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The government of Florida is established and operated according to the Constitution of Florida and is composed of three branches of government: the executive branch consisting of the governor of Florida and the other elected and appointed constitutional officers; the legislative branch, the Florida Legislature, consisting of the Senate and House; and the judicial branch consisting of the ...
In 2013 the ministerial order became a more common type of legislation, as it was used 27 times that year, under the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009; such continued in 2016. [2] In 2015, the Sewerage Undertakers (Information) (Revocation) Direction 2015 [ 4 ] was given under section 202 of the Water Industry Act 1991 .
In United States law, a ministerial act is a government action "performed according to legal authority, established procedures or instructions from a superior, without exercising any individual judgment." [1] It can be any act a functionary or bureaucrat performs in a prescribed manner, without exercising any individual judgment or discretion. [2]
A series of scandals in the 1970s led Florida to adopt some of the nation’s strictest requirements for governmental transparency. With a few exceptions, all meetings of public officials must be ...
Florida's Government in the Sunshine Law, commonly called the Sunshine Law, passed in 1967. It requires that all meetings of any state, county, or municipal board or commission in Florida be open to the public, and declares that actions taken at closed meetings are not binding ( Section 286.011 , Florida Statutes ).
The Florida Agency for Health Care Administration claims that Amendment 4 “threatens women’s safety” and demands that the state should not become an “abortion tourism destination.”
On Thursday, Oct. 17, a federal judge ordered the Florida Department of Health to stop threatening local television stations for airing abortion rights commercials.
A writ of mandamus (/ m æ n ˈ d eɪ m ə s /; lit. ' 'we command' ') is a judicial remedy in the English and American common law system consisting of a court order that commands a government official or entity to perform an act it is legally required to perform as part of its official duties, or to refrain from performing an act the law forbids it from doing.