CopyAgo (Fla. Att'y Gen. 1979).
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applicable to the clerks of the circuit court. Section
145.141, F. S., was first adopted in 1969 by s. 8,
CopyAgo (Fla. Att'y Gen. 1993).
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...218.36 , F.S. You state that your office does not collect enough fees to cover the cost of operating the office and payment of your salary. The county commission, therefore, supplements the tax collector's office budget by paying your salary, pursuant to s. 145.141 , F.S....
...he fees paid by such units to the total fee income of the office pursuant to s.
218.36 (2), F.S., or paid to the county. Under s.
145.11 , F.S., each tax collector is to be paid a designated salary, based upon the population of the officer's county. Section
145.141 , F.S., however, provides: Should any county officer have insufficient revenue from the income of his office, after paying office personnel and expenses, to pay his total annual salary, the board of county commissioners shall pay any...
...apter 145. Whenever a tax collector has money in excess, he shall distribute the excess to each governmental unit in the same proportion as the fees paid by the governmental unit bear to the total fee income of his office. (e.s.) When read together, s. 145.141 , F.S., and s....
...Only those fees collected in excess of that needed to pay office personnel and expenses and the officer's salary are to be paid to governmental units under s.
218.36 (2), F.S. Sincerely, Robert A. Butterworth Attorney General RAB/tls 1 Cf., AGO 79-66 (s.
145.141 , F.S., does not authorize board of county commissioners to pay any deficiency in the operating expenses of county clerk operating as a fee officer)....
