1997 Florida Code
TITLE XVI EDUCATION
Chapter 237 Financial Accounts And Expenditures For Public Schools  
237.081   Public hearings; budgets to be submitted to Department of Education.

237.081  Public hearings; budgets to be submitted to Department of Education.--The school board of each district shall cause a summary of its tentative budget, including the proposed millage levies as provided for by law, to be advertised one time in a newspaper of general circulation published in the district or to be posted at the courthouse door if there be no such newspaper. The advertisement shall appear adjacent to the advertisement required pursuant to s. 200.065. The board shall hold public hearings to adopt tentative and final budgets pursuant to s. 200.065. The hearings shall be primarily for the purpose of hearing requests and complaints from the public regarding the budgets and the proposed tax levies and for explaining the budget and proposed or adopted amendments thereto, if any. The school board shall then require the superintendent to transmit forthwith two copies of the adopted budget to the Department of Education for approval as prescribed by law and regulations of the state board.

History.--s. 1070, ch. 19355, 1939; CGL 1940 Supp. 892(389); s. 8, ch. 22839, 1945; s. 16, ch. 67-387; ss. 15, 35, ch. 69-106; s. 1, ch. 69-300; s. 167, ch. 72-221; s. 21, ch. 75-284; s. 34, ch. 80-274.

Note.--Former s. 237.12.