Florida Statute 99.093 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title IX
ELECTORS AND ELECTIONS

Chapter 99
CANDIDATES

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99.093 Municipal candidates; election assessment.—

(1) Each person seeking to qualify for nomination or election to a municipal office shall pay, at the time of qualifying for office, an election assessment. The election assessment shall be an amount equal to 1 percent of the annual salary of the office sought. Within 30 days after the close of qualifying, the qualifying officer shall forward all assessments collected pursuant to this section to the Florida Elections Commission for deposit in the Elections Commission Trust Fund.

(2) Any person seeking to qualify for nomination or election to a municipal office who is unable to pay the election assessment without imposing an undue burden on personal resources or on resources otherwise available to him or her shall, upon written certification of such inability given under oath to the qualifying officer, be exempt from paying the election assessment.

History.—s. 9, ch. 89-338; s. 2, ch. 91-107; s. 538, ch. 95-147; s. 12, ch. 97-13; s. 3, ch. 2010-16; s. 17, ch. 2011-40.

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Total Results: 3

Secretary of State v. Milligan

704 So. 2d 152, 1997 WL 765659

District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: Dec 8, 1997 | Docket: 1354864

Cited 2 times | Published

remainder distributed pursuant to section 99.103. Section 99.093, Florida Statutes (1995), provided that each

Harris v. Iorio

922 F. Supp. 588, 1996 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 8402, 1996 WL 203283

District Court, M.D. Florida | Filed: Apr 19, 1996 | Docket: 1163296

Cited 1 times | Published

an ordinance imposing a filing fee by Fla.Stat. § 99.093, entitled "Municipal candidates; election assessment

Luis Pedraza v. the City of Miramar, Florida

District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: Feb 11, 2025 | Docket: 69630529

Published

do not allow write- in candidates based on section 99.093, Florida Statutes (2024), because that section

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