The Tax Assessor of Mobile County shall receive a salary to be set at forty- two thousand five hundred dollars ($42,500) per year payable in installments in accordance with the existing policy of the Treasurer of Mobile County. The tax assessor's salary as adjusted under this section shall be separate and apart from any allowance or emoluments of office other than present salary now being received. The Tax Assessor of Mobile County shall receive no other salary increases during the six year term of office beginning October 1, 1985.
Ala. Code § 45-49-240.20 (1975)