Section 200. Compensation of supervisors

1. Notwithstanding the election of
  a  supervisor  for a fixed term, the board of supervisors of each county
  shall have power from time to  time  to  fix  the  compensation  of  its
  members  for  services  rendered  to  the  county. Except as hereinafter
  provided, such compensation shall be an annual salary and  shall  be  in
  lieu  of  all fees, charges or compensation for all services rendered to
  the county. Each supervisor  shall  be  entitled  to  receive  an  equal
  amount, except the chairman and the majority and minority leaders of the
  board,  who  may be paid an additional amount. Until otherwise provided,
  the compensation to be paid by a county to each member of the  board  of
  supervisors  shall  be  the amount authorized to be paid therein for the
  year nineteen hundred fifty.
    2. Upon the adoption of a proposition therefor submitted  as  provided
  in this chapter, the members of the board of supervisors of a county, in
  lieu  of  an  annual salary, may be paid a salary for board meetings and
  per diem compensation for committee work, or per diem  compensation  for
  both board meetings and committee work. The proposition may be initiated
  by  a  resolution  of  the  board  of  supervisors or by a petition duly
  subscribed by electors of the county qualified  to  vote  at  a  general
  election of county officers, in number equal at least to five per centum
  of  the  total vote cast for governor in said county at the last general
  election held for the election  of  governor.  Such  petition  shall  be
  acknowledged  or  authenticated  in  the  same manner as provided by the
  election  law  for  a  designating  petition.  The  proposition  may  be
  submitted  at  either  a  general or a special election as provided by a
  resolution of the board of supervisors, and shall  become  effective  at
  the  commencement of the fiscal year next following its adoption. Moneys
  appropriated to pay salaries of members of the board of supervisors  for
  such  next succeeding fiscal year, shall continue to be available to pay
  the compensation of the members of such board earned during such  fiscal
  year  in accordance with the proposition as adopted. If such proposition
  be adopted, no further vote shall be submitted  before  the  fifth  year
  thereafter.
    3.  The  salary, or the rate of per diem compensation, or both, as the
  case may be, fixed and paid during a fiscal year shall  not  exceed  the
  salary  or  rate as specified in the notice of the public hearing on the
  tentative budget prepared for such fiscal year,  published  pursuant  to
  section three hundred fifty-nine of this chapter.