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2000 Florida Code
TITLE XVI EDUCATION
Chapter 229 Functions Of State Educational Agencies  
PART IV DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION (ss. 229.75-229.8347)
229.771   Removal from office.

229.771  Removal from office.--The State Board of Education shall remove from office for cause any person appointed by the state board under the provisions of the school code or any subordinate school officer. Incompetency, immorality, misconduct in office, gross insubordination, or willful neglect of duty constitutes cause for such removal. Notice and hearing must be provided pursuant to chapter 120.

History.--ss. 308, 317, ch. 19355, 1939; CGL 1940 Supp. 892(48), (57); s. 13, ch. 65-239; ss. 15, 35, ch. 69-106; s. 56, ch. 71-355; s. 13, ch. 78-95; s. 100, ch. 97-190.

Note.--Former s. 229.08; s. 229.17; s. 229.061(15); s. 229.521(15). This section is a composite of former ss. 229.061(15) and 229.521(15) and of a portion of s. 3, Art. XII of the Constitution of 1885 which was converted to statutory law by s. 10, Art. XII of the Constitution as revised in 1968.

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