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.
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...Stat. § 125.01(1)(r), F.S.A., to issue bonds without any other specific Legislative enabling act. That case, however, was restricted to bonds issued for the construction of county capital projects (one of the particular purposes listed in Fla. Stat. § 130.01 for which county bonds may issue) and which were financed by a particular tax revenue (race track and jai alai fronton funds)....
...[2] Municipalities may issue bonds that further a public purpose, just as the state and its other subdivisions can. §§ 166.021(1), (2), 166.101(8), 166.111, Fla. Stat. (1991). Constructing roads is a valid public purpose for which bonds may be issued. § 130.01, Fla....
not a “public building” within the meaning of Section 130.01, Florida Statutes, F.S.A., which authorized
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