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Arizona Revised Statutes Title 11. Counties § 11-259. County immigration commissioner

Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

A. The board may appoint a county commissioner of immigration who shall hold office for two years and shall receive an annual salary not exceeding six hundred dollars. The commissioner shall:

1. Provide information requested by persons desiring to immigrate to the county or make investments therein.

2. Correspond with immigration bureaus, chambers of commerce, tourists bureaus or other commercial bodies, and provide data for the guidance of prospective immigrants or tourists.

3. Furnish reliable information regarding localities in the county where the settler or tourist may choose a home or make investments.

4. Issue maps and pamphlets on the resources of the county.

5. Promote tourist travel or the investment of capital, and distribute such documents to insure their most useful circulation.

6. Assist nonprofit tourist attractions organized pursuant to title 10, chapters 24 through 40. 1

B. The commissioner may hire necessary clerks, prescribe their duties and fix their compensation. Such expenditures shall be first authorized by the board when approving the annual budget, and when so authorized shall be included in the amount to be collected by the annual county tax levy.

C. Counties of the first class having a population of one hundred thousand or over, as determined by the last official census of the United States, may expend a further sum not exceeding two hundred thousand dollars annually for the purposes prescribed in this section.

D. Counties of the first class having a population of less than one hundred thousand, as determined by the last official census of the United States, may expend a further sum not exceeding fifty thousand dollars annually for the purposes prescribed in this section.

E. Counties of the second class may expend a sum not exceeding ten thousand dollars annually for the purposes prescribed in this section.

F. Counties of the third class may expend a sum not exceeding five thousand dollars annually for the purposes prescribed in this section.

1 Sections 10-3101 et seq. through 10-11701 et seq.
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