Florida Statute 219.06 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XIV
TAXATION AND FINANCE

Chapter 219
COUNTY PUBLIC MONEY, HANDLING BY STATE AND COUNTY

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219.06 Income and expenses.—

(1) Each officer whose compensation for his or her official duties is paid wholly or partly by fees or commissions, or fees and commissions, shall handle all collections of fees, commissions, and other compensation for his or her official duties in the same manner as other public money is herein required to be handled, and shall record them in detail sufficient to furnish the information required for the sworn statement required by ¹s. 145.12(1), to be made to the board of county commissioners.

(2) Fees and commissions collected in the same transactions with collections of other public funds may be kept or deposited with such other public funds, and accounted for with them, until distribution is made of such other public funds.

(3) The officer may withdraw from the earnings of the office for his or her personal use at any time any amount which, together with previous withdrawals, shall not exceed his or her interest therein if the officer’s compensation were calculated to that time, prorated according to the number of days that had elapsed since the beginning of the calendar year.

(4) Disbursements made from the earnings of an officer for the expenses of the office shall be made by check payable to the person performing the service or furnishing the goods, supported by an itemized bill or voucher, except that a petty cash fund may be maintained for necessary cash expenditures and such petty cash fund may be reimbursed from time to time by checks supported by vouchers showing the purposes of the expenditures.

History.—s. 6, ch. 57-349; s. 1184, ch. 95-147.

¹Note.—Repealed by s. 4, ch. 73-349.

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Haslett v. State, 225 So. 2d 186 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1969).

Published | District Court of Appeal of Florida | 1969 Fla. App. LEXIS 5408

...F.S. § 659.24, F.S.A. says that “banks shall be depositors of public moneys under such regulations as may be prescribed by the commissioner”, who is the comptroller. F.S. §§ 658.02(5) and 658.04(2), F.S.A. Section 6 of the 1957 Act, now F.S. § 219.06, F.S.A., provides, in its essential parts, the following: “Each officer whose compensation for his official duties is paid * * * by fees * * * shall handle all collections of fees * * * in the same manner as other public money is herein r...

...awals, shall not exceed his interest therein if his compensation were calculated to that time, prorated according to the number of days that had elapsed since the beginning of the calendar year.’’ * * * * * * The above italicized portion of F.S. § 219.06, F.S.A....

...gregate of $3,751.13 which he had paid himself as compensation that calendar year to March 6th. His lawful compensation, *191 however, based upon his annual income of $11,600 fixed by law, and computed according to the legal formula provided by F.S. § 219.06, F.S.A., was, on and including March 6, 1968, the amount of $2,091.80....

...denounces as embezzlement by a county officer. This in substance is what the information in appeal No. 68-438 charged. And the cashing of the two checks on March 7, 1968, just made matters worse. He was entitled to one more day’s pay of $31,694 (again using the formula prescribed by § 219.06), which, added to the $2,091.80 he had earned through March 6th, amounted to $2,123.50 earned as of March 7th....