Section 17-9-20

Compensation of election officials.

In all counties and municipalities of this state in which elections are conducted in whole or in part by voting machines, all election officials shall be entitled to $3.00 which shall be in addition to the compensation now provided by law for election officials. When the election is a municipal election, said compensation shall be paid out of the general fund of the municipality, and in all other elections, it shall be paid out of the county treasury, on proper proof of the service rendered.

(Acts 1943, No. 409, p. 375; Acts 1945, No. 240, p. 359.)