§16-9-12. Full-time office; salary; traveling expenses.

The county superintendent of education shall devote his entire time to public school business. In counties in which the maximum salary of the county superintendent of education is not fixed by law, the county superintendent of education shall receive such compensation, including salary and travel expenses, as the county board of education shall direct. In counties where superintendents of education are elected by a direct vote of the qualified electors, the salary for the office must be fixed prior to the beginning of the term of office. The boards of education in counties where the maximum salary of the superintendent of education is prescribed by law are hereby empowered to fix, approve and authorize the payment of the traveling expenses not in excess of $600.00 annually incurred by the superintendent in the performance of his official duties within and without the county.

(School Code 1927, §149; Acts 1936-37, Ex. Sess., No. 160, p. 181, §1; Code 1940, T. 52, §111; Acts 1943, No. 313, p. 300.)