(1) The salary of the superintendent of education shall be set by the board of education at a rate no greater than $150,000 a year;

(2) The salary of the president of the University of Hawaii shall be set by the board of regents;

(3) The salaries of all department heads or executive officers of the departments of accounting and general services, agriculture, attorney general, budget and finance, business, economic development, and tourism, commerce and consumer affairs, Hawaiian home lands, health, human resources development, human services, labor and industrial relations, land and natural resources, public safety, taxation, and transportation shall be $85,302 a year; and

(4) The salary of the adjutant general shall be $85,302 a year; provided that if this salary is in conflict with the pay and allowance fixed by the tables of the regular army or air force of the United States, the latter shall prevail. [L 1965, c 223, pt of §5; Supp, §4A-2; HRS §26-52; am L 1969, c 127, §2; am L 1970, c 105, §5; am L 1975, c 58, §6; am L 1982, c 129, §1(2) and c 204, §8; am L 1984, c 282, §1; am L 1986, c 128, §1(2); am L 1987, c 336, §3(3), c 338, §1(4), and c 339, §2(3); am L 1989, c 211, §5 and c 329, §1(2); am L 1990, c 293, §8; am L 1991, c 310, §2; am L 1992, c 203, §1; am L 1994, c 56, §3; am L 1996, c 219, §1; am L 1998, c 115, §4; am L 2000, c 183, §1]