The Florida Bar

Full title: THE FLORIDA BAR. IN RE AMENDMENT TO INTEGRATION RULE, ARTICLE IX, SECTION…

Court: Supreme Court of Florida

Date published: Sep 17, 1981

403 So. 2d 978 (Fla. 1981)

Opinion

No. 60124.

September 17, 1981.

Original Proceeding — Florida Bar Integration Rule.

John F. Harkness, Jr., Executive Director and James P. Hollaway, Deputy Staff Counsel, Tallahassee, Samuel S. Smith, President, Miami Beach, James C. Rinaman, Jr., President-elect, Jacksonville, and Bill Wagner, Chairman, Integration Rule and Bylaws Committee, Tampa, for The Florida Bar, petitioner.

PER CURIAM.

The petition of the Florida Bar to amend Florida Bar Integration Rule, article IX, section 13, entitled "Compensation and Expenses", is granted, and the following rule is hereby adopted:

ARTICLE IX

FISCAL CONTROL

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13. Compensation and Expenses. No member of the Board of Governors, and no member or officer of The Florida Bar, other than the Executive Director and the employees of The Florida Bar, and except as may be authorized pursuant to Article XI hereof, shall receive compensation, but any such person may, with the approval of the Board of Governors, be reimbursed for reasonable expenses incurred in the performance of services for The Florida Bar. (Words in struck through type are deletions from the existing rule.)

SUNDBERG, C.J., and ADKINS, BOYD, OVERTON, ALDERMAN and McDONALD, JJ., concur.