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1985 Maine Attorney General Reports and Opinions 1 (1985)

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JAmEs E. TIERNEY
ATTORNEY GENERAL
STATE OF MAINE
DEPARTMENT OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
STATE HOUSE STATION 6
AUGUSTA, MAINE 04333
January 7, 1985
Honorable Linwood M. Higgins
House of Representatives
State House Station #2
Augusta, Maine 04333
Dear Representative Higgins:
In response to your letter of January 3, I am writing to
advise you of the advice which our office rendered orally to
Representative John N. Diamond, the Chairman of the Legislative
Council, on Wednesday, January 2, 1985, concerning its
authority to increase the salaries of the Secretary of State
and the State Treasurer. For the reasons which follow, we
advised the Council that it was within their discretion to
increase the salaries of the two constitutional officers in
question by one step for each year in which they had been in
office.-'
As you know, the power of the Legislative Council to
establish the salaries of the constitutional officers was
established at the Third Special Session of the 111th
Legislature this past September. At that time, the Legislature
enacted 3 M.R.S.A. S 162-B, which provi~clo generally that the
salary of the Secretary of State and the Treasurer of the State
shall be within salary Range 87, but shall not exceed Step G in
that range. In addition, the section provided that at the time
of initial appointment, the salary of these officers shall be
-' Needless to say, our office has in no way suggested that
the Council actually exercise its discretion in granting salary
increases to the two officers, nor has it given any support to
such action.

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