Florida Statute 145.131 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XI
COUNTY ORGANIZATION AND INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS

Chapter 145
COMPENSATION OF COUNTY OFFICIALS

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145.131 Repeal of other laws relating to compensation; exceptions.—

(1) All local or special laws or general laws of local application enacted prior to July 1, 1969, which relate to compensation of county officials are repealed, except laws pertaining to travel expenses of county officers or to payment of extra compensation to the chairs of boards of county commissioners or district school boards.

(2) The compensation of any official whose salary is fixed by this chapter shall be the subject of general law only, except that the compensation of certain school superintendents may be set by school boards in accordance with the provisions of s. 1001.47.

(3) All or any portion of the payment of the costs of life, health, accident, hospitalization, or annuity insurance, as authorized in s. 112.08, for county officials and employees shall not be deemed to be compensation within the purview of this chapter; and all payments previously made from county funds for such purposes are hereby validated.

History.—s. 9, ch. 69-346; s. 1, ch. 72-111; s. 20, ch. 73-334; s. 7, ch. 83-215; s. 1, ch. 93-146; s. 860, ch. 95-147; s. 900, ch. 2002-387.

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Alachua Cnty. v. Powers, 351 So. 2d 32 (Fla. 1977).

Cited 47 times | Published | Supreme Court of Florida

...by resolution guarantee and appropriate a salary to the county official, in an amount not to exceed that specified in this chapter, if all fees collected by such official are turned over to the board of county commissioners..." (Emphasis supplied.) Section 145.131, Florida Statutes (1975), states that: "[a]fter July 1, 1969, compensation of any official whose salary is fixed by this chapter shall be the subject of general law only......

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Sch. Bd. of Escambia Cty. v. State, 353 So. 2d 834 (Fla. 1977).

Cited 11 times | Published | Supreme Court of Florida

...ection 145.16(2), Florida Statutes (1975). Accordingly, under the doctrine of expressio unius est exclusio alterius, Section 145.16 offers no impediment to establishing by local law a different salary for those officers in Escambia County. Likewise, Section 145.131(2), Florida Statutes (1975), which provides for establishing compensation of district school board members within salary ranges specified in Section 145.041, Florida Statutes (1975), cannot take precedence over the later special act here under consideration. See Sharer v. Hotel Corporation of America, 144 So.2d 813 (Fla. 1962); City of St. Petersburg v. Carter, 39 So.2d 804 (Fla. 1949). Furthermore, Section 145.131(2) is not insulated from modification by subsequent special act because it was not passed by the extraordinary legislative vote procedure required by Article III, Section 11(a)(21), Florida Constitution....

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Ago (Fla. Att'y Gen. 1975).

Published | Florida Attorney General Reports

personal estate, such as paid-up life insurance. Section 145.131(3), supra, provides that All or any portion

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Ago (Fla. Att'y Gen. 1978).

Published | Florida Attorney General Reports

county commissioners. Section 145.16, F. S. Section 145.131(1), F. S., however, provides an exception by

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Sch. Bd. of Escambia Cnty. v. State, 353 So. 2d 834 (Fla. 1977).

Published | Supreme Court of Florida | 1977 Fla. LEXIS 4089

those officers in Escambia County. Likewise, Section 145.131(2), Florida Statutes (1975), which provides

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Ago (Fla. Att'y Gen. 1993).

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execution of their official duties . . . ."1 Section 145.131, F.S., however, states: (1) All local or special

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