Florida Florida Statutes
§ 112.3135 — Restriction on employment of relatives
FS § 112.3135Ch. 112
Statute text
View on source(1)In this section, unless the context otherwise requires:(a) “Agency” means:1. A state agency, except an institution under the jurisdiction of the Board of Governors of the State University System; 2. An office, agency, or other establishment in the legislative branch; 3. An office, agency, or other establishment in the judicial branch; 4. A county; 5. A city; and 6. Any other political subdivision of the state, except a district school board or community college district.
(b)“Collegial body” means a governmental entity marked by power or authority vested equally in each of a number of colleagues.
(c)“Public official” means an officer, including a member of the Legislature, the Governor, and a member of the Cabinet, or an employee of an agency in whom is vested the authority by law, rule, or regulation, or to whom the authority has been delegated, to appoint, employ, promote, or advance individuals or to recommend individuals for appointment, employment, promotion, or advancement in connection with employment in an agency, including the authority as a member of a collegial body to vote on the appointment, employment, promotion, or advancement of individuals.
(d)“Relative,” for purposes of this section only, with respect to a public official, means an individual who is related to the public official as father, mother, son, daughter, brother, sister, uncle, aunt, first cousin, nephew, niece, husband, wife, father-in-law, mother-in-law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, stepfather, stepmother, stepson, stepdaughter,2CUQRǫsV9ǪqU8