Palm Beach County cannot require its municipalities to help fund its Office of Inspector General, an appellate court ruled Wednesday in a reversal of the trial court’s decision.
The county’s requirement that all 38 municipalities pay for the voter-mandated program violated their sovereign immunity, a doctrine that protects governmental entities from being sued without their consent, the Fourth District Court of Appeal found.
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