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PART II. COMPENSATION.
§4-2A-2. Basic compensation for services; proration.
(a) Each member of the Legislature shall receive as basic compensation for his or her services the sum of fifteen thousand dollars per calendar year. In addition to the basic compensation, members shall receive the additional compensations as are expressly provided for in sections three, four and five of this article. Except for the increased basic compensation set forth in this subsection, all other increased amounts or new amounts in respect to the compensation or expenses of members of the Legislature, set forth in the resolution of the citizens legislative compensation commission, dated the eighth day of January, one thousand nine hundred ninety-nine, and implemented in sections two through eight of this article providing for new amounts or amounts increased to new amounts greater than those in force and effect on the first day of January, two thousand, shall all become effective for calendar year two thousand one, and each calendar year thereafter as prescribed in this section.
(b) The basic compensation shall be payable twice a month during each regular session of the Legislature, without regard to any extension of the regular session. In the event of the death, resignation or removal of a member of the Legislature during a regular session of the Legislature and the appointment and qualification of his or her successor during any regular session, the basic compensation provided for in this section shall be prorated between the original member and his or her successor on the basis of the number of days served (including Saturdays and Sundays) as a member of the Legislature by each during the regular session of sixty calendar days.
(c) In the event of the death, resignation or removal of a member of the Legislature and the appointment and qualification of his or her successor subsequent to the regular session of the Legislature held in the calendar year in which such successor was appointed and qualified, none of the basic compensation provided for in this section shall be paid to such successor.