§ 62-36. Initial funding.

The board of county commissioners is authorized to expend from the county general fund such sums as are necessary and desirable for the creation and maintenance of any fire control district created pursuant to this article, such funds to be expended solely for the purpose of creating and maintaining such fire control district pending levy and collection of the initial ad valorem tax proceeds provided by this article. Such fire control district shall reimburse the board of county commissioners the funds so expended upon receipt of the first proceeds of such tax collected by the fire control district. All monies so expended from the county general fund shall be included in the millage to be computed pursuant to section 62-31 of this article so that the county shall be fully reimbursed for all funds advanced pursuant to this section.

(Laws of Fla. ch. 73-600, § 11; Laws of Fla. ch. 77-640, § 2)