Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, the salaries of the guards, keepers, industrial officers and guard orderlies, correction officers, employed in the jails, houses of detention and penitentiaries in counties of the first class having less than 700,000 inhabitants, shall be fixed by the board of chosen freeholders.

This section shall not be construed to permit the decrease of any salaries now authorized by law to be paid to any of the guards, keepers, industrial officers, correction officers, and guard orderlies, affected by this section nor decrease the amount of each increment now being paid.

L.1966, c. 68, s. 1, eff. June 8, 1966. Amended by L.1970, c. 189, s. 1, eff. Aug. 19, 1970.