§ 1306. Legal actions involving the county.  


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  • In any legal action by or against the county, its departments, or officers or employees of their office or employment for the county, the county as a corporate body shall be the party named and shall appear and participate in the cause on behalf of the department, officer or employee in such cause. Wherever the tax collector, tax assessor, supervisor of elections, board of county commissioners or sheriff may or shall be parties to any legal action, the county shall be substituted as such defendant.

(Ch. 70-966, Laws of Florida (Sp. Acts), Art. XIII, § 1306)