Feb 112010
Legislation aimed at giving county sheriffs and other county officers full control over their budgets failed to get the nod of a Senate panel on Feb. 10.
The bill, S1017, would have required that a county’s board of supervisors appropriate lump sum funds to county officers, such as the sheriff, the recorder, the country attorney and the treasurer.
The measure also stipulates that an elected county officer has the “full authority and discretion” how to perform that office’s statutory or constitutional duties, and that all “necessary or implied power or authority of a county office is reserved to each elected county officer.”
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