The minimum salary payable to municipal judges that have been created in all municipalities having a population greater than one hundred seventy thousand (170,000), according to the 1970 federal census or any subsequent federal census, shall be fourteen thousand five hundred dollars ($14,500) per annum, payable in equal monthly installments. Any municipality affected by this section may provide for greater compensation for the office of municipal judge. Any salary for the office of municipal judge shall be paid by the municipality wherein the office of municipal judge is established.Acts 1971, ch. 345, § 2; T.C.A., §§ 6-809; T.C.A. § 6-56-109.
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