§ 50-1. Adoption of uniform dates for election and commencement of terms of municipal officers authorized.

Notwithstanding any local law or municipal charter to the contrary, any municipality in Pinellas County may, by ordinance, change the dates for election and the date for the commencement of the term of municipal officers in conformity with the provisions of this section. Such ordinance:

(1)

Shall provide for municipal primary elections to be held on the second Tuesday in February and municipal general elections to be held on the second Tuesday in March of the same year.

(2)

Shall provide for the commencement of the term of municipal officers elected at such elections to commence on [a] date, to be fixed by such ordinance, within 30 days after the date of the general election at which such officers are elected.

(3)

Shall not change the length of the terms of municipal officers. However, such ordinance may extend or shorten the term of office of those municipal officers holding office on the effective date of the ordinance, provided no extension of a term of office results in a term of office that exceeds four years.

(Laws of Fla. ch. 83-502, § 1)

Editor's note

The act contained in the above section retains its status as a special act as it was adopted after the Charter. The source of the section is stated in the history note following the section. Unless stated otherwise, the presence of more than one act in the history note indicates that the section is derived from the first listed act as amended by the other acts listed in the history note. Obvious misspellings and punctuation errors have been corrected without notation. For stylistic purposes, a uniform system of headings, catchlines, capitalization, citations to state statutes and session laws, and expression of numbers in text has been used. The catchline has been added or adjusted as necessary to accurately reflect the contents of the section. Textual references to other sections of the same act or to other acts found in this Code are altered so as to reference this Code. The internal numbering or lettering scheme within sections has been made consistent with the scheme used in this Code; however, deleted paragraphs are reserved to maintain sequence. Sections providing for legal status (i.e., severability sections, repealers and effective dates) have been deleted. Additions for clarity are indicated by brackets.