Ohio Rev. Code § 325.22: No reduction of compensation due to decline of population.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this chapter, the compensation payable to a county auditor, county treasurer, county sheriff, clerk of the court of common pleas, county recorder, county commissioner, prosecuting attorney, county engineer, or county coroner shall not be reduced during the remainder of his term of office on account of a decline in the population of the county.