Florida Statutes
Fla. Stat. § 99.093 (2025)
Municipal candidates; election assessment.
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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.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 3
cases (1 in the last 5 years), 1996–2025 · leading case: Sec'y of State v. Milligan, 704 So. 2d 152 (Fla. 1st DCA 1997).
Sec'y of State v. Milligan, 704 So. 2d 152 (Fla. 1st DCA 1997). “Section 99.093, Florida Statutes (1995), provided that each person seeking to qualify for election to a municipal office shall pay an election assessment equal to 1.”
Harris v. Iorio, 922 F. Supp. 588 (M.D. Fla. 1996). “Although not clearly alleged in the complaint, the Plaintiff, in his response to the Defendants’ motion and at oral argument, asserted an argument that the City of Tampa is preempted from enacting an ordinance imposing a filing fee by Fla.”
Luis Pedraza v. the City of Miramar, Florida (Fla. 4th DCA 2025). “” Pedraza also argues that City of Miramar elections do not allow write- in candidates based on section 99.093, Florida Statutes (2024), because that section specifically addresses municipal candidates and makes no reference to write-in candidates.”
— 99.093(1) — 1 case
Harris v. Iorio, 922 F. Supp. 588 (M.D. Fla. 1996). “Although not clearly alleged in the complaint, the Plaintiff, in his response to the Defendants’ motion and at oral argument, asserted an argument that the City of Tampa is preempted from enacting an ordinance imposing a filing fee by Fla.”
— 99.093(2) — 1 case
Harris v. Iorio, 922 F. Supp. 588 (M.D. Fla. 1996). “Although not clearly alleged in the complaint, the Plaintiff, in his response to the Defendants’ motion and at oral argument, asserted an argument that the City of Tampa is preempted from enacting an ordinance imposing a filing fee by Fla.”
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