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The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title IV
EXECUTIVE BRANCH
Chapter 20
ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE
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20.10 Department of State.—There is created a Department of State.
(1) The head of the Department of State is the Secretary of State. The Secretary of State shall be appointed by the Governor, subject to confirmation by the Senate, and shall serve at the pleasure of the Governor. The Secretary of State shall perform the functions conferred by the State Constitution upon the custodian of state records.
(2) The following divisions of the Department of State are established:
(a) Division of Elections.
(b) Division of Historical Resources.
(c) Division of Corporations.
(d) Division of Library and Information Services.
(e) Division of Arts and Culture.
(f) Division of Administration.
(3) The Department of State may adopt rules pursuant to ss. 120.536(1) and 120.54 to administer the provisions of law conferring duties upon the department.
History.—s. 10, ch. 69-106; s. 1, ch. 70-329; s. 3, ch. 71-355; s. 1, ch. 74-272; s. 15, ch. 75-22; ss. 1, 2, 3, ch. 77-122; s. 3, ch. 79-164; s. 1, ch. 80-391; s. 3, ch. 86-163; s. 4, ch. 2000-258; ss. 1, 2, ch. 2001-75; s. 2, ch. 2002-295; s. 3, ch. 2021-71.

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Cases Citing Statute 20.10

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Mobil Chem. Co., a Div. Of Mobil Corp. v. Hawkins, 440 So. 2d 378 (Fla. 1st DCA 1983).

Cited 14 times | Published | Florida 1st District Court of Appeal | 1983 Fla. App. LEXIS 21650

...(emphasis supplied). In Florida, the rule to be applied in determining degrees of kinship is the common law rule, under which second cousins are held to be related within the third degree. See E. Simon, Redfearn Wills and Administration in Florida, § 20.10 at 377, n....
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UPS Supply Chain Solutions, Inc. v. Megatrux Transp., Inc., 750 F.3d 1282 (11th Cir. 2014).

Cited 7 times | Published | Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit | 2014 A.M.C. 1636, 2014 WL 1816946, 2014 U.S. App. LEXIS 8663

...Any terms and conditions printed on transportation documents such as bills of lading or delivery receipts will not change or supersede the terms of this Agreement, and such documents will operate solely as receipts. (MTSA, at 13) (italicized emphasis added). Finally, Section 20.10 provides: “Each Services Recipient is an intended third[-]party beneficiary of Carrier’s obligations and liabilities under this Agreement and, as such, shall have the right to enforce this Agreement to the same extent as UPS.”...
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Pan Am. World Airways v. Wilmot, 492 So. 2d 1373 (Fla. 1st DCA 1986).

Cited 7 times | Published | Florida 1st District Court of Appeal | 11 Fla. L. Weekly 1824

...intent to abandon the job temporarily may be inferred... ." 1A Larson § 21.00 (e.s.). Included in the personal comfort doctrine are such activities as "getting a drink of water, seeking a breath of fresh air, eating, smoking, and the like." Id. at § 20.10 (e.s.)....
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Nancy Carola Jacobsen v. Florida Sec'y of State (11th Cir. 2020).

Published | Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

the Supervisors among its divisions, Fla. Stat. § 20.10(2), and the Board of County Commissioners, not
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Kenneth J. Detzner, etc. v. Harry Lee Anstead, 256 So. 3d 820 (Fla. 2018).

Published | Supreme Court of Florida

...agency has improperly exercised a power or right derived from the State.” Fla. House of Reps. v. Crist, 999 So. 2d 601, 607 (Fla. 2008) (citing Martinez v. Martinez, 545 So. 2d 1338, 1339 (Fla. 1989)). Secretary Detzner is a state officer. See § 20.10(1), Fla....
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Advisory Opinion to the Governor Re: Implementation of Amendment 4, The Voting Restoration Amendment (Fla. 2020).

Published | Supreme Court of Florida

...Department of State, under the constitutional authority of the Governor. See also § 20.02(3), Fla. Stat. (the administration of any executive branch entity shall at all times be [“]under the constitutional executive authority of the Governor”); § 20.10, Fla....
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Quittner v. Thompson, 309 F. Supp. 684 (S.D. Fla. 1970).

Published | District Court, S.D. Florida | 1970 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 12682

he was publicly intoxicated in violation of Section 20-10 of the Dania Municipal Code. It is the plaintiff’s
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Nancy Carola Jacobsen v. Florida Sec'y of State (11th Cir. 2020).

Published | Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

...The Supervisors are constitutional officers who are elected at the county level by the people of Florida; they are not appointed by the Secretary. Fla. Const. art. VIII, § 1(d); Fla. Stat. § 98.015(1). The Florida Department of State’s organic statute does not list the Supervisors among its divisions, Fla. Stat. § 20.10(2), and the Board of County Commissioners, not the Department, compensates the Supervisors....
...The Secretary of State, appointed by the governor, serves as the head of the Department of State, oversees its Division of Elections, and is charged with “general supervision and administration of the election laws.” See Fla. Stat. §§ 15.13; 20.10(1), (2)(a)....

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