(1) The annual salary of the commissioner shall be the amount as provided by law. The salaries of the assistant commissioner, counsel, directors, and all other officers and employees of the department shall be fixed by the department within the limits of funds appropriated for them.
(2) The reasonable and necessary travel and other expenses of the commissioner, assistant commissioner, counsel, directors, and other officers and employees of the department, while actually engaged in the performance of their duties, outside of the City of Tallahassee, or if any such officer or employee be in charge of or regularly employed at a branch office of the department, the reasonable and necessary travel and other expenses outside the place such branch office is located, shall be paid from the State Treasury after audit by the Chief Financial Officer of vouchers approved by the department in the amount provided in s. 112.061.
History.—s. 1, ch. 59-54; ss. 14, 35, ch. 69-106; s. 9, ch. 93-169; s. 736, ch. 2003-261.
Structure Florida Statutes
Title XXXV - Agriculture, Horticulture, and Animal Industry
Chapter 570 - Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
Part I - General Provisions (Ss. 570.01-570.232)
570.01 - Department created; commissioner.
570.041 - Organization of departmental work.
570.051 - Interference with department employees in performance of duties.
570.06 - Offices of the department.
570.07 - Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; functions, powers, and duties.
570.077 - Confidentiality of intelligence or investigative information.
570.081 - Division of work between department and experiment station and extension service.
570.09 - Assistant commissioner.
570.091 - Deputy commissioners.
570.11 - Directors; oath of office.
570.12 - Other officers and employees.
570.13 - Salary of commissioner, officers, and employees; expenses.
570.15 - Access to places of business and vehicles.
570.191 - Agricultural Emergency Eradication Trust Fund.
570.1912 - Funding of Agricultural Emergency Eradication Trust Fund.
570.192 - Administrative Trust Fund.
570.193 - Federal Grants Trust Fund.
570.194 - Florida Saltwater Products Promotion Trust Fund.
570.20 - General Inspection Trust Fund.
570.205 - Federal Law Enforcement Trust Fund.
570.209 - Market Improvements Working Capital Trust Fund.
570.21 - Publication of department’s bulletins, publications, and reports.