City of Laurel Hill v. Sanders

ROBERT P. SMITH, Jr., Judge.

Laurel Hill appeals from a circuit court judgment granting a writ of mandamus to require processing of appellees’ petition for municipal recall election according to Section 100.361, Florida Statutes (1979). Both here and in the circuit court the case was presented on the erroneous assumption that the City of Laurel Hill has no provision by charter or ordinance to recall municipal officers, so raising the false issue of whether the Section 100.361 recall procedures made “uniform statewide” by subsection (9) apply to Laurel Hill even though subsection (10) seems to…