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FL Stat § 127.01 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XI - County Organization and Intergovernmental Relations|Chapter 127 - Right of Eminent Domain to Counties|127.01 - Counties Delegated Power of Eminent Domain; Recreational Purposes, Issue of Necessity of Taking; Compliance With Limitations.

127.01 Counties delegated power of eminent domain; recreational purposes, issue of necessity of taking; compliance with limitations.—(1)(a) Each county of the state is delegated authority to exercise the right and power of eminent domain; that is, the right to appropriate property, except state or federal, for any county purpose. The absolute fee simple title to all property so taken and acquired shall vest in such county unless the county seeks to condemn a particular right or estate in such property.(b) Each county is further authorized to exercise the eminent domain power granted to the Department of Transportation by s. 337.27(1), the transportation corridor protection provisions of s. 337.273, and the right of entry onto property pursuant to s. 337.274.(2) However, no county has the right to condemn any lands outside its own county boundaries for parks, playgrounds, recreational centers, or other recreational purposes. In eminent domain proceedings, a county’s burden of showing reasonable necessity for parks, playgrounds, recreational centers, or other types of recreational purposes shall be the same as the burden in other types of eminent domain proceedings.(3) A county shall strictly comply with the limitations set forth in ss. 73.013 and 73.014.History.—s. 1, ch. 7338, 1917; RGS 1503; CGL 2281; s. 1, ch. 22802, 1945; s. 18, ch. 63-559; s. 5, ch. 73-299; s. 1, ch. 84-319; s. 17, ch. 85-80; s. 4, ch. 88-168; s. 1, ch. 91-141; s. 62, ch. 99-385; s. 4, ch. 2006-11.
FL Stat § 127.02 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XI - County Organization and Intergovernmental Relations|Chapter 127 - Right of Eminent Domain to Counties|127.02 - County Commissioners May Authorize Acquirement of Property by Eminent Domain.

127.02 County commissioners may authorize acquirement of property by eminent domain.—The board of county commissioners may not exercise its power of eminent domain unless the board adopts a resolution authorizing the acquisition of a property, real or personal, by eminent domain for any county use or purpose designated in such resolution, subject to the limitations set forth in ss. 73.013 and 73.014.History.—s. 2, ch. 7338, 1917; RGS 1504; CGL 2282; s. 5, ch. 2006-11.
FL Stat § 129.011 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XI - County Organization and Intergovernmental Relations|Chapter 129 - County Annual Budget|129.011 - Consolidation of Funds.

129.011 Consolidation of funds.—(1) In order to simplify and otherwise improve the accounting system provided by law and to facilitate a better understanding of the fiscal operation of the county by the general public, the board of county commissioners may, by resolution duly adopted, consolidate any of its separate budgetary funds into a single general fund, except that all revenue and expenditures of the county transportation trust fund established pursuant to s. 336.022 shall be shown as a separate budgetary fund.(2) Subsequent to the consolidation of any budgetary funds as provided in subsection (1), the maximum permitted tax millage of the combined fund shall be the total amount authorized by law for the separate funds so consolidated.(3) This section is deemed to be in the general public interests and it is the intent of the Legislature that the provisions hereof shall be liberally construed to accomplish the purposes contained herein.History.—ss. 1, 2, 4, ch. 70-282; s. 2, ch. 77-165; s. 263, ch. 84-309; s. 19, ch. 87-224.
FL Stat § 129.021 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XI - County Organization and Intergovernmental Relations|Chapter 129 - County Annual Budget|129.021 - County Officer Budget Information.

129.021 County officer budget information.—Notwithstanding other provisions of law, the budgets of all county officers, as submitted to the board of county commissioners, must be in sufficient detail and contain such information as the board of county commissioners may require in furtherance of their powers and responsibilities provided in ss. 125.01(1)(q), (r), and (v), and (6) and 129.01(2)(b).History.—s. 2, ch. 78-132; s. 6, ch. 2011-144.
FL Stat § 129.025 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XI - County Organization and Intergovernmental Relations|Chapter 129 - County Annual Budget|129.025 - County Budget Officer.

129.025 County budget officer.—(1) Each board of county commissioners may designate a county budget officer to carry out the duties set forth in this chapter. Unless the board designates a different officer, the clerk of the circuit court or the county comptroller, if applicable, shall be the budget officer for the purposes of this chapter.(2) The Legislature finds that the duties of county budget officer set forth in this chapter do not fall within the constitutional responsibilities performed by the several clerks of the circuit court as auditor and custodian of county funds. The position of county budget officer shall not constitute an office in the meaning of s. 5, Art. II of the State Constitution.History.—s. 1, ch. 78-303.
FL Stat § 129.04 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XI - County Organization and Intergovernmental Relations|Chapter 129 - County Annual Budget|129.04 - Fiscal Year.

129.04 Fiscal year.—The fiscal year of each county of the state shall commence on October 1, and end on September 30 of each year, and whenever the word “year” appears in this chapter, it shall be construed as meaning the fiscal year as hereby established.History.—s. 4, ch. 6814, 1915; RGS 1527; CGL 2305.
FL Stat § 129.07 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XI - County Organization and Intergovernmental Relations|Chapter 129 - County Annual Budget|129.07 - Unlawful to Exceed the Budget.

129.07 Unlawful to exceed the budget.—The board of county commissioners may not expend or enter into a contract requiring expenditures in any fiscal year for more than the amount of appropriations in each fund’s budget, except as provided herein, and the total appropriations of any budget may not be exceeded, except as provided in s. 129.06. Any indebtedness contracted for any purpose against either of the funds enumerated in this chapter or for any purpose, which is chargeable to either of the funds, is null and void, and no suit may be prosecuted in any court in this state for the collection of such indebtedness. The members of the board of county commissioners voting and contracting for such indebtedness are liable for any excess indebtedness contracted for.History.—s. 7, ch. 6814, 1915; RGS 1530; CGL 2308; s. 6, ch. 26874, 1951; s. 3, ch. 78-157; s. 9, ch. 2011-144.
FL Stat § 129.08 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XI - County Organization and Intergovernmental Relations|Chapter 129 - County Annual Budget|129.08 - County Commissioner Voting to Pay Illegal Claim or for Excess Indebtedness.

129.08 County commissioner voting to pay illegal claim or for excess indebtedness.—Each member of the board of county commissioners who knowingly and willfully votes to incur an indebtedness against the county in excess of the expenditure allowed by law or county ordinance, or to pay an illegal charge against the county, or to pay any claim against the county not authorized by law or county ordinance shall be guilty of malfeasance in office and subject to suspension and removal from office as now provided by law, and shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall upon conviction be punished by a fine of not less than $100 nor more than $500 or by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than 6 months, for each offense.History.—s. 2, ch. 6814, 1915; RGS 5332; CGL 7465; s. 4, ch. 71-14; s. 1, ch. 71-305.
FL Stat § 129.09 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XI - County Organization and Intergovernmental Relations|Chapter 129 - County Annual Budget|129.09 - County Auditor Not to Sign Illegal Warrants.

129.09 County auditor not to sign illegal warrants.—Any clerk of the circuit court, acting as county auditor, who shall sign any warrant for the payment of any claim or bill or indebtedness against any county funds in excess of the expenditure allowed by law, or county ordinance, or to pay any illegal charge against the county, or to pay any claim against the county not authorized by law, or county ordinance, shall be personally liable for such amount, and if he or she shall sign such warrant willfully and knowingly he or she shall be guilty of a misdemeanor of the second degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083.History.—s. 2, ch. 6814, 1915; RGS 5333; CGL 7466; s. 5, ch. 71-14; s. 78, ch. 71-136; s. 2, ch. 71-305; s. 829, ch. 95-147.
FL Stat § 130.01 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XI - County Organization and Intergovernmental Relations|Chapter 130 - County Bonds|130.01 - Purposes for Which County Bonds May Issue.

130.01 Purposes for which county bonds may issue.—Whenever the board of county commissioners of any county shall deem it expedient, or to the best interests of such county, to issue the county bonds of their county, for the purpose of constructing paved, macadamized, or other hard-surfaced highways, or erecting a courthouse or jail, or other public buildings, and funding the outstanding indebtedness of the county, or for any of such purposes, they shall determine by resolution to be entered in their records, what amount of bonds is required for such purpose, the rate of interest to be paid thereon, and the time when the principal and interest of such bonds shall be due and when payable.History.—s. 1, ch. 2088, 1877; RS 591; s. 1, ch. 4711, 1899; GS 786; RGS 1531; CGL 2309.
FL Stat § 130.02 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XI - County Organization and Intergovernmental Relations|Chapter 130 - County Bonds|130.02 - Commissioners May Levy Tax.

130.02 Commissioners may levy tax.—When any county bonds shall have been issued by the county commissioners of any county of the state, under authority of law, for the purpose of erecting a courthouse, jail, armory, or other county buildings, it shall be the duty of such county commissioners to levy annually, by tax upon taxable property in the county, a sum sufficient to pay the interest upon the said bonds, and also a sum sufficient to raise the amount annually required as a sinking fund to meet the principal of the bonds, which sinking fund shall be provided for by resolution of the board of county commissioners before the issuing of any of the said bonds.History.—s. 1, ch. 4286, 1893; GS 787; RGS 1532; CGL 2310.
FL Stat § 130.03 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XI - County Organization and Intergovernmental Relations|Chapter 130 - County Bonds|130.03 - Election Required Before Issuance of Bonds.

130.03 Election required before issuance of bonds.—Bonds shall be issued only after the same shall have been approved by the majority of the votes cast in an election in which a majority of the freeholders who are qualified electors residing in such county shall participate, which election shall be called and held, and the result thereof declared and recorded, in the manner prescribed by ss. 100.201-100.221, 100.241, 100.261-100.341, and 100.351, and said election or any subsequent elections for the same purpose shall be subject to all the provisions of chapter 100.History.—s. 3, ch. 2088, 1877; RS 593; GS 789; RGS 1534; CGL 2312; s. 1, ch. 14715, 1931; CGL 1936 Supp. 457(1); s. 64, ch. 77-175.
FL Stat § 130.04 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XI - County Organization and Intergovernmental Relations|Chapter 130 - County Bonds|130.04 - Sale of Bonds.

130.04 Sale of bonds.—In case the issuing of bonds shall be authorized by the result of such election, the county commissioners shall sell the bonds in the manner provided in s. 218.385.History.—s. 6, ch. 2088, 1877; RS 596; s. 1, ch. 5200, 1903; GS 792; RGS 1537; s. 1, ch. 8551, 1921; CGL 2315; s. 1, ch. 61-113; s. 1, ch. 63-118; s. 9, ch. 2004-305.
FL Stat § 130.05 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XI - County Organization and Intergovernmental Relations|Chapter 130 - County Bonds|130.05 - Security May Be Required of Bidders.

130.05 Security may be required of bidders.—The county commissioners may require of all bidders for said bonds that they give security by bond, running to the county commissioners, with sureties, that the bidder will comply with the terms of the bid, and any bidder whose bid shall be accepted shall, with his or her sureties, be liable to the county for all damages on account of the nonperformance of the terms of his or her bid.History.—s. 8, ch. 2088, 1877; RS 597; GS 793; RGS 1538; CGL 2316; s. 831, ch. 95-147.
FL Stat § 130.06 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XI - County Organization and Intergovernmental Relations|Chapter 130 - County Bonds|130.06 - Form of Bids.

130.06 Form of bids.—All bids for bonds shall specify the amount of bonds bid for, the denomination required and the time when the bidder will comply with his or her bid, and shall also specify whether the bid is in current money or in evidences of indebtedness against the county.History.—s. 9, ch. 2088, 1877; RS 598; GS 794; RGS 1539; CGL 2317; s. 832, ch. 95-147.
FL Stat § 130.07 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XI - County Organization and Intergovernmental Relations|Chapter 130 - County Bonds|130.07 - Form of Bonds.

130.07 Form of bonds.—The county commissioners may prescribe the form and the denominations of the bonds to be issued, and such bonds may be issued with or without interest coupons, as may be deemed expedient.History.—s. 7, ch. 2088, 1877; RS 599; GS 795; RGS 1540; CGL 2318.
FL Stat § 130.08 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XI - County Organization and Intergovernmental Relations|Chapter 130 - County Bonds|130.08 - Disposition of Proceeds.

130.08 Disposition of proceeds.—The proceeds of all bonds sold for money shall be paid over to the county trustees, or to the other officials or boards to whom may have been transferred by law the duties and obligations formerly devolving upon said county trustees, to be distributed by them for the purposes for which such bonds were sold, and for no other purposes.History.—s. 10, ch. 2088, 1877; RS 600; GS 796; RGS 1541; CGL 2319.
FL Stat § 130.09 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XI - County Organization and Intergovernmental Relations|Chapter 130 - County Bonds|130.09 - Cancellation of Exchanged Evidences of Indebtedness.

130.09 Cancellation of exchanged evidences of indebtedness.—When such bonds shall be sold or exchanged for the evidence of indebtedness of the county, such evidence shall be canceled in such manner that the same cannot again be used, and memorandum of all such evidences of indebtedness shall be made in the minutes of the board, so that the same may be identified. Such canceled vouchers shall be sealed in an enclosure and filed for future reference.History.—s. 11, ch. 2088, 1877; RS 601; GS 797; RGS 1542; CGL 2320.
FL Stat § 130.10 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XI - County Organization and Intergovernmental Relations|Chapter 130 - County Bonds|130.10 - Tax for Interest and Sinking Fund.

130.10 Tax for interest and sinking fund.—When any county bonds shall have been issued in pursuance of this chapter, the county commissioners shall levy annually by tax upon the taxable property in the county a sum sufficient to pay the interest of said bonds, and also a sum sufficient to meet the amount annually required to be raised as a sinking fund to meet the principal of the bonds, which sinking fund shall be provided for by resolution of the board of county commissioners before the issuing of any of the said bonds.History.—s. 12, ch. 2088, 1877; RS 602; GS 798; RGS 1543; CGL 2321.
FL Stat § 130.11 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XI - County Organization and Intergovernmental Relations|Chapter 130 - County Bonds|130.11 - Bond Trustees.

130.11 Bond trustees.—(1) Unless otherwise provided by law, when the county commissioners shall have issued bonds, as aforesaid, they shall appoint by resolution of their board, to be recorded in the minutes, a financial committee of three persons, who shall be resident freeholders of the county, to be styled “trustees of county bonds,” who shall each give bond running to the chair of the board of county commissioners and the chair’s successors in office, with sufficient securities, in such sums as may be required by the county commissioners, conditioned that the said trustee shall faithfully discharge the trust confided to him or her, and shall pay over and duly account for all such sums of money as may come into his or her hands by virtue of such trust, which said bonds shall be approved as to the form and the sufficiency of sureties by the board of county commissioners; and the county commissioners may, from time to time, as circumstances may require, demand additional security from any such trustees; or(2) The commissioners may in like manner appoint a responsible trust company, organized and qualified to do business, under the laws of the state, with its principal place of business in such county, which shall be styled, “trustee for county bonds,” and which shall give bond running to the chair of the board of county commissioners and the chair’s successors in office, with sufficient securities in such sum as may be required by the county commissioners, conditioned that the said trustee shall faithfully discharge the trust confided to it and shall pay over and duly account for all such sums of money as may come into its hands, by virtue of such trust, which said bond shall be approved as to form and the sufficiency of sureties by the county commissioners and the county commissioners may from time to time, as circumstances may require, demand additional security from any such trustee.(3) The county commissioners may, if they so elect, by resolution recorded in the minutes of said board, waive the requirement of a bond of such trust company, when appointed trustee of county bonds, and take and accept in lieu thereof a bond in the usual form conditioned upon the proper accounting for all moneys deposited in said trust company and the moneys received by said trust company as trustee of county bonds shall be held by it as money deposited in any other county depository and the bond required of it as such depository shall secure the proper accounting for said moneys, which bond shall be approved by the board of county commissioners as to form, amount and sufficiency of sureties.History.—s. 13, ch. 2088, 1877; RS 603; GS 799; s. 1, ch. 7337, 1917; RGS 1544; s. 1, ch. 12425, 1927; CGL 2322; s. 7, ch. 22858, 1945; s. 833, ch. 95-147.
FL Stat § 130.12 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XI - County Organization and Intergovernmental Relations|Chapter 130 - County Bonds|130.12 - Collector to Pay Taxes to Trustees or Other Officials or Boards.

130.12 Collector to pay taxes to trustees or other officials or boards.—All money collected to pay the interest, or for a sinking fund of said bonded debt, shall be paid over by the tax collector, or person receiving the same on account of taxes collected or property sold therefor, to the said trustees, or to the other officials or boards to whom may have been transferred by law the duties and obligations formerly devolving upon said trustees, and the said trustees, or the said other officials or boards to whom may have been transferred by law the duties and obligations formerly devolving upon said trustees, are required to pay out of the moneys so received the interest of said county bonds, and to invest the residue in the bonds aforesaid, or if the said bonds cannot be had at par or at such premium as to said trustees or to the said other officials or boards to whom may have been transferred by law the duties and obligations formerly devolving upon said trustees, may seem reasonable and just, then such residue may be invested in United States, state, county or municipal bonds bearing interest; or in the event such bonds cannot be acquired to advantage, such funds shall be deposited in the savings department of national banks or state banks of the state, or savings banks organized and existing under the laws of this state, at the prevailing rate of interest, to be held as an accumulating fund for the ultimate redemption of said county bonds.History.—s. 14, ch. 2088, 1877; RS 604; GS 800; s. 1, ch. 6473, 1913; RGS 1545; CGL 2323.
FL Stat § 130.13 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XI - County Organization and Intergovernmental Relations|Chapter 130 - County Bonds|130.13 - Annual Report of Trustees.

130.13 Annual report of trustees.—The said trustees shall annually on such day as may be required by the board of county commissioners render a report to the said board, in which they shall state the amounts of money received and for what purposes and from what sources, severally, and when received, and where and how the same has been invested, and enumerating the kind and amount of securities held therefor, describing the same separately, and such other matters as may be required by the board in order to have a full understanding; which said report shall be published at length by order of the board.History.—s. 15, ch. 2088, 1877; RS 605; GS 801; RGS 1546; CGL 2324.
FL Stat § 130.14 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XI - County Organization and Intergovernmental Relations|Chapter 130 - County Bonds|130.14 - Resignation and Removal of Trustees.

130.14 Resignation and removal of trustees.—The said trustees, or either of them, may resign at any time by a communication in writing to the board of county commissioners, and any number of said trustees may be removed for cause by the judge of the circuit court of the circuit in which the county is situated, upon petition signed by any bondholder or taxpayer, setting forth the cause of complaint; but no trustee shall be removed without notice, and an opportunity to be publicly heard, unless it appears that the accused trustee has absented himself or herself so that notice could not be served.History.—s. 16, ch. 2088, 1877; RS 606; GS 802; RGS 1547; CGL 2325; s. 834, ch. 95-147.
FL Stat § 130.15 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XI - County Organization and Intergovernmental Relations|Chapter 130 - County Bonds|130.15 - Filling of Vacancies in Board of Trustees.

130.15 Filling of vacancies in board of trustees.—In all cases where vacancies shall occur, they shall be filled by nomination by the trustees, and the confirmation by the board of county commissioners; and in case the said trustees do not, within 15 days after written notice of the existence of such vacancy, nominate a suitable person to fill such vacancy, the board of county commissioners shall nominate a suitable person to fill such vacancy, whose nomination shall be confirmed by an order of the circuit court, and the person so appointed as trustee shall give security as hereinbefore provided.History.—s. 17, ch. 2088, 1877; RS 607; GS 803; RGS 1548; CGL 2326.
FL Stat § 130.16 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XI - County Organization and Intergovernmental Relations|Chapter 130 - County Bonds|130.16 - Compensation of Trustees.

130.16 Compensation of trustees.—The said trustees shall have such compensation for their services as follows: For receiving the first $10,000, 1.5 percent; for all over $10,000, 0.5 percent; for disbursements, the same as allowed for receiving, to be paid out of the county treasury.History.—s. 18, ch. 2088, 1877; RS 608; GS 804; RGS 1549; CGL 2327.