Florida Statute 129.08 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XI
COUNTY ORGANIZATION AND INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS

Chapter 129
COUNTY ANNUAL BUDGET

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129.08 County commissioner voting to pay illegal claim or for excess indebtedness.—Each member of the board of county commissioners who knowingly and willfully votes to incur an indebtedness against the county in excess of the expenditure allowed by law or county ordinance, or to pay an illegal charge against the county, or to pay any claim against the county not authorized by law or county ordinance shall be guilty of malfeasance in office and subject to suspension and removal from office as now provided by law, and shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall upon conviction be punished by a fine of not less than $100 nor more than $500 or by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than 6 months, for each offense.

History.—s. 2, ch. 6814, 1915; RGS 5332; CGL 7465; s. 4, ch. 71-14; s. 1, ch. 71-305.

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Cases Citing Statute 129.08

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Mayes Printing Co. v. Flowers, 154 So. 2d 859 (Fla. 1st DCA 1963).

Cited 17 times | Published | Florida 1st District Court of Appeal | 1963 Fla. App. LEXIS 3345

...x his signature. "Implicit in the word `auditor' itself is that some responsibility shall attach to inquire into the legality of the claim. Be that as it may, to follow the argument of the plaintiff would be to completely disregard the provisions of Section 129.08 and Section 129.09, Florida Statutes [F.S.A.]....

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Penzer v. Transp. Ins., 509 F. Supp. 2d 1278 (S.D. Fla. 2007).

Cited 4 times | Published | District Court, S.D. Florida | 2007 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 72845, 2007 WL 2713594

persuasive, see L. Russ, 9A COUCH ON INSURANCE § 129:8 (Nov.2006), but one group of commentators believes

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Ago (Fla. Att'y Gen. 1989).

Published | Florida Attorney General Reports

26 U.S.C. § 79. 6 26 U.S.C. § 120. 7 26 U.S.C. § 129. 8 See, Yates, Social Security Tax Treatment of Cafeteria

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Alachua Cnty., etc. v. Clovis Watson, Jr., etc. (Fla. 2022).

Published | Supreme Court of Florida

...debt in excess of the budget “shall be guilty of malfeasance in office and subject to suspension and removal from office as now provided by law, and shall be guilty of a misdemeanor” punishable by a fine and up to six months in county jail. § 129.08....

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Ago (Fla. Att'y Gen. 2001).

Published | Florida Attorney General Reports

approval of the board of county commissioners. Section 129.08, Florida Statutes, provides: "Each member of

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