Florida Statute 137.5 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2024 Florida Statutes (including 2025 Special Session C)

Title XI
COUNTY ORGANIZATION AND INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS

Chapter 137
BONDS OF COUNTY OFFICERS

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F.S. 137.05

137.05 Duty of boards of county commissioners.—The board of county commissioners of each county shall at its regular meetings in January and June of each year examine carefully as to the sufficiency of bonds of the county officers, and if it has reason to believe that the sufficiency of any bond has become impaired, it must at once require the officer to execute and file with the proper officer a new bond for the same amount and under the same conditions as his or her former bond.

History.—s. 2, ch. 4413, 1895; GS 825; RGS 1572; CGL 2420; s. 839, ch. 95-147; s. 24, ch. 98-34.

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Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 137.05

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Cases Citing Statute 137.05

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Don's Porta Signs, Inc., West Coast Sign Co. Ltd., Signs by Design of Florida, Inc. v. City of Clearwater

829 F.2d 1051, 1987 U.S. App. LEXIS 13748

Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit | Filed: Oct 13, 1987 | Docket: 488104

Cited 33 times | Published

City of Clearwater, Fla., Land Development Code § 137.005. 2 . According to the complaint