Florida Statute 318.35 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XXIII
MOTOR VEHICLES

Chapter 318
DISPOSITION OF TRAFFIC INFRACTIONS

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318.35 Term of office.—Hearing officers shall be independent contractors and may serve either full time or part time as determined by the chief judge. In either case, they shall serve at the pleasure of the chief judge of the county and circuit in which they are to hear cases and shall have no definite term of office.

History.—s. 6, ch. 89-337; s. 7, ch. 94-202.

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Abramson v. Beer, 940 So. 2d 586 (Fla. 4th DCA 2006).

Published | Florida 4th District Court of Appeal | 2006 WL 3055868

...ve either full time or part time as determined by the *588 chief judge. In either case, they shall serve at the pleasure of the chief judge of the county and circuit in which they are to hear cases and shall have no definite term of office. " [e.s.] § 318.35, Fla....

...The period obviously expressed the pleasure of the Chief Judge and is not illegal, as appellant suggests. The fact that Beer may have been still serving as a hearing officer when he filed papers to qualify for judicial office is of no effect because he held an appointment without "a definite term of office." § 318.35, Fla....

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Published | Florida Attorney General Reports

12 Sections 318.34 and 318.32, Fla. Stat. 13 Section 318.35, Fla. Stat. 14 Section 318.36, Fla. Stat.

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