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QUESTION: May a board of county commissioners reimburse individual county commissioners for legal expenses incurred in defending a damage suit against them for some official action taken, when, in addition to legal counsel retained by the board to represent the county and all the individual defendants, said county commissioners retained personal counsel to represent them as individuals?

SUMMARY: In the absence of exceptional circumstances, the expenditure of county funds to pay additional private counsel to represent county officials in defending lawsuits for damages brought against them as a…