Each assistant district attorney of the Twenty-Fourth Judicial District shall receive, in addition to any salary paid to them by the state, a salary as fixed by the district attorney, in his discretion, from the annual budgeted funds provided by the Jefferson Parish Council for salaries for assistant district attorneys. The total amount of the budgeted salary funds which have been designated by the Jefferson Parish Council to be paid to the assistant district attorneys, as fixed by the district attorney, shall not be reduced once it has been in effect for a period of at least six months. Each salary shall be paid monthly on the warrant of each individual assistant.
La. R.S. § 16:544