Bill Text: FL H0385 | 2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Municipal Elections

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2010-04-30 - Died in Committee on Military & Local Affairs Policy (EDCA) [H0385 Detail]

Download: Florida-2010-H0385-Introduced.html

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HB 385

1	A bill to be entitled
2	An act relating to municipal elections; amending s.
3	166.031, F.S.; providing circumstances under which a
4	candidate without opposition due to a specified vacancy in
5	candidacy shall be declared elected to office without
6	having to reopen the qualifying period and hold a
7	municipal special election; providing an effective date.
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9	Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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11	Section 1. Subsection (6) of section 166.031, Florida
12	Statutes, is amended to read:
13	166.031 Charter amendments.-
14	(6) Each municipality shall, by ordinance or charter
15	provision, provide procedures for filling a vacancy in office
16	caused by death, resignation, or removal from office. The Such
17	ordinance or charter provision shall also provide procedures for
18	filling a vacancy in candidacy caused by death, withdrawal, or
19	removal from the ballot of a qualified candidate following the
20	end of the qualifying period which leaves fewer than two
21	candidates for an office. Notwithstanding any provisions adopted
22	pursuant to this subsection, if a vacancy in candidacy is caused
23	by the withdrawal or removal from the ballot of a qualified
24	candidate for the second time in the same contest or by the
25	death of such candidate, thereby leaving fewer than two
26	candidates for the office, the remaining candidate shall be
27	declared elected to the office without opposition and without
28	the need for reopening the qualifying period and holding a
29	municipal special election.
30	Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2010.

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