4-44-1: Classification for salary purposes.

A. For the purpose of fixing salaries of county officers, the several counties of the state, except "H" class counties, are classified as follows:

(1) those having a final, full assessed valuation of over seventy-five million dollars ($75,000,000) and a population of one hundred thousand persons or more as determined by the most current annual population data or estimate available from the United States census bureau, as class "A" counties; and

(2) those having a final, full assessed valuation of over seventy-five million dollars ($75,000,000) and a population of less than one hundred thousand persons as determined by the most current annual population data or estimate available from the United States census bureau, as class "B" counties.

B. The assessed valuation for each year is the full valuation as finally fixed for that year.