Florida Senate - 2012                             (NP)    SB 972
       
       
       
       By Senator Altman
       
       
       
       
       24-00319-12                                            2012972__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to the Sebastian Inlet Tax District,
    3         Brevard and Indian River Counties; amending chapter
    4         2003-373, Laws of Florida; requiring the members of
    5         the district’s board of commissioners to be elected by
    6         a plurality of the qualified electors of the district;
    7         providing an effective date.
    8  
    9  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   11         Section 1. Subsection (b) of section 3 of section 3 of
   12  chapter 2003-373, Laws of Florida, is amended to read:
   13         Section 3.
   14         (b) Board members shall be elected on a nonpartisan basis
   15  by a plurality majority of the qualified electors of the
   16  District voting at the election to be held in both Indian River
   17  and Brevard Counties as follows:
   18         1. Any candidate for membership on the Board shall qualify
   19  as provided by law. The ballots shall be in the form for general
   20  elections as provided by law.
   21         2. The election officials of each voting district or
   22  precinct within the Sebastian Inlet Tax District shall conduct
   23  the election of the members of the Board of Commissioners of the
   24  District at the time of conducting such general election. Each
   25  voter who is qualified to vote in each such general election in
   26  the respective election districts or precincts situated within
   27  the boundaries of the Sebastian Inlet Tax District and who
   28  resides within the boundaries of such District shall be entitled
   29  to cast a ballot for the election of members of the Board of
   30  Commissioners of said Sebastian Inlet Tax District.
   31         3. Upon the closing of the polls in each election district
   32  or precinct, the officials conducting such elections shall tally
   33  the votes cast for members of the Board of Commissioners of the
   34  Sebastian Inlet Tax District. The vote shall be canvassed in the
   35  manner provided by general law.
   36         Section 2. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law.