(1) In order to simplify and otherwise improve the accounting system provided by law and to facilitate a better understanding of the fiscal operation of the county by the general public, the board of county commissioners may, by resolution duly adopted, consolidate any of its separate budgetary funds into a single general fund, except that all revenue and expenditures of the county transportation trust fund established pursuant to s. 336.022 shall be shown as a separate budgetary fund.
(2) Subsequent to the consolidation of any budgetary funds as provided in subsection (1), the maximum permitted tax millage of the combined fund shall be the total amount authorized by law for the separate funds so consolidated.
(3) This section is deemed to be in the general public interests and it is the intent of the Legislature that the provisions hereof shall be liberally construed to accomplish the purposes contained herein.
History.—ss. 1, 2, 4, ch. 70-282; s. 2, ch. 77-165; s. 263, ch. 84-309; s. 19, ch. 87-224.
Structure Florida Statutes
Title XI - County Organization and Intergovernmental Relations
Chapter 129 - County Annual Budget
129.01 - Budget System Established.
129.011 - Consolidation of Funds.
129.02 - Requisites of Budgets.
129.021 - County Officer Budget Information.
129.025 - County Budget Officer.
129.03 - Preparation and Adoption of Budget.
129.06 - Execution and Amendment of Budget.
129.07 - Unlawful to Exceed the Budget.
129.08 - County Commissioner Voting to Pay Illegal Claim or for Excess Indebtedness.
129.09 - County Auditor Not to Sign Illegal Warrants.
129.201 - Budget of Supervisor of Elections; Manner and Time of Preparation and Presentation.