624.506  County tax; deposit and remittance.--

(1)  The Insurance Commissioner and Treasurer shall deposit in the Agents and Solicitors County Tax Trust Fund all moneys accepted as county tax under this part. She or he shall keep a separate account for all moneys so collected for each county and, after deducting therefrom the service charges provided for in s. 215.20, shall remit the balance to the counties.

(2)  The payment and collection of county tax under this chapter shall be in lieu of collection thereof by the respective county tax collectors.

(3)  The Comptroller shall annually, as of January 1 following the date of collection, and thereafter at such other times as the Insurance Commissioner and Treasurer may elect, draw her or his warrants on the State Treasury payable to the respective counties entitled to receive the same for the full net amount of such taxes to each county.