PUB 700619: Qualifications for Office by Loyal Millett

ARTICLE III: LEGISLATURE, Section 15. Terms and qualifications of legislators.

1. SENATORS. Senators shall be elected for terms of four years, those from odd-numbered districts in the years the numbers of which are multiples of four and those from even-numbered districts in even-numbered years the numbers of which are not multiples of four; except, at the election next following a reapportionment, some senators shall be elected for terms of two years when necessary to maintain staggered terms.
2. REPRESENTATIVES. Members of the house of representatives shall be elected for terms of two years in each even-numbered year.
3. QUALIFICATIONS. Each legislator shall be at least twenty-one eighteen years of age, an elector and resident of the district from which elected and shall have resided in the state for a period of two years prior to election.
4. ASSUMING OFFICE; VACANCIES. Members of the legislature shall take office upon election. Vacancies in legislative office shall be filled only by election as provided by law.

ARTICLE IV: EXECUTIVE, Section 5. Election of governor, lieutenant governor and cabinet members; qualifications; terms.

1. At a state-wide general election in each calendar year the number of which is even but not a multiple of four, the electors shall choose a governor and a lieutenant governor and members of the cabinet each for a term of four years beginning on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in January of the succeeding year. In primary elections, candidates for the office of governor may choose to run without a lieutenant governor candidate. In the general election, all candidates for the offices of governor and lieutenant governor shall form joint candidacies in a manner prescribed by law so that each voter shall cast a single vote for a candidate for governor and a candidate for lieutenant governor running together.
2. When elected, the governor, lieutenant governor and each cabinet member must be an elector not less than thirty twenty years of age who has resided in the state for the preceding seven years. The attorney general must be an elector not less than thirty years of age, who has resided in the state for the preceding seven years, and have been a member of the bar of Florida for the preceding five years. No person who has, or but for resignation would have, served as governor or acting governor for more than six years in two consecutive terms shall be elected governor for the succeeding term.