Florida Statute 138.7 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2024 Florida Statutes (including 2025 Special Session C)

Title XI
COUNTY ORGANIZATION AND INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS

Chapter 138
COUNTY SEATS

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F.S. 138.07

138.07 Second election when no place receives majority vote.—Should three or more places be put forward and voted for as the county seat of any county in this state, and the county commissioners of such county find that upon the canvass of the said election, as provided for in s. 138.06, that any of such places have received a majority of all the votes cast at said election, the place receiving such a majority shall be declared the county seat as aforesaid, but should the county commissioners find that no place has received a majority of all the votes cast in said election, they shall proceed at once without a petition to call a second election to be held within 30 days of the first election, and in the same manner and places as prescribed for the first election.

History.—s. 7, ch. 6239, 1911; RGS 1584; CGL 2432.

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Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 138.07

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Cases Citing Statute 138.07

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Boatwright v. State

272 So. 2d 137

Supreme Court of Florida | Filed: Jan 17, 1973 | Docket: 1755137

Cited 1 times | Published

the United States and with Fla. Const., art. I, § *138 7, F.S.A., in that, he contends, such instruction