23-1114.01. County officers; salaries; classification of counties.
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For the purpose of fixing the salaries of certain officers and their deputies, counties shall be classified as follows: Counties having a population of less than three thousand inhabitants, Class 1; three thousand and less than nine thousand inhabitants, Class 2; nine thousand and less than fourteen thousand inhabitants, Class 3; fourteen thousand and less than twenty thousand inhabitants, Class 4; twenty thousand and less than sixty thousand inhabitants, Class 5; sixty thousand and less than two hundred thousand inhabitants, Class 6; and counties of two hundred thousand inhabitants or more, Class 7.
Through its omission of election commissioners and chief deputy election commissioners from the language contained in this section through section 23-1114.07, the Legislature did not intend for election commissioners or the chief deputies to be classified as county officers. State ex rel. Peterson v. Shively, 310 Neb. 1, 963 N.W.2d 508 (2021).