Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT Chapter 61 • Effective - 19 Jun 1989, see footnote 61.190. Compensation, amount (second, third and fourth class counties). — In all counties of the second, third and fourth class, the county highway engineer shall receive an annual salary, to be fixed by the county commission. -------- (RSMo 1939 § 13487, A. 1949 H.B. 2018, A.L. 1953 p. 385, A.L. 1957 p. 320, A.L. 1959 S.B. 71, A.L. 1963 p. 116, A.L. 1965 p. 175, A.L. 1972 H.B. 1070, A.L. 1982 S.B. 478, A.L. 1989 H.B. 612) Prior revisions: 1929 § 11855; 1919 § 11063 Effective 6-19-89 (1983) Statutes which purport to delegate to county commissions the authority to award additional compensation for certain county officers violate state constitutional provisions requiring that the compensation for county officers be uniform in each class of counties. Baumli v. Howard County (Mo. Ban), 660 S.W.2d 702
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