The members of the Council shall serve without compensation but shall receive the same expense allowance per day as that received by a member of the General Assembly for each day the member of the Council is in attendance at a meeting of the Council, plus either reimbursement for actual transportation costs while traveling by public carrier, or the same mileage allowance for use of a personal car in connection with such attendance, as members of the General Assembly receive. Such expense and travel allowance shall be paid in lieu of any per diem, allowance or other remuneration received by any Council member for his or her attendance.
Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. R. 142-1-.02
Ga. L. 1980, pp. 397-398.