In re Advisory Opinion to the Governor—Dual Office-Holding

The Honorable Lawton Chiles

Governor, State of Florida

The Capitol

Tallahassee, Florida 32399-0001

Dear Governor Chiles:

We acknowledge receipt of your communication of August 10, 1993, requesting our opinion concerning your executive powers and duties to appoint members of a community college’s board of trustees.1 Omitting the formal parts, your letter reads as follows:

By letter dated April 16, 1993,1 requested an advisory opinion of the Court on a question that affects my authority to suspend an officer from public office. That question, in great measure, turns on the issue of whether a school…