Sanitation Employees Ass'n v. Metropolitan Dade County & Miami-Dade Water & Sewer Authority

I disagree with the majority’s opinion that section 447.305(1), Florida Statutes (1985), requiring registration prior to the submission of a petition for certification, is merely permissive and not mandatory. The majority espouses the view that deficiencies may be cured by timely amendment of a defective registration certificate prior to an election; the statute emphatically declares otherwise.

The majority loses sight of the legislative goal so cogently expressed by Judge Booth in North Brevard County Hosp. Dist., Inc. v. Florida Pub. Employees Relations Comm’n, 392 So.2d 556, 561 (Fla. 1st…