Art. IV, § 7, Fla. Const. · Article IV. EXECUTIVE
Suspensions; filling office during suspensions.
Text — As revised in 1968 and subsequently amended (Online Sunshine, retrieved 2026-10-04)
(a) By executive order stating the grounds and filed with the custodian of state records, the governor may suspend from office any state officer not subject to impeachment, any officer of the militia not in the active service of the United States, or any county officer, for malfeasance, misfeasance, neglect of duty, drunkenness, incompetence, permanent inability to perform official duties, or commission of a felony, and may fill the office by appointment for the period of suspension. The suspended officer may at any time before removal be reinstated by the governor.
(b) The senate may, in proceedings prescribed by law, remove from office or reinstate the suspended official and for such purpose the senate may be convened in special session by its president or by a majority of its membership.
(c) By order of the governor any elected municipal officer indicted for crime may be suspended from office until acquitted and the office filled by appointment for the period of suspension, not to extend beyond the term, unless these powers are vested elsewhere by law or the municipal charter.
Notes and commentary — not constitutional text
History
Ams. proposed by Constitution Revision Commission, Revision Nos. 8 and 13, 1998, filed with the Secretary of State May 5, 1998; adopted 1998.
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Cited by 8 provisions
Provisions in this library whose text cites Art. IV, § 7, Fla. Const.. Each shows the citation as that text prints it.
The Florida Statutes
- § 16.71, Fla. Stat.Florida Gaming Control Commission; creation; meetings; membership.Printed as s. 7, Art. IV of the State Constitution
- § 43.291, Fla. Stat.Judicial nominating commissions.Printed as s. 7, Art. IV of the State Constitution
- § 112.317, Fla. Stat.Penalties.Printed as s. 7, Art. IV of the State Constitution
- § 112.41, Fla. Stat.Contents of order of suspension; Senate select committee; special magistrate.Printed as s. 7, Art. IV of the State Constitution
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