Title XI, County Organization and Intergovernmental Relations

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 suretie…

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. 2…

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.

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…

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 th…

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 require…

(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 b…

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…

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…

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 petitio…

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…

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, 187…

Whenever a majority of the members of any board of county commissioners, in either of the counties of the state, shall vote to acquire any property, or right, or to double-deck, or parallel, or build any bridge, authorized in the transportation code; or when a petition signed by …

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…

If the election shall result “FOR BONDS” then the board of county commissioners of such county shall forthwith proceed and provide for the payment of the interest and principal of such bonds, and for the issuance, sale, disposition thereof, expenditure of proceeds realized theref…

The board of county commissioners of any newly created county may, at any time within 6 months after the date at which the law creating the county shall become effective, issue interest-bearing time warrants in an aggregate sum not exceeding the amount of one half of 1 percent of…

Such warrants shall bear interest at the rate of 6 percent per annum, payable annually, and shall mature on or before a date 5 years after the date of the issue of such warrants.History.—s. 2, ch. 8518, 1921; CGL 2351.

The proceeds derived from the sale of such warrants shall be distributed by the board of county commissioners between the several funds of the county in such proportion as the county commissioners may deem expedient, and shall be used to pay the current expenses of the county, wh…

The board of county commissioners of each county issuing such interest-bearing time warrants may pay from the general revenue fund of such county each year the accrued interest on such interest-bearing time warrants to the holders thereof, and they shall set aside from the genera…

All bonds, notes, coupons or other obligations, signed by the duly authorized officers of any county, municipality, political subdivision or any public body, board or agency of the state, shall be valid and binding obligations, although before the date of delivery, the persons si…