RS 13:2488.5: Salaries of clerk and deputies

A. The salaries of the clerk, if any, and of the deputy clerks, if any, shall be paid by the governing authorities of the city of Franklin and the parish of St. Mary in a proportion which the population of the city of Franklin within Ward Three of St. Mary Parish and the population of the unincorporated portions of Ward Three of St. Mary Parish bear to the total population of Ward Three of St. Mary Parish as determined and adjusted from time to time by the decennial United States census.

B. The clerk shall receive a minimum salary of six hundred dollars per month and the deputy clerk shall receive a minimum salary of two hundred seventy-five dollars per month. The governing authorities of the city of Franklin, the parish of St. Mary, or either of them, may pay such additional salary to the marshal as they may deem proper.