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The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title IX
ELECTORS AND ELECTIONS
Chapter 106
CAMPAIGN FINANCING
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106.12 Petty cash funds allowed.—
(1) Each campaign treasurer designated pursuant to s. 106.021(1) for a candidate or political committee is authorized to withdraw from the primary campaign account, until the close of the last day for qualifying for office, the amount of $500 per calendar quarter reporting period for the purpose of providing a petty cash fund for the candidate or political committee.
(2) Following the close of the last day for qualifying and until the last election in a given election period in which the political committee participates, the campaign treasurer of each political committee is authorized to withdraw the following amount each week from the primary depository campaign account for the purpose of providing a petty cash fund for the political committee, and, following the close of the last day for qualifying and until the election at which such candidate is eliminated or elected to office, or the time at which the candidate becomes unopposed, the campaign treasurer of each candidate is authorized to withdraw the following amount each week from the primary depository campaign account for the purpose of providing a petty cash fund for the candidate:
(a) For all candidates for nomination or election on a statewide basis, $500 per week.
(b) For all other candidates and all political committees, $100 per week.
(3) The petty cash fund so provided may be spent only in amounts less than $100 and only for office supplies, transportation expenses, and other necessities. Petty cash may not be used for the purchase of time, space, or services from communications media as defined in s. 106.011.
History.—s. 12, ch. 73-128; s. 48, ch. 77-175; s. 9, ch. 85-226; s. 5, ch. 2002-197; s. 20, ch. 2013-37.

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Cases Citing Statute 106.12

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Smith v. Crawford, 645 So. 2d 513 (Fla. 1st DCA 1994).

Cited 19 times | Published | Florida 1st District Court of Appeal | 1994 WL 592242

...e intent of the statute, so as to justify the court's fashioning a scheme to create dollar parity between two candidates with respect to media exposure. In subsection 106.011(13), the Act defines "communications media," but that term is used only in section 106.12 dealing with petty cash funds....
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Cambridge Univ. Press v. Patton, 769 F.3d 1232 (11th Cir. 2014).

Cited 13 times | Published | Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit | 112 U.S.P.Q. 2d (BNA) 1697, 2014 U.S. App. LEXIS 19978, 2014 WL 5303007

audio transmission. Id. § 106. 12 Case: 12-14676
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Mcarthur v. Firestone, 817 F.2d 1548 (11th Cir. 1987).

Cited 2 times | Published | Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit | 1987 U.S. App. LEXIS 6930

...ng period; the amount, date, and purpose of each such expenditure; and the name and address of, and office sought by, each candidate on whose behalf such expenditure was made. However, expenditures made from the petty cash fund provided by [section] 106.12 need not be reported individually....
...The full name and address of each person to whom an expenditure for personal services, salary, or reimbursed expenses has been made and which is not otherwise reported, including the amount, date, and purpose of such expenditure. However, expenditures made from the petty cash fund provided for in [section] 106.12 need not be reported individually....
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Cambridge Univ. Press v. J.L. Albert (11th Cir. 2014).

Published | Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

audio transmission. Id. § 106. 12 Case: 12-14676
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Cambridge Univ. Press v. J.L. Albert (11th Cir. 2014).

Published | Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

audio transmission. Id. § 106. 12 Case: 12-14676
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McArthur v. Firestone, 817 F.2d 1548 (11th Cir. 1987).

Published | Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

...ng period; the amount, date, and purpose of each such expenditure; and the name and address of, and office sought by, each candidate on whose behalf such expenditure was made. However, expenditures made from the petty cash fund provided by [section] 106.12 need not be reported individually....
...The full name and address of each person to whom an expenditure for personal services, salary, or reimbursed expenses has been made and which is not otherwise reported, including the amount, date, and purpose of such expenditure. However, expenditures made from the petty cash fund provided for in [section] 106.12 need not be reported individually....

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