Florida Statute 421.06 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

421.06 Commissioners or employees prohibited from acquiring interests in housing projects and required to disclose interests in specified properties; exception.—Except for the leasehold interest held by a tenant-commissioner in the housing project in which he or she is a tenant, no commissioner or employee of an authority shall acquire any interest, direct or indirect, in any housing project or in any property included or planned to be included in any project, nor shall he or she have any interest, direct or indirect, in any contract or proposed contract for materials or services to be furnished or used in connection with any housing project. If a commissioner or employee of an authority owns or controls an interest, direct or indirect, in any property included or planned to be included in any housing project, he or she shall immediately disclose the same in writing to the authority. Such disclosure shall be entered upon the minutes of the authority. Failure so to disclose such interest constitutes misconduct in office.

History.—s. 6, ch. 17981, 1937; CGL 1940 Supp. 7100(3-f); s. 2, ch. 84-250; s. 83, ch. 97-103.

Cases Citing F.S. 421.06

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·Panama City Hous. Auth. v. Sowby, 587 So. 2d 494 (Fla. 1st DCA 1991).
Cited 4 times | Published | Florida 1st District Court of Appeal | 1991 WL 174418
...This testimony was consistent with that of other witnesses, and went unrefuted by the employer. In short, the record contains ample competent substantial evidence to support the referee's conclusion that Mrs. Sowby was not discharged for misconduct connected with her work. The employer's contention, predicated primarily on section 421.06, Florida Statutes, that the referee's application of the law to the facts was fatally flawed, is analogous to the argument advanced in English that the section 443.036 definition of misconduct adopted the definition of misconduct used in the career service system....
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·William R. Crews v. State of Florida, 183 So. 3d 329 (Fla. 2015).
Published | Supreme Court of Florida | 40 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 653, 2015 Fla. LEXIS 2626, 2015 WL 7566535
...phrase “based on misconduct in office” applies to public employees as well as to public officers. A public school teacher occupies a position of trust and responsibility under the authority of state and local government and in that sense the position is an “office.” See also § 421.06, Fla....
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Cases Citing F.S. 421.06

·Panama City Hous. Auth. v. Sowby, 587 So. 2d 494 (Fla. 1st DCA 1991).

·William R. Crews v. State of Florida, 183 So. 3d 329 (Fla. 2015).