The 2023 Florida Statutes (including Special Session C)

Title IX
ELECTORS AND ELECTIONS

Chapter 99
CANDIDATES

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F.S. 99.093

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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Amendments to 99.093

Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 99.093

Level: Degree
Misdemeanor/Felony: First/Second/Third

Current data shows no reason an arrest or criminal charge should have occurred directly under Florida Statute 99.093.

Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

Cases from cite.case.law:

SECRETARY OF STATE, B. v. F. MILLIGAN,, 704 So. 2d 152 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1997)

. . . filed, the Act provided that proceeds from filing fees and assessments pursuant to sections 99.092, 99.093 . . . The legislature amended sections 99.092, 99.093, 105.031, 106.04, 106.07, and 106.29 by deleting the . . . Section 99.093, Florida Statutes (1995), provided that each person seeking to qualify for election to . . .

HARRIS, v. IORIO,, 922 F. Supp. 588 (M.D. Fla. 1996)

. . . . § 99.093, entitled “Municipal candidates; election assessment.” . . . The Plaintiff establishes in his complaint that the qualifying fee imposed by Fla.Stat. § 99.093(1) was . . . waived for him for an undue personal burden on personal resources pursuant to Fla.Stat. § 99.093(2), . . .