Volume 86
Public Law 92–428
To amend the statutory celling on salaries payable to United States magistrates.
Approved September 21, 1972
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend the statutory celling on salaries payable to United States magistrates.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the first sentence
U.S. magistrates.
Salary ceiling, adjustment.
of subsection (a) of section 634 of title 28, United States Code, is amended to read as follows:
“Officers appointed under this chapter shall receive as full compensation for their services salaries to be fixed by the conference pursuant to section 633 of this title, at rates for full-time and part-time United States magistrates not to exceed the rates now or hereafter provided for full-time and part-time referees in bankruptcy, respectively, referred to in section 40a of the Bankruptcy Act (11 U.S.C. 68(a)), as amended, except that the salary of a part-time United States
magistrate shall not be less than $100 nor more than $15,000 per annum, and except that the salary of a full-time United States magistrate shall not exceed 75 percent of the salary now or hereafter provided for a judge of a district court of the United States referred to in section 135 of title 28 of the United States Code.”
Approved September 21, 1972.