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Fla. Stat. § 20.10 (2025)
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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.
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.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 7
cases, 1968–2020 · leading case: Nancy Carola Jacobsen v. Florida Sec'y of State, 974 F.3d 1236 (11th Cir. 2020).
Nancy Carola Jacobsen v. Florida Sec'y of State, 974 F.3d 1236 (11th Cir. 2020). “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.”
Kenneth J. Detzner, etc. v. Harry Lee Anstead, 256 So. 3d 820 (Fla. 2018). “(2018) (directing the Secretary to give each proposed amendment a ballot number and furnish the amendments to Florida's supervisors of elections); art. XI, §§ 2(c), 5(a), Fla.”
Nancy Carola Jacobsen v. Florida Sec'y of State, 957 F.3d 1193 (11th Cir. 2020). “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.”
Mobil Chem. Co., a Div. Of Mobil Corp. v. Hawkins, 440 So. 2d 378 (Fla. 1st DCA 1983). “Simon, Redfearn Wills and Administration in Florida, § 20.10 at 377, n. 23 (5th Ed. 1977); Trawick, Florida Practice & Procedure, § 23-6 (1982).”
Pan Am. World Airways v. Wilmot, 492 So. 2d 1373 (Fla. 1st DCA 1986). “ticularly applicable to workers' compensation cases, the personal comfort doctrine, which approves compensation under the theory that "[e]mployees who, within the time and space limits of their employment, engage in acts which minister to personal comfort do not thereby leave…”
Advisory Opinion to the Governor Re: Implementation of Amendment 4, The Voting Restoration Amendment (Fla. 2020). “(the administration of any executive branch entity shall at all times be [“]under the constitutional executive authority of the Governor”); § 20.10, Fla. Stat. (creating the Department of State, headed by the Secretary of State who is appointed by the Governor).”
Jackson v. Consol. Gov't, 31 Fla. Supp. 151 (Fla. Cir. Ct., Duval Cty. 1968). “Subsection 14 adds a new §20.10, providing that rules relating to the conduct of officers and employees of the Beaches and Baldwin shall be determined in accordance with §2.”
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Kenneth J. Detzner, etc. v. Harry Lee Anstead, 256 So. 3d 820 (Fla. 2018). “(2018) (directing the Secretary to give each proposed amendment a ballot number and furnish the amendments to Florida's supervisors of elections); art. XI, §§ 2(c), 5(a), Fla.”
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