and shall semi-monthly issue to employees and deputies warrants or checks for the amounts due them, which shall be drawn against and paid out of his salary and expense fund.  For claims against and other expenses of said office, within the allowance above fixed, and to be charged to said allowance, he shall issue his warrants or checks, which shall be drawn against and paid out of the salary and expense fund in his custody.

The allowance of the state tax collector for the city of New Orleans for his salary, deputies, clerical force and assistants as fixed in this Section and other expenses of his office shall be drawn by him from his salary and expense fund, one-twelfth each month, provided that, except as authorized by the preceding paragraph, the allowances shall not be drawn unless the same is on deposit to the credit of the salary and expense fund; provided further, that if the salary and allowances of any month may not be drawn for the reason that the salary and expense fund has an insufficient amount, the deficit may be made up and drawn from any subsequent allowance.

Amended by Acts 1952, No. 255, §1; Acts 1954, No. 420, §1; Acts 1964, No. 342, §1; Acts 1965, No. 82, §1; Acts 1968, No. 438, §1; H.C.R. No. 88, 1993 R.S., eff. May 30, 1993; H.C.R. No. 1, 1994 R.S., eff. May 11, 1994.

*Article 14, §21 of the 1921 Constitution was continued as a statute by Article XIV, §16(A)(10) of the 1974 Constitution, and was repealed by Acts 1975, No. 59, §1.