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An act relating to the Coral Springs Improvement
District, Broward County; amending ch. 2004-469, Laws
of Florida; providing an exception to general law;
revising the number of board members; requiring
members of the Board of Supervisors of the Coral
Springs Improvement District to be elected by
qualified electors of the district; providing for
staggered terms of office for the board; providing
requirements for elections of board members and for
candidates seeking election; providing duties of the
Supervisor of Elections of Broward County; providing a
definition; providing for a referendum; providing
effective dates.
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16	Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 17
Section 1. Subsections (1) and (3) of section 5 of section
3 of chapter 2004-469, Laws of Florida, are amended to read:
Section 5. Board of supervisors; election; organization;
terms of office; quorum; report and minutes.—
(1) The board of supervisors of the district shall be the
governing body of the district and shall exercise the powers
granted to the district under this act and under chapter 298,
Florida Statutes. The board shall consist of five three members,

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and except as otherwise provided herein, each member shall hold
office for a term of 4 years and until his or her successor
shall be chosen and shall qualify. A majority of the members of
the board shall be residents of Broward County, and all members
shall be residents of Florida. All members of the board shall be
landowners within the district.
(3)(a) As of November 5, 2024, the board of supervisors
shall consist of five members.
(b) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary,
members of the board of supervisors shall be elected by the
qualified electors of the district. Board members shall be
elected solely by the qualified electors of the district.
(c) The board shall call an election at which the members
of the board of supervisors will be elected. Such election shall
be held in conjunction with the next general election held in
November 2024. Candidates may qualify for the offices of board
of supervisors which shall be designated as seats l, 2, 3, 4,
and 5, each elected at large within the district. A candidate
qualifying for election must be an elector and resident of the
district. Each board member shall be elected by the qualified
electors of the district for a term of 4 years, except that, at
the first such election, the three members elected to seats 1,
2, and 3 shall be elected for terms of 4 years each, and the
members elected to seats 4 and 5 shall be elected for terms of 2
years each. Thereafter, there shall be an election held every 2

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years for expiring terms and all members shall be elected for
terms of 4 years each. The candidate receiving the most votes
for each seat shall be elected. All elected board members must
be qualified electors of the district. Members of the board of
supervisors as of October 1, 2023, shall serve until the
certification of the November 2024 general election results.
(d) Elections of board members by qualified electors held
pursuant to this subsection shall be nonpartisan and shall be
conducted in the manner prescribed by law for holding general
elections. Board members shall assume the office on the second
Tuesday following their election.
(e) Candidates seeking election to office by qualified
electors under this subsection shall conduct their campaigns in
accordance with the provisions of chapter 106, Florida Statutes,
and shall file qualifying papers and qualify for individual
seats in accordance with s. 99.061, Florida Statutes. Candidates
shall pay a qualifying fee, which shall consist of a filing fee
and an election assessment or, as an alternative, shall file a
petition signed by not less than 1 percent of the qualified
electors of the district, and take the oath required in s.
99.021, Florida Statutes, with the Supervisor of Elections of
Broward County. The amount of the filing fee is 3 percent of the
annual salary of the office. The amount of the election
assessment is 1 percent of the annual salary of the office. The
filing fee and election assessment shall be distributed as

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provided in s. 105.031(3), Florida Statutes.
(f) The Supervisor of Elections of Broward County shall
appoint the inspectors and clerks of elections, prepare and
furnish the ballots, designate polling places, and canvass the
returns of the election of board members by qualified electors.
The county canvassing board shall declare and certify the
results of the election.
(g) Subsections (4)-(8) shall apply to a board of
supervisors elected pursuant to this subsection.
(h) The terms "qualified elector" and "elector" mean any
person at least 18 years of age who is a citizen of the United
States, a permanent resident of this state, and a resident of
the district who registers with the supervisor of elections of
the county within which the district lands are located when the
registration books are open. In the month of June of each fourth
year commencing June of 1971, there shall be held a meeting of
the landowners of the district at the office of the district in
Broward County for the purpose of electing three supervisors for
said district. Notice of said landowners' meeting shall be
published once a week for 2 consecutive weeks in a newspaper in
Broward County that is in general circulation in the district,
the last of said publication to be not less than 14 days nor
more than 28 days before the date of the election. The
landowners, when assembled at such meeting, shall organize by
electing a chair who shall conduct the meeting. At such meeting,

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each landowner shall be entitled to cast one vote per acre of
land owned by him or her and located within the district for
each person to be elected. A landowner may vote in person or by
proxy in writing. Fractions of an acre shall be treated as one
acre, entitling the landowner to one vote with respect thereto.
The three persons receiving the highest number of votes for the
office of supervisor shall be declared elected.
Section 2. Referendum election.—
(1) The referendum election called for by this act shall
be held on November 8, 2022, the 2022 General Election.
(2) The ballot title for the referendum question shall be
in substantially the following form:
AMENDING DISTRICT CHARTER PROVIDING FOR ELECTION OF
DISTRICT SUPERVISORS BY MAJORITY OF ALL QUALIFIED ELECTORS
(3) The referendum question shall be placed on the ballot
in substantially the following form:
Shall Chapter 2021-	, Laws of Florida, amending the
Coral Springs Improvement District Charter, adding two
members to the District Board of Supervisors and providing
that the members of the District Board of Supervisors shall
be elected by majority vote of all qualified electors of
the district instead of just landowners for four year
terms, with staggered elections every two years beginning
in November 2024, become effective?
(	) YES.

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(	) NO.
(4) In the event this question is answered affirmatively
by a majority of the qualified voters voting in the referendum,
the charter amendment will take effect. The referendum election
shall be conducted by the Supervisor of Elections of Broward
County in accordance with the Florida Election Code.
Section 3. This act shall take effect upon its approval by
a majority vote of the qualified electors of the Coral Springs
Improvement District voting in a referendum conducted in
accordance with the provisions of law relating to elections
currently in force, except this section and section 2 shall take
effect upon becoming a law.

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