(1) Each county shall establish and maintain a transportation trust fund for all transportation-related revenues and expenditures. All funds received by a county for transportation shall be deposited into this fund. No expenditures other than transportation expenditures authorized by law shall be made from such fund. Each county shall use a uniform accounts classification system approved by the Chief Financial Officer.
(2) The Auditor General shall conduct an audit of each such special trust fund at such intervals of time as practicable and in accordance with s. 11.45, to assure that the surplus of the constitutional gas tax distributed to each county is being expended in accordance with law. If, as a result of an audit, the Auditor General determines that a county has violated the constitutional or statutory requirements for expenditure of transportation funds, he or she shall immediately notify the county. The county shall have an opportunity to respond to the auditor’s report within 30 days after the date of written notification to the county. If the Auditor General refuses to modify or repeal his or her findings, the county may have such findings reviewed pursuant to the provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act, chapter 120. If the findings of the Auditor General are upheld after exhaustion of all administrative and legal remedies of the county, no further surplus constitutional gas tax funds in excess of funds for committed projects shall be distributed to the violating county until the county corrects the matters cited by the Auditor General and such corrections have been certified by the Auditor General as having been completed.
History.—s. 14, ch. 77-165; s. 40, ch. 83-3; s. 63, ch. 84-309; s. 493, ch. 95-148; s. 372, ch. 2003-261.
Note.—Former s. 339.083.
Structure Florida Statutes
Title XXVI - Public Transportation
Chapter 336 - County Road System
336.01 - Designation of County Road System.
336.02 - Responsibility for County Road System; Approval of Maps of Reservation.
336.021 - County Transportation System; Levy of Ninth-Cent Fuel Tax on Motor Fuel and Diesel Fuel.
336.022 - County Transportation Trust Fund; Controls and Administrative Remedies.
336.023 - Use by Counties of the Surplus From the Constitutional Gas Tax.
336.024 - Distribution of Constitutional Gas Tax.
336.025 - County Transportation System; Levy of Local Option Fuel Tax on Motor Fuel and Diesel Fuel.
336.0255 - Distribution of Additional Local Option Tax.
336.03 - County Engineer; Qualifications.
336.044 - Use of Recyclable Materials in Construction.
336.045 - Uniform Minimum Standards for Design, Construction, and Maintenance; Advisory Committees.
336.046 - Regulation of Bus Benches and Transit Shelters Within Rights-of-Way.
336.048 - Temporary Closing Traveling Lane of Road.
336.05 - Naming of County Roads; Recording.
336.08 - Relocation or Change of Roads.
336.09 - Closing and Abandonment of Roads; Authority.
336.10 - Closing and Abandonment of Roads; Publication of Notice.
336.12 - Closing and Abandonment of Roads; Termination of Easement; Conveyance of Fee.
336.44 - Counties; Contracts for Construction of Roads; Procedure; Contractor’s Bond.
336.467 - County-State Right-of-Way Acquisition Agreements.
336.66 - Method of Abolition of District.
336.68 - Special Road and Bridge District Boundaries; Property Owner Rights and Options.
336.71 - Public-Private Cooperation in Construction of County Roads.