IN RE ADVISORY OPINION TO THE GOVERNOR
IN RE ADVISORY OPINION TO THE GOVERNOR
76 Fla. 417
Florida Supreme Court (1918)
Positive Treatment
Cited by 6 cases
Opinion of the Court
Tallahassee, November 8, 1918. To His Excellency, Sidney J. Catts, Governor. Sir: Replying to your letter of the 7th instant, it is our opinion that the members of the House of Representatives elected November 5, 1918, and the members of the Senate elected .at that time, together with the members of the Senate who, at the general election in 1916, were elected for four years, constitute the members of the Legislature during the period between the general elections in 1918 and 1920. See Section 3, Article III, and Section 2, Article VII of the Constitution as amended in 1896, Laws 1895, page 368. Very respectfully, JEFFN. B. BROWNE, Chief Justice. R, F. TAYLOR, J. B. WHITFIELD, W. H. ELLIS, T. F. WEST, Justices Supreme Court.
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Gryzik v. State, 380 So. 2d 1102 (Fla. 1st DCA 1980)…appointment to the office of deputy sheriff triggers application of the constitutional prohibition. Ordinarily, acceptance of one office while holding another office results in a vacancy of the first office. In re Advisory Opinions to the Governor, 76 Fla. 417, 79 So. 874 (1918). The constitutional prohibition provides no sanction for its violation and it is apparent that the general rule was adopted from the generally accepted common law rule that by the acceptance of an incompatible office, the officeho…
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Advisory Opinion to the Governor, 94 Fla. 620 (Fla. 1927)…lection for Members of the House of Representatives on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, A. D. 1928. Section 3, Article III; Sections 1 and 2, Article VII, Constitution; Chapter 10242, Acts 1925; Advisory Opinion to the Governor, 76 Fla. 417, 79 South. Rep. 874. The mandate of Section 5, Article III of the Constitution is that no Senator or Member of the House of Representatives shall during the time for which he was elected, be appointed or elected to any civil office under the Consti…
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Advisory Opinion to the Governor, 88 So. 2d 131 (Fla. 1956)…or the reason that the terms of the Senators elected at the general election in 1952 and the present members of the House of Representatives expire when the polls are officially closed on November 6, 1956. See In re Advisory Opinion to the Governor, 76 Fla. 417, 79 So. 874; Davis ex rel. Taylor v. Crawford, 95 Fla. 438, 116 So. 41; and Section 3, Article III, and Sections 1 and 2, Article VII, of the Florida Constitution. The power of the Senators and members of the House of Representatives described above…