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Ernest Ellison Auditor General Tallahassee

QUESTION:

Under what circumstances is it proper for the board of county commissioners to pay, from its own funds, such amounts as are required to be forwarded to the state by the `employer' of the officers and employees of the office of the clerk of the circuit court because of retirement and social security contribution requirements as to a clerk of the circuit court who operates under funds budgeted and paid over to his office by a board of county commissioners and as to a clerk of the circuit court who operates his office from fee receipts and whose…