State Statutes — Florida

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Title 10 · FL Chapter 10 (10 sections)
  • 10.001 — Legislative representation
  • 10.201 — Official census for apportionment; definitions
  • 10.202 — Representative districts
  • 10.203 — Senatorial districts
  • 10.204 — Territory not specified for inclusion in any district
  • 10.205 — Territory specified for inclusion in one district which is noncontiguous
  • 10.206 — Districts to constitute representative and senatorial districts of state
  • 10.207 — Electronic maps to serve as the official maps of representative and senatorial districts; availability
  • 10.208 — Severability
  • 10.209 — Applicability
Title 100 · FL Chapter 100 (35 sections)
  • 100.011 — Opening and closing of polls, all elections; expenses
  • 100.021 — Notice of general election
  • 100.025 — Citizens residing overseas; notice of elections
  • 100.031 — General election
  • 100.032 — Election preparation report; general election
  • 100.041 — Officers chosen at general election
  • 100.051 — Candidate’s name on general election ballot
  • 100.061 — Primary election
  • 100.081 — Nomination of county commissioners at primary election
  • 100.101 — Special elections and special primary elections
  • 100.102 — Cost of special elections and special primary elections to be incurred by the state
  • 100.111 — Filling vacancy
  • 100.141 — Notice of special election to fill any vacancy in office
  • 100.151 — Special elections called by local governing bodies, notice
  • 100.161 — Filling vacancy of United States Senators
  • 100.181 — Determination of person elected
  • 100.191 — General election laws applicable to special elections; returns
  • 100.201 — Referendum required before issuing bonds
  • 100.211 — Power to call bond referendum; notice required
  • 100.221 — General election laws to govern bond referenda
  • 100.241 — Freeholder voting; election; penalties for ineligible persons who vote as freeholders
  • 100.261 — Holding bond referenda with other elections
  • 100.271 — Inspectors, clerk, duties; return and canvass of referendum recorded
  • 100.281 — Approval to issue bonds
  • 100.291 — Record results of election prima facie evidence
  • 100.301 — Refunding bonds excluded
  • 100.311 — Local law governs bond election held by municipalities
  • 100.321 — Test suit
  • 100.331 — Referendum for defeated bond issue
  • 100.341 — Bond referendum ballot
  • 100.342 — Notice of special election or referendum
  • 100.351 — Referendum election; certificate of results to Department of State
  • 100.3605 — Conduct of municipal elections
  • 100.361 — Municipal recall
  • 100.371 — Initiatives; procedure for placement on ballot
Title 101 · FL Chapter 101 (94 sections)
  • 101.001 — Precincts and polling places; boundaries
  • 101.002 — Use of system by municipalities
  • 101.015 — Standards for voting systems
  • 101.017 — Bureau of Voting Systems Certification
  • 101.019 — Ranked-choice voting prohibited
  • 101.021 — Elector to vote the primary ballot of the political party in which he or she is registered
  • 101.031 — Instructions for electors
  • 101.041 — Secret voting
  • 101.043 — Identification required at polls
  • 101.045 — Electors must be registered in precinct; provisions for change of residence or name
  • 101.048 — Provisional ballots
  • 101.049 — Provisional ballots; special circumstances
  • 101.051 — Electors seeking assistance in casting ballots; oath to be executed; forms to be furnished
  • 101.111 — Voter challenges
  • 101.131 — Watchers at polls
  • 101.151 — Specifications for ballots
  • 101.161 — Referenda; ballots
  • 101.171 — Copy of constitutional amendment to be available at voting locations
  • 101.20 — Publication of ballot form; sample ballots
  • 101.21 — Official ballots; number; printing; payment
  • 101.23 — Election inspector to keep list of those voting
  • 101.24 — Ballot boxes and ballots
  • 101.2512 — Candidates’ names on general election ballots
  • 101.2515 — Translation of ballot language
  • 101.252 — Candidates entitled to have names printed on certain ballots; exception
  • 101.254 — When nominated names to appear in groups or districts
  • 101.292 — Definitions; ss. 101.292-101.295
  • 101.293 — Competitive sealed bids and proposals required
  • 101.294 — Purchase and sale of voting equipment
  • 101.295 — Penalties for violation
  • 101.34 — Custody of voting system
  • 101.341 — Prohibited activities by voting system custodians and deputy custodians
  • 101.43 — Substitute ballot
  • 101.49 — Procedure of election officers where signatures differ
  • 101.51 — Electors to occupy booth alone
  • 101.545 — Retention and destruction of certain election materials
  • 101.5601 — Short title
  • 101.5602 — Purpose
  • 101.5603 — Definitions relating to Electronic Voting Systems Act
  • 101.5604 — Adoption of system; procurement of equipment; commercial tabulations
  • 101.56042 — Punch card type systems prohibited
  • 101.5605 — Examination and approval of equipment
  • 101.5606 — Requirements for approval of systems
  • 101.56062 — Standards for accessible voting systems
  • 101.56063 — Accessibility of voting systems and polling places; intent; eligibility for federal funding
  • 101.56064 — Application for federal funds under ch. 2002-281
  • 101.56065 — Voting system defects; disclosure; investigations; penalties
  • 101.5607 — Department of State to maintain voting system information; prepare software
  • 101.56075 — Voting methods
  • 101.5608 — Voting by electronic or electromechanical method; procedures
  • 101.5610 — Inspection of ballot by election board
  • 101.5611 — Instructions to electors
  • 101.5612 — Testing of tabulating equipment
  • 101.5613 — Examination of equipment during voting
  • 101.5614 — Canvass of returns
  • 101.572 — Public inspection of ballots
  • 101.58 — Supervising and observing registration and election processes
  • 101.591 — Voting system audit
  • 101.5911 — Rulemaking authority for voting system audit procedures
  • 101.595 — Analysis and reports of voting problems
  • 101.6101 — Short title
  • 101.6102 — Mail ballot elections; limitations
  • 101.6103 — Mail ballot election procedure
  • 101.6104 — Challenge of votes
  • 101.6105 — Vote-by-mail voting
  • 101.6106 — Application of other election laws
  • 101.6107 — Department of State to adopt rules
  • 101.62 — Request for vote-by-mail ballots
  • 101.64 — Delivery of vote-by-mail ballots; envelopes; form
  • 101.65 — Instructions to absent electors
  • 101.655 — Supervised voting by absent electors in certain facilities
  • 101.657 — Early voting
  • 101.661 — Voting vote-by-mail ballots
  • 101.662 — Accessibility of vote-by-mail ballots
  • 101.663 — Electors; change of residence to another state
  • 101.665 — Administration of oaths; military personnel, federal employees, and other absentee registrants
  • 101.67 — Safekeeping of mailed ballots; deadline for receiving vote-by-mail ballots
  • 101.68 — Canvassing of vote-by-mail ballot
  • 101.69 — Voting in person; return of vote-by-mail ballot
  • 101.6921 — Delivery of special vote-by-mail ballot to certain first-time voters
  • 101.6923 — Special vote-by-mail ballot instructions for certain first-time voters
  • 101.6925 — Canvassing special vote-by-mail ballots
  • 101.694 — Mailing of ballots upon receipt of federal postcard application
  • 101.6951 — State write-in vote-by-mail ballot
  • 101.6952 — Vote-by-mail ballots for absent uniformed services and overseas voters
  • 101.697 — Electronic transmission of election materials
  • 101.698 — Absentee voting in emergency situations
  • 101.71 — Polling place
  • 101.715 — Accessibility of polling places for people having a disability
  • 101.731 — Short title
  • 101.732 — Definitions relating to Elections Emergency Act
  • 101.733 — Election emergency; purpose; elections emergency contingency plan
  • 101.74 — Temporary change of polling place in case of emergency
  • 101.75 — Municipal elections; change of dates for cause
Title 102 · FL Chapter 102 (21 sections)
  • 102.012 — Inspectors and clerks to conduct elections
  • 102.014 — Poll worker recruitment and training
  • 102.021 — Compensation of inspectors, clerks, and deputy sheriffs
  • 102.031 — Maintenance of good order at polls; authorities; persons allowed in polling rooms and early voting areas; unlawful solic
  • 102.071 — Tabulation of votes and proclamation of results
  • 102.072 — Vote-by-mail count reporting
  • 102.091 — Duty of sheriff to watch for violations; appointment of special officers
  • 102.101 — Sheriff and other officers not allowed in polling place
  • 102.111 — Elections Canvassing Commission
  • 102.112 — Deadline for submission of county returns to the Department of State
  • 102.121 — Elections Canvassing Commission to issue certificates
  • 102.131 — Returns before canvassing commission
  • 102.141 — County canvassing board; duties
  • 102.151 — County canvassing board to issue certificates; supervisor to give notice to Department of State
  • 102.155 — Certificate of election
  • 102.166 — Manual recounts of overvotes and undervotes
  • 102.168 — Contest of election
  • 102.1682 — Judgment of ouster; revocation of commission; judgment setting aside referendum
  • 102.1685 — Venue
  • 102.169 — Quo warranto not abridged
  • 102.171 — Contest of election to Legislature
Title 103 · FL Chapter 103 (15 sections)
  • 103.011 — Electors of President and Vice President
  • 103.021 — Nomination for presidential electors
  • 103.022 — Write-in candidates for President and Vice President
  • 103.051 — Congress sets meeting dates of electors
  • 103.061 — Meeting of electors and filling of vacancies
  • 103.062 — Plurality of votes to fill vacancy; proceeding in case of tie
  • 103.071 — Compensation of electors
  • 103.081 — Use of party name; political advertising
  • 103.091 — Political parties
  • 103.092 — Affiliated party committees
  • 103.095 — Minor political parties
  • 103.101 — Presidential preference primary
  • 103.121 — Powers and duties of executive committees
  • 103.131 — Political party offices deemed vacant in certain cases
  • 103.141 — Removal of county executive committee member for violation of oath
Title 104 · FL Chapter 104 (44 sections)
  • 104.011 — False swearing; submission of false voter registration information; prosecution prohibited
  • 104.012 — Consideration for registration; interference with registration; soliciting registrations for compensation; alteration of
  • 104.013 — Unauthorized use, possession, or destruction of voter information card
  • 104.031 — False declaration to secure assistance in preparing ballot
  • 104.041 — Fraud in connection with casting vote
  • 104.045 — Vote selling
  • 104.047 — Vote-by-mail ballots and voting; violations
  • 104.051 — Violations; neglect of duty; corrupt practices
  • 104.0515 — Voting rights; deprivation of, or interference with, prohibited; penalty
  • 104.061 — Corruptly influencing voting
  • 104.0615 — Voter intimidation or suppression prohibited; criminal penalties
  • 104.0616 — Vote-by-mail ballots and voting; violations
  • 104.071 — Remuneration by candidate for services, support, etc.; penalty
  • 104.081 — Threats of employers to control votes of employees
  • 104.091 — Aiding, abetting, advising, or conspiring in violation of the code
  • 104.101 — Failure to assist officers at polls
  • 104.11 — Neglect of duty by sheriff or other officer
  • 104.13 — Intermingling ballots
  • 104.15 — Unqualified electors willfully voting
  • 104.155 — Unqualified noncitizen electors willfully voting; prohibited defenses; aiding or soliciting noncitizen electors in votin
  • 104.16 — Voting fraudulent ballot
  • 104.17 — Voting in person after casting vote-by-mail ballot
  • 104.18 — Casting more than one ballot at any election
  • 104.185 — Petitions; knowingly signing more than once; signing another person’s name or a fictitious name
  • 104.186 — Initiative petitions; violations
  • 104.187 — Initiative petitions; registration
  • 104.188 — Petition forms gathered from immediate family; violations
  • 104.19 — Using stickers or rubber stamps or carrying certain items in voting booth; penalty
  • 104.20 — Ballot not to be seen, and other offenses
  • 104.21 — Changing electors’ ballots
  • 104.22 — Stealing and destroying records, etc., of election
  • 104.23 — Disclosing how elector votes
  • 104.24 — Penalty for assuming name
  • 104.26 — Penalty for destroying ballot or booth, etc
  • 104.271 — False or malicious charges against, or false statements about, opposing candidates; penalty
  • 104.2715 — False representations of military service; penalty
  • 104.29 — Inspectors refusing to allow watchers while ballots are counted
  • 104.30 — Voting system; unlawful possession; tampering
  • 104.31 — Political activities of state, county, and municipal officers and employees
  • 104.32 — Supervisor of elections; delivery of books to successor
  • 104.39 — Witnesses as to violations
  • 104.41 — Violations not otherwise provided for
  • 104.42 — Fraudulent registration and illegal voting; investigation
  • 104.43 — Grand juries; special investigation
Title 105 · FL Chapter 105 (13 sections)
  • 105.011 — Definitions
  • 105.031 — Qualification; filing fee; candidate’s oath; items required to be filed
  • 105.035 — Petition process of qualifying for certain judicial offices and the office of school board member
  • 105.036 — Initiative for method of selection for circuit or county court judges; procedures for placement on ballot
  • 105.041 — Form of ballot
  • 105.051 — Determination of election or retention to office
  • 105.061 — Electors qualified to vote
  • 105.071 — Candidates for judicial office; limitations on political activity
  • 105.08 — Campaign contribution and expense; reporting
  • 105.09 — Political activity in behalf of a candidate for judicial office limited
  • 105.10 — Applicability of election code
  • 105.101 — Effect of revision of county court judge selection method
  • 105.102 — Effect of revision of circuit court judge selection method
Title 106 · FL Chapter 106 (66 sections)
  • 106.011 — Definitions
  • 106.021 — Campaign treasurers; deputies; primary and secondary depositories
  • 106.022 — Appointment of a registered agent; duties
  • 106.023 — Statement of candidate
  • 106.025 — Campaign fund raisers
  • 106.03 — Registration of political committees and electioneering communications organizations
  • 106.05 — Deposit of contributions; statement of campaign treasurer
  • 106.055 — Valuation of in-kind contributions
  • 106.06 — Treasurer to keep records; inspections
  • 106.07 — Reports; certification and filing
  • 106.0701 — Solicitation of contributions on behalf of s. 527 or s. 501(c)(4) organizations; reporting requirements; civil penalty;
  • 106.0702 — Reporting; political party executive committee candidates
  • 106.0703 — Electioneering communications organizations; reporting requirements; certification and filing; penalties
  • 106.0705 — Electronic filing of campaign treasurer’s reports
  • 106.0706 — Electronic filing of campaign finance reports; public records exemption
  • 106.071 — Independent expenditures; electioneering communications; reports; disclaimers
  • 106.072 — Social media deplatforming of political candidates
  • 106.075 — Elected officials; report of loans made in year preceding election; limitation on contributions to pay loans
  • 106.08 — Contributions; limitations on
  • 106.087 — Independent expenditures; contribution limits; restrictions on political parties and political committees
  • 106.088 — Independent expenditures; contribution limits; restrictions on affiliated party committees
  • 106.09 — Cash contributions and contribution by cashier’s checks
  • 106.11 — Expenses of and expenditures by candidates and political committees
  • 106.113 — Expenditures by local governments
  • 106.12 — Petty cash funds allowed
  • 106.125 — Credit cards; conditions on use
  • 106.14 — Utilities; deposits; prior authorization
  • 106.1405 — Use of campaign funds
  • 106.141 — Disposition of surplus funds by candidates
  • 106.143 — Political advertisements circulated prior to election; requirements
  • 106.1435 — Usage and removal of political campaign advertisements
  • 106.1436 — Voter guide; disclaimers; violations
  • 106.1437 — Miscellaneous advertisements
  • 106.1439 — Electioneering communications; disclaimers
  • 106.145 — Use of artificial intelligence
  • 106.147 — Text message and telephone solicitation; disclosure requirements; prohibitions; exemptions; penalties
  • 106.1475 — Text message and telephone solicitation; registered agent requirements; penalty
  • 106.15 — Certain acts prohibited
  • 106.151 — Use of public funds prohibited
  • 106.16 — Limitation on certain rates and charges
  • 106.161 — Air time available at the lowest unit rate
  • 106.165 — Use of closed captioning and descriptive narrative in all television broadcasts
  • 106.17 — Polls and surveys relating to candidacies
  • 106.18 — When a candidate’s name to be omitted from ballot
  • 106.19 — Violations by candidates, persons connected with campaigns, and political committees
  • 106.191 — Signatures gathered for initiative petition; effect of ch. 97-13
  • 106.21 — Certificates of election not to be issued upon conviction
  • 106.22 — Duties of the Division of Elections
  • 106.23 — Powers of the Division of Elections
  • 106.24 — Florida Elections Commission; membership; powers; duties
  • 106.25 — Reports of alleged violations to Florida Elections Commission; disposition of findings
  • 106.26 — Powers of commission; rights and responsibilities of parties; findings by commission
  • 106.265 — Civil penalties
  • 106.27 — Determinations by commission; legal disposition
  • 106.28 — Limitation of actions
  • 106.29 — Reports by political parties and affiliated party committees; restrictions on contributions and expenditures; penalties
  • 106.295 — Leadership fund
  • 106.30 — Short title
  • 106.31 — Legislative intent
  • 106.32 — 1
  • 106.33 — Election campaign financing; eligibility
  • 106.34 — Expenditure limits
  • 106.35 — Distribution of funds
  • 106.353 — Candidates voluntarily abiding by election campaign financing limits but not requesting public funds; irrevocable statem
  • 106.355 — Nonparticipating candidate exceeding limits
  • 106.36 — Penalties; fines
Title 107 · FL Chapter 107 (11 sections)
  • 107.01 — Conventions constituted
  • 107.02 — Delegates
  • 107.03 — Election of delegates
  • 107.04 — Candidates file application; fee and petition for name on official ballot
  • 107.05 — Official ballots
  • 107.06 — Clerks and inspectors; compensation fixed
  • 107.07 — Canvass of returns
  • 107.08 — Convention time and place
  • 107.09 — Convention powers; quorum; compensation
  • 107.10 — Certification of convention action
  • 107.11 — Appropriation for expenses
Title 11 · FL Chapter 11 (66 sections)
  • 11.011 — Special session; convened by Legislature
  • 11.02 — Notice of special or local legislation or certain relief acts
  • 11.021 — Evidence of publication of notice
  • 11.03 — Proof of publication of notice
  • 11.031 — Official census
  • 11.0431 — Legislative records; intent of legislation; exemption from public disclosure
  • 11.044 — Legislative intent and purpose
  • 11.045 — Lobbying before the Legislature; registration and reporting; exemptions; penalties
  • 11.0451 — Requirements for reinstitution of lobbyist registration after felony conviction
  • 11.0455 — Electronic filing of compensation reports and other information
  • 11.047 — Contingency fees; prohibitions; penalties
  • 11.061 — State, state university, and community college employee lobbyists; registration; recording attendance; penalty; exemptio
  • 11.062 — Use of state funds for lobbying prohibited; penalty
  • 11.065 — Claims against state; limitations; notice
  • 11.066 — Suits seeking monetary damages against the state or its agencies; payment of judgments; appropriations required
  • 11.07 — Method of enrolling bills, etc
  • 11.111 — Continuance of certain causes for term of Legislature and period of time prior and subsequent thereto and committee work
  • 11.12 — Salary, subsistence, and mileage of members and employees; expenses authorized by resolution; appropriation; preaudit
  • 11.13 — Compensation of members
  • 11.131 — Monetary supplements prohibited
  • 11.135 — Legislative committees, units, and offices; expenditures
  • 11.143 — Standing or select committees; powers
  • 11.1465 — Services provided to Legislature
  • 11.147 — Office of Legislative Services
  • 11.151 — Annual legislative appropriation to contingency fund for use of President of the Senate and Speaker of the House of Repr
  • 11.241 — Permanent statutory revision plan created
  • 11.242 — Powers, duties, and functions as to statutory revision
  • 11.2421 — Florida Statutes 2025 adopted
  • 11.2422 — Statutes repealed
  • 11.2423 — Laws or statutes not repealed
  • 11.2424 — Laws not repealed
  • 11.2425 — Rights reserved under repealed statutes
  • 11.2427 — Conflict of laws
  • 11.243 — Publishing Florida Statutes; price, sale
  • 11.249 — Commissioners to the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws
  • 11.25 — Salaries and expenditures not subject to control of executive agencies
  • 11.26 — Legislative employees; employment restrictions
  • 11.40 — Legislative Auditing Committee
  • 11.42 — The Auditor General
  • 11.45 — Definitions; duties; authorities; reports; rules
  • 11.47 — Penalties; failure to make a proper audit or examination; making a false report; failure to produce documents or informa
  • 11.51 — Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability
  • 11.52 — Implementation of enacted legislation
  • 11.62 — Legislative review of proposed regulation of unregulated functions
  • 11.90 — Legislative Budget Commission
  • 11.9005 — Government Efficiency Task Force
  • 11.93 — Short title
  • 11.931 — Applicability
  • 11.932 — Definitions
  • 11.933 — Qualifications of delegates and alternate delegates
  • 11.9331 — Appointment of delegates by Legislature
  • 11.9332 — Appointment by majority vote of each chamber; pairing delegates and alternate delegates
  • 11.9333 — Recall; filling a vacancy; special legislative session
  • 11.9334 — Method of appointment and recall
  • 11.9335 — Reimbursement of per diem and travel expenses
  • 11.9336 — Oath
  • 11.9337 — Filing of oath; issuance of commission
  • 11.934 — Instructions to delegates
  • 11.9341 — Duties of alternate delegates
  • 11.9342 — Vote cast outside the scope of instructions or limits; status of vote
  • 11.9343 — Vote cast outside the scope of instructions or limits; appointment forfeited
  • 11.9344 — Vote cast outside the scope of instructions or limits; status of application
  • 11.9345 — Vote cast outside the scope of instructions; criminal liability
  • 11.935 — Article V convention advisory group
  • 11.9351 — Oversight of delegates with respect to instructions
  • 11.9352 — Advisory determination concerning a vote outside the scope of instructions
Title 110 · FL Chapter 110 (86 sections)
  • 110.105 — Employment policy of the state
  • 110.1055 — Rules and rulemaking authority
  • 110.107 — Definitions
  • 110.1082 — Telephone voice mail systems and telephone menu options systems
  • 110.1091 — Employee assistance programs; public records exemption
  • 110.1099 — Education and training opportunities for state employees
  • 110.112 — Affirmative action; equal employment opportunity
  • 110.1127 — Employee background screening and investigations
  • 110.1128 — Selective service registration
  • 110.113 — Pay periods for state officers and employees; salary payments by direct deposit
  • 110.114 — Employee wage deductions
  • 110.115 — Employees of historical commissions; other state employment permitted
  • 110.1155 — Travel to or conducting business with a country in the Western Hemisphere lacking diplomatic relations with the United S
  • 110.1156 — Export of goods, commodities, and things of value to foreign countries that support international terrorism; prohibited
  • 110.116 — Personnel information system; payroll procedures
  • 110.1165 — Executive branch personnel errors; limitation of actions for compensation
  • 110.117 — Paid holidays
  • 110.118 — Administrative leave for certain athletic competition
  • 110.119 — Administrative leave for military-service-connected disability
  • 110.120 — Administrative leave for disaster service volunteers
  • 110.121 — Sick leave pool
  • 110.122 — Terminal payment for accumulated sick leave
  • 110.1221 — Sexual harassment policy; executive agency rules
  • 110.1225 — Furloughs
  • 110.1227 — Florida Employee Long-Term-Care Plan Act
  • 110.1228 — Participation by small counties, small municipalities, and district school boards located in small counties
  • 110.123 — State group insurance program
  • 110.12301 — Competitive procurement of postpayment claims review services and dependent eligibility verification services; public re
  • 110.12302 — Costing options for plan designs required for contract solicitation
  • 110.12303 — State group insurance program; additional benefits; price transparency program; reporting
  • 110.12304 — Independent benefits consultant
  • 110.12306 — Anti-fraud investigative units
  • 110.12312 — Open enrollment period for retirees
  • 110.12313 — Enrollment for eligible former employees
  • 110.12315 — Prescription drug program
  • 110.1232 — Health insurance coverage for persons retired under state-administered retirement systems before January 1, 1976, and fo
  • 110.1234 — Health insurance for retirees under the Florida Retirement System; Medicare supplement and fully insured coverage
  • 110.1238 — State group health insurance plans; refunds with respect to overcharges by providers
  • 110.1239 — State group health insurance program funding
  • 110.124 — Termination or transfer of employees aged 65 or older
  • 110.1245 — Savings sharing program; bonus payments; other awards
  • 110.125 — Administrative costs
  • 110.126 — Oaths, testimony, records; penalties
  • 110.127 — Penalties
  • 110.129 — Services to political subdivisions
  • 110.131 — Other-personal-services employment
  • 110.1315 — Alternative retirement benefits; other-personal-services employees
  • 110.151 — State officers’ and employees’ child care services
  • 110.1521 — Short title
  • 110.1522 — Model rule establishing family support personnel policies
  • 110.1523 — Adoption of model rule
  • 110.161 — State employees; pretax benefits program
  • 110.171 — State employee telework program
  • 110.182 — Solicitation of state employees prohibited
  • 110.191 — State employee leasing
  • 110.201 — Personnel rules, records, and reports
  • 110.2035 — Classification and compensation program
  • 110.2037 — Alternative benefits; tax-sheltered annual leave and sick leave payments and special compensation payments
  • 110.205 — Career service; exemptions
  • 110.21 — Shared employment
  • 110.211 — Recruitment
  • 110.213 — Selection
  • 110.2135 — Preference in employment, reemployment, promotion, and retention
  • 110.215 — Examinations and other employment qualification assessments administered to persons having disabilities
  • 110.217 — Appointment actions and status
  • 110.219 — Attendance and leave; general policies
  • 110.221 — Parental or family medical leave
  • 110.224 — Public employee performance evaluation system
  • 110.227 — Suspensions, dismissals, reductions in pay, demotions, layoffs, transfers, and grievances
  • 110.233 — Political activities and unlawful acts prohibited
  • 110.235 — Training
  • 110.401 — Declaration of policy
  • 110.402 — Senior Management Service; creation, coverage
  • 110.403 — Powers and duties of the department
  • 110.405 — Advisory committees
  • 110.406 — Senior Management Service; data collection
  • 110.501 — Definitions
  • 110.502 — Scope of act; status of volunteers
  • 110.503 — Responsibilities of departments and agencies
  • 110.504 — Volunteer benefits
  • 110.601 — Declaration of policy
  • 110.602 — Selected Exempt Service; creation, coverage
  • 110.603 — Pay and benefits
  • 110.604 — Suspensions, dismissals, reductions in pay, demotions, and transfers
  • 110.605 — Powers and duties; personnel rules, records, reports, and performance appraisal
  • 110.606 — Selected Exempt Service; data collection
Title 111 · FL Chapter 111 (9 sections)
  • 111.012 — Testimonials for public officers
  • 111.045 — Salaries of officers payable upon requisition
  • 111.05 — Officer reinstated after suspension; back pay
  • 111.065 — Law enforcement or correctional officers, legal action against; employer payment of costs and attorney’s fees or provi
  • 111.07 — Defense of civil actions against public officers, employees, or agents
  • 111.071 — Payment of judgments or settlements against certain public officers or employees
  • 111.072 — Insurance in anticipation of judgments or settlements against officers, employees, or agents of any county, municipality
  • 111.075 — Elected officials; prohibition concerning certain committees
  • 111.09 — Peer support for first responders
Title 112 · FL Chapter 112 (164 sections)
  • 112.011 — Disqualification from licensing and public employment based on criminal conviction
  • 112.0111 — Restrictions on the employment of ex-offenders; legislative intent; state agency reporting requirements
  • 112.021 — Florida residence unnecessary
  • 112.042 — Discrimination in county and municipal employment; relief
  • 112.043 — Age discrimination
  • 112.044 — Public employers, employment agencies, labor organizations; discrimination based on age prohibited; exceptions; remedy
  • 112.0455 — Drug-Free Workplace Act
  • 112.046 — Political party committee membership allowed
  • 112.048 — Voluntary retirement with half pay authorized for elective officers of cities or towns; appropriation
  • 112.05 — Retirement; cost-of-living adjustment; employment after retirement
  • 112.0501 — Ratification of certain dual retirements
  • 112.0515 — Retirement or pension rights unaffected by consolidation or merger of governmental agencies
  • 112.061 — Per diem and travel expenses of public officers, employees, and authorized persons; statewide travel management system
  • 112.062 — Cabinet members; educational and informational travel expenses
  • 112.063 — Reimbursement of county employees for educational expenses
  • 112.08 — Group insurance for public officers, employees, and certain volunteers; physical examinations
  • 112.0801 — Group insurance; participation by retired employees
  • 112.0804 — Health insurance for retirees under the Florida Retirement System; Medicare supplement and fully insured coverage
  • 112.0805 — Employer notice of insurance eligibility to employees who retire
  • 112.081 — Circuit judges, participation
  • 112.09 — Evidence of election to provide insurance
  • 112.10 — Deduction and payment of premiums
  • 112.11 — Participation voluntary
  • 112.13 — Insurance additional to workers’ compensation
  • 112.14 — Purpose and intent of law
  • 112.151 — Group hospitalization insurance for county officers and employees
  • 112.153 — Local governmental group insurance plans; refunds with respect to overcharges by providers
  • 112.161 — Change in position or reclassification; continuance or resumption of membership in retirement system
  • 112.171 — Employee wage deductions
  • 112.175 — Employee wages; withholding to repay educational loan
  • 112.18 — Firefighters and law enforcement or correctional officers; special provisions relative to disability
  • 112.181 — Firefighters, paramedics, emergency medical technicians, law enforcement officers, correctional officers; special provis
  • 112.1815 — Firefighters, paramedics, emergency medical technicians, and law enforcement officers; special provisions for employment
  • 112.18155 — Correctional officers; special provisions for posttraumatic stress disorders
  • 112.1816 — Firefighters; cancer diagnosis
  • 112.182 — “Firefighter rule” abolished
  • 112.19 — Law enforcement, correctional, and correctional probation officers; death benefits
  • 112.191 — Firefighters; death benefits
  • 112.1911 — Emergency medical technicians and paramedics; death benefits
  • 112.1912 — First responders; death benefits for educational expenses
  • 112.1913 — Effect of ch. 2003-412
  • 112.1915 — Teachers and school administrators; death benefits
  • 112.1921 — Administrative leave for law enforcement officers
  • 112.193 — Law enforcement, correctional, and correctional probation officers’ commemorative service awards
  • 112.194 — Law enforcement and correctional officers’ Medal of Valor
  • 112.195 — Florida Medal of Valor and Florida Blue/Red Heart Medal
  • 112.21 — Tax-sheltered annuities or custodial accounts for employees of governmental agencies
  • 112.215 — Government employees; deferred compensation program
  • 112.217 — Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles; employees’ benefit fund
  • 112.218 — Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles personnel files; fees for copies
  • 112.219 — Substitution of work experience for postsecondary educational requirements
  • 112.22 — Use of applications from foreign countries of concern prohibited
  • 112.23 — Government-directed content moderation of social media platforms prohibited
  • 112.24 — Intergovernmental interchange of public employees
  • 112.25 — Declaration of policy
  • 112.26 — Definitions
  • 112.27 — Authority to interchange employees
  • 112.28 — Status of employees of this state
  • 112.29 — Travel expenses of employees of this state
  • 112.30 — Status of employees of other governments
  • 112.31 — Travel expenses of employees of other governments
  • 112.311 — Legislative intent and declaration of policy
  • 112.312 — Definitions
  • 112.3121 — Definitions
  • 112.3122 — Enforcement and penalties for constitutional prohibition against lobbying by a public officer
  • 112.3123 — Definitions
  • 112.3124 — Enforcement and penalties for constitutional prohibition against lobbying by a former justice or judge
  • 112.3125 — Dual public employment
  • 112.313 — Standards of conduct for public officers, employees of agencies, and local government attorneys
  • 112.3131 — Stolen valor
  • 112.3135 — Restriction on employment of relatives
  • 112.3136 — Standards of conduct for officers and employees of entities serving as chief administrative officer of political subdivi
  • 112.3142 — Ethics training for specified constitutional officers, elected municipal officers, commissioners of community redevelopm
  • 112.3143 — Voting conflicts
  • 112.3144 — Full and public disclosure of financial interests
  • 112.31445 — Electronic filing system; full and public disclosure of financial interests
  • 112.31446 — Electronic filing system for financial disclosure
  • 112.3145 — Disclosure of financial interests and clients represented before agencies
  • 112.31455 — Collection methods for unpaid automatic fines for failure to timely file disclosure of financial interests
  • 112.3146 — Public records
  • 112.3147 — Forms
  • 112.3148 — Reporting and prohibited receipt of gifts by individuals filing full or limited public disclosure of financial interests
  • 112.31485 — Prohibition on gifts involving political committees
  • 112.3149 — Solicitation and disclosure of honoraria
  • 112.3151 — Extensions of time for filing disclosure
  • 112.316 — Construction
  • 112.317 — Penalties
  • 112.3173 — Felonies involving breach of public trust and other specified offenses by public officers and employees; forfeiture of r
  • 112.3175 — Remedies; contracts voidable
  • 112.3185 — Additional standards for state agency employees
  • 112.3187 — Adverse action against employee for disclosing information of specified nature prohibited; employee remedy and relief
  • 112.3188 — Confidentiality of information given to the Chief Inspector General and agency inspectors general
  • 112.3189 — Investigative procedures upon receipt of whistle-blower information from certain state employees
  • 112.31895 — Investigative procedures in response to prohibited personnel actions
  • 112.31901 — Investigatory records
  • 112.3191 — Short title
  • 112.320 — Commission on Ethics; purpose
  • 112.321 — Membership, terms; travel expenses; staff
  • 112.3213 — Legislative intent and purpose
  • 112.3215 — Lobbying before the executive branch or the Constitution Revision Commission; registration and reporting; investigation
  • 112.32151 — Requirements for reinstitution of lobbyist registration after felony conviction
  • 112.32155 — Electronic filing of compensation reports and other information
  • 112.3217 — Contingency fees; prohibitions; penalties
  • 112.322 — Duties and powers of commission
  • 112.3231 — Time limitations
  • 112.3232 — Compelled testimony
  • 112.324 — Procedures on complaints of violations and referrals; public records and meeting exemptions
  • 112.3241 — Judicial review
  • 112.3251 — Citizen support and direct-support organizations; standards of conduct
  • 112.326 — Additional requirements by political subdivisions and agencies not prohibited; certain procedures preempted
  • 112.3261 — Lobbying before water management districts; registration and reporting
  • 112.351 — Short title
  • 112.352 — Definitions
  • 112.353 — Purpose of act
  • 112.354 — Eligibility for supplement
  • 112.355 — Supplement amount
  • 112.356 — Payment of supplement
  • 112.357 — Appropriation
  • 112.359 — Benefits exempt from taxes and execution
  • 112.360 — Amendments
  • 112.361 — Additional and updated supplemental retirement benefits
  • 112.362 — Recomputation of retirement benefits
  • 112.363 — Retiree health insurance subsidy
  • 112.40 — Disposition of order of suspension
  • 112.41 — Contents of order of suspension; Senate select committee; special magistrate
  • 112.42 — Period during which grounds may have occurred
  • 112.43 — Prosecution of suspension before Senate
  • 112.44 — Failure to prove charges; payment of attorney’s fees or salary
  • 112.45 — Senate’s report; results of prosecution
  • 112.46 — Period during which suspension will lie
  • 112.47 — Hearing before Senate select committee; notice
  • 112.48 — Suspension when Senate not in session
  • 112.49 — Persons exercising powers and duties of county officers subject to suspension by Governor
  • 112.50 — Governor to retain power to suspend public officers
  • 112.501 — Municipal board members; suspension; removal
  • 112.51 — Municipal officers; suspension; removal from office
  • 112.511 — Members of special district governing bodies; suspension; removal from office
  • 112.52 — Removal of a public official when a method is not otherwise provided
  • 112.531 — Definitions
  • 112.532 — Law enforcement officers’ and correctional officers’ rights
  • 112.533 — Receipt and processing of complaints
  • 112.534 — Failure to comply; official misconduct
  • 112.535 — Construction
  • 112.536 — Requirements for maintaining a Brady identification system
  • 112.60 — Short title
  • 112.61 — Legislative intent
  • 112.62 — Application
  • 112.625 — Definitions
  • 112.63 — Actuarial reports and statements of actuarial impact; review
  • 112.64 — Administration of funds; amortization of unfunded liability
  • 112.65 — Limitation of benefits
  • 112.656 — Fiduciary duties; certain officials included as fiduciaries
  • 112.658 — Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability to determine compliance of the Florida Retirement System
  • 112.66 — General provisions
  • 112.661 — Investment policies
  • 112.662 — Investments; exercising shareholder rights
  • 112.664 — Reporting standards for defined benefit retirement plans or systems
  • 112.665 — Duties of Department of Management Services
  • 112.67 — Special acts prohibited
  • 112.80 — Short title
  • 112.81 — Definitions
  • 112.82 — Rights of firefighters
  • 112.83 — Rights of firefighters with respect to civil suits
  • 112.84 — Rights of firefighters nonexclusive
Title 113 · FL Chapter 113 (8 sections)
  • 113.01 — Fee for commissions issued by Governor
  • 113.02 — Fee to be paid before commissions issued
  • 113.03 — Disposition of proceeds
  • 113.04 — Fidelity bond premiums
  • 113.051 — Grants and commissions
  • 113.06 — Record of commission, oath, and acceptance
  • 113.07 — Bond by surety company; when required
  • 113.071 — Sureties upon official bonds
Title 114 · FL Chapter 114 (5 sections)
  • 114.01 — Office deemed vacant in certain cases
  • 114.02 — Absence from state of certain officers
  • 114.03 — Certain executive officers not to absent themselves from the state
  • 114.04 — Filling vacancies
  • 114.05 — Issuance of letter of appointment; confirmation by the Senate; refusal or failure to confirm
Title 115 · FL Chapter 115 (14 sections)
  • 115.01 — Leave of absence for military service
  • 115.02 — Governor to grant application; proviso
  • 115.03 — Appointment of deputy; bond
  • 115.04 — Applicability of ss. 115.01-115.06 to certain officers
  • 115.05 — Duties of deputy
  • 115.06 — Reassumption of duties
  • 115.07 — Officers and employees’ leaves of absence for reserve or guard training
  • 115.08 — Definitions
  • 115.09 — Leave to public officials for military service
  • 115.11 — Leave not to extend beyond term of office; temporarily unoccupied position
  • 115.12 — Rights during leave
  • 115.13 — Resumption of official duties
  • 115.14 — Employees
  • 115.15 — Adoption of federal law for employees
Title 116 · FL Chapter 116 (21 sections)
  • 116.01 — Payment of public funds into treasury
  • 116.015 — Receipt of counterfeit money in the course of operation of public office
  • 116.02 — Payment of commissions on unremitted funds prohibited; penalty
  • 116.03 — Officers to report fees collected
  • 116.04 — Failure of officer to make sworn report of fees
  • 116.05 — Examination and publication by Department of Financial Services
  • 116.06 — Summary of reports; certain officers not required to report fees
  • 116.07 — Account books to be kept by sheriffs and clerks
  • 116.08 — County commissioners to furnish books
  • 116.09 — Penalty for failure
  • 116.13 — Sale of property by heads of state institutions without permission prohibited
  • 116.14 — Receipts required from purchasers of state property
  • 116.15 — Penalty for violation of ss. 116.13 and 116.14
  • 116.21 — Unclaimed moneys; limitation
  • 116.22 — Definitions; forfeiture of personal property in custody of clerks of various courts
  • 116.33 — Exercise of police power
  • 116.34 — Facsimile signatures
  • 116.35 — Notary public commissions; employees of state and county agencies
  • 116.36 — Notary public commissions; municipal employees
  • 116.37 — Notary public commissions; elected officers
  • 116.38 — Notary fees
Title 117 · FL Chapter 117 (26 sections)
  • 117.01 — Appointment, application, suspension, revocation, application fee, bond, and oath
  • 117.021 — Electronic notarization
  • 117.03 — Administration of oaths
  • 117.04 — Acknowledgments
  • 117.045 — Marriages
  • 117.05 — Use of notary commission; unlawful use; notary fee; seal; duties; employer liability; name change; advertising; photocop
  • 117.051 — Civil cause of action
  • 117.06 — Validity of acts prior to April 1, 1903
  • 117.10 — Law enforcement and correctional officers; administration of oaths
  • 117.103 — Certification of notary’s authority by Secretary of State
  • 117.105 — False or fraudulent acknowledgments; penalty
  • 117.107 — Prohibited acts
  • 117.108 — Validity of acts, seals, and certificates prior to January 1, 1995
  • 117.201 — Definitions
  • 117.209 — Authority to perform online notarizations
  • 117.215 — Relation to other laws
  • 117.225 — Registration; qualifications
  • 117.231 — Remote administration of certain oaths
  • 117.235 — Performance of notarial acts
  • 117.245 — Electronic journal of online notarizations
  • 117.255 — Use of electronic journal, signature, and seal
  • 117.265 — Online notarization procedures
  • 117.275 — Fees for online notarization
  • 117.285 — Supervising the witnessing of electronic records
  • 117.295 — Standards for electronic and online notarization; rulemaking authority
  • 117.305 — Relation to federal law
Title 118 · FL Chapter 118 (2 sections)
  • 118.10 — Civil-law notary
  • 118.12 — Certification of civil-law notary’s authority; apostilles
Title 119 · FL Chapter 119 (20 sections)
  • 119.01 — General state policy on public records
  • 119.011 — Definitions
  • 119.021 — Custodial requirements; maintenance, preservation, and retention of public records
  • 119.035 — Officers-elect
  • 119.07 — Inspection and copying of records; photographing public records; fees; exemptions
  • 119.0701 — Contracts; public records; request for contractor records; civil action
  • 119.071 — General exemptions from inspection or copying of public records
  • 119.0711 — Executive branch agency exemptions from inspection or copying of public records
  • 119.0712 — Executive branch agency-specific exemptions from inspection or copying of public records
  • 119.0713 — Local government agency exemptions from inspection or copying of public records
  • 119.0714 — Court files; court records; official records
  • 119.0715 — Trade secrets held by an agency
  • 119.0725 — Agency cybersecurity information; public records exemption; public meetings exemption
  • 119.084 — Copyright of data processing software created by governmental agencies; sale price and licensing fee
  • 119.092 — Registration by federal employer’s registration number
  • 119.10 — Violation of chapter; penalties
  • 119.105 — Protection of victims of crimes or accidents
  • 119.11 — Accelerated hearing; immediate compliance
  • 119.12 — Attorney fees
  • 119.15 — Legislative review of exemptions from public meeting and public records requirements
Title 120 · FL Chapter 120 (39 sections)
  • 120.50 — Exception to application of chapter
  • 120.51 — Short title
  • 120.515 — Declaration of policy
  • 120.52 — Definitions
  • 120.525 — Meetings, hearings, and workshops
  • 120.53 — Maintenance of agency final orders
  • 120.533 — Coordination of the transmittal, indexing, and listing of agency final orders by Department of State
  • 120.536 — Rulemaking authority; repeal; challenge
  • 120.54 — Rulemaking
  • 120.541 — Statement of estimated regulatory costs
  • 120.542 — Variances and waivers
  • 120.5435 — Agency review of rules
  • 120.545 — Committee review of agency rules
  • 120.55 — Publication
  • 120.555 — Summary removal of published rules no longer in force and effect
  • 120.56 — Challenges to rules
  • 120.565 — Declaratory statement by agencies
  • 120.569 — Decisions which affect substantial interests
  • 120.57 — Additional procedures for particular cases
  • 120.573 — Mediation of disputes
  • 120.574 — Summary hearing
  • 120.595 — Attorney’s fees
  • 120.60 — Licensing
  • 120.62 — Agency investigations
  • 120.63 — Exemption from act
  • 120.65 — Administrative law judges
  • 120.651 — Designation of two administrative law judges to preside over actions involving department or boards
  • 120.655 — Withholding funds to pay for administrative law judge services to school boards
  • 120.66 — Ex parte communications
  • 120.665 — Disqualification of agency personnel
  • 120.68 — Judicial review
  • 120.69 — Enforcement of agency action
  • 120.695 — Notice of noncompliance; designation of minor violation of rules
  • 120.72 — Legislative intent; references to chapter 120 or portions thereof
  • 120.73 — Circuit court proceedings; declaratory judgments
  • 120.74 — Agency annual rulemaking and regulatory plans; reports
  • 120.80 — Exceptions and special requirements; agencies
  • 120.81 — Exceptions and special requirements; general areas
  • 120.82 — Keep Our Graduates Working Act
Title 121 · FL Chapter 121 (68 sections)
  • 121.011 — Florida Retirement System
  • 121.012 — Inclusive provisions
  • 121.021 — Definitions
  • 121.025 — Administrator; powers and duties
  • 121.031 — Administration of system; appropriation; oaths; actuarial studies; public records
  • 121.0312 — Review; actuarial valuation report; contribution rate determination process
  • 121.045 — Consolidation of liabilities and assets; existing systems
  • 121.046 — Merger of the Judicial Retirement System into the Florida Retirement System Act
  • 121.047 — Consolidation of liabilities and assets; Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences Supplemental Retirement Program; re
  • 121.051 — Participation in the system
  • 121.0511 — Revocation of election and alternative plan
  • 121.0515 — Special Risk Class
  • 121.052 — Membership class of elected officers
  • 121.053 — Participation in the Elected Officers’ Class for retired members
  • 121.055 — Senior Management Service Class
  • 121.061 — Funding
  • 121.071 — Contributions
  • 121.081 — Past service; prior service; contributions
  • 121.085 — Creditable service
  • 121.091 — Benefits payable under the system
  • 121.095 — Florida Retirement System Preservation of Benefits Plan Trust Fund
  • 121.1001 — Florida Retirement System Preservation of Benefits Plan
  • 121.101 — Cost-of-living adjustment of benefits
  • 121.111 — Credit for military service
  • 121.1115 — Purchase of retirement credit for out-of-state or federal service
  • 121.1122 — Purchase of retirement credit for in-state public service and in-state service in accredited nonpublic schools and colle
  • 121.121 — Authorized leaves of absence
  • 121.122 — Renewed membership in system
  • 121.125 — Credit for workers’ compensation payment periods
  • 121.131 — Benefits exempt from taxes and execution
  • 121.133 — Cancellation of uncashed warrants
  • 121.135 — Annual report to Legislature concerning state-administered retirement systems
  • 121.136 — Annual benefit statement to members
  • 121.141 — Appropriation
  • 121.151 — Investments
  • 121.161 — References to other laws include amendments
  • 121.181 — Effective date
  • 121.1815 — Special pensions to individuals; administration of laws by Department of Management Services
  • 121.182 — Retirement annuities authorized for city and county personnel
  • 121.1905 — Division of Retirement; creation
  • 121.191 — Special acts prohibited
  • 121.192 — State retirement actuary
  • 121.193 — External compliance audits
  • 121.22 — State Retirement Commission; creation; membership; compensation
  • 121.23 — Disability retirement and special risk membership applications; Retirement Commission; powers and duties; judicial revie
  • 121.231 — Attorney’s fees and costs under s. 121.23(2)(a); funding
  • 121.24 — Conduct of commission business; legal and other assistance; compensation
  • 121.30 — Statements of purpose and intent and other provisions required for qualification under the Internal Revenue Code of the
  • 121.35 — Optional retirement program for the State University System
  • 121.355 — Community College Optional Retirement Program and State University System Optional Retirement Program member transfer
  • 121.40 — Cooperative extension personnel at the Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences; supplemental retirement benefits
  • 121.4501 — Florida Retirement System Investment Plan
  • 121.4502 — Florida Retirement System Investment Plan Trust Fund
  • 121.4503 — Florida Retirement System Contributions Clearing Trust Fund
  • 121.571 — Contributions
  • 121.591 — Payment of benefits
  • 121.5911 — Disability retirement program; qualified status; rulemaking authority
  • 121.5912 — Survivor benefit retirement program; qualified status; rulemaking authority
  • 121.70 — Legislative purpose and intent
  • 121.71 — Uniform rates; process; calculations; levy
  • 121.72 — Allocations to investment plan member accounts; percentage amounts
  • 121.73 — Allocations for member disability coverage; percentage amounts
  • 121.735 — Allocations for member line-of-duty death benefits; percentage amounts
  • 121.74 — Administrative and educational expenses
  • 121.75 — Allocation for pension plan
  • 121.76 — Contributions for social security and for retiree health insurance subsidy
  • 121.77 — Deductions from member accounts
  • 121.78 — Payment and distribution of contributions
Title 122 · FL Chapter 122 (33 sections)
  • 122.01 — State and County Officers and Employees’ Retirement System; consolidation; divisions
  • 122.02 — Definitions
  • 122.03 — Contributions; participants; prior service credit
  • 122.04 — Compulsory participation
  • 122.05 — Legislator services included
  • 122.051 — Eligibility of retired state employee for Legislature; compensation
  • 122.06 — Legislative employee services included
  • 122.061 — Hospital districts and county hospital corporations; officers and employees included
  • 122.07 — Seasonal state employment included; time limit and procedure for claiming
  • 122.08 — Requirements for retirement; classifications
  • 122.09 — Disability retirement; medical examinations
  • 122.10 — Separation from service; refund of contributions
  • 122.11 — Reemployment after refund
  • 122.12 — Designation of beneficiary; death of participant; forfeiture of contributions after benefits paid; survivor benefits
  • 122.15 — Benefits exempt from taxes and execution
  • 122.16 — Employment after retirement
  • 122.18 — Certain officers and employees not covered
  • 122.19 — Change of positions; election of retirement systems; exceptions
  • 122.20 — Blind vending-stand operators; participation by
  • 122.21 — Activation of division B
  • 122.22 — Applicable law
  • 122.23 — Definitions; ss. 122.21-122.321
  • 122.24 — Membership in division B
  • 122.26 — Funds
  • 122.27 — Contributions
  • 122.28 — Benefits
  • 122.29 — Records and reports
  • 122.31 — Future amendments
  • 122.32 — Repealer
  • 122.321 — County officers and employees; division B
  • 122.34 — Special provisions for certain sheriffs and full-time deputy sheriffs
  • 122.35 — Funding
  • 122.355 — Statements of purpose and intent and other provisions required for qualification under the Internal Revenue Code of the
Title 124 · FL Chapter 124 (4 sections)
  • 124.01 — Division of counties into districts; county commissioners
  • 124.011 — Alternate procedure for the election of county commissioners to provide for single-member representation; applicability
  • 124.02 — Notice of change of boundaries of district to be given by publication
  • 124.03 — Description of district boundaries to be furnished Department of State
Title 125 · FL Chapter 125 (96 sections)
  • 125.001 — Board meetings; notice
  • 125.01 — Powers and duties
  • 125.0101 — County may contract to provide services to municipalities and special districts
  • 125.01015 — Office of the sheriff
  • 125.0102 — Sign ordinances
  • 125.0103 — Ordinances and rules imposing price controls
  • 125.0104 — Tourist development tax; procedure for levying; authorized uses; referendum; enforcement
  • 125.01045 — Prohibition of fees for first responder services
  • 125.01047 — Rules and ordinances relating to towing services
  • 125.0105 — Service fee for dishonored check
  • 125.01055 — Affordable housing
  • 125.0107 — Ordinances relating to possession or sale of ammunition
  • 125.0108 — Areas of critical state concern; tourist impact tax
  • 125.0109 — Family day care homes; local zoning regulation
  • 125.011 — Definitions
  • 125.012 — Project facilities; general powers and duties
  • 125.013 — General obligation bonds; revenue bonds
  • 125.014 — Title designation of authority
  • 125.015 — Acquisition of facilities from municipalities
  • 125.0156 — Restrictions on identification documents
  • 125.016 — Ad valorem tax
  • 125.0167 — Discretionary surtax on documents; adoption; application of revenue
  • 125.0168 — Special assessments levied on recreational vehicle parks regulated under chapter 513
  • 125.017 — Administrative agents
  • 125.018 — Rules and regulations
  • 125.019 — Exemption from taxation; immunity
  • 125.022 — Development permits and orders
  • 125.023 — Temporary shelter prohibition
  • 125.0231 — Public camping and public sleeping
  • 125.025 — County-municipality consolidated governments; additional powers
  • 125.029 — County park entrance fee discounts
  • 125.031 — Lease or lease-purchases of property for public purposes
  • 125.045 — County economic development powers
  • 125.15 — To sue and be sued in the name of county
  • 125.17 — Clerk
  • 125.221 — Holding of court and meeting of grand jury; place other than courthouse
  • 125.222 — Auxiliary county offices, court proceedings
  • 125.27 — Countywide forest fire protection; authority of the Florida Forest Service; state funding; county fire control assessmen
  • 125.271 — Emergency medical services; county emergency medical service assessments
  • 125.275 — Countywide air quality protection; authority of counties designated as nonattainment areas; preemption of municipal ordi
  • 125.325 — Loans to public agencies authorized
  • 125.3401 — Purchase, sale, or privatization of water, sewer, or wastewater reuse utility by county
  • 125.35 — County authorized to sell real and personal property and to lease real property
  • 125.355 — Proposed purchase of real property by county; confidentiality of records; procedure
  • 125.37 — Exchange of county property
  • 125.379 — Disposition of county property for affordable housing
  • 125.38 — Sale of county property to United States, or state
  • 125.39 — Nonapplicability to county lands acquired for specific purposes
  • 125.411 — Conveyance of land by county
  • 125.42 — Water, sewage, gas, power, telephone, other utility, and television lines within the right-of-way limits of county roads
  • 125.421 — Telecommunications services
  • 125.485 — Utility services; nonpayment of charges by former occupant of rental unit; county action limited
  • 125.488 — Ordinances, regulations, and policies concerning temporary underground power panels
  • 125.56 — Enforcement and amendment of the Florida Building Code and the Florida Fire Prevention Code; inspection fees; inspectors
  • 125.561 — Amateur radio antennas; construction in conformance with federal requirements
  • 125.563 — Abatement of water pollution and shore erosion of inland lakes
  • 125.568 — Conservation of water; Florida-friendly landscaping
  • 125.569 — Sanitary sewer lateral inspection programs for counties
  • 125.571 — Permit may not be required for owner to paint residence
  • 125.572 — Regulation of synthetic turf
  • 125.5801 — Criminal history record checks for certain county employees and appointees
  • 125.581 — Certain local employment registration prohibited
  • 125.585 — Employee assistance programs; public records exemption
  • 125.59 — Special grand jury fund
  • 125.60 — Adoption of county charter
  • 125.61 — Charter commission
  • 125.62 — Charter commission; organization
  • 125.63 — Proposal of county charter
  • 125.64 — Adoption of charter; dissolution of commission
  • 125.66 — Ordinances; enactment procedure; emergency ordinances; rezoning or change of land use ordinances or resolutions
  • 125.67 — Limitation on subject and matter embraced in ordinances; amendments; enacting clause
  • 125.675 — Legal challenges to certain recently enacted ordinances
  • 125.68 — Codification of ordinances; exceptions; public record
  • 125.69 — Penalties; enforcement by code inspectors
  • 125.691 — Prohibition against duplicating county constitutional office powers or authority; penalties; remedies
  • 125.70 — Short title
  • 125.71 — Purpose
  • 125.72 — Application of the part
  • 125.73 — County administrator; appointment, qualifications, compensation
  • 125.74 — County administrator; powers and duties
  • 125.80 — Short title
  • 125.81 — Definitions
  • 125.82 — Charter adoption by ordinance
  • 125.83 — County charters; general provisions
  • 125.84 — County charters; optional forms
  • 125.85 — County charters; executive responsibilities
  • 125.86 — County charters; legislative responsibilities
  • 125.87 — Administrative code; adoption and amendment
  • 125.88 — Civil service
  • 125.901 — Children’s services; independent special district; council; powers, duties, and functions; public records exemption
  • 125.902 — Children’s services council or juvenile welfare board incentive grants
  • 125.9501 — Definitions
  • 125.9502 — Scope of ss. 125.9501-125.9506; status of volunteers
  • 125.9503 — Responsibilities of units of county government and constitutional county officers
  • 125.9504 — Volunteer benefits
  • 125.9506 — Construction
Title 127 · FL Chapter 127 (2 sections)
  • 127.01 — Counties delegated power of eminent domain; recreational purposes, issue of necessity of taking; compliance with limitat
  • 127.02 — County commissioners may authorize acquirement of property by eminent domain
Title 129 · FL Chapter 129 (13 sections)
  • 129.01 — Budget system established
  • 129.011 — Consolidation of funds
  • 129.02 — Requisites of budgets
  • 129.021 — County officer budget information
  • 129.025 — County budget officer
  • 129.03 — Preparation and adoption of budget
  • 129.04 — Fiscal year
  • 129.06 — Execution and amendment of budget
  • 129.07 — Unlawful to exceed the budget
  • 129.08 — County commissioner voting to pay illegal claim or for excess indebtedness
  • 129.09 — County auditor not to sign illegal warrants
  • 129.201 — Budget of supervisor of elections; manner and time of preparation and presentation
  • 129.202 — Budget of supervisor of elections; matters related to allocation, expenditure, etc., of amounts in budget
Title 130 · FL Chapter 130 (24 sections)
  • 130.01 — Purposes for which county bonds may issue
  • 130.02 — Commissioners may levy tax
  • 130.03 — Election required before issuance of bonds
  • 130.04 — Sale of bonds
  • 130.05 — Security may be required of bidders
  • 130.06 — Form of bids
  • 130.07 — Form of bonds
  • 130.08 — Disposition of proceeds
  • 130.09 — Cancellation of exchanged evidences of indebtedness
  • 130.10 — Tax for interest and sinking fund
  • 130.11 — Bond trustees
  • 130.12 — Collector to pay taxes to trustees or other officials or boards
  • 130.13 — Annual report of trustees
  • 130.14 — Resignation and removal of trustees
  • 130.15 — Filling of vacancies in board of trustees
  • 130.16 — Compensation of trustees
  • 130.17 — Building bridges over navigable streams; determination of amount of bonds required
  • 130.18 — Calling and conduct of election for bonds to build bridges over navigable streams
  • 130.19 — Result of election; issuance and sale of bonds
  • 130.20 — Time warrants in newly created counties
  • 130.21 — Time warrants in newly created counties; interest and date of maturity
  • 130.22 — Time warrants in newly created counties; distribution and use of proceeds
  • 130.23 — Time warrants in newly created counties; payment of interest and creation of sinking fund
  • 130.24 — Obligations valid when signed by officers who retire before delivery
Title 132 · FL Chapter 132 (46 sections)
  • 132.01 — How chapter may be cited
  • 132.02 — Taxing units may refund obligations
  • 132.03 — Interest; maturity; payment; right to redeem in advance
  • 132.04 — Redemption before maturity
  • 132.05 — Form; execution; delivery
  • 132.06 — Separate series of bonds; rates of interest
  • 132.07 — Maturity date
  • 132.08 — Exchange of bonds
  • 132.09 — Sale of bonds
  • 132.11 — Amount of refunding bonds to be sold
  • 132.12 — Exchange without notice
  • 132.13 — Delivery of bonds sold
  • 132.14 — Exchange in lieu of sale
  • 132.15 — Provision for conditional increase of rate of interest
  • 132.16 — Sinking fund
  • 132.17 — Pledge of anticipated revenues
  • 132.18 — Pledge of fixed portion of revenues
  • 132.19 — Priority of payment of refunding bonds
  • 132.20 — Proportionate taxes for sinking fund
  • 132.21 — Pledge of special assessments
  • 132.22 — Levy of ad valorem tax for payment of bonds
  • 132.23 — Tax by municipalities; bonds to constitute general obligations; debt limit inapplicable
  • 132.24 — Elections, notice, etc
  • 132.25 — Creation and maintenance of sinking fund
  • 132.26 — Chapter supplemental and additional
  • 132.27 — Chapter complete within itself
  • 132.28 — Chapter applicable to school districts
  • 132.29 — Validation
  • 132.30 — Chapter applicable to all taxing districts
  • 132.31 — No other proceedings required
  • 132.32 — Replacement of bonds
  • 132.33 — Short title
  • 132.34 — Definitions
  • 132.35 — Authorization to issue general obligation refunding bonds
  • 132.36 — Refunding bond resolution; form and contents
  • 132.37 — Levy of ad valorem tax for payment of general obligation refunding bonds
  • 132.38 — Sale of general obligation refunding bonds
  • 132.39 — Certification of debt service savings
  • 132.40 — Notice to holders of general obligation bonds to be redeemed; covenant with holders of general obligation refunding bond
  • 132.41 — Duties and obligations of escrow agent
  • 132.42 — Investment of escrow funds
  • 132.43 — Pledge and use of proceeds of general obligation refunding bonds
  • 132.44 — Powers in addition to other powers granted
  • 132.45 — Recital in general obligation refunding bonds
  • 132.46 — Effect of invalidity or irregularity in prior proceedings
  • 132.47 — Sections 132.33-132.47 applicable to school districts
Title 136 · FL Chapter 136 (7 sections)
  • 136.01 — County depositories
  • 136.03 — County funds to be paid into depositories; triplicate receipts to be issued
  • 136.04 — Depositories to keep demand and time deposits separate; how interest on deposits credited
  • 136.05 — County board to keep set of books; overdrawing prohibited
  • 136.06 — Withdrawal of funds from depositories; direct deposit; transfer of funds
  • 136.08 — Accounts subject to examination by authorized persons
  • 136.091 — Exemption for county self-insurance programs
Title 137 · FL Chapter 137 (8 sections)
  • 137.01 — Bonds required by the board of county commissioners for county officers
  • 137.02 — Bond of tax collector
  • 137.03 — Bond of property appraisers
  • 137.04 — County commissioners to give bond
  • 137.05 — Duty of boards of county commissioners
  • 137.08 — Sums for which sureties may be bound
  • 137.09 — Justification and approval of bonds
  • 137.10 — Provisions not applicable to surety companies
Title 138 · FL Chapter 138 (11 sections)
  • 138.01 — Petition to change county seat
  • 138.02 — Commissioners to order election
  • 138.03 — Conduct and return of election
  • 138.04 — Names of towns, etc., for county seat to be filed with clerk
  • 138.05 — Form of ballot
  • 138.06 — Canvass and result of election; contests
  • 138.07 — Second election when no place receives majority vote
  • 138.08 — The two places receiving highest vote to be placed on ballot in second election
  • 138.09 — Canvass of votes of second election; establishing county seat
  • 138.11 — Unlawful use of money in election to change county seat
  • 138.12 — Commissioners may expand county seat
Title 14 · FL Chapter 14 (30 sections)
  • 14.01 — Governor; residence; office; authority to protect life, liberty, and property
  • 14.02 — Governor may preserve peace and order by military force
  • 14.021 — Governor; promulgation and enforcement of emergency rules and regulations
  • 14.022 — Governor; emergency powers to quell violence
  • 14.03 — Governor’s private secretary
  • 14.055 — Succession to office of Governor
  • 14.056 — Succession as Acting Governor
  • 14.057 — Governor-elect; establishment of operating fund
  • 14.058 — Inauguration expense fund
  • 14.06 — Governor authorized to employ clerical assistance for departments of state
  • 14.2001 — Votes by Governor and Cabinet
  • 14.201 — Executive Office of the Governor
  • 14.2016 — Division of Emergency Management
  • 14.2019 — Statewide Office for Suicide Prevention
  • 14.20195 — Suicide Prevention Coordinating Council; creation; membership; duties
  • 14.202 — Administration Commission
  • 14.2031 — Statewide Office of Resilience
  • 14.23 — State-Federal relations
  • 14.235 — Federal Grants Trust Fund; Executive Office of the Governor
  • 14.24 — Florida Commission on the Status of Women
  • 14.26 — Citizen’s Assistance Office
  • 14.28 — Executive clemency
  • 14.29 — Florida Commission on Community Service
  • 14.295 — Florida Volunteer and Community Service Act of 2001
  • 14.31 — Florida Faith-based and Community-based Advisory Council
  • 14.32 — Office of Chief Inspector General
  • 14.33 — Medal of Heroism
  • 14.34 — Governor’s Medal of Merit
  • 14.35 — Governor’s Medal of Freedom
  • 14.36 — Reimagining Education and Career Help Act
Title 142 · FL Chapter 142 (6 sections)
  • 142.01 — Fine and forfeiture fund; disposition of revenue; clerk of the circuit court
  • 142.02 — Levy of a special tax
  • 142.03 — Disposition of fines, forfeitures, and civil penalties to municipalities
  • 142.09 — If defendant is not convicted or dies
  • 142.15 — Prisoner confined in different county
  • 142.16 — Change of venue
Title 145 · FL Chapter 145 (18 sections)
  • 145.011 — Legislative intent
  • 145.012 — Applicability
  • 145.021 — Definitions
  • 145.022 — Guaranteed salary upon resolution of board of county commissioners
  • 145.031 — Board of county commissioners
  • 145.051 — Clerk of circuit court; county comptroller
  • 145.071 — Sheriff
  • 145.09 — Supervisor of elections
  • 145.10 — Property appraiser
  • 145.11 — Tax collector
  • 145.121 — Other income to be income of the office
  • 145.131 — Repeal of other laws relating to compensation; exceptions
  • 145.132 — Repeal of other laws relating to compensation of district school board members
  • 145.14 — Compensation of other county officials; guarantee
  • 145.141 — Deficiency to be paid by board of county commissioners
  • 145.16 — Special laws or general laws of local application prohibited
  • 145.17 — Supplemental compensation prohibited
  • 145.19 — Annual percentage increases based on increase for state career service employees; limitation
Title 15 · FL Chapter 15 (56 sections)
  • 15.01 — Duties
  • 15.012 — State flag
  • 15.02 — Custodian of state flag; state papers; state laws and legislative documents
  • 15.03 — State seal
  • 15.0301 — State motto
  • 15.031 — State tree
  • 15.0315 — State fruit
  • 15.032 — State beverage
  • 15.0325 — Official citrus archive
  • 15.0326 — State anthem
  • 15.0327 — State song
  • 15.033 — State shell
  • 15.0336 — State stone
  • 15.034 — State gem
  • 15.0345 — Official state wildflower
  • 15.035 — Official state play
  • 15.0353 — Official state animal
  • 15.036 — Official state freshwater fish
  • 15.037 — Official state saltwater fish
  • 15.038 — State marine mammal and state saltwater mammal
  • 15.0382 — Official state butterfly
  • 15.0385 — Official state reptile
  • 15.0386 — Official state saltwater reptile
  • 15.03861 — Official state tortoise
  • 15.039 — Official state air fair
  • 15.0391 — Official state rodeo
  • 15.0395 — Official festival
  • 15.0396 — Official state moving image center and archive
  • 15.041 — Official litter control symbol
  • 15.043 — Official state pageant
  • 15.044 — Official state opera program
  • 15.0445 — Official state renaissance festival
  • 15.045 — Official state railroad museums
  • 15.0455 — Official state history museum
  • 15.046 — Official state transportation museum
  • 15.0465 — Official state flagship
  • 15.047 — Official state soil
  • 15.048 — Official state fiddle contest
  • 15.049 — Official state band
  • 15.051 — Official Sports Hall of Fame
  • 15.052 — Official state pie
  • 15.0521 — Official state honey
  • 15.0522 — Official state dessert
  • 15.0526 — Official state horse
  • 15.0527 — Official state heritage cattle breed
  • 15.07 — Acts and papers of the Legislature to be deposited with the Department of State
  • 15.08 — Not to issue commission until tax therefor is paid
  • 15.09 — Fees
  • 15.092 — Fees; exemption for state attorney
  • 15.13 — Administration of certain laws
  • 15.15 — Publication of summaries of documents; charge
  • 15.155 — Legislative documents; Department of State to classify, number, and furnish copies of general laws, special acts, resolu
  • 15.16 — Reproduction of records; admissibility in evidence; electronic receipt and transmission of records; certification; ackno
  • 15.18 — International and cultural relations
  • 15.182 — International travel by state-funded musical, cultural, or artistic organizations; notification to the Department of Sta
  • 15.21 — Initiative petitions; s. 3, Art. XI, State Constitution
Title 153 · FL Chapter 153 (69 sections)
  • 153.01 — Short title
  • 153.02 — Definitions
  • 153.03 — General grant of power
  • 153.04 — Construction of water supply systems, water system improvements, sewage disposal systems, and sewer improvements
  • 153.05 — Water system improvements and sanitary sewers; special assessments
  • 153.06 — Issuance of bonds
  • 153.07 — General obligation bonds
  • 153.08 — Water and sewer district general obligation bonds
  • 153.09 — Water revenue bonds and sewer revenue bonds
  • 153.091 — Combined systems; issuance of bonds
  • 153.10 — Call for bids
  • 153.11 — Water service charges and sewer service charges; revenues
  • 153.12 — Collection of charges
  • 153.13 — Application of revenues
  • 153.14 — Trust funds
  • 153.15 — Remedies
  • 153.16 — Water revenue refunding bonds
  • 153.17 — Sewer revenue refunding bonds
  • 153.18 — Exemption of property from taxation
  • 153.19 — Private water supplies
  • 153.20 — Alternative method
  • 153.50 — Short title
  • 153.51 — Legislative intent
  • 153.52 — Definitions
  • 153.53 — Establishment of districts in unincorporated areas
  • 153.54 — Preliminary report by county commissioners with respect to creation of proposed district
  • 153.55 — Public hearing upon report of county commissioners and creation of district; findings of board of county commissioners
  • 153.56 — Call election to determine creation of district, issuance of bonds
  • 153.57 — Ballots and election officials
  • 153.58 — Election results; resolution of commission; publication of notice of estoppel
  • 153.59 — Court proceedings; jurisdiction, priority
  • 153.60 — County commissioners ex officio governing board
  • 153.61 — Expenses
  • 153.62 — District board; powers
  • 153.63 — Revenue bonds
  • 153.64 — Schedule of rates and fees
  • 153.65 — Trust funds; trustees
  • 153.66 — Covenants of district board with bondholders
  • 153.67 — Unpaid fees to constitute lien
  • 153.68 — General obligation bonds, election; issuance, tax levy
  • 153.69 — County property appraiser ex officio tax assessor for district
  • 153.70 — Provisions of s. 153.63 applicable to general obligation bonds
  • 153.71 — Publication of notice of issuance of bonds
  • 153.72 — Bonds; qualities of negotiable instruments; rights of holders
  • 153.73 — Assessable improvements; levy and payment of special assessments
  • 153.74 — Issuance of certificates of indebtedness based on assessments for assessable improvements
  • 153.75 — Annual reports of district board
  • 153.76 — Exemption from taxation
  • 153.77 — District bonds as securities for public bodies
  • 153.78 — Bonds as payment for services
  • 153.79 — Contracts for construction of improvements, sealed bids
  • 153.80 — Consolidation of systems
  • 153.81 — Ad valorem maintenance tax
  • 153.82 — Handling of taxes and special assessments, district treasurer
  • 153.83 — Free water and sewer services prohibited
  • 153.84 — Contracts enforceable by bondholders
  • 153.85 — Conveyance of property without consideration
  • 153.86 — District approval of construction of water and sewage facilities
  • 153.87 — Mortgage or sale by board of district property prohibited; rights of bondholders protected
  • 153.88 — Construction of law
  • 153.90 — Legislative findings and declarations
  • 153.91 — Definitions
  • 153.92 — Clarifying the authority to enter wastewater facility privatization contracts
  • 153.93 — Responsibility for setting user fees
  • 153.94 — Applicability of other laws
  • 153.951 — Short title
  • 153.953 — Definitions
  • 153.954 — Local Government Utilities Assistance Program; state assistance
  • 153.955 — Acquisition of privately owned water-wastewater utility
Title 154 · FL Chapter 154 (62 sections)
  • 154.001 — System of coordinated county health department services; legislative intent
  • 154.01 — County health department delivery system
  • 154.011 — Primary care services
  • 154.012 — Sexual assault response teams; membership; duties
  • 154.02 — County Health Department Trust Fund
  • 154.03 — Cooperation with Department of Health and United States Government
  • 154.04 — Personnel of county health departments; duties; compensation
  • 154.05 — Cooperation and agreements between counties
  • 154.06 — Fees and services rendered; authority
  • 154.067 — Child abuse and neglect cases; duties
  • 154.07 — Public health trusts; creation
  • 154.08 — Designated facilities; definition
  • 154.09 — Governing body; composition
  • 154.10 — Relationship with board of county commissioners
  • 154.11 — Powers of board of trustees
  • 154.12 — Legal status of public health trusts
  • 154.13 — Designated facilities; jurisdiction
  • 154.201 — Short title
  • 154.203 — Findings and declaration of necessity
  • 154.205 — Definitions
  • 154.207 — Creation of health facilities authorities
  • 154.209 — Powers of authority
  • 154.211 — Payment of expenses
  • 154.213 — Agreements of lease; loan agreements
  • 154.215 — Construction contracts
  • 154.217 — Notes of authority
  • 154.219 — Revenue bonds
  • 154.221 — Security of bondholders
  • 154.223 — Payment of bonds
  • 154.225 — Revenues
  • 154.227 — Trust funds
  • 154.229 — Remedies
  • 154.231 — Negotiability of bonds
  • 154.2331 — Tax exemption
  • 154.235 — Refunding bonds
  • 154.237 — Legal investment
  • 154.238 — Authorization to deal with financial institution which employs a member of the authority
  • 154.239 — Reports
  • 154.241 — Issuance of bonds
  • 154.243 — Alternate means
  • 154.245 — Agency for Health Care Administration certificate of need required as a condition to bond validation and project constru
  • 154.246 — Validation of certain bonds and proceedings
  • 154.247 — Financing of projects located outside of local agency
  • 154.301 — Short title
  • 154.302 — Legislative intent
  • 154.304 — Definitions
  • 154.306 — Financial responsibility for certified residents who are qualified indigent patients treated at an out-of-county partici
  • 154.308 — Determination of patient’s eligibility; spend-down program
  • 154.309 — Certification of county of residence
  • 154.31 — Obligation of participating hospital or regional referral hospital
  • 154.3105 — Rules
  • 154.312 — Procedure for settlement of disputes
  • 154.314 — Certification of the State of Florida
  • 154.316 — Hospital’s responsibility to notify of admission of indigent patients
  • 154.331 — County health and mental health care special districts
  • 154.501 — Short title
  • 154.502 — Legislative findings and intent
  • 154.503 — Primary Care for Children and Families Challenge Grant Program; creation; administration
  • 154.504 — Eligibility and benefits
  • 154.505 — Proposals; application process; minimum requirements
  • 154.506 — Primary care for children and families challenge grant awards
  • 154.507 — Federal waivers; matching funds
Title 155 · FL Chapter 155 (30 sections)
  • 155.01 — County commissioners may act as trustees of stock of hospitals
  • 155.02 — Rule against perpetuities inapplicable
  • 155.03 — Duties of county commissioners
  • 155.04 — County hospitals; petition; election; establishment
  • 155.05 — County hospitals; establishment without election
  • 155.06 — County hospitals; trustees; appointment, terms
  • 155.07 — County hospitals; organization; officers; powers; bonds; travel expenses
  • 155.08 — County hospitals; seal; evidence
  • 155.09 — County hospitals; secretary and treasurer; minutes; accounts; public inspection; bond
  • 155.10 — County hospitals; rules and regulations
  • 155.11 — County hospitals; deposit of moneys; payments
  • 155.12 — County hospitals; general powers of trustees; duties; tax levies; etc
  • 155.13 — County hospitals; vacancies in trustees
  • 155.14 — County hospitals; bonds; maturities; interest; etc
  • 155.15 — County hospitals; procuring lands for hospital
  • 155.16 — County hospitals; residents; nonresidents; fees; contagious diseases; etc
  • 155.17 — County hospitals; rules for physicians, nurses, etc
  • 155.18 — County hospitals; discrimination against doctors; etc
  • 155.19 — County hospitals; training school for nurses
  • 155.20 — County hospitals; charity patients; hospital charges
  • 155.21 — County hospitals; donations; etc
  • 155.22 — County hospitals; purposes are public
  • 155.23 — County hospitals; federal loans, aid, etc
  • 155.24 — County hospitals; additional funds
  • 155.25 — Levy authorized for county hospital purposes
  • 155.40 — Sale or lease of county, district, or municipal hospital; effect of sale
  • 155.401 — Power of special taxing district to appropriate proceeds from sale or lease of hospital or health care system to economi
  • 155.4011 — Conflicts
  • 155.41 — Exceptions for sales or leases
  • 155.45 — Retirement annuities authorized
Title 157 · FL Chapter 157 (36 sections)
  • 157.01 — Public ditch, drain or canal
  • 157.02 — Action on petition by county commissioners
  • 157.03 — Commissioners to appoint committee; report of plans and estimate; letting contract; right-of-way for drains
  • 157.04 — Bond required before letting contract
  • 157.05 — Work done under supervision of committee; when completed, report to commissioners; payments
  • 157.06 — Committee to view land before letting contract; assessment; hearing complaints; collection of tax
  • 157.07 — Where cost of construction exceeds estimated cost commissioners to assess difference
  • 157.08 — Assessments; validation
  • 157.09 — Compensation of committee
  • 157.10 — Application to lateral ditches
  • 157.11 — Lateral drains may be established; commissioners may enlarge district or widen any drain; cost; proviso
  • 157.12 — Duty of bond trustees to borrow money to pay interest on bonds until collection of first assessment; may issue notes; no
  • 157.13 — Use of surplus of bond proceeds
  • 157.14 — Owner may pay whole tax in one sum; county commissioners may make new assessments where former assessments found illegal
  • 157.15 — County commissioners may issue bonds to pay scrip; decrease of assessment
  • 157.16 — Enlarging drains and assessing cost
  • 157.17 — Assessment to maintain drains
  • 157.18 — Awarding contract for enlarging or repairing drains
  • 157.19 — Where actual cost exceeds estimated cost; additional work; assessment for same
  • 157.20 — Appointment of committee to view work and make assessments; report to commissioners; form of assessment
  • 157.21 — Enlargement of drains; appointment of committee; report to commissioners; letting contract; contractor’s bond; payment
  • 157.22 — Repairing drains; appointment of committee; report to commissioners; contract; bond; assessment
  • 157.23 — Objections to report of committee fixing assessments; notice; hearing; equalization; assessments; collection by tax coll
  • 157.24 — Commissioners may issue interest-bearing scrip against land to borrow money or pay for work; lien on land assessed
  • 157.25 — Compensation of committee; irregular assessment corrected
  • 157.26 — Repair and maintenance of drains under supervision of county commissioners
  • 157.27 — Proceedings for making repair to drains, etc
  • 157.28 — Awarding contracts for repair; approval
  • 157.29 — Levy of tax for maintaining and repairing drains; assessment and collection of tax; sale of land for unpaid taxes
  • 157.30 — Reassessment of lands where attempt to establish ditch or canal irregular
  • 157.31 — Notice of reassessment for drainage
  • 157.32 — Reviewing complaints and making assessment against property benefited
  • 157.33 — Issuance of scrip to take up former scrip or bonds
  • 157.34 — Reassessments to have effect as original assessment
  • 157.35 — Assessments conclusive after lapse of 6 months
  • 157.36 — Adjustment of drainage tax liens
Title 159 · FL Chapter 159 (129 sections)
  • 159.01 — Short title
  • 159.02 — Definitions
  • 159.03 — General powers
  • 159.04 — Neither credit nor taxing power pledged
  • 159.05 — Purchase of projects
  • 159.06 — Improvement of projects purchased
  • 159.07 — Construction of projects
  • 159.08 — Revenue bonds
  • 159.09 — Trust agreement
  • 159.10 — Revenues of projects
  • 159.11 — Trust funds
  • 159.12 — Remedies of bondholders and trustee
  • 159.13 — Revenue refunding bonds
  • 159.14 — Alternative method
  • 159.15 — Tax exemption and eligibility as investments
  • 159.16 — Additional pledge of faith and credit
  • 159.17 — Lien of service charges
  • 159.18 — Collection of charges
  • 159.19 — Additional pledge of excise taxes
  • 159.25 — Short title
  • 159.26 — Legislative findings and purposes
  • 159.27 — Definitions
  • 159.28 — General powers
  • 159.285 — Additional county powers
  • 159.287 — Special act development commissions, councils, boards, or authorities; approval required to issue bonds
  • 159.29 — Criteria and requirements
  • 159.30 — Agreements of lease
  • 159.31 — Tax exemption
  • 159.32 — Construction contracts
  • 159.33 — Credit of state or political subdivision not pledged
  • 159.34 — Bonds
  • 159.345 — Local agency reporting requirement
  • 159.35 — Trust agreement
  • 159.36 — Revenues
  • 159.37 — Trust funds
  • 159.38 — Remedies
  • 159.39 — Negotiability of bonds
  • 159.40 — Bonds eligible for investment
  • 159.41 — Revenue refunding bonds
  • 159.414 — Authority to deal with financial institution which employs a board member
  • 159.415 — Composite issues of bonds
  • 159.416 — Pool financings
  • 159.42 — Cooperation of state
  • 159.43 — Liberal construction
  • 159.431 — Applicability of ch. 80-287
  • 159.44 — Definitions; industrial development authorities
  • 159.45 — Creation of industrial development authorities
  • 159.46 — Purposes
  • 159.47 — Powers of the authority
  • 159.475 — Authority reporting requirement
  • 159.48 — Levy of ad valorem taxes by board of county commissioners
  • 159.49 — Credit of state or political subdivision not pledge
  • 159.494 — Authority to deal with financial institution which employs a member of the authority
  • 159.50 — Tax exemption
  • 159.51 — Powers of chapter supplemental
  • 159.52 — Issuance of bonds
  • 159.53 — Construction
  • 159.601 — Short title
  • 159.602 — Finding and declaration of necessity
  • 159.603 — Definitions
  • 159.604 — Creation of housing finance authorities
  • 159.605 — Members; employees; duties and compensation
  • 159.606 — Conflicts of interest; disclosure
  • 159.607 — Removal of members
  • 159.608 — Powers of housing finance authorities
  • 159.609 — Limitation
  • 159.61 — No power of eminent domain
  • 159.611 — Planning, zoning, and building laws
  • 159.612 — Bonds
  • 159.613 — Form and sale of bonds
  • 159.614 — Provisions of bonds and trust indentures
  • 159.615 — Validation of bonds and proceedings
  • 159.616 — Actions to contest validity of bonds
  • 159.617 — Remedies of an obligee of a housing finance authority
  • 159.618 — Additional remedies conferrable by a housing finance authority
  • 159.619 — Availability of financing
  • 159.62 — Liabilities of a housing finance authority
  • 159.621 — Housing bonds exempted from taxation; notes and mortgages exempted from excise tax on documents
  • 159.622 — Limitation on rates
  • 159.623 — Construction of law
  • 159.701 — Purposes
  • 159.702 — Definitions
  • 159.703 — Creation of research and development authorities
  • 159.704 — Designation by Board of Governors of the State University System; procedure
  • 159.705 — Powers of the authority
  • 159.7055 — Authority reporting requirement
  • 159.706 — Grandfather clause
  • 159.707 — Credit of state or political subdivision not pledged
  • 159.708 — Tax exemption
  • 159.709 — Powers of ss. 159.701-159.7095 supplemental
  • 159.7095 — Issuance of bonds
  • 159.801 — Short title
  • 159.802 — Purpose; legislative findings and intent
  • 159.803 — Definitions
  • 159.8041 — Allocation of state volume limitation; recapture of unused amounts
  • 159.8051 — Procedures for requesting state volume limitation; requirements; prohibitions
  • 159.8052 — Procedures for evaluating notices of intent to issue; confirmations; requirements; limitations
  • 159.8053 — Issuance reports; final certification of allocation
  • 159.8061 — Affordable housing allocation pools
  • 159.8062 — Florida housing finance corporation pool
  • 159.8063 — Economic development allocation pool
  • 159.8071 — State allocation pool
  • 159.80751 — Qualified mortgage credit certificates
  • 159.8091 — Carryforward allocation pool
  • 159.8101 — Applications for a carryforward; carryforward confirmations
  • 159.811 — Fees; trust fund
  • 159.813 — Future federal amendments
  • 159.814 — Form of applications for allocations; requirements
  • 159.816 — Certification as to state volume limitation
  • 159.821 — Short title
  • 159.822 — Legislative findings; purpose
  • 159.823 — Definitions
  • 159.824 — Conflicts
  • 159.825 — Terms of bonds
  • 159.826 — Sale of bonds
  • 159.827 — Pledging credit
  • 159.828 — Use of proceeds of bonds
  • 159.829 — Refunding bonds
  • 159.8291 — Construction of law
  • 159.831 — Short title
  • 159.832 — Purpose
  • 159.833 — Definitions
  • 159.834 — Allocation of state volume limitation
  • 159.835 — Rules
  • 159.841 — Short title
  • 159.842 — Purpose
  • 159.843 — Definitions
  • 159.844 — Allocation of state volume limitation
  • 159.845 — Rules
Title 16 · FL Chapter 16 (34 sections)
  • 16.01 — Residence, office, and duties of Attorney General
  • 16.015 — Legal services; Department of Legal Affairs, other counsel
  • 16.0155 — Contingency fee agreements
  • 16.016 — Payment of per diem, mileage, and other expense
  • 16.02 — Appointment of person to act in case of disability of Attorney General
  • 16.061 — Initiative petitions
  • 16.08 — Superintendence and direction of state attorneys
  • 16.09 — Regulations as to the reports of state attorneys
  • 16.52 — Participation in preserving constitutional integrity of state
  • 16.53 — Legal Affairs Revolving Trust Fund
  • 16.535 — Legal Services Trust Fund
  • 16.54 — Florida Crime Prevention Training Institute; revolving trust fund
  • 16.555 — Crime Stoppers Trust Fund; rulemaking
  • 16.556 — Crime Stoppers Trust Fund
  • 16.557 — Crime stoppers organizations; disclosure of privileged communications or protected information; civil immunity; use
  • 16.56 — Office of Statewide Prosecution
  • 16.57 — Office of Civil Rights
  • 16.59 — Medicaid fraud control
  • 16.60 — Public records mediation program within the Office of the Attorney General; creation; duties
  • 16.617 — Statewide Council on Human Trafficking; creation; membership; duties
  • 16.618 — Direct-support organization
  • 16.62 — Recognition and awards
  • 16.63 — Dozier School for Boys and Okeechobee School Victim Compensation Program
  • 16.64 — Applications for compensation through the Dozier School for Boys and Okeechobee School Victim Compensation Program; publ
  • 16.71 — Florida Gaming Control Commission; creation; meetings; membership
  • 16.711 — Division of Gaming Enforcement; creation; duties
  • 16.712 — Florida Gaming Control Commission authorizations, duties, and responsibilities
  • 16.713 — Florida Gaming Control Commission; appointment and employment restrictions
  • 16.714 — Florida Gaming Control Commission background screening requirements; investigations by the Division of Gaming Enforcemen
  • 16.715 — Florida Gaming Control Commission standards of conduct; ex parte communications
  • 16.716 — Florida Gaming Control Commission public records and public meetings exemptions
  • 16.717 — Federal Law Enforcement Trust Fund
  • 16.7175 — Florida Gaming Control Commission; penalties for false oath or affirmation of applicants for licensure; licensees
  • 16.718 — Florida Gaming Control Commission; notification of applicants’ or licensees’ addresses and places of employment; ser
Title 161 · FL Chapter 161 (67 sections)
  • 161.011 — Short title
  • 161.021 — Definitions
  • 161.031 — Personnel and facilities
  • 161.041 — Permits required
  • 161.0415 — Citation of rule
  • 161.042 — Coastal construction and excavation in barrier beach inlets
  • 161.051 — Coastal construction by persons, firms, corporations, or local authorities
  • 161.052 — Coastal construction and excavation; regulation
  • 161.053 — Coastal construction and excavation; regulation on county basis
  • 161.0531 — Development agreements
  • 161.0535 — Permits; fees, costs
  • 161.054 — Administrative fines; liability for damage; liens
  • 161.055 — Concurrent processing of permits
  • 161.061 — Coastal construction serving no public purpose, endangering human life, health, or welfare, or becoming unnecessary or u
  • 161.071 — Prosecuting officers to assist enforcement of this part
  • 161.081 — Powers of Department of Legal Affairs
  • 161.082 — Review of innovative technologies for beach nourishment
  • 161.085 — Rigid coastal armoring structures
  • 161.088 — Declaration of public policy respecting beach erosion control and beach restoration and nourishment projects
  • 161.091 — Beach management; funding; repair and maintenance strategy
  • 161.101 — State and local participation in authorized projects and studies relating to beach management and erosion control
  • 161.111 — Shore erosion emergency
  • 161.121 — Penalty
  • 161.131 — Construction of ss. 161.011-161.212
  • 161.141 — Property rights of state and private upland owners in beach restoration project areas
  • 161.142 — Declaration of public policy relating to improved navigation inlets
  • 161.143 — Inlet management; planning, prioritizing, funding, approving, and implementing projects
  • 161.144 — Policy guidance related to sand source management
  • 161.151 — Definitions; ss. 161.141-161.211
  • 161.161 — Procedure for approval of projects
  • 161.163 — Coastal areas used by sea turtles; rules
  • 161.181 — Recording of resolution and survey of board of trustees
  • 161.191 — Vesting of title to lands
  • 161.201 — Preservation of common-law rights
  • 161.211 — Cancellation of resolution for nonperformance by board of trustees
  • 161.212 — Judicial review relating to permits and licenses
  • 161.242 — Harvesting of sea oats and sea grapes prohibited; possession prima facie evidence of violation
  • 161.25 — County beach and shore preservation authority; board of county commissioners
  • 161.26 — Expenses; use of county funds
  • 161.27 — Personnel and facilities
  • 161.28 — Comprehensive county beach and shore preservation program
  • 161.29 — Benefit categories or zones
  • 161.31 — Establishment of districts
  • 161.32 — Existing erosion prevention district
  • 161.33 — Cooperation with federal, state, and other governmental entities
  • 161.34 — Coordination of county preservation activities
  • 161.35 — County shoreline; supervisory and regulatory powers of board of county commissioners
  • 161.36 — General powers of authority
  • 161.37 — Capital, operation and maintenance costs; district benefits tax levy
  • 161.38 — Issuance of bonds
  • 161.39 — Cooperation between two or more counties
  • 161.40 — Tax exemptions
  • 161.41 — Construction of ss. 161.25-161.40
  • 161.45 — Effect of repeal of chapter 158 on districts created prior to repeal
  • 161.52 — Short title
  • 161.53 — Legislative intent
  • 161.54 — Definitions
  • 161.55 — Requirements for activities or construction within the coastal building zone
  • 161.56 — Establishment of local enforcement
  • 161.57 — Coastal properties disclosure statement
  • 161.58 — Vehicular traffic on coastal beaches
  • 161.70 — Short title
  • 161.71 — Definitions
  • 161.72 — Findings and intent
  • 161.73 — Composition
  • 161.74 — Responsibilities
  • 161.76 — Preservation of authority
Title 162 · FL Chapter 162 (18 sections)
  • 162.01 — Short title
  • 162.02 — Intent
  • 162.03 — Applicability
  • 162.04 — Definitions
  • 162.05 — Local government code enforcement boards; organization
  • 162.06 — Enforcement procedure
  • 162.07 — Conduct of hearing
  • 162.08 — Powers of enforcement boards
  • 162.09 — Administrative fines; costs of repair; liens
  • 162.10 — Duration of lien
  • 162.11 — Appeals
  • 162.12 — Notices
  • 162.125 — Actions for money judgments under this chapter; limitation
  • 162.13 — Provisions of act supplemental
  • 162.21 — Enforcement of county or municipal codes or ordinances; penalties
  • 162.22 — Designation of enforcement methods and penalties for violation of municipal ordinances
  • 162.23 — Notice to appear
  • 162.30 — Civil actions to enforce county and municipal ordinances
Title 163 · FL Chapter 163 (145 sections)
  • 163.01 — Florida Interlocal Cooperation Act of 1969
  • 163.02 — Councils of local public officials
  • 163.04 — Energy devices based on renewable resources
  • 163.045 — Tree pruning, trimming, or removal on residential property
  • 163.05 — Small County Technical Assistance Program
  • 163.055 — Local Government Financial Technical Assistance Program
  • 163.06 — Miami River Commission
  • 163.061 — Miami River Commission; unanimous vote required for certain acts
  • 163.065 — Miami River Improvement Act
  • 163.08 — Definitions
  • 163.081 — Financing qualifying improvements to residential property
  • 163.082 — Financing qualifying improvements to commercial property
  • 163.083 — Qualifying improvement contractors
  • 163.084 — Third-party administrator for financing qualifying improvements programs
  • 163.085 — Advertisement and solicitation for financing qualifying improvements programs under s. 163.081 or s. 163.082
  • 163.086 — Unenforceable financing agreements for qualifying improvements programs under s. 163.081 or s. 163.082; attachment; frau
  • 163.087 — Reporting for financing qualifying improvements programs under s. 163.081 or s. 163.082
  • 163.09 — Utility Cost Containment Bond Act
  • 163.11 — Biscayne Bay Commission
  • 163.211 — Licensing of occupations preempted to state
  • 163.2511 — Urban infill and redevelopment
  • 163.2514 — Growth Policy Act; definitions
  • 163.2517 — Designation of urban infill and redevelopment area
  • 163.2520 — Economic incentives
  • 163.3161 — Short title; intent and purpose
  • 163.3162 — Agricultural lands and practices
  • 163.3163 — Applications for development permits; disclosure and acknowledgment of contiguous sustainable agricultural land
  • 163.3164 — Community Planning Act; definitions
  • 163.3167 — Scope of act
  • 163.3168 — Planning innovations and technical assistance
  • 163.3171 — Areas of authority under this act
  • 163.3174 — Local planning agency
  • 163.3175 — Legislative findings on compatibility of development with military installations; exchange of information between local
  • 163.3177 — Required and optional elements of comprehensive plan; studies and surveys
  • 163.31771 — Accessory dwelling units
  • 163.31777 — Public schools interlocal agreement
  • 163.3178 — Coastal management
  • 163.3179 — Family homestead
  • 163.31795 — Participation in the National Flood Insurance Program
  • 163.3180 — Concurrency
  • 163.31801 — Impact fees; short title; intent; minimum requirements; audits; challenges
  • 163.31802 — Prohibited standards for security devices
  • 163.3181 — Public participation in the comprehensive planning process; intent; alternative dispute resolution
  • 163.3182 — Transportation deficiencies
  • 163.3184 — Process for adoption of comprehensive plan or plan amendment
  • 163.3187 — Process for adoption of small scale comprehensive plan amendment
  • 163.3191 — Evaluation and appraisal of comprehensive plan
  • 163.3194 — Legal status of comprehensive plan
  • 163.3197 — Legal status of prior comprehensive plan
  • 163.3201 — Relationship of comprehensive plan to exercise of land development regulatory authority
  • 163.3202 — Land development regulations
  • 163.3204 — Cooperation by state and regional agencies
  • 163.3205 — Solar facility approval process
  • 163.32051 — Floating solar facilities
  • 163.3206 — Fuel terminals
  • 163.3208 — Substation approval process
  • 163.3209 — Electric transmission and distribution line right-of-way maintenance
  • 163.3210 — Natural gas resiliency and reliability infrastructure
  • 163.3211 — Conflict with other statutes
  • 163.3213 — Administrative review of land development regulations
  • 163.3215 — Standing to enforce local comprehensive plans through development orders
  • 163.3217 — Municipal overlay for municipal incorporation
  • 163.3220 — Short title; legislative intent
  • 163.3221 — Florida Local Government Development Agreement Act; definitions
  • 163.3223 — Applicability
  • 163.3225 — Public hearings
  • 163.3227 — Requirements of a development agreement
  • 163.3229 — Duration of a development agreement and relationship to local comprehensive plan
  • 163.3231 — Consistency with the comprehensive plan and land development regulations
  • 163.3233 — Local laws and policies governing a development agreement
  • 163.3235 — Periodic review of a development agreement
  • 163.3237 — Amendment or cancellation of a development agreement
  • 163.3239 — Recording and effectiveness of a development agreement
  • 163.3241 — Modification or revocation of a development agreement to comply with subsequently enacted state and federal law
  • 163.3243 — Enforcement
  • 163.3245 — Sector plans
  • 163.3246 — Local government comprehensive planning certification program
  • 163.32466 — Readoption by ordinance of plan amendments adopted pursuant to former s. 163.32465, subject to local referendum
  • 163.3248 — Rural land stewardship areas
  • 163.325 — Short title
  • 163.3251 — Definitions
  • 163.3252 — Local manufacturing development program; master development approval for manufacturers
  • 163.3253 — Coordinated manufacturing development approval process
  • 163.330 — Short title
  • 163.335 — Findings and declarations of necessity
  • 163.340 — Definitions
  • 163.345 — Encouragement of private enterprise
  • 163.346 — Notice to taxing authorities
  • 163.350 — Workable program
  • 163.353 — Power of taxing authority to tax or appropriate funds to a redevelopment trust fund in order to preserve and enhance the
  • 163.355 — Finding of necessity by county or municipality
  • 163.356 — Creation of community redevelopment agency
  • 163.357 — Governing body as the community redevelopment agency
  • 163.358 — Exercise of powers in carrying out community redevelopment and related activities
  • 163.360 — Community redevelopment plans
  • 163.361 — Modification of community redevelopment plans
  • 163.362 — Contents of community redevelopment plan
  • 163.365 — Neighborhood and communitywide plans
  • 163.367 — Public officials, commissioners, and employees subject to code of ethics
  • 163.370 — Powers; counties and municipalities; community redevelopment agencies
  • 163.371 — Reporting requirements
  • 163.3755 — Termination of community redevelopment agencies
  • 163.380 — Disposal of property in community redevelopment area
  • 163.385 — Issuance of revenue bonds
  • 163.387 — Redevelopment trust fund
  • 163.390 — Bonds as legal investments
  • 163.395 — Property exempt from taxes and from levy and sale by virtue of an execution
  • 163.400 — Cooperation by public bodies
  • 163.405 — Title of purchaser
  • 163.410 — Exercise of powers in counties with home rule charters
  • 163.415 — Exercise of powers in counties without home rule charters
  • 163.430 — Powers supplemental to existing community redevelopment powers
  • 163.445 — Assistance to community redevelopment by state agencies
  • 163.450 — Municipal and county participation in neighborhood development programs under Pub. L. No. 90-448
  • 163.463 — Applicability of ch. 2002-294
  • 163.501 — Short title
  • 163.502 — Legislative findings and purpose
  • 163.503 — Definitions
  • 163.5035 — Safe neighborhood improvement districts; compliance with special district provisions
  • 163.504 — Safe neighborhood improvement districts; formation authorized by ordinance; jurisdictional boundaries; prohibition on fu
  • 163.5055 — Registration of district establishment; notice of dissolution
  • 163.506 — Local government neighborhood improvement districts; creation; advisory council; dissolution
  • 163.508 — Property owners’ association neighborhood improvement districts; creation; powers and duties; duration
  • 163.511 — Special neighborhood improvement districts; creation; referendum; board of directors; duration; extension
  • 163.512 — Community redevelopment neighborhood improvement districts; creation; advisory council; dissolution
  • 163.513 — Crime prevention through community policing innovations, environmental design, environmental security, and defensible sp
  • 163.514 — Powers of neighborhood improvement districts
  • 163.5151 — Fiscal management; budget preparation
  • 163.516 — Safe neighborhood improvement plans
  • 163.524 — Neighborhood Preservation and Enhancement Program; participation; creation of Neighborhood Preservation and Enhancement
  • 163.526 — Neighborhood Councils and local government designated agency; powers and duties
  • 163.565 — Short title
  • 163.566 — Definitions
  • 163.567 — Regional transportation authorities
  • 163.568 — Purposes and powers
  • 163.569 — Exemption from regulation
  • 163.570 — Special region taxation
  • 163.571 — Issuance of bonds
  • 163.572 — Expansion of area
  • 163.58 — Transportation fare discounts
  • 163.61 — “Agency” defined
  • 163.62 — Collaborative client information system; establishment
  • 163.63 — Steering committee; security policy information sharing agreements
  • 163.64 — Sharing of client information
  • 163.65 — Agencies receiving government funding encouraged to participate
Title 164 · FL Chapter 164 (13 sections)
Title 165 · FL Chapter 165 (11 sections)
  • 165.011 — Short title
  • 165.021 — Purpose
  • 165.022 — Preemption; effect on special laws
  • 165.0225 — Counties prohibited from requiring consideration for allowing incorporation
  • 165.031 — Definitions
  • 165.041 — Incorporation; merger
  • 165.043 — Official county or municipal seal
  • 165.051 — Dissolution procedures
  • 165.061 — Standards for incorporation, merger, and dissolution
  • 165.071 — Financial allocations
  • 165.081 — Judicial review
Title 166 · FL Chapter 166 (61 sections)
  • 166.011 — Short title
  • 166.021 — Powers
  • 166.0213 — Governing body meetings
  • 166.031 — Charter amendments
  • 166.032 — Electors
  • 166.0321 — Division of municipalities into districts
  • 166.033 — Development permits and orders
  • 166.0335 — Temporary shelter prohibition
  • 166.041 — Procedures for adoption of ordinances and resolutions
  • 166.0411 — Legal challenges to certain recently enacted ordinances
  • 166.0415 — Enforcement by code inspectors; citations
  • 166.04151 — Affordable housing
  • 166.042 — Legislative intent
  • 166.0425 — Sign ordinances
  • 166.043 — Ordinances and rules imposing price controls
  • 166.0435 — Amateur radio antennas; construction in conformance with federal requirements
  • 166.044 — Ordinances relating to possession or sale of ammunition
  • 166.0442 — Criminal history record checks for certain municipal employees and appointees
  • 166.0443 — Certain local employment registration prohibited
  • 166.0444 — Employee assistance programs; public records exemption
  • 166.0445 — Family day care homes; local zoning regulation
  • 166.0446 — Prohibition of fees for first responder services
  • 166.04465 — Rules and ordinances relating to towing services
  • 166.0447 — Municipal park entrance fee discounts
  • 166.045 — Proposed purchase of real property by municipality; confidentiality of records; procedure
  • 166.0451 — Disposition of municipal property for affordable housing
  • 166.047 — Telecommunications services
  • 166.048 — Conservation of water; Florida-friendly landscaping
  • 166.0481 — Sanitary sewer lateral inspection programs for municipalities
  • 166.0483 — Permit may not be required for owner to paint residence
  • 166.0484 — Ordinances, regulations, and policies concerning temporary underground power panels
  • 166.0485 — Establishment of neighborhood crime watch programs
  • 166.0486 — Establishment of civilian oversight boards
  • 166.049 — Municipal law enforcement agencies; communications and assistance
  • 166.0493 — Powers, duties, and obligations of municipal law enforcement agencies
  • 166.0494 — Chiefs of police; termination
  • 166.0495 — Interlocal agreements to provide law enforcement services
  • 166.0497 — Alteration, amendment, or expansion of established downtown development district; procedures
  • 166.101 — Definitions
  • 166.111 — Authority to borrow
  • 166.121 — Issuance of bonds
  • 166.122 — Establishment of sinking funds
  • 166.131 — Levy of taxes for payment of debt
  • 166.141 — Full authority for issuance of bonds
  • 166.201 — Taxes and charges
  • 166.211 — Ad valorem taxes
  • 166.215 — Remittance of funds
  • 166.221 — Regulatory fees
  • 166.222 — Building code inspection fees
  • 166.223 — Special assessments levied on recreational vehicle parks regulated under chapter 513
  • 166.231 — Municipalities; public service tax
  • 166.232 — Municipalities; public service tax; physical unit base option
  • 166.233 — Public service tax; effective dates; procedures for informing sellers of tax levies and related information
  • 166.234 — Public service tax; administrative provisions; rights and remedies
  • 166.235 — Procedure on purchaser’s request for refund or credit
  • 166.241 — Fiscal years, budgets, appeal of municipal law enforcement agency budget, and budget amendments
  • 166.246 — Restrictions on identification documents
  • 166.251 — Service fee for dishonored check
  • 166.271 — Surcharge on municipal facility parking fees
  • 166.401 — Right of eminent domain; procedure; compliance with limitations
  • 166.411 — Eminent domain; uses or purposes
Title 17 · FL Chapter 17 (58 sections)
  • 17.001 — Chief Financial Officer
  • 17.002 — Definition
  • 17.011 — Assistant Chief Financial Officer
  • 17.02 — Place of residence and office
  • 17.03 — To audit claims against the state
  • 17.031 — Security of Chief Financial Officer’s office
  • 17.04 — To audit and adjust accounts of officers and those indebted to the state
  • 17.0401 — Confidentiality of information relating to financial investigations
  • 17.041 — County and district accounts and claims
  • 17.0415 — Transfer and assignment of claims
  • 17.0416 — Authority to provide services on a fee basis
  • 17.05 — Subpoenas; sworn statements; enforcement proceedings
  • 17.075 — Form of state warrants and other payment orders; rules
  • 17.076 — Direct deposit of funds
  • 17.08 — Accounts, etc., on which warrants drawn, to be filed
  • 17.09 — Application for warrants for salaries
  • 17.10 — Record of warrants and of state funds and securities
  • 17.11 — To report disbursements made
  • 17.12 — Authorized to issue warrants to tax collector or sheriff for payment
  • 17.13 — To duplicate warrants lost or destroyed
  • 17.14 — To prescribe forms
  • 17.16 — Seal
  • 17.17 — Examination by Governor and report
  • 17.20 — Assignment of claims for collection
  • 17.21 — Not to allow any claim of state attorney against state until report made
  • 17.22 — Notice to Department of Legal Affairs
  • 17.25 — May certify copies
  • 17.26 — Cancellation of state warrants not presented within 1 year
  • 17.27 — Microfilming and destroying records and correspondence
  • 17.28 — Chief Financial Officer may authorize biweekly salary payments
  • 17.29 — Authority to prescribe rules
  • 17.30 — Dissemination of information
  • 17.32 — Annual report of trust funds; duties of Chief Financial Officer
  • 17.325 — Governmental efficiency hotline; duties of Chief Financial Officer
  • 17.41 — Department of Financial Services Tobacco Settlement Clearing Trust Fund
  • 17.42 — Opioid Settlement Clearing Trust Fund
  • 17.43 — Federal Law Enforcement Trust Fund
  • 17.51 — Oath and certificate of Chief Financial Officer
  • 17.52 — Moneys paid on warrants
  • 17.54 — Annual report to Governor
  • 17.55 — Examination by and monthly statements to the Governor
  • 17.555 — Division of Treasury to keep record of warrants and of state funds and securities
  • 17.56 — Division of Treasury to maintain all warrants paid
  • 17.57 — Deposits and investments of state money
  • 17.575 — Administration of funds; Treasury Investment Council
  • 17.58 — Deposits of public money outside the State Treasury; revolving funds
  • 17.59 — Safekeeping services
  • 17.60 — Treasury Cash Deposit Trust Fund
  • 17.61 — Chief Financial Officer; powers and duties in the investment of certain funds
  • 17.62 — Interest on state moneys deposited; when paid
  • 17.63 — Chief Financial Officer not to issue evidences of indebtedness
  • 17.64 — Division of Treasury to make reproductions of certain warrants, records, and documents
  • 17.65 — Chief Financial Officer to prescribe forms
  • 17.66 — Securities in book-entry form
  • 17.67 — Federal Grants Trust Fund
  • 17.68 — Financial Literacy Program for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities
  • 17.69 — Federal Tax Liaison
  • 17.71 — Indian Gaming Revenue Clearing Trust Fund
Title 170 · FL Chapter 170 (20 sections)
  • 170.01 — Authority for providing improvements and levying and collecting special assessments against property benefited
  • 170.02 — Method of prorating special assessments
  • 170.03 — Resolution required to declare special assessments
  • 170.04 — Plans and specifications, with estimated cost of proposed improvement required before adoption of resolution
  • 170.05 — Publication of resolution
  • 170.06 — Preliminary assessment roll
  • 170.07 — Publication of preliminary assessment roll
  • 170.08 — Final consideration of special assessments; equalizing board to hear complaints and adjust assessments; rebate of differ
  • 170.09 — Priority of lien; interest; and method of payment
  • 170.10 — Legal proceedings instituted upon failure of property owner to pay special assessment or interest when due; foreclosure;
  • 170.11 — Bonds may be issued to an amount not exceeding the amount of liens assessed for the cost of improvements to be paid by s
  • 170.14 — Governing authority of municipality required to make new assessments until valid assessment is made if special assessmen
  • 170.15 — Expenditures for improvements
  • 170.16 — Assessment roll sufficient evidence of assessment and other proceedings of this chapter; variance not material unless pa
  • 170.17 — Denomination of bonds; interest; place of payment; form; signatures; coupons; and delivery
  • 170.18 — Notice required where no newspaper is published in county in which municipality is situated
  • 170.19 — Construction and authority of chapter
  • 170.20 — Bonds negotiable
  • 170.201 — Special assessments
  • 170.21 — Provisions of chapter supplemental, additional, and alternative procedure
Title 171 · FL Chapter 171 (32 sections)
  • 171.011 — Short title
  • 171.021 — Purpose
  • 171.022 — Preemption; effect on special laws
  • 171.031 — Definitions
  • 171.0413 — Annexation procedures
  • 171.042 — Prerequisites to annexation
  • 171.043 — Character of the area to be annexed
  • 171.044 — Voluntary annexation
  • 171.045 — Annexation limited to a single county
  • 171.046 — Annexation of enclaves
  • 171.051 — Contraction procedures
  • 171.052 — Criteria for contraction of municipal boundaries
  • 171.061 — Apportionment of debts and taxes in annexations or contractions
  • 171.062 — Effects of annexations or contractions
  • 171.071 — Effect in Miami-Dade County
  • 171.081 — Appeal on annexation or contraction
  • 171.091 — Recording
  • 171.093 — Municipal annexation within independent special districts
  • 171.094 — Effect of interlocal service boundary agreements adopted under part II on annexations under this part
  • 171.20 — Short title
  • 171.201 — Legislative intent
  • 171.202 — Definitions
  • 171.203 — Interlocal service boundary agreement
  • 171.204 — Prerequisites to annexation under this part
  • 171.205 — Consent requirements for annexation of land under this part
  • 171.206 — Effect of interlocal service boundary area agreement on annexations
  • 171.207 — Transfer of powers
  • 171.208 — Municipal extraterritorial power
  • 171.209 — County incorporated area power
  • 171.21 — Effect of part on interlocal agreement and county charter
  • 171.211 — Interlocal service boundary agreement presumed valid and binding
  • 171.212 — Disputes regarding construction and effect of an interlocal service boundary agreement
Title 173 · FL Chapter 173 (15 sections)
  • 173.01 — Foreclosure of municipal tax certificates authorized
  • 173.02 — Proceedings in rem against the lands
  • 173.03 — Conditions determining when suit may be brought; lands and claims included
  • 173.04 — Procedure for bringing foreclosure suit; certificate of attorney as to notice of suit; jurisdiction obtained by publicat
  • 173.05 — Parties; time for appearance
  • 173.06 — Affidavits and certificates as prima facie evidence; proof of validity or invalidity
  • 173.07 — Tender of correct amount as condition precedent
  • 173.08 — Judgment for complainant; amounts included; attorney’s fee
  • 173.09 — Judgment for complainant; special magistrate’s sale; complainant may purchase and later sell
  • 173.10 — Judgment for complainant; court may order payment of other taxes or sale subject to taxes; special magistrate’s convey
  • 173.11 — Distribution of proceeds of sale
  • 173.12 — Lands may be redeemed prior to sale
  • 173.13 — Procedure under this chapter optional
  • 173.14 — Chapter supplemental to other law
  • 173.15 — Parties and subject matter; tax liens of equal dignity
Title 175 · FL Chapter 175 (39 sections)
  • 175.021 — Legislative declaration
  • 175.025 — Short title
  • 175.032 — Definitions
  • 175.041 — Firefighters’ Pension Trust Fund created; applicability of provisions
  • 175.051 — Actuarial deficits not state obligation
  • 175.061 — Board of trustees; members; terms of office; meetings; legal entity; costs; attorney’s fees
  • 175.071 — General powers and duties of board of trustees
  • 175.081 — Use of annuity or insurance policies
  • 175.091 — Creation and maintenance of fund
  • 175.101 — State excise tax on property insurance premiums authorized; procedure
  • 175.1015 — Determination of local premium tax situs
  • 175.111 — Certified copy of ordinance or resolution filed; insurance companies’ annual report of premiums; duplicate files; book
  • 175.121 — Department of Revenue and Division of Retirement to keep accounts of deposits; disbursements
  • 175.1215 — Police and Firefighters’ Premium Tax Trust Fund
  • 175.122 — Limitation of disbursement
  • 175.131 — Funds received by municipality or special fire control district; deposit in firefighters’ pension trust fund
  • 175.141 — Payment of excise tax credit on similar state excise or license tax
  • 175.151 — Penalty for failure of insurers to comply with this act
  • 175.162 — Requirements for retirement
  • 175.171 — Optional forms of retirement income
  • 175.181 — Beneficiaries
  • 175.191 — Disability retirement
  • 175.195 — False, misleading, or fraudulent statements made to obtain public retirement benefits prohibited; penalty
  • 175.201 — Death prior to retirement; refunds of contributions; death benefits
  • 175.211 — Separation from service; refunds
  • 175.221 — Lump-sum payment of small retirement income
  • 175.231 — Diseases of firefighters suffered in line of duty; presumption
  • 175.241 — Exemption from tax and execution
  • 175.261 — Annual report to Division of Retirement; actuarial valuations
  • 175.301 — Depository for pension funds
  • 175.311 — Municipalities, special fire control districts, and boards independent of each other
  • 175.333 — Discrimination in benefit formula prohibited; restrictions regarding designation of joint annuitants
  • 175.341 — Duties of Division of Retirement; rulemaking authority; investments by State Board of Administration
  • 175.351 — Municipalities and special fire control districts that have their own retirement plans for firefighters
  • 175.361 — Termination of plan and distribution of fund
  • 175.371 — Transfer to another state retirement system; benefits payable
  • 175.381 — Applicability
  • 175.401 — Retiree health insurance subsidy
  • 175.411 — Optional participation
Title 177 · FL Chapter 177 (41 sections)
  • 177.011 — Purpose and scope of part I
  • 177.021 — Legal status of recorded plats
  • 177.031 — Definitions
  • 177.041 — Boundary survey and title opinion or property information report required
  • 177.051 — Name and replat of subdivision
  • 177.061 — Qualification and statement required
  • 177.071 — Administrative approval of plats or replats by designated county or municipal official
  • 177.073 — Expedited approval of residential building permits before a final plat is recorded
  • 177.081 — Dedication and approval
  • 177.085 — Platted streets; reversionary clauses
  • 177.086 — Installation of cul-de-sacs
  • 177.091 — Plats made for recording
  • 177.101 — Vacation and annulment of plats subdividing land
  • 177.107 — Closing and abandonment of roads; optional conveyance to a community development district; traffic control jurisdiction
  • 177.111 — Instructions for filing plats or replats
  • 177.121 — Misdemeanor to molest monument or deface or destroy map or plat
  • 177.131 — Recordation of the Department of Transportation official right-of-way maps and other governmental right-of-way maps
  • 177.132 — Preservation of unrecorded maps
  • 177.141 — Affidavit confirming error on a recorded plat
  • 177.142 — Renaming of subdivisions and streets on plats and maps
  • 177.151 — State plane coordinate
  • 177.25 — Short title
  • 177.26 — Declaration of policy
  • 177.27 — Definitions
  • 177.28 — Legal significance of the mean high-water line
  • 177.29 — Powers and duties of the department
  • 177.35 — Standards and procedures; applicability
  • 177.36 — Work to be performed only by authorized personnel
  • 177.37 — Notification to department
  • 177.38 — Standards for establishment of local tidal datums
  • 177.39 — Determination of mean high-water line or mean low-water line
  • 177.40 — Admissibility of maps and surveys
  • 177.501 — Short title
  • 177.502 — Declaration of policy
  • 177.503 — Definitions
  • 177.504 — Powers and duties of the department
  • 177.506 — Records exchange and availability
  • 177.507 — Certification of corners
  • 177.508 — Private practice not affected
  • 177.509 — Personnel requirements
  • 177.510 — Penalty for disturbing monuments
Title 180 · FL Chapter 180 (30 sections)
  • 180.01 — Definition of term “municipality.”
  • 180.02 — Powers of municipalities
  • 180.03 — Resolution or ordinance proposing construction or extension of utility; objections; study and report; use of revenue fro
  • 180.04 — Ordinance or resolution authorizing construction or extension of utility; election
  • 180.05 — Definition of term “private company.”
  • 180.06 — Activities authorized by municipalities and private companies
  • 180.07 — Public utilities; combination of plants or systems; pledge of revenues
  • 180.08 — Revenue certificates; terms; price and interest; three-fifths vote of governing body required
  • 180.09 — Notice of resolution or ordinance authorizing issuance of certificates
  • 180.10 — When election necessary
  • 180.11 — Referendum and procedure therefor
  • 180.12 — Examinations and surveys
  • 180.13 — Administration of utility; rate fixing and collection of charges
  • 180.135 — Utility services; refusal or discontinuance of services for nonpayment of service charges by former occupant of rental u
  • 180.136 — Water or sewer utilities; notice
  • 180.14 — Franchise for private companies; rate fixing
  • 180.15 — Liability of private companies
  • 180.16 — Acquisition by municipality of property of private company
  • 180.17 — Contracts with private companies
  • 180.18 — Use by municipality of privately owned utility
  • 180.19 — Use by other municipalities and by individuals outside corporate limits
  • 180.191 — Limitation on rates charged consumer outside city limits
  • 180.20 — Regulations by private companies; rates; contracts
  • 180.21 — Powers granted deemed additional
  • 180.22 — Power of eminent domain
  • 180.23 — Contracts with engineers, attorneys and others; boards
  • 180.24 — Contracts for construction; bond; publication of notice; bids
  • 180.25 — Contents of notice of issuance of certificates
  • 180.26 — Form of certificates
  • 180.301 — Purchase, sale, or privatization of water, sewer, or wastewater reuse utility by municipality
Title 185 · FL Chapter 185 (38 sections)
  • 185.01 — Legislative declaration
  • 185.015 — Short title
  • 185.02 — Definitions
  • 185.03 — Municipal police officers’ retirement trust funds; creation; applicability of provisions; participation by public safe
  • 185.04 — Actuarial deficits not state obligations
  • 185.05 — Board of trustees; members; terms of office; meetings; legal entity; costs; attorney’s fees
  • 185.06 — General powers and duties of board of trustees
  • 185.061 — Use of annuity or insurance policies
  • 185.07 — Creation and maintenance of fund
  • 185.08 — State excise tax on casualty insurance premiums authorized; procedure
  • 185.085 — Determination of local premium tax situs
  • 185.09 — Report of premiums paid; date tax payable
  • 185.10 — Department of Revenue and Division of Retirement to keep accounts of deposits; disbursements
  • 185.105 — Police and Firefighters’ Premium Tax Trust Fund
  • 185.11 — Funds received by municipalities, deposit in retirement trust fund
  • 185.12 — Payment of excise tax credit on similar state excise or license tax
  • 185.13 — Failure of insurer to comply with chapter; penalty
  • 185.16 — Requirements for retirement
  • 185.161 — Optional forms of retirement income
  • 185.162 — Beneficiaries
  • 185.18 — Disability retirement
  • 185.185 — False, misleading, or fraudulent statements made to obtain public retirement benefits prohibited; penalty
  • 185.19 — Separation from municipal service; refunds
  • 185.191 — Lump-sum payment of small retirement income
  • 185.21 — Death prior to retirement; refunds of contributions or payment of death benefits
  • 185.221 — Annual report to Division of Retirement; actuarial valuations
  • 185.23 — Duties of Division of Retirement; rulemaking authority; investments by State Board of Administration
  • 185.25 — Exemption from tax and execution
  • 185.30 — Depository for retirement fund
  • 185.31 — Municipalities and boards independent of other municipalities and boards and of each other
  • 185.34 — Disability in line of duty
  • 185.341 — Discrimination in benefit formula prohibited; restrictions regarding designation of joint annuitants
  • 185.35 — Municipalities that have their own retirement plans for police officers
  • 185.37 — Termination of plan and distribution of fund
  • 185.38 — Transfer to another state retirement system; benefits payable
  • 185.39 — Applicability
  • 185.50 — Retiree health insurance subsidy
  • 185.60 — Optional participation
Title 186 · FL Chapter 186 (27 sections)
  • 186.001 — Short title
  • 186.002 — Findings and intent
  • 186.003 — Definitions; ss. 186.001-186.031, 186.801-186.901
  • 186.004 — Governor; chief planning officer of the state
  • 186.005 — Designation of departmental planning officer
  • 186.006 — Powers and responsibilities of Executive Office of the Governor
  • 186.007 — State comprehensive plan; preparation; revision
  • 186.008 — State comprehensive plan; revision; implementation
  • 186.009 — Growth management portion of the state comprehensive plan
  • 186.021 — Long-range program plans
  • 186.031 — Annual report
  • 186.501 — Short title
  • 186.502 — Legislative findings; public purpose
  • 186.503 — Definitions relating to Florida Regional Planning Council Act
  • 186.504 — Regional planning councils; creation; membership
  • 186.505 — Regional planning councils; powers and duties
  • 186.506 — Executive Office of the Governor; powers and duties
  • 186.507 — Strategic regional policy plans
  • 186.508 — Strategic regional policy plan adoption; consistency with state comprehensive plan
  • 186.509 — Dispute resolution process
  • 186.511 — Evaluation of strategic regional policy plan; changes in plan
  • 186.512 — Designation of regional planning councils
  • 186.513 — Reports
  • 186.515 — Creation of regional planning councils under chapter 163
  • 186.801 — Ten-year site plans
  • 186.803 — Use of geographic information by governmental entities
  • 186.901 — Population census determination
Title 187 · FL Chapter 187 (2 sections)
  • 187.101 — Description of plan; legislative intent; construction and application of plan
  • 187.201 — State Comprehensive Plan adopted
Title 189 · FL Chapter 189 (55 sections)
  • 189.01 — Short title
  • 189.011 — Statement of legislative purpose and intent
  • 189.012 — Definitions
  • 189.013 — Special districts; creation, dissolution, and reporting requirements
  • 189.014 — Designation of registered office and agent
  • 189.015 — Meetings; notice; required reports
  • 189.016 — Reports; budgets; audits
  • 189.017 — Rulemaking authority
  • 189.018 — Fee schedule; Grants and Donations Trust Fund
  • 189.019 — Codification
  • 189.02 — Dependent special districts
  • 189.021 — Refund of certain special assessments
  • 189.022 — Status statement
  • 189.03 — Statement of legislative purpose and intent; independent special districts
  • 189.031 — Legislative intent for the creation of independent special districts; special act prohibitions; model elements and other
  • 189.0311 — Independent special districts; charter requirements
  • 189.0312 — Independent special districts; term of office
  • 189.0313 — Independent special districts; boundaries; exception
  • 189.033 — Independent special district services in disproportionally affected county; rate reduction for providers providing econo
  • 189.04 — Elections; general requirements and procedures
  • 189.041 — Elections; special requirements and procedures for districts with governing bodies elected on a one-acre/one-vote basis
  • 189.042 — Special district bond referenda
  • 189.05 — Collection of non-ad valorem assessments
  • 189.051 — Bond issuance
  • 189.052 — Assessments levied on facilities regulated under chapter 513
  • 189.053 — Purchases from purchasing agreements of special districts, municipalities, or counties
  • 189.054 — Purchase, sale, or privatization of water, sewer, or wastewater reuse utility by special district
  • 189.055 — Treatment of special districts
  • 189.056 — Downtown development districts; ad valorem taxation
  • 189.06 — Legislative intent; centralized location
  • 189.061 — Official list of special districts
  • 189.062 — Special procedures for inactive districts
  • 189.063 — Education programs for new members of district governing bodies
  • 189.064 — Special District Accountability Program; duties and responsibilities
  • 189.065 — Special districts; oversight of state funds use
  • 189.0651 — Oversight of special districts created by special act of the Legislature
  • 189.0652 — Oversight of special districts created by local ordinance or enacted by local resolution
  • 189.0653 — Information before public hearing on noncompliance
  • 189.066 — Effect of failure to file certain reports or information
  • 189.067 — Failure of district to disclose financial reports
  • 189.068 — Special districts; authority for oversight; general oversight review process
  • 189.069 — Special districts; required reporting of information; web-based public access
  • 189.0694 — Special districts; performance measures and standards
  • 189.0695 — Independent special districts; performance reviews
  • 189.07 — Definitions
  • 189.071 — Merger or dissolution of a dependent special district
  • 189.072 — Dissolution of an independent special district
  • 189.073 — Legislative merger of independent special districts
  • 189.074 — Voluntary merger of independent special districts
  • 189.075 — Involuntary merger of independent special districts
  • 189.076 — Financial allocations
  • 189.0761 — Exemptions
  • 189.08 — Special district public facilities report
  • 189.081 — Activities of special districts; local government comprehensive planning
  • 189.082 — Water management district technical assistance; local government comprehensive planning
Title 190 · FL Chapter 190 (35 sections)
  • 190.001 — Short title
  • 190.002 — Legislative findings, policies, and intent
  • 190.003 — Definitions
  • 190.004 — Preemption; sole authority
  • 190.005 — Establishment of district
  • 190.006 — Board of supervisors; members and meetings
  • 190.007 — Board of supervisors; general duties
  • 190.008 — Budget; reports and reviews
  • 190.009 — Disclosure of public financing
  • 190.011 — General powers
  • 190.012 — Special powers; public improvements and community facilities
  • 190.0125 — Purchase, privatization, or sale of water, sewer, or wastewater reuse utility by district
  • 190.013 — Water management and control plan
  • 190.014 — Issuance of bond anticipation notes
  • 190.015 — Short-term borrowing
  • 190.016 — Bonds
  • 190.017 — Trust agreements
  • 190.021 — Taxes; non-ad valorem assessments
  • 190.022 — Special assessments
  • 190.023 — Issuance of certificates of indebtedness based on assessments for assessable improvements; assessment bonds
  • 190.024 — Tax liens
  • 190.025 — Payment of taxes and redemption of tax liens by the district; sharing in proceeds of tax sale
  • 190.026 — Foreclosure of liens
  • 190.031 — Mandatory use of certain district facilities and services
  • 190.033 — Bids required
  • 190.035 — Fees, rentals, and charges; procedure for adoption and modifications; minimum revenue requirements
  • 190.036 — Recovery of delinquent charges
  • 190.037 — Discontinuance of service
  • 190.041 — Enforcement and penalties
  • 190.043 — Suits against the district
  • 190.044 — Exemption of district property from execution
  • 190.046 — Termination, contraction, or expansion of district
  • 190.048 — Sale of real estate within a district; required disclosure to purchaser
  • 190.0485 — Notice of establishment
  • 190.049 — Special acts prohibited
Title 191 · FL Chapter 191 (14 sections)
  • 191.001 — Short title
  • 191.002 — Legislative intent
  • 191.003 — Definitions
  • 191.004 — Preemption of special acts and general acts of local application
  • 191.005 — District boards of commissioners; membership, officers, meetings
  • 191.006 — General powers
  • 191.007 — Exemption from taxation
  • 191.008 — Special powers
  • 191.009 — Taxes; non-ad valorem assessments; impact fees and user charges
  • 191.011 — Procedures for the levy and collection of non-ad valorem assessments
  • 191.012 — District issuance of bonds, notes, bond anticipation notes, or other evidences of indebtedness
  • 191.013 — Intergovernmental coordination
  • 191.014 — District creation and expansion
  • 191.015 — Codification
Title 192 · FL Chapter 192 (15 sections)
  • 192.001 — Definitions
  • 192.0105 — Taxpayer rights
  • 192.011 — All property to be assessed
  • 192.032 — Situs of property for assessment purposes
  • 192.037 — Fee timeshare real property; taxes and assessments; escrow
  • 192.042 — Date of assessment
  • 192.047 — Date of filing
  • 192.048 — Electronic transmission
  • 192.053 — Lien for unpaid taxes
  • 192.071 — Administration of oaths
  • 192.091 — Commissions of property appraisers and tax collectors
  • 192.102 — Payment of property appraisers’ and collectors’ commissions
  • 192.105 — Unlawful disclosure of federal tax information; penalty
  • 192.115 — Performance review panel
  • 192.123 — Notification of veteran’s guardian
Title 193 · FL Chapter 193 (52 sections)
  • 193.011 — Factors to consider in deriving just valuation
  • 193.015 — Additional specific factor; effect of issuance or denial of permit to dredge, fill, or construct in state waters to thei
  • 193.016 — Property appraiser’s assessment; effect of determinations by value adjustment board
  • 193.017 — Low-income housing tax credit
  • 193.018 — Land owned by a community land trust used to provide affordable housing; assessment; structural improvements, condominiu
  • 193.023 — Duties of the property appraiser in making assessments
  • 193.0235 — Ad valorem taxes and non-ad valorem assessments against subdivision property
  • 193.0237 — Assessment of multiple parcel buildings
  • 193.024 — Deputy property appraisers
  • 193.052 — Preparation and serving of returns
  • 193.062 — Dates for filing returns
  • 193.063 — Extension of date for filing tangible personal property tax returns
  • 193.072 — Penalties for improper or late filing of returns and for failure to file returns
  • 193.073 — Erroneous returns; estimate of assessment when no return filed
  • 193.074 — Confidentiality of returns
  • 193.075 — Mobile homes and recreational vehicles
  • 193.077 — Notice of new, rebuilt, or expanded property
  • 193.085 — Listing all property
  • 193.092 — Assessment of property for back taxes
  • 193.102 — Lands subject to tax sale certificates; assessments; taxes not extended
  • 193.114 — Preparation of assessment rolls
  • 193.1142 — Approval of assessment rolls
  • 193.1145 — Interim assessment rolls
  • 193.1147 — Performance review panel
  • 193.116 — Municipal assessment rolls
  • 193.122 — Certificates of value adjustment board and property appraiser; extensions on the assessment rolls
  • 193.132 — Prior assessments validated
  • 193.133 — Effect of mortgage fraud on property assessments
  • 193.155 — Homestead assessments
  • 193.1551 — Assessment of certain homestead property damaged in 2004 named storms
  • 193.1554 — Assessment of nonhomestead residential property
  • 193.1555 — Assessment of certain residential and nonresidential real property
  • 193.1556 — Notice of change of ownership or control required
  • 193.441 — Legislative intent; findings and declaration
  • 193.451 — Annual growing of agricultural crops, nonbearing fruit trees, nursery stock; taxability
  • 193.4516 — Assessment of citrus packinghouse and processor equipment rendered unused due to citrus greening
  • 193.4517 — Assessment of agricultural equipment rendered unable to be used due to Hurricane Michael
  • 193.4518 — Assessment of agricultural equipment rendered unable to be used due to Hurricane Idalia
  • 193.461 — Agricultural lands; classification and assessment; mandated eradication or quarantine program; natural disasters
  • 193.4613 — Agricultural lands used in production of aquaculture; assessment
  • 193.4615 — Assessment of obsolete agricultural equipment
  • 193.462 — Agricultural lands; annual application process; extenuating circumstances; waivers
  • 193.481 — Assessment of mineral, oil, gas, and other subsurface rights
  • 193.501 — Assessment of lands subject to a conservation easement, environmentally endangered lands, or lands used for outdoor recr
  • 193.503 — Classification and assessment of historic property used for commercial or certain nonprofit purposes
  • 193.505 — Assessment of historically significant property when development rights have been conveyed or historic preservation rest
  • 193.621 — Assessment of pollution control devices
  • 193.623 — Assessment of building renovations for accessibility to the physically handicapped
  • 193.624 — Assessment of renewable energy source devices
  • 193.625 — High-water recharge lands; classification and assessment
  • 193.6255 — Applicability of duties of property appraisers and clerks of the court pursuant to high-water recharge areas
  • 193.703 — Reduction in assessment for living quarters of parents or grandparents
Title 194 · FL Chapter 194 (16 sections)
  • 194.011 — Assessment notice; objections to assessments
  • 194.013 — Filing fees for petitions; disposition; waiver
  • 194.014 — Partial payment of ad valorem taxes; proceedings before value adjustment board
  • 194.015 — Value adjustment board
  • 194.032 — Hearing purposes; timetable
  • 194.034 — Hearing procedures; rules
  • 194.035 — Special magistrates; property evaluators
  • 194.036 — Appeals
  • 194.037 — Disclosure of tax impact
  • 194.171 — Circuit court to have original jurisdiction in tax cases
  • 194.181 — Parties to a tax suit
  • 194.192 — Costs; interest on unpaid taxes; penalty
  • 194.211 — Injunction against tax sales
  • 194.231 — Parties in suits relating to distribution, etc., of funds to counties, etc
  • 194.301 — Challenge to ad valorem tax assessment
  • 194.3015 — Burden of proof
Title 195 · FL Chapter 195 (19 sections)
  • 195.0011 — Short title
  • 195.0012 — Legislative intent
  • 195.002 — Supervision by Department of Revenue
  • 195.022 — Forms to be prescribed by Department of Revenue
  • 195.027 — Rules and regulations
  • 195.032 — Establishment of standards of value
  • 195.052 — Research and tabulation of data
  • 195.062 — Manual of instructions
  • 195.072 — Cooperation with other state agencies
  • 195.073 — Classification of property
  • 195.084 — Information exchange
  • 195.087 — Property appraisers and tax collectors to submit budgets to Department of Revenue
  • 195.092 — Authority to bring and maintain suits
  • 195.096 — Review of assessment rolls
  • 195.097 — Postaudit notification of defects; supervision by the department
  • 195.099 — Periodic review
  • 195.0995 — Use of sales transactions data; qualification; review
  • 195.101 — Withholding of state funds
  • 195.207 — Effect on levy of municipal taxes
Title 196 · FL Chapter 196 (66 sections)
  • 196.001 — Property subject to taxation
  • 196.002 — Legislative intent
  • 196.011 — Annual application required for exemption
  • 196.012 — Definitions
  • 196.015 — Permanent residency; factual determination by property appraiser
  • 196.021 — Tax returns to show all exemptions and claims
  • 196.031 — Exemption of homesteads
  • 196.041 — Extent of homestead exemptions
  • 196.061 — Rental of homestead to constitute abandonment
  • 196.071 — Homestead exemptions; claims by members of armed forces
  • 196.075 — Additional homestead exemption for persons 65 and older
  • 196.081 — Exemption for certain permanently and totally disabled veterans and for surviving spouses of veterans; exemption for sur
  • 196.082 — Discounts for disabled veterans; surviving spouse carryover
  • 196.091 — Exemption for disabled veterans confined to wheelchairs
  • 196.092 — Verification of eligibility for certain disabled veterans and surviving spouses
  • 196.095 — Exemption for a licensed child care facility operating in an enterprise zone
  • 196.101 — Exemption for totally and permanently disabled persons
  • 196.102 — Exemption for certain totally and permanently disabled first responders; surviving spouse carryover
  • 196.111 — Property appraisers may notify persons entitled to homestead exemption; publication of notice; costs
  • 196.121 — Homestead exemptions; forms
  • 196.131 — Homestead exemptions; claims
  • 196.141 — Homestead exemptions; duty of property appraiser
  • 196.151 — Homestead exemptions; approval, refusal, hearings
  • 196.161 — Homestead exemptions; lien imposed on property of person claiming exemption although not a permanent resident
  • 196.171 — Homestead exemptions; city officials
  • 196.173 — Exemption for deployed servicemembers
  • 196.181 — Exemption of household goods and personal effects
  • 196.182 — Exemption of renewable energy source devices
  • 196.183 — Exemption for tangible personal property
  • 196.185 — Exemption of inventory
  • 196.192 — Exemptions from ad valorem taxation
  • 196.193 — Exemption applications; review by property appraiser
  • 196.194 — Value adjustment board; notice; hearings; appearance before the board
  • 196.195 — Determining profit or nonprofit status of applicant
  • 196.196 — Determining whether property is entitled to charitable, religious, scientific, or literary exemption
  • 196.1961 — Exemption for historic property used for certain commercial or nonprofit purposes
  • 196.197 — Additional provisions for exempting property used by hospitals, nursing homes, and homes for special services
  • 196.1975 — Exemption for property used by nonprofit homes for the aged
  • 196.1976 — Provisions of ss. 196.197(1) or (2) and 196.1975; severability
  • 196.1977 — Exemption for property used by proprietary continuing care facilities
  • 196.1978 — Affordable housing property exemption
  • 196.19781 — Affordable housing exemption for properties owned by this state
  • 196.19782 — Exemption for affordable housing on governmental property
  • 196.1979 — County and municipal affordable housing property exemption
  • 196.198 — Educational property exemption
  • 196.1983 — Charter school exemption from ad valorem taxes
  • 196.1985 — Labor organization property exemption
  • 196.1986 — Community centers exemption
  • 196.1987 — Biblical history display property exemption
  • 196.199 — Government property exemption
  • 196.1993 — Certain agreements with local governments for use of public property; exemption
  • 196.1995 — Economic development ad valorem tax exemption
  • 196.1996 — Economic development ad valorem tax exemption; effect of ch. 94-136
  • 196.1997 — Ad valorem tax exemptions for historic properties
  • 196.1998 — Additional ad valorem tax exemptions for historic properties open to the public
  • 196.1999 — Space laboratories and carriers; exemption
  • 196.2001 — Not-for-profit sewer and water company property exemption
  • 196.2002 — Exemption for s. 501(c)(12) not-for-profit water and wastewater systems
  • 196.202 — Property of widows, widowers, blind persons, and persons totally and permanently disabled
  • 196.24 — Exemption for disabled ex-servicemember or surviving spouse; evidence of disability
  • 196.26 — Exemption for real property dedicated in perpetuity for conservation purposes
  • 196.28 — Cancellation of delinquent taxes upon lands used for road purposes, etc
  • 196.29 — Cancellation of certain taxes on real property acquired by a county, school board, charter school governing board, or co
  • 196.295 — Property transferred to exempt governmental unit; tax payment into escrow; taxes due from prior years
  • 196.31 — Taxes against state properties; notice
  • 196.32 — Executive Office of the Governor; consent required to certain assessments
Title 197 · FL Chapter 197 (82 sections)
  • 197.102 — Definitions
  • 197.103 — Deputy tax collectors; appointment
  • 197.122 — Lien of taxes; application
  • 197.123 — Erroneous returns; notification of property appraiser
  • 197.131 — Correction of erroneous assessments
  • 197.146 — Uncollectible personal property taxes; correction of tax roll
  • 197.152 — Collection of unpaid or omitted taxes; interest amount; taxable value
  • 197.162 — Tax discount payment periods
  • 197.172 — Interest rate; calculation and minimum
  • 197.182 — Department of Revenue to pass upon and order refunds
  • 197.192 — Land not to be divided or plat filed until taxes paid
  • 197.212 — Minimum tax bill
  • 197.217 — Judicial sale; payment of taxes
  • 197.222 — Prepayment of estimated tax by installment method
  • 197.2301 — Payment of taxes prior to certified roll procedure
  • 197.2421 — Property tax deferral
  • 197.2423 — Application for property tax deferral; determination of approval or denial by tax collector
  • 197.2425 — Appeal of denied tax deferral
  • 197.243 — Definitions relating to homestead property tax deferral
  • 197.252 — Homestead tax deferral
  • 197.2524 — Tax deferral for recreational and commercial working waterfront properties and affordable rental housing property
  • 197.2526 — Eligibility for tax deferral for affordable rental housing property
  • 197.254 — Annual notification to taxpayer
  • 197.262 — Deferred payment tax certificates
  • 197.263 — Change in ownership or use of property
  • 197.272 — Prepayment of deferred taxes
  • 197.282 — Distribution of payments
  • 197.292 — Construction
  • 197.301 — Penalties
  • 197.312 — Payment by mortgagee
  • 197.319 — Refund of taxes for residential improvements rendered uninhabitable by a catastrophic event
  • 197.322 — Delivery of ad valorem tax and non-ad valorem assessment rolls; notice of taxes; publication and mail
  • 197.3225 — Public records exemption; taxpayer e-mail addresses
  • 197.323 — Extension of roll during adjustment board hearings
  • 197.332 — Duties of tax collectors; branch offices
  • 197.333 — When taxes due; delinquent
  • 197.3335 — Tax payments when property is subject to adverse possession; refunds
  • 197.343 — Tax notices; additional notice required
  • 197.344 — Lienholders; receipt of notices and delinquent taxes
  • 197.363 — Special assessments and service charges; optional method of collection
  • 197.3631 — Non-ad valorem assessments; general provisions
  • 197.3632 — Uniform method for the levy, collection, and enforcement of non-ad valorem assessments
  • 197.3635 — Combined notice of ad valorem taxes and non-ad valorem assessments; requirements
  • 197.373 — Payment of portion of taxes
  • 197.374 — Partial payment of current year taxes
  • 197.383 — Distribution of taxes
  • 197.402 — Advertisement of real or personal property with delinquent taxes
  • 197.403 — Proof of publication
  • 197.412 — Attachment of tangible personal property in case of removal
  • 197.413 — Delinquent personal property taxes; warrants; court order for levy and seizure of personal property; seizure; fees of ta
  • 197.414 — Record of warrants and levies on tangible personal property
  • 197.4155 — Delinquent personal property taxes; payment program
  • 197.416 — Continuing duty of the tax collector to collect delinquent tax warrants; limitation of actions
  • 197.417 — Sale of personal property after seizure
  • 197.432 — Sale of tax certificates for unpaid taxes
  • 197.4325 — Procedure when payment of taxes or tax certificates is dishonored
  • 197.433 — Duplicate certificates
  • 197.442 — Tax collector not to sell certificates on land on which taxes have been paid; penalty
  • 197.443 — Cancellation of tax certificates; correction of tax certificates
  • 197.444 — Cancellation of tax certificates; suit by holder
  • 197.446 — Payment of back taxes as condition precedent to cancellation of tax certificate held by county
  • 197.447 — Cancellation of tax liens held by the county on property of the United States and the State of Florida
  • 197.462 — Transfer of tax certificates held by individuals
  • 197.472 — Redemption of tax certificates
  • 197.4725 — Purchase of county-held tax certificates
  • 197.473 — Disposition of unclaimed redemption moneys
  • 197.482 — Expiration of tax certificate
  • 197.492 — Errors and insolvencies report
  • 197.502 — Application for obtaining tax deed by holder of tax sale certificate; fees
  • 197.512 — Notice, form of publication for obtaining tax deed by holder
  • 197.522 — Notice to owner when application for tax deed is made
  • 197.532 — Fees for mailing additional notices, when application is made by holder
  • 197.542 — Sale at public auction
  • 197.552 — Tax deeds
  • 197.562 — Grantee of tax deed entitled to immediate possession
  • 197.572 — Certain easements survive tax sales and deeds
  • 197.573 — Survival of restrictions and covenants after tax sale
  • 197.582 — Disbursement of proceeds of sale
  • 197.592 — County delinquent tax lands; method and procedure for sale by county; certain lands conveyed to municipalities; extincti
  • 197.593 — Corrective county deeds without consideration or further notice
  • 197.602 — Reimbursement required in challenges to the validity of a tax deed
  • 197.603 — Declaration of legislative findings and intent
Title 198 · FL Chapter 198 (43 sections)
  • 198.01 — Definitions
  • 198.015 — Domicile of decedent
  • 198.02 — Tax upon estates of resident decedents
  • 198.021 — Tax upon generation-skipping transfers of residents
  • 198.03 — Tax upon estates of nonresident decedents
  • 198.031 — Tax upon generation-skipping transfers of nonresidents
  • 198.04 — Tax upon estates of alien decedents
  • 198.05 — Administration of law by Department of Revenue
  • 198.06 — Examination of books, papers, records, or memoranda by the department
  • 198.07 — Appointment of agents by department; bonds of agents; may administer oaths; credentials
  • 198.08 — Rules
  • 198.11 — Appointment of special appraisers
  • 198.13 — Tax return to be made in certain cases; certificate of nonliability
  • 198.14 — Failure to make return; extension of time for filing
  • 198.15 — When tax due; extension; interest; penalty
  • 198.155 — Payment of tax on generation-skipping transfers
  • 198.16 — Notice of determination of deficiency in federal tax to be filed with department
  • 198.17 — Deficiency; hearing by department
  • 198.18 — Failure to pay tax; penalties; delinquent or deficient taxes, interest
  • 198.19 — Receipts for taxes
  • 198.20 — Failure to pay tax when due, department’s warrant, etc
  • 198.21 — Tax due payable from entire estate; third persons
  • 198.22 — Lien for unpaid taxes
  • 198.23 — Personal liability of personal representative
  • 198.24 — Sale of real estate by personal representative to pay tax
  • 198.25 — Actions to enforce payment of tax
  • 198.26 — No discharge of personal representative until tax is paid
  • 198.28 — Time for assessment of tax
  • 198.29 — Refunds of excess tax paid
  • 198.30 — Circuit judge to report names of decedents, etc
  • 198.31 — Duties and powers of corporate personal representatives of nonresident decedents
  • 198.32 — Prima facie liability for tax
  • 198.33 — Discharge of estate, notice of lien, limitation on lien, etc
  • 198.34 — Disposition of proceeds from taxes
  • 198.35 — Interpretation and construction
  • 198.36 — Failure to produce records; penalty
  • 198.37 — Failure to make return; penalty
  • 198.38 — False return; penalty
  • 198.39 — False statement in return; penalty
  • 198.40 — Failure to pay tax, evasion of tax, etc.; penalty
  • 198.41 — Effectiveness of this chapter, etc
  • 198.42 — Short title
  • 198.44 — Certain exemptions from inheritance and estate taxes
Title 199 · FL Chapter 199 (15 sections)
  • 199.133 — Levy of nonrecurring tax
  • 199.135 — Due date and payment of nonrecurring tax
  • 199.143 — Future advances
  • 199.145 — Corrective mortgages; assignments; assumptions; refinancing
  • 199.155 — Valuation
  • 199.183 — Taxpayers exempt from nonrecurring taxes
  • 199.202 — Administration of law; rules
  • 199.212 — All state agencies to cooperate in administration of law
  • 199.218 — Books and records
  • 199.232 — Powers of department
  • 199.262 — Tax liens and garnishment
  • 199.272 — Suits for violation of this chapter; jurisdiction and service
  • 199.282 — Penalties for violation of this chapter
  • 199.292 — Disposition of intangible personal property taxes
  • 199.303 — Declaration of legislative intent
Title 20 · FL Chapter 20 (62 sections)
  • 20.02 — Declaration of policy
  • 20.03 — Definitions
  • 20.04 — Structure of executive branch
  • 20.05 — Heads of departments; powers and duties
  • 20.051 — Review of programs
  • 20.052 — Advisory bodies, commissions, boards; establishment
  • 20.055 — Agency inspectors general
  • 20.057 — Interagency agreements to delete duplication of inspections
  • 20.058 — Citizen support and direct-support organizations
  • 20.06 — Method of reorganization
  • 20.10 — Department of State
  • 20.104 — Clearing Funds Trust Fund
  • 20.105 — Federal Grants Trust Fund
  • 20.106 — Land Acquisition Trust Fund within Department of State
  • 20.11 — Department of Legal Affairs
  • 20.111 — Operating Trust Fund
  • 20.112 — Federal Grants Trust Fund; Department of Legal Affairs
  • 20.121 — Department of Financial Services
  • 20.14 — Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
  • 20.142 — Land Acquisition Trust Fund within Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
  • 20.15 — Department of Education
  • 20.155 — Board of Governors of the State University System
  • 20.165 — Department of Business and Professional Regulation
  • 20.166 — Florida Business Information Portal
  • 20.181 — Federal Grants Trust Fund
  • 20.19 — Department of Children and Families
  • 20.195 — Department of Children and Families; trust funds
  • 20.197 — Agency for Persons with Disabilities
  • 20.1971 — Agency for Persons with Disabilities; trust funds
  • 20.201 — Department of Law Enforcement
  • 20.21 — Department of Revenue
  • 20.22 — Department of Management Services
  • 20.221 — Federal Grants Trust Fund
  • 20.23 — Department of Transportation
  • 20.24 — Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles
  • 20.241 — Federal Grants Trust Fund; Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles
  • 20.255 — Department of Environmental Protection
  • 20.25501 — Department of Environmental Protection; trust funds
  • 20.2551 — Citizen support organizations; use of property; audit; public records; partnerships
  • 20.28 — State Board of Administration
  • 20.29 — Department of Citrus; Florida Citrus Commission; executive director
  • 20.315 — Department of Corrections
  • 20.3151 — Administrative Trust Fund
  • 20.316 — Department of Juvenile Justice
  • 20.3161 — Federal Grants Trust Fund; Department of Juvenile Justice
  • 20.317 — Department of the Lottery
  • 20.32 — Florida Commission on Offender Review
  • 20.331 — Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission
  • 20.3311 — Additional powers of commission
  • 20.3315 — Florida Forever Program Trust Fund of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission
  • 20.34 — Governmental Reorganization Act of 1969; effect on rules
  • 20.37 — Department of Veterans’ Affairs
  • 20.375 — Department of Veterans’ Affairs; trust funds
  • 20.41 — Department of Elderly Affairs
  • 20.415 — Department of Elderly Affairs; trust funds
  • 20.42 — Agency for Health Care Administration
  • 20.425 — Agency for Health Care Administration; trust funds
  • 20.43 — Department of Health
  • 20.435 — Department of Health; trust funds
  • 20.506 — Welfare Transition Trust Fund
  • 20.60 — Department of Commerce; creation; powers and duties
  • 20.605 — Administrative Trust Fund of the Department of Commerce
Title 200 · FL Chapter 200 (14 sections)
  • 200.001 — Millages; definitions and general provisions
  • 200.011 — Duty of county commissioners and school board in setting rate of taxation
  • 200.065 — Method of fixing millage
  • 200.066 — Newly created tax units
  • 200.068 — Certification of compliance with this chapter
  • 200.069 — Notice of proposed property taxes and non-ad valorem assessments
  • 200.071 — Limitation of millage; counties
  • 200.081 — Millage limitation; municipalities
  • 200.091 — Referendum to increase millage
  • 200.101 — Referendum for millage in excess of limits
  • 200.141 — Millage following consolidation of city and county functions
  • 200.151 — Millage to replace lost revenue
  • 200.171 — Mandamus to levy tax; limitations
  • 200.181 — Bond payments; tax levies; restrictions
Title 201 · FL Chapter 201 (27 sections)
  • 201.01 — Documents taxable, generally
  • 201.02 — Tax on deeds and other instruments relating to real property or interests in real property
  • 201.0201 — Interpretation of s. 201.02
  • 201.0205 — Counties that have implemented ch. 83-220; inapplicability of 10-cent tax increase by s. 2, ch. 92-317
  • 201.031 — Discretionary surtax; administration and collection; Housing Assistance Loan Trust Fund; reporting requirements
  • 201.07 — Tax on bonds, debentures, and certificates of indebtedness
  • 201.08 — Tax on promissory or nonnegotiable notes, written obligations to pay money, or assignments of wages or other compensatio
  • 201.09 — Renewal of existing promissory notes and mortgages; exemption
  • 201.091 — Correction of prior error
  • 201.10 — Certificates of deposit issued by banks exempt
  • 201.11 — Administration of law by Department of Revenue
  • 201.12 — Duties of clerks of the circuit court
  • 201.13 — Department of Revenue to furnish stamps for tax for specified period
  • 201.132 — Exceptions to use of stamps on recorded documents; county comptrollers and clerks of the circuit court
  • 201.133 — Payment of tax on documents not to be recorded; certificates of registration
  • 201.14 — Cancellation of stamps when used
  • 201.15 — Distribution of taxes collected
  • 201.16 — Other laws made applicable to chapter
  • 201.165 — Credit for tax paid to other states
  • 201.17 — Penalties for failure to pay tax required
  • 201.18 — Penalties for illegal use of stamps
  • 201.20 — Penalties for illegally avoiding tax on notes
  • 201.21 — Notes and other written obligations exempt under certain conditions
  • 201.22 — Financing statements under chapter 679 of the Uniform Commercial Code
  • 201.23 — Foreign notes and other written obligations exempt
  • 201.24 — Obligations of municipalities, political subdivisions, and agencies of the state
  • 201.25 — Tax exemptions for certain loans
Title 202 · FL Chapter 202 (38 sections)
  • 202.10 — Short title
  • 202.105 — Legislative findings and intent
  • 202.11 — Definitions
  • 202.12 — Sales of communications services
  • 202.12001 — Combined rate for tax collected pursuant to ss. 202.12(1)(a) and 203.01(1)(b)
  • 202.125 — Sales of communications services; specified exemptions
  • 202.13 — Intent
  • 202.14 — Credit against tax imposed
  • 202.151 — Use tax imposed on certain purchasers of communications services
  • 202.155 — Special rules for mobile communications services
  • 202.16 — Payment
  • 202.17 — Registration
  • 202.175 — Toll-free telephone number for verification of dealer registration numbers and resale certificates
  • 202.177 — Verification system for certificate numbers of purchasers seeking to purchase for resale
  • 202.18 — Allocation and disposition of tax proceeds
  • 202.19 — Authorization to impose local communications services tax
  • 202.193 — Local Communications Services Tax Clearing Trust Fund
  • 202.195 — Proprietary confidential business information; public records exemption
  • 202.20 — Local communications services tax conversion rates
  • 202.21 — Effective dates; procedures for informing dealers of communications services of tax levies and rate changes
  • 202.22 — Determination of local tax situs
  • 202.23 — Procedure on purchaser’s request for refund or credit of communications services taxes
  • 202.231 — Provision of information to local taxing jurisdictions
  • 202.24 — Limitations on local taxes and fees imposed on dealers of communications services
  • 202.25 — Jurisdiction; dealers not qualified to do business in this state
  • 202.26 — Department powers
  • 202.27 — Return filing; rules for self-accrual
  • 202.28 — Credit for collecting tax; penalties
  • 202.29 — Bad debts
  • 202.30 — Payment of taxes by electronic funds transfer; filing of returns by electronic data interchange
  • 202.32 — State and local agencies to cooperate in administration of law
  • 202.33 — Taxes declared to be government funds; penalties for failure to remit taxes; warrants
  • 202.34 — Records required to be kept; power to inspect; audit procedure
  • 202.35 — Powers of department in dealing with delinquents; tax to be separately stated
  • 202.36 — Departmental powers; hearings; distress warrants; bonds; subpoenas and subpoenas duces tecum
  • 202.37 — Special rules for administration of local communications services tax
  • 202.381 — Transition from previous taxes
  • 202.41 — Security for bonded indebtedness pledged under previous law
Title 203 · FL Chapter 203 (10 sections)
  • 203.001 — Combined rate for tax collected pursuant to ss. 202.12(1)(a) and 203.01(1)(b)
  • 203.0011 — Combined rate for tax collected pursuant to ss. 203.01(1)(b)4. and 212.05(1)(e)1.c
  • 203.01 — Tax on gross receipts for utility and communications services
  • 203.0111 — Application of tax increase
  • 203.012 — Definitions
  • 203.02 — Powers of Department of Revenue
  • 203.03 — Penalties
  • 203.04 — Construction of laws granting exemptions or exceptions
  • 203.06 — Interest on delinquent payments
  • 203.07 — Settlement or compromise of penalties and interest
Title 205 · FL Chapter 205 (34 sections)
  • 205.013 — Short title
  • 205.022 — Definitions
  • 205.023 — Requirement to report status of fictitious name registration
  • 205.0315 — Ordinance adoption after October 1, 1995
  • 205.032 — Levy; counties
  • 205.033 — Conditions for levy; counties
  • 205.042 — Levy; municipalities
  • 205.043 — Conditions for levy; municipalities
  • 205.044 — Municipal business tax measured by gross receipts may continue
  • 205.045 — Transfer of administrative duties
  • 205.053 — Business tax receipts; dates due and delinquent; penalties
  • 205.0532 — Revocation or refusal to renew; doing business with Cuba
  • 205.0535 — Reclassification and rate structure revisions
  • 205.0536 — Distribution of county revenues
  • 205.0537 — Vending and amusement machines
  • 205.054 — Business tax; partial exemption for engaging in business or occupation in enterprise zone
  • 205.055 — Exemptions; veterans, spouses of veterans and certain servicemembers, and low-income persons
  • 205.063 — Exemptions; motor vehicles
  • 205.064 — Farm, aquacultural, grove, horticultural, floricultural, tropical piscicultural, and tropical fish farm products; certai
  • 205.065 — Exemption; nonresident persons regulated by the Department of Business and Professional Regulation
  • 205.066 — Exemptions; employees
  • 205.067 — Exemptions; broker associates and sales associates
  • 205.162 — Exemption allowed certain disabled persons, the aged, and widows with minor dependents
  • 205.191 — Religious tenets; exemption
  • 205.192 — Charitable, etc., organizations; occasional sales, fundraising; exemption
  • 205.193 — Mobile home setup operations; local business tax receipt prohibited; exception
  • 205.194 — Prohibition of local business tax receipt without exhibition of state license or registration
  • 205.196 — Pharmacies and pharmacists
  • 205.1965 — Assisted living facilities
  • 205.1967 — Prerequisite for issuance of pest control business tax receipt
  • 205.1969 — Health studios; consumer protection
  • 205.1971 — Sellers of travel; consumer protection
  • 205.1973 — Telemarketing businesses; consumer protection
  • 205.1975 — Household moving services; consumer protection
Title 206 · FL Chapter 206 (106 sections)
  • 206.01 — Definitions
  • 206.02 — Application for license; temporary license; terminal suppliers, importers, exporters, blenders, biodiesel manufacturers,
  • 206.021 — Application for license; carriers
  • 206.022 — Application for license; terminal operators
  • 206.025 — Application by person whose license has been canceled; procedure
  • 206.026 — Certain persons prohibited from holding a terminal supplier, importer, exporter, blender, carrier, terminal operator, or
  • 206.0261 — Retaining all or portion of tax reduction amount or interference with tax reduction benefit prohibited
  • 206.027 — Licenses not assignable
  • 206.028 — Costs of investigation; department to charge applicants; contracts with private companies authorized
  • 206.03 — Licensing of terminal suppliers, importers, exporters, and wholesalers
  • 206.04 — License number and cards; penalties
  • 206.045 — Licensing period
  • 206.05 — Bond required of licensed terminal supplier, importer, exporter, or wholesaler
  • 206.051 — Importer and exporter; credit authorization and bonding requirements
  • 206.052 — Export of tax-free fuels
  • 206.054 — Payment of taxes by importers
  • 206.055 — Departmental powers; cancellation of licenses; surrender of bond; interstate enforcement agreements
  • 206.06 — Estimate of amount of fuel taxes due and unpaid
  • 206.07 — Suits for collection of unpaid taxes
  • 206.075 — Department’s warrant for collection of unpaid taxes
  • 206.08 — Reports from persons who do not purchase tax-free motor fuel
  • 206.09 — Reports from carriers transporting motor fuel or similar products
  • 206.095 — Reports from terminal operators
  • 206.10 — Reports to be filed whether taxes due or not
  • 206.11 — Penalties
  • 206.12 — Retention of records; all persons that purchase, import, export, use, sell, or store motor fuel
  • 206.13 — Refund or credit of taxes erroneously paid or illegally collected
  • 206.14 — Inspection of records; audits; hearings; forms; rules and regulations
  • 206.15 — Fuel taxes a lien on property
  • 206.16 — Officer selling property
  • 206.17 — Department to furnish certificates of liens
  • 206.175 — Foreclosure of liens
  • 206.18 — Discontinuance or transfer of business; liability of tax, procedure; penalty for violation
  • 206.199 — Transportation of motor fuel by pipeline or marine vessel
  • 206.20 — Transportation of motor fuel over public highways
  • 206.204 — Transportation of motor fuel by boats over the navigable waters of this state
  • 206.205 — Forfeiture of vehicles and boats illegally transporting or delivering motor fuel
  • 206.21 — Trial of issues interposed by defense; sale, etc
  • 206.215 — Costs and expenses of proceedings
  • 206.22 — Restraining and enjoining violations
  • 206.23 — Tax; must be stated separately
  • 206.24 — Department and agents may make arrests, seize property, and execute warrants
  • 206.25 — Method for collection of tax cumulative
  • 206.27 — Records and files as public records
  • 206.28 — Exchange of information among the states
  • 206.404 — License requirements for retail dealers and resellers; penalty
  • 206.41 — State taxes imposed on motor fuel
  • 206.413 — Liability for tax; interstate agreement; penalties
  • 206.414 — Collection of certain taxes; prohibited credits and refunds
  • 206.416 — Change in state destination
  • 206.42 — Aviation gasoline exempt from excise tax; rocket fuel
  • 206.43 — Terminal supplier, importer, exporter, blender, and wholesaler to report to department monthly; deduction
  • 206.44 — Penalty and interest for failure to report on time; penalty and interest on tax deficiencies
  • 206.45 — Payment of tax into State Treasury
  • 206.46 — State Transportation Trust Fund
  • 206.47 — Distribution of constitutional fuel tax pursuant to State Constitution
  • 206.48 — Reports required of terminal suppliers, importers, exporters, blenders, and wholesalers
  • 206.485 — Tracking system reporting requirements
  • 206.49 — Invoice to show whether or not tax paid; liability
  • 206.56 — Unlawful use of tax collected; theft of state funds
  • 206.59 — Department to make rules; powers
  • 206.60 — County tax on motor fuel
  • 206.605 — Municipal tax on motor fuel
  • 206.606 — Distribution of certain proceeds
  • 206.608 — State Comprehensive Enhanced Transportation System Tax; deposit of proceeds; distribution
  • 206.609 — Transfer of funds to the Agricultural Emergency Eradication Trust Fund
  • 206.61 — Municipal taxes, limited
  • 206.62 — Certain sales to United States tax-exempt; rules and regulations
  • 206.625 — Return of tax to municipalities, counties, and school districts
  • 206.626 — Refunds to ethanol dealers
  • 206.63 — Definitions; s. 206.64
  • 206.64 — Refunds on fuel used for agricultural or commercial fishing purposes
  • 206.85 — Purpose
  • 206.86 — Definitions
  • 206.87 — Levy of tax
  • 206.872 — Liability for tax; interstate agreement
  • 206.873 — Backup tax
  • 206.8735 — Department authorized to inspect
  • 206.874 — Exemptions
  • 206.8741 — Dyeing and marking; notice requirements
  • 206.8745 — Credits and refund claims
  • 206.875 — Allocation of tax
  • 206.88 — Appropriation for expenses of administration
  • 206.90 — Bond required of terminal suppliers, importers, and wholesalers
  • 206.91 — Tax reports; computation and payment of tax
  • 206.92 — Surrender of bond or license
  • 206.93 — Penalty for failure to report and pay taxes promptly
  • 206.94 — Department may estimate diesel fuels sold or used
  • 206.945 — Settlement or compromise of tax, penalty, or interest
  • 206.96 — Reports from Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles
  • 206.97 — Applicability of specified sections of part I
  • 206.9915 — Legislative intent and general provisions
  • 206.9925 — Definitions
  • 206.9931 — Administrative provisions
  • 206.9935 — Taxes imposed
  • 206.9941 — Exemptions
  • 206.9942 — Refunds and credits
  • 206.9943 — Pollutant tax license
  • 206.9945 — Funds collected; disposition; department authority
  • 206.9951 — Definitions
  • 206.9952 — Application for license as a natural gas fuel retailer
  • 206.9955 — Levy of natural gas fuel tax
  • 206.996 — Monthly reports by natural gas fuel retailers; deductions
  • 206.9965 — Exemptions and refunds; natural gas fuel retailers
  • 206.997 — State and local alternative fuel user fee clearing trust funds; distribution
  • 206.998 — Applicability of specified sections of parts I and II
Title 207 · FL Chapter 207 (24 sections)
  • 207.001 — Short title
  • 207.002 — Definitions
  • 207.003 — Privilege tax levied
  • 207.004 — Registration of motor carriers; identifying devices; fees; renewals; temporary fuel-use permits and driveaway permits
  • 207.005 — Returns and payment of tax; delinquencies; calculation of fuel used during operations in the state; credit; bond
  • 207.006 — Reports to be filed regardless of tax
  • 207.007 — Offenses; penalties and interest
  • 207.008 — Retention of records by motor carrier
  • 207.011 — Inspection of records; hearings; forms; rules
  • 207.012 — Estimate of amount of tax due and unpaid
  • 207.013 — Suits for collection of unpaid taxes, penalties, and interest
  • 207.014 — Departmental warrant for collection of unpaid taxes
  • 207.015 — Tax a lien on property
  • 207.016 — Officer’s sale of property or franchise
  • 207.017 — Department to furnish certificate of liens
  • 207.018 — Foreclosure of liens
  • 207.019 — Discontinuance or transfer of business; change of address
  • 207.021 — Informal conferences; settlement or compromise of taxes, penalties, or interest
  • 207.022 — Restraining and enjoining violation
  • 207.023 — Authority to inspect vehicles, make arrests, seize property, and execute warrants
  • 207.024 — Cooperation of other state agencies in administration of law
  • 207.025 — Exchange of information
  • 207.026 — Allocation of tax
  • 207.0281 — Registration; cooperative reciprocal agreements between states
Title 210 · FL Chapter 210 (49 sections)
  • 210.01 — Definitions
  • 210.011 — Cigarette surcharge levied; collection
  • 210.02 — Cigarette tax imposed; collection
  • 210.021 — Payment of taxes by certified check or electronic funds transfer
  • 210.03 — Prohibition against levying of cigarette taxes by municipalities
  • 210.04 — Construction; exemptions; collection
  • 210.05 — Preparation and sale of stamps; discount
  • 210.06 — Affixation of stamps; presumption
  • 210.07 — Machines
  • 210.08 — Bond for payment of taxes
  • 210.085 — Transactions only with permitted manufacturers, importers, distributing agents, dealers, and retail dealers
  • 210.09 — Records to be kept; reports to be made; examination
  • 210.095 — Mail order, Internet, and remote sales of tobacco products; age verification
  • 210.10 — General powers of the Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco
  • 210.11 — Refunds; sales of stamps and payment of tax
  • 210.12 — Seizures; forfeiture proceedings
  • 210.13 — Determination of tax on failure to file a return
  • 210.14 — Warrant for collection of taxes
  • 210.15 — Permits
  • 210.151 — Initial temporary cigarette permits
  • 210.16 — Revocation or suspension of permit
  • 210.1605 — Renewal of permit
  • 210.161 — Examination of records
  • 210.18 — Penalties for tax evasion; reports by sheriffs
  • 210.1801 — Exempt cigarettes for members of recognized Indian tribes
  • 210.181 — Civil penalties
  • 210.185 — Prohibition on sale or distribution of cigarettes; criminal penalties; administrative sanctions; applicability
  • 210.19 — Records to be kept by division
  • 210.20 — Employees and assistants; distribution of funds
  • 210.201 — H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute facilities; establishment; funding
  • 210.205 — Cigarette tax distribution reporting
  • 210.22 — Declaration of legislative intent
  • 210.25 — Definitions
  • 210.276 — Surcharge on tobacco products
  • 210.30 — Tax on tobacco products; exemptions
  • 210.31 — Payment of taxes by electronic funds transfer
  • 210.32 — Account; online system
  • 210.35 — Distributor’s license required; application; out-of-state applicant
  • 210.40 — License fees; surety bond; application for each place of business
  • 210.405 — Initial temporary permits for other tobacco products
  • 210.45 — Issuance, expiration, and display of licenses; license not transferable
  • 210.50 — Revocation or suspension of license
  • 210.51 — Renewal of permit
  • 210.55 — Distributors; monthly reports
  • 210.60 — Books, records, and invoices to be kept and preserved; inspection by agents of division
  • 210.65 — Penalties for tax evasion
  • 210.67 — Refunds
  • 210.70 — Disposition of funds
  • 210.75 — Administration
Title 211 · FL Chapter 211 (27 sections)
  • 211.01 — Definitions
  • 211.02 — Oil production tax; basis and rate of tax; tertiary oil and mature field recovery oil
  • 211.025 — Gas production tax; basis and rate of tax
  • 211.0251 — Credit for contributions to eligible nonprofit scholarship-funding organizations
  • 211.0252 — Credit for contributions to the New Worlds Reading Initiative
  • 211.0253 — Credit for contributions to eligible charitable organizations
  • 211.0254 — Child care tax credits
  • 211.026 — Sulfur production tax; basis and rate of tax
  • 211.027 — Exemptions
  • 211.04 — Assessment upon escaped oil; claims against same
  • 211.06 — Oil and Gas Tax Trust Fund; distribution of tax proceeds
  • 211.075 — Payment of tax; returns; filing requirements; estimated tax declarations
  • 211.076 — Interest and penalties; failure to pay tax or file return; estimated tax underpayments
  • 211.09 — Collection of tax; duties of producer, operator, and purchaser
  • 211.125 — Administration of law; books and records; powers of the department; refunds; enforcement provisions; confidentiality
  • 211.13 — Tax exclusive
  • 211.18 — Records
  • 211.25 — Tax crimes; punishment for violation of this part
  • 211.30 — Definitions
  • 211.31 — Levy of tax on severance of certain solid minerals; rate, basis, and distribution of tax
  • 211.3103 — Levy of tax on severance of phosphate rock; rate, basis, and distribution of tax
  • 211.3106 — Levy of tax on severance of heavy minerals; rate, basis, and distribution of tax
  • 211.3108 — Exemptions
  • 211.32 — Tax on solid minerals; Land Reclamation Trust Fund; refund for restoration and reclamation
  • 211.33 — Administration of the tax; returns; delinquency penalties and interest; departmental inspections of records
  • 211.335 — Tax crimes; punishment for violation of this part
  • 211.34 — Local ordinances not preempted
Title 212 · FL Chapter 212 (63 sections)
  • 212.01 — Short title
  • 212.02 — Definitions
  • 212.03 — Transient rentals tax; rate, procedure, enforcement, exemptions
  • 212.0305 — Convention development taxes; intent; administration; authorization; use of proceeds
  • 212.03055 — Super majority vote required for levy at rate in excess of 2 percent under ch. 95-290
  • 212.0306 — Local option food and beverage tax; procedure for levying; authorized uses; administration
  • 212.04 — Admissions tax; rate, procedure, enforcement
  • 212.05 — Sales, storage, use tax
  • 212.0501 — Tax on diesel fuel for business purposes; purchase, storage, and use
  • 212.05011 — Combined rate for tax collected pursuant to ss. 203.01(1)(b)4. and 212.05(1)(e)1.c
  • 212.0506 — Taxation of service warranties
  • 212.051 — Equipment, machinery, and other materials for pollution control; not subject to sales or use tax
  • 212.0515 — Sales from vending machines; sales to vending machine operators; special provisions; registration; penalties
  • 212.052 — Research or development costs; exemption
  • 212.054 — Discretionary sales surtax; limitations, administration, and collection
  • 212.055 — Discretionary sales surtaxes; legislative intent; authorization and use of proceeds
  • 212.0596 — Taxation of remote sales
  • 212.05965 — Taxation of marketplace sales
  • 212.0597 — Maximum tax on fractional aircraft ownership interests
  • 212.0598 — Special provisions; air carriers
  • 212.06 — Sales, storage, use tax; collectible from dealers; “dealer” defined; dealers to collect from purchasers; legislative
  • 212.0601 — Use taxes of vehicle dealers
  • 212.0602 — Education; limited exemption
  • 212.0606 — Rental car surcharge
  • 212.07 — Sales, storage, use tax; tax added to purchase price; dealer not to absorb; liability of purchasers who cannot prove pay
  • 212.08 — Sales, rental, use, consumption, distribution, and storage tax; specified exemptions
  • 212.0801 — Qualified aircraft exemption
  • 212.081 — Legislative intent
  • 212.0821 — Legislative intent that political subdivisions and public libraries use their sales tax exemption certificates for purch
  • 212.084 — Review of exemption certificates; reissuance; specified expiration date; temporary exemption certificates
  • 212.085 — Fraudulent claim of exemption; penalties
  • 212.09 — Trade-ins deducted; exception
  • 212.096 — Sales, rental, storage, use tax; enterprise zone jobs credit against sales tax
  • 212.097 — Urban High-Crime Area Job Tax Credit Program
  • 212.098 — Rural Job Tax Credit Program
  • 212.099 — Credit for contributions to eligible nonprofit scholarship-funding organizations
  • 212.11 — Tax returns and regulations
  • 212.12 — Dealer’s credit for collecting tax; penalties for noncompliance; powers of Department of Revenue in dealing with delin
  • 212.13 — Records required to be kept; power to inspect; audit procedure
  • 212.133 — Information reports required for sales of alcoholic beverages and tobacco products
  • 212.134 — Information returns relating to payment-card and third party network transactions
  • 212.14 — Departmental powers; hearings; distress warrants; bonds; subpoenas and subpoenas duces tecum
  • 212.15 — Taxes declared state funds; penalties for failure to remit taxes; due and delinquent dates; judicial review
  • 212.151 — Jurisdiction of suits for violation of Florida Revenue Act of 1949; collection of tax; service on retailers, dealers or
  • 212.16 — Importation of goods; permits; seizure for noncompliance; procedure; review
  • 212.17 — Tax credits or refunds
  • 212.18 — Administration of law; registration of dealers; rules
  • 212.181 — Determination of business address situs, distributions, and adjustments
  • 212.183 — Rules for self-accrual of sales tax
  • 212.1831 — Credit for contributions to eligible nonprofit scholarship-funding organizations
  • 212.1832 — Credit for contributions to eligible nonprofit scholarship-funding organizations
  • 212.1833 — Credit for contributions to the New Worlds Reading Initiative
  • 212.1834 — Credit for contributions to eligible charitable organizations
  • 212.1835 — Child care tax credits
  • 212.184 — Rule of construction; disclosure of privileged information
  • 212.185 — Sales tax hotline
  • 212.186 — Registration number and resale certificate verification; toll-free number; information system; dealer education
  • 212.19 — All state agencies to cooperate in administration of law
  • 212.20 — Funds collected, disposition; additional powers of department; operational expense; refund of taxes adjudicated unconsti
  • 212.202 — Renaming and continuation of certain funds
  • 212.205 — Sales tax distribution reporting
  • 212.21 — Declaration of legislative intent
  • 212.211 — Savings provision
Title 213 · FL Chapter 213 (52 sections)
  • 213.015 — Taxpayer rights
  • 213.018 — Taxpayer problem resolution program; taxpayer assistance orders
  • 213.025 — Audits, inspections, and interviews
  • 213.05 — Department of Revenue; control and administration of revenue laws
  • 213.051 — Service of subpoenas
  • 213.053 — Confidentiality and information sharing
  • 213.0532 — Information-sharing agreements with financial institutions
  • 213.0535 — Registration Information Sharing and Exchange Program
  • 213.0537 — Electronic notification with affirmative consent
  • 213.055 — Declared emergency; waiver or suspension of specified revenue laws and other requirements
  • 213.06 — Rules of department; circumstances requiring emergency rules
  • 213.071 — Certification under seal of certain records by executive director
  • 213.10 — Deposit of tax moneys collected
  • 213.12 — Certain state-chartered financial institutions; immunity from certain state and local taxes
  • 213.13 — Electronic remittance and distribution of funds collected by clerks of the court
  • 213.131 — Clerks of the Court Trust Fund within the Department of Revenue
  • 213.21 — Informal conferences; compromises
  • 213.22 — Technical assistance advisements
  • 213.2201 — Publications by the department
  • 213.23 — Consent agreements extending the period subject to assessment or available for refund
  • 213.235 — Determination of interest on deficiencies
  • 213.24 — Accrual of penalties and interest on deficiencies; deficiency billing costs
  • 213.25 — Refunds; credits; right of setoff
  • 213.255 — Interest
  • 213.256 — Simplified Sales and Use Tax Administration Act
  • 213.26 — Contracts with county tax collectors
  • 213.27 — Contracts with debt collection agencies and certain vendors
  • 213.28 — Contracts with private auditors
  • 213.285 — Certified audits
  • 213.29 — Failure to collect and pay over tax or attempt to evade or defeat tax
  • 213.295 — Automated sales suppression devices
  • 213.30 — Compensation for information relating to a violation of the tax laws
  • 213.34 — Authority to audit
  • 213.345 — Tolling of periods during an audit
  • 213.35 — Books and records
  • 213.37 — Authority to require sworn statements
  • 213.50 — Failure to comply; revocation of corporate charter or license to operate a public lodging establishment or public food s
  • 213.67 — Garnishment
  • 213.68 — Garnishment; collecting entity of counties which self-administer collection of tourist development tax
  • 213.69 — Authority to issue warrants
  • 213.692 — Integrated enforcement authority
  • 213.70 — Taxpayers’ escrow requirement
  • 213.73 — Manner and conditions of sale of property subject of a levy by the Department of Revenue
  • 213.731 — Collection action; notice; taxpayer’s protest and review rights
  • 213.732 — Jeopardy findings and assessments
  • 213.733 — Satisfaction of warrant
  • 213.74 — Certificate of sale; deed of real property; legal effect
  • 213.75 — Application of payments
  • 213.755 — Filing of returns and payment of taxes by electronic means
  • 213.756 — Funds collected are state tax funds
  • 213.757 — Willful failure to pay over funds or destruction of records by agent
  • 213.758 — Transfer of tax liabilities
Title 215 · FL Chapter 215 (151 sections)
  • 215.01 — Fiscal year
  • 215.02 — Manner of paying money into the Treasury
  • 215.03 — Party to be reimbursed on reversal of judgment for state
  • 215.04 — Department of Financial Services to report delinquents
  • 215.05 — Department of Financial Services to certify accounts of delinquents
  • 215.06 — Certified accounts of delinquents as evidence
  • 215.07 — Preference of state in case of insolvency
  • 215.08 — Delinquent collectors to be reported to state attorney
  • 215.09 — Delinquent collectors; forfeiture of commissions
  • 215.10 — Delinquent collectors; suspension
  • 215.11 — Defaulting officers; Department of Financial Services to report to clerk
  • 215.12 — Defaulting officers; duty of clerk
  • 215.15 — School appropriations to have priority
  • 215.16 — Appropriations from General Revenue Fund for public schools, state institutions of higher learning, and community colleg
  • 215.179 — Solicitation of payment
  • 215.18 — Transfers between funds; limitation
  • 215.195 — Agency deposits relating to the Statewide Cost Allocation Plan
  • 215.196 — Architects Incidental Trust Fund; creation; assessment
  • 215.197 — Federal Grants Trust Fund
  • 215.198 — Operating Trust Fund
  • 215.199 — Audit and Warrant Clearing Trust Fund
  • 215.20 — Certain income and certain trust funds to contribute to the General Revenue Fund
  • 215.211 — Service charge; elimination or reduction for specified proceeds
  • 215.22 — Certain income and certain trust funds exempt
  • 215.23 — When contributions to be made
  • 215.24 — Exemptions where federal contributions or private grants
  • 215.245 — Contracts with Federal Government; indemnification authorized in certain circumstances
  • 215.25 — Manner of contributions; rules and regulations
  • 215.26 — Repayment of funds paid into State Treasury through error
  • 215.28 — United States securities, purchase by state and county officers and employees; deductions from salary
  • 215.31 — State funds; deposit in State Treasury
  • 215.311 — State funds; exceptions
  • 215.32 — State funds; segregation
  • 215.3206 — Trust funds; termination or re-creation
  • 215.3207 — Trust funds; establishment; criteria
  • 215.3208 — Trust funds; legislative review
  • 215.321 — Regulatory Trust Fund
  • 215.322 — Acceptance of credit cards, charge cards, debit cards, or electronic funds transfers by state agencies, units of local g
  • 215.34 — State funds; noncollectible items; procedure
  • 215.35 — State funds; warrants and their issuance
  • 215.36 — State funds; laws not repealed
  • 215.37 — Department of Business and Professional Regulation and the boards to be financed from fees collected; deposit of funds;
  • 215.405 — State agencies and the judicial branch authorized to collect costs of fingerprinting
  • 215.42 — Purchases from appropriations, proof of delivery
  • 215.422 — Payments, warrants, and invoices; processing time limits; dispute resolution; agency or judicial branch compliance
  • 215.425 — Extra compensation claims prohibited; bonuses; severance pay
  • 215.43 — Public bonds, notes, and other securities
  • 215.431 — Issuance of bond anticipation notes
  • 215.44 — Board of Administration; powers and duties in relation to investment of trust funds
  • 215.4401 — Board of Administration; public record exemptions
  • 215.441 — Board of Administration; appointment of executive director
  • 215.442 — Executive director; reporting requirements; public meeting
  • 215.444 — Investment Advisory Council
  • 215.45 — Sale and exchange of securities
  • 215.47 — Investments; authorized securities; loan of securities
  • 215.4701 — Trademarks, copyrights, or patents
  • 215.4702 — Investments in publicly traded companies operating in Northern Ireland
  • 215.471 — Divestiture by the State Board of Administration; reporting requirements
  • 215.472 — Prohibited investments
  • 215.4725 — Prohibited investments; companies and other entities that boycott Israel
  • 215.473 — Divestiture by the State Board of Administration; Sudan; Iran
  • 215.4735 — Prohibited foreign investments
  • 215.474 — Analyses of technology and growth investments
  • 215.475 — Investment policy statement
  • 215.4754 — Ethics requirements for investment advisers and managers and members of the Investment Advisory Council
  • 215.4755 — Certification and disclosure requirements for investment advisers and managers
  • 215.48 — Consent and ratification of appropriate board, agency, or of the judicial branch
  • 215.49 — Making funds available for investment
  • 215.50 — Custody of securities purchased; income
  • 215.51 — Investment accounts; changes, notice, etc
  • 215.515 — Investment accounts; charges for services
  • 215.52 — Rules and regulations
  • 215.53 — Powers of existing officers and boards, the judicial branch, and agencies not affected
  • 215.55 — Federal Use of State Lands Trust Fund; county distribution
  • 215.551 — Federal Use of State Lands Trust Fund; county distribution; requests by counties
  • 215.552 — Federal Use of State Lands Trust Fund; land within military installations; county distribution
  • 215.555 — Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund
  • 215.5551 — Reinsurance to Assist Policyholders program
  • 215.556 — Exemption
  • 215.557 — Reports of insured values
  • 215.5586 — My Safe Florida Home Program
  • 215.5587 — My Safe Florida Home Program; public records exemption
  • 215.55871 — My Safe Florida Condominium Pilot Program
  • 215.5588 — Florida Disaster Recovery Program
  • 215.559 — Hurricane Loss Mitigation Program
  • 215.5595 — Insurance Capital Build-Up Incentive Program
  • 215.55952 — Triennial report on economic impact of a 1-in-100-year hurricane
  • 215.56005 — Tobacco Settlement Financing Corporation
  • 215.5602 — James and Esther King Biomedical Research Program
  • 215.56021 — Exemptions from public records and public meetings requirements; peer review panels
  • 215.57 — Short title
  • 215.58 — Definitions relating to State Bond Act
  • 215.59 — State bonds, revenue bonds; issuance
  • 215.60 — State bonds for financing road acquisition and construction
  • 215.605 — State bonds for right-of-way acquisition or bridge construction
  • 215.61 — State system of public education capital outlay bonds
  • 215.615 — Fixed-guideway transportation systems funding
  • 215.616 — State bonds for federal aid highway construction
  • 215.617 — Bonds for state-funded infrastructure bank
  • 215.618 — Bonds for acquisition and improvement of land, water areas, and related property interests and resources
  • 215.619 — Bonds for Everglades restoration
  • 215.62 — Division of Bond Finance
  • 215.63 — Transfer to division of assets and liabilities of the Revenue Bond Department of Development Commission
  • 215.64 — Powers of the division
  • 215.65 — Bond Fee Trust Fund, expenditures; schedule of fees
  • 215.655 — Arbitrage Compliance Program, expenditures; schedule of fees
  • 215.66 — Request for issuance of bonds; procedure requirements
  • 215.67 — Issuance of state bonds
  • 215.68 — Issuance of bonds; form; maturity date, execution, sale
  • 215.681 — ESG bonds; prohibitions
  • 215.684 — Limitation on engaging services of securities broker or bond underwriter convicted of fraud
  • 215.69 — State Board of Administration to administer funds
  • 215.70 — State Board of Administration to act in case of defaults
  • 215.71 — Application of bond proceeds
  • 215.72 — Covenants with bondholders
  • 215.73 — Approval of bond issue by State Board of Administration
  • 215.74 — Pledge of constitutional fuel tax; consent by counties and state agency supervising state road system
  • 215.75 — Bonds securities for public bodies
  • 215.76 — Exemption of bonds from taxation
  • 215.77 — Trust funds
  • 215.78 — Remedies
  • 215.79 — Refunding bonds
  • 215.80 — Annual report
  • 215.81 — Pledge of state
  • 215.82 — Validation; when required
  • 215.821 — Issuance of bonds by state agencies
  • 215.83 — Construction of State Bond Act
  • 215.835 — Rulemaking authority
  • 215.84 — Government bonds; maximum rate of interest
  • 215.845 — Certain special laws establishing interest rates on bonds prohibited
  • 215.85 — Direct deposit of public funds
  • 215.855 — Investment manager external communication
  • 215.86 — Management systems and controls
  • 215.89 — Charts of account
  • 215.90 — Short title
  • 215.91 — Florida Financial Management Information System; board; council
  • 215.92 — Definitions relating to Florida Financial Management Information System Act
  • 215.93 — Florida Financial Management Information System
  • 215.94 — Designation, duties, and responsibilities of functional owners
  • 215.95 — Financial Management Information Board
  • 215.96 — Coordinating council and design and coordination staff
  • 215.962 — Standards for state agency use of card-based technology
  • 215.964 — Process for acquisition of commodities or services that include the use of card-based technology
  • 215.965 — Disbursement of state moneys
  • 215.966 — Refinancing of bonds
  • 215.97 — Florida Single Audit Act
  • 215.971 — Agreements funded with federal or state assistance
  • 215.98 — State debt fiscal responsibility
  • 215.981 — Audits of state agency direct-support organizations and citizen support organizations
  • 215.985 — Transparency in government spending
  • 215.986 — Gold and silver coin as legal tender
Title 216 · FL Chapter 216 (77 sections)
  • 216.011 — Definitions
  • 216.0111 — State agency contracts; required information to be provided to Department of Financial Services
  • 216.0113 — Preferred pricing clauses in state contracts; compliance required
  • 216.012 — Long-range financial outlook
  • 216.013 — Long-range program plan
  • 216.015 — Capital facilities planning and budgeting process
  • 216.0152 — Inventory of state-owned facilities or state-occupied facilities
  • 216.0153 — Comprehensive state-owned real property system
  • 216.0158 — Assessment of facility needs
  • 216.016 — Evaluation of plans; determination of financing method
  • 216.023 — Legislative budget requests to be furnished to Legislature by agencies
  • 216.0236 — Agency fees for regulatory services or oversight; criteria
  • 216.031 — Target budget request
  • 216.043 — Budgets for fixed capital outlay
  • 216.044 — Budget evaluation by Department of Management Services
  • 216.0442 — Truth in bonding; definitions; summary of state debt; statement of proposed financing; truth-in-bonding statement
  • 216.052 — Community budget requests; appropriations
  • 216.053 — Summary information in the General Appropriations Act; construction of such information
  • 216.065 — Fiscal impact statements on actions affecting the budget
  • 216.071 — Reports of Legislature
  • 216.081 — Data on legislative and judicial branch expenses
  • 216.102 — Filing of financial information; handling by Chief Financial Officer; penalty for noncompliance
  • 216.103 — Agencies receiving federal funds; designation of coordinating official; duties
  • 216.121 — Information to be furnished to the Executive Office of the Governor
  • 216.131 — Public hearings on legislative budgets
  • 216.133 — Definitions; ss. 216.133-216.138
  • 216.134 — Consensus estimating conferences; general provisions
  • 216.135 — Use of official information by state agencies and the judicial branch
  • 216.136 — Consensus estimating conferences; duties and principals
  • 216.1366 — Contract terms
  • 216.137 — Sessions of consensus estimating conferences; workpapers
  • 216.138 — Authority to request additional analysis of legislative proposals
  • 216.141 — Budget system procedures; planning and programming by state agencies
  • 216.151 — Duties of the Executive Office of the Governor
  • 216.162 — Governor’s recommended budget to be furnished Legislature; copies to members
  • 216.163 — Governor’s recommended budget; form and content; declaration of collective bargaining impasses
  • 216.164 — Governor’s recommended budget; supporting information
  • 216.165 — Governor’s recommended revenues
  • 216.166 — Governor’s recommended revenues; supporting information
  • 216.167 — Governor’s recommendations
  • 216.168 — Governor’s amended revenue or budget recommendations; optional and mandatory
  • 216.172 — Meetings of legislative appropriations committees
  • 216.176 — Truth in budgeting
  • 216.177 — Appropriations acts, statement of intent, violation, notice, review and objection procedures
  • 216.178 — General Appropriations Act; format; procedure
  • 216.179 — Reinstatement of vetoed appropriations by administrative means prohibited
  • 216.181 — Approved budgets for operations and fixed capital outlay
  • 216.1811 — Approved operating budgets and appropriations for the legislative branch
  • 216.1815 — Agency incentive and savings program
  • 216.182 — Approval of fixed capital outlay program plan
  • 216.1826 — Activity-based planning and budgeting
  • 216.1827 — Requirements for performance measures and standards
  • 216.192 — Release of appropriations; revision of budgets
  • 216.195 — Impoundment of funds; restricted
  • 216.201 — Services of Executive Office of the Governor to be available to Legislature
  • 216.212 — Budgets for federal funds; restrictions on expenditure of federal funds
  • 216.216 — Court settlement funds negotiated by the state
  • 216.221 — Appropriations as maximum appropriations; adjustment of budgets to avoid or eliminate deficits
  • 216.222 — Budget Stabilization Fund; criteria for withdrawing moneys
  • 216.231 — Release of certain classified appropriations
  • 216.241 — Initiation or commencement of new programs; approval; expenditure of certain revenues
  • 216.251 — Salary appropriations; limitations
  • 216.262 — Authorized positions
  • 216.271 — Revolving funds
  • 216.272 — Working Capital Trust Funds
  • 216.273 — Administered Funds Trust Fund
  • 216.275 — Clearing accounts
  • 216.292 — Appropriations nontransferable; exceptions
  • 216.301 — Appropriations; undisbursed balances
  • 216.311 — Unauthorized contracts in excess of appropriations; penalty
  • 216.313 — Contract appropriation; requirements
  • 216.321 — Construction of chapter 216 as unauthorized expenditures and disbursements
  • 216.345 — Professional or other organization membership dues; payment
  • 216.347 — Disbursement of grants and aids appropriations for lobbying prohibited
  • 216.3475 — Maximum rate of payment for services funded under General Appropriations Act or awarded on a noncompetitive basis
  • 216.348 — Fixed capital outlay grants and aids appropriations to certain nonprofit entities
  • 216.351 — Subsequent inconsistent laws
Title 217 · FL Chapter 217 (17 sections)
  • 217.001 — Permanent state plan of operation for receipt of federal surplus property
  • 217.01 — Purpose
  • 217.02 — Definitions
  • 217.03 — Authority to contract with federal agencies
  • 217.04 — Department of Management Services as state agency to negotiate with federal agency
  • 217.045 — Department of Management Services; assistance to state agencies
  • 217.05 — Continuation of commitments made by Development Commission
  • 217.07 — Transfer of surplus property assets to department
  • 217.11 — Authority for warehouses and other facilities
  • 217.12 — Departmental authority relative to additional restrictions
  • 217.13 — Officers and employees
  • 217.15 — Assembly and distribution of information
  • 217.16 — Authority granted to other public entities of the state
  • 217.17 — Designation of officers or employees in connection with bids and payment of moneys
  • 217.18 — Exemption from compliance with laws relative to sealed bids
  • 217.19 — Terms for contracts pursuant to ss. 217.03 and 217.16
  • 217.20 — Construction of ch. 65-173
Title 218 · FL Chapter 218 (73 sections)
  • 218.01 — Authority to accept benefits of bankruptcy acts
  • 218.02 — Disposition of unused funds relating to the refunding of bonds
  • 218.03 — Creation of political subdivisions validated
  • 218.04 — Proceedings relating to certain bonds sold, etc., to Federal Government validated
  • 218.05 — Certain bonds sold to Federal Government, etc., validated
  • 218.06 — Transfer of funds by county commissioners with relation to public works grants
  • 218.075 — Reduction or waiver of permit processing fees
  • 218.076 — Reduction or waiver of certain permit processing fees
  • 218.077 — Wage and employment benefits requirements by political subdivisions; restrictions
  • 218.078 — Minimum wage establishment by tribal governments
  • 218.12 — Appropriations to offset reductions in ad valorem tax revenue in fiscally constrained counties
  • 218.125 — Offset for tax loss associated with certain constitutional amendments affecting fiscally constrained counties
  • 218.135 — Offset for tax loss associated with reductions in value of certain citrus fruit packing and processing equipment
  • 218.136 — Offset for ad valorem revenue loss affecting fiscally constrained counties
  • 218.20 — Short title
  • 218.21 — Definitions
  • 218.215 — Revenue sharing trust funds; creation and distribution
  • 218.23 — Revenue sharing with units of local government
  • 218.245 — Revenue sharing; apportionment
  • 218.25 — Limitation of shared funds; holders of bonds protected; limitation on use of second guaranteed entitlement for counties
  • 218.26 — Administration; distribution schedule
  • 218.30 — Short title
  • 218.31 — Definitions
  • 218.32 — Annual financial reports; local governmental entities
  • 218.3215 — County transportation project data
  • 218.322 — County and municipal transportation program data
  • 218.33 — Local governmental entities; establishment of uniform fiscal years and accounting practices and procedures
  • 218.335 — Local governmental entity; authority to charge interest on overdue payments
  • 218.35 — County fee officers; financial matters
  • 218.36 — County officers; record and report of fees and disposition of same
  • 218.369 — Definitions applicable to ss. 218.37-218.386
  • 218.37 — Powers and duties of Division of Bond Finance; advisory council
  • 218.38 — Notice of bond issues required; verification
  • 218.385 — Local government bonds; sale
  • 218.386 — Bonds; finder’s fees prohibited
  • 218.39 — Annual financial audit reports
  • 218.391 — Auditor selection procedures
  • 218.40 — Short title
  • 218.401 — Purpose
  • 218.403 — Definitions
  • 218.405 — Local Government Surplus Funds Trust Fund; creation; objectives; certification; interest; rulemaking
  • 218.407 — Local government investment authority
  • 218.409 — Administration of the trust fund
  • 218.411 — Authorization for state technical and advisory assistance
  • 218.412 — Rulemaking authority
  • 218.415 — Local government investment policies
  • 218.50 — Short title
  • 218.501 — Purposes
  • 218.502 — Definition
  • 218.503 — Determination of financial emergency
  • 218.5031 — Ratification of certain municipal parking surcharges
  • 218.504 — Cessation of state action
  • 218.60 — Definitions
  • 218.61 — Local government half-cent sales tax; designated proceeds; trust fund
  • 218.62 — Distribution formulas
  • 218.63 — Participation requirements
  • 218.64 — Local government half-cent sales tax; uses; limitations
  • 218.65 — Emergency distribution
  • 218.66 — Special distributions for contested property taxes
  • 218.67 — Distribution for fiscally constrained counties
  • 218.70 — Popular name
  • 218.71 — Purpose and policy
  • 218.72 — Definitions
  • 218.73 — Timely payment for nonconstruction services
  • 218.735 — Timely payment for purchases of construction services
  • 218.74 — Procedures for calculation of payment due dates
  • 218.75 — Mandatory interest
  • 218.755 — Prompt processing of change orders
  • 218.76 — Improper payment request or invoice; resolution of disputes
  • 218.77 — Payment by federal funds
  • 218.78 — Report of interest
  • 218.79 — Repeal of conflicting laws
  • 218.80 — Public Bid Disclosure Act
Title 219 · FL Chapter 219 (10 sections)
Title 220 · FL Chapter 220 (94 sections)
  • 220.02 — Legislative intent
  • 220.03 — Definitions
  • 220.11 — Tax imposed
  • 220.1105 — Tax imposed; automatic refunds and downward adjustments to tax rates
  • 220.12 — “Net income” defined
  • 220.13 — “Adjusted federal income” defined
  • 220.131 — Adjusted federal income; affiliated groups
  • 220.14 — Exemption
  • 220.15 — Apportionment of adjusted federal income
  • 220.151 — Apportionment; methods for special industries
  • 220.152 — Apportionment; other methods
  • 220.153 — Apportionment by sales factor
  • 220.16 — Allocation of nonbusiness income
  • 220.181 — Enterprise zone jobs credit
  • 220.182 — Enterprise zone property tax credit
  • 220.183 — Community contribution tax credit
  • 220.184 — Hazardous waste facility tax credit
  • 220.1845 — Contaminated site rehabilitation tax credit
  • 220.185 — State housing tax credit
  • 220.186 — Credit for Florida alternative minimum tax
  • 220.1875 — Credit for contributions to eligible nonprofit scholarship-funding organizations
  • 220.1876 — Credit for contributions to the New Worlds Reading Initiative
  • 220.1877 — Credit for contributions to eligible charitable organizations
  • 220.18775 — Credit for contributions to eligible charitable organizations for the Home Away From Home Tax Credit
  • 220.1878 — Credit for contributions to the Live Local Program
  • 220.1895 — Rural Job Tax Credit and Urban High-Crime Area Job Tax Credit
  • 220.19 — Child care tax credits
  • 220.191 — Capital investment tax credit
  • 220.1915 — Credit for qualified railroad reconstruction or replacement expenditures
  • 220.195 — Emergency excise tax credit
  • 220.196 — Research and development tax credit
  • 220.198 — Experiential learning tax credit program
  • 220.199 — Residential graywater system tax credit
  • 220.1991 — Credit for manufacturing of human breast milk derived human milk fortifiers
  • 220.1992 — Individuals with Unique Abilities Tax Credit Program
  • 220.21 — Returns and records; regulations
  • 220.211 — Penalties; incomplete return
  • 220.22 — Returns; filing requirement
  • 220.221 — Returns; signing and verification
  • 220.222 — Returns; time and place for filing
  • 220.23 — Federal returns
  • 220.24 — Declaration of estimated tax
  • 220.241 — Declaration; time for filing
  • 220.242 — Declaration as return
  • 220.31 — Payments; due date
  • 220.32 — Payments of tentative tax
  • 220.33 — Payments of estimated tax
  • 220.34 — Special rules relating to estimated tax
  • 220.41 — Taxable year
  • 220.42 — Methods of accounting
  • 220.43 — Reference to federal determinations
  • 220.44 — Adjustments
  • 220.51 — Promulgation of rules and regulations
  • 220.52 — Arrangement and captions
  • 220.54 — Administration of law
  • 220.62 — Definitions
  • 220.63 — Franchise tax imposed on banks and savings associations
  • 220.64 — Other provisions applicable to franchise tax
  • 220.65 — Discharge of tax liability
  • 220.701 — Collection authority
  • 220.703 — Assessment
  • 220.705 — Limitation on assessment
  • 220.707 — Notice and demand
  • 220.709 — Deficiency determinations
  • 220.711 — Notice of deficiency
  • 220.713 — Assessment after notice
  • 220.715 — Waiver of restrictions on assessment
  • 220.717 — Protest of proposed assessment
  • 220.719 — Jeopardy assessments
  • 220.721 — Overpayments; credits
  • 220.723 — Overpayments; interest
  • 220.725 — Overpayments; refunds
  • 220.727 — Limitations on claims for refund
  • 220.731 — Investigations
  • 220.733 — Actions to recover taxes
  • 220.735 — Production of witnesses and records
  • 220.737 — Amounts less than $1
  • 220.739 — Procedure for notices
  • 220.801 — Penalties; failure to timely file returns
  • 220.803 — Penalties; failure to pay tax
  • 220.805 — Assessment of penalties
  • 220.807 — Determination of rate of interest
  • 220.809 — Interest on deficiencies
  • 220.813 — Liens; attachment and notice
  • 220.815 — Liens; priority and filing
  • 220.819 — Liens; release
  • 220.821 — Liens; certificates of release
  • 220.823 — Liens; costs
  • 220.825 — Liens; foreclosure
  • 220.827 — Collection procedures
  • 220.829 — Liability of transferees
  • 220.901 — Willful and fraudulent acts
  • 220.903 — Willful failure to pay over
  • 220.905 — Aiding and abetting
Title 222 · FL Chapter 222 (25 sections)
  • 222.01 — Designation of homestead by owner before levy
  • 222.02 — Designation of homestead after levy
  • 222.03 — Survey at instance of dissatisfied creditor
  • 222.04 — Sale after survey
  • 222.05 — Setting apart leasehold
  • 222.061 — Method of exempting personal property; inventory
  • 222.07 — Defendant’s rights of selection
  • 222.08 — Jurisdiction to set apart homestead and exemption
  • 222.09 — Injunction to prevent sale
  • 222.10 — Jurisdiction to subject property claimed to be exempt
  • 222.11 — Exemption of wages from garnishment
  • 222.13 — Life insurance policies; disposition of proceeds
  • 222.14 — Exemption of cash surrender value of life insurance policies and annuity contracts from legal process
  • 222.15 — Wages or reemployment assistance or unemployment compensation payments due deceased employee may be paid spouse or certa
  • 222.16 — Wages or reemployment assistance or unemployment compensation payments so paid not subject to administration
  • 222.17 — Manifesting and evidencing domicile in Florida
  • 222.18 — Exempting disability income benefits from legal processes
  • 222.20 — Nonavailability of federal bankruptcy exemptions
  • 222.201 — Availability of federal bankruptcy exemptions
  • 222.21 — Exemption of pension money and certain tax-exempt funds or accounts from legal processes
  • 222.22 — Exemption of assets in qualified tuition programs, medical savings accounts, Coverdell education savings accounts, and h
  • 222.25 — Other individual property of natural persons exempt from legal process
  • 222.26 — Additional exemptions from legal process concerning medical debt
  • 222.29 — No exemption for fraudulent transfers
  • 222.30 — Fraudulent asset conversions
Title 23 · FL Chapter 23 (9 sections)
  • 23.12 — Short title
  • 23.121 — Policy and purpose
  • 23.1225 — Mutual aid agreements
  • 23.1231 — Florida Mutual Aid Plan; powers and duties
  • 23.127 — Powers, privileges, and immunities
  • 23.20 — Legislative intent with respect to paperwork reduction
  • 23.21 — Definitions
  • 23.22 — Paperwork reduction; activities of departments
  • 23.30 — Florida Customer Service Standards Act
Title 238 · FL Chapter 238 (30 sections)
  • 238.01 — Definitions
  • 238.02 — Name and date of establishment
  • 238.021 — Teachers’ Retirement System; plans
  • 238.03 — Administration
  • 238.05 — Membership
  • 238.06 — Membership application, creditable service, and time for making contributions
  • 238.07 — Regular benefits; survivor benefits
  • 238.071 — Social security benefits; determination of retirement allowance
  • 238.072 — Special service provisions for extension personnel
  • 238.08 — Optional benefits
  • 238.09 — Method of financing
  • 238.10 — Management of funds
  • 238.11 — Collection of contributions
  • 238.12 — Duties of employers
  • 238.13 — Limitation on membership
  • 238.14 — Protection against fraud
  • 238.15 — Exemption of funds from taxation, execution, and assignment
  • 238.16 — Penalties
  • 238.17 — Employees of nonprofit professional association or corporation of teachers functioning on a statewide basis; intent
  • 238.171 — Monthly allowance; when made
  • 238.172 — Proof required
  • 238.173 — Monthly allowance to widows or widowers of pensioners
  • 238.174 — Appropriation for monthly allowance to incapacitated teachers
  • 238.175 — Members with prior service in federally operated state schools; eligibility for special credits
  • 238.181 — Reemployment after retirement; conditions and limitations
  • 238.183 — Developmental research school and Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind instructional personnel; reemployment after
  • 238.184 — Charter school instructional personnel; reemployment after retirement
  • 238.31 — Provision for modification of plan E
  • 238.32 — Service credit in disputed cases
  • 238.325 — Statements of purpose and intent and other provisions required for qualification under the Internal Revenue Code of the
Title 24 · FL Chapter 24 (28 sections)
  • 24.101 — Short title
  • 24.102 — Purpose and intent
  • 24.103 — Definitions
  • 24.104 — Department; purpose
  • 24.105 — Powers and duties of department
  • 24.1051 — Exemptions from inspection or copying of public records
  • 24.1055 — Prohibition against sale of lottery tickets to minors; posting of signs; penalties
  • 24.107 — Advertising and promotion of lottery games
  • 24.108 — Division of Security; duties; security report
  • 24.109 — Administrative procedure
  • 24.110 — Venue
  • 24.111 — Vendors; disclosure and contract requirements
  • 24.112 — Retailers of lottery tickets; authorization of vending machines to dispense lottery tickets
  • 24.113 — Minority participation
  • 24.114 — Bank deposits and control of lottery transactions
  • 24.115 — Payment of prizes
  • 24.1153 — Assignment of prizes payable in installments
  • 24.116 — Unlawful purchase of lottery tickets; penalty
  • 24.117 — Unlawful sale of lottery tickets; penalty
  • 24.118 — Other prohibited acts; penalties
  • 24.119 — Use of word “lottery” in corporate name
  • 24.120 — Financial matters; Operating Trust Fund; interagency cooperation
  • 24.121 — Allocation of revenues and expenditure of funds for public education
  • 24.1211 — Maturity of public school construction bonds issued pursuant to ch. 97-384
  • 24.1215 — Duty to inform public of lottery’s significance to education
  • 24.122 — Exemption from taxation; state preemption; inapplicability of other laws
  • 24.123 — Annual audit of financial records and reports
  • 24.124 — Responsibility for ticket accuracy; department, retailer, and vendor liability
Title 243 · FL Chapter 243 (51 sections)
  • 243.18 — Short title
  • 243.19 — Findings and declaration of necessity
  • 243.20 — Definitions
  • 243.21 — Creation of educational facilities authorities
  • 243.22 — Powers of authority
  • 243.23 — Payment of expenses
  • 243.24 — Acquisition of real property
  • 243.25 — Conveyance of title or interest to participating institutions
  • 243.26 — Notes of authority
  • 243.27 — Revenue bonds
  • 243.28 — Security of bondholders
  • 243.29 — Payment of bonds
  • 243.30 — Rates, rents, fees, and charges
  • 243.31 — Trust funds
  • 243.32 — Remedies of bondholders
  • 243.33 — Tax exemption
  • 243.34 — Refunding bonds
  • 243.35 — Legal investment
  • 243.36 — Reports
  • 243.37 — State agreement
  • 243.38 — Alternate means
  • 243.39 — Liberal construction
  • 243.40 — Provisions of part controlling
  • 243.50 — Short title
  • 243.51 — Findings and declarations
  • 243.52 — Definitions
  • 243.53 — Creation of Higher Educational Facilities Financing Authority
  • 243.54 — Powers of the authority
  • 243.55 — Payment of expenses
  • 243.56 — Acquisition of real property
  • 243.57 — Conveyance of title or interest to participating institutions
  • 243.58 — Criteria and requirements
  • 243.59 — Approval required to issue bonds
  • 243.60 — Notes of authority
  • 243.61 — Revenue bonds
  • 243.62 — Covenants
  • 243.63 — Validation
  • 243.64 — Act furnishes full authority for issuance of bonds
  • 243.65 — Security of bondholders
  • 243.66 — Payment of bonds
  • 243.67 — Rates, rents, fees, and charges
  • 243.68 — Trust funds
  • 243.69 — Remedies of bondholders
  • 243.70 — Tax exemption
  • 243.71 — Refunding bonds
  • 243.72 — Legal investment
  • 243.73 — Reports; audits
  • 243.74 — State agreement
  • 243.75 — Alternative means
  • 243.76 — Liberal construction
  • 243.77 — Act controlling
Title 25 · FL Chapter 25 (26 sections)
  • 25.025 — Headquarters
  • 25.031 — Supreme Court authorized to receive and answer certificates as to state law from federal appellate courts
  • 25.032 — Certification of questions of law; rules and regulations
  • 25.041 — Power to execute its judgments, decrees, and determinations
  • 25.073 — Retired justices or judges assigned to temporary duty; additional compensation; appropriation
  • 25.075 — Uniform case reporting system
  • 25.077 — Negligence case settlements and jury verdicts; case reporting
  • 25.181 — Record of territorial court of appeals
  • 25.201 — Deputy clerk of Supreme Court
  • 25.211 — Location of clerk’s office
  • 25.221 — Maintenance of books, records, and other materials
  • 25.241 — Clerk of Supreme Court; assistants; duties relating to filing fees and court documents
  • 25.251 — Marshal of Supreme Court; appointment; qualification; authority
  • 25.262 — Duties of marshal, process
  • 25.271 — Custody of Supreme Court Building and grounds
  • 25.291 — Fines for contempt
  • 25.301 — Decisions to be filed; copies to be furnished
  • 25.341 — Library of Supreme Court, custodian
  • 25.375 — Identification of related cases
  • 25.382 — State courts system
  • 25.383 — Standards for court reporters; procedures; rules of professional conduct, discipline, and training
  • 25.384 — Court Education Trust Fund
  • 25.3842 — Federal Grants Trust Fund
  • 25.3844 — Administrative Trust Fund
  • 25.385 — Standards for instruction of circuit and county court judges in handling domestic violence and dependency cases
  • 25.386 — Foreign language court interpreters
Title 250 · FL Chapter 250 (83 sections)
  • 250.01 — Definitions
  • 250.02 — Militia
  • 250.03 — Military law of the state
  • 250.04 — Naval militia; marine corps
  • 250.05 — Department of Military Affairs
  • 250.06 — Commander in chief
  • 250.07 — Florida National Guard; composition; departmental organization
  • 250.08 — Florida National Guard organized
  • 250.09 — Appropriations, property, and equipment
  • 250.10 — Appointment and duties of the Adjutant General
  • 250.115 — Department of Military Affairs direct-support organization
  • 250.116 — Soldiers and Airmen Assistance Program
  • 250.12 — Appointment of commissioned and warrant officers
  • 250.16 — Authority to incur charge against state
  • 250.175 — Trust funds; authorization; name; purpose
  • 250.18 — Commissioned officers and warrant officers; clothing and uniform allowance
  • 250.19 — Expenses for travel on military business
  • 250.20 — Armory operations; allowances
  • 250.22 — Retirement
  • 250.23 — Pay for state active duty
  • 250.24 — Pay and expenses; appropriation; procedures
  • 250.245 — Florida National Guard Joint Enlistment Enhancement Program
  • 250.25 — Governor and Chief Financial Officer authorized to borrow money
  • 250.26 — Transfer of funds
  • 250.28 — Military support to civil authorities
  • 250.29 — Duty of officer receiving order to provide emergency aid to civil authority; penalty for failure to comply
  • 250.30 — Orders of civil authorities; tactical direction of troops; efforts to disperse before attack
  • 250.31 — Liability of members of the organized militia; defense of actions or proceedings
  • 250.32 — Commanding officer’s control of arms sales
  • 250.33 — Powers of commanding officer on state active duty
  • 250.34 — Injury or death on state active duty
  • 250.341 — Cancellation of health insurance
  • 250.35 — Military justice
  • 250.351 — Courts-martial; jurisdiction
  • 250.36 — Mandates and process
  • 250.37 — Expenses of courts-martial
  • 250.375 — Medical officer authorization
  • 250.38 — Liability
  • 250.39 — Penalty for contempt
  • 250.40 — Armory Board; creation; membership, terms, and compensation; duties and responsibilities
  • 250.43 — Wearing of uniform and insignia of rank; penalty
  • 250.44 — Military equipment regulations; penalties
  • 250.45 — Military uniform discriminated against; penalty
  • 250.46 — Salaried employees not entitled to additional pay
  • 250.47 — Governor’s permission for unit to leave state
  • 250.48 — Leaves of absence
  • 250.481 — Reserve components; employment discrimination prohibited
  • 250.4815 — Professional license of servicemember not to expire while member on federal active duty
  • 250.482 — Troops ordered into state active service; not to be penalized by employers and postsecondary institutions
  • 250.483 — Active duty; licensure or qualification
  • 250.49 — Annual encampment
  • 250.51 — Insult to troops; penalty
  • 250.52 — Unlawful to persuade citizens not to enlist; penalty
  • 250.5201 — Stay of proceedings where troops called out into state active duty or active duty
  • 250.5202 — Actions for rent or possession by landlord during state active duty
  • 250.5204 — Installment contracts for purchase of property; penalty
  • 250.5205 — Mortgages, trust deeds, etc.; penalty
  • 250.5206 — Family Readiness Program
  • 250.531 — Drug interdiction responsibilities
  • 250.533 — Purpose
  • 250.534 — Entry into force and withdrawal
  • 250.535 — Definitions; mutual assistance and support
  • 250.536 — Responsibilities
  • 250.537 — Delegation
  • 250.538 — Limitations
  • 250.539 — Construction and severability
  • 250.5395 — Provision of training and facilities to support illegal drug reduction
  • 250.540 — Purposes
  • 250.541 — Entry into force and withdrawal
  • 250.542 — Definitions; mutual aid
  • 250.543 — Delegation
  • 250.544 — Limitations
  • 250.545 — Construction and severability
  • 250.546 — Payment of liability to responding state
  • 250.547 — Status, rights, and benefits of forces engaged pursuant to compact
  • 250.548 — Injury or death while going to or returning from duty
  • 250.549 — Authority of responding state required to relieve from assignment or reassign officers
  • 250.80 — Popular name
  • 250.81 — Legislative intent
  • 250.82 — Applicability of state and federal law
  • 250.83 — Construction of part
  • 250.84 — Florida Uniformed Servicemembers Protection Act; rights of servicemembers; incorporation by reference
  • 250.905 — Penalty
Title 251 · FL Chapter 251 (2 sections)
  • 251.001 — Florida State Guard Act
  • 251.002 — Florida State Guard applicants; criminal history record checks
Title 252 · FL Chapter 252 (87 sections)
  • 252.31 — Short title
  • 252.311 — Legislative intent
  • 252.32 — Policy and purpose
  • 252.33 — Limitations
  • 252.34 — Definitions
  • 252.35 — Emergency management powers; Division of Emergency Management
  • 252.351 — Mandatory reporting of certain incidents by political subdivisions
  • 252.355 — Registry of persons with special needs; notice; registration program
  • 252.356 — Emergency and disaster planning provisions to assist persons with disabilities or limitations
  • 252.3568 — Emergency sheltering of persons with pets
  • 252.3569 — Florida state agricultural response team; emergency response to animal, agricultural, and vector issues
  • 252.357 — Monitoring of nursing homes and assisted living facilities during disaster
  • 252.358 — Emergency-preparedness prescription medication refills
  • 252.359 — Ensuring availability of emergency supplies
  • 252.36 — Emergency management powers of the Governor
  • 252.3611 — Transparency; audits
  • 252.363 — Tolling and extension of permits and other authorizations
  • 252.365 — Emergency coordination officers; disaster-preparedness plans
  • 252.3655 — Natural hazards risks and mitigation interagency coordinating group
  • 252.37 — Financing
  • 252.371 — Emergency Management, Preparedness, and Assistance Trust Fund
  • 252.3711 — Emergency Preparedness and Response Fund
  • 252.3712 — Nonprofit Security Grant Program
  • 252.372 — Imposition and collection of surcharge
  • 252.373 — Allocation of funds; rules
  • 252.38 — Emergency management powers of political subdivisions
  • 252.381 — Information related to natural emergencies; poststorm county and municipal permitting; operations
  • 252.385 — Public shelter space; public records exemption
  • 252.39 — Local services
  • 252.391 — Emergency financial plans
  • 252.40 — Mutual aid arrangements
  • 252.41 — Emergency management support forces
  • 252.42 — Government equipment, services, and facilities
  • 252.422 — Restrictions on county or municipal regulations after a hurricane
  • 252.43 — Compensation
  • 252.44 — Emergency mitigation
  • 252.45 — Lease or loan of state property; transfer of state personnel
  • 252.46 — Orders and rules
  • 252.47 — Enforcement
  • 252.50 — Penalties
  • 252.505 — Breach of contract during emergency recovery periods for natural emergencies
  • 252.51 — Liability
  • 252.515 — Postdisaster Relief Assistance Act; immunity from civil liability
  • 252.52 — Liberality of construction
  • 252.55 — Civil Air Patrol, Florida Wing
  • 252.60 — Radiological emergency preparedness
  • 252.61 — List of persons for contact relating to release of toxic substances into atmosphere
  • 252.62 — Director of Office of Financial Regulation; powers in a state of emergency
  • 252.63 — Commissioner of Insurance Regulation; powers in a state of emergency
  • 252.64 — Protection of religious institutions
  • 252.71 — Florida Emergency Management Assistance Foundation
  • 252.81 — Short title
  • 252.82 — Definitions
  • 252.83 — Powers and duties of the division
  • 252.84 — Funding
  • 252.85 — Fees
  • 252.86 — Penalties and remedies
  • 252.87 — Supplemental state reporting requirements
  • 252.88 — Public records
  • 252.89 — Tort liability
  • 252.90 — Commission and committee duties
  • 252.905 — Emergency planning information; public records exemption
  • 252.921 — Short title
  • 252.922 — Purpose and authorities
  • 252.923 — General implementation
  • 252.924 — Party state responsibilities
  • 252.925 — Limitation
  • 252.926 — License and permits
  • 252.927 — Liability
  • 252.928 — Compensation
  • 252.929 — Reimbursement
  • 252.931 — Evacuation
  • 252.932 — Implementation
  • 252.933 — Validity
  • 252.9335 — Expense reimbursement under compact
  • 252.934 — Short title
  • 252.935 — Purpose
  • 252.936 — Definitions
  • 252.937 — Division powers and duties
  • 252.938 — Funding
  • 252.939 — Fees
  • 252.940 — Enforcement; procedure; remedies
  • 252.941 — Prohibitions, violations, penalties, intent
  • 252.942 — Inspections and audits
  • 252.943 — Public records
  • 252.944 — Tort liability
  • 252.946 — Public records
Title 253 · FL Chapter 253 (99 sections)
  • 253.001 — Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund; duty to hold lands in trust
  • 253.002 — Department of Environmental Protection, water management districts, Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, and Depar
  • 253.01 — Internal Improvement Trust Fund established
  • 253.02 — Board of trustees; powers and duties
  • 253.025 — Acquisition of state lands
  • 253.0251 — Alternatives to fee simple acquisition
  • 253.027 — Emergency archaeological property acquisition
  • 253.03 — Board of trustees to administer state lands; lands enumerated
  • 253.031 — Land office; custody of documents concerning land; moneys; plats
  • 253.0325 — Modernization of state lands records
  • 253.033 — Inter-American Center property; transfer to board; continued use for government purposes
  • 253.034 — State-owned lands; uses
  • 253.0341 — Surplus of state-owned lands
  • 253.0345 — Special events; submerged land leases
  • 253.0346 — Lease of sovereignty submerged lands for marinas, boatyards, mooring fields, and marine manufacturers and retailers
  • 253.0347 — Lease of sovereignty submerged lands for private residential docks and piers
  • 253.035 — Coastal anchorage areas
  • 253.036 — Forest management
  • 253.037 — Use of state-owned land for correctional facilities
  • 253.04 — Duty of board to protect, etc., state lands; state may join in any action brought
  • 253.05 — Prosecuting officers to assist in protecting state lands
  • 253.111 — Riparian owners of land
  • 253.115 — Public notice and hearings
  • 253.12 — Title to tidal lands vested in state
  • 253.121 — Conveyances of such lands heretofore made, ratified, confirmed, and validated
  • 253.1221 — Bulkhead lines; reestablishment
  • 253.1241 — Studies
  • 253.1252 — Citation of rule
  • 253.126 — Legislative intent
  • 253.127 — Enforcement
  • 253.128 — Enforcement; board or agency under special law
  • 253.1281 — Review by board
  • 253.129 — Confirmation of title in upland owners
  • 253.135 — Construction of ss. 253.12, 253.126, 253.127, 253.128, and 253.129
  • 253.14 — Rights of riparian owners; board of trustees to defend suit
  • 253.141 — Riparian rights defined; certain submerged bottoms subject to private ownership
  • 253.21 — Board of trustees may surrender certain lands to the United States and receive indemnity
  • 253.29 — Board of trustees to refund money paid where title to land fails
  • 253.34 — Transfer of notes owned by board
  • 253.36 — Title to reclaimed marshlands, wetlands, or lowlands in board of trustees
  • 253.37 — Survey to be made; sale of lands; preference to buyers
  • 253.38 — Riparian rights not affected
  • 253.381 — Unsurveyed marshlands; sale to upland owners
  • 253.382 — Oyster beds, minerals, and oils reserved to state
  • 253.39 — Surveys approved by chief cadastral surveyor validated
  • 253.40 — To what lands applicable
  • 253.41 — Plats and field notes filed in office of Board of Trustees of Internal Improvement Trust Fund
  • 253.42 — Board of trustees may exchange lands
  • 253.43 — Convey by deed
  • 253.431 — Agents may act on behalf of board of trustees
  • 253.44 — Disposal of lands received
  • 253.45 — Sale or lease of phosphate, clay, minerals, etc., in or under state lands
  • 253.451 — Construction of term “land the title to which is vested in the state.”
  • 253.47 — Board of trustees may lease, sell, etc., bottoms of bays, lagoons, straits, etc., owned by state, for petroleum purposes
  • 253.51 — Oil and gas leases on state lands by the board of trustees
  • 253.511 — Reports by lessees of oil and mineral rights, state lands
  • 253.512 — Applicants for lease of gas, oil, or mineral rights; report as to lease holdings
  • 253.52 — Placing oil and gas leases on market by board
  • 253.53 — Sealed bids required
  • 253.54 — Competitive bidding
  • 253.55 — Limitation on term of lease
  • 253.56 — Responsibility of bidder
  • 253.57 — Royalties
  • 253.571 — Proof of financial responsibility required of lessee prior to commencement of drilling
  • 253.60 — Conflicting laws
  • 253.61 — Lands not subject to lease
  • 253.62 — Board of trustees authorized to convey certain lands without reservation
  • 253.66 — Change in bulkhead lines, Pinellas County
  • 253.665 — Grant of easements, licenses, and leases
  • 253.67 — Definitions
  • 253.68 — Authority to lease or use submerged lands and water column for aquaculture activities
  • 253.69 — Application to lease submerged land and water column
  • 253.70 — Public notice
  • 253.71 — The lease contract
  • 253.72 — Marking of leased areas; restrictions on public use
  • 253.73 — Rules; ss. 253.67-253.75
  • 253.74 — Penalties
  • 253.75 — Studies and recommendations by the department and the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission; designation of recommen
  • 253.763 — Judicial review relating to permits and licenses
  • 253.77 — State lands; state agency authorization for use prohibited without consent of agency in which title vested; concurrent p
  • 253.781 — Retention of state-owned lands along former Cross Florida Barge Canal route; creation of Cross Florida Greenways State R
  • 253.782 — Retention of state-owned lands in and around Lake Rousseau and the Cross Florida Barge Canal right-of-way from Lake Rous
  • 253.7821 — Cross Florida Greenways State Recreation and Conservation Area assigned to the Department of Environmental Protection
  • 253.7822 — Boundaries of the Cross Florida Greenways State Recreation and Conservation Area; coordination of management activities
  • 253.7823 — Disposition of surplus lands; compensation of counties located within the Cross Florida Canal Navigation District
  • 253.7824 — Sale of products; proceeds
  • 253.7825 — Recreational uses
  • 253.7827 — Transportation and utility crossings of greenways lands
  • 253.7828 — Impairment of use or conservation by agencies prohibited
  • 253.783 — Expenditures for acquisition of land for a canal connecting the waters of the Atlantic Ocean with the Gulf of America vi
  • 253.784 — Contracts
  • 253.785 — Liberal construction of act
  • 253.80 — Murphy Act lands; costs and attorney fees for quieting title
  • 253.81 — Murphy Act; tax certificates barred
  • 253.82 — Title of state or private owners to Murphy Act lands
  • 253.83 — Construction of recodification
  • 253.86 — Management and use of state-owned or other uplands; rulemaking authority
  • 253.87 — Inventory of state, federal, and local government conservation lands by the Department of Environmental Protection
  • 253.90 — Southeast Florida Coral Reef Ecosystem Conservation Area
Title 255 · FL Chapter 255 (89 sections)
  • 255.01 — Proceeds of insurance may be used to replace property destroyed
  • 255.02 — Boards authorized to replace buildings destroyed by fire
  • 255.03 — Proceeds of insurance to be paid into State Treasury; disbursement of funds
  • 255.04 — Preference to home industries in building public buildings
  • 255.041 — Separate specifications for building contracts
  • 255.042 — Shelter in public buildings
  • 255.043 — Art in state buildings
  • 255.045 — Cleanup after events held on public property
  • 255.047 — Publicly owned or operated convention centers, sports stadiums, sports arenas, coliseums, or auditoriums; booking busine
  • 255.05 — Bond of contractor constructing public buildings; form; action by claimants
  • 255.051 — Public bids; check or draft as good faith deposit
  • 255.0515 — Bids for state contracts; substitution of subcontractors
  • 255.0516 — Bid protests by educational boards
  • 255.0517 — Owner-controlled insurance programs for public construction projects
  • 255.0518 — Public bids; bid opening
  • 255.052 — Substitution of securities for amounts retained on public contracts
  • 255.0525 — Advertising for competitive bids or proposals
  • 255.065 — Public-private partnerships
  • 255.0705 — Popular name
  • 255.071 — Payment of subcontractors, sub-subcontractors, materialmen, and suppliers on construction contracts for public projects
  • 255.072 — Definitions
  • 255.073 — Timely payment for purchases of construction services
  • 255.074 — Procedures for calculation of payment due dates
  • 255.075 — Mandatory interest
  • 255.076 — Award of court costs and attorney’s fees
  • 255.077 — Project closeout and payment of retainage
  • 255.078 — Public construction retainage
  • 255.099 — Preference to state residents
  • 255.0991 — Contracts for construction services; prohibited local government preferences
  • 255.0992 — Public works projects; prohibited governmental actions
  • 255.0993 — Public works projects; United States-produced iron and steel products
  • 255.101 — Contracts for public construction works; utilization of minority business enterprises
  • 255.102 — Contractor utilization of minority business enterprises
  • 255.103 — Construction management or program management entities
  • 255.20 — Local bids and contracts for public construction works; specification of state-produced lumber
  • 255.21 — Special facilities for physically disabled
  • 255.211 — Special symbol may be displayed
  • 255.22 — Reconveyance of lands not used for purpose specified
  • 255.248 — Definitions
  • 255.249 — Department of Management Services; responsibility; department rules
  • 255.25 — Approval required before construction or lease of buildings
  • 255.25001 — Department of Management Services not required to participate in PRIDE leasing process; Department of Agriculture and Co
  • 255.2501 — Lease of space financed with local government obligations
  • 255.2502 — Contracts which require annual appropriation; contingency statement
  • 255.2503 — Contracts for lease of buildings; prohibited provisions
  • 255.251 — Energy Conservation and Sustainable Buildings Act; short title
  • 255.252 — Findings and intent
  • 255.253 — Definitions; ss. 255.251-255.2575
  • 255.254 — No facility constructed or leased without life-cycle costs
  • 255.255 — Life-cycle costs
  • 255.256 — Energy performance index
  • 255.257 — Energy management; buildings occupied by state agencies
  • 255.2575 — Energy-efficient and sustainable buildings
  • 255.259 — Florida-friendly landscaping on public property
  • 255.28 — Department authority to acquire land with or for facility thereon
  • 255.29 — Construction contracts; department rules
  • 255.30 — Fixed capital outlay projects; department rules; delegation of supervisory authority; delegation of responsibility for a
  • 255.31 — Authority to the Department of Management Services to manage construction projects for state and local governments
  • 255.32 — State construction management contracting
  • 255.40 — Use of asbestos in new public buildings or buildings newly constructed for lease to governmental entities; prohibition
  • 255.45 — Correction of firesafety violations in certain state-owned property
  • 255.451 — Electronic firesafety and security system
  • 255.501 — Building and Facilities Act; short title
  • 255.502 — Definitions; ss. 255.501-255.525
  • 255.503 — Powers of the Department of Management Services
  • 255.504 — Use of facilities
  • 255.505 — Creation of the pool
  • 255.506 — Facilities in pool
  • 255.507 — Determination of qualified facilities
  • 255.508 — Participation in pool
  • 255.509 — Request for advisory statement
  • 255.51 — Determination of rental rates
  • 255.511 — Factors to be considered in establishing rental rates
  • 255.513 — Powers of the Division of Bond Finance and the Department of Management Services
  • 255.514 — Division of Bond Finance; revenue bonds
  • 255.515 — Issuance of obligations by the division
  • 255.516 — Security for payment of obligations
  • 255.517 — Anticipation obligations
  • 255.518 — Obligations; purpose, terms, approval, limitations
  • 255.519 — Variable rate obligations
  • 255.52 — Approval by State Board of Administration
  • 255.521 — Failure of payment
  • 255.522 — State and political subdivisions not liable on obligations
  • 255.523 — Exemption from taxes
  • 255.524 — Obligations issued constitute legal investments
  • 255.525 — Inconsistent provisions of other laws superseded
  • 255.5576 — Consideration of energy-efficient materials; high-energy lighting
  • 255.60 — Special contracts with charitable or not-for-profit organizations
  • 255.70 — Public permitting
Title 256 · FL Chapter 256 (20 sections)
  • 256.01 — Flag of United States to be displayed
  • 256.011 — Display of flag on election day
  • 256.015 — Display of state flag; protocol
  • 256.02 — Certain officers to provide flag
  • 256.031 — Department of State custodian of state flag
  • 256.032 — Display of state flag at public schools
  • 256.041 — Purchase of United States flag or state flag for public use
  • 256.05 — Improper use of state or United States flag, or other symbol of authority
  • 256.051 — Improper use or mutilation of state or Confederate flag or emblem prohibited
  • 256.06 — Mutilation or disrespect of state or United States flag
  • 256.07 — Exceptions
  • 256.08 — Definition
  • 256.09 — Penalty
  • 256.10 — Mutilation of or disrespect for Confederate flags or replicas
  • 256.11 — Public auditoriums; display of the United States flag
  • 256.12 — Display of POW-MIA flags
  • 256.13 — POW-MIA flag; display at rest areas
  • 256.14 — POW-MIA flag; display at state parks
  • 256.15 — Firefighter Memorial Flag
  • 256.16 — Honor and Remember flag
Title 257 · FL Chapter 257 (42 sections)
  • 257.01 — State Library; creation; administration
  • 257.015 — Definitions
  • 257.02 — State Library Council
  • 257.031 — State Librarian; appointment and duties
  • 257.04 — Publications, pictures, and other documents received to constitute part of State Library; powers and duties of Division
  • 257.05 — State Publications Program
  • 257.105 — State publications; copies to Library of Congress
  • 257.12 — Division of Library and Information Services authorized to accept and expend federal funds
  • 257.14 — Division of Library and Information Services; rules
  • 257.15 — Division of Library and Information Services; standards
  • 257.16 — Reports
  • 257.17 — Operating grants
  • 257.171 — Multicounty libraries
  • 257.172 — Multicounty library grants
  • 257.18 — Equalization grants
  • 257.191 — Construction grants
  • 257.192 — Program grants
  • 257.193 — Community Libraries in Caring Program
  • 257.195 — Revenue shortfalls; procedures
  • 257.21 — Maximum grants allowable
  • 257.22 — Division of Library and Information Services; allocation of funds
  • 257.23 — Application for grant
  • 257.24 — Use of funds
  • 257.25 — Free library service
  • 257.261 — Library registration and circulation records
  • 257.28 — Compact
  • 257.29 — Compliance with local laws
  • 257.30 — State library agency
  • 257.31 — Appropriations
  • 257.32 — Compact administrator
  • 257.33 — Notices
  • 257.34 — Florida International Archive and Repository
  • 257.35 — Florida State Archives
  • 257.36 — Records and information management
  • 257.37 — Legislative intent
  • 257.375 — Records Management Trust Fund
  • 257.38 — Manuscripts or other archival material; public records exemption
  • 257.40 — Library cooperatives; legislative intent
  • 257.41 — Library cooperatives; organization; receipt of state moneys
  • 257.42 — Library cooperative grants
  • 257.43 — Citizen support organization; use of state administrative services and property; audit
  • 257.51 — Preemption of regulation of presidential libraries
Title 258 · FL Chapter 258 (54 sections)
  • 258.001 — Park regions
  • 258.004 — Duties of division
  • 258.007 — Powers of division
  • 258.008 — Prohibited activities; penalties
  • 258.014 — Use of state parks; fees for use; campsite reservations
  • 258.0142 — Foster and adoptive family state park fee discounts
  • 258.0145 — Military, law enforcement, and firefighter state park fee discounts
  • 258.015 — Citizen support organizations; use of property; audit
  • 258.016 — Senior/disabled citizen camping permit
  • 258.0165 — Defibrillators in state parks
  • 258.017 — Dedication of state park lands for public use
  • 258.021 — Power of eminent domain; procedure
  • 258.027 — Division to take over certain functions
  • 258.034 — State Park Trust Fund created
  • 258.037 — Policy of division
  • 258.041 — Cooperation of division with counties, etc
  • 258.08 — Guide meridian and base parallel park located
  • 258.081 — Stephen Foster State Folk Culture Center
  • 258.083 — John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park; taking or damaging of coral prohibited
  • 258.09 — Rauscher Park designated
  • 258.10 — Division of Recreation and Parks to supervise and maintain Rauscher Park
  • 258.11 — Land ceded for Royal Palm State Park; proviso
  • 258.12 — Additional lands ceded for Royal Palm State Park
  • 258.14 — Royal Palm State Park and endowment lands exempt from taxation
  • 258.15 — St. Michael’s Cemetery designated a state park
  • 258.152 — Ney Landrum State Park designation
  • 258.156 — Savannas State Reserve
  • 258.157 — Prohibited acts in Savannas State Reserve
  • 258.158 — Exemption from s. 588.15
  • 258.35 — Short title; ss. 258.35-258.394 and 258.40-258.46
  • 258.36 — Legislative intent
  • 258.37 — Definitions
  • 258.38 — Types of aquatic preserves
  • 258.39 — Boundaries of preserves
  • 258.391 — Cockroach Bay Aquatic Preserve
  • 258.392 — Gasparilla Sound-Charlotte Harbor Aquatic Preserve
  • 258.3925 — Lemon Bay Aquatic Preserve
  • 258.393 — Terra Ceia Aquatic Preserve wastewater or effluent discharge activities
  • 258.394 — Guana River Marsh Aquatic Preserve
  • 258.395 — Big Bend Seagrasses Aquatic Preserve
  • 258.396 — Boca Ciega Bay Aquatic Preserve
  • 258.397 — Biscayne Bay Aquatic Preserve
  • 258.399 — Oklawaha River Aquatic Preserve
  • 258.3991 — Nature Coast Aquatic Preserve
  • 258.40 — Scope of preserves
  • 258.41 — Establishment of aquatic preserves
  • 258.42 — Maintenance of preserves
  • 258.43 — Rules
  • 258.435 — Use of aquatic preserves for the accommodation of visitors
  • 258.44 — Effect of preserves
  • 258.45 — Provisions not superseded
  • 258.46 — Enforcement; violations; penalty
  • 258.501 — Myakka River; wild and scenic segment
  • 258.601 — Enforcement of prohibited activities
Title 259 · FL Chapter 259 (20 sections)
  • 259.01 — Short title
  • 259.03 — Definitions
  • 259.032 — Conservation and recreation lands
  • 259.0322 — Reinstitution of payments in lieu of taxes; duration
  • 259.035 — Acquisition and Restoration Council
  • 259.036 — Management review teams
  • 259.037 — Land Management Uniform Accounting Council
  • 259.04 — Board; powers and duties
  • 259.042 — Tax increment financing for conservation lands
  • 259.045 — Purchase of lands in areas of critical state concern; recommendations by department and land authorities
  • 259.047 — Acquisition of land on which an agricultural lease exists
  • 259.05 — Issuance of bonds
  • 259.06 — Construction
  • 259.07 — Public meetings
  • 259.101 — Florida Preservation 2000 Act
  • 259.105 — The Florida Forever Act
  • 259.1051 — Florida Forever Trust Fund
  • 259.1052 — Babcock Crescent B Ranch Florida Forever acquisition; conditions for purchase
  • 259.1053 — Babcock Ranch Preserve; Babcock Ranch Advisory Group
  • 259.1055 — Florida wildlife corridor
Title 26 · FL Chapter 26 (11 sections)
  • 26.012 — Jurisdiction of circuit court
  • 26.021 — Judicial circuits; judges
  • 26.031 — Judicial circuits; number of judges
  • 26.19 — Abatement of actions because of change of judge, etc
  • 26.20 — Availability of judge for hearings
  • 26.46 — Jurisdiction of resident judge after assignment
  • 26.49 — Executive officer of circuit court
  • 26.52 — Travel expenses, circuit judges
  • 26.55 — Conference of Circuit Judges of Florida; duties and reports
  • 26.56 — Residual jurisdiction for abolished courts
  • 26.57 — Temporary designation of county court judge to preside over circuit court cases
Title 260 · FL Chapter 260 (13 sections)
  • 260.011 — Popular name
  • 260.012 — Declaration of policy and legislative intent
  • 260.0125 — Limitation on liability of private landowners whose property is designated as part of the statewide system of greenways
  • 260.013 — Definitions
  • 260.014 — Florida Greenways and Trails System
  • 260.0141 — Greenways and Trails Program
  • 260.0142 — Florida Greenways and Trails Council; composition; powers and duties
  • 260.0144 — Sponsorship of state greenways and trails
  • 260.015 — Acquisition of land
  • 260.016 — General powers of the department
  • 260.0161 — Coordination with Department of Transportation
  • 260.019 — Florida Circumnavigation Saltwater Paddling Trail
  • 260.021 — Recreational opportunities on mined lands
Title 261 · FL Chapter 261 (13 sections)
  • 261.01 — Short title
  • 261.02 — Legislative findings and intent
  • 261.03 — Definitions
  • 261.04 — Off-Highway Vehicle Recreation Advisory Committee; members; appointment
  • 261.05 — Duties and responsibilities of the Off-Highway Vehicle Recreation Advisory Committee
  • 261.06 — Functions, duties, and responsibilities of the department
  • 261.07 — Publication and distribution of guidebook; contents
  • 261.08 — Repair, maintenance, and rehabilitation of areas, trails, and lands
  • 261.09 — Contracts and agreements
  • 261.10 — Criteria for recreation areas and trails; limitation on liability
  • 261.11 — Penalties
  • 261.12 — Designated off-highway vehicle funds within the Incidental Trust Fund of the Florida Forest Service of the Department of
  • 261.20 — Operations of off-highway vehicles on public lands; restrictions; safety courses; required equipment; prohibited acts; p
Title 265 · FL Chapter 265 (34 sections)
  • 265.001 — Florida Women’s Hall of Fame
  • 265.002 — Legislative intent; Florida Medal of Honor Wall; duties of the Department of Veterans’ Affairs
  • 265.003 — Florida Veterans’ Hall of Fame
  • 265.00301 — POW-MIA Chair of Honor Memorial
  • 265.0031 — Florida Veterans’ Walk of Honor and Florida Veterans’ Memorial Garden
  • 265.004 — Florida Tourism Hall of Fame
  • 265.0041 — Florida Law Enforcement Officers’ Hall of Fame
  • 265.005 — Florida Holocaust Memorial
  • 265.006 — Florida Slavery Memorial
  • 265.007 — Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys Memorial
  • 265.008 — POW-MIA Vietnam Veterans Bracelet Memorial
  • 265.009 — Florida Space Exploration Monument
  • 265.111 — Capitol Complex; monuments
  • 265.27 — Loan of objects of art and artifacts
  • 265.281 — Florida Arts and Culture Act; short title
  • 265.282 — Legislative intent
  • 265.283 — Definitions
  • 265.284 — Chief cultural officer; director of division; powers and duties
  • 265.285 — Florida Council on Arts and Culture; membership, duties
  • 265.286 — Art and cultural grants
  • 265.2863 — State Poet Laureate
  • 265.2865 — Florida Artists Hall of Fame
  • 265.32 — County fine arts council
  • 265.601 — Cultural Endowment Program; short title
  • 265.602 — Legislative intent
  • 265.603 — Definitions relating to Cultural Endowment Program
  • 265.605 — Cultural Endowment Program; rulemaking
  • 265.606 — Cultural Endowment Program; administration; qualifying criteria; matching fund program levels; distribution
  • 265.701 — Cultural facilities; grants for acquisition, renovation, or construction; funding; approval; allocation
  • 265.7015 — Confidentiality of certain donor information; publicly owned performing arts centers
  • 265.703 — Citizen support organizations; use of state administrative services and property; audit
  • 265.802 — Florida Folklife Programs
  • 265.8021 — Major John Leroy Haynes Florida Veterans’ History Program
  • 265.803 — Florida Folklife Council
Title 267 · FL Chapter 267 (34 sections)
  • 267.011 — Short title
  • 267.021 — Definitions
  • 267.031 — Division of Historical Resources; powers and duties
  • 267.061 — Historic properties; state policy, responsibilities
  • 267.0612 — Florida Historical Commission; creation; membership; powers and duties
  • 267.0617 — Historic Preservation Grant Program
  • 267.062 — Naming of state buildings and other facilities
  • 267.0625 — Abrogation of offensive and derogatory geographic place names
  • 267.071 — Historical museums
  • 267.0721 — Museum of Florida History and programs; other historical museums
  • 267.0722 — Florida Museum of Black History
  • 267.0723 — Property loaned to or abandoned at museums; obligations to lenders; notice; loan termination; acquisition of title; lien
  • 267.0724 — Florida African American Heritage Preservation Network
  • 267.0731 — Great Floridians Program
  • 267.074 — State Historical Marker Program
  • 267.0743 — State Historical Marker Council
  • 267.075 — The Grove Advisory Council; creation; membership; purposes
  • 267.076 — Confidentiality of certain donor information related to publicly owned house museums designated as National Historic Lan
  • 267.081 — Publications
  • 267.11 — Designation of archaeological sites
  • 267.115 — Objects of historical or archaeological value
  • 267.12 — Research permits; procedure
  • 267.13 — Prohibited practices; penalties
  • 267.135 — Location of archaeological sites
  • 267.14 — Legislative intent
  • 267.145 — Florida network of public archaeology centers
  • 267.17 — Citizen support organizations; use of state administrative services and property; audit
  • 267.172 — Tallahassee; Florida Keys; contracts for historic preservation
  • 267.173 — Historic preservation in West Florida; goals; contracts for historic preservation; powers and duties
  • 267.1732 — Direct-support organization
  • 267.1735 — Historic preservation in St. Augustine; goals; contracts for historic preservation; powers and duties
  • 267.1736 — Direct-support organization
  • 267.21 — Historic Cemeteries Program
  • 267.22 — Historic Cemeteries Program Advisory Council
Title 27 · FL Chapter 27 (70 sections)
  • 27.0055 — Official court reporters
  • 27.0061 — Transcripts in criminal cases
  • 27.0065 — Witness coordination
  • 27.01 — State attorneys; number, election, terms
  • 27.015 — Private practice prohibited
  • 27.02 — Duties before court
  • 27.03 — Duties before grand jury
  • 27.04 — Summoning and examining witnesses for state
  • 27.05 — Assisting Attorney General
  • 27.06 — Habeas corpus and preliminary trials
  • 27.08 — State claims; surrender of papers to successor
  • 27.10 — Obligation as to claims; how discharged
  • 27.11 — Report upon claims committed to state attorney
  • 27.12 — Power to compromise
  • 27.13 — Completion of compromise
  • 27.14 — Assigning state attorneys to other circuits
  • 27.15 — State attorneys to assist in other circuits
  • 27.151 — Confidentiality of specified executive orders; criteria
  • 27.16 — Appointment of acting state attorney
  • 27.18 — Assistant to state attorney
  • 27.181 — Assistant state attorneys; appointment; powers and duties; compensation
  • 27.182 — Salary discrimination based on gender or race; review within the office of state attorney
  • 27.25 — State attorney authorized to employ personnel; funding formula
  • 27.251 — Special investigators
  • 27.255 — Investigators; authority to arrest, qualifications, rights, immunities, bond, and oath
  • 27.34 — Limitations on payment of salaries and other related costs of state attorneys’ offices other than by the state
  • 27.341 — Electronic filing and receipt of court documents
  • 27.345 — State Attorney RICO Trust Fund; authorized use of funds; reporting
  • 27.3451 — State Attorney’s Forfeiture and Investigative Support Trust Fund
  • 27.35 — Salaries of state attorneys
  • 27.366 — Legislative intent and policy in cases meeting criteria of s. 775.087(2) and (3)
  • 27.367 — State Attorneys Revenue Trust Fund
  • 27.40 — Court-appointed counsel; circuit registries; minimum requirements; appointment by court
  • 27.405 — Court-appointed counsel; Justice Administrative Commission tracking and reporting
  • 27.425 — Due process service rates; expenditure limitation; approval of uniform contract forms and procedures
  • 27.50 — Public defender; qualifications; election
  • 27.51 — Duties of public defender
  • 27.511 — Offices of criminal conflict and civil regional counsel; legislative intent; qualifications; appointment; duties
  • 27.5111 — Indigent Civil Defense Trust Fund
  • 27.5112 — Electronic filing and receipt of court documents
  • 27.512 — Order of no imprisonment
  • 27.52 — Determination of indigent status
  • 27.525 — Indigent Criminal Defense Trust Fund
  • 27.53 — Appointment of assistants and other staff; method of payment
  • 27.5301 — Salaries of public defenders, assistant public defenders, criminal conflict and civil regional counsel, and assistant re
  • 27.5302 — Salary discrimination based on gender or race; review within the office of public defender
  • 27.5303 — Public defenders; criminal conflict and civil regional counsel; conflict of interest
  • 27.5304 — Private court-appointed counsel; compensation; notice
  • 27.5305 — Attorney or provider compensation; conditions; requirements
  • 27.54 — Limitation on payment of expenditures other than by the state
  • 27.561 — Effect of nonpayment
  • 27.562 — Disposition of funds
  • 27.58 — Administration of public defender services
  • 27.59 — Access to prisoners
  • 27.7001 — Legislative intent and findings
  • 27.7002 — Limitation on collateral representation; lawyer disqualification; use of state funds for excess fees not authorized
  • 27.701 — Capital collateral regional counsel
  • 27.702 — Duties of the capital collateral regional counsel; reports
  • 27.703 — Conflict of interest and substitute counsel
  • 27.704 — Appointment of assistants and other staff
  • 27.7045 — Capital case proceedings; constitutionally deficient representation
  • 27.705 — Salaries of capital collateral regional counsel and assistant capital collateral counsel
  • 27.706 — Private practice of law prohibited
  • 27.707 — Investigators; service of process
  • 27.708 — Access to prisoners; compliance with the Florida Rules of Criminal Procedure; records requests
  • 27.7081 — Capital postconviction public records production
  • 27.7091 — Legislative recommendations to Supreme Court; postconviction proceedings; pro bono service credit
  • 27.710 — Registry of attorneys applying to represent persons in postconviction capital collateral proceedings; certification of m
  • 27.711 — Terms and conditions of appointment of attorneys as counsel in postconviction capital collateral proceedings
  • 27.715 — Capital Collateral Regional Counsel Trust Fund
Title 270 · FL Chapter 270 (18 sections)
  • 270.01 — Grant to aid construction of certain railroads accepted
  • 270.02 — Titles of purchasers and transferees of railroad companies confirmed
  • 270.07 — Certain public lands not to be sold without advertisement
  • 270.08 — Notice of sale of public lands
  • 270.10 — Sections not to impair law relative to homesteads, preemptions, or grants of lands for certain purposes
  • 270.11 — Contracts for sale of public lands to reserve certain mineral rights; prohibition on exercise of right of entry in certa
  • 270.16 — Preservation of equity of state in lands sold; board of trustees may compromise unpaid balance
  • 270.17 — Foreclosure of mortgage for balance of purchase price on state lands
  • 270.18 — Tax liens extinguished when lands revert to state; exception
  • 270.19 — Reconveyance to state; extinguishes tax liens
  • 270.20 — When title reverts to state; lands go back to department from which it originated
  • 270.21 — Transactions to which sections applicable
  • 270.22 — Proceeds of state lands to go into Internal Improvement Trust Fund; exception
  • 270.23 — Disposition of proceeds of state lands
  • 270.24 — Payment of special assessments or levies upon state lands
  • 270.25 — Special assessments or levies shall remain liens subject to payment
  • 270.26 — Lands to which sections do not apply
  • 270.27 — Sale of unused public lands
Title 272 · FL Chapter 272 (22 sections)
  • 272.03 — Department of Management Services to supervise Capitol Center buildings; title in state
  • 272.04 — Department to allocate space
  • 272.05 — Budgets for repair and maintenance; review
  • 272.06 — Authority to contract for utility services
  • 272.07 — Department may provide for parks, drives, and walkways
  • 272.08 — Duty of repair, maintenance, and supervision
  • 272.09 — Management, maintenance, and upkeep of Capitol Center
  • 272.11 — Capitol information center
  • 272.111 — Legislative intent
  • 272.12 — Florida Capitol Center Planning District
  • 272.121 — Capitol Center long-range planning
  • 272.122 — Acquisition of land for state buildings and facilities in the Capitol Center
  • 272.124 — Department of Management Services; power to contract
  • 272.129 — Florida Historic Capitol; space allocation; maintenance and repair
  • 272.131 — Florida Historic Capitol Museum Council
  • 272.133 — Vested rights of projects approved by Capitol Center Planning Commission
  • 272.135 — Florida Historic Capitol Museum Director
  • 272.136 — Direct-support organization
  • 272.16 — Parking areas within Capitol Center area
  • 272.161 — Rental of reserved parking spaces
  • 272.18 — Governor’s Mansion Commission
  • 272.185 — Maintenance of Governor’s Mansion by Department of Management Services
Title 273 · FL Chapter 273 (9 sections)
  • 273.01 — Definitions
  • 273.02 — Record and inventory of certain property
  • 273.025 — Financial reporting for recorded property
  • 273.03 — Property supervision and control
  • 273.04 — Property acquisition
  • 273.05 — Surplus property
  • 273.055 — Disposition of state-owned tangible personal property
  • 273.09 — Penalty
  • 273.10 — Repeal
Title 274 · FL Chapter 274 (12 sections)
  • 274.01 — Definitions
  • 274.02 — Record and inventory of certain property
  • 274.03 — Property supervision and control
  • 274.04 — Property acquisition
  • 274.05 — Surplus property
  • 274.06 — Alternative procedure
  • 274.07 — Authorizing and recording the disposal of property
  • 274.08 — Penalty
  • 274.09 — Construction
  • 274.10 — Initiation of act
  • 274.11 — County health department property
  • 274.12 — Special districts subject to chapter
Title 279 · FL Chapter 279 (15 sections)
  • 279.01 — Short title
  • 279.02 — Definitions
  • 279.03 — Legislative intent
  • 279.04 — System of registration
  • 279.06 — Execution of certificated registered public obligations
  • 279.07 — Valid and binding execution; signatures
  • 279.08 — Seal
  • 279.09 — Agents
  • 279.10 — Expenses; payment of costs
  • 279.11 — Records
  • 279.13 — Obligations issued by public entities
  • 279.15 — Applicability
  • 279.16 — Construction
  • 279.18 — Laws in conflict with act superseded
  • 279.19 — Covenant of state
Title 28 · FL Chapter 28 (53 sections)
  • 28.001 — Definitions
  • 28.01 — Bond of circuit court clerks; small counties
  • 28.02 — Bond of circuit court clerks; large counties
  • 28.03 — Obligation of sureties
  • 28.04 — Justification of sureties
  • 28.05 — Surety companies
  • 28.06 — Power of clerk to appoint deputies
  • 28.07 — Place of office
  • 28.071 — Clerk’s seal
  • 28.09 — Clerk ad interim
  • 28.101 — Petitions and records of dissolution of marriage; additional charges
  • 28.12 — Clerk of the board of county commissioners
  • 28.13 — Papers and electronic filings
  • 28.14 — Records, judgments, orders, and decrees prior to circuit courts
  • 28.15 — Records from superior courts
  • 28.16 — Certain records from prior county courts
  • 28.211 — Clerk to keep docket
  • 28.212 — Minutes of court proceedings
  • 28.213 — Disposal of physical evidence filed as exhibits
  • 28.215 — Pro se assistance
  • 28.222 — Clerk to be county recorder
  • 28.22205 — Electronic filing process
  • 28.2221 — Electronic access to official records
  • 28.2222 — Public records capital improvement plan
  • 28.2225 — Title fraud prevention through identity verification; pilot program
  • 28.223 — Probate records; recordation
  • 28.231 — Service charges by clerks of courts
  • 28.235 — Advance payments by clerk of circuit court
  • 28.24 — Service charges
  • 28.2401 — Service charges and filing fees in probate matters
  • 28.2402 — Cost recovery; use of the circuit court for ordinance or special law violations
  • 28.2405 — Comprehensive Case Information System
  • 28.241 — Filing fees for trial and appellate proceedings
  • 28.242 — Service charges retained when case laid in wrong venue
  • 28.243 — Personal liability for accepting checks
  • 28.244 — Refunds
  • 28.245 — Transmittal of funds to Department of Revenue; uniform remittance form required
  • 28.2457 — Mandatory monetary assessments
  • 28.246 — Payment of court-related fines or other monetary penalties, fees, charges, and costs; partial payments; distribution of
  • 28.29 — Recording of orders and judgments
  • 28.30 — Records; destruction; reproduction; electronic recordkeeping
  • 28.31 — Notice to county commissioners of intent to destroy; approval of board
  • 28.32 — Destruction of certain instruments
  • 28.33 — Investment of county funds by the clerk of the circuit court
  • 28.34 — Salary discrimination based on gender or race; review within the county and circuit courts
  • 28.345 — State access to records; exemption from court-related fees and charges
  • 28.35 — Florida Clerks of Court Operations Corporation
  • 28.36 — Budget procedure
  • 28.37 — Fines, fees, service charges, and costs remitted to the state
  • 28.42 — Manual of filing fees, charges, costs, and fines; payment plan form
  • 28.44 — Clerk discontinuance of court-related functions
  • 28.45 — Provision of financial data to Executive Office of the Governor
  • 28.47 — Recording notification service; related services; public records exemption
Title 280 · FL Chapter 280 (26 sections)
  • 280.01 — Short title
  • 280.02 — Definitions
  • 280.025 — Attestation required
  • 280.03 — Public deposits to be secured; prohibitions; exemptions
  • 280.04 — Collateral for public deposits; general provisions
  • 280.041 — Collateral arrangements; agreements, provisions, and triggering events
  • 280.042 — Credit union designations as qualified public depositories; withdrawal by the Chief Financial Officer from collateral ag
  • 280.05 — Powers and duties of the Chief Financial Officer
  • 280.051 — Grounds for suspension or disqualification of a qualified public depository
  • 280.052 — Order of suspension or disqualification; procedure
  • 280.053 — Period of suspension or disqualification; obligations during period; reinstatement
  • 280.054 — Administrative penalty in lieu of suspension or disqualification
  • 280.055 — Cease and desist order; corrective order; administrative penalty
  • 280.06 — Penalty for violation of law, rule, or order to cease and desist or other lawful order
  • 280.07 — Mutual responsibility and contingent liability
  • 280.08 — Procedure for payment of losses
  • 280.085 — Notice to claimants
  • 280.09 — Public Deposits Trust Fund
  • 280.10 — Effect of merger, acquisition, or consolidation; change of name or address
  • 280.11 — Withdrawal from public deposits program; return of pledged collateral
  • 280.13 — Eligible collateral
  • 280.16 — Requirements of qualified public depositories; confidentiality
  • 280.17 — Requirements for public depositors; notice to public depositors and governmental units; loss of protection
  • 280.18 — Protection of public depositors; liability of the state
  • 280.19 — Rules
  • 280.21 — Custodians of gold coin and silver coin
Title 281 · FL Chapter 281 (6 sections)
  • 281.01 — Definitions
  • 281.02 — Powers and duties of the Department of Management Services with respect to firesafety and security
  • 281.03 — Incident reports and record retention
  • 281.06 — Contracts with counties, municipalities, or licensed private security agencies
  • 281.07 — Rules; Facilities Program; traffic regulation
  • 281.08 — Equipment
Title 282 · FL Chapter 282 (28 sections)
  • 282.003 — Short title
  • 282.0041 — Definitions
  • 282.0051 — Department of Management Services; Florida Digital Service; powers, duties, and functions
  • 282.00515 — Duties of Cabinet agencies
  • 282.201 — State data center
  • 282.206 — Cloud-first policy in state agencies
  • 282.318 — Cybersecurity
  • 282.3185 — Local government cybersecurity
  • 282.3186 — Ransomware incident compliance
  • 282.319 — Florida Cybersecurity Advisory Council
  • 282.601 — Accessibility of electronic information and information technology
  • 282.602 — Definitions
  • 282.603 — Access to electronic and information technology for persons with disabilities; undue burden; limitations
  • 282.604 — Adoption of rules
  • 282.605 — Exceptions
  • 282.606 — Intent
  • 282.701 — Short title
  • 282.702 — Powers and duties
  • 282.703 — SUNCOM Network; exemptions from the required use
  • 282.704 — Use of state SUNCOM Network by municipalities
  • 282.705 — Use of state SUNCOM Network by nonprofit corporations
  • 282.706 — Use of SUNCOM Network by libraries
  • 282.707 — SUNCOM Network; criteria for usage
  • 282.708 — Emergency assumption of control
  • 282.709 — State agency law enforcement radio system and interoperability network
  • 282.7101 — Statewide system of regional law enforcement communications
  • 282.711 — Remote electronic access services
  • 282.802 — Government Technology Modernization Council
Title 283 · FL Chapter 283 (11 sections)
  • 283.30 — Definitions
  • 283.31 — Records of executive agency publications
  • 283.32 — Recycled paper to be used by each agency; printing bids certifying use of recycled paper; percentage preference in award
  • 283.33 — Printing of publications; lowest bidder awards
  • 283.34 — State officers not to have interests in printing contract
  • 283.35 — Preference given printing within the state
  • 283.425 — Acceptance for printing; penalty for defective printing
  • 283.43 — Public information printing services
  • 283.55 — Purging of publication mailing lists
  • 283.56 — Preparation of agency publications
  • 283.58 — Agency agreements with vendors for private publication of public information materials; free distribution to public
Title 284 · FL Chapter 284 (28 sections)
  • 284.01 — State Risk Management Trust Fund; coverages to be provided
  • 284.02 — Payment of premiums by each agency; handling of funds; payment of losses and expenses
  • 284.03 — Deficits in fund supplied from General Revenue Fund; repayment
  • 284.04 — Notice and information required by Department of Financial Services of all newly erected or acquired state property subj
  • 284.05 — Inspection of insured state property
  • 284.06 — Annual report to Governor
  • 284.08 — Reinsurance on excess coverage and approval by Department of Management Services
  • 284.14 — State Risk Management Trust Fund; leasehold interest
  • 284.17 — Rules
  • 284.30 — State Risk Management Trust Fund; coverages to be provided
  • 284.31 — Scope and types of coverages; separate accounts
  • 284.311 — Property damage coverage for state-owned vehicles
  • 284.32 — Department of Financial Services to implement and consolidate
  • 284.33 — Purchase of insurance, reinsurance, and services
  • 284.34 — Professional medical liability of the university boards of trustees and nuclear energy liability excluded
  • 284.35 — Administrative personnel; expenses to be paid from fund
  • 284.36 — Appropriation deposits; premium payment
  • 284.37 — Premium and investment accruals used for fund purposes
  • 284.38 — Waiver of sovereign immunity; effect
  • 284.385 — Reporting and handling of claims
  • 284.39 — Adoption of rules
  • 284.40 — Division of Risk Management; disclosure of certain workers’ compensation-related information by the Department of Fina
  • 284.41 — Transfer of personnel and funds to the Division of Risk Management
  • 284.42 — Reports on state insurance program
  • 284.44 — Salary indemnification costs of state agencies
  • 284.45 — Sexual harassment victims
  • 284.50 — Loss prevention program; safety coordinators; Interagency Advisory Council on Loss Prevention; employee recognition prog
  • 284.51 — Electroencephalogram combined transcranial magnetic stimulation treatment pilot program
Title 285 · FL Chapter 285 (23 sections)
  • 285.01 — Lands set aside; description
  • 285.011 — Seminole Indian lands; trustee
  • 285.03 — Grant of Florida lands to Seminole Indians
  • 285.04 — Board of Trustees of Internal Improvement Trust Fund authorized to exchange state lands for United States lands
  • 285.05 — Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund authorized to exchange lands with individuals
  • 285.06 — State Indian Reservation
  • 285.061 — Transfer of land to United States in trust for Seminole and Miccosukee Indian Tribes
  • 285.07 — Purpose of law
  • 285.08 — Definitions
  • 285.09 — Rights of Miccosukee and Seminole Tribes with respect to hunting, fishing, and frogging
  • 285.10 — No license or permit fees required; identification card required
  • 285.11 — Reservation; improvement leases
  • 285.12 — Reservation; mineral deposits
  • 285.13 — Campsites; flood control
  • 285.14 — Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund as trustee to accept donations of and acquire property for Indi
  • 285.15 — Grant of hunting, fishing, and frogging privileges by Board of Trustees of Internal Improvement Trust Fund; access to an
  • 285.16 — Civil and criminal jurisdiction; Indian reservation
  • 285.165 — Water rights compact with Seminole Tribe
  • 285.17 — Special improvement districts; Seminole and Miccosukee Tribes
  • 285.18 — Tribal council as governing body; powers and duties
  • 285.20 — Tribal Secured Transactions Filing Offices
  • 285.710 — Compact authorization
  • 285.712 — Tribal-state gaming compacts
Title 286 · FL Chapter 286 (23 sections)
  • 286.001 — Reports statutorily required; filing, maintenance, retrieval, and provision of copies
  • 286.0105 — Notices of meetings and hearings must advise that a record is required to appeal
  • 286.011 — Public meetings and records; public inspection; criminal and civil penalties
  • 286.0111 — Legislative review of certain exemptions from requirements for public meetings and recordkeeping by governmental entitie
  • 286.0113 — General exemptions from public meetings
  • 286.0114 — Public meetings; reasonable opportunity to be heard; attorney fees
  • 286.01141 — Criminal justice commissions; public meetings exemption
  • 286.0115 — Access to local public officials; quasi-judicial proceedings on local government land use matters
  • 286.012 — Voting requirement at meetings of governmental bodies
  • 286.021 — Department of State to hold title to patents, trademarks, copyrights, etc
  • 286.031 — Authority of Department of State in connection with patents, trademarks, copyrights, etc
  • 286.035 — Constitution Revision Commission; powers of chair; assistance by state and local agencies
  • 286.036 — Taxation and Budget Reform Commission; powers
  • 286.041 — Prohibited requirements of bidders on contracts for public works relative to income tax returns
  • 286.043 — Limitation on use of funds for discriminatory contract or bid specifications relating to car rental concessions at airpo
  • 286.101 — Foreign gifts and contracts
  • 286.23 — Real property conveyed to public agency; disclosure of beneficial interests; notice; exemptions
  • 286.25 — Publication or statement of state sponsorship
  • 286.26 — Accessibility of public meetings to the physically handicapped
  • 286.27 — Use of state funds for greeting cards prohibited
  • 286.29 — Energy guidelines for public business
  • 286.31 — Prohibited use of state funds; travel to another state for purpose of abortion services
  • 286.311 — Prohibited use of state funds; sex-reassignment prescriptions or procedures
Title 287 · FL Chapter 287 (68 sections)
  • 287.001 — Legislative intent
  • 287.012 — Definitions
  • 287.017 — Purchasing categories, threshold amounts
  • 287.022 — Purchase of insurance
  • 287.025 — Prohibition against certain insurance coverage on specified state property or insurable subjects
  • 287.032 — Purpose of department
  • 287.042 — Powers, duties, and functions
  • 287.055 — Acquisition of professional architectural, engineering, landscape architectural, or surveying and mapping services; defi
  • 287.056 — Purchases from purchasing agreements and state term contracts; vendor disqualification
  • 287.057 — Procurement of commodities or contractual services
  • 287.05701 — Prohibition against considering social, political, or ideological interests in government contracting
  • 287.05705 — Procurements of road, bridge, and other specified public construction services
  • 287.0571 — Business case to outsource; applicability
  • 287.0572 — Present-value methodology
  • 287.0575 — Coordination of contracted services
  • 287.058 — Contract document
  • 287.05805 — Contract requirement for use of state funds to purchase or improve real property
  • 287.0582 — Contracts which require annual appropriation; contingency statement
  • 287.0585 — Late payments by contractors to subcontractors and suppliers; penalty
  • 287.059 — Private attorney services
  • 287.0591 — Information technology; vendor disqualification
  • 287.0595 — Pollution response action contracts; department rules
  • 287.063 — Deferred-payment commodity contracts; preaudit review
  • 287.064 — Consolidated financing of deferred-payment purchases
  • 287.0641 — Agreement not debt or pledge of faith or credit of state
  • 287.0731 — Team for contract negotiations
  • 287.074 — Prohibited actions by contractor personnel
  • 287.075 — Materially interested contractor; prohibition on certain activities
  • 287.076 — Project Management Professionals training for personnel involved in managing outsourcings and negotiations; funding
  • 287.082 — Commodities manufactured, grown, or produced in state given preference
  • 287.0821 — All American and Genuine Florida meat or meat products
  • 287.0822 — Beef and pork; prohibition on purchase; bid specifications; penalty
  • 287.0823 — Preference to commodities grown or produced in Florida
  • 287.083 — Purchase of commodities
  • 287.0831 — Limitation on purchases to replace damaged state agency equipment; assessment protocols
  • 287.0834 — Motor vehicles; energy-saving equipment and additives
  • 287.084 — Preference to Florida businesses
  • 287.087 — Preference to businesses with drug-free workplace programs
  • 287.092 — Preference to certain foreign manufacturers
  • 287.093 — Minority business enterprises; procurement of personal property and services from funds set aside for such purpose
  • 287.0931 — Minority business enterprises; participation in bond underwriting
  • 287.0935 — Surety bond insurers
  • 287.094 — Minority business enterprise programs; penalty for discrimination and false representation
  • 287.0943 — Certification of minority business enterprises
  • 287.09431 — Statewide and interlocal agreement on certification of business concerns for the status of minority business enterprise
  • 287.09451 — Office of Supplier Diversity; powers, duties, and functions
  • 287.0947 — Florida Advisory Council on Small and Minority Business Development; creation; membership; duties
  • 287.095 — Department of Corrections; prison industry programs
  • 287.131 — Assistance of Department of Financial Services
  • 287.132 — Legislative intent with respect to integrity of public contracting and purchasing process
  • 287.133 — Public entity crime; denial or revocation of the right to transact business with public entities
  • 287.134 — Discrimination; denial or revocation of the right to transact business with public entities
  • 287.1346 — Provision of commodities produced by forced labor; denial or revocation of the right to transact business with agencies
  • 287.135 — Prohibition against contracting with scrutinized companies or entities
  • 287.1351 — Suspended vendors; state contracts
  • 287.136 — Audit of executed contract documents
  • 287.137 — Antitrust violations; denial or revocation of the right to transact business with public entities; denial of economic be
  • 287.138 — Contracting with entities of foreign countries of concern prohibited
  • 287.14 — Purchase of motor vehicles by state officers and employees
  • 287.15 — Purchase or lease of motor vehicles, watercraft, or aircraft; prior approval of the Department of Management Services
  • 287.151 — Limitation on classes of motor vehicles procured
  • 287.155 — Motor vehicles; purchase by Department of Children and Families, Agency for Persons with Disabilities, Department of Hea
  • 287.16 — Powers and duties of department
  • 287.17 — Limitation on use of motor vehicles and aircraft
  • 287.175 — Penalties
  • 287.18 — Repair and service of motor vehicles and aircraft
  • 287.19 — Transfer of funds
  • 287.20 — Applicability of this part
Title 288 · FL Chapter 288 (148 sections)
  • 288.0001 — Economic Development Programs Evaluation
  • 288.001 — The Florida Small Business Development Center Network
  • 288.002 — Public records exemption for certain materials held by the former Enterprise Florida, Inc
  • 288.005 — Definitions
  • 288.006 — General operation of loan programs
  • 288.0065 — Annual incentives report
  • 288.007 — Inventory of communities seeking to recruit businesses
  • 288.0071 — Economic incentives to foreign countries of concern prohibited
  • 288.012 — State of Florida international offices; direct-support organization
  • 288.017 — Cooperative advertising matching grants program
  • 288.018 — Regional Rural Development Grants Program
  • 288.019 — Rural considerations in grant review and evaluation processes
  • 288.021 — Economic development liaison
  • 288.0251 — International development outreach activities in Latin America and Caribbean Basin
  • 288.035 — Economic development activities
  • 288.036 — Ocean economy development
  • 288.037 — Department of State; agreement with county tax collector
  • 288.041 — Solar energy industry; legislative findings and policy; promotional activities
  • 288.0415 — Solar energy; advancement; economic development strategy
  • 288.046 — Quick-response training; legislative intent
  • 288.047 — Quick-response training for economic development
  • 288.061 — Economic development incentive application process
  • 288.062 — Rural Community Investment Program
  • 288.065 — Rural Community Development Revolving Loan Fund
  • 288.0655 — Rural Infrastructure Fund
  • 288.0656 — Rural Economic Development Initiative
  • 288.06561 — Reduction or waiver of financial match requirements
  • 288.0657 — Florida rural economic development strategy grants
  • 288.0658 — Nature-based recreation; promotion and other assistance by Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission
  • 288.0659 — Local Government Distressed Area Matching Grant Program
  • 288.066 — Local Government Emergency Revolving Bridge Loan Program
  • 288.075 — Confidentiality of records
  • 288.076 — Return on investment reporting for economic development programs
  • 288.095 — Economic Development Trust Fund
  • 288.101 — Florida Job Growth Grant Fund
  • 288.102 — Supply Chain Innovation Grant Program
  • 288.107 — Brownfield redevelopment bonus refunds
  • 288.108 — High-impact business
  • 288.1097 — Qualified job training organizations; certification; duties
  • 288.111 — Information concerning local manufacturing development programs
  • 288.1162 — Professional sports franchises; duties
  • 288.11621 — Spring training baseball franchises
  • 288.11631 — Retention of Major League Baseball spring training baseball franchises
  • 288.1166 — Professional sports facility; designation as shelter site for the homeless; establishment of local programs
  • 288.1167 — Sports franchise contract provisions for food and beverage concession and contract awards to minority business enterpris
  • 288.1175 — Agriculture education and promotion facility
  • 288.1201 — State Economic Enhancement and Development Trust Fund
  • 288.122 — Tourism Promotional Trust Fund
  • 288.1226 — Florida Tourism Industry Marketing Corporation; use of property; board of directors; duties; audit
  • 288.12265 — Welcome centers
  • 288.12266 — Targeted Marketing Assistance Program
  • 288.1229 — Promotion and development of sports-related industries and amateur athletics; direct-support organization established; p
  • 288.124 — Convention grants program
  • 288.125 — Definition of “entertainment industry.”
  • 288.1258 — Entertainment industry qualified production companies; application procedure; categories; duties of the Department of Re
  • 288.13 — Cooperation with other units, boards, agencies, and individuals
  • 288.14 — Board of Trustees of Internal Improvement Trust Fund may cooperate
  • 288.15 — Powers of Division of Bond Finance
  • 288.17 — Revenue certificates
  • 288.18 — Planning, promoting, and supervising state building projects
  • 288.23 — Division authorized to acquire roads and bridges
  • 288.24 — Division authorized to acquire ferries and toll ferries
  • 288.27 — Lease or sale by division
  • 288.28 — Department of Transportation authorized to lease or purchase certain roads and bridges
  • 288.281 — Financing construction or acquisition of roads and bridges; additional method
  • 288.29 — Ratifying prior transactions
  • 288.30 — Cumulative provisions
  • 288.31 — Armories; financing construction authorized
  • 288.33 — School buildings; financing construction authorized
  • 288.35 — Definitions
  • 288.36 — Foreign trade zones; authority to establish, operate, and maintain
  • 288.37 — Foreign trade zones; authority to select and describe locations and make rules
  • 288.38 — Applicability of state laws and rules concerning citrus fruit and products
  • 288.7015 — Appointment of rules ombudsman; duties
  • 288.702 — Short title
  • 288.703 — Definitions
  • 288.7031 — Application of certain definitions
  • 288.705 — Statewide contracts register
  • 288.706 — Florida Minority Business Loan Mobilization Program
  • 288.7094 — Black business investment corporations
  • 288.7102 — Black Business Loan Program
  • 288.71025 — Prohibited acts; penalties
  • 288.7103 — Eligibility for loan, loan guarantee, or investment
  • 288.714 — Quarterly and annual reports
  • 288.770 — Short title
  • 288.771 — Legislative findings and intent
  • 288.772 — Definitions
  • 288.773 — Florida Export Finance Corporation
  • 288.774 — Powers and limitations
  • 288.775 — Florida Export Finance Corporation Guarantee Account
  • 288.776 — Board of directors; powers and duties
  • 288.777 — President of the corporation
  • 288.7771 — Annual report of Florida Export Finance Corporation
  • 288.778 — Office of Financial Institutions and Securities Regulation
  • 288.80 — Short title
  • 288.8011 — Gulf Coast Economic Corridor; legislative intent
  • 288.8012 — Definitions
  • 288.80125 — Triumph Gulf Coast Trust Fund
  • 288.8013 — Triumph Gulf Coast, Inc.; creation; funding; investment
  • 288.8014 — Triumph Gulf Coast, Inc.; organization; board of directors
  • 288.8015 — Board of directors; powers
  • 288.8016 — Triumph Gulf Coast, Inc.; duties
  • 288.8017 — Awards
  • 288.8018 — Gulf Coast audits
  • 288.816 — Intergovernmental relations
  • 288.8165 — Citizen support organizations
  • 288.8175 — Linkage institutes between postsecondary institutions in this state and foreign countries
  • 288.826 — Florida International Trade and Promotion Trust Fund
  • 288.851 — Short title
  • 288.852 — Legislative purpose
  • 288.853 — International sanctions against Castro government
  • 288.854 — Support for a free and independent Cuba
  • 288.855 — Export or sale for export to foreign countries in violation of federal law prohibited
  • 288.860 — International cultural agreements
  • 288.9602 — Findings and declarations of necessity
  • 288.9603 — Definitions
  • 288.9604 — Creation of the corporation
  • 288.9605 — Corporation powers
  • 288.9606 — Issue of revenue bonds
  • 288.9607 — Guaranty of bond issues
  • 288.9608 — Creation and funding of the Energy, Technology, and Economic Development Guaranty Fund
  • 288.9609 — Bonds as legal investments
  • 288.9610 — Annual reports of Florida Development Finance Corporation
  • 288.9614 — Authorized programs
  • 288.9619 — Conflicts of interest
  • 288.9621 — Short title
  • 288.9622 — Findings and intent
  • 288.9623 — Definitions
  • 288.9624 — Florida Opportunity Fund; creation; duties
  • 288.9625 — Institute for Commercialization of Florida Technology
  • 288.96255 — Florida Technology Seed Capital Fund; creation; duties
  • 288.9626 — Exemptions from public records and public meetings requirements for the Florida Opportunity Fund
  • 288.9627 — Exemptions from public records and public meetings requirements for the Institute for Commercialization of Florida Techn
  • 288.972 — Legislative intent
  • 288.975 — Military base reuse plans
  • 288.976 — Military base closure and reuse
  • 288.977 — Military base disposition
  • 288.980 — Military base retention; legislative intent; grants program
  • 288.985 — Exemptions from public records and public meetings requirements
  • 288.987 — Florida Defense Support
  • 288.993 — Short title
  • 288.9931 — Legislative findings and intent
  • 288.9932 — Definitions
  • 288.9933 — Rulemaking authority
  • 288.9935 — Microfinance Guarantee Program
  • 288.9961 — Promotion of broadband adoption; Florida Office of Broadband
  • 288.9962 — Broadband Opportunity Program
  • 288.9963 — Attachment of broadband facilities to municipal electric utility poles
Title 29 · FL Chapter 29 (20 sections)
  • 29.001 — State courts system elements and definitions
  • 29.004 — State courts system
  • 29.005 — State attorneys’ offices and prosecution expenses
  • 29.006 — Indigent defense costs
  • 29.007 — Court-appointed counsel
  • 29.008 — County funding of court-related functions
  • 29.0081 — County funding of additional court personnel
  • 29.0085 — Annual statement of certain revenues and expenditures
  • 29.012 — Construction
  • 29.015 — Contingency fund; limitation of authority to transfer funds in contracted due process services appropriation categories
  • 29.016 — Contingency fund; judicial branch
  • 29.017 — Pending proceedings; applicability of ch. 2003-402
  • 29.018 — Cost sharing of due-process services; legislative intent
  • 29.0185 — Provision of state-funded due process services to individuals
  • 29.019 — Billings rendered for pre-July 1, 2004, services
  • 29.0195 — Recovery of expenditures for state-funded services
  • 29.21 — Department of Management Services to provide assistance in procuring services
  • 29.22 — State Courts Revenue Trust Fund
  • 29.23 — Salaries of certain positions in the judicial branch
  • 29.24 — Lactation spaces in courthouses
Title 290 · FL Chapter 290 (40 sections)
  • 290.001 — Florida Enterprise Zone Act; popular name
  • 290.002 — Legislative findings
  • 290.003 — Policy and purpose
  • 290.004 — Definitions relating to Florida Enterprise Zone Act
  • 290.0055 — Local nominating procedure
  • 290.0056 — Enterprise zone development agency
  • 290.0057 — Enterprise zone development plan
  • 290.0058 — Determination of pervasive poverty, unemployment, and general distress
  • 290.0065 — State designation of enterprise zones
  • 290.0066 — Revocation of enterprise zone designation
  • 290.00677 — Rural enterprise zones; special qualifications
  • 290.007 — State incentives available in enterprise zones
  • 290.00710 — Enterprise zone designation for the City of Lakeland
  • 290.0072 — Enterprise zone designation for the City of Winter Haven
  • 290.00725 — Enterprise zone designation for the City of Ocala
  • 290.00726 — Enterprise zone designation for Martin County
  • 290.00727 — Enterprise zone designation for the City of Palm Bay
  • 290.00728 — Enterprise zone designation for Lake County
  • 290.00729 — Enterprise zone designation for Charlotte County
  • 290.0073 — Enterprise zone designation for Indian River County, the City of Vero Beach, and the City of Sebastian
  • 290.00731 — Enterprise zone designation for Citrus County
  • 290.0074 — Enterprise zone designation for Sumter County
  • 290.0077 — Enterprise zone designation for Orange County and the municipality of Apopka
  • 290.012 — Transition
  • 290.0135 — Local government ordinances; encouragements and incentives; review for adverse effects; certain changes prohibited
  • 290.014 — Annual reports on enterprise zones
  • 290.016 — Repeal
  • 290.0401 — Florida Small Cities Community Development Block Grant Program Act; short title
  • 290.0411 — Legislative intent and purpose of ss. 290.0401-290.048
  • 290.042 — Definitions relating to Florida Small Cities Community Development Block Grant Program Act
  • 290.043 — Florida Small Cities Community Development Block Grant Program; administration
  • 290.044 — Florida Small Cities Community Development Block Grant Program Fund; administration; distribution
  • 290.0455 — Small Cities Community Development Block Grant Loan Guarantee Program; Section 108 loan guarantees
  • 290.046 — Applications for grants; procedures; requirements
  • 290.047 — Establishment of grant ceilings and maximum administrative cost percentages; elimination of population bias; loans in de
  • 290.0475 — Rejection of grant applications; penalties for failure to meet application conditions
  • 290.048 — General powers of department under ss. 290.0401-290.048
  • 290.0491 — Florida Empowerment Zones
  • 290.053 — Response to economic emergencies in small communities
  • 290.06561 — Designation of rural enterprise zone as catalyst site
Title 292 · FL Chapter 292 (10 sections)
  • 292.05 — Duties of Department of Veterans’ Affairs
  • 292.055 — Direct-support organization
  • 292.10 — Local governing bodies authorized to assist war veterans; powers
  • 292.11 — County and city veteran service officer
  • 292.115 — Veteran Suicide Prevention Training Pilot Program
  • 292.12 — Cooperation with other agencies
  • 292.13 — Services to be without charge
  • 292.14 — Construction of law
  • 292.15 — Taxation and appropriation
  • 292.16 — Construction of ss. 292.10-292.15
Title 295 · FL Chapter 295 (37 sections)
  • 295.01 — Spouses and dependent children of deceased or disabled servicemembers; education
  • 295.011 — Disabled veterans; education
  • 295.015 — Children of prisoners of war and persons missing in action; education
  • 295.016 — Children of servicemembers who died or became disabled in Operation Eagle Claw; education
  • 295.017 — Children of servicemembers who died or became disabled in the Lebanon and Grenada military arenas; education
  • 295.018 — Children of servicemembers who died in Newfoundland air tragedy; educational opportunity
  • 295.0185 — Children of servicemembers who died or became disabled in Operation Enduring Freedom or Operation Iraqi Freedom; educati
  • 295.019 — Children of servicemembers who died in U.S.S. Stark attack
  • 295.0195 — Children of servicemembers who died or became disabled in the Mideast Persian Gulf military arena during hostilities wit
  • 295.02 — Use of funds; age, etc
  • 295.03 — Minimum requirements
  • 295.04 — Appropriation; benefits
  • 295.05 — Admission; enrollment
  • 295.061 — Active duty servicemembers; death benefits
  • 295.065 — Legislative intent
  • 295.07 — Preference in appointment and retention
  • 295.08 — Positions for which a numerically based selection process is used
  • 295.085 — Positions for which a numerically based selection process is not used
  • 295.09 — Reinstatement or reemployment; promotion preference
  • 295.11 — Investigation; administrative hearing for not employing preferred applicant
  • 295.123 — Deserters and others; inapplicability of chapter
  • 295.124 — State approving agency for veterans’ education and training
  • 295.125 — Preference for admission to career training
  • 295.13 — Disability of minority of veterans and spouse removed, benefits under Servicemen’s Readjustment Act
  • 295.14 — Penalties
  • 295.155 — Military retirement based on longevity
  • 295.156 — Alternative treatment options for veterans
  • 295.157 — Veterans Dental Care Grant Program
  • 295.16 — Disabled veterans exempt from certain license or permit fee
  • 295.17 — Identification cards
  • 295.186 — Removal of certain forms from official records
  • 295.187 — Florida Veteran Business Enterprise Opportunity Act
  • 295.188 — Preference in hiring veterans for private employers
  • 295.21 — Florida Is For Veterans, Inc
  • 295.22 — Veterans Employment and Training Services Program
  • 295.23 — Veterans research and marketing campaign
  • 295.24 — Prohibited reimbursement of assessments; penalty
Title 296 · FL Chapter 296 (34 sections)
  • 296.01 — Short title
  • 296.02 — Definitions
  • 296.03 — Veterans’ Domiciliary Home of Florida
  • 296.04 — Administrator; duties and qualifications; responsibilities
  • 296.05 — Bond of administrator and certain employees
  • 296.06 — State policy; eligibility requirements
  • 296.07 — Certain persons ineligible
  • 296.08 — Priority of admittance
  • 296.09 — Health record and general register to be maintained
  • 296.10 — Residents; contribution to support
  • 296.11 — Funds of home and disposition of moneys
  • 296.12 — Residents’ Deposits Trust Fund
  • 296.13 — Death of resident; disposition of moneys held
  • 296.14 — Personal property; deceased residents; residents leaving
  • 296.15 — Gifts, grants, and endowments to the home
  • 296.17 — Audit; inspection; and standards for the home
  • 296.31 — Short title
  • 296.32 — Purpose
  • 296.33 — Definitions
  • 296.34 — Administrator; qualifications, duties, and responsibilities
  • 296.35 — Nondiscrimination policy of the home
  • 296.36 — Eligibility and priority of admittance
  • 296.37 — Residents; contribution to support
  • 296.38 — Funds of home and disposition of moneys
  • 296.41 — Audit; inspection; standards for the home
  • 296.415 — Veteran and spouse nursing home beds
  • 296.42 — Short title
  • 296.43 — Purpose; statewide plan
  • 296.44 — Definitions
  • 296.45 — Operator; qualifications, duties, and responsibilities
  • 296.46 — Nondiscrimination policy of the program
  • 296.47 — Eligibility and priority of admittance
  • 296.48 — Participants; contribution to support
  • 296.49 — Audit; inspection; standards for the program
Title 298 · FL Chapter 298 (58 sections)
  • 298.001 — Districts designated as “water control” districts
  • 298.005 — Definitions
  • 298.01 — Formation of water control district
  • 298.11 — Landowners’ meetings; election of board of supervisors; duties of Department of Environmental Protection
  • 298.12 — Annual election of supervisors; term of office; vacancy
  • 298.13 — Supervisor’s oath of office
  • 298.14 — Organization of board; annual reports to landowners; compensation of members of board
  • 298.15 — Record of proceedings
  • 298.16 — Appointment of district engineer; engineer’s duties
  • 298.17 — Appointment and duties of treasurer of district; appointment of deputies; bond of treasurer; audit of books; disbursemen
  • 298.18 — Supervisors to employ attorney for district; duty of attorney
  • 298.19 — Appointment and duties of superintendent of plant and operations and overseers
  • 298.20 — Supervisors to fix compensation for work and employees
  • 298.21 — Supervisors may remove officers and employees
  • 298.22 — Powers of supervisors
  • 298.225 — Water control plan; plan development and amendment
  • 298.23 — Supervisors authorized to take land for rights-of-way, etc.; payment
  • 298.24 — Bridge construction
  • 298.25 — Type of bridges over drains in large counties
  • 298.26 — District engineer to make annual reports to supervisors; approval of reports; water control plan
  • 298.28 — Watercourses to be connected with drainage of district; connecting drains after completion of plan of drainage
  • 298.301 — District water control plan adoption; district boundary modification; plan amendment; notice forms; objections; hearings
  • 298.305 — Assessing land for development; apportionment of assessment
  • 298.329 — When works insufficient, supervisors have power to make a new or amended plan; additional levy; issuance of bonds; proce
  • 298.333 — Assessments and costs; a lien on land against which levied
  • 298.341 — When unpaid assessments delinquent; penalty
  • 298.345 — Enforcement of non-ad valorem assessments
  • 298.349 — Uniform initial acreage assessment for payment of expenses
  • 298.353 — Unit development; powers of board of supervisors to designate units of district; financing assessments for each unit
  • 298.36 — Lands belonging to state assessed; drainage tax record
  • 298.365 — Collection of annual installment tax; lien
  • 298.366 — Delinquent taxes; penalties
  • 298.401 — Property appraisers and tax collectors; compensation; characterization of services
  • 298.41 — Taxes and costs a lien on land against which taxes levied; subdistricts
  • 298.465 — District taxes; delinquent; discounts
  • 298.47 — Supervisors may issue bonds
  • 298.48 — Sale of bonds and disposition of proceeds
  • 298.49 — Interest upon matured bonds
  • 298.50 — Levy of tax to pay bonds, sinking fund
  • 298.51 — Defaults, receivership for district
  • 298.52 — Refunding and extending bonds
  • 298.54 — Maintenance tax
  • 298.56 — Bonds issued secured by lien on lands benefited; assessment and collection of taxes may be enforced
  • 298.57 — Landowner in district may construct drains across land of intervening landowner; proceedings
  • 298.59 — Supervisors authorized to obtain consent of United States
  • 298.60 — Unpaid warrants issued by district to draw interest
  • 298.61 — Sureties on bonds; penalties payable to district; bonds cover defaults of specified persons
  • 298.62 — Lands may be acquired for rights-of-way and other purposes
  • 298.63 — Bonds to secure loans from Secretary of Interior
  • 298.66 — Obstruction of public drainage canals, etc., prohibited; damages; penalties
  • 298.70 — Department of Environmental Protection authorized to borrow money
  • 298.71 — Department may issue notes; suit by holder; judgment
  • 298.72 — Department may use proceeds of drainage tax to pay loans
  • 298.73 — Matured written obligations receivable in payment of taxes
  • 298.74 — Drainage of lakes
  • 298.76 — Special or local legislation; effect
  • 298.77 — Readjustment of assessments; procedure, notice, hearings
  • 298.78 — Lien; release
Title 30 · FL Chapter 30 (43 sections)
  • 30.01 — Bond of sheriffs; small counties
  • 30.02 — Bond of sheriffs; large counties
  • 30.03 — Obligation of sureties
  • 30.04 — Justification of sureties
  • 30.05 — Surety companies
  • 30.06 — Liability of sureties
  • 30.07 — Deputy sheriffs
  • 30.071 — Applicability and scope of act
  • 30.072 — Definitions
  • 30.073 — Appointment; probation; regular appointment
  • 30.074 — Regular appointee status
  • 30.075 — Review boards
  • 30.076 — Appeal
  • 30.077 — Conduct of hearing
  • 30.078 — Continuation of appointment after a change in sheriff
  • 30.079 — Effects of act; no property interest or expectancy in office; sheriff’s authority
  • 30.09 — Qualification of deputies; special deputies
  • 30.10 — Place of office
  • 30.12 — Power to appoint sheriff
  • 30.14 — Succession of office
  • 30.15 — Powers, duties, and obligations
  • 30.20 — False return
  • 30.21 — Failure to pay over money
  • 30.22 — When sheriff may accept service
  • 30.231 — Sheriffs’ fees for service of summons, subpoenas, and executions
  • 30.24 — Transportation and return of prisoners
  • 30.27 — Constructive mileage not to be charged
  • 30.29 — Sheriffs may furnish vital war industries guard service against sabotage
  • 30.2905 — Program to contract for employment of off-duty deputies for security services
  • 30.291 — Closing of public facilities upon threat of violence
  • 30.30 — Writs, process; duties and liabilities in levying
  • 30.46 — Sheriffs; motor vehicles color combination; badges; simulation prohibited; penalties
  • 30.48 — Salaries
  • 30.49 — Budgets
  • 30.50 — Payment of salaries and expenses
  • 30.501 — Bailiffs’ meals and lodging
  • 30.51 — Fees and commissions
  • 30.52 — Handling of public funds
  • 30.53 — Independence of constitutional officials
  • 30.555 — Liability insurance
  • 30.56 — Release of traffic violator on recognizance or bond; penalty for failure to appear
  • 30.60 — Establishment of neighborhood crime watch programs
  • 30.61 — Establishment of civilian oversight boards
Title 308 · FL Chapter 308 (4 sections)
  • 308.01 — Appointment and duties
  • 308.02 — Bond; penalties
  • 308.03 — License and regulation; penalties
  • 308.04 — Acting as shipping master without license; penalties
Title 309 · FL Chapter 309 (2 sections)
  • 309.01 — Deposit of material in tidewater regulated
  • 309.02 — Deposit of material on wharf or quay regulated
Title 310 · FL Chapter 310 (29 sections)
  • 310.001 — Purpose
  • 310.0015 — Piloting regulation; general provisions
  • 310.002 — Definitions
  • 310.011 — Board of Pilot Commissioners
  • 310.032 — Oath of members of the board
  • 310.042 — Organization of board; meetings
  • 310.051 — Personnel; employment
  • 310.061 — State pilots; number; cross licensing
  • 310.071 — Deputy pilot certification
  • 310.073 — State pilot licensing
  • 310.075 — Deputy pilot training program
  • 310.081 — Department to examine and license state pilots and certificate deputy pilots; vacancies
  • 310.091 — Powers of the department
  • 310.101 — Grounds for disciplinary action by the board
  • 310.102 — Treatment programs for impaired pilots and deputy pilots
  • 310.111 — Marine incident reports
  • 310.1112 — Motor vehicle reports
  • 310.1115 — Bridge electronic navigation protection equipment; duty of pilot
  • 310.121 — Application, examination, and biennial fees
  • 310.131 — Assessment of percentage of gross pilotage
  • 310.141 — Vessels subject to pilotage
  • 310.142 — Pilotage at St. Marys Entrance
  • 310.146 — Exemptions from pilotage
  • 310.151 — Rates of pilotage; Pilotage Rate Review Committee
  • 310.161 — Piloting without a license; penalties
  • 310.171 — Pilots may incorporate themselves
  • 310.181 — Corporate powers
  • 310.183 — Immediate inactivation of license or certificate for certain violations
  • 310.185 — Rulemaking
Title 311 · FL Chapter 311 (18 sections)
  • 311.07 — Florida seaport transportation and economic development funding
  • 311.09 — Florida Seaport Transportation and Economic Development Council
  • 311.091 — Entry into public-private infrastructure project agreements for port-related public infrastructure projects
  • 311.10 — Strategic Port Investment Initiative
  • 311.101 — Intermodal Logistics Center Infrastructure Support Program
  • 311.103 — Designation of state freight logistics zones
  • 311.105 — Florida Seaport Environmental Management Committee; permitting; mitigation
  • 311.106 — Seaport stormwater permitting and mitigation
  • 311.11 — Seaport Employment Training Grant Program
  • 311.12 — Seaport security
  • 311.121 — Qualifications, training, and certification of licensed security officers at Florida seaports
  • 311.122 — Seaport law enforcement agency; authorization; requirements; powers; training
  • 311.123 — Maritime domain security awareness training program
  • 311.124 — Trespassing; detention by a certified seaport security officer
  • 311.13 — Certain information exempt from disclosure
  • 311.14 — Seaport planning
  • 311.22 — Additional authorization for funding certain dredging projects
  • 311.25 — Florida seaports; local ballot initiatives and referendums
Title 313 · FL Chapter 313 (10 sections)
Title 314 · FL Chapter 314 (9 sections)
Title 315 · FL Chapter 315 (18 sections)
  • 315.01 — Short title
  • 315.02 — Definitions
  • 315.03 — Grant of powers
  • 315.031 — Promoting and advertising port facilities
  • 315.04 — Other consents or approvals; use of state lands
  • 315.05 — Port facilities bonds
  • 315.06 — Sources of payment and security for bonds
  • 315.07 — Contracts for borrowing of money
  • 315.08 — Trust agreement or resolution
  • 315.09 — Remedies
  • 315.10 — Refunding bonds
  • 315.11 — Exemption from taxation
  • 315.12 — Bonds, legal investments
  • 315.13 — Action by resolution
  • 315.15 — Additional and alternative method
  • 315.16 — Liberal construction
  • 315.17 — Waiver of term limitation for leases entered into by county with another governmental entity for benefit of a seaport
  • 315.18 — Confidentiality of certain records held by deepwater ports
Title 316 · FL Chapter 316 (282 sections)
  • 316.001 — Short title
  • 316.002 — Purpose
  • 316.003 — Definitions
  • 316.006 — Jurisdiction
  • 316.007 — Provisions uniform throughout state
  • 316.0075 — Operator use of commercial mobile radio services and electronic communications devices
  • 316.0076 — Regulation and use of cameras
  • 316.0077 — Camera systems; contract procurement
  • 316.0078 — Prohibition on contracting for camera systems of vendors of foreign countries of concern
  • 316.008 — Powers of local authorities
  • 316.0081 — Request regarding traffic signals or other traffic control devices
  • 316.0083 — Mark Wandall Traffic Safety Program; administration; report
  • 316.00831 — Distribution of penalties collected under s. 316.0083(1)(b)
  • 316.0085 — Skateboarding; inline skating; freestyle or mountain and off-road bicycling; paintball; definitions; liability
  • 316.027 — Crash involving death or personal injuries
  • 316.0271 — Yellow dot critical motorist medical information program; yellow dot decal, folder, and information form
  • 316.061 — Crashes involving damage to vehicle or property
  • 316.062 — Duty to give information and render aid
  • 316.063 — Duty upon damaging unattended vehicle or other property
  • 316.064 — When driver unable to report
  • 316.065 — Crashes; reports; penalties
  • 316.066 — Written reports of crashes
  • 316.067 — False reports
  • 316.068 — Crash report forms
  • 316.069 — State to tabulate and analyze crash reports
  • 316.070 — Exchange of information at scene of crash
  • 316.071 — Disabled vehicles obstructing traffic
  • 316.072 — Obedience to and effect of traffic laws
  • 316.073 — Applicability to animals and animal-drawn vehicles
  • 316.074 — Obedience to and required traffic control devices
  • 316.0745 — Uniform signals and devices
  • 316.07456 — Transitional implementation
  • 316.0747 — Sale or purchase of traffic control devices by nongovernmental entities; prohibitions
  • 316.075 — Traffic control signal devices
  • 316.0755 — Pedestrian control signals
  • 316.076 — Flashing signals
  • 316.0765 — Lane direction control signals
  • 316.077 — Display of unauthorized signs, signals or markings
  • 316.0775 — Interference with official traffic control devices or railroad signs or signals
  • 316.0776 — Traffic infraction detectors; speed detection systems; placement and installation
  • 316.0777 — Automated license plate recognition systems; installation within rights-of-way of State Highway System; public records e
  • 316.0778 — Automated license plate recognition systems; records retention
  • 316.078 — Detour signs to be respected
  • 316.079 — Duty to yield to highway construction workers
  • 316.08 — Requirements of flagpersons
  • 316.081 — Driving on right side of roadway; exceptions
  • 316.0815 — Duty to yield to public transit vehicles
  • 316.0817 — Loading and unloading of bus passengers
  • 316.082 — Passing vehicles proceeding in opposite directions
  • 316.0825 — Vehicle approaching an animal
  • 316.083 — Overtaking and passing a vehicle, a bicycle or other nonmotorized vehicle, or an electric bicycle
  • 316.084 — When overtaking on the right is permitted
  • 316.085 — Limitations on overtaking, passing, changing lanes and changing course
  • 316.087 — Further limitations on driving to left of center of roadway
  • 316.0875 — No-passing zones
  • 316.088 — One-way roadways and rotary traffic islands
  • 316.089 — Driving on roadways laned for traffic
  • 316.0895 — Following too closely
  • 316.090 — Driving on divided highways
  • 316.091 — Limited access facilities; interstate highways; use restricted
  • 316.1001 — Payment of toll on toll facilities required; penalties
  • 316.121 — Vehicles approaching or entering intersections
  • 316.122 — Vehicle turning left
  • 316.123 — Vehicle entering stop or yield intersection
  • 316.1235 — Vehicle approaching intersection in which traffic lights are inoperative
  • 316.125 — Vehicle entering highway from private road or driveway or emerging from alley, driveway or building
  • 316.126 — Operation of vehicles and actions of pedestrians; approach of authorized emergency, sanitation, or utility service vehic
  • 316.130 — Pedestrians; traffic regulations
  • 316.1301 — Traffic regulations to assist blind persons
  • 316.1303 — Traffic regulations to assist mobility-impaired persons
  • 316.1305 — Fishing from state road bridges
  • 316.1355 — Driving through safety zone prohibited
  • 316.151 — Required position and method of turning at intersections
  • 316.1515 — Limitations on turning around
  • 316.152 — Turning on curve or crest of grade prohibited
  • 316.154 — Starting parked vehicle
  • 316.155 — When signal required
  • 316.156 — Signals by hand and arm or signal lamps
  • 316.157 — Method of giving hand and arm signals
  • 316.1575 — Obedience to traffic control devices at railroad-highway grade crossings
  • 316.1576 — Insufficient clearance at a railroad-highway grade crossing
  • 316.1577 — Employer responsibility for violations pertaining to railroad-highway grade crossings
  • 316.159 — Certain vehicles to stop or slow at all railroad grade crossings
  • 316.170 — Moving heavy equipment at railroad grade crossings
  • 316.171 — Traffic control devices at railroad-highway grade crossings
  • 316.172 — Traffic to stop for school bus
  • 316.173 — School bus infraction detection systems
  • 316.183 — Unlawful speed
  • 316.185 — Special hazards
  • 316.187 — Establishment of state speed zones
  • 316.189 — Establishment of municipal and county speed zones
  • 316.1891 — Designation of special event zones; definitions; enhanced penalties; vehicle impoundment
  • 316.1893 — Establishment of enhanced penalty zones; designation
  • 316.1894 — School Crossing Guard Recruitment and Retention Program
  • 316.1895 — Establishment of school speed zones, enforcement; designation
  • 316.1896 — Roadways maintained as school zones; speed detection system enforcement; penalties; appeal procedure; privacy; reports
  • 316.1905 — Electrical, mechanical, or other speed calculating devices; power of arrest; evidence
  • 316.1906 — Radar speed-measuring devices; speed detection systems; evidence, admissibility
  • 316.191 — Racing on highways, street takeovers, and stunt driving
  • 316.192 — Reckless driving
  • 316.1922 — Dangerous excessive speeding
  • 316.1923 — Aggressive careless driving
  • 316.1925 — Careless driving
  • 316.1926 — Additional offenses
  • 316.193 — Driving under the influence; penalties
  • 316.1932 — Tests for alcohol, chemical substances, or controlled substances; implied consent; refusal
  • 316.1933 — Blood test for impairment or intoxication in cases of death or serious bodily injury; right to use reasonable force
  • 316.1934 — Presumption of impairment; testing methods
  • 316.1935 — Fleeing or attempting to elude a law enforcement officer; aggravated fleeing or eluding
  • 316.1936 — Possession of open containers of alcoholic beverages in vehicles prohibited; penalties
  • 316.1937 — Ignition interlock devices, requiring; unlawful acts
  • 316.1938 — Ignition interlock devices, certification; warning label
  • 316.1939 — Refusal to submit to testing; penalties
  • 316.194 — Stopping, standing or parking outside of municipalities
  • 316.1945 — Stopping, standing, or parking prohibited in specified places
  • 316.195 — Additional parking regulations
  • 316.1951 — Parking for certain purposes prohibited; sale of motor vehicles; prohibited acts
  • 316.1955 — Enforcement of parking requirements for persons who have disabilities
  • 316.1957 — Parking violations; designated parking spaces for persons who have disabilities
  • 316.1958 — Out-of-state vehicles bearing identification of issuance to persons who have disabilities
  • 316.1959 — Handicapped parking enforcement
  • 316.1964 — Exemption of vehicles transporting certain persons who have disabilities from payment of parking fees and penalties
  • 316.1965 — Parking near rural mailbox during certain hours; penalties
  • 316.1967 — Liability for payment of parking ticket violations and other parking violations
  • 316.1974 — Funeral procession right-of-way and liability
  • 316.1975 — Unattended motor vehicle
  • 316.1985 — Limitations on backing
  • 316.1995 — Driving upon sidewalk or bicycle path
  • 316.2004 — Obstruction to driver’s view or driving mechanism
  • 316.2005 — Opening and closing vehicle doors
  • 316.2014 — Riding in house trailers
  • 316.2015 — Unlawful for person to ride on exterior of vehicle
  • 316.2021 — Unlawful impersonation of transportation network company driver
  • 316.2025 — Following fire apparatus prohibited
  • 316.2034 — Crossing fire hose
  • 316.2035 — Injurious substances prohibited; dragging vehicle or load; obstructing, digging, etc
  • 316.2044 — Removal of injurious substances
  • 316.2045 — Obstruction of public streets, highways, and roads
  • 316.2051 — Certain vehicles prohibited on hard-surfaced roads
  • 316.2055 — Motor vehicles, throwing advertising materials in
  • 316.2061 — Stop when traffic obstructed
  • 316.2065 — Bicycle regulations
  • 316.20655 — Electric bicycle regulations
  • 316.2068 — Electric personal assistive mobility devices; regulations
  • 316.2069 — Commercial megacycles
  • 316.2071 — Personal delivery devices and mobile carriers
  • 316.2074 — All-terrain vehicles
  • 316.208 — Motorcycles and mopeds
  • 316.2085 — Riding on motorcycles or mopeds
  • 316.209 — Operating motorcycles on roadways laned for traffic
  • 316.2095 — Footrests, handholds, and handlebars
  • 316.211 — Equipment for motorcycle and moped riders
  • 316.212 — Operation of golf carts on certain roadways
  • 316.2122 — Operation of a low-speed vehicle, mini truck, or low-speed autonomous delivery vehicle on certain roadways
  • 316.2123 — Operation of an ATV on certain roadways
  • 316.2124 — Motorized disability access vehicles
  • 316.2125 — Operation of golf carts within a retirement community
  • 316.2126 — Authorized use of golf carts, low-speed vehicles, and utility vehicles
  • 316.21265 — Use of all-terrain vehicles, golf carts, low-speed vehicles, or utility vehicles by law enforcement agencies
  • 316.2127 — Operation of utility vehicles on certain roadways by homeowners’ associations
  • 316.2128 — Micromobility devices, motorized scooters, and miniature motorcycles; requirements
  • 316.2129 — Operation of swamp buggies on public roads, streets, or highways authorized
  • 316.215 — Scope and effect of regulations
  • 316.216 — Authority of department with reference to lighting devices
  • 316.217 — When lighted lamps are required
  • 316.220 — Headlamps on motor vehicles
  • 316.221 — Taillamps
  • 316.222 — Stop lamps and turn signals
  • 316.2225 — Additional equipment required on certain vehicles
  • 316.224 — Color of clearance lamps, identification lamps, side marker lamps, backup lamps, reflectors, and deceleration lights
  • 316.225 — Mounting of reflectors, clearance lamps and side marker lamps
  • 316.226 — Visibility requirements for reflectors, clearance lamps, identification lamps and marker lamps
  • 316.227 — Obstructed lights not required
  • 316.228 — Lamps or flags on projecting load
  • 316.229 — Lamps on parked vehicles
  • 316.2295 — Lamps, reflectors and emblems on farm tractors, farm equipment and implements of husbandry
  • 316.231 — Lamps on other vehicles and equipment
  • 316.233 — Spot lamps and auxiliary lamps
  • 316.234 — Signal lamps and signal devices
  • 316.235 — Additional lighting equipment
  • 316.237 — Multiple-beam road-lighting equipment
  • 316.238 — Use of multiple-beam road-lighting equipment
  • 316.2385 — Requirements for use of lower beam
  • 316.239 — Single-beam road-lighting equipment
  • 316.2395 — Motor vehicles; minimum headlamp requirement
  • 316.2396 — Number of driving lamps required or permitted
  • 316.2397 — Certain lights prohibited; exceptions
  • 316.2398 — Display or use of red or red and white warning signals; motor vehicles of volunteer firefighters or medical staff
  • 316.2399 — Special warning lights for buses or taxicabs
  • 316.240 — Standards for lights on highway maintenance and service equipment
  • 316.241 — Selling or using lamps or equipment
  • 316.242 — Revocation of certificate of approval on lighting devices
  • 316.251 — Maximum bumper heights
  • 316.252 — Splash and spray suppressant devices
  • 316.253 — Vehicles used to sell ice cream and other confections; display of warnings required
  • 316.261 — Brake equipment required
  • 316.262 — Performance ability of motor vehicle brakes
  • 316.263 — Maintenance of brakes
  • 316.267 — Brakes on electric-powered vehicles
  • 316.2675 — Vehicle kill switches; prohibited uses
  • 316.271 — Horns and warning devices
  • 316.272 — Exhaust systems, prevention of noise
  • 316.293 — Motor vehicle noise
  • 316.2935 — Air pollution control equipment; tampering prohibited; penalty
  • 316.2937 — Motor vehicle emissions standards
  • 316.294 — Mirrors
  • 316.2951 — Motor vehicle windows; definitions
  • 316.2952 — Windshields; requirements; restrictions
  • 316.2953 — Side windows; restrictions on sunscreening material
  • 316.2954 — Windows behind the driver; restrictions on sunscreening material
  • 316.29545 — Window sunscreening exclusions; medical exemption; certain law enforcement vehicles, process server vehicles, and privat
  • 316.2955 — Window sunscreening material; compliance labeling; tolerances
  • 316.2956 — Violation of provisions relating to windshields, windows, and sunscreening material; penalties
  • 316.2957 — Exemption for motor vehicle manufacturers
  • 316.299 — Rough surfaced wheels prohibited
  • 316.300 — Certain vehicles to carry flares or other devices
  • 316.301 — Display of warning lights and devices when vehicle is stopped or disabled
  • 316.302 — Commercial motor vehicles; safety regulations; transporters and shippers of hazardous materials; enforcement
  • 316.3025 — Penalties
  • 316.3026 — Unlawful operation of motor carriers
  • 316.303 — Television receivers
  • 316.304 — Wearing of headsets
  • 316.3045 — Operation of radios or other mechanical or electronic soundmaking devices or instruments in vehicles; exemptions
  • 316.305 — Wireless communications devices; prohibition
  • 316.306 — School and work zones; prohibition on the use of a wireless communications device in a handheld manner
  • 316.400 — Headlamps
  • 316.405 — Motorcycle headlights to be turned on
  • 316.410 — Taillamps
  • 316.415 — Reflectors
  • 316.420 — Stop lamps
  • 316.425 — Lamps on parked motorcycles
  • 316.430 — Multiple-beam road-lighting equipment
  • 316.435 — Lighting equipment for motor-driven cycles
  • 316.440 — Brake equipment required
  • 316.445 — Performance ability of motorcycle brakes
  • 316.450 — Brakes on motor-driven cycles
  • 316.455 — Other equipment
  • 316.46 — Equipment regulations for mopeds
  • 316.500 — Exceeding weight and length; penalties
  • 316.510 — Projecting loads on passenger vehicles
  • 316.515 — Maximum width, height, length
  • 316.516 — Width, height, and length; inspection; penalties
  • 316.520 — Loads on vehicles
  • 316.525 — Requirements for vehicles hauling loads
  • 316.530 — Towing requirements
  • 316.535 — Maximum weights
  • 316.545 — Weight and load unlawful; special fuel and motor fuel tax enforcement; inspection; penalty; review
  • 316.550 — Operations not in conformity with law; special permits
  • 316.5501 — Permitting program for combination truck tractor, semitrailer, and trailer combination coupled as a single unit subject
  • 316.555 — Weight, load, speed limits may be lowered; condition precedent
  • 316.560 — Damage to highways; liability of driver and owner
  • 316.565 — Emergency transportation, agricultural products; establishment of weight loads, etc
  • 316.600 — Health and sanitation hazards
  • 316.605 — Licensing of vehicles
  • 316.610 — Safety of vehicle; inspection
  • 316.6105 — Violations involving operation of motor vehicle in unsafe condition or without required equipment; procedure for disposi
  • 316.613 — Child restraint requirements
  • 316.6131 — Educational expenditures
  • 316.6135 — Leaving children unattended or unsupervised in motor vehicles; penalty; authority of law enforcement officer
  • 316.614 — Safety belt usage
  • 316.6145 — School buses; safety belts or other restraint systems required
  • 316.6146 — Transportation of private school students on public school buses and public school students on private school buses; agr
  • 316.615 — School buses; physical requirements of drivers
  • 316.622 — Farm labor vehicles
  • 316.635 — Courts having jurisdiction over traffic violations; powers relating to custody and detention of minors
  • 316.640 — Enforcement
  • 316.645 — Arrest authority of officer at scene of a traffic crash
  • 316.646 — Security required; proof of security and display thereof
  • 316.650 — Traffic citations
  • 316.655 — Penalties
  • 316.656 — Mandatory adjudication; prohibition against accepting plea to lesser included offense
  • 316.660 — Disposition of fines and forfeitures collected for violations; reporting requirement
  • 316.70 — Nonpublic sector buses; safety rules
  • 316.72 — Buses simulating school buses in color and insignia; conditions of use
  • 316.75 — School crossing guards
  • 316.80 — Unlawful conveyance of fuel; obtaining fuel fraudulently
  • 316.83 — Autonomous vehicle grading standards for roads on State Highway System
  • 316.85 — Autonomous vehicles; operation; compliance with traffic and motor vehicle laws; testing
  • 316.86 — Exemption from liability for manufacturer when third party converts vehicle
  • 316.87 — Nonemergency medical transportation services
  • 316.88 — Sale of appointments prohibited
  • 316.89 — Creation of a wake on streets or highways
Title 317 · FL Chapter 317 (18 sections)
  • 317.0001 — Short title
  • 317.0002 — Legislative intent
  • 317.0003 — Definitions
  • 317.0004 — Administration of off-highway vehicle titling laws; records
  • 317.0005 — Forms and notices
  • 317.0006 — Certificate of title required
  • 317.0007 — Application for and issuance of certificate of title
  • 317.0008 — Duplicate certificate of title
  • 317.0009 — Manufacturer’s statement of origin to be furnished
  • 317.0010 — Disposition of fees
  • 317.0011 — Refusal to issue and authority to cancel a certificate of title
  • 317.0012 — Crimes relating to certificates of title; penalties
  • 317.0013 — Nonmoving traffic violations
  • 317.0014 — Certificate of title; issuance in duplicate; delivery; liens and encumbrances
  • 317.0015 — Application of law
  • 317.0016 — Expedited service; applications; fees
  • 317.0017 — Offenses involving vehicle identification numbers, applications, certificates, papers; penalty
  • 317.0018 — Transfer without delivery of certificate; operation or use without certificate; failure to surrender; other violations
Title 318 · FL Chapter 318 (25 sections)
  • 318.11 — Short title
  • 318.12 — Purpose
  • 318.121 — Preemption of additional fees, fines, surcharges, and costs
  • 318.1215 — Dori Slosberg Driver Education Safety Act
  • 318.13 — Definitions
  • 318.14 — Noncriminal traffic infractions; exception; procedures
  • 318.143 — Sanctions for infractions by minors
  • 318.1435 — Youthful driver monitoring services
  • 318.1451 — Driver improvement schools
  • 318.15 — Failure to comply with civil penalty or to appear; penalty
  • 318.16 — Appeals; stay orders; procedures
  • 318.17 — Offenses excepted
  • 318.18 — Amount of penalties
  • 318.19 — Infractions requiring a mandatory hearing
  • 318.20 — Notification; duties of department
  • 318.21 — Disposition of civil penalties by county courts
  • 318.30 — Legislative intent
  • 318.31 — Objectives
  • 318.32 — Jurisdiction; limitations
  • 318.325 — Jurisdiction and procedure for parking infractions
  • 318.33 — Appeals
  • 318.34 — Qualifications
  • 318.35 — Term of office
  • 318.36 — Code of ethics
  • 318.38 — Nonseverability
Title 319 · FL Chapter 319 (29 sections)
  • 319.001 — Definitions
  • 319.14 — Sale of motor vehicles registered or used as taxicabs, police vehicles, lease vehicles, rebuilt vehicles, nonconforming
  • 319.141 — Rebuilt motor vehicle inspection program
  • 319.1414 — Department-authorized private rebuilt inspection providers; investigations; examinations; proceedings; subpoenas and oth
  • 319.145 — Autonomous vehicles
  • 319.17 — Rules; forms; indexes and records
  • 319.20 — Application of law
  • 319.21 — Necessity of manufacturer’s statement of origin and certificate of title
  • 319.22 — Transfer of title
  • 319.225 — Transfer and reassignment forms; odometer disclosure statements
  • 319.23 — Application for, and issuance of, certificate of title
  • 319.235 — Encumbrance of co-owned motor vehicle or mobile home
  • 319.24 — Issuance in duplicate; delivery; liens and encumbrances
  • 319.241 — Removal of lien from records
  • 319.25 — Cancellation of certificates; investigations; examinations; proceedings; subpoenas and other process; witnesses; oaths;
  • 319.261 — Real property transactions; retiring title to mobile home
  • 319.27 — Notice of lien on motor vehicles or mobile homes; notation on certificate; recording of lien
  • 319.271 — Terminal rent adjustment clause
  • 319.28 — Transfer of ownership by operation of law
  • 319.29 — Lost or destroyed certificates
  • 319.30 — Definitions; dismantling, destruction, change of identity of motor vehicle, vessel, or mobile home; salvage
  • 319.32 — Fees; service charges; disposition
  • 319.323 — Expedited service; applications; fees
  • 319.324 — Odometer fraud prevention and detection; funding
  • 319.33 — Offenses involving vehicle identification numbers, applications, certificates, papers; penalty
  • 319.34 — Transfer without delivery of certificate; operation or use without certificate; failure to surrender; other violations
  • 319.35 — Unlawful acts in connection with motor vehicle odometer readings; penalties
  • 319.40 — Transactions by electronic or telephonic means
  • 319.41 — Title history database
Title 320 · FL Chapter 320 (194 sections)
  • 320.01 — Definitions, general
  • 320.0104 — Legislative intent with respect to implementation of chapter
  • 320.011 — Administration and enforcement; rules
  • 320.015 — Taxation of mobile homes
  • 320.02 — Registration required; application for registration; forms
  • 320.023 — Requests to establish voluntary checkoff on motor vehicle registration application
  • 320.025 — Registration certificate and license plate or decal issued under fictitious name; application
  • 320.03 — Registration; duties of tax collectors; International Registration Plan
  • 320.031 — Mailing or delivery of registration certificates, license plates, and validation stickers
  • 320.04 — Registration service charge
  • 320.05 — Records of the department; inspection procedure; lists and searches; fees
  • 320.055 — Registration periods; renewal periods
  • 320.06 — Registration certificates, license plates, and validation stickers generally
  • 320.0601 — Lease and rental car companies; identification of vehicles as for-hire
  • 320.0603 — Vehicle-for-hire license or permit; reciprocity
  • 320.0605 — Certificate of registration; possession required; exception
  • 320.0607 — Replacement license plates, validation decal, or mobile home sticker
  • 320.0609 — Transfer and exchange of registration license plates; transfer fee
  • 320.061 — Unlawful to alter motor vehicle registration certificates, license plates, temporary license plates, mobile home sticker
  • 320.0655 — Permanent license plates for governmental entities and volunteer fire departments
  • 320.0657 — Permanent registration; fleet license plates
  • 320.0659 — Permanent registration of trailer for hire and semitrailers
  • 320.07 — Expiration of registration; renewal required; penalties
  • 320.0705 — Semiannual registration or renewal for certain vehicles
  • 320.0706 — Display of license plates on trucks
  • 320.071 — Advance registration renewal; procedures
  • 320.0715 — International Registration Plan; motor carrier services; permits; retention of records
  • 320.072 — Additional fee imposed on certain motor vehicle registration transactions
  • 320.08 — License taxes
  • 320.08001 — Electric vehicles; license tax
  • 320.0801 — Additional license tax on certain vehicles
  • 320.08015 — License tax surcharge
  • 320.0802 — Surcharge on license tax
  • 320.0803 — Moped license plates
  • 320.08035 — Persons who have disabilities; reduced dimension license plate
  • 320.0804 — Surcharge on license tax
  • 320.08046 — Juvenile programs surcharge on license tax
  • 320.08047 — Voluntary contribution for organ and tissue donor education
  • 320.08048 — Sample license plates
  • 320.0805 — Personalized prestige license plates
  • 320.08053 — Establishment of specialty license plates
  • 320.08056 — Specialty license plates
  • 320.08058 — Specialty license plates
  • 320.08062 — Audits and attestations required; annual use fees of specialty license plates
  • 320.08068 — Motorcycle specialty license plates
  • 320.0807 — Special license plates for Governor and federal and state legislators
  • 320.081 — Collection and distribution of annual license tax imposed on the following type units
  • 320.0815 — Mobile homes and recreational vehicle-type units required to have appropriate license plates or stickers
  • 320.0821 — Wrecker license plates
  • 320.083 — Amateur radio operators; special license plates; fees
  • 320.084 — Free motor vehicle license plate to certain disabled veterans
  • 320.0841 — Free motor vehicle license plates to members of Seminole and Miccosukee Indian Tribes
  • 320.0842 — Free motor vehicle license plates to veterans who use wheelchairs
  • 320.0843 — License plates for persons with disabilities eligible for permanent disabled parking permits
  • 320.0845 — License plates for members of Paralyzed Veterans of America
  • 320.0846 — Free motor vehicle license plates to active members of the Florida National Guard
  • 320.0847 — Mini truck and low-speed vehicle license plates
  • 320.0848 — Persons who have disabilities; issuance of disabled parking permits; temporary permits; permits for certain providers of
  • 320.0849 — Expectant mother parking permits
  • 320.086 — Ancient or antique motor vehicles; horseless carriage, antique, or historical license plates; former military vehicles
  • 320.0863 — Custom vehicles and street rods; registration and license plates
  • 320.087 — Intercity buses operated in interstate commerce; tax
  • 320.0875 — Purple Heart special motorcycle license plate
  • 320.089 — Veterans of the United States Armed Forces; members of National Guard; survivors of Pearl Harbor; Purple Heart medal rec
  • 320.0891 — U.S. Paratroopers license plate
  • 320.0892 — Motor vehicle license plates for recipients of the Silver Star, Distinguished Service Cross, Navy Cross, or Air Force Cr
  • 320.0893 — Motor vehicle license plates to recipients of the Medal of Honor
  • 320.0894 — Motor vehicle license plates to Gold Star family members
  • 320.0898 — Emergency service special registration plates; fee; penalty
  • 320.091 — Vehicles held in trust; license plates
  • 320.10 — Exemptions
  • 320.102 — Marine boat trailers owned by nonprofit organizations; exemptions
  • 320.105 — Golf carts and utility vehicles; exemption
  • 320.13 — Dealer and manufacturer license plates and alternative method of registration
  • 320.131 — Temporary tags
  • 320.1316 — Failure to surrender vehicle or vessel
  • 320.1325 — Registration required for the temporarily employed
  • 320.133 — Transporter license plates
  • 320.14 — Fractional license tax
  • 320.15 — Refund of license tax
  • 320.17 — Classification of vehicles and mobile homes and assessment of license tax by department
  • 320.18 — Withholding registration
  • 320.19 — Tax lien; enforcement
  • 320.20 — Disposition of license tax moneys
  • 320.203 — Disposition of biennial license tax moneys
  • 320.23 — Taxes declared compensatory
  • 320.26 — Counterfeiting license plates, validation stickers, mobile home stickers, cab cards, trip permits, or special temporary
  • 320.261 — Attaching registration license plate not assigned unlawful; penalty
  • 320.262 — License plate obscuring device prohibited; penalties
  • 320.27 — Motor vehicle dealers
  • 320.271 — Used cars; removal of registration license plates
  • 320.273 — Reinstatement of license of motor vehicle dealers
  • 320.275 — Automobile Dealers Industry Advisory Board
  • 320.28 — Nonresident dealers in secondhand motor vehicles, recreational vehicles, or mobile homes
  • 320.30 — Penalty for violating s. 320.28
  • 320.31 — Definitions covering ss. 320.28 and 320.30
  • 320.3201 — Legislative intent
  • 320.3202 — Definitions
  • 320.3203 — Requirement for a written manufacturer/dealer agreement; area of sales responsibility
  • 320.3205 — Termination, cancellation, and nonrenewal of a manufacturer/dealer agreement
  • 320.3206 — Transfer of ownership; family succession
  • 320.3207 — Warranty obligations
  • 320.3208 — Inspection and rejection by the dealer
  • 320.3209 — Coercion of dealer prohibited
  • 320.3210 — Civil dispute resolution; mediation; relief
  • 320.3211 — Penalties
  • 320.37 — Registration not to apply to nonresidents
  • 320.371 — Registration not to apply to certain manufacturers and others
  • 320.38 — When nonresident exemption not allowed
  • 320.39 — Reciprocal agreements for nonresident exemption
  • 320.405 — International Registration Plan; inspection of records; hearings
  • 320.406 — Estimate of amount of tax due and unpaid
  • 320.407 — Suits for collection of unpaid taxes, penalties, and interest
  • 320.408 — Departmental warrant for collection of unpaid taxes and penalties due from motor carriers
  • 320.409 — Tax lien on property
  • 320.411 — Officer’s sale of property or franchise
  • 320.412 — Department to furnish certificate of liens
  • 320.413 — Discontinuance or transfer of business; change of address
  • 320.414 — Restraining and enjoining violation
  • 320.415 — Authority to inspect vehicles and seize property
  • 320.416 — Cooperation of other state agencies in administration of law
  • 320.417 — Foreclosure of liens
  • 320.51 — Farm tractors and farm trailers exempt
  • 320.525 — Port vehicles and equipment; definition; exemption
  • 320.535 — Airport vehicles and equipment; definition; exemption
  • 320.57 — Penalties for violations of this chapter
  • 320.571 — Failure of person charged with misdemeanor under this chapter to comply with court-ordered directives; suspension of lic
  • 320.58 — License inspectors; powers, appointment
  • 320.60 — Definitions for ss. 320.61-320.70
  • 320.605 — Legislative intent
  • 320.61 — Licenses required of motor vehicle manufacturers, distributors, importers, etc
  • 320.615 — Agent for service of process
  • 320.62 — Licenses; amount; disposition of proceeds
  • 320.63 — Application for license; contents
  • 320.64 — Denial, suspension, or revocation of license; grounds
  • 320.6403 — Distributor agreements; obligations of manufacturer and importer
  • 320.6405 — Franchise agreements; obligations of manufacturer and its agent
  • 320.6407 — Recall notices under franchise agreements; compensation
  • 320.641 — Discontinuations, cancellations, nonrenewals, modifications, and replacement of franchise agreements
  • 320.6412 — Franchise termination based on fraud; standard of proof
  • 320.6415 — Changes in plan or system of distribution
  • 320.642 — Dealer licenses in areas previously served; procedure
  • 320.643 — Transfer, assignment, or sale of franchise agreements
  • 320.644 — Change of executive management control; objection by licensee; procedure
  • 320.645 — Restriction upon ownership of dealership by licensee
  • 320.646 — Consumer data protection
  • 320.664 — Reinstatement of license
  • 320.67 — Violations by dealers; complaint; conduct of inquiry; inspection of records; penalties
  • 320.68 — Revocation of license held by firms or corporations
  • 320.69 — Rules
  • 320.695 — Injunction
  • 320.696 — Warranty responsibility
  • 320.697 — Civil damages
  • 320.6975 — Procedures and remedies applicable to distributor agreements
  • 320.698 — Civil fines; procedure
  • 320.699 — Administrative hearings and adjudications; procedure
  • 320.69915 — Severability
  • 320.6992 — Application
  • 320.70 — Penalties for violation
  • 320.701 — Applicability of ch. 84-69
  • 320.71 — Nonresident motor vehicle, mobile home, or recreational vehicle dealer’s license
  • 320.77 — License required of mobile home dealers
  • 320.771 — License required of recreational vehicle dealers
  • 320.781 — Mobile Home and Recreational Vehicle Protection Trust Fund
  • 320.822 — Definitions; ss. 320.822-320.862
  • 320.8225 — Mobile home and recreational vehicle manufacturer, distributor, and importer license
  • 320.823 — Establishment of uniform mobile home standards
  • 320.8231 — Establishment of uniform standards for recreational vehicle-type units and park trailers
  • 320.8232 — Establishment of uniform standards for used recreational vehicles and repair and remodeling code for mobile homes
  • 320.824 — Changes and modifications of standards
  • 320.8245 — Limitation of alteration or modification to mobile homes or recreational vehicles
  • 320.8249 — Mobile home installers license
  • 320.8251 — Mobile home installation products; product approval
  • 320.8255 — Mobile home inspection
  • 320.827 — Label; procedures for issuance; certification; requirements
  • 320.8285 — Onsite inspection
  • 320.830 — Reciprocity
  • 320.831 — Penalties
  • 320.832 — Legislative intent
  • 320.8325 — Mobile homes, manufactured homes, and park trailers; uniform installation standards; injunctions; penalty
  • 320.833 — Retention, destruction, and reproduction of records; electronic retention
  • 320.8335 — Disclosure of manner used in determining length of mobile homes
  • 320.834 — Purpose
  • 320.835 — Mobile home and recreational vehicle warranties
  • 320.836 — Presenting warranty claim
  • 320.837 — Warranty service
  • 320.838 — Civil action
  • 320.839 — Cumulative remedies
  • 320.840 — Liquidated damages
  • 320.861 — Investigations; subpoenas and other process; oaths; rules
  • 320.862 — Revocation of license held by firms or corporations
  • 320.865 — Maintenance of records by the department
  • 320.90 — Notification of consumer’s rights
  • 320.95 — Transactions by electronic or telephonic means
Title 321 · FL Chapter 321 (12 sections)
  • 321.02 — Powers and duties of department, highway patrol
  • 321.03 — Imitations prohibited; penalty
  • 321.04 — Personnel of the highway patrol; rank classifications; probationary status of new patrol officers; subsistence; special
  • 321.05 — Duties, functions, and powers of patrol officers
  • 321.051 — Florida Highway Patrol wrecker operator system; penalties for operation outside of system
  • 321.065 — Traffic accident investigation officers; employment; standards
  • 321.14 — Construction
  • 321.23 — Public records; fees for copies; destruction of obsolete records; photographing records; effect as evidence
  • 321.24 — Members of an auxiliary to Florida Highway Patrol
  • 321.245 — Disposition of certain funds in the Highway Safety Operating Trust Fund
  • 321.25 — Training provided at patrol schools
  • 321.50 — Authorization to use traffic infraction detectors
Title 322 · FL Chapter 322 (119 sections)
  • 322.01 — Definitions
  • 322.015 — Exemption
  • 322.02 — Legislative intent; administration
  • 322.025 — Driver improvement
  • 322.0255 — Florida Motorcycle Safety Education Program
  • 322.0261 — Driver improvement course; requirement to maintain driving privileges; failure to complete; department approval of cours
  • 322.03 — Drivers must be licensed; penalties
  • 322.031 — Nonresident; when license required
  • 322.032 — Digital proof of driver license or identification card
  • 322.033 — Unauthorized aliens and undocumented immigrants; invalid out-of-state driver licenses
  • 322.04 — Persons exempt from obtaining driver license
  • 322.05 — Persons not to be licensed
  • 322.051 — Identification cards
  • 322.0515 — Department to forward certain information to federal Selective Service System; notification to applicant for certain lic
  • 322.055 — Revocation or suspension of, or delay of eligibility for, driver license for persons 18 years of age or older convicted
  • 322.056 — Mandatory revocation or suspension of, or delay of eligibility for, driver license for persons under age 18 found guilty
  • 322.058 — Suspension of driving privilege due to support delinquency; reinstatement
  • 322.059 — Mandatory surrender of suspended driver license and registration
  • 322.0602 — Youthful Drunk Driver Visitation Program
  • 322.065 — Driver license expired for 6 months or less; penalties
  • 322.07 — Instruction permits and temporary licenses
  • 322.08 — Application for license; requirements for license and identification card forms
  • 322.081 — Requests to establish voluntary checkoff on driver license application
  • 322.09 — Application of minors; responsibility for negligence or misconduct of minor
  • 322.091 — Attendance requirements
  • 322.095 — Traffic law and substance abuse education program for driver license applicants
  • 322.10 — Release from liability
  • 322.11 — Revocation of license upon death of person signing minor’s application
  • 322.12 — Examination of applicants
  • 322.121 — Periodic reexamination of all drivers
  • 322.125 — Medical Advisory Board
  • 322.126 — Report of disability to department; content; use
  • 322.13 — Driver license examiners
  • 322.135 — Driver license agents
  • 322.14 — Licenses issued to drivers
  • 322.141 — Color or markings of certain licenses or identification cards
  • 322.142 — Color photographic or digital imaged licenses
  • 322.143 — Use of a driver license or identification card
  • 322.15 — License to be carried and exhibited on demand; fingerprint to be imprinted upon a citation
  • 322.16 — License restrictions
  • 322.161 — High-risk drivers; restricted licenses
  • 322.1615 — Learner’s driver license
  • 322.17 — Replacement licenses and permits
  • 322.18 — Original applications, licenses, and renewals; expiration of licenses; delinquent licenses
  • 322.19 — Change of address, name, or citizenship status
  • 322.20 — Records of the department; fees; destruction of records
  • 322.201 — Records as evidence
  • 322.202 — Admission of evidence obtained from the Division of Motorist Services
  • 322.21 — License fees; procedure for handling and collecting fees
  • 322.212 — Unauthorized possession of, and other unlawful acts in relation to, driver license or identification card
  • 322.22 — Authority of department to cancel or refuse to issue or renew license
  • 322.221 — Department may require reexamination
  • 322.222 — Right to review
  • 322.23 — Suspending privileges of nonresidents and reporting convictions
  • 322.24 — Suspending resident’s license upon conviction in another state
  • 322.245 — Suspension of license upon failure of person charged with specified offense under chapter 316, chapter 320, or this chap
  • 322.25 — When court to forward license to department and report convictions
  • 322.2505 — Court to forward license of person adjudicated incapacitated to department
  • 322.251 — Notice of cancellation, suspension, revocation, or disqualification of license
  • 322.26 — Mandatory revocation of license by department
  • 322.2615 — Suspension of license; right to review
  • 322.26151 — Review of materials submitted by law enforcement officer
  • 322.2616 — Suspension of license; persons under 21 years of age; right to review
  • 322.263 — Legislative intent
  • 322.264 — “Habitual traffic offender” defined
  • 322.27 — Authority of department to suspend or revoke driver license or identification card
  • 322.271 — Authority to modify revocation, cancellation, or suspension order
  • 322.2715 — Ignition interlock device
  • 322.272 — Supersedeas
  • 322.273 — Penalty
  • 322.274 — Automatic revocation of driver license
  • 322.276 — Out-of-state sanctions; issuance of license
  • 322.28 — Period of suspension or revocation
  • 322.282 — Procedure when court revokes or suspends license or driving privilege and orders reinstatement
  • 322.283 — Commencement of period of suspension or revocation for incarcerated offenders
  • 322.29 — Surrender and return of license
  • 322.291 — Driver improvement schools or DUI programs; required in certain suspension and revocation cases
  • 322.292 — DUI programs supervision; powers and duties of the department
  • 322.293 — DUI programs; assessment; disposition
  • 322.30 — No operation under foreign license during suspension, revocation, or disqualification in this state
  • 322.31 — Right of review
  • 322.32 — Unlawful use of license
  • 322.33 — Making false affidavit perjury
  • 322.34 — Driving while license suspended, revoked, canceled, or disqualified
  • 322.341 — Driving while license permanently revoked
  • 322.35 — Permitting unauthorized minor to drive
  • 322.36 — Permitting unauthorized operator to drive
  • 322.37 — Employing unlicensed driver
  • 322.38 — Renting motor vehicle to another
  • 322.39 — Penalties
  • 322.391 — Failure of person charged with misdemeanor under this chapter to comply with court-ordered directives; suspension of lic
  • 322.41 — Local issuance of driver licenses prohibited
  • 322.42 — Construction of chapter
  • 322.43 — Short title
  • 322.44 — Driver License Compact
  • 322.45 — Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles; duty
  • 322.46 — Compact administrator
  • 322.47 — Executive head defined
  • 322.48 — Review of employee’s acts
  • 322.49 — Short title
  • 322.50 — Nonresident Violator Compact
  • 322.51 — Short title
  • 322.52 — Conflict with other laws
  • 322.53 — License required; exemptions
  • 322.54 — Classification
  • 322.56 — Contracts for administration of driver license examination
  • 322.57 — Tests of knowledge concerning specified vehicles; endorsement; nonresidents; violations
  • 322.59 — Possession of medical examiner’s certificate
  • 322.591 — Commercial driver license and temporary commercial instruction permit; Commercial Driver’s License Drug and Alcohol Cl
  • 322.61 — Disqualification from operating a commercial motor vehicle
  • 322.62 — Driving under the influence; commercial motor vehicle operators
  • 322.63 — Alcohol or drug testing; commercial motor vehicle operators
  • 322.64 — Holder of commercial driver license; persons operating a commercial motor vehicle; driving with unlawful blood-alcohol l
  • 322.65 — Driver license record exchange
  • 322.66 — Vehicles permitted to be driven during driving skills tests
  • 322.70 — Transactions by electronic or telephonic means
  • 322.71 — Investigations; examinations; proceedings; subpoenas and other process; witnesses; oaths; rules
  • 322.75 — Driver License Reinstatement Days
  • 322.76 — Clerk of Court Driver License Reinstatement Pilot Program in Miami-Dade County
Title 323 · FL Chapter 323 (2 sections)
  • 323.001 — Wrecker operator storage facilities; vehicle holds
  • 323.002 — County and municipal wrecker operator systems; penalties for operation outside of system
Title 324 · FL Chapter 324 (30 sections)
  • 324.011 — Purpose of chapter
  • 324.021 — Definitions; minimum insurance required
  • 324.022 — Financial responsibility for property damage
  • 324.0221 — Reports by insurers to the department; suspension of driver license and vehicle registrations; reinstatement
  • 324.023 — Financial responsibility for bodily injury or death
  • 324.031 — Manner of proving financial responsibility
  • 324.032 — Manner of proving financial responsibility; for-hire passenger transportation vehicles
  • 324.042 — Administration
  • 324.051 — Reports of crashes; suspensions of licenses and registrations
  • 324.061 — Security deposited with Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles; release
  • 324.071 — Reinstatement; renewal of license; reinstatement fee
  • 324.072 — Proof required upon certain convictions
  • 324.081 — Nonresident owner or operator
  • 324.091 — Notice to department; notice to insurer
  • 324.101 — Compliance before license or registration allowed
  • 324.111 — Failure to satisfy judgment; copy to department
  • 324.121 — Suspension of license and registration
  • 324.131 — Period of suspension
  • 324.141 — Installment payments
  • 324.151 — Motor vehicle liability policies; required provisions
  • 324.161 — Proof of financial responsibility; deposit
  • 324.171 — Self-insurer
  • 324.181 — Cancellation of liability policies; plan for apportionment of certain applicants
  • 324.191 — Consent to cancellation; direction to return money or securities
  • 324.201 — Return of license or registration to department
  • 324.211 — Sale by owner during suspension; rights of conditional vendors, mortgagees, and lessors
  • 324.221 — Penalties
  • 324.242 — Personal injury protection and property damage liability insurance policies; public records exemption
  • 324.251 — Short title
  • 324.252 — Electronic insurance verification
Title 326 · FL Chapter 326 (6 sections)
Title 327 · FL Chapter 327 (64 sections)
  • 327.01 — Short title
  • 327.02 — Definitions
  • 327.04 — Rules
  • 327.30 — Collisions, accidents, and casualties
  • 327.301 — Written reports of accidents
  • 327.3015 — False reports
  • 327.302 — Accident report forms
  • 327.31 — Transmittal of information
  • 327.32 — Vessel declared dangerous instrumentality; civil liability
  • 327.33 — Reckless or careless operation of vessel
  • 327.331 — Divers; definitions; divers-down warning device required; obstruction to navigation of certain waters; penalty
  • 327.34 — Incapacity of operator
  • 327.35 — Boating under the influence; penalties; “designated drivers.”
  • 327.352 — Tests for alcohol, chemical substances, or controlled substances; implied consent; refusal
  • 327.35215 — Penalty for failure to submit to test
  • 327.353 — Blood test for impairment or intoxication in cases of death or serious bodily injury; right to use reasonable force
  • 327.354 — Presumption of impairment; testing methods
  • 327.355 — Operation of vessels by persons under 21 years of age who have consumed alcoholic beverages
  • 327.359 — Refusal to submit to testing; penalties
  • 327.36 — Mandatory adjudication; prohibition against accepting plea to lesser included offense
  • 327.37 — Water skis, parasails, aquaplanes, kiteboarding, kitesurfing, and moored ballooning regulated
  • 327.371 — Human-powered vessels regulated
  • 327.375 — Commercial parasailing
  • 327.38 — Skiing prohibited while intoxicated or under influence of drugs
  • 327.39 — Personal watercraft regulated
  • 327.391 — Airboats regulated
  • 327.395 — Boating safety education
  • 327.40 — Uniform waterway markers
  • 327.41 — Uniform waterway regulatory markers
  • 327.4107 — Vessels at risk of becoming derelict on waters of this state
  • 327.4108 — Anchoring of vessels in anchoring limitation areas
  • 327.4109 — Anchoring or mooring prohibited; exceptions; penalties
  • 327.4111 — Long-term anchoring
  • 327.42 — Mooring to or damaging of uniform waterway markers prohibited
  • 327.43 — Silver Glen Run and Silver Glen Springs; navigation channel
  • 327.44 — Interference with navigation; relocation or removal; recovery of costs
  • 327.45 — Protection zones for springs
  • 327.46 — Boating-restricted areas
  • 327.461 — Safety zones, security zones, regulated navigation areas, and naval vessel protection zones; prohibited entry; penalties
  • 327.462 — Temporary protection zones for spaceflight launches and recovery of spaceflight assets
  • 327.463 — Special hazards
  • 327.47 — Competitive grant programs
  • 327.48 — Regattas, races, marine parades, tournaments, or exhibitions
  • 327.49 — Testing vessels and vessel motors
  • 327.50 — Vessel safety regulations; equipment and lighting requirements
  • 327.52 — Maximum loading and horsepower
  • 327.521 — No-discharge zones
  • 327.53 — Marine sanitation
  • 327.54 — Liveries; safety regulations; penalty
  • 327.56 — Safety and marine sanitation equipment inspections; probable cause; secondary offense
  • 327.58 — Jurisdiction
  • 327.59 — Marina evacuations
  • 327.60 — Local regulations; limitations
  • 327.65 — Muffling devices
  • 327.66 — Carriage of gasoline on vessels
  • 327.70 — Enforcement of this chapter and chapter 328
  • 327.71 — Exemption
  • 327.72 — Penalties
  • 327.73 — Noncriminal infractions
  • 327.731 — Mandatory education for violators
  • 327.74 — Uniform boating citations
  • 327.75 — Watercraft Energy Source Freedom Act
  • 327.803 — Boating Advisory Council
  • 327.804 — Compilation of statistics on boating accidents and violations
Title 328 · FL Chapter 328 (61 sections)
  • 328.001 — Short title
  • 328.0015 — Definitions
  • 328.01 — Application for certificate of title
  • 328.015 — Duties and operation of the department
  • 328.02 — Law governing vessel covered by certificate of title
  • 328.03 — Certificate of title required
  • 328.04 — Content of certificate of title
  • 328.045 — Title brands
  • 328.05 — Crimes relating to certificates of title to, or other indicia of ownership of, vessels; penalties
  • 328.055 — Maintenance of and access to files
  • 328.06 — Action required on creation of certificate of title
  • 328.065 — Effect of possession of certificate of title; judicial process
  • 328.07 — Hull identification number required
  • 328.09 — Refusal to issue and authority to cancel a certificate of title
  • 328.101 — Effect of missing or incorrect information
  • 328.11 — Duplicate certificate of title
  • 328.12 — Perfection of security interest
  • 328.125 — Termination statement
  • 328.13 — Manufacturer’s statement of origin to be furnished
  • 328.14 — Rights of purchaser other than secured party
  • 328.145 — Rights of secured party
  • 328.15 — Notice of lien and satisfaction of lien on vessel; recording
  • 328.16 — Issuance in duplicate; delivery; liens, security interests, and encumbrances
  • 328.165 — Cancellation of certificates
  • 328.17 — Nonjudicial sale of vessels
  • 328.18 — Power to conduct investigations
  • 328.19 — Penalty
  • 328.195 — Legislative intent
  • 328.20 — Disposition of fees
  • 328.21 — Transfer without delivery of certificate; operation or use without certificate; failure to surrender; other violations
  • 328.215 — Application for transfer of ownership or termination of security interest without certificate of title
  • 328.22 — Transfer of ownership
  • 328.23 — Transfer of ownership by secured party’s transfer statement
  • 328.24 — Transfer by operation of law
  • 328.25 — Supplemental principles of law and equity
  • 328.30 — Transactions by electronic or telephonic means
  • 328.35 — Rulemaking
  • 328.37 — Validity of rights, duties, and interests flowing from law prior to ch. 2019-76
  • 328.38 — Applicability
  • 328.40 — Administration of vessel registration and titling laws; records
  • 328.42 — Suspension or denial of a vessel registration due to support delinquency; dishonored checks
  • 328.46 — Operation of registered vessels
  • 328.48 — Vessel registration, application, certificate, number, decal, duplicate certificate
  • 328.52 — Special manufacturers’ and dealers’ number
  • 328.54 — Federal numbering system adopted
  • 328.56 — Vessel registration number
  • 328.58 — Reciprocity of nonresident or alien vessels
  • 328.60 — Military personnel; registration; penalties
  • 328.62 — Only authorized number to be used
  • 328.64 — Change of interest and address
  • 328.65 — Legislative intent with respect to registration and numbering of vessels
  • 328.66 — County and municipality optional registration fee
  • 328.68 — Exemption of vessels and outboard motors from personal property tax; temporary certificate of registration; vessel regis
  • 328.70 — Legislative intent with respect to uniform registration fee, classification of vessels
  • 328.72 — Classification; registration; fees and charges; surcharge; disposition of fees; fines; marine turtle stickers
  • 328.73 — Registration; duties of tax collectors
  • 328.735 — Advanced registration renewal; procedures
  • 328.74 — Stickers or emblems for the Save the Manatee Trust Fund
  • 328.76 — Marine Resources Conservation Trust Fund; vessel registration funds; appropriation and distribution
  • 328.78 — Crimes relating to registration decals; penalties
  • 328.80 — Transactions by electronic or telephonic means
Title 329 · FL Chapter 329 (6 sections)
  • 329.01 — Recording instruments affecting civil aircraft
  • 329.10 — Aircraft registration
  • 329.11 — Aircraft identification numbers; penalties
  • 329.40 — Airport facilities; lien for landing and other fees
  • 329.41 — Lien for fuel furnished to aircraft
  • 329.51 — Liens for labor, services, fuel, or material expended upon aircraft; notice
Title 330 · FL Chapter 330 (16 sections)
  • 330.04 — Possession of pilot’s license; inspection on demand
  • 330.27 — Definitions, when used in ss. 330.29-330.39
  • 330.29 — Administration and enforcement; rules; requirements for airport sites and airports
  • 330.30 — Approval of airport sites; registration, certification, and licensure of airports
  • 330.31 — Federal-state joint hearings, reciprocal services
  • 330.325 — Injunctive relief
  • 330.33 — Penalties
  • 330.35 — Airport zoning protection
  • 330.355 — Prohibition on landing fees for certain aircraft operations
  • 330.36 — Prohibition against county or municipal licensing of airports; regulation of seaplane landings
  • 330.38 — Construction of this law
  • 330.39 — Short title
  • 330.40 — Aircraft fuel tanks
  • 330.401 — Diesel exhaust fluid safety mitigation and exclusion plan
  • 330.41 — Unmanned Aircraft Systems Act
  • 330.411 — Prohibited possession, alteration, or operation of unmanned aircraft or unmanned aircraft system
Title 331 · FL Chapter 331 (62 sections)
  • 331.10 — Eminent domain granted those engaged in air commerce
  • 331.15 — Auto transportation between county airports; exceptions
  • 331.20 — Publicizing, advertising, and promoting airports and related facilities
  • 331.21 — Independent authorities; terms of presiding members
  • 331.22 — Certain information exempt from disclosure
  • 331.301 — Short title
  • 331.3011 — Legislative findings and intent
  • 331.302 — Space Florida; creation; purpose
  • 331.303 — Definitions
  • 331.304 — Spaceport territory
  • 331.305 — Powers of Space Florida
  • 331.3051 — Duties of Space Florida
  • 331.306 — Federal airspace notification
  • 331.307 — Development of Cape San Blas facility
  • 331.3081 — Board of directors
  • 331.309 — Treasurer; depositories; fiscal agent
  • 331.310 — Powers and duties of the board of directors
  • 331.3101 — Space Florida; travel and entertainment expenses
  • 331.311 — Exercise by Space Florida of its powers within municipalities and other political subdivisions
  • 331.312 — Furnishing facilities and services within the spaceport territory
  • 331.313 — Power of Space Florida with respect to roads
  • 331.316 — Rates, fees, rentals, tolls, fares, and charges; procedure for adoption and modification; minimum revenue requirements
  • 331.317 — Recovery of delinquent charges
  • 331.318 — Discontinuance of service
  • 331.319 — Comprehensive planning; building and safety codes
  • 331.320 — Additional powers of board
  • 331.321 — Federal and other funds and aid
  • 331.322 — Agreements with municipalities within any spaceport territory
  • 331.323 — Cooperative agreements with the state, counties, and municipalities
  • 331.324 — Contracts, grants, and contributions
  • 331.325 — Environmental permits
  • 331.327 — Foreign trade zone
  • 331.328 — Sovereign immunity
  • 331.329 — Changing boundary lines; annexation and exclusion of lands; creation of municipalities within the geographical limits of
  • 331.330 — Enforcement and penalties
  • 331.331 — Revenue bonds
  • 331.332 — Issuance of additional bonds
  • 331.333 — Refunding bonds
  • 331.335 — Lien of pledges
  • 331.338 — Trust agreements
  • 331.339 — Sale of bonds
  • 331.340 — Authorization and form of bonds
  • 331.341 — Interim certificates; replacement certificates
  • 331.342 — Negotiability of bonds
  • 331.343 — Defeasance
  • 331.344 — Bonds as legal investment or security
  • 331.345 — Covenants
  • 331.346 — Validity of bonds; validation proceedings
  • 331.347 — Act furnishes full authority for issuance of bonds
  • 331.348 — Investment of funds
  • 331.349 — Fiscal year of Space Florida
  • 331.350 — Insurance coverage of Space Florida; safety program
  • 331.351 — Participation by women, minorities, and socially and economically disadvantaged business enterprises encouraged
  • 331.353 — Rulemaking authority
  • 331.354 — Tax exemption
  • 331.355 — Use of name; ownership rights to intellectual property
  • 331.360 — Joint participation agreement or assistance; spaceport master plan
  • 331.369 — Space Industry Workforce Initiative
  • 331.371 — Strategic space infrastructure investment
  • 331.372 — International Aerospace Innovation Fund
  • 331.501 — Spaceflight; informed consent
  • 331.502 — Recovery of spaceflight assets
Title 332 · FL Chapter 332 (21 sections)
  • 332.001 — Aviation; powers and duties of the Department of Transportation
  • 332.003 — Florida Airport Development and Accountability Act; short title
  • 332.004 — Definitions of terms used in ss. 332.003-332.007
  • 332.005 — Restrictions on authority of Department of Transportation
  • 332.006 — Duties and responsibilities of the Department of Transportation
  • 332.007 — Administration and financing of aviation and airport programs and projects; state plan
  • 332.0075 — Commercial service airports; transparency and accountability; penalty
  • 332.009 — Limitation on operation of chapter
  • 332.01 — Airport law; definitions
  • 332.02 — Acquisition of real property for airports
  • 332.03 — Establishment of airports, etc., declared public power
  • 332.06 — Preliminary costs and expenses
  • 332.07 — Appropriations
  • 332.08 — Additional powers
  • 332.09 — Federal funds and aid
  • 332.11 — Cooperation of authorities
  • 332.115 — Joint project agreement with port district for transportation corridor between airport and port facility
  • 332.12 — Airport Law of 1945; short title
  • 332.13 — Multicounty airport authorities created as independent special districts; noise-mitigation-project fund
  • 332.136 — Sarasota Manatee Airport Authority; airport pilot program
  • 332.15 — Advanced air mobility
Title 333 · FL Chapter 333 (14 sections)
  • 333.01 — Definitions
  • 333.02 — Airport hazards and uses of land in airport vicinities contrary to public interest
  • 333.025 — Permit required for obstructions
  • 333.03 — Requirement to adopt airport zoning regulations
  • 333.04 — Comprehensive zoning regulations; most stringent to prevail where conflicts occur
  • 333.05 — Procedure for adoption of airport zoning regulations
  • 333.06 — Airport zoning regulation requirements
  • 333.07 — Local government permitting of airspace obstructions
  • 333.09 — Administration of airport protection zoning regulations
  • 333.11 — Judicial review
  • 333.12 — Acquisition of air rights
  • 333.13 — Enforcement and remedies
  • 333.135 — Transition provisions
  • 333.15 — Rulemaking authority
Title 334 · FL Chapter 334 (35 sections)
  • 334.01 — Florida Transportation Code; short title
  • 334.03 — Definitions
  • 334.035 — Purpose of transportation code
  • 334.044 — Powers and duties of the department
  • 334.045 — Transportation performance and productivity standards; development; measurement; application
  • 334.046 — Department mission, goals, and objectives
  • 334.047 — Prohibition
  • 334.048 — Legislative intent with respect to department management accountability and monitoring systems
  • 334.049 — Patents, copyrights, trademarks; notice to Department of State; confidentiality of trade secrets
  • 334.05 — Department headquarters; acquisition of office space
  • 334.063 — Statistical studies relating to traffic count and accidents
  • 334.065 — Center for Urban Transportation Research
  • 334.066 — Implementing Solutions from Transportation Research and Evaluating Emerging Technologies Living Lab
  • 334.071 — Legislative designation of transportation facilities
  • 334.131 — Department employees’ benefit fund
  • 334.14 — Employees of department who are required to be engineers
  • 334.17 — Consulting services; provision by department to other governmental units
  • 334.175 — Certification of project design plans and surveys
  • 334.179 — Department standards or specifications for permissible use of aggregates; misrepresentation of certification
  • 334.181 — Electronic proof of delivery
  • 334.185 — Financial responsibility for construction, material, or design failures; review of contracts; financial assurances
  • 334.187 — Guarantee of obligations to the department
  • 334.193 — Unlawful for certain persons to be financially interested in purchases, sales, and certain contracts; penalties
  • 334.195 — Officers or employees of the department; conflicts of interest; exception; penalties
  • 334.196 — Authority of department to photograph or microphotograph records and to destroy original records; admissibility of photo
  • 334.24 — Compilation, maintenance, and provision of information relating to roads and road building and repair
  • 334.27 — Governmental transportation entities; property acquired for transportation purposes; limitation on soil or groundwater c
  • 334.30 — Public-private transportation facilities
  • 334.351 — Youth work experience program; findings and intent; authority to contract; limitation
  • 334.352 — State university ingress and egress
  • 334.60 — 511 traveler information system
  • 334.61 — Traffic lane repurposing
  • 334.615 — Parking authority operations; interlocal agreements
  • 334.62 — Florida Transportation Academy
  • 334.63 — Project concept studies and project development and environment studies
Title 335 · FL Chapter 335 (33 sections)
  • 335.01 — Designation and systemization of public roads
  • 335.02 — Authority to designate transportation facilities and rights-of-way and establish lanes; procedure for redesignation and
  • 335.0415 — Public road jurisdiction and transfer process
  • 335.055 — Routine maintenance contracts
  • 335.06 — Access roads to the state park system
  • 335.064 — Pedestrian walkways and fishing walks or bays; authority to construct
  • 335.065 — Bicycle and pedestrian ways along state roads and transportation facilities
  • 335.066 — Safe Paths to Schools Program
  • 335.07 — Sufficiency rating system for roads on State Highway System
  • 335.074 — Safety inspection of bridges
  • 335.08 — Numbering public roads
  • 335.085 — Installation of roadside barriers along certain water bodies contiguous with state roads
  • 335.09 — Uniform erection and maintenance of traffic control devices
  • 335.091 — Blue Star Memorial Highway designation
  • 335.092 — Everglades Parkway scenic highway
  • 335.093 — Scenic highway designation
  • 335.10 — State Highway System; vehicle regulation; prohibited use and traffic; liability for damage
  • 335.14 — Traffic control devices on State Highway System or State Park Road System; exemption for computerized traffic systems an
  • 335.141 — Regulation of public railroad-highway grade crossings; reduction of hazards
  • 335.15 — Detour roads
  • 335.16 — Wayside parks and access roads to public waters
  • 335.167 — State highway construction and maintenance; Florida-friendly landscaping
  • 335.17 — State highway construction; means of noise abatement
  • 335.18 — Short title
  • 335.181 — Regulation of access to State Highway System; legislative findings, policy, and purpose
  • 335.182 — Regulation of connections to roads on State Highway System; definitions
  • 335.1825 — Access permit required; authority to close unpermitted connections
  • 335.183 — Permit application fee
  • 335.184 — Access permit review process by the department; permit denial; justification; administrative review
  • 335.185 — Permit conditions; expiration
  • 335.187 — Unpermitted connections; existing access permits; nonconforming permits; modification and revocation of permits
  • 335.188 — Access management standards; access control classification system; criteria
  • 335.199 — Transportation projects modifying access to adjacent property
Title 336 · FL Chapter 336 (26 sections)
  • 336.01 — Designation of county road system
  • 336.02 — Responsibility for county road system; approval of maps of reservation
  • 336.021 — County transportation system; levy of ninth-cent fuel tax on motor fuel and diesel fuel
  • 336.022 — County transportation trust fund; controls and administrative remedies
  • 336.023 — Use by counties of the surplus from the constitutional gas tax
  • 336.024 — Distribution of constitutional gas tax
  • 336.025 — County transportation system; levy of local option fuel tax on motor fuel and diesel fuel
  • 336.0255 — Distribution of additional local option tax
  • 336.03 — County engineer; qualifications
  • 336.044 — Use of recyclable materials in construction
  • 336.045 — Uniform minimum standards for design, construction, and maintenance; advisory committees
  • 336.046 — Regulation of bus benches and transit shelters within rights-of-way
  • 336.048 — Temporary closing traveling lane of road
  • 336.05 — Naming of county roads; recording
  • 336.08 — Relocation or change of roads
  • 336.09 — Closing and abandonment of roads; authority
  • 336.10 — Closing and abandonment of roads; publication of notice
  • 336.12 — Closing and abandonment of roads; termination of easement; conveyance of fee
  • 336.125 — Closing and abandonment of roads; optional conveyance to homeowners’ association; traffic control jurisdiction
  • 336.41 — Counties; employing labor and providing road equipment; accounting; when competitive bidding required
  • 336.44 — Counties; contracts for construction of roads; procedure; contractor’s bond
  • 336.467 — County-state right-of-way acquisition agreements
  • 336.505 — Default in bonds or interest coupons issued by special road and bridge district; receivership; bondholder claims
  • 336.66 — Method of abolition of district
  • 336.68 — Special road and bridge district boundaries; property owner rights and options
  • 336.71 — Public-private cooperation in construction of county roads
Title 337 · FL Chapter 337 (59 sections)
  • 337.015 — Administration of public contracts
  • 337.02 — Purchases by department subject to competitive bids; advertisement; emergency purchases; bid specifications
  • 337.023 — Sale of building; acceptance of replacement building
  • 337.025 — Innovative transportation projects; department to establish program
  • 337.026 — Authority of department to enter into agreements for construction aggregate materials
  • 337.0261 — Construction aggregate materials
  • 337.02611 — Phosphogypsum as a construction aggregate material; study
  • 337.0262 — Purchase and use of clay, peat, gravel, sand, or any other solid substance extracted from borrow pits
  • 337.027 — Authority to implement a business development program
  • 337.03 — Authority of department to purchase surplus properties from the Federal Government
  • 337.105 — Qualifications of professional consultants and other providers of contractual services; performance bonds; and audits of
  • 337.106 — Professional service providers; requirement for professional liability insurance
  • 337.107 — Contracts for right-of-way services
  • 337.1075 — Contracts for planning services
  • 337.108 — Hazardous materials and pollutants; indemnification
  • 337.11 — Contracting authority of department; bids; emergency repairs, supplemental agreements, and change orders; combined desig
  • 337.1101 — Contracting and procurement authority of the department; settlements; notification required
  • 337.111 — Contracting for monuments and memorials to military veterans at rest areas
  • 337.14 — Application for qualification; certificate of qualification; restrictions; request for hearing
  • 337.141 — Payment of construction or maintenance contracts
  • 337.145 — Offsetting payments
  • 337.16 — Disqualification of delinquent contractors from bidding; determination of contractor nonresponsibility; denial, suspensi
  • 337.162 — Professional services
  • 337.164 — Legislative intent with respect to integrity of public contracting process
  • 337.165 — Contract crime; denial or revocation of a certificate of qualification
  • 337.166 — Moneys recovered for violations of antitrust laws
  • 337.167 — Administrative procedures; stays and injunctions
  • 337.168 — Confidentiality of official estimates and bid analysis and monitoring system
  • 337.169 — Effect of ch. 83-4 on existing remedies
  • 337.17 — Bid guaranty
  • 337.175 — Retainage
  • 337.18 — Surety bonds for construction or maintenance contracts; requirement with respect to contract award; bond requirements; d
  • 337.185 — State Arbitration Board
  • 337.19 — Suits by and against department; limitation of actions; forum
  • 337.195 — Limits on liability
  • 337.221 — Claims settlement process
  • 337.242 — Acquisition of rail corridors
  • 337.243 — Notification of land use changes in designated transportation corridors
  • 337.25 — Acquisition, lease, and disposal of real and personal property
  • 337.2505 — Donations for landscape projects
  • 337.251 — Lease of property for joint public-private development and areas above or below department property
  • 337.26 — Execution and effect of instruments of sale, lease, or conveyance executed by department
  • 337.27 — Exercise of power of eminent domain by department; procedure; title; cost
  • 337.273 — Transportation corridors
  • 337.2735 — Recording of municipal maps of reservation for transportation corridors and transportation facilities; establishment of
  • 337.274 — Authority of department agent or employee to enter lands, waters, and premises of another in the performance of duties
  • 337.276 — Issuance of bonds for right-of-way land acquisition and state bridge construction
  • 337.29 — Vesting of title to roads; liability for torts
  • 337.401 — Use of right-of-way for utilities subject to regulation; permit; fees
  • 337.402 — Damage to public road caused by utility
  • 337.403 — Interference caused by utility; expenses
  • 337.4031 — Utility Relocation Reimbursement Grant Program
  • 337.404 — Removal or relocation of utility facilities; notice and order; court review
  • 337.405 — Trees or other vegetation within rights-of-way of State Highway System or publicly owned rail corridors; removal or dama
  • 337.406 — Unlawful use of state transportation facility right-of-way; penalties
  • 337.4061 — Definitions; unlawful use of state-maintained road right-of-way by nonfranchised cable and video services
  • 337.407 — Regulation of signs and lights within rights-of-way
  • 337.408 — Regulation of bus stops, benches, transit shelters, street light poles, waste disposal receptacles, and modular news rac
  • 337.409 — Willfully or maliciously removing, damaging, destroying, altering, or appropriating benches, transit shelters, waste rec
Title 338 · FL Chapter 338 (29 sections)
  • 338.01 — Authority to establish and regulate limited access facilities
  • 338.04 — Acquisition of property and property rights for limited access facility and service roads
  • 338.151 — Authority of the department to establish tolls on the State Highway System
  • 338.155 — Payment of toll on toll facilities required; exemptions
  • 338.161 — Authority of department or toll agencies to advertise and promote electronic toll collection; expanded uses of electroni
  • 338.165 — Continuation of tolls
  • 338.166 — High-occupancy toll lanes or express lanes
  • 338.22 — Florida Turnpike Enterprise Law; short title
  • 338.221 — Definitions
  • 338.2215 — Florida Turnpike Enterprise; legislative findings, policy, purpose, and intent
  • 338.2216 — Florida Turnpike Enterprise; powers and authority
  • 338.222 — Department of Transportation sole governmental entity to acquire, construct, or operate turnpike projects; exception
  • 338.223 — Proposed turnpike projects
  • 338.225 — Taking of public road for feeder road
  • 338.227 — Turnpike revenue bonds
  • 338.2275 — Approved turnpike projects
  • 338.2276 — Western Beltway turnpike project; financing
  • 338.228 — Bonds not debts or pledges of credit of state
  • 338.229 — Pledge to bondholders not to restrict certain rights of department
  • 338.231 — Turnpike tolls, fixing; pledge of tolls and other revenues
  • 338.232 — Continuation of tolls upon provision for payment of bondholders and assumption of maintenance by department
  • 338.234 — Granting concessions or selling along the turnpike system; immunity from taxation
  • 338.235 — Contracts with department for provision of services on the turnpike system
  • 338.236 — Staging areas for emergencies
  • 338.237 — Municipal signs on the turnpike system rights-of-way; limitations
  • 338.239 — Traffic control on the turnpike system
  • 338.241 — Cash reserve requirement
  • 338.2511 — Deposit and use of funds in Toll Facilities Revolving Trust Fund
  • 338.26 — Alligator Alley toll road
Title 34 · FL Chapter 34 (17 sections)
  • 34.01 — Jurisdiction of county court
  • 34.011 — Jurisdiction in landlord and tenant cases
  • 34.017 — Certification of questions to district court of appeal
  • 34.021 — Qualifications of county court judges
  • 34.022 — Number of county court judges for each county
  • 34.031 — Clerk
  • 34.032 — Power of clerk to appoint deputies
  • 34.041 — Filing fees
  • 34.045 — Cost recovery; use of the county court for ordinance or special law violations
  • 34.07 — Sheriff to be executive officer
  • 34.08 — Compensation of sheriff
  • 34.13 — Method of prosecution
  • 34.131 — To be open for voluntary pleas of guilty
  • 34.161 — Persons convicted in county court allowed 48 hours to pay fine before being worked
  • 34.171 — Salaries of bailiffs
  • 34.181 — Branch courts
  • 34.191 — Fines and forfeitures; dispositions
Title 341 · FL Chapter 341 (27 sections)
  • 341.011 — Florida Public Transit Act; short title
  • 341.031 — Definitions relating to Florida Public Transit Act
  • 341.041 — Transit responsibilities of the department
  • 341.051 — Administration and financing of public transit and intercity bus service programs and projects
  • 341.052 — Public transit block grant program; administration; eligible projects; limitation
  • 341.0521 — Public records exemption
  • 341.053 — Intermodal Development Program; administration; eligible projects; limitations
  • 341.061 — Transit safety standards; inspections and system safety reviews
  • 341.071 — Transit productivity and performance measures; reports
  • 341.101 — State purchase of mass transit vehicles and facilities
  • 341.102 — Regulation of nonpublic sector buses
  • 341.103 — Disposal of personal property found on a public transportation system
  • 341.301 — Definitions; ss. 341.302-341.303
  • 341.302 — Rail program; duties and responsibilities of the department
  • 341.3025 — Multicounty public rail system fares and enforcement
  • 341.303 — Funding authorization and appropriations; eligibility and participation
  • 341.501 — High-technology transportation systems; joint project agreement or assistance
  • 341.8201 — Short title
  • 341.8203 — Definitions
  • 341.822 — Powers and duties
  • 341.8225 — Department of Transportation sole governmental entity to acquire, construct, or operate high-speed rail projects; except
  • 341.825 — Communication facilities
  • 341.836 — Associated development
  • 341.838 — Fares, rates, rents, fees, and charges
  • 341.839 — Alternate means
  • 341.840 — Tax exemption
  • 341.842 — Liberal construction
Title 342 · FL Chapter 342 (6 sections)
  • 342.03 — Beautification and improvement of waterways by counties and municipalities; tax
  • 342.04 — Time warrants
  • 342.05 — Precautions as to use of poisons
  • 342.06 — Contracts and bond of contractor
  • 342.07 — Recreational and commercial working waterfronts; legislative findings; definitions
  • 342.201 — Waterfronts Florida Program
Title 343 · FL Chapter 343 (17 sections)
  • 343.51 — Short title
  • 343.52 — Definitions
  • 343.53 — South Florida Regional Transportation Authority
  • 343.54 — Powers and duties
  • 343.545 — Power to assume indemnification and insurance obligations; definitions
  • 343.55 — Issuance of revenue bonds
  • 343.56 — Bonds not debts or pledges of credit of state
  • 343.57 — Pledge to bondholders not to restrict certain rights of authority
  • 343.58 — County funding for the South Florida Regional Transportation Authority
  • 343.61 — Short title
  • 343.62 — Definitions
  • 343.63 — Central Florida Regional Transportation Authority
  • 343.64 — Powers and duties
  • 343.65 — Issuance of revenue bonds
  • 343.66 — Bonds not debts or pledges of credit of state
  • 343.67 — Pledge to bondholders not to restrict certain rights of authority
  • 343.811 — Power to assume indemnification and insurance obligations
Title 344 · FL Chapter 344 (8 sections)
  • 344.11 — Records of indebtedness
  • 344.13 — Apportionment of indebtedness
  • 344.17 — Depositories and investments
  • 344.20 — State of Florida not obligated
  • 344.21 — Certain bond trustees to continue other functions
  • 344.24 — Disposition of excess funds in county accounts
  • 344.26 — State Board of Administration; duties concerning debt service
  • 344.261 — State Board of Administration; debt service; approval of bonds or debentures and plan for their retirement
Title 347 · FL Chapter 347 (14 sections)
  • 347.01 — County commissioners may grant license
  • 347.02 — Notice of application
  • 347.03 — Owner of land to have preference for ferry or toll bridge
  • 347.04 — Commissioners may regulate
  • 347.05 — Bond
  • 347.06 — Certificate of license
  • 347.07 — License on waters between counties
  • 347.20 — Vested rights not impaired
  • 347.21 — County commissioners to grant franchise
  • 347.215 — Operation of ferries by joint agreement between public and private entities
  • 347.22 — Condition under which franchise granted
  • 347.23 — No person to maintain ferry unless authorized
  • 347.24 — Transporting persons for hire within 1 mile of ferry; penalty
  • 347.25 — Maintaining illegal ferries; penalty
Title 348 · FL Chapter 348 (63 sections)
  • 348.0301 — Short title
  • 348.0303 — Definitions
  • 348.03031 — Legislative findings, intent, and declaration
  • 348.0304 — Greater Miami Expressway Agency
  • 348.0305 — Ethics requirements
  • 348.0306 — Purposes and powers
  • 348.0307 — Greater Miami Toll Rebate Program
  • 348.0308 — Public-private partnership
  • 348.0309 — Bonds
  • 348.03101 — Department may be appointed agent of agency for construction
  • 348.0311 — Acquisition of lands and property
  • 348.0312 — Cooperation with other units, boards, agencies, and individuals
  • 348.0313 — Covenant of the state
  • 348.0314 — Exemption from taxation
  • 348.0315 — Public accountability
  • 348.0316 — Eligibility for investments and security
  • 348.0317 — Pledges enforceable by bondholders
  • 348.0318 — This part complete and additional authority
  • 348.50 — Title of law
  • 348.51 — Definitions
  • 348.52 — Tampa-Hillsborough County Expressway Authority
  • 348.53 — Purposes of the authority
  • 348.54 — Powers of the authority
  • 348.545 — Facility improvement; bond financing authority
  • 348.56 — Bonds of the authority
  • 348.565 — Revenue bonds for specified projects
  • 348.57 — Refunding bonds
  • 348.58 — Remedies
  • 348.59 — Traffic control
  • 348.60 — Lease-purchase agreements
  • 348.61 — Department may be appointed agent of authority for construction
  • 348.62 — Acquisition of lands and property
  • 348.63 — Cooperation with other units, boards, agencies and individuals
  • 348.635 — Public-private partnership
  • 348.64 — Covenant of the state
  • 348.65 — Exemption from taxation
  • 348.66 — Eligibility for investments and security
  • 348.67 — Pledges enforceable for bondholders
  • 348.68 — Consultation with Hillsborough County City-County Planning Commission
  • 348.681 — Design standards
  • 348.70 — This part complete and additional authority
  • 348.751 — Short title
  • 348.752 — Definitions
  • 348.753 — Central Florida Expressway Authority
  • 348.754 — Purposes and powers
  • 348.7543 — Improvements, bond financing authority for
  • 348.7544 — Northwest Beltway Part A, construction authorized; financing
  • 348.7545 — Western Beltway Part C, construction authorized; financing
  • 348.7546 — Wekiva Parkway, construction authorized; financing
  • 348.7547 — Maitland Boulevard Extension and Northwest Beltway Part A Realignment construction authorized; financing
  • 348.755 — Bonds of the authority
  • 348.756 — Remedies of the bondholders
  • 348.757 — Lease-purchase agreement
  • 348.758 — Appointment of department as agent of authority for construction
  • 348.759 — Acquisition of lands and property
  • 348.760 — Cooperation with other units, boards, agencies, and individuals
  • 348.7605 — Public-private partnership
  • 348.761 — Covenant of the state
  • 348.762 — Exemption from taxation
  • 348.763 — Eligibility for investments and security
  • 348.764 — Pledges enforceable by bondholders
  • 348.7645 — Exit sign to university
  • 348.765 — This part complete and additional authority
Title 349 · FL Chapter 349 (20 sections)
  • 349.01 — Title of law
  • 349.02 — Definitions
  • 349.03 — Jacksonville Transportation Authority
  • 349.04 — Purposes and powers
  • 349.041 — Provision of funds and services by city to authority
  • 349.043 — Public hearings for transportation facilities
  • 349.05 — Bonds of the authority; bonds not debt or pledges of credit of state
  • 349.061 — Bond financing authority
  • 349.08 — Transfer of existing Jacksonville Expressway System to authority
  • 349.09 — Department may be appointed agent of authority for construction
  • 349.10 — Acquisition of lands and property
  • 349.11 — Cooperation with other units, boards, agencies, and individuals
  • 349.12 — Covenant of the state
  • 349.13 — Exemption from taxation
  • 349.14 — Eligibility for investments and security
  • 349.15 — Remedies; pledges enforceable by bondholders
  • 349.16 — Transfer of refunding powers to authority
  • 349.17 — Chapter complete and additional authority
  • 349.21 — Powers conferred by s. 212.055(1)
  • 349.22 — Public-private transportation facilities
Title 35 · FL Chapter 35 (19 sections)
  • 35.01 — District courts of appeal; districts
  • 35.02 — First Appellate District
  • 35.03 — Second Appellate District
  • 35.04 — Third Appellate District
  • 35.042 — Fourth Appellate District
  • 35.043 — Fifth Appellate District
  • 35.044 — Sixth Appellate District
  • 35.05 — Headquarters
  • 35.051 — Subsistence and travel reimbursement for judges with alternate headquarters
  • 35.06 — Organization of district courts of appeal
  • 35.065 — Review of judgment or order certified by county court to be of great public importance
  • 35.08 — Power to execute its judgments
  • 35.15 — Decisions to be filed; copies to be furnished
  • 35.20 — Retirement of district court of appeal judge
  • 35.22 — Clerk of district court; assistants; filing fees; teleconferencing
  • 35.23 — Location of clerk’s office
  • 35.24 — Maintenance of books, records, and other materials
  • 35.26 — Marshal of district court; appointment; duties
  • 35.28 — District courts of appeal libraries
Title 350 · FL Chapter 350 (29 sections)
  • 350.001 — Legislative intent
  • 350.01 — Florida Public Service Commission; terms of commissioners; vacancies; election and duties of chair; quorum; proceedings;
  • 350.011 — Florida Public Service Commission; jurisdiction; powers and duties
  • 350.03 — Power of Governor to remove and to fill vacancies
  • 350.031 — Florida Public Service Commission Nominating Council
  • 350.04 — Qualifications of commissioners
  • 350.041 — Commissioners; standards of conduct
  • 350.042 — Ex parte communications
  • 350.043 — Enforcement and interpretation
  • 350.05 — Oath of office
  • 350.06 — Place of meeting; expenditures; employment of personnel; records availability and fees
  • 350.0603 — Rulemaking authority and procedures for purchases
  • 350.0605 — Former commissioners and employees; representation of clients before commission
  • 350.061 — Public Counsel; appointment; oath; restrictions on Public Counsel and his or her employees
  • 350.0611 — Public Counsel; duties and powers
  • 350.0612 — Public Counsel; location
  • 350.0613 — Public Counsel; employees; receipt of pleadings
  • 350.0614 — Public Counsel; compensation and expenses
  • 350.111 — “Regulated company” defined
  • 350.113 — Florida Public Service Regulatory Trust Fund; moneys to be deposited therein
  • 350.115 — Uniform systems and classifications of accounts
  • 350.117 — Reports; audits
  • 350.121 — Commission inquiries; confidentiality of business material
  • 350.123 — Oaths; depositions; protective orders
  • 350.124 — Compelled testimony
  • 350.125 — Administrative law judges
  • 350.127 — Penalties; rules; execution of contracts
  • 350.128 — Judicial review
  • 350.81 — Communications services offered by governmental entities
Title 351 · FL Chapter 351 (5 sections)
  • 351.03 — Railroad-highway grade-crossing warning signs and signals; audible warnings; exercise of reasonable care; blocking highw
  • 351.034 — Railroad-highway grade crossings to be cleared for emergency vehicles
  • 351.35 — Railroad tracks and related equipment; safety rules; penalties
  • 351.36 — Railroad safety inspections and inspectors
  • 351.37 — Railroad safety
Title 354 · FL Chapter 354 (6 sections)
Title 361 · FL Chapter 361 (18 sections)
  • 361.01 — Eminent domain
  • 361.02 — Constructing dams for waterpower
  • 361.025 — Right of eminent domain to railroad companies
  • 361.03 — Right of eminent domain to electric railway companies
  • 361.04 — Right of eminent domain to waterworks companies
  • 361.05 — Right of eminent domain to natural gas companies
  • 361.06 — Right of eminent domain to petroleum and petroleum products pipeline companies
  • 361.07 — Right of eminent domain to companies owning and operating sewer or wastewater reuse systems
  • 361.08 — Right of eminent domain to coal pipeline companies
  • 361.10 — Purpose
  • 361.11 — Definitions
  • 361.12 — Joint electric power supply project
  • 361.13 — Powers
  • 361.14 — Limitation on joint ownership of project or output thereof
  • 361.15 — Issuance of bonds
  • 361.16 — Powers supplemental
  • 361.17 — Project taxing power; interests subject to taxation
  • 361.18 — Construction
Title 362 · FL Chapter 362 (2 sections)
  • 362.01 — Powers to occupy roads
  • 362.02 — Powers of eminent domain
Title 364 · FL Chapter 364 (29 sections)
  • 364.01 — Powers of commission, legislative intent
  • 364.011 — Exemptions from commission jurisdiction
  • 364.012 — Consistency with federal law
  • 364.013 — Emerging and advanced services
  • 364.015 — Injunctive relief
  • 364.016 — Travel costs
  • 364.02 — Definitions
  • 364.0361 — Local government authority; nondiscriminatory exercise
  • 364.04 — Schedules of rates, tolls, rentals, and charges; filing; public inspection
  • 364.10 — Lifeline service
  • 364.105 — Discounted rate for basic service for former Lifeline subscribers
  • 364.107 — Public records exemption; Lifeline Assistance Plan participants
  • 364.16 — Local interconnection, unbundling, and resale
  • 364.163 — Network access services
  • 364.183 — Access to company records
  • 364.195 — Termination of telecommunications service contract by a servicemember
  • 364.24 — Penalty for making telephone message or customer account information known
  • 364.245 — Discontinuation of telecommunications service used for unlawful purpose
  • 364.285 — Penalties
  • 364.30 — Telecommunications companies; points of connection
  • 364.32 — Definitions applicable to s. 364.33
  • 364.33 — Certificate of necessity or authority
  • 364.335 — Application for certificate of authority
  • 364.336 — Regulatory assessment fees
  • 364.3375 — Pay telephone service providers
  • 364.381 — Judicial review
  • 364.385 — Saving clauses
  • 364.386 — Reports to the Legislature
  • 364.391 — Rural electric cooperatives engaged in the provision of broadband
Title 365 · FL Chapter 365 (11 sections)
  • 365.16 — Obscene or harassing telephone calls
  • 365.161 — Prohibition of certain obscene telephone communications; penalty
  • 365.1657 — Intrastate use of facsimile machine for unsolicited advertising; prohibition; penalties; injunctive relief
  • 365.171 — Emergency communications state plan
  • 365.172 — Emergency communications
  • 365.173 — Emergency Communications Trust Fund
  • 365.174 — Proprietary confidential business information
  • 365.175 — Emergency telephone number 911 private branch exchange-private switch automatic location identification
  • 365.176 — Florida Call-Blocking Act
  • 365.177 — Transfer of E911 calls between systems
  • 365.179 — Direct radio communication between 911 public safety answering points and first responders
Title 366 · FL Chapter 366 (46 sections)
  • 366.01 — Legislative declaration
  • 366.015 — Interagency liaison
  • 366.02 — Definitions
  • 366.03 — General duties of public utility
  • 366.031 — Definitions; preference relating to cable television prohibited; penalties
  • 366.032 — Preemption over utility service restrictions
  • 366.04 — Jurisdiction of commission
  • 366.041 — Rate fixing; adequacy of facilities as criterion
  • 366.042 — Mutual aid agreements of rural electric cooperatives and municipal electric utilities
  • 366.05 — Powers
  • 366.051 — Cogeneration; small power production; commission jurisdiction
  • 366.055 — Availability of, and payment for, energy reserves
  • 366.057 — Retirement of electrical power plants
  • 366.06 — Rates; procedure for fixing and changing
  • 366.07 — Rates; adjustment
  • 366.071 — Interim rates; procedure
  • 366.072 — Rate adjustment orders
  • 366.075 — Experimental and transitional rates
  • 366.076 — Limited proceedings; rules on subsequent adjustments
  • 366.08 — Investigations, inspections; power of commission
  • 366.09 — Incrimination at hearing of commission
  • 366.093 — Public utility records; confidentiality
  • 366.095 — Penalties
  • 366.10 — Judicial review
  • 366.11 — Certain exemptions
  • 366.125 — Natural gas jurisdiction limits
  • 366.13 — Taxes, not affected
  • 366.14 — Regulatory assessment fees
  • 366.15 — Medically essential electric public utility service
  • 366.20 — Sale and management of lands owned by electric utilities
  • 366.80 — Short title
  • 366.81 — Legislative findings and intent
  • 366.82 — Definition; goals; plans; programs; annual reports; energy audits
  • 366.825 — Clean Air Act compliance; definitions; goals; plans
  • 366.8255 — Environmental cost recovery
  • 366.8260 — Storm-recovery financing
  • 366.83 — Certain laws not applicable; saving clause
  • 366.91 — Renewable energy
  • 366.92 — Florida renewable energy policy
  • 366.93 — Cost recovery for the siting, design, licensing, and construction of nuclear and integrated gasification combined cycle
  • 366.94 — Electric vehicle charging
  • 366.95 — Financing for certain nuclear generating asset retirement or abandonment costs
  • 366.96 — Storm protection plan cost recovery
  • 366.97 — Redundant poles; transfer of ownership
  • 366.98 — Public utility liability arising out of emergencies and disasters
  • 366.99 — Natural gas facilities relocation costs
Title 367 · FL Chapter 367 (31 sections)
  • 367.011 — Jurisdiction; legislative intent
  • 367.021 — Definitions
  • 367.022 — Exemptions
  • 367.031 — Original certificate
  • 367.045 — Certificate of authorization; application and amendment procedures
  • 367.071 — Sale, assignment, or transfer of certificate of authorization, facilities, or control
  • 367.072 — Petition to revoke certificate of authorization
  • 367.081 — Rates; procedure for fixing and changing
  • 367.0811 — Rates; alternative procedure for establishing rate base value of acquired utility system
  • 367.0812 — Rate fixing; quality of water service as criterion
  • 367.0813 — Gain or loss on purchase or condemnation by governmental authority
  • 367.0814 — Staff assistance in changing rates and charges; interim rates
  • 367.0817 — Reuse projects
  • 367.082 — Interim rates; procedure
  • 367.0822 — Limited proceedings
  • 367.083 — Determination of official date of filing
  • 367.084 — Rate adjustment orders
  • 367.091 — Rates, tariffs; new class of service
  • 367.101 — Charges for service availability
  • 367.111 — Service
  • 367.121 — Powers of commission
  • 367.1213 — Adequate land ownership; commission rulemaking authority
  • 367.1214 — Utility name change; notification; commission rulemaking authority
  • 367.122 — Examination and testing of meters
  • 367.123 — Service for resale
  • 367.145 — Regulatory assessment and application fees
  • 367.156 — Public utility records; confidentiality
  • 367.161 — Penalties
  • 367.165 — Abandonment
  • 367.171 — Effectiveness of this chapter
  • 367.182 — Saving clause
Title 368 · FL Chapter 368 (18 sections)
  • 368.01 — Short title
  • 368.021 — Applicability
  • 368.03 — Purpose and legislative intent
  • 368.05 — Commission jurisdiction; rules
  • 368.061 — Penalty
  • 368.101 — Short title
  • 368.102 — Legislative declaration
  • 368.103 — Definitions
  • 368.104 — Jurisdiction, authority to ensure compliance; rate regulation
  • 368.105 — Rates and services; just and reasonable and not unduly discriminatory
  • 368.106 — Statement of intent to increase rates; major changes; hearing; suspension of rate schedules; determination of rate level
  • 368.107 — Unreasonable or violative existing rates and services
  • 368.108 — Confidentiality; discovery
  • 368.1085 — Travel costs
  • 368.109 — Regulatory assessment fees
  • 368.111 — Penalties
  • 368.1115 — Injunctive relief
  • 368.112 — Judicial review
Title 369 · FL Chapter 369 (22 sections)
  • 369.20 — Florida Aquatic Weed Control Act
  • 369.22 — Aquatic plant management
  • 369.25 — Aquatic plants; definitions; permits; powers of department; penalties
  • 369.251 — Invasive nonnative plants; prohibitions; study; removal; rules
  • 369.252 — Invasive plant control on public lands
  • 369.255 — Green utility ordinances for funding greenspace management and exotic plant control
  • 369.301 — Short title
  • 369.303 — Definitions
  • 369.305 — Review of local comprehensive plans, land development regulations, Wekiva River development permits, and amendments
  • 369.307 — Developments of regional impact in the Wekiva River Protection Area; land acquisition
  • 369.309 — Airboats prohibited; exceptions; penalties
  • 369.314 — Short title
  • 369.315 — Intent
  • 369.316 — Wekiva Study Area
  • 369.317 — Wekiva Parkway
  • 369.318 — Studies
  • 369.319 — Master stormwater management plan
  • 369.320 — Wastewater facility plan
  • 369.321 — Comprehensive plan amendments
  • 369.322 — Coordination of land use and water supply within the Wekiva Study Area
  • 369.323 — Compliance
  • 369.324 — Wekiva River Basin Commission
Title 373 · FL Chapter 373 (247 sections)
  • 373.012 — Topographic mapping
  • 373.013 — Short title
  • 373.016 — Declaration of policy
  • 373.019 — Definitions
  • 373.023 — Scope and application
  • 373.026 — General powers and duties of the department
  • 373.033 — Saltwater barrier line
  • 373.036 — Florida water plan; district water management plans
  • 373.0363 — Southern Water Use Caution Area Recovery Strategy
  • 373.037 — Pilot program for alternative water supply development in restricted allocation areas
  • 373.0397 — Floridan and Biscayne aquifers; designation of prime groundwater recharge areas
  • 373.042 — Minimum flows and minimum water levels
  • 373.0421 — Establishment and implementation of minimum flows and minimum water levels
  • 373.043 — Adoption and enforcement of rules by the department
  • 373.044 — Rules; enforcement; availability of personnel rules
  • 373.046 — Interagency agreements
  • 373.0465 — Central Florida Water Initiative
  • 373.0466 — Central Florida Water Initiative Grant Program
  • 373.047 — Cooperation between districts
  • 373.056 — State agencies, counties, drainage districts, municipalities, or governmental agencies or public corporations authorized
  • 373.069 — Creation of water management districts
  • 373.0691 — Transfer of areas
  • 373.0693 — Basins; basin boards
  • 373.0695 — Duties of basin boards; authorized expenditures
  • 373.0697 — Basin taxes
  • 373.0698 — Creation and operation of basin boards; other laws superseded
  • 373.073 — Governing board
  • 373.076 — Vacancies in the governing board; removal from office
  • 373.079 — Members of governing board; oath of office; staff
  • 373.083 — General powers and duties of the governing board
  • 373.084 — District works, operation by other governmental agencies
  • 373.085 — Use of works or land by other districts or private persons
  • 373.086 — Providing for district works
  • 373.087 — District works using aquifer for storage and supply
  • 373.088 — Application fees for certain real estate transactions
  • 373.089 — Sale or exchange of lands, or interests or rights in lands
  • 373.093 — Lease of lands or interest in land and personal property
  • 373.096 — Releases
  • 373.099 — Execution of instruments
  • 373.103 — Powers which may be vested in the governing board at the department’s discretion
  • 373.106 — Permit required for construction involving underground formation
  • 373.107 — Citation of rule
  • 373.109 — Permit application fees
  • 373.113 — Adoption of rules by the governing board
  • 373.1131 — Consolidated action on permits
  • 373.1135 — Small business program
  • 373.114 — Land and Water Adjudicatory Commission; review of district rules and orders; department review of district rules
  • 373.116 — Procedure for water use and impoundment construction permit applications
  • 373.117 — Certification by professional engineer
  • 373.1175 — Signing and sealing by professional geologists
  • 373.118 — General permits; delegation
  • 373.119 — Administrative enforcement procedures; orders
  • 373.123 — Penalty
  • 373.129 — Maintenance of actions
  • 373.136 — Enforcement of regulations and orders
  • 373.139 — Acquisition of real property
  • 373.1391 — Management of real property
  • 373.1395 — Limitation on liability of water management district with respect to areas made available to the public for recreational
  • 373.1401 — Management of lands of water management districts
  • 373.145 — Information program regarding hydrologic conditioning and consumption of major surface and groundwater sources
  • 373.146 — Publication of notices, process, and papers
  • 373.149 — Existing districts preserved
  • 373.1501 — South Florida Water Management District as local sponsor
  • 373.1502 — Regulation of comprehensive plan project components
  • 373.171 — Rules
  • 373.1725 — Notice of intent by publication
  • 373.175 — Declaration of water shortage; emergency orders
  • 373.185 — Local Florida-friendly landscaping ordinances
  • 373.187 — Water management district implementation of Florida-friendly landscaping
  • 373.199 — Florida Forever Water Management District Work Plan
  • 373.200 — Seminole Tribe Water Rights Compact
  • 373.203 — Definitions
  • 373.206 — Artesian wells; flow regulated
  • 373.207 — Abandoned artesian wells
  • 373.209 — Artesian wells; penalties for violation
  • 373.213 — Certain artesian wells exempt
  • 373.216 — Implementation of program for regulating the consumptive use of water
  • 373.217 — Superseded laws and regulations
  • 373.219 — Permits required
  • 373.223 — Conditions for a permit
  • 373.2234 — Preferred water supply sources
  • 373.2235 — Effect of prior land acquisition on consumptive use permitting
  • 373.224 — Existing permits
  • 373.226 — Existing uses
  • 373.227 — Water conservation; legislative findings and intent; objectives; comprehensive statewide water conservation program requ
  • 373.228 — Landscape irrigation design
  • 373.229 — Application for permit
  • 373.2295 — Interdistrict transfers of groundwater
  • 373.22951 — Validation of prior agreements between water management districts
  • 373.232 — Citation of rule
  • 373.233 — Competing applications
  • 373.236 — Duration of permits; compliance reports
  • 373.239 — Modification and renewal of permit terms
  • 373.243 — Revocation of permits
  • 373.244 — Temporary permits
  • 373.246 — Declaration of water shortage or emergency
  • 373.249 — Existing regulatory districts preserved
  • 373.250 — Reuse of reclaimed water
  • 373.302 — Legislative findings
  • 373.303 — Definitions
  • 373.306 — Scope
  • 373.308 — Implementation of programs for regulating water wells
  • 373.309 — Authority to adopt rules and procedures
  • 373.313 — Prior permission and notification
  • 373.314 — Citation of rule
  • 373.316 — Existing installations
  • 373.319 — Inspections
  • 373.323 — Licensure of water well contractors; application, qualifications, and examinations; equipment identification
  • 373.324 — License renewal
  • 373.325 — Inactive status
  • 373.326 — Exemptions
  • 373.329 — Fees for licensure
  • 373.333 — Disciplinary guidelines; adoption and enforcement; license suspension or revocation
  • 373.335 — Clearinghouse
  • 373.336 — Unlawful acts; penalties
  • 373.337 — Rules
  • 373.342 — Permits
  • 373.403 — Definitions
  • 373.406 — Exemptions
  • 373.407 — Determination of qualification for an agricultural-related exemption
  • 373.409 — Headgates, valves, and measuring devices
  • 373.413 — Permits for construction or alteration
  • 373.4131 — Statewide environmental resource permitting rules
  • 373.4132 — Dry storage facility permitting
  • 373.4133 — Port conceptual permits
  • 373.4134 — Water quality enhancement areas
  • 373.4135 — Mitigation banks and offsite regional mitigation
  • 373.4136 — Establishment and operation of mitigation banks
  • 373.41365 — Adoption and modification of rules to ensure financial assurances for long-term management of mitigation under ss. 373.4
  • 373.4137 — Mitigation requirements for specified transportation projects
  • 373.4138 — High Speed Rail Project; determination of mitigation requirements and costs
  • 373.4139 — Local government transportation infrastructure mitigation requirements
  • 373.414 — Additional criteria for activities in surface waters and wetlands
  • 373.4141 — Permits; processing
  • 373.4142 — Water quality within stormwater treatment systems
  • 373.4143 — Declaration of policy
  • 373.4144 — Federal environmental permitting
  • 373.4145 — Part IV permitting program within the geographical jurisdiction of the Northwest Florida Water Management District
  • 373.4146 — State assumption of the federal Clean Water Act, section 404 dredge and fill permitting program
  • 373.4149 — Miami-Dade County Lake Belt Plan
  • 373.41492 — Miami-Dade County Lake Belt Mitigation Plan; mitigation for mining activities within the Miami-Dade County Lake Belt
  • 373.41495 — Lake Belt Mitigation Trust Fund; bonds
  • 373.415 — Protection zones; duties of the St. Johns River Water Management District
  • 373.416 — Permits for maintenance or operation
  • 373.417 — Citation of rule
  • 373.418 — Rulemaking; preservation of existing authority
  • 373.4185 — List of flocculants permitted
  • 373.419 — Completion report
  • 373.421 — Delineation methods; formal determinations
  • 373.4211 — Ratification of chapter 17-340, Florida Administrative Code, on the delineation of the landward extent of wetlands and s
  • 373.422 — Applications for activities on state sovereignty lands or other state lands
  • 373.423 — Inspection
  • 373.426 — Abandonment
  • 373.427 — Concurrent permit review
  • 373.4271 — Conduct of challenge to consolidated environmental resource permit or associated variance or sovereign submerged lands a
  • 373.4275 — Review of consolidated orders
  • 373.428 — Federal consistency
  • 373.429 — Revocation and modification of permits
  • 373.430 — Prohibitions, violation, penalty, intent
  • 373.433 — Abatement
  • 373.436 — Remedial measures
  • 373.439 — Emergency measures
  • 373.441 — Role of counties, municipalities, and local pollution control programs in permit processing; delegation
  • 373.4415 — Role of Miami-Dade County in processing permits for limerock mining in Miami-Dade County Lake Belt
  • 373.443 — Immunity from liability
  • 373.451 — Short title; legislative findings and intent
  • 373.453 — Surface water improvement and management plans and programs
  • 373.459 — Funds for surface water improvement and management
  • 373.4591 — Improvements on private agricultural lands
  • 373.4592 — Everglades improvement and management
  • 373.45922 — South Florida Water Management District; permit for completion of Everglades Construction Project; report
  • 373.45924 — South Florida Water Management District; Everglades truth in borrowing
  • 373.45926 — Everglades Trust Fund; allocation of revenues and expenditure of funds for conservation and protection of natural resour
  • 373.4593 — Florida Bay Restoration
  • 373.45931 — Alligator Alley tolls; Everglades and Florida Bay restoration
  • 373.4595 — Northern Everglades and Estuaries Protection Program
  • 373.4596 — State compliance with stormwater management programs
  • 373.4597 — The Geneva Freshwater Lens Protection Act
  • 373.4598 — Water storage reservoirs
  • 373.4599 — Water storage north of Lake Okeechobee
  • 373.461 — Lake Apopka improvement and management
  • 373.462 — Legislative findings and intent
  • 373.463 — Heartland headwaters annual report
  • 373.468 — The Harris Chain of Lakes restoration program
  • 373.469 — Indian River Lagoon Protection Program
  • 373.470 — Everglades restoration
  • 373.472 — Save Our Everglades Trust Fund
  • 373.475 — Water storage facility revolving loan fund
  • 373.501 — Appropriation of funds to water management districts
  • 373.503 — Manner of taxation
  • 373.506 — Costs of district
  • 373.5071 — Audit report; furnishing to governing board and clerks of circuit courts
  • 373.535 — Preliminary district budgets
  • 373.536 — District budget and hearing thereon
  • 373.539 — Imposition of taxes
  • 373.543 — Land held by Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund; areas not taxed
  • 373.546 — Unit areas
  • 373.553 — Treasurer of the board; payment of funds; depositories
  • 373.559 — May borrow money temporarily
  • 373.563 — Bonds
  • 373.566 — Refunding bonds
  • 373.569 — Bond election
  • 373.573 — Bonds to be validated
  • 373.576 — Sale of bonds
  • 373.579 — Proceeds from taxes for bond purposes
  • 373.583 — Registration of bonds
  • 373.584 — Revenue bonds
  • 373.586 — Unpaid warrants to draw interest
  • 373.59 — Payment in lieu of taxes for lands acquired for water management district purposes
  • 373.5905 — Reinstatement of payments in lieu of taxes; duration
  • 373.591 — Management review teams
  • 373.603 — Power to enforce
  • 373.604 — Awards to employees for meritorious service
  • 373.605 — Group insurance for water management districts
  • 373.6055 — Criminal history checks for certain water management district employees and others
  • 373.607 — Minority business enterprise procurement goals; implementation of recommendations
  • 373.6075 — Purchases from contracts of other entities
  • 373.608 — Patents, copyrights, and trademarks
  • 373.609 — Enforcement; city and county officers to assist
  • 373.610 — Defaulting contractors
  • 373.611 — Modification or limitation of remedy
  • 373.613 — Penalties
  • 373.614 — Unlawful damage to district property or works; penalty
  • 373.616 — Liberal construction
  • 373.6161 — Chapter to be liberally construed
  • 373.617 — Judicial review relating to permits and licenses
  • 373.618 — Public service warnings, alerts, and announcements
  • 373.619 — Recognition of water and sewer-saving devices
  • 373.62 — Water conservation; automatic sprinkler systems
  • 373.621 — Water conservation
  • 373.63 — Preference to State University System in award of projects or studies
  • 373.69 — Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin Compact
  • 373.701 — Declaration of policy
  • 373.703 — Water production; general powers and duties
  • 373.705 — Water resource development; water supply development
  • 373.707 — Alternative water supply development
  • 373.709 — Regional water supply planning
  • 373.711 — Technical assistance to local governments
  • 373.713 — Regional water supply authorities
  • 373.715 — Assistance to West Coast Regional Water Supply Authority
  • 373.801 — Legislative findings and intent
  • 373.802 — Definitions
  • 373.803 — Delineation of priority focus areas for Outstanding Florida Springs
  • 373.805 — Minimum flows and minimum water levels for Outstanding Florida Springs
  • 373.807 — Protection of water quality in Outstanding Florida Springs
  • 373.811 — Prohibited activities within a basin management action plan
  • 373.813 — Rules
Title 374 · FL Chapter 374 (13 sections)
  • 374.975 — Inland navigation districts; legislative intent
  • 374.976 — Authority to address impacts of waterway development projects
  • 374.977 — Inland navigation districts; manatee protection speed zones, responsibility for sign posting
  • 374.978 — District board; compensation
  • 374.980 — Legislative intent
  • 374.981 — Short title
  • 374.982 — District
  • 374.983 — Governing body
  • 374.984 — Purpose; powers and duties
  • 374.986 — Taxing authority
  • 374.987 — Financial matters
  • 374.988 — Preservation of taxing authority
  • 374.989 — Construction
Title 375 · FL Chapter 375 (15 sections)
  • 375.011 — Short title
  • 375.021 — Comprehensive multipurpose outdoor recreation plan
  • 375.031 — Acquisition of land; procedures
  • 375.032 — Recreation; required purpose for purchase
  • 375.041 — Land Acquisition Trust Fund
  • 375.044 — Land Acquisition Trust Fund budget request
  • 375.051 — Issuance of revenue bonds subject to constitutional authorization
  • 375.061 — Construction
  • 375.065 — Public beaches; financial and other assistance by Department of Environmental Protection to local governments
  • 375.075 — Outdoor recreation; financial assistance to local governments
  • 375.251 — Limitation on liability of persons making available to public certain areas for recreational purposes without charge
  • 375.311 — Legislative intent
  • 375.312 — Definitions
  • 375.313 — Commission powers and duties
  • 375.314 — Damage to public lands
Title 376 · FL Chapter 376 (76 sections)
  • 376.011 — Pollutant Discharge Prevention and Control Act; short title
  • 376.021 — Legislative intent with respect to pollution of coastal waters and lands
  • 376.031 — Definitions; ss. 376.011-376.21
  • 376.041 — Pollution of waters and lands of the state prohibited
  • 376.051 — Powers and duties of the Department of Environmental Protection
  • 376.065 — Operation of terminal facility without discharge prevention and response certificate prohibited; penalty
  • 376.07 — Regulatory powers of department; penalties for inadequate booming by terminal facilities
  • 376.0705 — Development of training programs and educational materials
  • 376.071 — Discharge contingency plan for vessels
  • 376.09 — Removal of prohibited discharges
  • 376.10 — Personnel and equipment
  • 376.11 — Florida Coastal Protection Trust Fund
  • 376.12 — Liabilities and defenses of responsible parties; liabilities of third parties; financial security requirements for vesse
  • 376.121 — Liability for damage to natural resources
  • 376.123 — Claims against the Florida Coastal Protection Trust Fund
  • 376.13 — Emergency proclamation; Governor’s powers
  • 376.14 — Vessels; financial responsibility; claims against providers of financial responsibility; service of process against resp
  • 376.16 — Enforcement and penalties
  • 376.165 — “Hold-harmless” agreements prohibited
  • 376.19 — County and municipal ordinances; powers limited
  • 376.20 — Limitation on application
  • 376.205 — Individual cause of action for damages under ss. 376.011-376.21
  • 376.207 — Traps impregnated with pollutants prohibited
  • 376.21 — Construction of ss. 376.011-376.21
  • 376.25 — Gambling vessels; registration; required and prohibited releases
  • 376.30 — Legislative intent with respect to pollution of surface and ground waters
  • 376.301 — Definitions of terms used in ss. 376.30-376.317, 376.70, and 376.75
  • 376.302 — Prohibited acts; penalties
  • 376.303 — Powers and duties of the Department of Environmental Protection
  • 376.304 — Review and analysis of disposal materials or byproducts; disposal at designated local government solid waste disposal fa
  • 376.305 — Removal of prohibited discharges
  • 376.306 — Cattle-dipping vats; legislative findings; liability
  • 376.307 — Water Quality Assurance Trust Fund
  • 376.30701 — Application of risk-based corrective action principles to contaminated sites; applicability; legislative intent; rulemak
  • 376.30702 — Contamination notification
  • 376.3071 — Inland Protection Trust Fund; creation; purposes; funding
  • 376.30713 — Advanced cleanup
  • 376.30714 — Site rehabilitation agreements
  • 376.30715 — Innocent victim petroleum storage system restoration
  • 376.30716 — Cleanup of certain sites
  • 376.3072 — Florida Petroleum Liability and Restoration Insurance Program
  • 376.3073 — Local programs and state agency programs for control of contamination
  • 376.3075 — Inland Protection Financing Corporation
  • 376.3077 — Unlawful to deposit motor fuel in tank required to be registered, without proof of registration display
  • 376.3078 — Drycleaning facility restoration; funds; uses; liability; recovery of expenditures
  • 376.30781 — Tax credits for rehabilitation of drycleaning-solvent-contaminated sites and brownfield sites in designated brownfield a
  • 376.3079 — Third-party liability insurance
  • 376.308 — Liabilities and defenses of facilities
  • 376.309 — Facilities, financial responsibility
  • 376.311 — Penalties for a discharge
  • 376.313 — Nonexclusiveness of remedies and individual cause of action for damages under ss. 376.30-376.317
  • 376.315 — Construction of ss. 376.30-376.317
  • 376.317 — Superseded laws; state preemption
  • 376.320 — Applicability
  • 376.321 — Definitions; ss. 376.320-376.326
  • 376.322 — Powers and duties of the department
  • 376.323 — Registration
  • 376.324 — Containment and integrity plan
  • 376.325 — Alternative to containment and integrity plan requirements
  • 376.326 — Application of s. 376.317
  • 376.40 — Petroleum exploration and production; purposes; funding
  • 376.41 — Minerals Trust Fund
  • 376.60 — Asbestos removal program inspection and notification fee
  • 376.70 — Tax on gross receipts of drycleaning facilities
  • 376.71 — Registration fee and gross receipts tax; exemptions
  • 376.75 — Tax on production or importation of perchloroethylene
  • 376.77 — Short title
  • 376.78 — Legislative intent
  • 376.79 — Definitions relating to Brownfields Redevelopment Act
  • 376.80 — Brownfield program administration process
  • 376.81 — Brownfield site and brownfield areas contamination cleanup criteria
  • 376.82 — Eligibility criteria and liability protection
  • 376.83 — Violation; penalties
  • 376.84 — Brownfield redevelopment economic incentives
  • 376.85 — Annual report
  • 376.91 — Statewide cleanup of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances
Title 377 · FL Chapter 377 (75 sections)
  • 377.01 — Governor to enter into interstate compact to conserve oil and gas
  • 377.03 — Extension of compact
  • 377.04 — Official report of state
  • 377.06 — Public policy of state concerning natural resources of oil and gas
  • 377.07 — Division of Resource Management; powers, duties, and authority
  • 377.075 — Division of Technical Services; geological functions
  • 377.10 — Certain persons not to be employed by division
  • 377.18 — Common sources of oil and gas
  • 377.19 — Definitions
  • 377.20 — Waste prohibited
  • 377.21 — Jurisdiction of division
  • 377.22 — Rules and orders
  • 377.23 — Monthly reports to division
  • 377.24 — Notice of intention to drill well; permits; abandoned wells and dry holes
  • 377.2407 — Natural gas storage facility permit application to inject gas into and recover gas from a natural gas storage reservoir
  • 377.2408 — Application to conduct geophysical operations
  • 377.2409 — Geophysical activities; confidential information; penalties
  • 377.241 — Criteria for issuance of permits
  • 377.2411 — Lawful right to drill, develop, or explore
  • 377.242 — Permits for drilling or exploring and extracting through well holes or by other means
  • 377.2421 — Division to review federal applications
  • 377.2424 — Conditions for granting permits for geophysical operations
  • 377.2425 — Manner of providing security for geophysical exploration, drilling, and production
  • 377.2426 — Abandonment of geophysical holes
  • 377.243 — Conditions for granting permits for extraction through well holes
  • 377.2431 — Conditions for granting permits for natural gas storage facilities
  • 377.2432 — Natural gas storage facilities; protection of water supplies
  • 377.2433 — Protection of natural gas storage facilities; remedies
  • 377.2434 — Property rights to injected natural gas
  • 377.2435 — Rule adoption relating to natural gas storage
  • 377.244 — Conditions for granting permits for surface exploratory and extraction operations
  • 377.245 — Provision for distribution of earnings to lessees or owners of the fractional undivided mineral rights not owned by appl
  • 377.247 — Designation and distribution of earnings owed to owners of mineral rights who are unknown or unlocated
  • 377.25 — Production pools; drilling units
  • 377.26 — Location of wells
  • 377.27 — Drilling units
  • 377.28 — Cycling, pooling, and unitization of oil and gas
  • 377.29 — Agreements in interest of conservation
  • 377.30 — Limitation on amount of oil or gas taken
  • 377.31 — Evidence of rules and orders
  • 377.32 — Issuance of subpoenas; service, etc
  • 377.33 — Injunctions against division
  • 377.34 — Actions and injunctions by division
  • 377.35 — Suits, proceedings, appeals, etc
  • 377.36 — False entries and statements; incomplete entries; penalties
  • 377.37 — Penalties
  • 377.371 — Pollution prohibited; reporting, liability
  • 377.38 — Illegal oil, gas, and other products; sale, purchase, acquisition, transportation, refining, processing, or handling pro
  • 377.39 — Seizure and sale of illegal oil, gas, or product
  • 377.40 — Negligently permitting gas and oil to go wild or out of control
  • 377.41 — Disposition of fines
  • 377.42 — Big Cypress Swamp Advisory Committee
  • 377.601 — Legislative intent
  • 377.6015 — Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; powers and duties
  • 377.602 — Definitions
  • 377.603 — Energy data collection; powers and duties of the department
  • 377.604 — Required reports
  • 377.605 — Use of existing information
  • 377.606 — Records of the department; limits of confidentiality
  • 377.607 — Violations; penalties
  • 377.608 — Prosecution of cases by state attorney
  • 377.701 — Petroleum allocation
  • 377.703 — Additional functions of the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
  • 377.704 — Appropriation of funds from settlement of petroleum overcharge litigation
  • 377.705 — Solar Energy Center; development of solar energy standards
  • 377.707 — Express preemption of fuel retailers and related transportation infrastructure
  • 377.708 — Wind energy
  • 377.709 — Funding by electric utilities of local governmental solid waste facilities that generate electricity
  • 377.71 — Definitions; Southern States Energy Compact
  • 377.711 — Florida party to Southern States Energy Compact
  • 377.712 — Florida participation
  • 377.805 — Energy efficiency and conservation clearinghouse
  • 377.810 — Natural gas fuel fleet vehicle rebate program
  • 377.814 — Municipal Solid Waste-to-Energy Program
  • 377.815 — Alternative fueling stations and electric vehicle charging stations
Title 378 · FL Chapter 378 (42 sections)
  • 378.021 — Master reclamation plan
  • 378.031 — Reclamation or acquisition of nonmandatory lands; legislative intent
  • 378.032 — Definitions
  • 378.034 — Submission of a reclamation program request; procedures
  • 378.035 — Department responsibilities and duties with respect to Nonmandatory Land Reclamation Trust Fund
  • 378.036 — Land acquisitions financed by Nonmandatory Land Reclamation Trust Fund moneys
  • 378.037 — Chief Financial Officer; responsibilities and duties with respect to reimbursement of reclamation costs
  • 378.038 — Rulemaking
  • 378.201 — Short title
  • 378.202 — Legislative intent
  • 378.203 — Definitions
  • 378.204 — Applicability
  • 378.205 — Administration; powers and duties of the department; agency review responsibility
  • 378.207 — Reclamation criteria and standards
  • 378.208 — Financial responsibility
  • 378.209 — Timing of reclamation
  • 378.211 — Violations; damages; penalties
  • 378.212 — Variances
  • 378.401 — Short title
  • 378.402 — Legislative findings and intent
  • 378.403 — Definitions
  • 378.404 — Department of Environmental Protection; powers and duties
  • 378.405 — Reclamation review procedure
  • 378.406 — Confidentiality of records; availability of information
  • 378.407 — Inspection
  • 378.408 — Injunctive relief
  • 378.409 — Civil liability
  • 378.411 — Certification to receive notices of intent to mine, to review, and to inspect for compliance
  • 378.4115 — County certification for limerock mining in the Miami-Dade County Lake Belt
  • 378.412 — Relationship with other laws
  • 378.501 — Limestone; notice of intent to mine required
  • 378.502 — Existing mines
  • 378.503 — Limestone reclamation performance standards
  • 378.601 — Heavy minerals
  • 378.701 — Fuller’s earth clay; notice of intent to mine required
  • 378.702 — Existing mines
  • 378.703 — Fuller’s earth clay reclamation performance standards
  • 378.801 — Other resources; notice of intent to extract required
  • 378.802 — Existing extraction locations
  • 378.803 — Other resources reclamation performance standards
  • 378.804 — Exemption
  • 378.901 — Life-of-the-mine permit
Title 379 · FL Chapter 379 (177 sections)
  • 379.101 — Definitions
  • 379.102 — Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission
  • 379.1025 — Powers, duties, and authority of commission; rules, regulations, and orders
  • 379.10255 — Headquarters of commission
  • 379.1026 — Site-specific location information for endangered and threatened species; public records exemption
  • 379.103 — Duties of executive director
  • 379.104 — Right to hunt and fish
  • 379.105 — Harassment of hunters, trappers, or fishers
  • 379.106 — Administration of commission grant programs
  • 379.107 — Residential conservation programs
  • 379.201 — Administrative Trust Fund
  • 379.203 — Dedicated License Trust Fund
  • 379.204 — Federal Grants Trust Fund
  • 379.205 — Florida Panther Research and Management Trust Fund
  • 379.206 — Grants and Donations Trust Fund
  • 379.207 — Lifetime Fish and Wildlife Trust Fund
  • 379.208 — Marine Resources Conservation Trust Fund; purposes
  • 379.209 — Nongame Wildlife Trust Fund
  • 379.211 — State Game Trust Fund
  • 379.212 — Land Acquisition Trust Fund
  • 379.213 — Save the Manatee Trust Fund
  • 379.214 — Invasive Plant Control Trust Fund
  • 379.2201 — Deposit of license fees; allocation of federal funds
  • 379.2202 — Expenditure of funds
  • 379.2203 — Disposition of fines, penalties, and forfeitures
  • 379.2213 — Management area permit revenues
  • 379.2222 — Acquisition of state game lands
  • 379.2223 — Control and management of state game lands
  • 379.2224 — Preserves, refuges, etc., not tax-exempt
  • 379.2225 — Everglades recreational sites; definitions
  • 379.223 — Citizen support organizations; use of state property; audit
  • 379.2231 — Additional assessment; Wildlife Alert Reward Association, Inc
  • 379.224 — Memorandum of agreement relating to Fish and Wildlife Research Institute
  • 379.2251 — Agreements with Federal Government for the preservation of saltwater fisheries; authority of commission
  • 379.2252 — Compacts and agreements; generally
  • 379.2253 — Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Compact; implementing legislation
  • 379.2254 — Gulf States Marine Fisheries Compact; implementing legislation
  • 379.2255 — Wildlife Violator Compact Act
  • 379.2256 — Compact licensing and enforcement authority; administrative review
  • 379.2257 — Cooperative agreements with United States Forest Service; penalty
  • 379.2258 — Assent to provisions of Act of Congress of September 2, 1937
  • 379.2259 — Assent to federal acts
  • 379.226 — Florida Territorial Waters Act; alien-owned commercial fishing vessels; prohibited acts; enforcement
  • 379.2271 — Harmful-Algal-Bloom Task Force
  • 379.2272 — Harmful-algal-bloom program; implementation; goals; funding
  • 379.2273 — Florida Red Tide Mitigation and Technology Development Initiative; Initiative Technology Advisory Council
  • 379.2281 — Jim Woodruff Dam; reciprocity agreements
  • 379.2282 — St. Marys River; reciprocity agreements
  • 379.2291 — Endangered and Threatened Species Act
  • 379.2292 — Endangered and Threatened Species Reward Program
  • 379.2293 — Airport activities within the scope of a federally approved wildlife hazard management plan or a federal or state permit
  • 379.23 — Federal conservation of fish and wildlife; limited jurisdiction
  • 379.231 — Regulation of nonnative animals
  • 379.2311 — Nonnative animal management
  • 379.232 — Water bottoms
  • 379.233 — Release of balloons
  • 379.2341 — Publications by the commission
  • 379.2342 — Private publication agreements; advertising; costs of production
  • 379.2351 — Land-based commercial and recreational fishing activities; legislative findings and purpose; definitions; legal protecti
  • 379.2352 — State employment; priority consideration for qualified displaced employees of the saltwater fishing industry
  • 379.236 — Retention, destruction, and reproduction of commission records
  • 379.237 — Courts of equity may enjoin
  • 379.2401 — Marine fisheries; policy and standards
  • 379.2402 — Marine information system
  • 379.2411 — Saltwater fish; regulations
  • 379.2412 — State preemption of power to regulate
  • 379.2413 — Catching food fish for the purposes of making oil
  • 379.2421 — Fishers and equipment; regulation
  • 379.2422 — Illegal use of nets
  • 379.2423 — Carriage of proscribed nets across Florida waters
  • 379.2424 — Retrieval of spiny lobster, stone crab, blue crab, and black sea bass traps during closed season; commission authority
  • 379.2425 — Spearfishing; definition; limitations; penalty
  • 379.2426 — Regulation of shark fins; penalties
  • 379.2431 — Marine animals; regulation
  • 379.2432 — Manatee protection; intent; conduct of studies; initiatives and plans
  • 379.2433 — Enhanced manatee protection study
  • 379.244 — Crustacea, marine animals, fish; regulations; general provisions
  • 379.245 — Spiny lobster reports by dealers during closed season required
  • 379.246 — Tortugas shrimp beds; gifted and loan property
  • 379.247 — Regulation of shrimp fishing; Clay, Duval, Nassau, Putnam, Flagler, and St. Johns Counties
  • 379.248 — Sponges; regulation
  • 379.249 — Artificial reef program; grants and financial and technical assistance to local governments
  • 379.2495 — Florida Ships-2-Reefs Program; matching grant requirements
  • 379.25 — Sale of unlawfully landed product; jurisdiction
  • 379.2511 — Lease of state-owned water bottoms for growing oysters and clams
  • 379.2512 — Oyster bottom land grants made pursuant to ch. 3293
  • 379.2521 — Rulemaking authority with respect to marine life
  • 379.2522 — Oysters produced in and outside state; labeling; tracing; rules
  • 379.2523 — Aquaculture definitions; marine aquaculture products, producers, and facilities
  • 379.2525 — Noncultured shellfish harvesting
  • 379.26 — Illegal importation or possession of nonindigenous marine plants and animals; rules and regulations
  • 379.28 — Imported fish
  • 379.29 — Contaminating fresh waters
  • 379.295 — Use of explosives and other substances or force prohibited
  • 379.3001 — No net loss of hunting lands
  • 379.3002 — J. W. Corbett and Cecil M. Webb Wildlife Management Areas
  • 379.3003 — Required clothing for persons hunting deer
  • 379.3004 — Voluntary Authorized Hunter Identification Program
  • 379.3012 — Alligator management program implementation; commission authority
  • 379.3014 — Unlawful sale, possession, or transporting of alligators or alligator skins
  • 379.3015 — Prima facie evidence of intent to violate laws protecting alligators
  • 379.302 — Private game preserves and farms; regulations; penalties
  • 379.303 — Classification of wildlife; seizure of captive wildlife
  • 379.304 — Exhibition or sale of wildlife
  • 379.305 — Rules and regulations; penalties
  • 379.33 — Enforcement of commission rules
  • 379.3311 — Police powers of commission and its agents
  • 379.3312 — Powers of arrest by agents of commission
  • 379.3313 — Powers of commission law enforcement officers
  • 379.332 — Prosecutions; state attorney to represent state
  • 379.333 — Arrest by officers of the commission; recognizance; cash bond; citation
  • 379.334 — Search and seizure authorized and limited
  • 379.335 — Issuance of warrant for search of private dwelling
  • 379.336 — Venue for proceedings against citizens and residents charged with violations outside state boundaries
  • 379.337 — Confiscation, seizure, and forfeiture of property and products
  • 379.338 — Confiscation and disposition of illegally taken wildlife, freshwater fish, and saltwater fish
  • 379.3381 — Photographic evidence of illegally taken wildlife, freshwater fish, and saltwater fish
  • 379.339 — Seizure of illegal hunting devices; disposition; notice; forfeiture
  • 379.3395 — Seizure of illegal transportation devices; disposition; appraisal; forfeiture
  • 379.341 — Disposition of illegal fishing devices; exercise of police power
  • 379.342 — Applicability of ss. 379.339, 379.3395, 379.404, and 379.406
  • 379.343 — Rewards
  • 379.35 — Review of fees for licenses and permits; review of exemptions
  • 379.3501 — Expiration of licenses and permits
  • 379.3502 — License and permit not transferable
  • 379.3503 — False statement in application for license or permit
  • 379.3504 — Entering false information on licenses or permits
  • 379.3511 — Appointment of subagents for the sale of hunting, fishing, and trapping licenses and permits
  • 379.3512 — Competitive bidding for certain sale of licenses and permits and the issuance of authorization numbers
  • 379.352 — Recreational licenses, permits, and authorization numbers to take wild animal life, freshwater aquatic life, and marine
  • 379.353 — Recreational licenses and permits; exemptions from fees and requirements
  • 379.354 — Recreational licenses, permits, and authorization numbers; fees established
  • 379.356 — Fish pond license
  • 379.357 — Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission license program for tarpon; fees; penalties
  • 379.3581 — Hunter safety course; requirements; penalty
  • 379.3582 — Hunter safety course for juveniles
  • 379.359 — License application provision for voluntary contribution to Southeastern Guide Dogs, Inc
  • 379.361 — Licenses
  • 379.362 — Wholesale and retail saltwater products dealers; regulation
  • 379.363 — Freshwater fish dealer’s license
  • 379.364 — License required for fur and hide dealers
  • 379.365 — Stone crab; regulation
  • 379.366 — Blue crab; regulation
  • 379.367 — Spiny lobster; regulation
  • 379.3671 — Spiny lobster trap certificate program
  • 379.368 — Fees for the retrieval of spiny lobster, stone crab, blue crab, and black sea bass traps during closed season
  • 379.369 — Fees for shrimp fishing in Tampa Bay
  • 379.3711 — License fee for private game preserves and farms
  • 379.3712 — Private hunting preserve license fees; exception
  • 379.372 — Capturing, keeping, possessing, transporting, or exhibiting venomous reptiles, reptiles of concern, conditional reptiles
  • 379.373 — License fee; renewal, revocation
  • 379.374 — Bond required, amount
  • 379.3751 — Taking and possession of alligators; trapping licenses; fees
  • 379.3752 — Required tagging of alligators and hides; fees; revenues
  • 379.3761 — Exhibition or sale of wildlife; fees; classifications
  • 379.3762 — Personal possession of wildlife
  • 379.377 — Tag fees for sale of Lake Okeechobee game fish
  • 379.401 — Penalties and violations; civil penalties for noncriminal infractions; criminal penalties; suspension and forfeiture of
  • 379.4015 — Nonnative and captive wildlife penalties
  • 379.402 — Definition; possession of certain licensed traps prohibited; penalties; exceptions; consent
  • 379.404 — Illegal taking and possession of deer and wild turkey; evidence; penalty
  • 379.4041 — Illegal taking, possession, and sale of bears
  • 379.40411 — Taking of bears; use of lethal force in defense of person or certain property
  • 379.405 — Illegal molestation of or theft from freshwater fishing gear
  • 379.406 — Illegal possession or transportation of freshwater game fish in commercial quantities; penalty
  • 379.407 — Administration; rules, publications, records; penalties; injunctions
  • 379.408 — Forfeiture or denial of licenses and permits
  • 379.409 — Illegal killing, possessing, or capturing of alligators or other crocodilia or eggs; confiscation of equipment
  • 379.411 — Intentional killing or wounding of any species designated as endangered, threatened, or of special concern; penalties
  • 379.4115 — Florida or wild panther; killing prohibited; penalty
  • 379.412 — Penalties for feeding wildlife and freshwater fish
  • 379.413 — Bonefish; penalties
  • 379.414 — Additional penalties for saltwater products dealers violating records requirements
  • 379.501 — Aquatic weeds and plants; prohibitions; violations; penalties; intent
  • 379.502 — Enforcement; procedure; remedies
  • 379.503 — Civil action
  • 379.504 — Civil liability; joint and several liability
Title 380 · FL Chapter 380 (68 sections)
  • 380.012 — Short title
  • 380.021 — Purpose
  • 380.031 — Definitions
  • 380.032 — State land planning agency; powers and duties
  • 380.04 — Definition of development
  • 380.045 — Resource planning and management committees; objectives; procedures
  • 380.05 — Areas of critical state concern
  • 380.051 — Coordinated agency review; Florida Keys area
  • 380.055 — Big Cypress Area
  • 380.0551 — Green Swamp Area; designation as area of critical state concern
  • 380.0552 — Florida Keys Area; protection and designation as area of critical state concern
  • 380.0553 — Brevard Barrier Island Area; protection and designation as area of critical state concern
  • 380.0555 — Apalachicola Bay Area; protection and designation as area of critical state concern
  • 380.06 — Developments of regional impact
  • 380.061 — The Florida Quality Developments program
  • 380.0651 — Statewide guidelines, standards, and exemptions
  • 380.0655 — Expedited permitting process for marina projects reserving 10 percent or more boat slips for public use
  • 380.0657 — Expedited permitting process for economic development projects
  • 380.0661 — Legislative intent
  • 380.0662 — Definitions
  • 380.0663 — Land authority; creation, membership, expenses
  • 380.0664 — Quorum; voting; meetings
  • 380.0665 — Executive director; agents and employees
  • 380.0666 — Powers of land authority
  • 380.0667 — Advisory committee; acquisitions
  • 380.0668 — Bonds; purpose, terms, approval, limitations
  • 380.0669 — State and local government liability on bonds
  • 380.0671 — Annual report
  • 380.0672 — Conflicts of interest
  • 380.0673 — Exemption from taxes and eligibility as investment
  • 380.0674 — Corporate existence
  • 380.0675 — Inconsistent provisions of other laws superseded
  • 380.0685 — State park in area of critical state concern in county which creates land authority; surcharge on admission and overnigh
  • 380.07 — Florida Land and Water Adjudicatory Commission
  • 380.08 — Protection of landowners’ rights
  • 380.085 — Judicial review relating to permits and licenses
  • 380.093 — Resilient Florida Grant Program; comprehensive statewide flood vulnerability and sea level rise data set and assessment;
  • 380.0933 — Florida Flood Hub for Applied Research and Innovation
  • 380.0935 — Resilient Florida Trust Fund
  • 380.0937 — Public financing of construction projects within areas at risk due to sea level rise
  • 380.11 — Enforcement; procedures; remedies
  • 380.115 — Vested rights and duties; changes in statewide guidelines and standards
  • 380.12 — Rights unaffected by ch. 75-22
  • 380.20 — Short title
  • 380.205 — Definitions
  • 380.21 — Legislative intent
  • 380.22 — Lead agency authority and duties
  • 380.23 — Federal consistency
  • 380.24 — Local government participation
  • 380.25 — Previous coastal zone atlases rejected
  • 380.26 — Establishment of coastal building zone for certain counties
  • 380.27 — Coastal infrastructure policy
  • 380.276 — Beaches and coastal areas; display of uniform warning and safety flags at public beaches; placement of uniform notificat
  • 380.285 — Lighthouses; study; preservation; funding
  • 380.501 — Short title
  • 380.502 — Legislative findings and intent
  • 380.503 — Definitions
  • 380.504 — Florida Communities Trust; creation; membership; expenses
  • 380.505 — Meetings; quorum; voting
  • 380.506 — Support services
  • 380.507 — Powers of the trust
  • 380.508 — Projects; development, review, and approval
  • 380.510 — Conditions of grants and loans
  • 380.5105 — The Stan Mayfield Working Waterfronts; Florida Forever program
  • 380.512 — Annual report
  • 380.513 — Corporate existence
  • 380.514 — Inconsistent provisions of other laws superseded
  • 380.515 — Construction
Title 381 · FL Chapter 381 (160 sections)
  • 381.001 — Public health system
  • 381.0011 — Duties and powers of the Department of Health
  • 381.0012 — Enforcement authority
  • 381.0016 — County and municipal regulations and ordinances
  • 381.0018 — Application for and acceptance of gifts or grants
  • 381.0019 — Disposition of equipment and material; transfers to county health departments
  • 381.002 — Grant of title to prescriptive medical personal property to client
  • 381.0021 — Client welfare accounts
  • 381.0022 — Sharing confidential or exempt information
  • 381.003 — Communicable disease and AIDS prevention and control
  • 381.0031 — Epidemiological research; report of diseases of public health significance to department
  • 381.00315 — Public health advisories; public health emergencies; isolation and quarantines
  • 381.00316 — Discrimination by governmental and business entities based on health care choices; prohibition
  • 381.00318 — Complaints and investigations regarding mandate prohibitions; public records exemption
  • 381.00319 — Prohibition on mask mandates and vaccination and testing mandates for educational institutions
  • 381.00321 — The right of medical conscience of health care providers and health care payors
  • 381.00322 — International health organization policies
  • 381.0034 — Requirement for instruction on HIV and AIDS
  • 381.0035 — Educational course on HIV and AIDS; employees and clients of certain health care facilities
  • 381.0038 — Education; sterile needle and syringe exchange programs
  • 381.0039 — Oversight of AIDS education programs
  • 381.004 — HIV testing
  • 381.0041 — Donation and transfer of human tissue; testing requirements
  • 381.0042 — Patient care for persons with HIV infection
  • 381.0043 — Blood Donor Protection Act; blood and blood component donors; confidentiality
  • 381.0045 — Targeted outreach for pregnant women
  • 381.0046 — Statewide HIV and AIDS prevention campaign
  • 381.005 — Primary and preventive health services
  • 381.0051 — Family planning
  • 381.0052 — Dental health
  • 381.0053 — Comprehensive nutrition program
  • 381.0055 — Confidentiality and quality assurance activities
  • 381.0056 — School health services program
  • 381.0057 — Funding for school health services
  • 381.0059 — Background screening requirements for school health services personnel
  • 381.00591 — Department of Health; National Environmental Laboratory accreditation; application
  • 381.00593 — Public school volunteer health care practitioner program
  • 381.006 — Environmental health
  • 381.0061 — Administrative fines
  • 381.0062 — Supervision; private and certain public water systems
  • 381.0063 — Drinking water funds
  • 381.0064 — Continuing education program for installation and use of onsite sewage treatment and disposal systems
  • 381.0065 — Onsite sewage treatment and disposal systems; regulation
  • 381.00651 — Periodic evaluation and assessment of onsite sewage treatment and disposal systems
  • 381.00655 — Connection of existing onsite sewage treatment and disposal systems to central sewerage system; requirements
  • 381.0066 — Onsite sewage treatment and disposal systems; fees
  • 381.0067 — Corrective orders; private and certain public water systems and onsite sewage treatment and disposal systems
  • 381.0072 — Food service protection
  • 381.0075 — Regulation of body-piercing salons
  • 381.00771 — Definitions of terms used in ss. 381.00771-381.00791
  • 381.00773 — Application of ss. 381.00771-381.00791; exemption
  • 381.00775 — Tattoo artists; licensure; registration of guest tattoo artists
  • 381.00777 — Tattoo establishments; licensure; temporary establishments
  • 381.00779 — Practice requirements
  • 381.00781 — Fees; disposition
  • 381.00783 — Grounds for discipline; administrative penalties
  • 381.00785 — Criminal penalties
  • 381.00787 — Tattooing prohibited; penalty
  • 381.00789 — Rulemaking
  • 381.00791 — Local laws and ordinances
  • 381.008 — Definitions of terms used in ss. 381.008-381.00897
  • 381.0081 — Permit required to operate a migrant labor camp or residential migrant housing; penalties for unlawful establishment or
  • 381.0082 — Application for permit to operate migrant labor camp or residential migrant housing
  • 381.0083 — Permit for migrant labor camp or residential migrant housing
  • 381.0084 — Application fees for migrant labor camps and residential migrant housing
  • 381.0085 — Revocation of permit to operate migrant labor camp or residential migrant housing
  • 381.0086 — Rules; variances; penalties
  • 381.0087 — Enforcement; citations
  • 381.0088 — Right of entry
  • 381.00893 — Complaints by aggrieved parties
  • 381.00895 — Prohibited acts; application
  • 381.00896 — Nondiscrimination
  • 381.00897 — Access to migrant labor camps and residential migrant housing
  • 381.009 — Toilets required by department regulations; charge for use of prohibited
  • 381.0098 — Biomedical waste
  • 381.0101 — Environmental health professionals
  • 381.0201 — Technical and support services
  • 381.0202 — Laboratory services
  • 381.0203 — Pharmacy services
  • 381.02035 — Canadian Prescription Drug Importation Program
  • 381.0204 — Vital statistics
  • 381.0205 — Emergency medical services
  • 381.026 — Florida Patient’s Bill of Rights and Responsibilities
  • 381.0261 — Summary of patient’s bill of rights; distribution; penalty
  • 381.028 — Adverse medical incidents
  • 381.0303 — Special needs shelters
  • 381.0402 — Area health education center network
  • 381.0405 — Office of Rural Health
  • 381.0406 — Rural health networks
  • 381.04065 — Rural health network cooperative agreements
  • 381.0601 — Self-derived and directed-donor blood programs
  • 381.06014 — Blood establishments
  • 381.06015 — Public Cord Blood Tissue Bank
  • 381.06016 — Umbilical cord blood awareness
  • 381.4015 — Florida health care innovation
  • 381.4018 — Physician workforce assessment and development
  • 381.4019 — Dental Student Loan Repayment Program
  • 381.40195 — Donated Dental Services Program
  • 381.402 — Florida Reimbursement Assistance for Medical Education Program
  • 381.4021 — Student loan repayment programs reporting
  • 381.735 — Office of Minority Health and Health Equity
  • 381.7351 — Short title; Closing the Gap Act
  • 381.7352 — Legislative intent
  • 381.7353 — Reducing Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities: Closing the Gap grant program; administration; department duties
  • 381.7354 — Eligibility
  • 381.7355 — Project requirements; review criteria
  • 381.7356 — Local matching funds; grant awards
  • 381.739 — Short title; Charlie Mack Overstreet Brain or Spinal Cord Injuries Act
  • 381.7395 — Legislative intent
  • 381.74 — Establishment and maintenance of a central registry
  • 381.745 — Definitions; ss. 381.739-381.79
  • 381.75 — Duties and responsibilities of the department
  • 381.755 — Benefits not assignable
  • 381.76 — Eligibility for the brain and spinal cord injury program
  • 381.765 — Retention of title to and disposal of equipment
  • 381.775 — Applicant and recipient records; confidential and privileged
  • 381.78 — Advisory council on brain and spinal cord injuries
  • 381.785 — Recovery of third-party payments for funded services
  • 381.79 — Brain and Spinal Cord Injury Program Trust Fund
  • 381.814 — Sickle Cell Disease Research and Treatment Grant Program
  • 381.815 — Sickle-cell program
  • 381.82 — Ed and Ethel Moore Alzheimer’s Disease Research Program
  • 381.825 — Education and public awareness relating to Alzheimer’s disease and related forms of dementia
  • 381.84 — Comprehensive Statewide Tobacco Education and Use Prevention Program
  • 381.853 — Florida Center for Brain Tumor Research
  • 381.8531 — Florida Center for Brain Tumor Research; public records exemption
  • 381.86 — Institutional Review Board
  • 381.875 — Enhanced potential pandemic pathogen research prohibited
  • 381.88 — Emergency allergy treatment
  • 381.885 — Epinephrine auto-injectors; emergency administration
  • 381.887 — Emergency treatment for suspected opioid overdose
  • 381.89 — Regulation of tanning facilities
  • 381.895 — Standards for compressed air used for recreational diving
  • 381.91 — Jessie Trice Cancer Prevention Program
  • 381.911 — Prostate Cancer Awareness Program
  • 381.915 — Casey DeSantis Cancer Research Program
  • 381.922 — William G. “Bill” Bankhead, Jr., and David Coley Cancer Research Program
  • 381.92201 — Exemptions from public records and public meetings requirements; peer review panels
  • 381.925 — Cancer Center of Excellence Award
  • 381.93 — Breast and cervical cancer early detection program
  • 381.931 — Annual report on Medicaid expenditures
  • 381.9312 — Uterine fibroid research database; education and public awareness
  • 381.9315 — Gynecologic and ovarian cancer education and awareness
  • 381.932 — Breast cancer early detection and treatment referral program
  • 381.95 — Medical facility information maintained for terrorism response purposes; confidentiality
  • 381.96 — Pregnancy support and wellness services
  • 381.98 — The Florida Public Health Institute, Inc.; establishment; purpose; mission; duties; board of directors
  • 381.981 — Health awareness campaigns
  • 381.982 — Short title
  • 381.983 — Definitions
  • 381.984 — Educational programs
  • 381.985 — Screening program
  • 381.9855 — Dr. and Mrs. Alfonse and Kathleen Cinotti Health Care Screening and Services Grant Program; portal
  • 381.986 — Compassionate use of low-THC and medical cannabis
  • 381.987 — Public records exemption for personal identifying information relating to medical marijuana held by the department
  • 381.988 — Medical marijuana testing laboratories; marijuana tests conducted by a certified laboratory
  • 381.989 — Public education campaigns
  • 381.99 — Rare Disease Advisory Council
  • 381.991 — Andrew John Anderson Pediatric Rare Disease Grant Program
  • 381.992 — Type 1 diabetes early detection program
Title 382 · FL Chapter 382 (28 sections)
  • 382.001 — Short title
  • 382.002 — Definitions
  • 382.003 — Powers and duties of the department
  • 382.004 — Reproduction and destruction of records
  • 382.005 — Duties of local registrars
  • 382.006 — Burial-transit permit
  • 382.007 — Final dispositions prohibited without burial-transit permit; records of dead bodies disposed
  • 382.008 — Death, fetal death, and nonviable birth registration
  • 382.0085 — Stillbirth registration
  • 382.0086 — Certificate of nonviable birth
  • 382.009 — Recognition of brain death under certain circumstances
  • 382.011 — Medical examiner determination of cause of death
  • 382.012 — Presumptive death certificate
  • 382.013 — Birth registration
  • 382.0135 — Social security numbers; enumeration-at-birth program
  • 382.015 — New certificates of live birth; duty of clerks of court and department
  • 382.016 — Amendment of records
  • 382.017 — Foreign births
  • 382.019 — Delayed registration; administrative procedures
  • 382.0195 — Court-issued delayed birth certificate
  • 382.021 — Department to receive marriage licenses
  • 382.022 — Marriage application fees
  • 382.023 — Department to receive dissolution-of-marriage records; fees
  • 382.025 — Certified copies of vital records; confidentiality; research
  • 382.0255 — Fees
  • 382.026 — Penalties
  • 382.355 — Birth records of missing children, registrars’ duties
  • 382.356 — Protocol for sharing certain birth certificate information
Title 383 · FL Chapter 383 (57 sections)
  • 383.011 — Administration of maternal and child health programs
  • 383.013 — Prenatal care
  • 383.0131 — Pregnancy and parenting resources website
  • 383.014 — Perinatal mental health care
  • 383.015 — Breastfeeding
  • 383.016 — Breastfeeding policy for “baby-friendly” facilities providing maternity services and newborn infant care
  • 383.04 — Prophylactic required for eyes of infants
  • 383.06 — Report of inflammation or discharge in infant’s eyes
  • 383.07 — Penalty for violation
  • 383.11 — Reports
  • 383.13 — Use of information by department
  • 383.14 — Screening for metabolic disorders, other hereditary and congenital disorders, and environmental risk factors
  • 383.141 — Prenatally diagnosed conditions; patient to be provided information; definitions; information clearinghouse; advisory co
  • 383.145 — Newborn, infant, and toddler hearing screening
  • 383.146 — Infants and toddlers who are deaf or hard of hearing; notice of service providers
  • 383.147 — Sickle cell disease and sickle cell trait registry
  • 383.148 — Environmental risk screening
  • 383.15 — Legislative intent; perinatal intensive care services
  • 383.16 — Definitions; ss. 383.15-383.19
  • 383.17 — Regional perinatal intensive care centers program; authority
  • 383.18 — Contracts; conditions
  • 383.19 — Standards; funding; ineligibility
  • 383.216 — Community-based prenatal and infant health care
  • 383.2161 — Maternal and child health report
  • 383.2162 — Black infant health practice initiative
  • 383.21625 — Fetal and infant mortality review committees
  • 383.2163 — Telehealth Minority Maternity Care Program
  • 383.30 — Birth Center Licensure Act; short title
  • 383.301 — Licensure and regulation of birth centers; legislative intent
  • 383.302 — Definitions of terms used in ss. 383.30-383.332
  • 383.305 — Licensure; fees
  • 383.307 — Administration of birth center
  • 383.308 — Birth center facility and equipment; requirements
  • 383.3081 — Advanced birth center designation
  • 383.309 — Minimum standards for birth centers and advanced birth centers; rules and enforcement
  • 383.31 — Selection of clients; informed consent
  • 383.3105 — Patients consenting to adoptions; protocols
  • 383.311 — Education and orientation for birth center clients and their families
  • 383.312 — Prenatal care of birth center clients
  • 383.313 — Birth center performance of laboratory and surgical services; use of anesthetic and chemical agents
  • 383.3131 — Advanced birth center performance of laboratory and surgical services; use of anesthetic and chemical agents
  • 383.315 — Agreements with consultants for advice or services; maintenance
  • 383.316 — Transfer and transport of clients to hospitals
  • 383.318 — Postpartum care for birth center clients and infants
  • 383.32 — Clinical records
  • 383.324 — Inspections and investigations; inspection fees
  • 383.325 — Inspection reports
  • 383.327 — Birth and death records; reports
  • 383.33 — Administrative penalties; moratorium on admissions
  • 383.332 — Establishing, managing, or operating a birth center without a license; penalty
  • 383.3361 — Limitations on civil and administrative liability
  • 383.3362 — Sudden Unexpected Infant Death
  • 383.33625 — Stephanie Saboor Grieving Parents Act; disposition of fetus; notification; forms developed
  • 383.402 — Child abuse death review; State Child Abuse Death Review Committee; local child abuse death review committees
  • 383.412 — Public records and public meetings exemptions
  • 383.50 — Treatment of surrendered infant
  • 383.51 — Confidentiality; identification of parent leaving infant at hospital, emergency medical services station, or fire statio
Title 384 · FL Chapter 384 (22 sections)
  • 384.21 — Short title
  • 384.22 — Findings; intent
  • 384.23 — Definitions
  • 384.24 — Unlawful acts
  • 384.25 — Reporting required
  • 384.26 — Contact investigation
  • 384.27 — Physical examination and treatment
  • 384.28 — Hospitalization, placement, and residential isolation
  • 384.281 — Prehearing detention
  • 384.282 — Naming of parties
  • 384.283 — Service of notice and processes; sheriff to deliver person to state program
  • 384.284 — Forms to be developed
  • 384.285 — Right of appeal; immediate release
  • 384.286 — Temporary leave
  • 384.287 — Screening for sexually transmissible disease
  • 384.288 — Fees and other compensation; payment by board of county commissioners
  • 384.29 — Confidentiality
  • 384.30 — Minors’ consent to treatment
  • 384.31 — Testing of pregnant women; duty of the attendant
  • 384.32 — Prisoners
  • 384.33 — Rules
  • 384.34 — Penalties
Title 385 · FL Chapter 385 (10 sections)
  • 385.101 — Short title
  • 385.102 — Legislative intent
  • 385.103 — Community intervention programs
  • 385.202 — Statewide cancer registry
  • 385.203 — Diabetes Advisory Council; creation; function; membership
  • 385.204 — Insulin; purchase, distribution; penalty for fraudulent application for and obtaining of insulin
  • 385.206 — Hematology-oncology care center program
  • 385.207 — Care and assistance of persons with epilepsy; establishment of programs in epilepsy control
  • 385.211 — Refractory and intractable epilepsy treatment and research at recognized medical centers
  • 385.212 — Powers and duties of the Department of Health; Office of Compassionate Use
Title 386 · FL Chapter 386 (18 sections)
  • 386.01 — Sanitary nuisance
  • 386.02 — Duty of Department of Health
  • 386.03 — Notice to remove nuisances; authority of Department of Health and local health authorities
  • 386.041 — Nuisances injurious to health
  • 386.051 — Nuisances injurious to health, penalty
  • 386.201 — Short title
  • 386.202 — Legislative intent
  • 386.203 — Definitions
  • 386.204 — Prohibition
  • 386.2045 — Enclosed indoor workplaces; specific exceptions
  • 386.205 — Customs smoking rooms
  • 386.206 — Posting of signs; requiring policies
  • 386.207 — Administration; enforcement; civil penalties
  • 386.208 — Penalties
  • 386.209 — Regulation of smoking preempted to state
  • 386.211 — Public announcements in mass transportation terminals
  • 386.212 — Smoking and vaping prohibited near school property; penalty
  • 386.2125 — Rulemaking
Title 388 · FL Chapter 388 (39 sections)
  • 388.0101 — Declaration of legislative intent
  • 388.011 — Definitions
  • 388.021 — Creation of mosquito control special districts
  • 388.101 — District boards of commissioners; term of office
  • 388.111 — District boards of commissioners; vacancies
  • 388.121 — District boards of commissioners; organization
  • 388.131 — Commissioners; bond
  • 388.141 — Commissioners; compensation
  • 388.151 — District boards of commissioners; meetings
  • 388.161 — District boards of commissioners; powers and duties
  • 388.162 — Direction of the program
  • 388.171 — Power to perform work
  • 388.181 — Power to do all things necessary
  • 388.201 — Program budgets; hearing
  • 388.211 — Change in district boundaries
  • 388.221 — Tax levy
  • 388.231 — Restrictions on use, loan, or rental of equipment; charges
  • 388.241 — Board of county commissioners vested with powers and duties of board of commissioners in certain counties
  • 388.251 — Delegation of authority to county health department
  • 388.261 — State aid to counties, municipalities, and districts for arthropod control; distribution priorities and limitations
  • 388.271 — Prerequisites to participation
  • 388.281 — Use of state matching funds
  • 388.291 — Source reduction measures; supervision by department
  • 388.301 — Payment of state funds; supplies and services
  • 388.311 — Carry over of state funds and local funds
  • 388.321 — Equipment to become property of a program
  • 388.322 — Record and inventory of certain property
  • 388.323 — Disposal of surplus property
  • 388.341 — Reports of expenditures and accomplishments
  • 388.351 — Transfer of equipment, personnel, and supplies during an emergency
  • 388.361 — Department authority and rules; administration
  • 388.3711 — Enforcement
  • 388.381 — Cooperation by programs
  • 388.391 — Control measures in municipalities and portions of counties located outside boundaries of programs
  • 388.401 — Penalty for damage to property or operations
  • 388.4111 — Public lands; arthropod control
  • 388.43 — Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory
  • 388.45 — Threat to public or animal health; declarations
  • 388.46 — Florida Coordinating Council on Mosquito Control; establishment; membership; organization; responsibilities
Title 39 · FL Chapter 39 (137 sections)
  • 39.001 — Purposes and intent; personnel standards and screening
  • 39.0014 — Responsibilities of public agencies
  • 39.00145 — Records concerning children
  • 39.00146 — Case record face sheet
  • 39.0016 — Education of abused, neglected, and abandoned children; agency agreements; children having or suspected of having a disa
  • 39.01 — Definitions
  • 39.011 — Immunity from liability
  • 39.012 — Rules for implementation
  • 39.0121 — Specific rulemaking authority
  • 39.013 — Procedures and jurisdiction; right to counsel; guardian ad litem
  • 39.01304 — Early childhood court programs
  • 39.01305 — Appointment of an attorney for a dependent child with certain special needs
  • 39.0131 — Permanent mailing address and primary e-mail address designation
  • 39.0132 — Oaths, records, and confidential information
  • 39.0133 — Court and witness fees
  • 39.0134 — Appointed counsel; compensation
  • 39.0135 — Operations and Maintenance Trust Fund
  • 39.0136 — Time limitations; continuances
  • 39.0137 — Federal law; rulemaking authority
  • 39.01375 — Best interest determination for placement
  • 39.0138 — Criminal history and other records checks; limit on placement of a child
  • 39.0139 — Visitation or other contact; restrictions
  • 39.0141 — Missing children; report required
  • 39.0142 — Notifying law enforcement officers of parent or caregiver names
  • 39.0143 — Dually-involved children
  • 39.101 — Central abuse hotline
  • 39.201 — Required reports of child abuse, abandonment, or neglect, sexual abuse of a child, and juvenile sexual abuse; required r
  • 39.2015 — Critical incident rapid response team; sexual abuse report investigations
  • 39.202 — Confidentiality of reports and records in cases of child abuse or neglect; exception
  • 39.2021 — Release of confidential information
  • 39.2022 — Public disclosure of reported child deaths
  • 39.203 — Immunity from liability in cases of child abuse, abandonment, or neglect
  • 39.204 — Abrogation of privileged communications in cases involving child abuse, abandonment, or neglect
  • 39.205 — Penalties relating to reporting of child abuse, abandonment, or neglect
  • 39.206 — Administrative fines for false report of abuse, abandonment, or neglect of a child; civil damages
  • 39.208 — Cross-reporting child abuse, abandonment, or neglect and animal cruelty
  • 39.301 — Initiation of protective investigations
  • 39.302 — Protective investigations of institutional child abuse, abandonment, or neglect
  • 39.303 — Child Protection Teams and sexual abuse treatment programs; services; eligible cases
  • 39.3031 — Rules for implementation of s. 39.303
  • 39.3032 — Memorandum of agreement
  • 39.3035 — Child advocacy centers; standards; state funding
  • 39.304 — Photographs, medical examinations, X rays, and medical treatment of abused, abandoned, or neglected child
  • 39.306 — Child protective investigations; working agreements with local law enforcement
  • 39.3068 — Reports of medical neglect
  • 39.307 — Reports of child-on-child sexual abuse
  • 39.308 — Guidelines for onsite child protective investigation
  • 39.395 — Detaining a child; medical or hospital personnel
  • 39.401 — Taking a child alleged to be dependent into custody; law enforcement officers and authorized agents of the department
  • 39.4015 — Family finding
  • 39.402 — Placement in a shelter
  • 39.4021 — Priority placement for out-of-home placements
  • 39.4022 — Multidisciplinary teams; staffings; assessments; report
  • 39.40225 — Contracts for development of model placement transition plans
  • 39.4023 — Placement and education transitions; transition plans
  • 39.4024 — Placement of siblings; visitation; continuing contact
  • 39.407 — Medical, psychiatric, and psychological examination and treatment of child; physical, mental, or substance abuse examina
  • 39.4075 — Referral of a dependency case to mediation
  • 39.4085 — Goals for dependent children; responsibilities; education; Office of the Children’s Ombudsman
  • 39.4087 — Department goals and requirements relating to caregivers; dispute resolution
  • 39.4091 — Participation in childhood activities
  • 39.4092 — Multidisciplinary legal representation model program for parents of children in the dependency system
  • 39.4093 — Task Force on the Monitoring of Children in Out-of-Home Care
  • 39.501 — Petition for dependency
  • 39.502 — Notice, process, and service
  • 39.503 — Identity or location of parent unknown; special procedures
  • 39.5035 — Deceased parents; special procedures
  • 39.504 — Injunction; penalty
  • 39.505 — No answer required
  • 39.506 — Arraignment hearings
  • 39.507 — Adjudicatory hearings; orders of adjudication
  • 39.5075 — Citizenship or residency status for immigrant children who are dependents
  • 39.5085 — Relative Caregiver Program
  • 39.5086 — Kinship navigator programs
  • 39.509 — Grandparents rights
  • 39.510 — Appeal
  • 39.521 — Disposition hearings; powers of disposition
  • 39.522 — Postdisposition change of custody
  • 39.523 — Placement in out-of-home care
  • 39.524 — Safe-harbor placement
  • 39.6011 — Case plan development
  • 39.6012 — Case plan tasks; services
  • 39.6013 — Case plan amendments
  • 39.602 — Case planning when parents do not participate and the child is in out-of-home care
  • 39.6021 — Case planning when parents are incarcerated or become incarcerated
  • 39.603 — Court approvals of case planning
  • 39.6035 — Transition plan
  • 39.6036 — Supportive adults for children transitioning out of foster care
  • 39.604 — Rilya Wilson Act; short title; legislative intent; child care; early education; preschool
  • 39.621 — Permanency determination by the court
  • 39.6221 — Permanent guardianship of a dependent child
  • 39.6225 — Guardianship Assistance Program
  • 39.6231 — Permanent placement with a fit and willing relative
  • 39.6241 — Another planned permanent living arrangement
  • 39.6251 — Continuing care for young adults
  • 39.701 — Judicial review
  • 39.702 — Citizen review panels
  • 39.704 — Exemptions from judicial review
  • 39.801 — Procedures and jurisdiction; notice; service of process
  • 39.802 — Petition for termination of parental rights; filing; elements
  • 39.803 — Identity or location of parent unknown after filing of termination of parental rights petition; special procedures
  • 39.804 — Penalties for false statements of paternity
  • 39.805 — No answer required
  • 39.8055 — Requirement to file a petition to terminate parental rights; exceptions
  • 39.806 — Grounds for termination of parental rights
  • 39.807 — Right to counsel; guardian ad litem
  • 39.808 — Advisory hearing; pretrial status conference
  • 39.809 — Adjudicatory hearing
  • 39.810 — Manifest best interests of the child
  • 39.811 — Powers of disposition; order of disposition
  • 39.812 — Postdisposition relief; petition for adoption
  • 39.813 — Continuing jurisdiction
  • 39.814 — Oaths, records, and confidential information
  • 39.815 — Appeal
  • 39.8155 — Reinstatement of parental rights
  • 39.821 — Qualifications of guardians ad litem
  • 39.822 — Appointment of guardian ad litem for abused, abandoned, or neglected child
  • 39.823 — Guardian advocates for drug dependent newborns
  • 39.824 — Jurisdiction
  • 39.825 — Petition for appointment of a guardian advocate
  • 39.826 — Process and service
  • 39.827 — Hearing for appointment of a guardian advocate
  • 39.828 — Grounds for appointment of a guardian advocate
  • 39.829 — Powers and duties of guardian advocate
  • 39.8295 — Review and removal of guardian advocate
  • 39.8296 — Statewide Guardian ad Litem Office; legislative findings and intent; creation; appointment of executive director; duties
  • 39.8297 — County funding for guardian ad litem employees
  • 39.8298 — Guardian ad Litem direct-support organization
  • 39.901 — Domestic violence centers; legislative findings; requirements
  • 39.902 — Definitions
  • 39.903 — Duties and functions of the department with respect to domestic violence
  • 39.904 — Report to the Legislature on the status of domestic violence cases
  • 39.905 — Domestic violence centers
  • 39.9055 — Certified domestic violence centers; capital improvement grant program
  • 39.9057 — Unlawful disclosure of certified domestic violence center location; penalties
  • 39.906 — Referral to centers and notice of rights
  • 39.908 — Confidentiality of information received by department or domestic violence center
Title 390 · FL Chapter 390 (12 sections)
  • 390.011 — Definitions
  • 390.0111 — Termination of pregnancies
  • 390.01112 — Termination of pregnancies during viability
  • 390.01114 — Parental Notice of and Consent for Abortion Act
  • 390.01116 — Public records exemptions; minors seeking waiver of notice requirements
  • 390.01118 — Public records exemptions; minors seeking waiver of consent requirements
  • 390.0112 — Termination of pregnancies; reporting
  • 390.012 — Powers of agency; rules; disposal of fetal remains
  • 390.014 — Licenses; fees
  • 390.015 — Application for license
  • 390.018 — Administrative fine
  • 390.025 — Abortion referral or counseling agencies; penalties
Title 391 · FL Chapter 391 (14 sections)
  • 391.011 — Short title
  • 391.016 — Purposes and functions
  • 391.021 — Definitions
  • 391.025 — Applicability and scope
  • 391.026 — Powers and duties of the department
  • 391.029 — Program eligibility
  • 391.065 — Health care provider agreements
  • 391.081 — Grievance reporting and resolution requirements
  • 391.095 — Program integrity
  • 391.097 — Research and evaluation
  • 391.301 — Early Steps Program; establishment and goals
  • 391.302 — Definitions
  • 391.308 — Early Steps Program
  • 391.3081 — Early Steps Extended Option
Title 392 · FL Chapter 392 (22 sections)
  • 392.501 — Short title
  • 392.51 — Tuberculosis control
  • 392.52 — Definitions
  • 392.53 — Reporting required
  • 392.54 — Contact investigation
  • 392.545 — Naming of persons subject to proceedings
  • 392.55 — Physical examination and treatment
  • 392.56 — Hospitalization, placement, and residential isolation
  • 392.565 — Execution of certificate for involuntary hold
  • 392.57 — Emergency hold
  • 392.58 — Service of notice and processes; duties of sheriff
  • 392.59 — Forms to be developed
  • 392.60 — Right of appeal; immediate release
  • 392.61 — Community tuberculosis control programs
  • 392.62 — Hospitalization and placement programs
  • 392.63 — Temporary leave
  • 392.64 — Adherence to treatment; treatment plan; penalties
  • 392.65 — Confidentiality
  • 392.655 — Prisoners
  • 392.66 — Rules
  • 392.67 — Unlawful acts; penalties for violation
  • 392.68 — Fees and other compensation
Title 393 · FL Chapter 393 (36 sections)
  • 393.002 — Transfer of Florida Developmental Disabilities Council as formerly created in this chapter to private nonprofit corporat
  • 393.062 — Legislative findings and declaration of intent
  • 393.063 — Definitions
  • 393.064 — Care navigation
  • 393.065 — Application and eligibility determination
  • 393.0651 — Family or individual support plan
  • 393.0654 — Direct service providers; private sector services
  • 393.0655 — Screening of direct service providers
  • 393.0657 — Persons not required to be refingerprinted or rescreened
  • 393.066 — Community services and treatment
  • 393.0662 — Individual budgets for delivery of home and community-based services; iBudget system established
  • 393.0663 — Support coordination; legislative intent; qualified organizations; agency duties; due process; rulemaking
  • 393.067 — Facility licensure
  • 393.0673 — Denial, suspension, or revocation of license; moratorium on admissions; administrative fines; procedures
  • 393.0674 — Penalties
  • 393.0675 — Injunctive proceedings authorized
  • 393.0678 — Receivership proceedings
  • 393.0679 — Utilization review
  • 393.068 — Family care program
  • 393.0695 — Provision of in-home subsidies
  • 393.071 — Client fees
  • 393.075 — General liability coverage
  • 393.11 — Involuntary admission to residential services
  • 393.115 — Discharge
  • 393.12 — Capacity; appointment of guardian advocate
  • 393.122 — Applications for continued residential services
  • 393.125 — Hearing rights
  • 393.13 — Treatment of persons with developmental disabilities
  • 393.135 — Sexual misconduct prohibited; reporting required; penalties
  • 393.15 — Legislative intent; Community Resources Development Loan Program
  • 393.17 — Behavioral programs; certification of behavior analysts
  • 393.23 — Developmental disabilities centers; trust accounts
  • 393.501 — Rulemaking
  • 393.502 — Family care councils
  • 393.504 — Administration of insulin
  • 393.506 — Administration of medication
Title 394 · FL Chapter 394 (126 sections)
  • 394.451 — Short title
  • 394.453 — Legislative intent
  • 394.455 — Definitions
  • 394.457 — Operation and administration
  • 394.4572 — Screening of mental health personnel
  • 394.4573 — Coordinated system of care; annual assessment; essential elements; measures of performance; system improvement grants; r
  • 394.4574 — Responsibilities for coordination of services for a mental health resident who resides in an assisted living facility th
  • 394.4575 — Student mental health assistance program evaluation
  • 394.458 — Introduction or removal of certain articles unlawful; penalty
  • 394.459 — Rights of patients
  • 394.4593 — Sexual misconduct prohibited; reporting required; penalties
  • 394.4595 — Florida statewide and local advocacy councils; access to patients and records
  • 394.4597 — Persons to be notified; patient’s representative
  • 394.4598 — Guardian advocate
  • 394.4599 — Notice
  • 394.460 — Rights of professionals
  • 394.461 — Designation of receiving and treatment facilities and receiving systems
  • 394.4612 — Integrated adult mental health crisis stabilization and addictions receiving facilities
  • 394.4615 — Clinical records; confidentiality
  • 394.462 — Transportation
  • 394.4625 — Voluntary admissions
  • 394.463 — Involuntary examination
  • 394.464 — Court records; confidentiality
  • 394.4655 — Orders to involuntary outpatient placement
  • 394.467 — Involuntary inpatient placement and involuntary outpatient services
  • 394.46715 — Rulemaking authority
  • 394.4672 — Procedure for placement of veteran with federal agency
  • 394.468 — Admission and discharge procedures
  • 394.4685 — Transfer of patients among facilities
  • 394.469 — Discharge of involuntary patients
  • 394.473 — Attorney’s fee; expert witness fee
  • 394.475 — Acceptance, examination, and involuntary placement of Florida residents from out-of-state mental health authorities
  • 394.4781 — Residential care for psychotic and emotionally disturbed children
  • 394.4784 — Minors; access to outpatient crisis intervention services and treatment
  • 394.4785 — Children and adolescents; admission and placement in mental facilities
  • 394.4786 — Intent
  • 394.47865 — South Florida State Hospital; privatization
  • 394.4787 — Definitions; ss. 394.4786, 394.4787, 394.4788, and 394.4789
  • 394.4788 — Use of certain PMATF funds for the purchase of acute care mental health services
  • 394.4789 — Establishment of referral process and eligibility determination
  • 394.47891 — Veterans treatment court programs
  • 394.47892 — Mental health court programs
  • 394.479 — Interstate Compact on Mental Health
  • 394.480 — Compact administrator
  • 394.481 — Supplemental agreements with other states
  • 394.482 — Payment of financial obligations imposed by compact
  • 394.483 — Authorized actions by administrator
  • 394.484 — Transmission of copies of act adopting compact
  • 394.490 — Short title
  • 394.491 — Guiding principles for the child and adolescent mental health treatment and support system
  • 394.4915 — Office of Children’s Behavioral Health Ombudsman
  • 394.492 — Definitions
  • 394.493 — Target populations for child and adolescent mental health services funded through the department
  • 394.494 — General performance outcomes for the child and adolescent mental health treatment and support system
  • 394.495 — Child and adolescent mental health system of care; programs and services
  • 394.4955 — Coordinated system of care; child and adolescent mental health treatment and support
  • 394.496 — Service planning
  • 394.497 — Case management services
  • 394.499 — Integrated children’s crisis stabilization unit/juvenile addictions receiving facility services
  • 394.4995 — Conversion of specified facilities to children’s behavioral crisis units; not required
  • 394.65 — Short title
  • 394.656 — Criminal Justice, Mental Health, and Substance Abuse Reinvestment Grant Program
  • 394.657 — County planning councils or committees
  • 394.658 — Criminal Justice, Mental Health, and Substance Abuse Reinvestment Grant Program requirements
  • 394.659 — Criminal Justice, Mental Health, and Substance Abuse Technical Assistance Center
  • 394.6591 — Administrative costs and number of grants awarded
  • 394.66 — Legislative intent with respect to substance abuse and mental health services
  • 394.67 — Definitions
  • 394.674 — Eligibility for publicly funded substance abuse and mental health services; fee collection requirements
  • 394.676 — Indigent psychiatric medication program
  • 394.73 — Joint alcohol, drug abuse, and mental health service programs in two or more counties
  • 394.74 — Contracts for provision of local substance abuse and mental health programs
  • 394.741 — Accreditation requirements for providers of behavioral health care services
  • 394.75 — State and district substance abuse and mental health plans
  • 394.76 — Financing of district programs and services
  • 394.761 — Revenue maximization
  • 394.77 — Uniform management information, accounting, and reporting systems for providers
  • 394.78 — Operation and administration; personnel standards; procedures for audit and monitoring of service providers; resolution
  • 394.80 — Authorization to appropriate funds
  • 394.875 — Crisis stabilization units, residential treatment facilities, and residential treatment centers for children and adolesc
  • 394.876 — Applications
  • 394.877 — Fees
  • 394.879 — Rules; enforcement
  • 394.90 — Inspection; right of entry; records
  • 394.902 — Moratorium on admissions
  • 394.903 — Receivership proceedings
  • 394.907 — Community mental health centers; quality assurance programs
  • 394.908 — Substance abuse and mental health funding equity; distribution of appropriations
  • 394.9082 — Behavioral health managing entities
  • 394.90825 — Boards of behavioral health managing entities; conflicts of interest
  • 394.90826 — Behavioral Health Interagency Collaboration
  • 394.9084 — Florida Self-Directed Care program
  • 394.9085 — Behavioral provider liability
  • 394.9086 — Commission on Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder
  • 394.9087 — Florida Veterans’ Care Coordination Program
  • 394.9088 — 988 suicide and crisis lifeline call center
  • 394.910 — Legislative findings and intent
  • 394.911 — Legislative intent
  • 394.912 — Definitions
  • 394.9125 — State attorney; authority to refer a person for civil commitment
  • 394.913 — Notice to state attorney and multidisciplinary team of release of sexually violent predator; establishing multidisciplin
  • 394.9135 — Immediate releases from total confinement; transfer of person to department; time limitations on assessment, notificatio
  • 394.914 — Petition; contents
  • 394.915 — Determination of probable cause; hearing; evaluation; respondent taken into custody; bail
  • 394.9151 — Contract authority
  • 394.9155 — Rules of procedure and evidence
  • 394.916 — Trial; counsel and experts; indigent persons; jury
  • 394.917 — Determination; commitment procedure; mistrials; housing; counsel and costs in indigent appellate cases
  • 394.918 — Examinations; notice; court hearings for release of committed persons; burden of proof
  • 394.919 — Authorized petition for release; procedure
  • 394.920 — Petition for release
  • 394.921 — Release of records to agencies, multidisciplinary teams, and state attorney
  • 394.9215 — Right to habeas corpus
  • 394.9221 — Certified security personnel
  • 394.9223 — Use of force
  • 394.923 — Immunity from civil liability
  • 394.924 — Severability
  • 394.925 — Applicability of act
  • 394.926 — Notice to victims and others of release of persons in the custody of the department
  • 394.9265 — Introduction or removal of certain articles unlawful; penalty
  • 394.927 — Escape while in lawful custody; notice to victim; notice to the Department of Corrections and Florida Commission on Offe
  • 394.928 — Subsistence fees and costs of treatment
  • 394.929 — Program costs
  • 394.930 — Authority to adopt rules
  • 394.931 — Quarterly and annual reports
  • 394.932 — Registry of experts
Title 395 · FL Chapter 395 (79 sections)
  • 395.001 — Legislative intent
  • 395.002 — Definitions
  • 395.003 — Licensure; denial, suspension, and revocation
  • 395.004 — Application for license; fees
  • 395.0056 — Litigation notice requirement
  • 395.009 — Minimum standards for clinical laboratory test results and diagnostic X-ray results; prerequisite for issuance or renewa
  • 395.0091 — Alternate-site testing
  • 395.0161 — Licensure inspection
  • 395.0162 — Inspection reports
  • 395.0163 — Construction inspections; plan submission and approval; fees
  • 395.0185 — Rebates prohibited; penalties
  • 395.0191 — Staff membership and clinical privileges
  • 395.0192 — Duty to notify physicians
  • 395.0193 — Licensed facilities; peer review; disciplinary powers; agency or partnership with physicians
  • 395.0195 — Access of chiropractic physicians to diagnostic reports
  • 395.0197 — Internal risk management program
  • 395.1011 — Identification, segregation, and separation of biomedical waste
  • 395.1012 — Patient safety
  • 395.1021 — Treatment of sexual assault victims
  • 395.1023 — Child abuse and neglect cases; duties
  • 395.1024 — Patients consenting to adoptions; protocols
  • 395.1025 — Infectious diseases; notification
  • 395.1027 — Regional poison control centers
  • 395.1031 — Emergency medical services; communication
  • 395.1041 — Access to and ensurance of emergency services; transfers; patient rights; diversion programs; reports of controlled subs
  • 395.1042 — Fentanyl testing
  • 395.1051 — Duty to notify patients
  • 395.1052 — Patient access to primary care and specialty providers; notification
  • 395.1053 — Postpartum education
  • 395.1054 — Birthing quality improvement initiatives
  • 395.1055 — Rules and enforcement
  • 395.1056 — Plan components addressing a hospital’s response to terrorism; public records exemption; public meetings exemption
  • 395.1057 — Patients’ right to choose COVID-19 treatment alternatives
  • 395.106 — Risk pooling by certain hospitals and hospital systems
  • 395.1061 — Professional liability coverage
  • 395.1065 — Criminal and administrative penalties; moratorium
  • 395.107 — Facilities; publishing and posting schedule of charges; penalties
  • 395.10973 — Powers and duties of the agency
  • 395.2050 — Routine inquiry for organ and tissue donation; certification for procurement activities; death records review
  • 395.301 — Price transparency; itemized patient statement or bill; patient admission status notification
  • 395.3011 — Billing and collection activities
  • 395.3015 — Patient records; form and content
  • 395.302 — Patient records; penalties for alteration
  • 395.3025 — Patient and personnel records; copies; examination
  • 395.3027 — Patient immigration status data collection
  • 395.3035 — Confidentiality of hospital records and meetings
  • 395.3036 — Confidentiality of records and meetings of entities that lease public hospitals or other public health care facilities
  • 395.3037 — Definitions
  • 395.3038 — State-listed stroke centers; notification of hospitals
  • 395.30381 — Statewide stroke registry
  • 395.3039 — Advertising restrictions
  • 395.3041 — Emergency medical services providers; triage and transportation of stroke victims to a stroke center
  • 395.3042 — Statewide venous thromboembolism registry
  • 395.40 — Legislative findings and intent
  • 395.4001 — Definitions
  • 395.401 — Trauma services system plans; approval of trauma centers and pediatric trauma centers; procedures; renewal
  • 395.4015 — State regional trauma planning; trauma regions
  • 395.402 — Trauma service areas; number and location of trauma centers
  • 395.4025 — Trauma centers; selection; quality assurance; records
  • 395.403 — Reimbursement of trauma centers
  • 395.4036 — Trauma payments
  • 395.404 — Reporting of trauma data; report to National Trauma Data Bank
  • 395.4045 — Emergency medical service providers; trauma transport protocols; transport of trauma alert victims to trauma centers; in
  • 395.405 — Rulemaking
  • 395.50 — Quality assurance activities of trauma agencies
  • 395.51 — Confidentiality and quality assurance activities of trauma agencies
  • 395.602 — Rural hospitals
  • 395.603 — Rural hospital impact statement
  • 395.6061 — Rural hospital capital improvement
  • 395.607 — Rural emergency hospitals
  • 395.701 — Annual assessments on net operating revenues for inpatient and outpatient services to fund public medical assistance; ad
  • 395.7016 — Annual appropriation
  • 395.7017 — Rulemaking authority
  • 395.805 — Definitions
  • 395.806 — Designation of family practice teaching hospitals
  • 395.807 — Retention of family practice residents
  • 395.901 — Definitions; legislative findings and intent
  • 395.902 — Behavioral health teaching hospitals
  • 395.903 — Behavioral Health Teaching Hospital grant program
Title 397 · FL Chapter 397 (81 sections)
  • 397.301 — Short title
  • 397.305 — Legislative findings, intent, and purpose
  • 397.311 — Definitions
  • 397.321 — Duties of the department
  • 397.333 — Statewide Drug Policy Advisory Council
  • 397.334 — Treatment-based drug court programs
  • 397.335 — Statewide Council on Opioid Abatement
  • 397.341 — Transportation of individuals by law enforcement officers
  • 397.401 — License required; penalty; injunction; rules waivers
  • 397.4012 — Exemptions from licensure
  • 397.4014 — Licensure and regulation of government-operated substance abuse programs
  • 397.403 — License application
  • 397.407 — Licensure process; fees
  • 397.4073 — Background checks of service provider personnel
  • 397.4075 — Unlawful activities relating to personnel; penalties
  • 397.410 — Licensure requirements; minimum standards; rules
  • 397.4103 — Quality improvement programs
  • 397.4104 — Record of recovery residences used by service providers
  • 397.411 — Inspection; right of entry; classification of violations; records
  • 397.415 — Denial, suspension, and revocation; other remedies
  • 397.416 — Substance abuse treatment services; qualified professional
  • 397.417 — Peer specialists
  • 397.427 — Medication-assisted treatment service providers; rehabilitation program; needs assessment and provision of services; per
  • 397.431 — Individual responsibility for cost of substance abuse impairment services
  • 397.481 — Applicability of Community Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Services Act
  • 397.482 — Lawyer assistance programs; civil immunity
  • 397.483 — Lawyer assistance programs; presumption of good faith
  • 397.484 — Lawyer assistance programs; persons entitled to immunity
  • 397.485 — Lawyer assistance programs; information subject to privilege
  • 397.486 — Lawyer assistance programs; confidentiality of records, proceedings, and communications
  • 397.487 — Voluntary certification of recovery residences
  • 397.4871 — Recovery residence administrator certification
  • 397.4872 — Exemption from disqualification; publication
  • 397.4873 — Referrals to or from recovery residences; prohibitions; penalties
  • 397.501 — Rights of individuals
  • 397.55 — Prohibition of deceptive marketing practices
  • 397.581 — Unlawful activities relating to assessment and treatment; penalties
  • 397.601 — Voluntary admissions
  • 397.675 — Criteria for involuntary admissions, including protective custody, emergency admission, and other involuntary assessment
  • 397.6751 — Service provider responsibilities regarding involuntary admissions
  • 397.6752 — Referral of involuntarily admitted individual for voluntary treatment
  • 397.6758 — Release of individual from protective custody, emergency admission, involuntary assessment, involuntary treatment, and a
  • 397.6759 — Parental participation in treatment
  • 397.6760 — Court records; confidentiality
  • 397.677 — Protective custody; circumstances justifying
  • 397.6771 — Protective custody with consent
  • 397.6772 — Protective custody without consent
  • 397.6773 — Dispositional alternatives after protective custody
  • 397.6774 — Department to maintain lists of licensed facilities
  • 397.6775 — Immunity from liability
  • 397.679 — Emergency admission; circumstances justifying
  • 397.6791 — Emergency admission; persons who may initiate
  • 397.6793 — Professional’s certificate for emergency admission
  • 397.6795 — Transportation-assisted delivery of persons for emergency assessment
  • 397.6797 — Dispositional alternatives after emergency admission
  • 397.6798 — Alternative involuntary assessment procedure for minors
  • 397.6799 — Disposition of minor upon completion of alternative involuntary assessment
  • 397.681 — Involuntary petitions; general provisions; court jurisdiction and right to counsel
  • 397.68111 — Involuntary treatment
  • 397.68112 — Involuntary services; persons who may petition
  • 397.68141 — Contents of petition for involuntary treatment services
  • 397.68151 — Duties of court upon filing of petition for involuntary services
  • 397.6818 — Court determination
  • 397.6957 — Hearing on petition for involuntary treatment services
  • 397.697 — Court determination; effect of court order for involuntary services
  • 397.6971 — Early release from involuntary services
  • 397.6975 — Extension of involuntary treatment services period
  • 397.6977 — Disposition of individual upon completion of involuntary services
  • 397.701 — Local ordinances affecting impairment and public impairment offenses forbidden
  • 397.702 — Authorization of local ordinances for treatment of habitual abusers in licensed secure facilities
  • 397.705 — Referral of substance abuse impaired offenders to service providers
  • 397.706 — Screening, assessment, and disposition of juvenile offenders
  • 397.752 — Scope of part
  • 397.753 — Definitions
  • 397.754 — Duties and responsibilities of the Department of Corrections
  • 397.92 — Children’s substance abuse services system; goals
  • 397.95 — Children’s substance abuse services; services provided by licensed providers
  • 397.96 — Case management for complex substance abuse cases
  • 397.99 — School substance abuse prevention partnership grants
  • 397.997 — Prevention resources; Internet website
  • 397.998 — Drug-free communities support match grants
Title 399 · FL Chapter 399 (19 sections)
  • 399.001 — Short title and purpose
  • 399.01 — Definitions
  • 399.02 — General requirements
  • 399.03 — Design, installation, and alteration of conveyances
  • 399.031 — Clearance requirements between elevator doors for elevators inside a private residence
  • 399.035 — Elevator accessibility requirements for the physically handicapped
  • 399.049 — Disciplinary action
  • 399.061 — Inspections; service maintenance contracts; correction of deficiencies
  • 399.07 — Certificates of operation; fees
  • 399.10 — Enforcement of law
  • 399.105 — Administrative fines
  • 399.1061 — Elevator Safety Technical Advisory Council
  • 399.11 — Penalties
  • 399.125 — Reporting of elevator accidents; penalties
  • 399.13 — Delegation of authority to municipalities or counties
  • 399.15 — Regional emergency elevator access
  • 399.16 — Unlicensed activity; citations; prohibitions; penalties
  • 399.17 — Certified elevator inspectors; registration
  • 399.18 — Online services account
Title 40 · FL Chapter 40 (24 sections)
  • 40.001 — Chief judge; authority; duties
  • 40.01 — Qualifications of jurors
  • 40.011 — Jury lists
  • 40.013 — Persons disqualified or excused from jury service
  • 40.015 — Jury districts; counties exceeding 50,000
  • 40.02 — Selection of jury lists
  • 40.022 — Clerk to purge jury selection lists; restoration
  • 40.221 — Drawing jury venire
  • 40.225 — Jury selection plan
  • 40.23 — Summoning jurors
  • 40.231 — Jury pools
  • 40.235 — Juror accommodations
  • 40.24 — Compensation and reimbursement policy
  • 40.26 — Meals and lodging for jurors
  • 40.271 — Jury service
  • 40.29 — Payment of due-process costs; reimbursement for petitions and orders
  • 40.31 — Justice Administrative Commission may apportion appropriation
  • 40.32 — Clerks to disburse money; payments to jurors and witnesses
  • 40.33 — Deficiency
  • 40.34 — Clerks to make triplicate payroll
  • 40.355 — Accounting and payment
  • 40.361 — Applicability of laws regarding state budgeting and finances
  • 40.41 — Petit jurors; length of service
  • 40.50 — Jury duty and instructions in civil cases
Title 400 · FL Chapter 400 (178 sections)
  • 400.0060 — Definitions
  • 400.0061 — Legislative findings and intent; long-term care facilities
  • 400.0063 — Establishment of the State Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program; designation of ombudsman and legal advocate
  • 400.0065 — State Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program; duties and responsibilities
  • 400.0067 — State Long-Term Care Ombudsman Council; duties; membership
  • 400.0069 — Long-term care ombudsman districts; local long-term care ombudsman councils; duties; appointment
  • 400.0070 — Conflicts of interest
  • 400.0071 — State Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program complaint procedures
  • 400.0073 — State and local ombudsman council investigations
  • 400.0074 — Local ombudsman council onsite administrative assessments
  • 400.0075 — Complaint notification and resolution procedures
  • 400.0077 — Confidentiality
  • 400.0078 — Citizen access to State Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program services
  • 400.0079 — Immunity
  • 400.0081 — Access to facilities, residents, and records
  • 400.0083 — Interference; retaliation; penalties
  • 400.0087 — Department oversight; funding
  • 400.0089 — Complaint data reports
  • 400.0091 — Training
  • 400.011 — Purpose
  • 400.021 — Definitions
  • 400.022 — Residents’ rights
  • 400.0225 — Consumer satisfaction surveys
  • 400.023 — Civil enforcement
  • 400.0233 — Presuit notice; investigation; notification of violation of resident’s rights or alleged negligence; claims evaluation
  • 400.0234 — Availability of facility records for investigation of resident’s rights violations and defenses; penalty
  • 400.0235 — Certain provisions not applicable to actions under this part
  • 400.0236 — Statute of limitations
  • 400.0237 — Punitive damages; pleading; burden of proof
  • 400.0238 — Punitive damages; limitation
  • 400.0239 — Quality of Long-Term Care Facility Improvement Trust Fund
  • 400.024 — Failure to satisfy a judgment or settlement agreement; required notification to claimants
  • 400.0255 — Resident transfer or discharge; requirements and procedures; hearings
  • 400.051 — Homes or institutions exempt from the provisions of this part
  • 400.062 — License required; fee; disposition
  • 400.0625 — Minimum standards for clinical laboratory test results and diagnostic X-ray results
  • 400.063 — Resident protection
  • 400.071 — Application for license
  • 400.0712 — Application for inactive license
  • 400.102 — Action by agency against licensee; grounds
  • 400.111 — Disclosure of controlling interest
  • 400.118 — Quality assurance; early warning system; monitoring; rapid response teams
  • 400.1183 — Resident grievance procedures
  • 400.119 — Confidentiality of records and meetings of risk management and quality assurance committees
  • 400.121 — Denial, suspension, revocation of license; administrative fines; procedure; order to increase staffing
  • 400.126 — Receivership proceedings
  • 400.141 — Administration and management of nursing home facilities
  • 400.1413 — Volunteers in nursing homes
  • 400.1415 — Patient records; penalties for alteration
  • 400.142 — Emergency medication kits; orders not to resuscitate
  • 400.143 — Institutional formularies established by nursing home facilities
  • 400.145 — Copies of records of care and treatment of resident
  • 400.147 — Internal risk management and quality assurance program
  • 400.148 — Medicaid “Up-or-Out” Quality of Care Contract Management Program
  • 400.151 — Contracts
  • 400.162 — Property and personal affairs of residents
  • 400.165 — Itemized resident billing, form and content prescribed by the agency
  • 400.17 — Bribes, kickbacks, certain solicitations prohibited
  • 400.172 — Respite care provided in nursing home facilities
  • 400.175 — Patients with Alzheimer’s disease or other related disorders; certain disclosures
  • 400.1755 — Care for persons with Alzheimer’s disease or related disorders; staff training requirements
  • 400.176 — Rebates prohibited; penalties
  • 400.179 — Liability for Medicaid underpayments and overpayments
  • 400.18 — Closing of nursing facility
  • 400.19 — Right of entry and inspection
  • 400.191 — Availability, distribution, and posting of reports and records
  • 400.20 — Licensed nursing home administrator required
  • 400.211 — Persons employed as nursing assistants; certification requirement; qualified medication aide designation and requirement
  • 400.215 — Personnel screening requirement
  • 400.23 — Rules; evaluation and deficiencies; licensure status
  • 400.232 — Review and approval of plans; fees and costs
  • 400.235 — Nursing home quality and licensure status; Gold Seal Program
  • 400.241 — Prohibited acts; penalties for violations
  • 400.25 — Educational program authorized
  • 400.275 — Agency duties
  • 400.33 — Legislative intent; community-based care for the elderly
  • 400.332 — Funds received not revenues for purpose of Medicaid program
  • 400.334 — Activity relating to unions by nursing home employees
  • 400.461 — Short title; purpose
  • 400.462 — Definitions
  • 400.464 — Home health agencies to be licensed; expiration of license; exemptions; unlawful acts; penalties
  • 400.471 — Application for license; fee
  • 400.474 — Administrative penalties
  • 400.476 — Staffing requirements; notifications; limitations on staffing services
  • 400.4765 — Home health aide for medically fragile children program
  • 400.4785 — Patients with Alzheimer’s disease or other related disorders; staff training requirements; certain disclosures
  • 400.484 — Right of inspection; violations; fines
  • 400.487 — Home health service agreements; physician’s, physician assistant’s, and advanced practice registered nurse’s treat
  • 400.488 — Assistance with self-administration of medication and with other tasks
  • 400.489 — Administration of medication by a home health aide or home health aide for medically fragile children; staff training re
  • 400.490 — Nurse-delegated tasks
  • 400.491 — Clinical records
  • 400.492 — Provision of services during an emergency
  • 400.494 — Information about patients confidential
  • 400.497 — Rules establishing minimum standards
  • 400.506 — Licensure of nurse registries; requirements; penalties
  • 400.509 — Registration of particular service providers exempt from licensure; certificate of registration; regulation of registran
  • 400.51 — Patients with Alzheimer’s disease or other related disorders; staff training requirements
  • 400.512 — Screening of home health agency personnel; nurse registry personnel and contractors; and companions and homemakers
  • 400.518 — Prohibited referrals to home health agencies
  • 400.5185 — Review and modification of prior authorization
  • 400.52 — Excellence in Home Health Program
  • 400.54 — Annual assessment of the home health aide for medically fragile children program
  • 400.6005 — Legislative findings and intent
  • 400.601 — Definitions
  • 400.602 — Licensure required; prohibited acts; exemptions; display, transferability of license
  • 400.6045 — Patients with Alzheimer’s disease or other related disorders; staff training requirements; certain disclosures
  • 400.605 — Administration; forms; fees; rules; inspections; fines
  • 400.60501 — Outcome measures; adoption of federal quality measures; public reporting
  • 400.6051 — Construction and renovation; requirements
  • 400.606 — License; application; renewal; conditional license or permit; certificate of need
  • 400.6065 — Background screening
  • 400.607 — Denial, suspension, revocation of license; emergency actions; imposition of administrative fine; grounds
  • 400.6085 — Contractual services
  • 400.609 — Hospice services
  • 400.6095 — Patient admission; assessment; plan of care; discharge; death
  • 400.6096 — Disposal of prescribed controlled substances following the death of a patient in the home
  • 400.610 — Administration and management of a hospice
  • 400.6105 — Staffing and personnel
  • 400.611 — Interdisciplinary records of care; confidentiality; release of records
  • 400.701 — Intermediate care facilities; intent
  • 400.801 — Homes for special services
  • 400.901 — Legislative intent
  • 400.902 — Definitions
  • 400.903 — PPEC centers to be licensed; exemptions
  • 400.905 — License required; fee; exemption
  • 400.906 — Initial application for license; zoning
  • 400.9065 — Background screening
  • 400.907 — Denial, suspension, revocation of licensure; administrative fines; grounds
  • 400.908 — Administrative fines; disposition of fees and fines
  • 400.912 — Closing of a PPEC center
  • 400.914 — Rules establishing standards
  • 400.915 — Construction and renovation; requirements
  • 400.916 — Prohibited acts; penalty for violation
  • 400.92 — Legislative intent
  • 400.925 — Definitions
  • 400.93 — Licensure required; exemptions; unlawful acts; penalties
  • 400.931 — Application for license; fee
  • 400.932 — Administrative penalties
  • 400.933 — Licensure inspections and investigations
  • 400.934 — Minimum standards
  • 400.935 — Rules establishing minimum standards
  • 400.94 — Patient records
  • 400.945 — Public records exemption
  • 400.953 — Background screening of home medical equipment provider personnel
  • 400.957 — Prohibited acts
  • 400.960 — Definitions
  • 400.962 — License required; license application
  • 400.964 — Personnel screening requirement
  • 400.966 — Receivership proceedings
  • 400.967 — Rules and classification of deficiencies
  • 400.968 — Right of entry
  • 400.9685 — Administration of medication
  • 400.969 — Violation of part; penalties
  • 400.980 — Health care services pools
  • 400.990 — Short title; legislative findings
  • 400.9905 — Definitions
  • 400.991 — License requirements; background screenings; prohibitions
  • 400.9915 — Emergency suspension; costs
  • 400.9925 — Rulemaking authority; license fees
  • 400.9935 — Clinic responsibilities
  • 400.995 — Agency administrative penalties
  • 400.997 — Legislative intent
  • 400.9971 — Definitions
  • 400.9972 — License required; fee; application
  • 400.9973 — Client admission, transfer, and discharge
  • 400.9974 — Client comprehensive treatment plans; client services
  • 400.9975 — Licensee responsibilities
  • 400.9976 — Administration of medication
  • 400.9977 — Assistance with medication
  • 400.9978 — Protection of clients from abuse, neglect, mistreatment, and exploitation
  • 400.9979 — Restraint and seclusion; client safety
  • 400.998 — Personnel background screening; administration and management procedures
  • 400.9981 — Property and personal affairs of clients
  • 400.9982 — Rules establishing standards
  • 400.9983 — Violations; penalties
  • 400.9984 — Receivership proceedings
  • 400.9985 — Interagency communication
Title 401 · FL Chapter 401 (53 sections)
  • 401.013 — Legislative intent
  • 401.015 — Statewide regional emergency medical telecommunication system
  • 401.018 — System coordination
  • 401.021 — System director
  • 401.024 — System approval
  • 401.027 — Federal assistance
  • 401.101 — Short title
  • 401.104 — Legislative intent
  • 401.107 — Definitions
  • 401.111 — Emergency medical services grant program; authority
  • 401.113 — Department; powers and duties
  • 401.117 — Grant agreements; conditions
  • 401.121 — Rules and regulations
  • 401.2101 — Short title
  • 401.211 — Legislative intent
  • 401.23 — Definitions
  • 401.24 — Emergency medical services state plan
  • 401.243 — Injury prevention
  • 401.245 — Emergency Medical Services Advisory Council
  • 401.25 — Licensure as a basic life support or an advanced life support service
  • 401.251 — Air ambulance service; licensure
  • 401.252 — Interfacility transfer
  • 401.253 — Reporting of controlled substance overdoses
  • 401.254 — Treatment of injured police canines
  • 401.26 — Vehicle permits for basic life support and advanced life support services
  • 401.265 — Medical directors
  • 401.268 — Protocols with regional poison control centers
  • 401.27 — Personnel; standards and certification
  • 401.2701 — Emergency medical services training programs
  • 401.271 — Certification of emergency medical technicians and paramedics who are on active duty with the Armed Forces of the United
  • 401.2715 — Recertification training of emergency medical technicians and paramedics
  • 401.272 — Emergency medical services community health care
  • 401.273 — Emergency medical technician and paramedic registry for disasters and emergencies
  • 401.281 — Drivers
  • 401.2915 — Automated external defibrillators
  • 401.2916 — Educational campaign
  • 401.30 — Records
  • 401.31 — Inspection and examination
  • 401.321 — Transferability of license; effect of sale, transfer, assignment, or lease of service
  • 401.33 — Exemptions
  • 401.34 — Fees
  • 401.345 — Emergency Medical Services Trust Fund
  • 401.35 — Rules
  • 401.38 — Participation in federal programs
  • 401.41 — Penalties
  • 401.411 — Disciplinary action; penalties
  • 401.414 — Complaint investigation procedures
  • 401.421 — Injunctive relief; cease and desist notice; civil penalty; enforcement
  • 401.425 — Emergency medical services quality assurance; immunity from liability
  • 401.435 — Emergency medical responder agencies and training
  • 401.445 — Emergency examination and treatment of incapacitated persons
  • 401.45 — Denial of emergency treatment; civil liability
  • 401.465 — 911 public safety telecommunicator certification
Title 402 · FL Chapter 402 (75 sections)
  • 402.04 — Award of scholarships and stipends; disbursement of funds; administration
  • 402.05 — Requisites for holding scholarship and stipend
  • 402.06 — Notes required of scholarship holders
  • 402.07 — Payment of notes
  • 402.115 — Sharing confidential or exempt information
  • 402.12 — National Community Mental Health Centers Act
  • 402.16 — Proceedings by department
  • 402.161 — Authorization for sale of property
  • 402.164 — Legislative intent; definitions
  • 402.165 — Florida Statewide Advocacy Council; confidential records and meetings
  • 402.166 — Florida local advocacy councils; confidential records and meetings
  • 402.167 — Duties of state agencies that provide client services relating to the Florida Statewide Advocacy Council and the Florida
  • 402.17 — Claims for care and maintenance; trust property
  • 402.18 — Welfare trust funds; creation, use
  • 402.181 — State Institutions Claims Program
  • 402.185 — Productivity enhancing technology
  • 402.19 — Photographing records; destruction of records; effect as evidence
  • 402.20 — County contracts authorized for services and facilities for mental health and developmental disabilities
  • 402.22 — Education program for students who reside in residential care facilities operated by the Department of Children and Fami
  • 402.24 — Recovery of third-party payments for medical services
  • 402.26 — Child care; legislative intent
  • 402.261 — Child care tax credits
  • 402.301 — Child care facilities; legislative intent and declaration of purpose and policy
  • 402.302 — Definitions
  • 402.3025 — Public and nonpublic schools
  • 402.3026 — Full-service schools
  • 402.305 — Licensing standards; child care facilities
  • 402.30501 — Modification of introductory child care course for community college credit authorized
  • 402.3054 — Child enrichment service providers
  • 402.3055 — Child care personnel requirements
  • 402.306 — Designation of licensing agency; dissemination by the department and local licensing agency of information on child care
  • 402.307 — Approval of licensing agency
  • 402.308 — Issuance of license
  • 402.309 — Provisional license or registration
  • 402.310 — Disciplinary actions; hearings upon denial, suspension, or revocation of license or registration; administrative fines
  • 402.311 — Inspection
  • 402.3115 — Elimination of duplicative and unnecessary inspections; abbreviated inspections
  • 402.312 — License required; injunctive relief
  • 402.3125 — Display and appearance of license; posting of violations; information to be provided to parents
  • 402.313 — Family day care homes
  • 402.3131 — Large family child care homes
  • 402.314 — Supportive services
  • 402.315 — Funding; license fees
  • 402.316 — Exemptions
  • 402.317 — Prolonged child care
  • 402.318 — Advertisement
  • 402.319 — Penalties
  • 402.33 — Department authority to charge fees for services provided
  • 402.34 — Body corporate
  • 402.35 — Employees
  • 402.40 — Child welfare training and certification
  • 402.402 — Child protection and child welfare personnel; attorneys employed by the department
  • 402.403 — Child Protection and Child Welfare Personnel Tuition Exemption Program
  • 402.404 — Child Protection and Child Welfare Personnel Student Loan Forgiveness Program
  • 402.41 — Educational materials and training concerning HIV infections and AIDS
  • 402.47 — Foster grandparent and retired senior volunteer services to high-risk and handicapped children
  • 402.49 — Mediation process established
  • 402.56 — Children’s cabinet; organization; responsibilities; annual report
  • 402.57 — Direct-support organization
  • 402.62 — Strong Families Tax Credit
  • 402.63 — Home Away From Home Tax Credit
  • 402.70 — Interagency agreement between Department of Health and Department of Children and Families
  • 402.71 — Transfer of funds, positions, and budget authority within department
  • 402.715 — Office of Quality
  • 402.73 — Contracting and performance standards
  • 402.7305 — Department of Children and Families; procurement of contractual services; contract management
  • 402.7306 — Administrative monitoring of child welfare providers, and administrative, licensure, and programmatic monitoring of ment
  • 402.731 — Department of Children and Families certification programs for employees and service providers; employment provisions fo
  • 402.80 — Office of Community Partners
  • 402.81 — Pharmaceutical expense assistance
  • 402.82 — Electronic benefits transfer program
  • 402.86 — Rulemaking authority for refugee assistance program
  • 402.87 — Services to immigrant survivors of human trafficking, domestic violence, and other serious crimes
  • 402.88 — Persons with Disabilities Registry; public records exemption
  • 402.881 — Adult safe houses
Title 403 · FL Chapter 403 (336 sections)
  • 403.011 — Short title
  • 403.021 — Legislative declaration; public policy
  • 403.031 — Definitions
  • 403.051 — Meetings; hearings and procedure
  • 403.061 — Department; powers and duties
  • 403.0611 — Alternative methods of regulatory permitting; department duties
  • 403.0615 — Water resources restoration and preservation
  • 403.0616 — Real-time water quality monitoring program
  • 403.0617 — Innovative nutrient and sediment reduction and conservation pilot project program
  • 403.062 — Pollution control; underground, surface, and coastal waters
  • 403.0623 — Environmental data; quality assurance
  • 403.0625 — Environmental laboratory certification; water quality tests conducted by a certified laboratory
  • 403.063 — Groundwater quality monitoring
  • 403.064 — Reuse of reclaimed water
  • 403.0643 — Applicability of rules when reclaimed water is injected into specified receiving groundwater
  • 403.0645 — Reclaimed water use at state facilities
  • 403.067 — Establishment and implementation of total maximum daily loads
  • 403.0671 — Basin management action plan wastewater reports
  • 403.0673 — Water quality improvement grant program
  • 403.0674 — Biosolids grant program
  • 403.0675 — Progress reports
  • 403.072 — Pollution Prevention Act
  • 403.073 — Pollution prevention; state goal; agency programs; public education
  • 403.074 — Technical assistance by the department
  • 403.0741 — Grease waste removal and disposal
  • 403.075 — Legislative findings
  • 403.0752 — Ecosystem management agreements
  • 403.076 — Short title
  • 403.077 — Public notification of pollution
  • 403.078 — Effect on other law
  • 403.081 — Performance by other state agencies
  • 403.085 — Sanitary sewage disposal units; advanced and secondary waste treatment; industrial waste treatment
  • 403.0855 — Biosolids management
  • 403.086 — Sewage disposal facilities; advanced and secondary waste treatment
  • 403.08601 — Leah Schad Memorial Ocean Outfall Program
  • 403.0862 — Discharge of waste from state groundwater cleanup operations to publicly owned treatment works
  • 403.087 — Permits; general issuance; denial; revocation; prohibition; penalty
  • 403.0871 — Florida Permit Fee Trust Fund
  • 403.0872 — Operation permits for major sources of air pollution; annual operation license fee
  • 403.0873 — Florida Air-Operation License Fee Account
  • 403.08735 — Air emissions trading
  • 403.0874 — Air Pollution Control Trust Fund
  • 403.0875 — Citation of rule
  • 403.0876 — Permits; processing
  • 403.0877 — Certification by professionals regulated by the Department of Business and Professional Regulation
  • 403.088 — Water pollution operation permits; conditions
  • 403.0881 — Wastewater or reuse or disposal systems or water treatment works; construction permits
  • 403.0882 — Discharge of demineralization concentrate
  • 403.0885 — Establishment of federally approved state National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Program
  • 403.08852 — Clarification of requirements under rule 62-302.520(2), F.A.C
  • 403.0891 — State, regional, and local stormwater management plans and programs
  • 403.0893 — Stormwater funding; dedicated funds for stormwater management
  • 403.0896 — Training and assistance for stormwater management system personnel
  • 403.091 — Inspections
  • 403.092 — Package sewage treatment facilities; inspection
  • 403.111 — Confidential records
  • 403.121 — Enforcement; procedure; remedies
  • 403.131 — Injunctive relief, remedies
  • 403.135 — Persons who accept wastewater for spray irrigation; civil liability
  • 403.141 — Civil liability; joint and several liability
  • 403.151 — Compliance with rules or orders of department
  • 403.161 — Prohibitions, violation, penalty, intent
  • 403.1655 — Environmental short-term emergency response program
  • 403.1815 — Construction of water distribution mains and sewage collection and transmission systems; local regulation
  • 403.182 — Local pollution control programs
  • 403.1832 — Grants and Donations Trust Fund
  • 403.1834 — State bonds to finance or refinance facilities; exemption from taxation
  • 403.1835 — Water pollution control financial assistance
  • 403.1837 — Florida Water Pollution Control Financing Corporation
  • 403.1838 — Small Community Sewer Construction Assistance Act
  • 403.191 — Construction in relation to other law
  • 403.201 — Variances
  • 403.231 — Department of Legal Affairs to represent the state
  • 403.251 — Safety clause
  • 403.411 — Geoengineering and weather modification activities prohibited; penalty
  • 403.4115 — Reporting on geoengineering and weather modification activities on public infrastructure; penalty
  • 403.412 — Environmental Protection Act
  • 403.413 — Florida Litter Law
  • 403.4131 — Litter control
  • 403.41315 — Comprehensive illegal dumping, litter, and marine debris control and prevention
  • 403.4132 — Litter pickup and removal
  • 403.4133 — Adopt-a-Shore Program
  • 403.4135 — Litter receptacles
  • 403.414 — Environmental award program
  • 403.415 — Motor vehicle noise
  • 403.4151 — Exempt motor vehicles
  • 403.4153 — Federal preemption
  • 403.4154 — Phosphogypsum management program
  • 403.4155 — Phosphogypsum management; rulemaking authority
  • 403.501 — Short title
  • 403.502 — Legislative intent
  • 403.503 — Definitions relating to Florida Electrical Power Plant Siting Act
  • 403.504 — Department of Environmental Protection; powers and duties enumerated
  • 403.5055 — Application for permits pursuant to s. 403.0885
  • 403.506 — Applicability, thresholds, and certification
  • 403.5063 — Notice of intent to file application
  • 403.5064 — Application; schedules
  • 403.5065 — Appointment of administrative law judge; powers and duties
  • 403.5066 — Determination of completeness
  • 403.50663 — Informational public meetings
  • 403.50665 — Land use consistency
  • 403.507 — Preliminary statements of issues, reports, project analyses, and studies
  • 403.508 — Land use and certification hearings, parties, participants
  • 403.509 — Final disposition of application
  • 403.5095 — Alteration of time limits
  • 403.510 — Superseded laws, regulations, and certification power
  • 403.511 — Effect of certification
  • 403.5112 — Filing of notice of certified corridor route
  • 403.5113 — Postcertification amendments and review
  • 403.5115 — Public notice
  • 403.5116 — County and municipal authority unaffected by ch. 75-22
  • 403.512 — Revocation or suspension of certification
  • 403.513 — Review
  • 403.514 — Enforcement of compliance
  • 403.515 — Availability of information
  • 403.516 — Modification of certification
  • 403.517 — Supplemental applications for sites certified for ultimate site capacity
  • 403.5175 — Existing electrical power plant site certification
  • 403.518 — Fees; disposition
  • 403.5185 — Law applicable to applications processed under ss. 403.501-403.518
  • 403.519 — Exclusive forum for determination of need
  • 403.52 — Short title
  • 403.521 — Legislative intent
  • 403.522 — Definitions relating to the Florida Electric Transmission Line Siting Act
  • 403.523 — Department of Environmental Protection; powers and duties
  • 403.524 — Applicability; certification; exemptions
  • 403.525 — Administrative law judge; appointment; powers and duties
  • 403.5251 — Application; schedules
  • 403.5252 — Determination of completeness
  • 403.526 — Preliminary statements of issues, reports, and project analyses; studies
  • 403.527 — Certification hearing, parties, participants
  • 403.5271 — Alternate corridors
  • 403.5272 — Informational public meetings
  • 403.5275 — Amendment to the application
  • 403.528 — Alteration of time limits
  • 403.529 — Final disposition of application
  • 403.531 — Effect of certification
  • 403.5312 — Filing of notice of certified corridor route
  • 403.5315 — Modification of certification
  • 403.5317 — Postcertification activities
  • 403.532 — Revocation or suspension of certification
  • 403.533 — Enforcement of compliance
  • 403.536 — Superseded laws, regulations, and certification power
  • 403.5363 — Public notices; requirements
  • 403.5365 — Fees; disposition
  • 403.537 — Determination of need for transmission line; powers and duties
  • 403.539 — Certification admissible in eminent domain proceedings; attorney’s fees and costs
  • 403.60 — Environmental Control Compact; execution authorized
  • 403.702 — Legislative findings; public purpose
  • 403.703 — Definitions
  • 403.7031 — Limitations on definitions adopted by local ordinance
  • 403.7032 — Recycling
  • 403.7033 — Departmental analysis of particular recyclable materials
  • 403.704 — Powers and duties of the department
  • 403.7043 — Compost standards and applications
  • 403.7045 — Application of act and integration with other acts
  • 403.7046 — Regulation of recovered materials
  • 403.7047 — Regulation of fossil fuel combustion products
  • 403.7049 — Determination of full cost for solid waste management; local solid waste management fees
  • 403.705 — State solid waste management program
  • 403.7055 — Methane capture
  • 403.706 — Local government solid waste responsibilities
  • 403.70605 — Solid waste collection services in competition with private companies
  • 403.7061 — Requirements for review of new waste-to-energy facility capacity by the Department of Environmental Protection
  • 403.70611 — Requirements relating to solid waste disposal facility permitting
  • 403.7063 — Use of private services in solid waste management
  • 403.7065 — Procurement of products or materials with recycled content
  • 403.707 — Permits
  • 403.7071 — Management of storm-generated debris
  • 403.70715 — Research, development, and demonstration permits
  • 403.7072 — Citation of rule
  • 403.708 — Prohibition; penalty
  • 403.709 — Solid Waste Management Trust Fund; use of waste tire fees
  • 403.7095 — Solid waste management grant program
  • 403.712 — Revenue bonds
  • 403.7125 — Financial assurance
  • 403.713 — Ownership and control of solid waste and recovered materials
  • 403.714 — Duties of state agencies
  • 403.7145 — Recycling
  • 403.715 — Certification of resource recovery or recycling equipment
  • 403.716 — Training of operators of solid waste management and other facilities
  • 403.717 — Waste tire and lead-acid battery requirements
  • 403.718 — Waste tire fees
  • 403.7185 — Lead-acid battery fees
  • 403.71851 — Electronic recycling grants
  • 403.71852 — Collection of lead-containing products
  • 403.7186 — Environmentally sound management of mercury-containing devices and lamps
  • 403.7191 — Toxics in packaging
  • 403.7192 — Batteries; requirements for consumer, manufacturers, and sellers; penalties
  • 403.7193 — Environmental representations
  • 403.72 — Identification, listing, and notification
  • 403.721 — Standards, requirements, and procedures for generators and transporters of hazardous waste and owners and operators of h
  • 403.7211 — Hazardous waste facilities managing hazardous wastes generated offsite; federal facilities managing hazardous waste
  • 403.7215 — Tax on gross receipts of commercial hazardous waste facilities
  • 403.722 — Permits; hazardous waste disposal, storage, and treatment facilities
  • 403.7222 — Prohibition of hazardous waste landfills
  • 403.7223 — Waste elimination and reduction assistance program
  • 403.7225 — Local hazardous waste management assessments
  • 403.7226 — Technical assistance by the department
  • 403.723 — Siting of hazardous waste facilities
  • 403.7234 — Small quantity generator notification and verification program
  • 403.7236 — Local government information to be sent to the department
  • 403.7238 — Expanded local hazardous waste management programs
  • 403.724 — Financial responsibility
  • 403.7255 — Placement of signs
  • 403.726 — Abatement of imminent hazard caused by hazardous substance
  • 403.7264 — Amnesty days for purging small quantities of hazardous wastes
  • 403.7265 — Local hazardous waste collection program
  • 403.727 — Violations; defenses, penalties, and remedies
  • 403.728 — Qualifications of operation personnel of hazardous waste facilities
  • 403.74 — Management of hazardous materials by governmental agencies
  • 403.75 — Definitions relating to used oil
  • 403.751 — Prohibited actions; used oil
  • 403.753 — Public educational program about collection and recycling of used oil
  • 403.7531 — Notice by retail dealer
  • 403.754 — Registration of persons transporting, processing, burning, or marketing used oil; fees; reports and records
  • 403.7545 — Regulation of used oil as hazardous waste
  • 403.757 — Coordination with other state agencies
  • 403.758 — Enforcement and penalty
  • 403.759 — Disposition of fees, fines, and penalties
  • 403.760 — Public used oil collection centers
  • 403.761 — Incentives program
  • 403.763 — Grants to local governments
  • 403.767 — Certification of used oil transporters
  • 403.769 — Permits for used oil processing and rerefining facilities
  • 403.7721 — Rule of construction; chs. 85-269 and 85-277
  • 403.801 — Short title
  • 403.802 — Declaration of policy
  • 403.803 — Definitions
  • 403.804 — Environmental Regulation Commission; powers and duties
  • 403.805 — Secretary; powers and duties; review of specified rules
  • 403.8051 — Small Business Air Pollution Compliance Advisory Council; members; duties
  • 403.8052 — Small Business Stationary Air Pollution Source Technical and Environmental Compliance Assistance Program
  • 403.8055 — Department adoption of federal standards
  • 403.809 — Environmental districts; establishment; managers; functions
  • 403.811 — Dredge and fill permits issued pursuant to this chapter and s. 373.414
  • 403.812 — Dredge and fill permitting in stormwater management systems
  • 403.813 — Permits issued at district centers; exceptions
  • 403.8135 — Citation of rule
  • 403.814 — General permits; delegation
  • 403.8141 — Special event permits
  • 403.815 — Public notice; waiver of hearings
  • 403.816 — Permits for maintenance dredging of deepwater ports and beach restoration projects
  • 403.8163 — Sites for disposal of spoil from maintenance dredge operations; selection
  • 403.850 — Short title
  • 403.851 — Declaration of policy; intent
  • 403.852 — Definitions; ss. 403.850-403.864
  • 403.853 — Drinking water standards
  • 403.8532 — Drinking water state revolving loan fund; use; rules
  • 403.8533 — Drinking Water Revolving Loan Trust Fund
  • 403.8535 — Citation of rule
  • 403.854 — Variances, exemptions, and waivers
  • 403.855 — Imminent hazards
  • 403.856 — Plan for emergency provision of water
  • 403.857 — Notification of users and regulatory agencies
  • 403.858 — Inspections
  • 403.859 — Prohibited acts
  • 403.860 — Penalties and remedies
  • 403.861 — Department; powers and duties
  • 403.8615 — Determination of capability and capacity development
  • 403.862 — Department of Health; public water supply duties and responsibilities; coordinated budget requests with department
  • 403.863 — State public water supply laboratory certification program
  • 403.8635 — State drinking water sample laboratory certification program
  • 403.864 — Public water supply accounting program
  • 403.8645 — Intended Use Plan
  • 403.865 — Water and wastewater facility personnel; legislative purpose
  • 403.866 — Definitions; ss. 403.865-403.876
  • 403.867 — License required
  • 403.868 — Requirements by a utility
  • 403.869 — Authority to adopt rules
  • 403.871 — Fees
  • 403.872 — Requirements for licensure
  • 403.8721 — Requirements for licensure by reciprocity
  • 403.873 — Renewal of license
  • 403.874 — Inactive status
  • 403.875 — Prohibitions; penalties
  • 403.876 — Grounds for disciplinary action
  • 403.88 — Classification of water and wastewater treatment facilities and facility operators
  • 403.885 — Water Projects Grant Program
  • 403.890 — Water Protection and Sustainability Program
  • 403.891 — Water Protection and Sustainability Program Trust Fund of the Department of Environmental Protection
  • 403.892 — Incentives for the use of graywater technologies
  • 403.90 — Judicial review relating to permits and licenses
  • 403.905 — Removal of fill on sovereignty lands
  • 403.927 — Use of water in farming and forestry activities
  • 403.928 — Assessment of water resources and conservation lands
  • 403.9301 — Wastewater services projections
  • 403.9302 — Stormwater management projections
  • 403.9321 — Short title
  • 403.9322 — Legislative findings
  • 403.9323 — Legislative intent
  • 403.9324 — Mangrove protection rule; delegation of mangrove protection to local governments
  • 403.9325 — Definitions
  • 403.9326 — Exemptions
  • 403.9327 — General permits
  • 403.93271 — Applicability to multifamily residential units
  • 403.9328 — Alteration and trimming of mangroves; permit requirement
  • 403.9329 — Professional mangrove trimmers
  • 403.9331 — Applicability; rules and policies
  • 403.9332 — Mitigation and enforcement
  • 403.9333 — Variance relief
  • 403.9334 — Effect of ch. 96-206
  • 403.93344 — Seagrass Restoration Technology Development Initiative; Initiative Technology Advisory Council
  • 403.93345 — Coral reef protection
  • 403.9335 — Short title
  • 403.9336 — Legislative findings
  • 403.9337 — Model Ordinance for Florida-Friendly Fertilizer Use on Urban Landscapes
  • 403.9338 — Training
  • 403.9339 — Golf course best management practices certification
  • 403.9401 — Short title
  • 403.9402 — Legislative intent
  • 403.9403 — Definitions
  • 403.9404 — Department of Environmental Protection; powers and duties
  • 403.9405 — Applicability; certification; exemption; notice of intent
  • 403.94055 — Application contents; corridor requirements
  • 403.9406 — Appointment of an administrative law judge
  • 403.9407 — Distribution of application; schedules
  • 403.9408 — Determination of completeness
  • 403.9409 — Determination of sufficiency
  • 403.941 — Preliminary statements of issues, reports, and studies
  • 403.9411 — Notice; proceedings; parties and participants
  • 403.9412 — Alternate corridors
  • 403.9413 — Amendment to the application
  • 403.9414 — Alteration of time limits
  • 403.9415 — Final disposition of application
  • 403.9416 — Effect of certification
  • 403.9417 — Recording of notice of certified corridor route
  • 403.9418 — Modification of certification
  • 403.9419 — Enforcement of compliance
  • 403.942 — Superseded laws, regulations, and certification power
  • 403.9421 — Fees; disposition
  • 403.9422 — Determination of need for natural gas transmission pipeline; powers and duties
  • 403.9423 — Certification admissible in eminent domain proceedings; attorney’s fees and costs
  • 403.9424 — Local governments; informational public meetings
  • 403.9425 — Revocation or suspension of certification
  • 403.973 — Expedited permitting; amendments to comprehensive plans
Title 404 · FL Chapter 404 (27 sections)
  • 404.011 — Short title
  • 404.022 — Declaration of policy
  • 404.031 — Definitions
  • 404.042 — Designation of state radiation protection agency
  • 404.051 — Powers and duties of the Department of Health
  • 404.056 — Environmental radiation standards and projects; certification of persons performing measurement or mitigation services;
  • 404.061 — Licensing of naturally occurring, accelerator-produced, byproduct, source, and special nuclear materials
  • 404.0614 — Licensing of commercial low-level radioactive waste management facilities
  • 404.0617 — Siting of commercial low-level radioactive waste management facilities
  • 404.071 — Inspection, agreements, and training programs
  • 404.081 — Records
  • 404.091 — Emergency orders
  • 404.101 — Impounding of sources of radiation
  • 404.111 — Surety requirements
  • 404.121 — Perpetual care trust funds
  • 404.122 — Radiation Protection Trust Fund
  • 404.131 — Fees
  • 404.141 — Prohibited uses
  • 404.161 — Penalties
  • 404.162 — Administrative penalties; emergency orders
  • 404.163 — Injunctive relief
  • 404.166 — County or municipal regulation prohibited
  • 404.171 — Construction
  • 404.20 — Transportation of radioactive materials
  • 404.22 — Radiation machines and components; inspection
  • 404.30 — Southeast Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management Compact; party state
  • 404.31 — Florida participation
Title 405 · FL Chapter 405 (3 sections)
  • 405.01 — Release of medical information to certain study groups; exemption from liability
  • 405.02 — Limitation on publication of released information
  • 405.03 — Confidentiality
Title 406 · FL Chapter 406 (30 sections)
  • 406.01 — Short title
  • 406.02 — Medical Examiners Commission; membership; terms; duties; staff
  • 406.03 — Organization and meetings of commission
  • 406.04 — Rules
  • 406.05 — Medical examiner districts
  • 406.06 — District medical examiners; associates; suspension of medical examiners
  • 406.075 — Grounds for discipline; disciplinary proceedings
  • 406.08 — Payment of fees, salaries, and expenses; transportation costs; facilities
  • 406.09 — Expert witness fees
  • 406.11 — Examinations, investigations, and autopsies
  • 406.12 — Duty to report; prohibited acts
  • 406.13 — Examiner’s report; maintenance of records
  • 406.135 — Autopsies; confidentiality of photographs and video and audio recordings; confidentiality of reports of minor victims of
  • 406.14 — Duty of law enforcement officers
  • 406.145 — Unidentified persons; reporting requirements
  • 406.15 — Designation of substitute in absence of official examiner
  • 406.16 — Professional liability insurance
  • 406.17 — Application and construction
  • 406.49 — Definitions
  • 406.50 — Unclaimed remains; disposition, procedure
  • 406.51 — Final disposition of unclaimed deceased veterans; contract requirements
  • 406.52 — Retention of human remains before use; claim after delivery to anatomical board; procedures for unclaimed remains of ind
  • 406.53 — Unclaimed remains of indigent person; exemption from notice to the anatomical board
  • 406.55 — Contracts for delivery of human remains after death prohibited
  • 406.56 — Acceptance of human remains under will
  • 406.57 — Distribution of human remains
  • 406.58 — Fees; authority to accept additional funds; annual audit
  • 406.59 — Institutions receiving human remains
  • 406.60 — Disposition of human remains after use
  • 406.61 — Selling, buying, or conveying human remains outside state prohibited; exceptions; penalty
Title 408 · FL Chapter 408 (76 sections)
  • 408.031 — Short title
  • 408.032 — Definitions relating to Health Facility and Services Development Act
  • 408.033 — Local and state health planning
  • 408.034 — Duties and responsibilities of agency; rules
  • 408.035 — Review criteria
  • 408.036 — Projects subject to review; exemptions
  • 408.037 — Application content
  • 408.038 — Fees
  • 408.039 — Review process
  • 408.040 — Conditions and monitoring
  • 408.041 — Certificate of need required; penalties
  • 408.042 — Limitation on transfer
  • 408.043 — Special provisions
  • 408.044 — Injunction
  • 408.045 — Certificate of need; competitive sealed proposals
  • 408.0455 — Rules; pending proceedings
  • 408.05 — Florida Center for Health Information and Transparency
  • 408.051 — Florida Electronic Health Records Exchange Act
  • 408.0511 — Exemption from antitrust laws for persons or entities required to submit, receive, or publish data under ch. 2016-234
  • 408.0512 — Electronic health records system adoption loan program
  • 408.061 — Data collection; uniform systems of financial reporting; information relating to physician charges; confidential informa
  • 408.0611 — Electronic prescribing clearinghouse
  • 408.062 — Research, analyses, studies, and reports
  • 408.0621 — Blood clot and pulmonary embolism policy workgroup
  • 408.063 — Dissemination of health care information
  • 408.064 — Direct care worker education and awareness
  • 408.07 — Definitions
  • 408.08 — Inspections and audits; violations; penalties; fines; enforcement
  • 408.09 — Assistance on cost containment strategies
  • 408.10 — Consumer complaints
  • 408.12 — Patient overpayments; refunds
  • 408.15 — Powers of the agency
  • 408.16 — Health Care Trust Fund; moneys to be deposited therein
  • 408.18 — Health Care Community Antitrust Guidance Act; antitrust no-action letter; market-information collection and education
  • 408.185 — Information submitted for review of antitrust issues; confidentiality
  • 408.20 — Assessments; Health Care Trust Fund
  • 408.301 — Legislative findings
  • 408.302 — Interagency agreement
  • 408.40 — Public Counsel
  • 408.50 — Prospective payment arrangements
  • 408.70 — Health care; managed competition; legislative findings and intent
  • 408.7057 — Statewide provider and health plan claim dispute resolution program
  • 408.7071 — Standardized claim form
  • 408.801 — Short title; purpose
  • 408.802 — Applicability
  • 408.803 — Definitions
  • 408.804 — License required; display
  • 408.805 — Fees required; adjustments
  • 408.806 — License application process
  • 408.8065 — Additional licensure requirements for home health agencies, home medical equipment providers, and health care clinics
  • 408.807 — Change of ownership
  • 408.808 — License categories
  • 408.809 — Background screening; prohibited offenses
  • 408.810 — Minimum licensure requirements
  • 408.811 — Right of inspection; copies; inspection reports; plan for correction of deficiencies
  • 408.812 — Unlicensed activity
  • 408.813 — Administrative fines; violations
  • 408.814 — Moratorium; emergency suspension
  • 408.815 — License or application denial; revocation
  • 408.816 — Injunctions
  • 408.817 — Administrative proceedings
  • 408.818 — Health Care Trust Fund
  • 408.819 — Rules
  • 408.820 — Exemptions
  • 408.821 — Emergency management planning; emergency operations; inactive license
  • 408.822 — Direct care workforce survey
  • 408.823 — In-person visitation
  • 408.824 — Facial covering requirements for health care practitioners and health care providers
  • 408.831 — Denial, suspension, or revocation of a license, registration, certificate, or application
  • 408.832 — Conflicts
  • 408.909 — Health flex plans
  • 408.9091 — Cover Florida Health Care Access Program
  • 408.910 — Florida Health Choices Program
  • 408.911 — Short title
  • 408.913 — Comprehensive Health and Human Services Eligibility Access System
  • 408.918 — Florida 211 Network; uniform certification requirements
Title 409 · FL Chapter 409 (208 sections)
  • 409.016 — Definitions
  • 409.017 — Revenue Maximization Act; legislative intent; revenue maximization program
  • 409.031 — State agency for administering social service funds
  • 409.1415 — Parenting partnerships for children in out-of-home care; resources
  • 409.145 — Care of children; “reasonable and prudent parent” standard
  • 409.1451 — The Road-to-Independence Program
  • 409.14515 — Independent living preparation
  • 409.1452 — Collaboration with State University System, Florida College System, and Department of Education to assist children and y
  • 409.14525 — Housing support for young adults; federal housing vouchers
  • 409.1454 — Motor vehicle insurance and driver licenses for children in care and certified unaccompanied homeless youth
  • 409.1455 — Step into Success Workforce Education and Internship Pilot Program for foster youth and former foster youth
  • 409.146 — Children and families client and management information system
  • 409.1464 — Responsible Fatherhood Initiative
  • 409.1465 — Grants to address the needs of fathers
  • 409.1467 — Mentorship for at-risk male students
  • 409.147 — Florida Children’s Initiatives
  • 409.153 — Implementation of Healthy Families Florida program
  • 409.165 — Alternate care for children
  • 409.166 — Children within the child welfare system; adoption assistance program
  • 409.1662 — Children within the child welfare system; adoption incentive program
  • 409.1664 — Adoption benefits for qualifying adoptive employees of state agencies, veterans, servicemembers, law enforcement officer
  • 409.1666 — Annual adoption achievement awards
  • 409.167 — Statewide adoption exchange; establishment; responsibilities; registration requirements; rules
  • 409.16742 — Shared family care residential services program for substance-exposed newborns
  • 409.1676 — Comprehensive residential group care services to children who have extraordinary needs
  • 409.1678 — Specialized residential options for children who are victims of commercial sexual exploitation
  • 409.1679 — Additional requirements; reimbursement methodology
  • 409.16791 — Ongoing study of commercial sexual exploitation of children
  • 409.175 — Licensure of family foster homes, residential child-caring agencies, and child-placing agencies; public records exemptio
  • 409.1754 — Commercial sexual exploitation of children; screening and assessment; training; multidisciplinary staffings; service pla
  • 409.1755 — One Church, One Child of Florida Corporation Act; creation; duties
  • 409.1757 — Persons not required to be refingerprinted or rescreened
  • 409.176 — Registration of residential child-caring agencies and family foster homes
  • 409.179 — Family-friendly workplace initiative
  • 409.212 — Optional supplementation
  • 409.221 — Consumer-directed care program
  • 409.2355 — Programs for prosecution of males over age 21 who commit certain offenses involving girls under age 16
  • 409.2551 — Legislative intent
  • 409.2554 — Definitions; ss. 409.2551-409.2598
  • 409.2557 — State agency for administering child support enforcement program
  • 409.25575 — Support enforcement; privatization
  • 409.2558 — Support distribution and disbursement
  • 409.2559 — State disbursement unit
  • 409.256 — Administrative proceeding to establish paternity or paternity and child support; order to appear for genetic testing
  • 409.2561 — Support obligations when public assistance is paid; assignment of rights; subrogation; medical and health insurance info
  • 409.2563 — Administrative establishment of child support obligations
  • 409.25633 — Title IV-D Standard Parenting Time Plans
  • 409.25635 — Determination and collection of noncovered medical expenses
  • 409.2564 — Actions for support
  • 409.25641 — Procedures for processing interstate enforcement requests
  • 409.2565 — Publication of delinquent obligors
  • 409.25656 — Garnishment
  • 409.25657 — Requirements for financial institutions
  • 409.25658 — Use of unclaimed property for past due support
  • 409.25659 — Insurance claim data exchange
  • 409.25661 — Public records exemption for insurance claim data exchange information
  • 409.2567 — Services to individuals not otherwise eligible
  • 409.2569 — Continuation of support services for recipients of public assistance when benefits are terminated
  • 409.257 — Service of process
  • 409.2571 — Court and witness fees; bond
  • 409.2572 — Cooperation
  • 409.2574 — Income deduction enforcement in Title IV-D cases
  • 409.2575 — Liens on motor vehicles and vessels
  • 409.2576 — State Directory of New Hires
  • 409.2577 — Parent locator service
  • 409.2578 — Access to employment information; administrative fine
  • 409.2579 — Safeguarding Title IV-D case file information
  • 409.2581 — Use of clearing accounts and revolving funds
  • 409.2584 — Interest on obligations due; waiver
  • 409.259 — Filing fees in Title IV-D cases; electronic filing of pleadings, returns of service, and other papers
  • 409.2594 — Record requirements
  • 409.2597 — Retention of actions
  • 409.2598 — License suspension proceeding to enforce support order
  • 409.2599 — Data processing services; interagency agreement
  • 409.25995 — State Title IV-D agency; contracts
  • 409.25996 — Organizations that assist noncustodial parents
  • 409.2673 — Shared county and state health care program for low-income persons
  • 409.26731 — Certification of local funds as state match for federally funded services
  • 409.285 — Opportunity for hearing and appeal
  • 409.352 — Licensing requirements for physicians, osteopathic physicians, and chiropractic physicians employed by the department
  • 409.401 — Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children
  • 409.402 — Financial responsibility for child
  • 409.403 — Definitions; Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children
  • 409.404 — Agreements between party state officers and agencies
  • 409.405 — Court placement of delinquent children
  • 409.406 — Interstate Compact on Adoption and Medical Assistance
  • 409.407 — Interstate agreements between the Department of Children and Families and agencies of other states
  • 409.408 — Interstate Compact for the Placement of Children
  • 409.409 — Effect of existing compact provisions
  • 409.4101 — Rulemaking authority
  • 409.441 — Runaway youth programs and centers
  • 409.508 — Low-income home energy assistance program
  • 409.509 — Definitions; weatherization of low-income residences
  • 409.5091 — Department responsible for weatherizing agencies; energy assessment
  • 409.5093 — Replacement agency
  • 409.810 — Short title
  • 409.811 — Definitions relating to Florida Kidcare Act
  • 409.812 — Program created; purpose
  • 409.813 — Health benefits coverage; program components; entitlement and nonentitlement
  • 409.8132 — Medikids program component
  • 409.8134 — Program expenditure ceiling; enrollment
  • 409.8135 — Behavioral health services
  • 409.814 — Eligibility
  • 409.815 — Health benefits coverage; limitations
  • 409.816 — Limitations on premiums and cost sharing
  • 409.817 — Approval of health benefits coverage; financial assistance
  • 409.8175 — Delivery of services in rural counties
  • 409.8177 — Program evaluation
  • 409.818 — Administration
  • 409.820 — Quality assurance and access standards
  • 409.821 — Florida Kidcare program public records exemption
  • 409.901 — Definitions; ss. 409.901-409.920
  • 409.902 — Designated single state agency; payment requirements; program title; release of medical records
  • 409.90201 — Recipient address update process
  • 409.9021 — Forfeiture of eligibility agreement
  • 409.9025 — Eligibility while an inmate
  • 409.903 — Mandatory payments for eligible persons
  • 409.904 — Optional payments for eligible persons
  • 409.905 — Mandatory Medicaid services
  • 409.906 — Optional Medicaid services
  • 409.9062 — Lung transplant services for Medicaid recipients
  • 409.9063 — Coverage of continuous glucose monitors for Medicaid recipients
  • 409.90637 — Agency to seek federal approval for coverage and reimbursement authority for mobile crisis response services
  • 409.90638 — Agency to seek federal approval to implement acute hospital care at home program in state Medicaid program
  • 409.9066 — Medicare prescription discount program
  • 409.907 — Medicaid provider agreements
  • 409.9071 — Medicaid provider agreements for school districts certifying state match
  • 409.9072 — Medicaid provider agreements for charter schools and private schools
  • 409.908 — Reimbursement of Medicaid providers
  • 409.9081 — Copayments
  • 409.9082 — Quality assessment on nursing home facility providers; exemptions; purpose; federal approval required; remedies
  • 409.9083 — Quality assessment on privately operated intermediate care facilities for the developmentally disabled; exemptions; purp
  • 409.909 — Statewide Medicaid Residency Program
  • 409.910 — Responsibility for payments on behalf of Medicaid-eligible persons when other parties are liable
  • 409.9101 — Recovery for payments made on behalf of Medicaid-eligible persons
  • 409.9102 — A qualified state Long-Term Care Insurance Partnership Program in Florida
  • 409.911 — Disproportionate share program
  • 409.9113 — Disproportionate share program for teaching hospitals
  • 409.9115 — Disproportionate share program for mental health hospitals
  • 409.91151 — Expenditure of funds generated through mental health disproportionate share program
  • 409.9116 — Disproportionate share/financial assistance program for rural hospitals
  • 409.9118 — Disproportionate share program for specialty hospitals
  • 409.91188 — Specialty prepaid health plans for Medicaid recipients with HIV or AIDS
  • 409.9119 — Disproportionate share program for specialty hospitals for children
  • 409.91195 — Medicaid Pharmaceutical and Therapeutics Committee
  • 409.91196 — Supplemental rebate agreements; public records and public meetings exemption
  • 409.912 — Cost-effective purchasing of health care
  • 409.91206 — Alternatives for health and long-term care reforms
  • 409.9121 — Legislative findings and intent
  • 409.91212 — Medicaid managed care fraud
  • 409.9122 — Medicaid managed care enrollment; HIV/AIDS patients; procedures; data collection; accounting; information system; medica
  • 409.9123 — Quality-of-care reporting
  • 409.91235 — Agency review and report on medications, treatments, and services for sickle cell disease
  • 409.91255 — Federally qualified health center access program
  • 409.91256 — Training, Education, and Clinicals in Health (TEACH) Funding Program
  • 409.9126 — Children with special health care needs
  • 409.9127 — Preauthorization and concurrent utilization review; conflict-of-interest standards
  • 409.9128 — Requirements for providing emergency services and care
  • 409.913 — Oversight of the integrity of the Medicaid program
  • 409.9131 — Special provisions relating to integrity of the Medicaid program
  • 409.9132 — Pilot project to monitor home health services
  • 409.9133 — Pilot project for home health care management
  • 409.9134 — Agency to distinguish certain services as to skilled home health services; prohibited from requiring home health agencie
  • 409.914 — Assistance for the uninsured
  • 409.915 — County contributions to Medicaid
  • 409.916 — Grants and Donations Trust Fund
  • 409.918 — Public Medical Assistance Trust Fund
  • 409.919 — Rules
  • 409.920 — Medicaid provider fraud
  • 409.9201 — Medicaid fraud
  • 409.9203 — Rewards for reporting Medicaid fraud
  • 409.9205 — Medicaid Fraud Control Unit
  • 409.961 — Statutory construction; applicability; rules
  • 409.962 — Definitions
  • 409.963 — Single state agency
  • 409.964 — Managed care program; state plan; waivers
  • 409.965 — Mandatory enrollment
  • 409.966 — Eligible plans; selection
  • 409.967 — Managed care plan accountability
  • 409.968 — Managed care plan payments
  • 409.969 — Enrollment; disenrollment
  • 409.971 — Managed medical assistance program
  • 409.972 — Mandatory and voluntary enrollment
  • 409.973 — Benefits
  • 409.974 — Eligible plans
  • 409.9745 — Managed care plan biomarker testing
  • 409.975 — Managed care plan accountability
  • 409.976 — Managed care plan payment
  • 409.977 — Enrollment
  • 409.978 — Long-term care managed care program
  • 409.979 — Eligibility
  • 409.98 — Long-term care plan benefits
  • 409.981 — Eligible long-term care plans
  • 409.982 — Long-term care managed care plan accountability
  • 409.983 — Long-term care managed care plan payment
  • 409.984 — Enrollment in a long-term care managed care plan
  • 409.985 — Comprehensive Assessment and Review for Long-Term Care Services (CARES) Program
  • 409.9855 — Pilot program for individuals with developmental disabilities
  • 409.986 — Legislative findings and intent; child protection and child welfare outcomes; definitions
  • 409.987 — Lead agency procurement; boards; conflicts of interest
  • 409.988 — Community-based care lead agency duties; general provisions
  • 409.990 — Funding for lead agencies
  • 409.9913 — Funding methodology to allocate funding to lead agencies
  • 409.992 — Lead agency expenditures
  • 409.993 — Lead agencies and subcontractor liability
  • 409.994 — Community-based care lead agencies; receivership
  • 409.996 — Duties of the Department of Children and Families
  • 409.997 — Child welfare results-oriented accountability program
Title 410 · FL Chapter 410 (15 sections)
  • 410.031 — Legislative intent
  • 410.032 — Definitions; ss. 410.031-410.036
  • 410.033 — Home care for disabled adults; rules
  • 410.034 — Department determination of fitness to provide home care
  • 410.035 — Subsidy payments
  • 410.036 — Eligibility for services
  • 410.037 — Confidentiality of information
  • 410.502 — Housing and living arrangements; special needs of the elderly; services
  • 410.504 — Multidisciplinary center on elderly living environments
  • 410.601 — Short title
  • 410.602 — Legislative intent
  • 410.603 — Definitions relating to Community Care for Disabled Adults Act
  • 410.604 — Community care for disabled adults program; powers and duties of the department
  • 410.605 — Confidentiality of information
  • 410.606 — Rulemaking
Title 411 · FL Chapter 411 (12 sections)
  • 411.201 — Florida Prevention, Early Assistance, and Early Childhood Act; short title
  • 411.202 — Definitions
  • 411.203 — Continuum of comprehensive services
  • 411.2035 — Dangers of shaking infants and young children; requirements for distributing brochures
  • 411.22 — Legislative intent
  • 411.223 — Uniform standards
  • 411.224 — Family support planning process
  • 411.227 — Components of the Learning Gateway
  • 411.228 — Accountability
  • 411.24 — Short title
  • 411.241 — Legislative intent
  • 411.243 — Teen Pregnancy Prevention Community Initiative
Title 413 · FL Chapter 413 (65 sections)
  • 413.011 — Division of Blind Services, legislative policy, intent; internal organizational structure and powers; Rehabilitation Cou
  • 413.0111 — Blind services direct-support organization
  • 413.0115 — State Board of Administration; authorization to invest division’s portfolio
  • 413.012 — Confidential records disclosure prohibited; exemptions
  • 413.013 — Destruction of records
  • 413.014 — Community rehabilitation programs
  • 413.015 — Workers’ compensation coverage for program participants
  • 413.021 — Products and services by blind persons; sale, exhibition regulated
  • 413.031 — Products, purchase by state agencies and institutions
  • 413.032 — Purpose
  • 413.033 — Definitions
  • 413.035 — Duties and powers of the department
  • 413.036 — Procurement of services by agencies; authority of department
  • 413.037 — Cooperation with department required; duties of state agencies
  • 413.041 — Eligible blind persons; placement in vending facilities in public places
  • 413.051 — Eligible blind persons; operation of vending stands
  • 413.08 — Rights and responsibilities of an individual with a disability; use of a service animal; prohibited discrimination in pu
  • 413.081 — Interference with or injury to a service animal; penalties; restitution
  • 413.082 — Groups to recommend policies to improve access for individuals with disabilities
  • 413.091 — Identification cards
  • 413.092 — Blind Babies Program
  • 413.20 — Definitions
  • 413.201 — Designated state agency
  • 413.202 — Designated administrative unit
  • 413.203 — Conflict of laws
  • 413.205 — Payments not treated as collateral payments
  • 413.207 — Division of Vocational Rehabilitation; quality assurance; performance improvement plan
  • 413.208 — Service providers; quality assurance; fitness for responsibilities; background screening
  • 413.209 — Workers’ compensation coverage for program participants
  • 413.215 — Division’s status in workers’ compensation proceedings
  • 413.22 — Division rules
  • 413.23 — Administration
  • 413.24 — Cooperation with Federal Government
  • 413.26 — Cooperative agreements with other governmental agencies relative to joint use of services and facilities
  • 413.27 — Cooperative agreements with Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind
  • 413.271 — Florida Coordinating Council for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
  • 413.273 — Per diem, travel expenses, personal care attendants, and interpreters for council members; conflicts of interest; remova
  • 413.28 — Appropriations of federal funds
  • 413.29 — Gifts
  • 413.30 — Eligibility for vocational rehabilitation services
  • 413.301 — Preemployment transition services
  • 413.31 — Benefits not assignable
  • 413.32 — Retention of title to and disposal of equipment
  • 413.341 — Applicant and eligible individual records; confidential and privileged
  • 413.36 — Duties of other agencies and officials regarding this part
  • 413.371 — Independent living program; establishment and administration
  • 413.393 — State plan for independent living
  • 413.395 — Florida Independent Living Council
  • 413.40 — Powers of division; independent living program
  • 413.401 — Eligibility for independent living services
  • 413.402 — James Patrick Memorial Work Incentive Personal Attendant Services and Employment Assistance Program
  • 413.4021 — Program participant selection; tax collection enforcement diversion program
  • 413.405 — Florida Rehabilitation Council
  • 413.407 — Assistive Technology Advisory Council
  • 413.41 — Cooperation by division with state agencies
  • 413.42 — Cooperation with federal agencies
  • 413.43 — Utilization of state and federal funds
  • 413.44 — State Treasury depository
  • 413.445 — Recovery of third-party payments for vocational rehabilitation and related services
  • 413.4455 — Deposit and appropriation of funds recovered under s. 413.445
  • 413.615 — Florida Endowment for Vocational Rehabilitation
  • 413.731 — Legislative funding; contracting for services
  • 413.74 — Other agencies; cooperation and referral
  • 413.80 — Employment First Act
  • 413.801 — Florida Unique Abilities Partner Program
Title 414 · FL Chapter 414 (48 sections)
  • 414.025 — Legislative intent
  • 414.0252 — Definitions
  • 414.035 — Authorized expenditures
  • 414.045 — Cash assistance program
  • 414.065 — Noncompliance with work requirements
  • 414.0652 — Drug screening for applicants for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families
  • 414.0655 — Medical incapacity due to substance abuse or mental health impairment
  • 414.075 — Resource eligibility standards
  • 414.085 — Income eligibility standards
  • 414.095 — Determining eligibility for temporary cash assistance
  • 414.105 — Time limitations of temporary cash assistance
  • 414.106 — Exemption from public meetings law
  • 414.115 — Limited temporary cash assistance for children born to families receiving temporary cash assistance
  • 414.122 — Withholding of payments based on evidence of fraud
  • 414.1251 — Learnfare program
  • 414.13 — Immunizations
  • 414.14 — Public assistance policy simplification
  • 414.157 — Diversion program for victims of domestic violence
  • 414.158 — Diversion program to prevent or reduce child abuse and neglect
  • 414.1585 — Diversion program for families at risk of welfare dependency due to substance abuse or mental illness
  • 414.1599 — Diversion programs; determination of need
  • 414.161 — Homelessness prevention grants
  • 414.17 — Audits
  • 414.175 — Review of existing waivers
  • 414.24 — Integrated welfare reform and child welfare services
  • 414.26 — Court-appointed guardian unnecessary
  • 414.27 — Temporary cash assistance; payment on death
  • 414.28 — Public assistance payments to constitute debt of recipient
  • 414.295 — Temporary cash assistance programs; public records exemption
  • 414.31 — State agency for administering federal food assistance program
  • 414.32 — Prohibitions and restrictions with respect to food assistance program
  • 414.33 — Violations of food assistance program
  • 414.34 — Annual report concerning administrative complaints and disciplinary actions involving food assistance program violations
  • 414.35 — Emergency relief
  • 414.36 — Public assistance overpayment recovery program; contracts
  • 414.37 — Public assistance overpayment recovery privatization; reemployment of laid-off career service employees
  • 414.39 — Fraud
  • 414.391 — Automated fingerprint imaging
  • 414.392 — Applicant screening
  • 414.40 — Stop Inmate Fraud Program established; guidelines
  • 414.41 — Recovery of payments made due to mistake or fraud
  • 414.411 — Public assistance fraud
  • 414.42 — Cause for employee dismissal
  • 414.45 — Rulemaking
  • 414.455 — Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program; legislative authorization; mandatory participation in employment and training
  • 414.456 — Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program; transactions in fresh produce markets
  • 414.55 — Implementation of community work program
  • 414.56 — Office of Continuing Care
Title 415 · FL Chapter 415 (25 sections)
  • 415.101 — Adult Protective Services Act; legislative intent
  • 415.102 — Definitions of terms used in ss. 415.101-415.113
  • 415.103 — Central abuse hotline
  • 415.1034 — Mandatory reporting of abuse, neglect, or exploitation of vulnerable adults; mandatory reports of death
  • 415.10341 — Protection of specified adults
  • 415.1035 — Facility’s duty to inform residents of their right to report abusive, neglectful, or exploitive practices
  • 415.1036 — Immunity
  • 415.104 — Protective investigations of cases of abuse, neglect, or exploitation of vulnerable adults; transmittal of records to st
  • 415.1045 — Photographs, videotapes, and medical examinations; abrogation of privileged communications; confidential records and doc
  • 415.105 — Provision of protective services with consent; withdrawal of consent; interference
  • 415.1051 — Protective services interventions when capacity to consent is lacking; nonemergencies; emergencies; orders; limitations
  • 415.1052 — Interference with investigation or with the provision of protective services
  • 415.1055 — Notification to administrative entities
  • 415.106 — Cooperation by the department and criminal justice and other agencies
  • 415.107 — Confidentiality of reports and records
  • 415.1071 — Release of confidential information
  • 415.1099 — Court and witness fees not allowed
  • 415.1102 — Adult protection teams
  • 415.1103 — Elder and vulnerable adult abuse fatality review teams
  • 415.1105 — Training programs
  • 415.111 — Criminal penalties
  • 415.1111 — Civil actions
  • 415.1113 — Administrative fines for false report of abuse, neglect, or exploitation of a vulnerable adult
  • 415.1115 — Civil actions involving elderly parties; speedy trial
  • 415.113 — Statutory construction; treatment by spiritual means
Title 418 · FL Chapter 418 (12 sections)
  • 418.20 — Creation of recreation districts authorized
  • 418.21 — Governing body
  • 418.22 — Powers of recreation districts
  • 418.23 — Limitation on power of districts
  • 418.24 — Filing of ordinance
  • 418.25 — Actions by aggrieved parties
  • 418.26 — Assessment records
  • 418.30 — Creation of mobile home park recreation districts
  • 418.302 — Governing body of mobile home park recreation district
  • 418.304 — Powers of the mobile home park recreation district; recreation district tax
  • 418.306 — Bonds of the mobile home park recreation district
  • 418.309 — Abolishment of the mobile home park recreation district
Title 419 · FL Chapter 419 (1 sections)
  • 419.001 — Site selection of community residential homes
Title 420 · FL Chapter 420 (98 sections)
  • 420.0001 — Short title
  • 420.0002 — Legislative findings
  • 420.0003 — State housing strategy
  • 420.0004 — Definitions
  • 420.0005 — State Housing Trust Fund; State Housing Fund
  • 420.0006 — Authority to contract with corporation; contract requirements; nonperformance
  • 420.101 — Housing Development Corporation of Florida; creation, membership, and purposes
  • 420.102 — Definitions
  • 420.111 — Housing Development Corporation of Florida; additional powers
  • 420.112 — Authorization for certain relationships
  • 420.123 — Stockholders; loan requirement
  • 420.124 — Stockholders; powers
  • 420.131 — Articles of incorporation; method of amending
  • 420.141 — Housing Development Corporation of Florida; deposits and examination
  • 420.161 — Housing Development Corporation of Florida; period of existence; method of dissolution
  • 420.171 — Housing Development Corporation of Florida; tax privileges and fiscal year
  • 420.36 — Low-income Emergency Home Repair Program
  • 420.421 — Short title
  • 420.422 — Legislative findings
  • 420.423 — Policy and purpose
  • 420.424 — Definitions
  • 420.426 — Eligible applicants
  • 420.427 — Project eligibility
  • 420.428 — Eligible activities
  • 420.429 — Authority of the department
  • 420.501 — Short title
  • 420.502 — Legislative findings
  • 420.503 — Definitions
  • 420.504 — Public corporation; creation, membership, terms, expenses
  • 420.505 — Meetings; quorum; voting
  • 420.506 — Executive director; agents and employees; inspector general
  • 420.5061 — Transfer of
  • 420.507 — Powers of the corporation
  • 420.508 — Special powers; multifamily and single-family projects
  • 420.5087 — State Apartment Incentive Loan Program
  • 420.50871 — Supplemental Appropriations for the State Apartment Incentive Loan Program
  • 420.50872 — Live Local Program
  • 420.5088 — Florida Homeownership Assistance Program
  • 420.5089 — HOME Investment Partnership Program; HOME Investment Partnership Fund
  • 420.509 — Revenue bonds
  • 420.5092 — Florida Affordable Housing Guarantee Program
  • 420.5093 — State Housing Tax Credit Program
  • 420.5095 — Community Workforce Housing Loan Program
  • 420.5096 — Florida Hometown Hero Program
  • 420.5098 — Public sector and hospital employer-sponsored housing policy
  • 420.5099 — Allocation of the low-income housing tax credit
  • 420.51 — State and local government not liable on bonds or notes
  • 420.511 — Strategic business plan; long-range program plan; annual report; audited financial statements
  • 420.512 — Conflicts of interest
  • 420.513 — Exemption from taxes and eligibility as investment
  • 420.514 — Corporate existence
  • 420.515 — Inconsistent provisions of other laws superseded
  • 420.516 — Discrimination prohibited
  • 420.517 — Affordable housing and job training coordination
  • 420.518 — Preclusion from participation in corporation programs
  • 420.521 — Short title
  • 420.522 — Legislative findings
  • 420.523 — Purpose
  • 420.524 — Definitions relating to Predevelopment Loan Program Act
  • 420.525 — Housing Predevelopment Fund
  • 420.526 — Predevelopment Loan Program; loans and grants authorized; activities eligible for support
  • 420.527 — Criteria for determining threshold compliance
  • 420.528 — Rules; summary required with annual report
  • 420.529 — Default by sponsor
  • 420.5295 — Applicability
  • 420.531 — Affordable Housing Catalyst Program
  • 420.55 — Housing; response to disasters
  • 420.601 — Short title
  • 420.6015 — Legislative findings
  • 420.602 — Definitions
  • 420.606 — Training and technical assistance program
  • 420.6075 — Research and planning for affordable housing; annual housing report
  • 420.609 — Affordable Housing Study Commission
  • 420.615 — Affordable housing land donation density bonus incentives
  • 420.621 — Definitions
  • 420.622 — State Office on Homelessness; Council on Homelessness
  • 420.6225 — Continuum of care
  • 420.6227 — Grant-in-aid program
  • 420.6231 — Individual identifying information in homelessness counts and databases; public records exemption
  • 420.6241 — Persons with lived experience
  • 420.626 — Homelessness; discharge guidelines
  • 420.6265 — Rapid ReHousing
  • 420.6275 — Housing First
  • 420.628 — Affordable housing for children and young adults leaving foster care; legislative findings and intent
  • 420.630 — Short title
  • 420.631 — Definitions relating to Urban Homesteading Act
  • 420.632 — Authority to operate
  • 420.633 — Eligibility
  • 420.634 — Application process; deed to qualified buyer
  • 420.635 — Loans to qualified buyers
  • 420.907 — Short title
  • 420.9071 — Definitions
  • 420.9072 — State Housing Initiatives Partnership Program
  • 420.9073 — Local housing distributions
  • 420.9075 — Local housing assistance plans; partnerships
  • 420.9076 — Adoption of affordable housing incentive strategies; committees
  • 420.9079 — Local Government Housing Trust Fund
  • 420.9089 — National Housing Trust Fund
Title 421 · FL Chapter 421 (48 sections)
  • 421.001 — State role in housing and urban development
  • 421.01 — Short title
  • 421.02 — Finding and declaration of necessity
  • 421.03 — Definitions
  • 421.04 — Creation of housing authorities
  • 421.05 — Appointment, qualifications, and tenure of commissioners; hiring of employees
  • 421.06 — Commissioners or employees prohibited from acquiring interests in housing projects and required to disclose interests in
  • 421.07 — Removal of commissioners
  • 421.08 — Powers of authority
  • 421.09 — Operation not for profit
  • 421.091 — Financial accounting and investments; fiscal year
  • 421.10 — Rentals and tenant selection
  • 421.101 — False representations to obtain lower rent in housing accommodations; penalty
  • 421.11 — Cooperation of authorities
  • 421.12 — Eminent domain
  • 421.13 — Planning, zoning and building laws
  • 421.14 — Debentures
  • 421.15 — Form and sale of debentures
  • 421.16 — Provisions of debentures and trust indentures
  • 421.17 — Validation of debentures and proceedings
  • 421.18 — Remedies of an obligee of authority
  • 421.19 — Additional remedies conferrable by authority
  • 421.21 — Aid from Federal Government; tax exemptions
  • 421.22 — Reports
  • 421.23 — Liabilities of authority
  • 421.24 — Organization and establishment
  • 421.25 — Contracts and undertakings
  • 421.26 — Notes and bonds
  • 421.261 — Continuance of municipal housing authorities when municipality abolished; counties in excess of 400,000
  • 421.27 — Housing authorities in counties
  • 421.28 — Creation of regional housing authority
  • 421.29 — Area of operation of regional housing authority
  • 421.30 — Commissioners of regional authorities
  • 421.31 — Powers of regional housing authority; definitions
  • 421.32 — Rural housing projects
  • 421.321 — Execution of mortgages
  • 421.33 — Housing applications by farmers
  • 421.34 — Additional definitions
  • 421.35 — Supplemental nature of sections
  • 421.36 — Short title
  • 421.46 — Organization and establishment of housing authorities validated
  • 421.47 — Contracts and undertakings of housing authorities validated
  • 421.48 — Notes and bonds of housing authorities validated
  • 421.49 — Area of operation of housing authorities for defense housing
  • 421.50 — Decreasing area of operation of regional authority
  • 421.51 — Authority for county excluded from regional authority
  • 421.52 — Authorities; creation, obligations, etc., validated
  • 421.55 — Relocation of displaced persons
Title 422 · FL Chapter 422 (9 sections)
  • 422.001 — State role in housing and urban development
  • 422.01 — Short title
  • 422.02 — Finding and declaration of necessity
  • 422.03 — Definitions
  • 422.04 — Cooperation in undertaking housing projects
  • 422.05 — Contracts for payments for services
  • 422.06 — Advances to housing authority
  • 422.07 — Procedure for exercising powers
  • 422.08 — Supplemental nature of chapter
Title 423 · FL Chapter 423 (4 sections)
  • 423.001 — State role in housing and urban development
  • 423.01 — Finding and declaration of property of tax exemption for housing authorities
  • 423.02 — Housing projects exempted from taxes and assessments; payments in lieu thereof
  • 423.03 — Housing debentures exempted from taxation
Title 425 · FL Chapter 425 (31 sections)
Title 427 · FL Chapter 427 (27 sections)
  • 427.011 — Definitions
  • 427.012 — The Commission for the Transportation Disadvantaged
  • 427.013 — The Commission for the Transportation Disadvantaged; purpose and responsibilities
  • 427.0135 — Purchasing agencies; duties and responsibilities
  • 427.015 — Function of the metropolitan planning organization or designated official planning agency in coordinating transportation
  • 427.0155 — Community transportation coordinators; powers and duties
  • 427.0157 — Coordinating boards; powers and duties
  • 427.0158 — School bus and public transportation
  • 427.0159 — Transportation Disadvantaged Trust Fund
  • 427.016 — Expenditure of local government, state, and federal funds for the transportation disadvantaged
  • 427.017 — Conflicts with federal laws or regulations
  • 427.02 — Paratransit service contracts for transportation service providers
  • 427.021 — Adverse incidents of transportation service providers
  • 427.701 — Title
  • 427.702 — Findings, purpose, and legislative intent
  • 427.703 — Definitions
  • 427.704 — Powers and duties of the commission
  • 427.705 — Administration of the telecommunications access system
  • 427.706 — Advisory committee
  • 427.707 — Exemption from liability
  • 427.708 — Certain public safety and health care providers required to purchase and operate TDD’s
  • 427.801 — Short title
  • 427.802 — Definitions
  • 427.803 — Express warranty
  • 427.804 — Repair of nonconforming assistive technology devices; refund or replacement of devices after attempt to repair; sale or
  • 427.805 — Waiver
  • 427.806 — Action for damages
Title 429 · FL Chapter 429 (76 sections)
  • 429.01 — Short title; purpose
  • 429.02 — Definitions
  • 429.04 — Facilities to be licensed; exemptions
  • 429.07 — License required; fee
  • 429.075 — Limited mental health license
  • 429.08 — Unlicensed facilities; referral of person for residency to unlicensed facility; penalties
  • 429.11 — Initial application for license
  • 429.12 — Sale or transfer of ownership of a facility
  • 429.14 — Administrative penalties
  • 429.17 — Expiration of license; renewal; conditional license
  • 429.174 — Background screening
  • 429.176 — Notice of change of administrator
  • 429.177 — Patients with Alzheimer’s disease or other related disorders; certain disclosures
  • 429.178 — Special care for persons with Alzheimer’s disease or other related disorders
  • 429.18 — Disposition of fees and administrative fines
  • 429.19 — Violations; imposition of administrative fines; grounds
  • 429.195 — Rebates prohibited; penalties
  • 429.20 — Certain solicitation prohibited; third-party supplementation
  • 429.22 — Receivership proceedings
  • 429.23 — Internal risk management and quality assurance program; adverse incidents and reporting requirements
  • 429.24 — Contracts
  • 429.255 — Use of personnel; emergency care
  • 429.256 — Assistance with self-administration of medication and with other tasks
  • 429.26 — Appropriateness of placements; examinations of residents
  • 429.27 — Property and personal affairs of residents
  • 429.275 — Business practice; personnel records; liability insurance
  • 429.28 — Resident bill of rights
  • 429.29 — Civil actions to enforce rights
  • 429.293 — Presuit notice; investigation; notification of violation of residents’ rights or alleged negligence; claims evaluation
  • 429.294 — Availability of facility records for investigation of resident’s rights violations and defenses; penalty
  • 429.295 — Certain provisions not applicable to actions under this part
  • 429.296 — Statute of limitations
  • 429.297 — Punitive damages; pleading; burden of proof
  • 429.298 — Punitive damages; limitation
  • 429.31 — Closing of facility; notice; penalty
  • 429.34 — Right of entry and inspection
  • 429.35 — Maintenance of records; reports
  • 429.41 — Rules establishing standards
  • 429.42 — Pharmacy and dietary services
  • 429.435 — Uniform firesafety standards
  • 429.44 — Construction and renovation; requirements
  • 429.445 — Compliance with local zoning requirements
  • 429.47 — Prohibited acts; penalties for violation
  • 429.49 — Resident records; penalties for alteration
  • 429.52 — Staff training and educational requirements
  • 429.53 — Consultation by the agency
  • 429.54 — Collection of information; local subsidy
  • 429.55 — Consumer information
  • 429.60 — Short title
  • 429.63 — Legislative intent; purpose
  • 429.65 — Definitions
  • 429.67 — Licensure
  • 429.69 — Denial, revocation, and suspension of a license
  • 429.71 — Classification of deficiencies; administrative fines
  • 429.73 — Rules and standards relating to adult family-care homes
  • 429.75 — Training and education programs
  • 429.81 — Residency agreements
  • 429.83 — Residents with Alzheimer’s disease or other related disorders; training; certain disclosures
  • 429.85 — Residents’ bill of rights
  • 429.87 — Civil actions to enforce rights
  • 429.90 — Purpose
  • 429.901 — Definitions
  • 429.903 — Applicability
  • 429.905 — Exemptions; monitoring of adult day care center programs colocated with assisted living facilities or licensed nursing h
  • 429.907 — License requirement; fee; exemption; display
  • 429.909 — Application for license
  • 429.911 — Denial, suspension, revocation of license; emergency action; administrative fines; investigations and inspections
  • 429.913 — Administrative fines
  • 429.915 — Conditional license
  • 429.917 — Patients with Alzheimer’s disease or other related disorders; staff training requirements; certain disclosures
  • 429.918 — Licensure designation as a specialized Alzheimer’s services adult day care center; training
  • 429.919 — Background screening
  • 429.925 — Discontinuance of operation of adult day care centers
  • 429.927 — Right of entry and inspection
  • 429.929 — Rules establishing standards
  • 429.931 — Construction and renovation; requirements
Title 43 · FL Chapter 43 (12 sections)
  • 43.16 — Justice Administrative Commission; membership, powers and duties
  • 43.18 — Money paid into court; withdrawal
  • 43.20 — Judicial Qualifications Commission
  • 43.26 — Chief judge of circuit; selection; powers
  • 43.27 — Office hours of clerks of court
  • 43.291 — Judicial nominating commissions
  • 43.30 — Divisions of court
  • 43.41 — Report of judicial disposition
  • 43.42 — Judicial acts authorized on all days, including Sundays and holidays
  • 43.43 — Terms of courts
  • 43.44 — Mandate of an appeals court
  • 43.51 — Problem-solving court reports
Title 430 · FL Chapter 430 (37 sections)
  • 430.01 — Short title
  • 430.02 — Legislative intent
  • 430.03 — Purposes
  • 430.04 — Duties and responsibilities of the Department of Elderly Affairs
  • 430.0401 — Annual report summarizing monitoring activities
  • 430.0402 — Screening of direct service providers
  • 430.07 — Office of Volunteer Community Service
  • 430.071 — Respite for elders living in everyday families
  • 430.08 — Rulemaking
  • 430.101 — Administration of federal aging programs
  • 430.105 — Confidentiality of information
  • 430.201 — Short title
  • 430.202 — Community care for the elderly; legislative intent
  • 430.203 — Community care for the elderly; definitions
  • 430.204 — Community-care-for-the-elderly core services; departmental powers and duties
  • 430.205 — Community care service system
  • 430.2053 — Aging resource centers
  • 430.207 — Confidentiality of information
  • 430.501 — Alzheimer’s Disease Advisory Committee; research grants
  • 430.5015 — Dementia Director
  • 430.502 — Alzheimer’s disease; memory disorder clinics and day care and respite care programs
  • 430.5025 — Alzheimer’s disease and related forms of dementia; education and training
  • 430.503 — Alzheimer’s Disease Initiative; fees and administrative expense
  • 430.504 — Confidentiality of information
  • 430.6001 — Comprehensive day treatment services; demonstration projects
  • 430.601 — Home care for the elderly; legislative intent
  • 430.602 — Home care for the elderly; definitions
  • 430.603 — Home care for the elderly; rules
  • 430.604 — Department determination of inability to provide home care
  • 430.605 — Subsidy payments
  • 430.606 — Eligibility for services
  • 430.608 — Confidentiality of information
  • 430.80 — Implementation of a teaching nursing home pilot project
  • 430.81 — Implementation of a teaching agency for home and community-based care
  • 430.84 — Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly
  • 430.901 — Multiservice senior center; definition; purpose
  • 430.902 — Multiservice senior center
Title 435 · FL Chapter 435 (12 sections)
  • 435.01 — Applicability of this chapter; statutory references; rulemaking
  • 435.02 — Definitions
  • 435.03 — Level 1 screening standards
  • 435.04 — Level 2 screening standards
  • 435.05 — Requirements for covered employees and employers
  • 435.06 — Exclusion from employment
  • 435.07 — Exemptions from disqualification
  • 435.08 — Payment for processing of fingerprints and state criminal records checks
  • 435.09 — Confidentiality of personnel background check information
  • 435.10 — Sharing of personnel information among employers
  • 435.11 — Penalties
  • 435.12 — Care Provider Background Screening Clearinghouse
Title 44 · FL Chapter 44 (15 sections)
  • 44.1011 — Definitions
  • 44.102 — Court-ordered mediation
  • 44.103 — Court-ordered, nonbinding arbitration
  • 44.104 — Voluntary binding arbitration and voluntary trial resolution
  • 44.106 — Standards and procedures for mediators and arbitrators; fees
  • 44.107 — Immunity for arbitrators, mediators, and mediator trainees
  • 44.108 — Funding of mediation and arbitration
  • 44.201 — Citizen Dispute Settlement Centers; establishment; operation; confidentiality
  • 44.401 — Mediation Confidentiality and Privilege Act
  • 44.402 — Scope
  • 44.403 — Mediation Confidentiality and Privilege Act; definitions
  • 44.404 — Mediation; duration
  • 44.405 — Confidentiality; privilege; exceptions
  • 44.406 — Confidentiality; civil remedies
  • 44.407 — Elder-focused dispute resolution process
Title 440 · FL Chapter 440 (92 sections)
  • 440.01 — Short title
  • 440.015 — Legislative intent
  • 440.02 — Definitions
  • 440.021 — Exemption of workers’ compensation from chapter 120
  • 440.03 — Application
  • 440.04 — Waiver of exemption
  • 440.05 — Election of exemption; revocation of election; notice; certification
  • 440.055 — Notice requirements
  • 440.06 — Failure to secure compensation; effect
  • 440.075 — When corporate officer rejects chapter; effect
  • 440.077 — When a corporate officer rejects chapter, effect
  • 440.09 — Coverage
  • 440.091 — Law enforcement officer, firefighter, emergency medical technician, or paramedic; when acting within the course of emplo
  • 440.092 — Special requirements for compensability; deviation from employment; subsequent intervening accidents
  • 440.093 — Mental and nervous injuries
  • 440.094 — Extraterritorial reciprocity
  • 440.10 — Liability for compensation
  • 440.101 — Legislative intent; drug-free workplaces
  • 440.102 — Drug-free workplace program requirements
  • 440.1025 — Employer workplace safety program in ratesetting; program requirements; rulemaking
  • 440.103 — Building permits; identification of minimum premium policy
  • 440.104 — Competitive bidder; civil actions
  • 440.105 — Prohibited activities; reports; penalties; limitations
  • 440.1051 — Fraud reports; civil immunity; criminal penalties
  • 440.106 — Civil remedies; administrative penalties
  • 440.107 — Department powers to enforce employer compliance with coverage requirements
  • 440.108 — Investigatory records relating to workers’ compensation employer compliance; confidentiality
  • 440.11 — Exclusiveness of liability
  • 440.12 — Time for commencement and limits on weekly rate of compensation
  • 440.125 — Medical records and reports; identifying information in employee medical bills; confidentiality
  • 440.13 — Medical services and supplies; penalty for violations; limitations
  • 440.132 — Investigatory records relating to workers’ compensation managed care arrangements; confidentiality
  • 440.134 — Workers’ compensation managed care arrangement
  • 440.14 — Determination of pay
  • 440.15 — Compensation for disability
  • 440.151 — Occupational diseases
  • 440.16 — Compensation for death
  • 440.17 — Guardian for minor or incompetent
  • 440.185 — Notice of injury or death; reports; penalties for violations
  • 440.1851 — Personal identifying information of an injured or deceased employee; public records exemption
  • 440.19 — Time bars to filing petitions for benefits
  • 440.191 — Employee Assistance and Ombudsman Office
  • 440.192 — Procedure for resolving benefit disputes
  • 440.1926 — Alternate dispute resolution; claim arbitration
  • 440.20 — Time for payment of compensation and medical bills; penalties for late payment
  • 440.205 — Coercion of employees
  • 440.207 — Workers’ compensation system guide
  • 440.21 — Invalid agreements
  • 440.211 — Authorization of collective bargaining agreement
  • 440.22 — Assignment and exemption from claims of creditors
  • 440.23 — Compensation a lien against assets
  • 440.24 — Enforcement of compensation orders; penalties
  • 440.25 — Procedures for mediation and hearings
  • 440.271 — Appeal of order of judge of compensation claims
  • 440.2715 — Access to courts through state video teleconferencing network
  • 440.28 — Modification of orders
  • 440.29 — Procedure before the judge of compensation claims
  • 440.30 — Depositions
  • 440.31 — Witness fees
  • 440.32 — Cost in proceedings brought without reasonable ground
  • 440.33 — Powers of judges of compensation claims
  • 440.34 — Attorney’s fees; costs
  • 440.345 — Reporting of attorney’s fees
  • 440.35 — Record of injury or death
  • 440.38 — Security for compensation; insurance carriers and self-insurers
  • 440.381 — Application for coverage; reporting payroll; payroll audit procedures; penalties
  • 440.385 — Florida Self-Insurers Guaranty Association, Incorporated
  • 440.3851 — Public records and public meetings exemptions
  • 440.386 — Individual self-insurers’ insolvency; conservation; liquidation
  • 440.39 — Compensation for injuries when third persons are liable
  • 440.40 — Compensation notice
  • 440.41 — Substitution of carrier for employer
  • 440.42 — Insurance policies; liability
  • 440.44 — Workers’ compensation; staff organization
  • 440.442 — Code of Judicial Conduct
  • 440.45 — Office of the Judges of Compensation Claims
  • 440.47 — Travel expenses
  • 440.49 — Limitation of liability for subsequent injury through Special Disability Trust Fund
  • 440.491 — Reemployment of injured workers; rehabilitation
  • 440.50 — Workers’ Compensation Administration Trust Fund
  • 440.51 — Expenses of administration
  • 440.515 — Reports from self-insurers; confidentiality
  • 440.52 — Registration of insurance carriers; notice of cancellation or expiration of policy; suspension or revocation of authorit
  • 440.525 — Examination and investigation of carriers and claims-handling entities
  • 440.53 — Effect of unconstitutionality
  • 440.54 — Violation of child labor law
  • 440.55 — Proceedings against state
  • 440.572 — Authorization for individual self-insurer to provide coverage
  • 440.585 — Workers’ compensation group self-insurance fund application disclosure
  • 440.591 — Administrative procedure; rulemaking authority
  • 440.593 — Electronic reporting
  • 440.60 — Application of laws
Title 441 · FL Chapter 441 (2 sections)
  • 441.01 — Trust for employees
  • 441.02 — Trust for self-employed individuals and others
Title 443 · FL Chapter 443 (36 sections)
  • 443.011 — Short title
  • 443.012 — Reemployment Assistance Appeals Commission
  • 443.031 — Rule of liberal construction
  • 443.0315 — Effect of finding, judgment, conclusion, or order in separate or subsequent action or proceeding; use as evidence
  • 443.036 — Definitions
  • 443.041 — Waiver of rights; fees; privileged communications
  • 443.051 — Benefits not alienable; exception, child support intercept
  • 443.061 — Vested rights not created
  • 443.071 — Penalties
  • 443.091 — Benefit eligibility conditions
  • 443.101 — Disqualification for benefits
  • 443.111 — Payment of benefits
  • 443.1113 — Reemployment Assistance Claims and Benefits Information System
  • 443.1115 — Extended benefits
  • 443.1116 — Short-time compensation
  • 443.1118 — Employer-assisted claims
  • 443.121 — Employing units affected
  • 443.1215 — Employers
  • 443.1216 — Employment
  • 443.1217 — Wages
  • 443.131 — Contributions
  • 443.1312 — Reimbursements; nonprofit organizations
  • 443.1313 — Public employers; reimbursements; election to pay contributions
  • 443.1315 — Treatment of Indian tribes
  • 443.1316 — Reemployment assistance tax collection services; interagency agreement
  • 443.1317 — Rulemaking authority; enforcement of rules
  • 443.141 — Collection of contributions and reimbursements
  • 443.151 — Procedure concerning claims
  • 443.163 — Electronic reporting and remitting of contributions and reimbursements
  • 443.171 — Department of Commerce and commission; powers and duties; records and reports; proceedings; state-federal cooperation
  • 443.1715 — Disclosure of information; confidentiality
  • 443.17161 — Authorized electronic access to employer information
  • 443.181 — Public employment service
  • 443.191 — Unemployment Compensation Trust Fund; establishment and control
  • 443.211 — Employment Security Administration Trust Fund; appropriation; reimbursement
  • 443.221 — Reciprocal arrangements
Title 445 · FL Chapter 445 (45 sections)
  • 445.001 — Short title
  • 445.002 — Definitions
  • 445.003 — Implementation of the federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act
  • 445.004 — CareerSource Florida, Inc., and the state board; creation; purpose; membership; duties and powers
  • 445.006 — State plan for workforce development
  • 445.007 — Local workforce development boards
  • 445.0071 — Florida Youth Summer Jobs Pilot Program
  • 445.008 — Workforce Training Institute
  • 445.009 — One-stop delivery system
  • 445.010 — Consumer-first workforce system technology; principles and information sharing
  • 445.011 — Consumer-first workforce system
  • 445.014 — Small business workforce service initiative
  • 445.016 — Untried Worker Placement and Employment Incentive Act
  • 445.017 — Diversion
  • 445.018 — Diversion program to strengthen Florida’s families
  • 445.019 — Teen parent and pregnancy prevention diversion program; eligibility for services
  • 445.020 — Diversion programs; determination of need
  • 445.021 — Relocation assistance program
  • 445.022 — Retention Incentive Training Accounts
  • 445.023 — Program for dependent care for families with children with special needs
  • 445.024 — Work requirements
  • 445.025 — Other support services
  • 445.026 — Cash assistance severance benefit
  • 445.028 — Transitional benefits and services
  • 445.0281 — Transitional case management
  • 445.029 — Transitional medical benefits
  • 445.030 — Transitional education and training
  • 445.031 — Transitional transportation
  • 445.032 — Transitional child care
  • 445.0325 — Welfare Transition Trust Fund
  • 445.033 — Evaluation
  • 445.034 — Authorized expenditures
  • 445.035 — Data collection and reporting
  • 445.038 — Digital media; job training
  • 445.045 — Development of an Internet-based system for information technology industry promotion and workforce recruitment
  • 445.046 — Establishment of a network access point
  • 445.047 — Passport to Economic Progress Act; legislative intent
  • 445.048 — Passport to Economic Progress program
  • 445.051 — Individual development accounts
  • 445.055 — Employment advocacy and assistance program targeting military spouses and dependents
  • 445.056 — Citizen Soldier Matching Grant Program
  • 445.06 — Florida Ready to Work Credential Program
  • 445.07 — Economic security report of employment and earning outcomes
  • 445.08 — Florida Law Enforcement Recruitment Bonus Payment Program
  • 445.09 — Bonuses for employees of county tax collectors or property appraisers
Title 446 · FL Chapter 446 (22 sections)
  • 446.011 — Legislative intent regarding apprenticeship training
  • 446.021 — Definitions of terms used in ss. 446.011-446.092
  • 446.032 — General duties of the department for apprenticeship training
  • 446.041 — Duties of the department
  • 446.045 — State Apprenticeship Advisory Council
  • 446.051 — Related instruction for apprentices
  • 446.052 — Preapprenticeship program
  • 446.061 — Expenditures
  • 446.071 — Apprenticeship sponsors
  • 446.075 — Federal and state cooperation
  • 446.081 — Limitation
  • 446.091 — On-the-job training program
  • 446.0915 — Work-based learning opportunities
  • 446.092 — Criteria for apprenticeship occupations
  • 446.40 — Rural Workforce Services Act; short title
  • 446.41 — Legislative intent with respect to rural workforce training and development; establishment of Rural Workforce Services P
  • 446.42 — General purpose of Rural Workforce Services Program
  • 446.43 — Scope and coverage of Rural Workforce Services Program
  • 446.44 — Duties of Rural Workforce Services Program
  • 446.53 — Concrete masonry education
  • 446.54 — Reimbursement for workers’ compensation insurance premiums
  • 446.71 — Everglades Restoration Agricultural Community Employment Training Program
Title 447 · FL Chapter 447 (45 sections)
  • 447.01 — Regulating labor unions; state policy
  • 447.02 — Definitions
  • 447.03 — Employees’ right of self-organization
  • 447.05 — Initiation fees; limitation
  • 447.07 — Records and accounts required to be kept
  • 447.08 — Rights of members in armed forces
  • 447.09 — Right of franchise preserved; penalties
  • 447.11 — Actions and suits; labor organizations as parties
  • 447.13 — Right to strike preserved
  • 447.14 — Penalties
  • 447.15 — Federal regulations recognized
  • 447.17 — Civil remedy; injunctive relief
  • 447.201 — Statement of policy
  • 447.203 — Definitions
  • 447.205 — Public Employees Relations Commission
  • 447.207 — Commission; powers and duties
  • 447.208 — Procedure with respect to certain appeals under s. 447.207
  • 447.2085 — Commission rules concerning appeals under s. 447.207
  • 447.209 — Public employer’s rights
  • 447.301 — Public employees’ rights; organization and representation
  • 447.303 — Dues; deduction and collection
  • 447.305 — Registration of employee organization
  • 447.307 — Certification of employee organization
  • 447.3075 — Law enforcement bargaining units; separate units required; establishment
  • 447.308 — Revocation of certification of employee organization
  • 447.309 — Collective bargaining; approval or rejection
  • 447.401 — Grievance procedures
  • 447.403 — Resolution of impasses
  • 447.405 — Factors to be considered by the special magistrate
  • 447.407 — Compensation of mediator and special magistrate; expenses
  • 447.409 — Records
  • 447.4095 — Financial urgency
  • 447.501 — Unfair labor practices
  • 447.503 — Charges of unfair labor practices
  • 447.5035 — Enforcement of commission orders
  • 447.504 — Judicial review
  • 447.505 — Strikes prohibited
  • 447.507 — Violation of strike prohibition; penalties
  • 447.509 — Other unlawful acts
  • 447.51 — Violations not a ground for municipal recall
  • 447.601 — Merit or civil service system; applicability
  • 447.603 — Local option
  • 447.605 — Public meetings and records law; exemptions and compliance
  • 447.607 — Commission rules; powers retained by the Legislature
  • 447.609 — Representation in proceedings
Title 448 · FL Chapter 448 (28 sections)
  • 448.01 — Legal day’s work; extra pay
  • 448.03 — Threat of discharge to compel employee to trade with any particular firm or person; penalty
  • 448.04 — Penalty for officer or agent violating s. 448.03
  • 448.045 — Wrongful combinations against workers
  • 448.05 — Seats to be furnished for employees in stores; penalty
  • 448.07 — Wage rate discrimination based on sex prohibited
  • 448.075 — Employment discrimination on basis of sickle-cell trait prohibited
  • 448.076 — Mandatory screening or testing for sickle-cell trait prohibited
  • 448.077 — Preemption of employee scheduling regulation
  • 448.08 — Attorney’s fees for successful litigants in actions for unpaid wages
  • 448.09 — Unauthorized aliens; employment prohibited
  • 448.095 — Employment eligibility
  • 448.101 — Definitions
  • 448.102 — Prohibitions
  • 448.103 — Employee’s remedy; relief
  • 448.104 — Attorney’s fees and costs
  • 448.105 — Existing rights
  • 448.106 — Workplace heat exposure requirements
  • 448.109 — Notification of the state minimum wage
  • 448.110 — State minimum wage; annual wage adjustment; enforcement
  • 448.111 — Evidentiary standards for actions of a business during an emergency
  • 448.20 — Short title
  • 448.21 — Legislative intent
  • 448.22 — Definitions
  • 448.23 — Exclusions
  • 448.24 — Duties and rights
  • 448.25 — Remedies; damages; costs
  • 448.26 — Application
Title 45 · FL Chapter 45 (13 sections)
  • 45.011 — Definitions
  • 45.021 — Applicability
  • 45.031 — Judicial sales procedure
  • 45.0315 — Right of redemption
  • 45.032 — Disbursement of surplus funds after judicial sale
  • 45.033 — Sale or assignment of rights to surplus funds in a property subject to foreclosure
  • 45.035 — Clerk’s fees
  • 45.041 — Amendment of bonds
  • 45.045 — Limitations on supersedeas bond; exception
  • 45.051 — Execution of supersedeas bond when required of the state or its political subdivisions
  • 45.061 — Offers of settlement
  • 45.062 — Settlements, conditions, or orders when an agency of the executive branch is a party
  • 45.075 — Expedited trials
Title 450 · FL Chapter 450 (33 sections)
  • 450.001 — Short title
  • 450.012 — Definitions
  • 450.021 — Minimum age; general
  • 450.045 — Proof of identity and age; posting of notices
  • 450.061 — Hazardous occupations prohibited; exemptions
  • 450.081 — Hours of work in certain occupations
  • 450.095 — Waivers
  • 450.121 — Enforcement of Child Labor Law
  • 450.132 — Employment of children by the entertainment industry; rules; procedures
  • 450.141 — Employing minor children in violation of law; penalties
  • 450.151 — Hiring and employing; infliction of pain or suffering; penalty
  • 450.155 — Funding of the Child Labor Law program
  • 450.161 — Chapter not to affect career education of children; other exceptions
  • 450.165 — Child labor law and farm labor accounts
  • 450.175 — Part title
  • 450.181 — Definitions
  • 450.191 — Executive Office of the Governor; powers and duties
  • 450.251 — Interstate Compact on Migrant Labor
  • 450.261 — Interstate Migrant Labor Commission; Florida membership
  • 450.27 — Short title
  • 450.271 — State administration of the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act
  • 450.28 — Definitions
  • 450.29 — Exclusions
  • 450.30 — Requirement of certificate of registration; education and examination program
  • 450.31 — Issuance, revocation, and suspension of, and refusal to issue or renew, certificate of registration
  • 450.321 — Best practices incentive program for farm labor contractors
  • 450.33 — Duties of farm labor contractor
  • 450.34 — Prohibited acts of farm labor contractor
  • 450.35 — Certain contracts or employment prohibited
  • 450.36 — Rules and regulations
  • 450.37 — Cooperation with state and federal agencies
  • 450.38 — Enforcement of farm labor laws
  • 450.39 — Prohibition against required purchase; prohibition against excessive charges
Title 451 · FL Chapter 451 (2 sections)
Title 452 · FL Chapter 452 (5 sections)
  • 452.01 — Common carrier not to require employee to furnish surety bond of certain company
  • 452.02 — Foreign corporations as surety
  • 452.03 — Bond to cover definite term; cancellation; proviso
  • 452.04 — Bonds violating chapter void
  • 452.05 — Violation of regulations as to employment bonds; penalty
Title 454 · FL Chapter 454 (10 sections)
  • 454.021 — Attorneys; admission to practice law; Supreme Court to govern and regulate
  • 454.026 — Authority of Department of Law Enforcement to accept fingerprints of, and exchange criminal history records with respect
  • 454.11 — Powers of attorneys
  • 454.17 — Attorneys may administer oaths in open court
  • 454.18 — Officers not allowed to practice
  • 454.19 — Certain partnerships prohibited
  • 454.20 — Attorneys not to be sureties
  • 454.23 — Penalties
  • 454.31 — Practice while disbarred or suspended prohibited
  • 454.32 — Aiding or assisting disbarred or suspended attorney prohibited
Title 455 · FL Chapter 455 (62 sections)
  • 455.01 — Definitions
  • 455.017 — Applicability of this chapter
  • 455.02 — Licensure of members of the Armed Forces in good standing and their spouses or surviving spouses with administrative boa
  • 455.10 — Restriction on requirement of citizenship
  • 455.11 — Qualification of immigrants for examination to practice a licensed profession or occupation
  • 455.116 — Regulation trust funds
  • 455.1165 — Federal Grants Trust Fund
  • 455.117 — Sale of services and information by department
  • 455.201 — Professions and occupations regulated by department; legislative intent; requirements
  • 455.203 — Department; powers and duties
  • 455.2035 — Rulemaking authority for professions not under a board
  • 455.204 — Long-range policy planning; plans, reports, and recommendations
  • 455.205 — Contacting boards through department
  • 455.207 — Boards; organization; meetings; compensation and travel expenses
  • 455.208 — Publication of information
  • 455.209 — Accountability and liability of board members
  • 455.211 — Board rules; final agency action; challenges
  • 455.212 — Education; substituting demonstration of competency for clock-hour requirements
  • 455.2121 — Education; accreditation
  • 455.2122 — Education
  • 455.2123 — Continuing education
  • 455.2124 — Proration of or not requiring continuing education
  • 455.2125 — Consultation with postsecondary education boards prior to adoption of changes to training requirements
  • 455.213 — General licensing provisions
  • 455.2135 — Interstate mobility
  • 455.214 — Limited licenses
  • 455.217 — Examinations
  • 455.2171 — Use of professional testing services
  • 455.2175 — Penalty for theft or reproduction of an examination
  • 455.2177 — Monitoring of compliance with continuing education requirements
  • 455.2178 — Continuing education providers
  • 455.2179 — Continuing education provider and course approval; cease and desist orders
  • 455.218 — Foreign-trained professionals; special examination and license provisions
  • 455.2185 — Exemption for certain out-of-state or foreign professionals; limited practice permitted
  • 455.219 — Fees; receipts; disposition; periodic management reports
  • 455.221 — Legal and investigative services
  • 455.2228 — Barbers and cosmetologists; instruction on HIV and AIDS
  • 455.223 — Power to administer oaths, take depositions, and issue subpoenas
  • 455.2235 — Mediation
  • 455.224 — Authority to issue citations
  • 455.225 — Disciplinary proceedings
  • 455.2255 — Classification of disciplinary actions
  • 455.227 — Grounds for discipline; penalties; enforcement
  • 455.2273 — Disciplinary guidelines
  • 455.2274 — Criminal proceedings against licensees; appearances by department representatives
  • 455.2275 — Penalty for giving false information
  • 455.2277 — Prosecution of criminal violations
  • 455.2278 — Restriction on disciplinary action for student loan default
  • 455.228 — Unlicensed practice of a profession; cease and desist notice; civil penalty; enforcement; citations; allocation of money
  • 455.2281 — Unlicensed activities; fees; disposition
  • 455.2285 — Annual report concerning finances, administrative complaints, disciplinary actions, and recommendations
  • 455.2286 — Automated information system
  • 455.229 — Public inspection of information required from applicants; exceptions; examination hearing
  • 455.232 — Disclosure of confidential information
  • 455.24 — Advertisement by a veterinarian of free or discounted services; required statement
  • 455.242 — Veterinarians; disposition of records of deceased practitioners or practitioners relocating or terminating practice
  • 455.243 — Authority to inspect
  • 455.245 — Veterinarians; immediate suspension of license
  • 455.271 — Inactive and delinquent status
  • 455.273 — Renewal and cancellation notices
  • 455.275 — Address of record
  • 455.32 — Management Privatization Act
Title 456 · FL Chapter 456 (101 sections)
  • 456.001 — Definitions
  • 456.002 — Applicability
  • 456.003 — Legislative intent; requirements
  • 456.004 — Department; powers and duties
  • 456.005 — Long-range policy planning
  • 456.006 — Contacting boards through department
  • 456.007 — Board members
  • 456.008 — Accountability and liability of board members
  • 456.009 — Legal and investigative services
  • 456.011 — Boards; organization; meetings; compensation and travel expenses
  • 456.012 — Board rules; final agency action; challenges
  • 456.013 — Department; general licensing provisions
  • 456.0135 — General background screening provisions
  • 456.014 — Public inspection of information required from applicants; exceptions; examination hearing
  • 456.0145 — Mobile Opportunity by Interstate Licensure Endorsement (MOBILE) Act
  • 456.015 — Limited licenses
  • 456.016 — Use of professional testing services
  • 456.017 — Examinations
  • 456.018 — Penalty for theft or reproduction of an examination
  • 456.019 — Restriction on requirement of citizenship
  • 456.021 — Qualification of immigrants for examination to practice a licensed profession or occupation
  • 456.022 — Foreign-trained professionals; special examination and license provisions
  • 456.023 — Exemption for certain out-of-state or foreign professionals; limited practice permitted
  • 456.024 — Members of Armed Forces and veterans; spouses; licensure
  • 456.0241 — Temporary certificate for active duty military health care practitioners
  • 456.0242 — Office of Veteran Licensure Services
  • 456.025 — Fees; receipts; disposition
  • 456.026 — Annual report concerning finances, administrative complaints, disciplinary actions, and recommendations
  • 456.027 — Education; accreditation
  • 456.028 — Consultation with postsecondary education boards prior to adoption of changes to training requirements
  • 456.029 — Education; substituting demonstration of competency for clock-hour requirements
  • 456.0301 — Requirement for instruction on controlled substance prescribing
  • 456.031 — Requirement for instruction on domestic violence
  • 456.032 — Hepatitis B or HIV carriers
  • 456.033 — Requirement for instruction for certain licensees on HIV and AIDS
  • 456.0341 — Requirements for instruction on human trafficking
  • 456.035 — Address of record
  • 456.036 — Licenses; active and inactive status; delinquency
  • 456.0361 — Compliance with continuing education requirements
  • 456.037 — Business establishments; requirements for active status licenses; delinquency; discipline; applicability
  • 456.038 — Renewal and cancellation notices
  • 456.039 — Designated health care professionals; information required for licensure
  • 456.0391 — Advanced practice registered nurses; information required for licensure
  • 456.0392 — Prescription labeling
  • 456.041 — Practitioner profile; creation
  • 456.042 — Practitioner profiles; update
  • 456.043 — Practitioner profiles; data storage
  • 456.044 — Practitioner profiles; rules; workshops
  • 456.045 — Practitioner profiles; maintenance of superseded information
  • 456.046 — Practitioner profiles; confidentiality
  • 456.048 — Financial responsibility requirements for certain health care practitioners
  • 456.049 — Health care practitioners; reports on professional liability claims and actions
  • 456.0495 — Reporting adverse incidents occurring in planned out-of-hospital births
  • 456.0496 — Provision of information on eye and vision disorders to parents during planned out-of-hospital births
  • 456.051 — Reports of professional liability actions; bankruptcies; Department of Health’s responsibility to provide
  • 456.052 — Disclosure of financial interest by production
  • 456.053 — Financial arrangements between referring health care providers and providers of health care services
  • 456.054 — Kickbacks prohibited
  • 456.055 — Chiropractic and podiatric health care; denial of payment; limitation
  • 456.056 — Treatment of Medicare beneficiaries; refusal, emergencies, consulting physicians
  • 456.057 — Ownership and control of patient records; report or copies of records to be furnished; disclosure of information
  • 456.0575 — Duty to notify patients
  • 456.058 — Disposition of records of deceased practitioners or practitioners relocating or terminating practice
  • 456.059 — Communications confidential; exceptions
  • 456.061 — Practitioner disclosure of confidential information; immunity from civil or criminal liability
  • 456.062 — Advertisement by a health care practitioner of free or discounted services; required statement
  • 456.0625 — Patient overpayments; refunds
  • 456.063 — Sexual misconduct; disqualification for license, certificate, or registration
  • 456.0635 — Health care fraud; disqualification for license, certificate, or registration
  • 456.065 — Unlicensed practice of a health care profession; intent; cease and desist notice; penalties; enforcement; citations; fee
  • 456.066 — Prosecution of criminal violations
  • 456.067 — Penalty for giving false information
  • 456.068 — Toll-free telephone number for reporting of complaints
  • 456.069 — Authority to inspect
  • 456.071 — Power to administer oaths, take depositions, and issue subpoenas
  • 456.072 — Grounds for discipline; penalties; enforcement
  • 456.073 — Disciplinary proceedings
  • 456.074 — Certain health care practitioners; immediate suspension of license
  • 456.075 — Criminal proceedings against licensees; appearances by department representatives
  • 456.076 — Impaired practitioner programs
  • 456.077 — Authority to issue citations
  • 456.078 — Mediation
  • 456.079 — Disciplinary guidelines
  • 456.081 — Publication of information
  • 456.082 — Disclosure of confidential information
  • 456.36 — Health care professionals; exemption from disqualification from employment or contracting
  • 456.38 — Practitioner registry for disasters and emergencies
  • 456.41 — Complementary or alternative health care treatments
  • 456.42 — Written prescriptions for medicinal drugs
  • 456.43 — Electronic prescribing for medicinal drugs
  • 456.44 — Controlled substance prescribing
  • 456.4501 — Interstate Medical Licensure Compact
  • 456.4502 — Interstate Medical Licensure Compact; disciplinary proceedings
  • 456.4503 — Interstate Medical Licensure Compact Commission; public records and meetings exemptions
  • 456.4504 — Interstate Medical Licensure Compact rules
  • 456.47 — Use of telehealth to provide services
  • 456.50 — Repeated medical malpractice
  • 456.51 — Consent for pelvic examinations
  • 456.52 — Sex-reassignment prescriptions and procedures; prohibitions; informed consent
  • 456.61 — Use of free speech by a health care practitioner; prohibition
  • 456.62 — Communication of COVID-19 treatment alternatives
Title 457 · FL Chapter 457 (11 sections)
  • 457.101 — Legislative intent
  • 457.102 — Definitions
  • 457.103 — Board of Acupuncture; membership; appointment and terms
  • 457.104 — Rulemaking authority
  • 457.105 — Licensure qualifications and fees
  • 457.107 — Renewal of licenses; continuing education
  • 457.108 — Inactive status; expiration; reactivation of licenses
  • 457.1085 — Infection control
  • 457.109 — Disciplinary actions; grounds; action by the board
  • 457.116 — Prohibited acts; penalty
  • 457.118 — Effect of chapter on other health care practices
Title 458 · FL Chapter 458 (53 sections)
  • 458.301 — Purpose
  • 458.303 — Provisions not applicable to other practitioners; exceptions, etc
  • 458.305 — Definitions
  • 458.307 — Board of Medicine
  • 458.309 — Rulemaking authority
  • 458.310 — Restricted licenses
  • 458.311 — Licensure by examination; requirements; fees
  • 458.3115 — Restricted license; certain foreign-licensed physicians; examination; restrictions on practice; full licensure
  • 458.3129 — Interstate Medical Licensure Compact; applicability
  • 458.313 — Licensure by endorsement; requirements; fees
  • 458.3135 — Temporary certificate for visiting physicians to practice in approved cancer centers
  • 458.3137 — Temporary certificate for visiting physicians to obtain medical privileges for instructional purposes in conjunction wit
  • 458.314 — Certification of foreign educational institutions
  • 458.3145 — Medical faculty certificate
  • 458.3147 — Medical school eligibility of military academy students or graduates
  • 458.315 — Temporary certificate for practice in areas of critical need
  • 458.3151 — Temporary certificate for active duty military and veterans practicing in areas of critical need
  • 458.316 — Public health certificate
  • 458.3165 — Public psychiatry certificate
  • 458.317 — Limited licenses
  • 458.3175 — Expert witness certificate
  • 458.319 — Renewal of license
  • 458.3191 — Physician survey
  • 458.3192 — Analysis of survey results; report
  • 458.3193 — Confidentiality of certain information contained in physician workforce surveys
  • 458.320 — Financial responsibility
  • 458.321 — Inactive status
  • 458.323 — Itemized patient billing
  • 458.324 — Breast cancer; information on treatment alternatives
  • 458.3245 — Stem cell therapy
  • 458.325 — Electroconvulsive and psychosurgical procedures
  • 458.3255 — Electronic-communications diagnostic-imaging or treatment services
  • 458.326 — Intractable pain; authorized treatment
  • 458.3265 — Pain-management clinics
  • 458.327 — Penalty for violations
  • 458.328 — Office surgeries
  • 458.329 — Sexual misconduct in the practice of medicine
  • 458.3295 — Concerted effort to refuse emergency room treatment to patients; penalties
  • 458.331 — Grounds for disciplinary action; action by the board and department
  • 458.3311 — Emergency procedures for disciplinary action
  • 458.3312 — Specialties
  • 458.335 — Prescription or administration of dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO)
  • 458.336 — Drugs to treat obesity; rules establishing guidelines
  • 458.337 — Reports of disciplinary actions by medical organizations and hospitals
  • 458.339 — Physician’s consent; handwriting samples; mental or physical examinations
  • 458.341 — Search warrants for certain violations
  • 458.343 — Subpoena of certain records
  • 458.345 — Registration of resident physicians, interns, and fellows; list of hospital employees; prescribing of medicinal drugs; p
  • 458.347 — Physician assistants
  • 458.3475 — Anesthesiologist assistants
  • 458.348 — Formal supervisory relationships, standing orders, and established protocols; notice; standards
  • 458.3485 — Medical assistant
  • 458.351 — Reports of adverse incidents in office practice settings
Title 459 · FL Chapter 459 (42 sections)
  • 459.001 — Purpose
  • 459.002 — Chapter not applicable to practice of medicine, surgery, chiropractic medicine, etc
  • 459.003 — Definitions
  • 459.004 — Board of Osteopathic Medicine
  • 459.005 — Rulemaking authority
  • 459.0055 — General licensure requirements
  • 459.0066 — Expert witness certificate
  • 459.0075 — Limited licenses
  • 459.0076 — Temporary certificate for practice in areas of critical need
  • 459.00761 — Temporary certificate for active duty military and veterans practicing in areas of critical need
  • 459.0077 — Osteopathic faculty certificate
  • 459.008 — Renewal of licenses and certificates
  • 459.0081 — Physician survey
  • 459.0082 — Analysis of survey results; report
  • 459.0083 — Confidentiality of certain information contained in physician workforce surveys
  • 459.0085 — Financial responsibility
  • 459.009 — Inactive status
  • 459.0092 — Fees
  • 459.011 — Privileges, obligations, and status of osteopathic physicians
  • 459.012 — Itemized patient statement
  • 459.0122 — Patient records; termination of osteopathic physician’s practice
  • 459.0125 — Breast cancer; information on treatment alternatives
  • 459.0127 — Stem cell therapy
  • 459.013 — Penalty for violations
  • 459.0135 — Drugs to treat obesity; rules establishing guidelines
  • 459.0137 — Pain-management clinics
  • 459.0138 — Office surgeries
  • 459.0141 — Sexual misconduct in the practice of osteopathic medicine
  • 459.0145 — Concerted effort to refuse emergency room treatment to patients; penalties
  • 459.015 — Grounds for disciplinary action; action by the board and department
  • 459.0151 — Emergency procedures for disciplinary action
  • 459.0152 — Specialties
  • 459.016 — Reports of disciplinary actions by medical organizations
  • 459.017 — Osteopathic physician’s consent; handwriting samples; mental or physical examinations
  • 459.018 — Search warrants for certain violations
  • 459.019 — Subpoena of certain records
  • 459.021 — Registration of resident physicians, interns, and fellows; list of hospital employees; penalty
  • 459.022 — Physician assistants
  • 459.023 — Anesthesiologist assistants
  • 459.025 — Formal supervisory relationships, standing orders, and established protocols; notice; standards
  • 459.026 — Reports of adverse incidents in office practice settings
  • 459.074 — Interstate Medical Licensure Compact; applicability
Title 460 · FL Chapter 460 (18 sections)
  • 460.401 — Legislative findings; intent
  • 460.402 — Exceptions
  • 460.403 — Definitions
  • 460.404 — Board of Chiropractic Medicine; membership; appointment; terms
  • 460.405 — Authority to make rules
  • 460.406 — Licensure by examination
  • 460.4061 — Restricted license
  • 460.4062 — Chiropractic medicine faculty certificate
  • 460.407 — Renewal of license
  • 460.408 — Continuing chiropractic education
  • 460.4085 — Performance of dry needling by chiropractic physicians
  • 460.41 — Itemized patient billing
  • 460.411 — Violations and penalties
  • 460.412 — Sexual misconduct in the practice of chiropractic medicine
  • 460.413 — Grounds for disciplinary action; action by board or department
  • 460.414 — Chiropractic physicians subject to state and municipal rules and regulations
  • 460.4165 — Certified chiropractic physician’s assistants
  • 460.4167 — Proprietorship by persons other than licensed chiropractic physicians
Title 461 · FL Chapter 461 (17 sections)
  • 461.001 — Legislative findings; intent; scope
  • 461.002 — Exceptions
  • 461.003 — Definitions
  • 461.004 — Board of Podiatric Medicine; membership; appointment; terms
  • 461.005 — Rulemaking authority
  • 461.006 — Licensure by examination
  • 461.007 — Renewal of license
  • 461.008 — Inactive status
  • 461.009 — Itemized patient billing
  • 461.012 — Violations and penalties
  • 461.013 — Grounds for disciplinary action; action by the board; investigations by department
  • 461.0131 — Emergency procedures for disciplinary action
  • 461.0134 — Prescription or administration of dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO); written release and information requirements
  • 461.0135 — Operation of X-ray machines by podiatric X-ray assistants
  • 461.014 — Residency
  • 461.0155 — Medical assistants
  • 461.018 — Limited scope of practice; area of need
Title 462 · FL Chapter 462 (12 sections)
  • 462.01 — Definitions
  • 462.023 — Powers and duties of the department
  • 462.08 — Renewal of license to practice naturopathy
  • 462.09 — Disposition of fees
  • 462.11 — Naturopaths to observe regulations
  • 462.13 — Additional powers and duties of the department
  • 462.14 — Grounds for disciplinary action; action by the department
  • 462.16 — Reissue of license
  • 462.17 — Penalty for offenses relating to naturopathy
  • 462.18 — Educational requirements
  • 462.19 — Renewal of license; inactive status
  • 462.2001 — Saving clause
Title 463 · FL Chapter 463 (21 sections)
  • 463.0001 — Short title
  • 463.001 — Purpose; intent
  • 463.002 — Definitions
  • 463.003 — Board of Optometry
  • 463.004 — Board headquarters
  • 463.005 — Authority of the board
  • 463.0055 — Administration and prescription of ocular pharmaceutical agents
  • 463.0057 — Optometric faculty certificate
  • 463.006 — Licensure and certification by examination
  • 463.007 — Renewal of license; continuing education
  • 463.008 — Inactive status
  • 463.009 — Supportive personnel
  • 463.011 — Exhibition of license
  • 463.012 — Prescriptions; filing; release; duplication
  • 463.013 — Optometric services for certain public agencies
  • 463.0135 — Standards of practice
  • 463.014 — Certain acts prohibited
  • 463.0141 — Reports of adverse incidents in the practice of optometry
  • 463.015 — Violations and penalties
  • 463.016 — Grounds for disciplinary action; action by the board
  • 463.018 — Reciprocity
Title 464 · FL Chapter 464 (36 sections)
  • 464.001 — Short title
  • 464.002 — Purpose
  • 464.003 — Definitions
  • 464.004 — Board of Nursing; membership; appointment; terms
  • 464.005 — Board headquarters
  • 464.006 — Rulemaking authority
  • 464.008 — Licensure by examination
  • 464.009 — Licensure by endorsement
  • 464.0095 — Nurse Licensure Compact
  • 464.0096 — Nurse Licensure Compact; public records and meetings exemptions
  • 464.012 — Licensure of advanced practice registered nurses; fees; controlled substance prescribing
  • 464.0121 — Temporary certificate for practice in areas of critical need
  • 464.0123 — Autonomous practice by an advanced practice registered nurse
  • 464.013 — Renewal of license or certificate
  • 464.014 — Inactive status
  • 464.015 — Titles and abbreviations; restrictions; penalty
  • 464.0155 — Reports of adverse incidents by advanced practice registered nurses
  • 464.0156 — Delegation of duties
  • 464.016 — Violations and penalties
  • 464.017 — Sexual misconduct in the practice of nursing
  • 464.018 — Disciplinary actions
  • 464.019 — Approval of nursing education programs
  • 464.0195 — Florida Center for Nursing; goals
  • 464.0196 — Florida Center for Nursing; board of directors
  • 464.0205 — Retired volunteer nurse certificate
  • 464.022 — Exceptions
  • 464.027 — Registered nurse first assistant
  • 464.201 — Definitions
  • 464.202 — Duties and powers of the board
  • 464.203 — Certified nursing assistants; certification requirement
  • 464.2035 — Administration of medication
  • 464.204 — Denial, suspension, or revocation of certification; disciplinary actions
  • 464.205 — Availability of disciplinary records and proceedings
  • 464.206 — Exemption from liability
  • 464.207 — Penalties
  • 464.208 — Background screening information; rulemaking authority
Title 465 · FL Chapter 465 (56 sections)
  • 465.001 — Short Title
  • 465.002 — Legislative findings; intent
  • 465.003 — Definitions
  • 465.004 — Board of Pharmacy
  • 465.005 — Authority to make rules
  • 465.006 — Disposition of fees; expenditures
  • 465.007 — Licensure by examination
  • 465.0075 — Licensure by endorsement; requirements; fee
  • 465.008 — Renewal of license
  • 465.009 — Continuing professional pharmaceutical education
  • 465.012 — Reactivation of license; continuing education
  • 465.0125 — Consultant pharmacist license; application, renewal, fees; responsibilities; rules
  • 465.0126 — Nuclear pharmacist license; application, renewal, fees
  • 465.013 — Registration of pharmacy interns
  • 465.014 — Pharmacy technician
  • 465.015 — Violations and penalties
  • 465.0155 — Standards of practice
  • 465.0156 — Registration of nonresident pharmacies
  • 465.0157 — International export pharmacy permit
  • 465.0158 — Nonresident sterile compounding permit
  • 465.016 — Disciplinary actions
  • 465.0161 — Distribution of medicinal drugs without a permit
  • 465.017 — Authority to inspect; disposal
  • 465.018 — Community pharmacies; permits
  • 465.0181 — Community pharmacy permit required to dispense Schedule II or Schedule III controlled substances
  • 465.019 — Institutional pharmacies; permits
  • 465.0193 — Nuclear pharmacy permits
  • 465.0196 — Special pharmacy permits
  • 465.0197 — Internet pharmacy permits
  • 465.022 — Pharmacies; general requirements; fees
  • 465.023 — Pharmacy permittee; disciplinary action
  • 465.0235 — Automated pharmacy systems used by long-term care facilities, hospices, or state correctional institutions, or for outpa
  • 465.024 — Promoting sale of certain drugs prohibited
  • 465.0244 — Information disclosure
  • 465.025 — Substitution of drugs
  • 465.0251 — Generic drugs; removal from formulary under specified circumstances
  • 465.0252 — Substitution of interchangeable biosimilar products
  • 465.0255 — Expiration date of medicinal drugs; display; related use and storage instructions
  • 465.026 — Filling of certain prescriptions
  • 465.0265 — Centralized prescription filling
  • 465.0266 — Common database
  • 465.027 — Exceptions
  • 465.0275 — Emergency prescription refill
  • 465.0276 — Dispensing practitioner
  • 465.035 — Dispensing of medicinal drugs pursuant to facsimile of prescription
  • 465.185 — Rebates prohibited; penalties
  • 465.186 — Pharmacist’s order for medicinal drugs; dispensing procedure; development of formulary
  • 465.1861 — Ordering and dispensing HIV infection prevention drugs
  • 465.1865 — Collaborative pharmacy practice for chronic health conditions
  • 465.187 — Sale of medicinal drugs
  • 465.188 — Medicaid audits of pharmacies
  • 465.189 — Administration of vaccines and epinephrine autoinjection
  • 465.1893 — Administration of antipsychotic medication by injection
  • 465.1895 — Testing or screening for and treatment of minor, nonchronic health conditions
  • 465.1901 — Practice of orthotics and pedorthics
  • 465.1902 — Prescription Drug Donation Repository Program
Title 466 · FL Chapter 466 (46 sections)
  • 466.001 — Legislative purpose and intent
  • 466.002 — Persons exempt from operation of chapter
  • 466.003 — Definitions
  • 466.004 — Board of Dentistry
  • 466.005 — Expert witness certificate
  • 466.006 — Examination of dentists
  • 466.0065 — Regional licensure examinations
  • 466.0067 — Application for health access dental license
  • 466.00671 — Renewal of the health access dental license
  • 466.00672 — Revocation of health access dental license
  • 466.007 — Examination of dental hygienists
  • 466.008 — Certification of foreign educational institutions
  • 466.009 — Reexamination
  • 466.011 — Licensure
  • 466.013 — Renewal of license
  • 466.0135 — Continuing education; dentists
  • 466.014 — Continuing education; dental hygienists
  • 466.015 — Inactive status
  • 466.016 — License to be displayed
  • 466.017 — Prescription of drugs; anesthesia
  • 466.018 — Dentist of record; patient records
  • 466.019 — Advertising by dentists
  • 466.021 — Retention of dental laboratories by dentist; penalty
  • 466.022 — Peer review; records; immunity; confidentiality
  • 466.023 — Dental hygienists; scope and area of practice
  • 466.0235 — Dental charting
  • 466.024 — Delegation of duties; expanded functions
  • 466.025 — Permitting of dental interns serving at state institutions; certification of dentists practicing at government facilitie
  • 466.026 — Prohibitions; penalties
  • 466.027 — Sexual misconduct
  • 466.0275 — Lawful investigations; consent handwriting samples; mental or physical examination
  • 466.02751 — Establishment of practitioner profile for designation as a controlled substance prescribing practitioner
  • 466.028 — Grounds for disciplinary action; action by the board
  • 466.0281 — Initial examination for orthodontic appliance
  • 466.0282 — Specialties
  • 466.0285 — Proprietorship by nondentists
  • 466.031 — Dental laboratories
  • 466.032 — Registration
  • 466.033 — Registration certificates
  • 466.034 — Change of ownership or address
  • 466.035 — Advertising
  • 466.036 — Information; periodic inspections; equipment and supplies
  • 466.037 — Suspension and revocation; administrative fine
  • 466.038 — Rules
  • 466.039 — Violations
  • 466.041 — Hepatitis B carriers
Title 467 · FL Chapter 467 (21 sections)
  • 467.001 — Short title
  • 467.002 — Legislative intent
  • 467.003 — Definitions
  • 467.004 — Council of Licensed Midwifery
  • 467.005 — Authority to make rules
  • 467.006 — Requirements to practice midwifery
  • 467.009 — Accredited and approved midwifery programs; education and training requirements
  • 467.011 — Licensed midwives; qualifications; examination
  • 467.012 — Renewal of license
  • 467.0125 — Licensed midwives; qualifications; endorsement; temporary certificates
  • 467.013 — Inactive status
  • 467.0135 — Fees
  • 467.014 — Financial responsibility
  • 467.015 — Responsibilities of the midwife
  • 467.016 — Informed consent
  • 467.017 — Emergency care plan; immunity
  • 467.019 — Records and reports
  • 467.201 — Violations and penalties
  • 467.203 — Disciplinary actions; penalties
  • 467.205 — Approval of midwifery programs
  • 467.207 — Exceptions
Title 468 · FL Chapter 468 (258 sections)
  • 468.1105 — Legislative intent
  • 468.1115 — Exemptions
  • 468.1125 — Definitions
  • 468.1135 — Board of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology
  • 468.1145 — Fees; establishment; disposition
  • 468.1155 — Provisional license; requirements
  • 468.1165 — Professional employment experience requirement
  • 468.1175 — Examination
  • 468.1185 — Licensure
  • 468.1195 — Renewal of license or certificate; continuing education requirements; standards for approval of continuing education pro
  • 468.1205 — Inactive status; reactivation; continuing education; application procedures; renewal
  • 468.1215 — Speech-language pathology assistant and audiology assistant; certification
  • 468.1225 — Procedures, equipment, and protocols
  • 468.1245 — Itemized listing of prices; delivery of prescription hearing aid; receipt; guarantee; packaging; disclaimer
  • 468.1246 — Thirty-day trial period; purchaser’s right to cancel; notice; refund; cancellation fee
  • 468.1255 — Cancellation by medical authorization; purchaser’s right to return
  • 468.1265 — Sale or distribution of prescription hearing aids through mail; penalty
  • 468.1275 — Place of business; display of license
  • 468.1285 — Prohibitions; penalties
  • 468.1295 — Disciplinary proceedings
  • 468.1296 — Sexual misconduct
  • 468.1315 — Saving clauses
  • 468.1335 — Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology Interstate Compact
  • 468.1336 — Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology Interstate Compact Commission; public meetings and public records exemptions
  • 468.1635 — Purpose
  • 468.1645 — Administrator license required
  • 468.1655 — Definitions
  • 468.1665 — Board of Nursing Home Administrators; membership; appointment; terms
  • 468.1675 — Board headquarters
  • 468.1685 — Powers and duties of board and department
  • 468.1695 — Licensure by examination
  • 468.1705 — Licensure by endorsement; temporary license
  • 468.1715 — Renewal of license
  • 468.1725 — Inactive status
  • 468.1735 — Provisional license
  • 468.1745 — Prohibitions; penalties
  • 468.1755 — Disciplinary proceedings
  • 468.1756 — Statute of limitations
  • 468.201 — Short title; purpose
  • 468.203 — Definitions
  • 468.204 — Authority to adopt rules
  • 468.205 — Board of Occupational Therapy Practice
  • 468.207 — License required
  • 468.209 — Requirements for licensure
  • 468.211 — Examination for licensure
  • 468.213 — Licensure by endorsement; waiver of examination requirement
  • 468.215 — Issuance of license
  • 468.217 — Denial of or refusal to renew license; suspension and revocation of license and other disciplinary measures
  • 468.219 — Renewal of license; continuing education
  • 468.221 — Fees
  • 468.223 — Prohibitions; penalties
  • 468.225 — Exemptions
  • 468.3001 — Short title
  • 468.3003 — Declaration of policy
  • 468.301 — Definitions
  • 468.302 — Use of radiation; identification of certified persons; limitations; exceptions
  • 468.303 — Rules
  • 468.304 — Certification
  • 468.305 — Certification; standards
  • 468.306 — Examinations
  • 468.3065 — Certification by endorsement
  • 468.307 — Certificate; issuance; display
  • 468.309 — Certificate; duration; renewal; reversion to inactive status; members of Armed Forces and spouses
  • 468.3095 — Inactive status; reactivation; automatic suspension; reinstatement
  • 468.3101 — Disciplinary grounds and actions
  • 468.311 — Violations; penalties
  • 468.3115 — Injunctive relief
  • 468.312 — Fees; disposition
  • 468.314 — Advisory Council on Radiation Protection; appointment; terms; powers; duties
  • 468.315 — Treatment program for impaired radiological personnel
  • 468.35 — Short title
  • 468.351 — Purpose and intent; application
  • 468.352 — Definitions
  • 468.353 — Board of Respiratory Care; powers and duties
  • 468.354 — Board of Respiratory Care; organization; function
  • 468.355 — Licensure requirements
  • 468.358 — Licensure by endorsement
  • 468.359 — Assumption of title and use of abbreviations
  • 468.36 — Current address
  • 468.361 — Renewal of licensure; continuing education
  • 468.363 — Reactivation of licensure; continuing education
  • 468.364 — Fees; establishment; disposition
  • 468.365 — Disciplinary grounds and actions
  • 468.366 — Penalties for violations
  • 468.367 — Injunctive relief
  • 468.368 — Exemptions
  • 468.369 — Payment or reimbursement by hospitals of costs of compliance with part
  • 468.381 — Purpose
  • 468.382 — Definitions
  • 468.383 — Exemptions
  • 468.384 — Florida Board of Auctioneers
  • 468.385 — Licenses required; qualifications; examination
  • 468.3851 — Renewal of license
  • 468.3852 — Reactivation of license; fee
  • 468.3855 — Apprenticeship training requirements
  • 468.386 — Fees; local licensing requirements
  • 468.387 — Licensing of nonresidents; endorsement; reciprocity
  • 468.388 — Conduct of an auction
  • 468.389 — Prohibited acts; penalties
  • 468.391 — Penalty
  • 468.392 — Auctioneer Recovery Fund
  • 468.393 — Surcharge to license fee; assessments
  • 468.394 — Interest credited; payment of expenses
  • 468.395 — Conditions of recovery; eligibility
  • 468.396 — Claims against a single licensee in excess of dollar limitation; joinder of claims, payment; insufficient funds
  • 468.397 — Payment of claim
  • 468.398 — Suspension of judgment debtor’s license; repayment by licensee; interest
  • 468.399 — Expenditure of excess funds
  • 468.401 — Regulation of talent agencies; definitions
  • 468.402 — Duties of the department; authority to issue and revoke license; adoption of rules
  • 468.403 — License requirements
  • 468.404 — License; fees; renewals
  • 468.405 — Qualification for talent agency license
  • 468.406 — Fees to be charged by talent agencies; rates; display
  • 468.407 — License; content; posting
  • 468.408 — Bond required
  • 468.409 — Records required to be kept
  • 468.410 — Prohibition against registration fees; referral
  • 468.411 — Labor disputes; statements required
  • 468.412 — Talent agency regulations; prohibited acts
  • 468.413 — Legal requirements; penalties
  • 468.414 — Collection and deposit of moneys; appropriation
  • 468.415 — Sexual misconduct in the operation of a talent agency
  • 468.431 — Definitions
  • 468.4315 — Regulatory Council of Community Association Managers
  • 468.432 — Licensure of community association managers and community association management firms; exceptions
  • 468.433 — Licensure by examination
  • 468.4334 — Professional practice standards; liability; community association manager requirements; return of records after terminat
  • 468.4335 — Conflicts of interest
  • 468.4336 — Renewal of license
  • 468.4337 — Continuing education
  • 468.4338 — Reactivation; continuing education
  • 468.435 — Fees; establishment; disposition
  • 468.436 — Disciplinary proceedings
  • 468.4365 — Availability of disciplinary records and proceedings
  • 468.437 — Penalties
  • 468.438 — Timeshare management firms
  • 468.451 — Legislative findings and intent
  • 468.452 — Definitions
  • 468.453 — Licensure required; qualifications; license nontransferable; service of process; temporary license; license or applicati
  • 468.4535 — Exceptions
  • 468.4536 — Renewal of licensure
  • 468.454 — Contracts
  • 468.456 — Prohibited acts
  • 468.4561 — Unlicensed activity; penalties for violations
  • 468.45615 — Provision of illegal inducements to athletes prohibited; penalties; license suspension
  • 468.4562 — Civil action by institution
  • 468.4565 — Business records requirement
  • 468.457 — Rulemaking authority
  • 468.501 — Short title
  • 468.502 — Purpose and intent
  • 468.503 — Definitions
  • 468.504 — License required
  • 468.505 — Exemptions; exceptions
  • 468.506 — Dietetics and Nutrition Practice Council
  • 468.507 — Authority to adopt rules
  • 468.508 — Fees
  • 468.509 — Dietitian/nutritionist; requirements for licensure
  • 468.51 — Nutrition counselor; renewal of licensure
  • 468.511 — Dietitian/nutritionist; temporary permit
  • 468.512 — License to be displayed
  • 468.513 — Dietitian/nutritionist; licensure by endorsement
  • 468.514 — Renewal of license
  • 468.515 — Inactive status
  • 468.516 — Practice requirements
  • 468.517 — Prohibitions; penalties
  • 468.518 — Grounds for disciplinary action
  • 468.520 — Definitions
  • 468.521 — Board of Employee Leasing Companies; membership; appointments; terms
  • 468.522 — Rules of the board
  • 468.523 — Applicability of s. 20.165 and ch. 455
  • 468.524 — Application for license
  • 468.5245 — Change of ownership
  • 468.525 — License requirements
  • 468.526 — License required; fees
  • 468.527 — Licensure and license renewal
  • 468.5275 — Registration and exemption of de minimis operations
  • 468.528 — Delinquent licenses
  • 468.529 — Licensee’s insurance; employment tax; benefit plans
  • 468.530 — License, contents; posting
  • 468.531 — Prohibitions; penalties
  • 468.532 — Discipline
  • 468.533 — Collected fees
  • 468.534 — Application
  • 468.535 — Investigations; audits; review
  • 468.601 — Purpose
  • 468.602 — Exemptions
  • 468.603 — Definitions
  • 468.604 — Responsibilities of building code administrators, plans examiners, and inspectors
  • 468.605 — Florida Building Code Administrators and Inspectors Board
  • 468.606 — Authority of the board
  • 468.607 — Certification of building code administration and inspection personnel
  • 468.609 — Administration of this part; standards for certification; additional categories of certification
  • 468.613 — Certification by endorsement
  • 468.617 — Joint building code inspection department; other arrangements
  • 468.619 — Building code enforcement officials’ bill of rights
  • 468.621 — Disciplinary proceedings
  • 468.627 — Application; examination; renewal; fees
  • 468.629 — Prohibitions; penalties
  • 468.631 — Building Code Administrators and Inspectors Fund
  • 468.632 — Prosecution of criminal violations
  • 468.633 — Authority of local government
  • 468.70 — Legislative intent
  • 468.701 — Definitions
  • 468.703 — Board of Athletic Training
  • 468.705 — Rulemaking authority
  • 468.707 — Licensure requirements
  • 468.709 — Fees
  • 468.711 — Renewal of license; continuing education
  • 468.713 — Responsibilities of athletic trainers
  • 468.715 — Sexual misconduct
  • 468.717 — Violations and penalties
  • 468.719 — Disciplinary actions
  • 468.723 — Exemptions
  • 468.80 — Definitions
  • 468.801 — Board of Orthotists and Prosthetists; appointment; membership; terms; headquarters
  • 468.802 — Authority to adopt rules
  • 468.803 — License, registration, and examination requirements
  • 468.806 — Biennial renewal of license
  • 468.808 — Support personnel
  • 468.809 — Prohibitions; penalties
  • 468.8095 — Practitioner and resident identification
  • 468.811 — Disciplinary proceedings
  • 468.812 — Exemptions from licensure
  • 468.813 — Use of titles
  • 468.83 — Home inspection services licensing program; purpose
  • 468.831 — Exemptions
  • 468.8311 — Definitions
  • 468.8312 — Fees
  • 468.8313 — Examinations
  • 468.8314 — Licensure
  • 468.8315 — Renewal of license
  • 468.8316 — Continuing education
  • 468.8317 — Inactive license
  • 468.8318 — Certification of corporations and partnerships
  • 468.8319 — Prohibitions; penalties
  • 468.832 — Disciplinary proceedings
  • 468.8321 — Disclosures
  • 468.8322 — Insurance
  • 468.8323 — Home inspection report
  • 468.8324 — Grandfather clause
  • 468.8325 — Rulemaking authority
  • 468.84 — Mold-related services licensing program; legislative purpose
  • 468.841 — Exemptions
  • 468.8411 — Definitions
  • 468.8412 — Fees
  • 468.8413 — Examinations
  • 468.8414 — Licensure
  • 468.8415 — Renewal of license
  • 468.8416 — Continuing education
  • 468.8417 — Inactive license
  • 468.8418 — Certification of partnerships and corporations
  • 468.8419 — Prohibitions; penalties
  • 468.842 — Disciplinary proceedings
  • 468.8421 — Insurance
  • 468.8422 — Contracts
  • 468.8423 — Grandfather clause
  • 468.8424 — Rulemaking authority
Title 469 · FL Chapter 469 (13 sections)
  • 469.001 — Definitions
  • 469.002 — Exemptions
  • 469.003 — License required
  • 469.004 — License; asbestos consultant; asbestos contractor
  • 469.005 — License requirements
  • 469.006 — Licensure of business organizations; qualifying agents
  • 469.007 — Responsibilities
  • 469.008 — Fees
  • 469.009 — License revocation, suspension, and denial of issuance or renewal
  • 469.011 — Authority to make rules
  • 469.012 — Course requirements for onsite supervisors and asbestos abatement workers
  • 469.013 — Course requirements for asbestos surveyors, management planners, project monitors, and project designers
  • 469.014 — Approval of asbestos training courses and providers
Title 47 · FL Chapter 47 (20 sections)
  • 47.011 — Where actions may be begun
  • 47.021 — Actions against defendants residing in different counties
  • 47.025 — Actions against contractors
  • 47.031 — Venue of receiverships when property in more than one circuit
  • 47.041 — Actions on several causes of action
  • 47.051 — Actions against corporations
  • 47.061 — Action on promissory notes
  • 47.071 — Jurisdiction over navigable waters
  • 47.081 — Military, naval, or other service as residence
  • 47.091 — Change of venue; power to grant
  • 47.101 — Change of venue; application
  • 47.111 — Change of venue; denial of motion
  • 47.121 — Change of venue; when unable to obtain jury
  • 47.122 — Change of venue; convenience of parties or witnesses or in the interest of justice
  • 47.131 — Change of venue; second change, when permitted
  • 47.141 — Change of venue; same jurisdiction
  • 47.151 — Change of venue; to another county of circuit
  • 47.172 — Change of venue; transfer of papers, etc
  • 47.181 — Change of venue; testimony of witnesses
  • 47.191 — Change of venue; payment of costs
Title 471 · FL Chapter 471 (24 sections)
  • 471.001 — Purpose
  • 471.003 — Qualifications for practice; exemptions
  • 471.0035 — Instructors in postsecondary educational institutions; exemption from licensure requirement
  • 471.005 — Definitions
  • 471.007 — Board of Professional Engineers
  • 471.008 — Rulemaking authority
  • 471.009 — Board headquarters
  • 471.011 — Fees
  • 471.013 — Examinations; prerequisites
  • 471.015 — Licensure
  • 471.017 — Renewal of license
  • 471.019 — Reactivation
  • 471.0195 — Florida Building Code training for engineers
  • 471.021 — Engineers and firms of other states; temporary registration to practice in Florida
  • 471.023 — Qualification of business organizations
  • 471.025 — Seals
  • 471.027 — Engineers authorized to enter lands of third parties under certain conditions
  • 471.031 — Prohibitions; penalties
  • 471.033 — Disciplinary proceedings
  • 471.037 — Effect of chapter locally
  • 471.038 — Florida Engineers Management Corporation
  • 471.0385 — Court action; effect
  • 471.045 — Professional engineers performing building code inspector duties
  • 471.055 — Structural Engineering Recognition Program for Professional Engineers
Title 472 · FL Chapter 472 (42 sections)
  • 472.001 — Purpose
  • 472.003 — Persons not affected by ss. 472.001-472.037
  • 472.005 — Definitions
  • 472.006 — Department; powers and duties
  • 472.007 — Board of Professional Surveyors and Mappers
  • 472.0075 — Contacting board through department
  • 472.008 — Rules of the board
  • 472.009 — Board headquarters
  • 472.0101 — Foreign-trained professionals; special examination and license provisions
  • 472.011 — Fees
  • 472.013 — Examinations, prerequisites
  • 472.0131 — Examinations; development; administration
  • 472.0132 — Penalty for theft or reproduction of an examination
  • 472.0135 — Education; substituting demonstration of competency for clock-hour requirements; accreditation; consultation
  • 472.015 — Licensure
  • 472.016 — Members of Armed Forces in good standing with the board
  • 472.0165 — Qualification of immigrants for examination to practice a licensed profession or occupation
  • 472.017 — Renewal of license
  • 472.018 — Continuing education
  • 472.019 — Reactivation; continuing education
  • 472.0201 — Public inspection of information required from applicants; exceptions; examination hearing
  • 472.02011 — Disclosure of confidential information
  • 472.0202 — Inactive and delinquent status
  • 472.0203 — Renewal and cancellation notices
  • 472.0204 — Address of record
  • 472.021 — Certification of partnerships and corporations
  • 472.023 — Surveyors and mappers and firms of other states; temporary certificates to practice in this state
  • 472.025 — Seals
  • 472.027 — Standards of practice
  • 472.029 — Authorization to enter lands of third parties; conditions
  • 472.031 — Prohibitions; penalties
  • 472.033 — Disciplinary proceedings
  • 472.0335 — Classification of disciplinary actions
  • 472.0337 — Power to administer oaths, take depositions, and issue subpoenas
  • 472.034 — Mediation
  • 472.0345 — Authority to issue citations
  • 472.0351 — Grounds for discipline; penalties; enforcement
  • 472.0355 — Disciplinary guidelines
  • 472.036 — Unlicensed practice of professional surveying and mapping; cease and desist notice; civil penalty; enforcement; citation
  • 472.0365 — Unlicensed activities; fees; disposition
  • 472.0366 — Elevation certificates; requirements for surveyors and mappers
  • 472.037 — Application of ss. 472.001-472.037
Title 473 · FL Chapter 473 (25 sections)
  • 473.301 — Purpose
  • 473.302 — Definitions
  • 473.303 — Board of Accountancy
  • 473.3035 — Division of Certified Public Accounting
  • 473.304 — Rules of board; powers and duties; legal services
  • 473.305 — Fees
  • 473.306 — Examinations
  • 473.3065 — Clay Ford Scholarship Program; Certified Public Accountant Education Minority Assistance Advisory Council
  • 473.308 — Licensure
  • 473.309 — Practice requirements for partnerships, corporations, and limited liability companies; business entities practicing publ
  • 473.3101 — Licensure of firms or public accounting firms
  • 473.311 — Renewal of license
  • 473.312 — Continuing education
  • 473.3125 — Peer review
  • 473.313 — Inactive status; retired status
  • 473.314 — Temporary license
  • 473.3141 — Certified public accountants licensed in other states
  • 473.315 — Independence, technical standards
  • 473.316 — Communications between the accountant and client privileged
  • 473.318 — Ownership of working papers
  • 473.319 — Contingent fees
  • 473.3205 — Commissions or referral fees
  • 473.321 — Fictitious names
  • 473.322 — Prohibitions; penalties
  • 473.323 — Disciplinary proceedings
Title 474 · FL Chapter 474 (21 sections)
  • 474.201 — Purpose
  • 474.202 — Definitions
  • 474.2021 — Veterinary telehealth
  • 474.203 — Exemptions
  • 474.204 — Board of Veterinary Medicine
  • 474.205 — Headquarters
  • 474.206 — Authority to make rules
  • 474.2065 — Fees
  • 474.207 — Licensure by examination
  • 474.211 — Renewal of license
  • 474.2125 — Temporary license
  • 474.213 — Prohibitions; penalties
  • 474.214 — Disciplinary proceedings
  • 474.2145 — Subpoena of certain records
  • 474.215 — Premises permits
  • 474.216 — License and premises permit to be displayed
  • 474.2165 — Ownership and control of veterinary medical patient records; report or copies of records to be furnished
  • 474.2167 — Confidentiality of animal medical records
  • 474.217 — Licensure by endorsement
  • 474.2185 — Veterinarians consent; handwriting samples; mental or physical examinations
  • 474.221 — Impaired practitioner provisions; applicability
Title 475 · FL Chapter 475 (102 sections)
  • 475.001 — Purpose
  • 475.01 — Definitions
  • 475.011 — Exemptions
  • 475.02 — Florida Real Estate Commission
  • 475.021 — Division of Real Estate
  • 475.03 — Delegation of powers and duties; legal services
  • 475.04 — Duty of commission to educate members of profession
  • 475.045 — Florida Real Estate Commission Education and Research Foundation
  • 475.05 — Power of commission to enact bylaws and rules and decide questions of practice
  • 475.10 — Seal
  • 475.125 — Fees
  • 475.15 — Registration and licensing of general partners, members, officers, and directors of a firm
  • 475.161 — Licensing of broker associates and sales associates
  • 475.17 — Qualifications for practice
  • 475.175 — Examinations
  • 475.180 — Nonresident licenses
  • 475.181 — Licensure
  • 475.182 — Renewal of license; continuing education
  • 475.183 — Inactive status
  • 475.215 — Multiple licenses
  • 475.22 — Broker to maintain office and sign at entrance of office; registered office outside state; broker required to cooperate
  • 475.23 — License to expire on change of address
  • 475.24 — Branch office; fees
  • 475.25 — Discipline
  • 475.255 — Determination of agency or transactional brokerage relationship
  • 475.2701 — Short title
  • 475.272 — Purpose
  • 475.274 — Scope of coverage
  • 475.2755 — Designated sales associate
  • 475.278 — Authorized brokerage relationships; presumption of transaction brokerage; required disclosures
  • 475.279 — Residential loan alternative agreements for the disposition of residential real property
  • 475.28 — Rules of evidence
  • 475.2801 — Rules
  • 475.31 — Final orders
  • 475.37 — Effect of reversal of order of court or commission
  • 475.38 — Payment of costs
  • 475.41 — Contracts of unlicensed person for commissions invalid
  • 475.42 — Violations and penalties
  • 475.43 — Presumptions
  • 475.451 — Schools teaching real estate practice
  • 475.4511 — Advertising by real estate schools
  • 475.453 — Rental information; contract or receipt; refund; penalty
  • 475.455 — Exchange of disciplinary information
  • 475.482 — Real Estate Recovery Fund
  • 475.483 — Conditions for recovery; eligibility
  • 475.4835 — Commission powers upon notification of commencement of action
  • 475.484 — Payment from the fund
  • 475.485 — Investment of the fund
  • 475.486 — Rules; violations
  • 475.5015 — Brokerage business records
  • 475.5016 — Authority to inspect and audit
  • 475.5017 — Injunctive relief; powers
  • 475.5018 — Facsimile signatures or writing accepted
  • 475.610 — Purpose
  • 475.611 — Definitions
  • 475.612 — Certification, licensure, or registration required
  • 475.613 — Florida Real Estate Appraisal Board
  • 475.614 — Power of board to adopt rules and decide questions of practice; requirements for protection of appraiser’s signature
  • 475.6145 — Seal
  • 475.6147 — Fees
  • 475.615 — Qualifications for registration or certification
  • 475.616 — Examination requirements
  • 475.617 — Education and experience requirements
  • 475.6171 — Issuance of registration or certification
  • 475.618 — Renewal of registration, license, certification, or instructor permit; continuing education
  • 475.619 — Inactive status
  • 475.620 — Corporations and partnerships ineligible for licensure or certification
  • 475.621 — Registry of licensed and certified appraisers; registry of appraisal management companies
  • 475.622 — Display and disclosure of licensure, certification, or registration
  • 475.6221 — Employment of and by registered trainee real estate appraisers
  • 475.6222 — Supervision and training of registered trainee appraisers
  • 475.623 — Registration of firm or business name and office location
  • 475.6235 — Registration of appraisal management companies required; exemptions
  • 475.624 — Discipline of appraisers
  • 475.6245 — Discipline of appraisal management companies
  • 475.625 — Final orders
  • 475.626 — Violations and penalties
  • 475.627 — Appraisal course instructors
  • 475.628 — Professional standards for appraisers registered, licensed, or certified under this part
  • 475.629 — Retention of records
  • 475.6295 — Authority to inspect
  • 475.630 — Temporary practice
  • 475.631 — Nonresident licenses and certifications
  • 475.700 — Popular name
  • 475.701 — Definitions
  • 475.703 — Broker’s lien for sales commission
  • 475.705 — Contents of commission notice; delivery to owner and closing agent
  • 475.707 — Recording commission notice; effectiveness
  • 475.709 — Duties of closing agent; reservation of owner’s net proceeds
  • 475.711 — Interpleader or other proceedings; deposit of reserved proceeds in court registry; discharge of closing agent from furth
  • 475.713 — Civil action concerning commission; order to show cause; hearing; release of proceeds; award of costs and attorney’s f
  • 475.715 — Priority of recorded commission notice
  • 475.717 — Service of notice
  • 475.719 — Buyer’s broker
  • 475.800 — Short title
  • 475.801 — Definitions
  • 475.803 — Broker’s lien for leasing commission
  • 475.805 — Contents of lien notice
  • 475.807 — Recording lien notice; effectiveness
  • 475.809 — Foreclosure of lien; civil action by owner; award of costs and attorney’s fees
  • 475.811 — Transfer of lien to security
  • 475.813 — Subordination of lien
Title 476 · FL Chapter 476 (22 sections)
  • 476.014 — Short title
  • 476.024 — Purpose
  • 476.034 — Definitions
  • 476.044 — Exemptions
  • 476.054 — Barbers’ Board
  • 476.064 — Organization; headquarters; personnel; meetings
  • 476.074 — Legal, investigative, and inspection services
  • 476.114 — Examination; prerequisites
  • 476.134 — Examinations
  • 476.144 — Licensure
  • 476.154 — Biennial renewal of licenses
  • 476.155 — Inactive status; reactivation of inactive license
  • 476.178 — Schools of barbering; licensure
  • 476.184 — Barbershop licensure; requirements; fee; inspection; license display
  • 476.188 — Barber services to be performed in registered barbershop; exception
  • 476.192 — Fees; disposition
  • 476.194 — Prohibited acts
  • 476.204 — Penalties
  • 476.214 — Grounds for suspending, revoking, or refusing to grant license or certificate
  • 476.234 — Civil proceedings
  • 476.244 — Administrative proceedings
  • 476.254 — Saving clause
Title 477 · FL Chapter 477 (22 sections)
  • 477.011 — Short title
  • 477.012 — Purpose
  • 477.013 — Definitions
  • 477.0135 — Exemptions
  • 477.014 — Qualifications for practice
  • 477.015 — Board of Cosmetology
  • 477.016 — Rulemaking
  • 477.017 — Legal services
  • 477.018 — Investigative services
  • 477.019 — Cosmetologists; qualifications; licensure; supervised practice; license renewal; endorsement; continuing education
  • 477.0201 — Specialty registration; qualifications; registration renewal; endorsement
  • 477.0212 — Inactive status
  • 477.0213 — Cosmetology graduates of Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind; licenses
  • 477.022 — Examinations
  • 477.023 — Schools of cosmetology; licensure
  • 477.025 — Cosmetology salons; specialty salons; requisites; licensure; inspection; mobile cosmetology salons
  • 477.026 — Fees; disposition
  • 477.0263 — Cosmetology services to be performed in licensed salon; exceptions
  • 477.0265 — Prohibited acts
  • 477.028 — Disciplinary proceedings
  • 477.029 — Penalty
  • 477.031 — Civil proceedings
Title 478 · FL Chapter 478 (16 sections)
  • 478.40 — Short title
  • 478.41 — Purpose and intent
  • 478.42 — Definitions
  • 478.43 — Board of Medicine; powers and duties
  • 478.44 — Electrolysis Council; creation; function; powers and duties
  • 478.45 — Requirements for licensure
  • 478.46 — Temporary permits
  • 478.47 — Licensure by endorsement
  • 478.48 — Assumption of title and use of abbreviations
  • 478.49 — License required
  • 478.50 — Renewal of license; delinquent status; address notification; continuing education requirements
  • 478.51 — Electrology facilities; requisites; facility licensure; inspection
  • 478.52 — Disciplinary proceedings
  • 478.53 — Penalty for violations
  • 478.54 — Exemptions
  • 478.55 — Fees; facility; disposition
Title 479 · FL Chapter 479 (33 sections)
  • 479.01 — Definitions
  • 479.015 — Legislative intent with respect to regulation of signs in areas adjacent to state highways
  • 479.02 — Duties of the department
  • 479.024 — Commercial and industrial parcels
  • 479.03 — Jurisdiction of the Department of Transportation; entry upon privately owned lands
  • 479.04 — Business of outdoor advertising; license requirement; renewal; fees
  • 479.05 — Denial, suspension, or revocation of license
  • 479.07 — Sign permits
  • 479.08 — Denial or revocation of permit
  • 479.10 — Sign removal following permit revocation or cancellation
  • 479.105 — Signs erected or maintained without required permit; removal
  • 479.106 — Vegetation management
  • 479.107 — Signs on highway rights-of-way; removal
  • 479.11 — Specified signs prohibited
  • 479.111 — Specified signs allowed within controlled portions of the interstate and federal-aid primary highway system
  • 479.12 — Outdoor advertising on highways
  • 479.14 — Disposition of fees
  • 479.15 — Harmony of regulations
  • 479.155 — Local outdoor advertising or sign ordinances
  • 479.156 — Wall murals
  • 479.16 — Signs for which permits are not required
  • 479.21 — Willfully or maliciously removing, destroying, damaging, or altering permitted signs; penalty
  • 479.24 — Compensation for signs; eminent domain; exceptions
  • 479.25 — Erection of noise-attenuation barrier blocking view of sign; procedures; application
  • 479.261 — Logo sign program
  • 479.262 — Tourist-oriented directional sign program
  • 479.27 — Highway beautification and tourism promotion pilot project
  • 479.30 — Radio advisory program for limited access highways
  • 479.310 — Unpermitted and illegal signs; intent
  • 479.311 — Jurisdiction; venue
  • 479.312 — Unpermitted signs; cost of removal
  • 479.313 — Permit revocation and cancellation; cost of removal
  • 479.315 — Highway rights-of-way; cost of sign removal
Title 48 · FL Chapter 48 (38 sections)
  • 48.011 — Process; how directed
  • 48.021 — Process; by whom served
  • 48.031 — Service of process generally; service of witness subpoenas
  • 48.041 — Service on minor
  • 48.042 — Service on incompetent
  • 48.051 — Service on state prisoners
  • 48.061 — Service on partnerships, limited liability partnerships, and limited partnerships
  • 48.062 — Service on a domestic limited liability company or registered foreign limited liability company
  • 48.071 — Service on agents of nonresidents doing business in the state
  • 48.081 — Service on a domestic corporation or registered foreign corporation
  • 48.091 — Partnerships, corporations, and limited liability companies; designation of registered agent and registered office
  • 48.092 — Service on financial institutions
  • 48.101 — Service on domestic dissolved corporations, dissolved limited liability companies, dissolved limited partnerships, disso
  • 48.102 — Service by other means
  • 48.111 — Service on public agencies and officers
  • 48.121 — Service on the state
  • 48.131 — Service on alien property custodian
  • 48.141 — Service on labor unions
  • 48.151 — Service on statutory agents for certain persons
  • 48.161 — Method of substituted service on certain parties in care of the Secretary of State
  • 48.171 — Service on nonresident motor vehicle owners, etc
  • 48.181 — Substituted service on nonresidents and foreign business entities engaging in business in state or concealing their wher
  • 48.183 — Service of process in action for possession of premises
  • 48.184 — Service of process for removal of unknown parties in possession
  • 48.19 — Service on nonresidents operating aircraft or watercraft in the state
  • 48.193 — Acts subjecting person to jurisdiction of courts of state
  • 48.194 — Personal service in another state, territory, or commonwealth of the United States
  • 48.195 — Service of foreign process
  • 48.196 — Service of process in connection with actions under the Florida International Commercial Arbitration Act
  • 48.197 — Service in a foreign country
  • 48.20 — Service of process on Sunday
  • 48.21 — Return of execution of process
  • 48.22 — Cumulative to other laws
  • 48.23 — Lis pendens
  • 48.25 — Short title
  • 48.27 — Certified process servers
  • 48.29 — Certification of process servers
  • 48.31 — Removal of certified process servers; false return of service
Title 480 · FL Chapter 480 (19 sections)
  • 480.031 — Short title
  • 480.032 — Purpose
  • 480.033 — Definitions
  • 480.034 — Exemptions
  • 480.035 — Board of Massage Therapy
  • 480.036 — Accountability of board members
  • 480.039 — Investigative services
  • 480.041 — Massage therapists; qualifications; licensure; endorsement
  • 480.0415 — License renewal
  • 480.043 — Massage establishments; requisites; licensure; inspection; human trafficking awareness training and policies
  • 480.044 — Fees; disposition
  • 480.046 — Grounds for disciplinary action by the board
  • 480.0465 — Advertisement; prohibitions
  • 480.047 — Penalties
  • 480.0475 — Massage establishments; prohibited practices
  • 480.0485 — Sexual misconduct in the practice of massage therapy
  • 480.049 — Civil proceedings
  • 480.052 — Power of county or municipality to regulate massage therapy
  • 480.0535 — Documents required while working in a massage establishment; penalties; reporting
Title 481 · FL Chapter 481 (35 sections)
  • 481.201 — Purpose
  • 481.203 — Definitions
  • 481.205 — Board of Architecture and Interior Design
  • 481.2055 — Authority to make rules
  • 481.207 — Fees
  • 481.209 — Examinations
  • 481.211 — Architecture internship required
  • 481.213 — Licensure and registration
  • 481.2131 — Interior design; practice requirements; disclosure of compensation for professional services
  • 481.215 — Renewal of license or certificate of registration
  • 481.217 — Inactive status
  • 481.219 — Qualification of business organizations
  • 481.221 — Seals; display of certificate number
  • 481.222 — Architects performing building code inspection services
  • 481.223 — Prohibitions; penalties; injunctive relief
  • 481.225 — Disciplinary proceedings against registered architects
  • 481.2251 — Disciplinary proceedings against registered interior designers
  • 481.229 — Exceptions; exemptions from licensure
  • 481.231 — Effect of part locally
  • 481.301 — Purpose
  • 481.303 — Definitions
  • 481.305 — Board of Landscape Architecture
  • 481.306 — Authority to make rules
  • 481.307 — Fees
  • 481.309 — Examinations
  • 481.310 — Practical experience requirement
  • 481.311 — Licensure
  • 481.313 — Renewal of license
  • 481.315 — Inactive status
  • 481.317 — Temporary certificates
  • 481.319 — Corporate and partnership practice of landscape architecture
  • 481.321 — Seals; display of certificate number
  • 481.323 — Prohibitions; penalties
  • 481.325 — Disciplinary proceedings
  • 481.329 — Exceptions; exemptions from licensure
Title 482 · FL Chapter 482 (35 sections)
  • 482.011 — Short title
  • 482.021 — Definitions
  • 482.032 — Enforcement
  • 482.051 — Rules
  • 482.061 — Inspectors
  • 482.071 — Licenses
  • 482.072 — Pest control customer contact centers
  • 482.0815 — Permit to perform preventive termite treatment services for new construction only
  • 482.091 — Employee identification cards
  • 482.111 — Pest control operator’s certificate
  • 482.121 — Misuse of certificate
  • 482.132 — Qualifications for examination and certification
  • 482.141 — Examinations
  • 482.151 — Special identification card for performance of fumigation
  • 482.152 — Duties of certified operator in charge of pest control activities of licensee
  • 482.155 — Limited certification for governmental pesticide applicators or private applicators
  • 482.156 — Limited certification for commercial landscape maintenance personnel
  • 482.1562 — Limited certification for urban landscape commercial fertilizer application
  • 482.157 — Limited certification for commercial wildlife management personnel
  • 482.161 — Disciplinary grounds and actions; reinstatement
  • 482.163 — Responsibility for pest control activities of employee
  • 482.165 — Unlicensed practice of pest control; cease and desist order; injunction; civil suit and penalty
  • 482.1821 — Closing pest control business without providing for contracts and liabilities
  • 482.183 — Limitations
  • 482.191 — Violation and penalty
  • 482.211 — Exemptions
  • 482.226 — Wood-destroying organism inspection report; notice of inspection or treatment; financial responsibility
  • 482.2265 — Consumer information; notice of application of pesticide
  • 482.2267 — Registry of persons requiring prior notification of the application of pesticides
  • 482.227 — Guarantees and warranties
  • 482.231 — Use of fogging machines
  • 482.2401 — Disposition and use of revenues from fees and fines
  • 482.241 — Liberal interpretation
  • 482.242 — Preemption
  • 482.243 — Pest Control Enforcement Advisory Council
Title 483 · FL Chapter 483 (27 sections)
  • 483.800 — Declaration of policy and statement of purpose
  • 483.801 — Exemptions
  • 483.803 — Definitions
  • 483.805 — Board of Clinical Laboratory Personnel
  • 483.807 — Fees; establishment; disposition
  • 483.809 — Licensure; examinations; registration of trainees; approval of curricula
  • 483.811 — Approval of laboratory personnel training programs
  • 483.812 — Public health laboratory scientists; licensure
  • 483.813 — Clinical laboratory personnel license
  • 483.815 — Application for clinical laboratory personnel license
  • 483.817 — Renewal of clinical laboratory personnel license
  • 483.819 — Inactive status
  • 483.821 — Periodic demonstration of competency; continuing education or reexamination
  • 483.823 — Qualifications of clinical laboratory personnel
  • 483.824 — Qualifications of clinical laboratory director
  • 483.825 — Grounds for disciplinary action
  • 483.828 — Penalties for violations
  • 483.901 — Medical physicists; definitions; licensure
  • 483.911 — Short title
  • 483.912 — Legislative findings and intent
  • 483.913 — Definitions
  • 483.914 — Licensure requirements
  • 483.915 — Licensure renewal and continuing education requirements
  • 483.916 — Prohibitions; penalties
  • 483.917 — Grounds for disciplinary action; penalties
  • 483.918 — Conscience clause
  • 483.919 — Exemptions
Title 484 · FL Chapter 484 (34 sections)
  • 484.001 — Purpose; legislative findings; intent
  • 484.002 — Definitions
  • 484.003 — Board of Opticianry; membership; appointment; terms
  • 484.004 — Board headquarters
  • 484.005 — Authority to make rules
  • 484.006 — Certain rules prohibited
  • 484.007 — Licensure of opticians; permitting of optical establishments
  • 484.008 — Renewal of license
  • 484.009 — Inactive status
  • 484.011 — Supportive personnel
  • 484.012 — Prescriptions; filing; duplication of prescriptions; duplication of lenses
  • 484.013 — Violations and penalties
  • 484.014 — Disciplinary actions
  • 484.015 — Authority to inspect
  • 484.017 — Reciprocity
  • 484.018 — Exceptions
  • 484.0401 — Purpose
  • 484.041 — Definitions
  • 484.042 — Board of Hearing Aid Specialists; membership, appointment, terms
  • 484.043 — Board headquarters
  • 484.044 — Authority to make rules
  • 484.0445 — Training program
  • 484.0447 — Fees
  • 484.045 — Licensure by examination
  • 484.047 — Renewal of license
  • 484.0501 — Minimal procedures and equipment
  • 484.051 — Itemization of prices; delivery of prescription hearing aid; receipt, packaging, disclaimer, guarantee
  • 484.0512 — Thirty-day trial period; purchaser’s right to cancel; notice; refund; cancellation fee; criminal penalty
  • 484.0513 — Cancellation by medical authorization; purchaser’s right to return
  • 484.053 — Prohibitions; penalties
  • 484.054 — Sale or distribution of prescription hearing aids through mail; penalty
  • 484.056 — Disciplinary proceedings
  • 484.058 — Declaration of place of business; posting of license and notice
  • 484.059 — Exemptions
Title 485 · FL Chapter 485 (5 sections)
Title 486 · FL Chapter 486 (33 sections)
  • 486.011 — Short title
  • 486.015 — Legislative intent
  • 486.021 — Definitions
  • 486.023 — Board of Physical Therapy Practice
  • 486.025 — Powers and duties of the Board of Physical Therapy Practice
  • 486.028 — License to practice physical therapy required
  • 486.031 — Physical therapist; licensing requirements; exemption
  • 486.041 — Physical therapist; application for license; fee
  • 486.051 — Physical therapist; examination of applicant
  • 486.061 — Physical therapist; issuance of license
  • 486.0715 — Physical therapist; issuance of temporary permit
  • 486.081 — Physical therapist; issuance of license by endorsement; issuance of license without examination to person passing examin
  • 486.085 — Physical therapist; renewal of license; inactive status; reactivation of license; fees
  • 486.102 — Physical therapist assistant; licensing requirements; exemption
  • 486.103 — Physical therapist assistant; application for license; fee
  • 486.104 — Physical therapist assistant; examination of applicant
  • 486.106 — Physical therapist assistant; issuance of license
  • 486.1065 — Physical therapist assistant; issuance of temporary permit
  • 486.107 — Physical therapist assistant; issuance of license by endorsement; fee; exemption
  • 486.108 — Physical therapist assistant; renewal of license; inactive status; reactivation of license; fees
  • 486.109 — Continuing education
  • 486.112 — Physical Therapy Licensure Compact
  • 486.113 — Physical Therapy Compact Commission; public records and meetings exemptions
  • 486.115 — Disposition of fees
  • 486.117 — Physical therapist; performance of dry needling
  • 486.123 — Sexual misconduct in the practice of physical therapy
  • 486.125 — Refusal, revocation, or suspension of license; administrative fines and other disciplinary measures
  • 486.135 — False representation of licensure, or willful misrepresentation or fraudulent representation to obtain license, unlawful
  • 486.151 — Prohibited acts; penalty
  • 486.153 — Injunctive relief
  • 486.161 — Exemptions
  • 486.171 — Current valid licenses effective
  • 486.172 — Application of s. 456.021
Title 487 · FL Chapter 487 (40 sections)
  • 487.011 — Popular name; administration
  • 487.012 — Declaration of purpose
  • 487.021 — Definitions
  • 487.025 — Misbranding
  • 487.031 — Prohibited acts
  • 487.041 — Registration
  • 487.042 — Restricted-use pesticides; designation
  • 487.0435 — License classification
  • 487.0437 — Direct infusion of chlorine gas
  • 487.044 — Certification; examination
  • 487.045 — Fees
  • 487.046 — Application; licensure
  • 487.047 — Nonresident license; reciprocal agreement; authorized purchase
  • 487.048 — Dealer’s license; records
  • 487.049 — Renewal; late fee; recertification
  • 487.051 — Administration; rules; procedure
  • 487.064 — Antisiphon requirements for irrigation systems
  • 487.071 — Enforcement, inspection, sampling, and analysis
  • 487.081 — Exemptions
  • 487.091 — Tolerances, deficiencies, and penalties
  • 487.101 — Stop-sale, stop-use, removal, or hold orders
  • 487.111 — Seizure, condemnation, and sale
  • 487.13 — Cooperation
  • 487.15 — Reclamation, reimbursement, and disposal
  • 487.156 — Governmental agencies
  • 487.1585 — Duties of licensee with respect to unlicensed applicators and mixer-loaders and field workers
  • 487.159 — Damage or injury to property, animal, or person; mandatory report of damage or injury
  • 487.160 — Records
  • 487.161 — Exemptions, nonagricultural pest control and research
  • 487.163 — Information; interagency cooperation
  • 487.171 — Classification of antifouling paint containing organotin compounds as restricted-use pesticides; prohibition of distribu
  • 487.175 — Penalties; administrative fine; injunction
  • 487.2011 — Popular name; administration
  • 487.2021 — Legislative intent
  • 487.2031 — Definitions
  • 487.2041 — Enforcement of federal worker protection regulations
  • 487.2042 — Submission and investigation of complaints
  • 487.2051 — Availability of agricultural pesticide information to workers and medical personnel
  • 487.2061 — Prohibited acts
  • 487.2071 — Penalties against violators; worker relief
Title 488 · FL Chapter 488 (9 sections)
  • 488.01 — License to engage in business of operating a driver school required
  • 488.02 — Rules and regulations
  • 488.03 — License; application; expiration; renewal; fees
  • 488.04 — Driver training school instructors; certificates; qualifications
  • 488.045 — Agents for commercial driving school; identification cards
  • 488.05 — Driver school vehicle identification certificates
  • 488.06 — Revocation or suspension of license or certificate
  • 488.07 — Penalties for violation
  • 488.08 — Disposition of revenues; budget
Title 489 · FL Chapter 489 (80 sections)
  • 489.101 — Purpose
  • 489.103 — Exemptions
  • 489.105 — Definitions
  • 489.107 — Construction Industry Licensing Board
  • 489.108 — Rulemaking authority
  • 489.109 — Fees
  • 489.111 — Licensure by examination
  • 489.113 — Qualifications for practice; restrictions
  • 489.1131 — Credit for relevant military training and education
  • 489.1132 — Regulation of hoisting equipment used in construction, demolition, or excavation work during a hurricane
  • 489.1136 — Medical gas certification
  • 489.114 — Evidence of workers’ compensation coverage
  • 489.115 — Certification and registration; endorsement; reciprocity; renewals; continuing education
  • 489.116 — Inactive and delinquent status; renewal and cancellation notices
  • 489.117 — Registration; specialty contractors
  • 489.118 — Certification of registered contractors; grandfathering provisions
  • 489.119 — Business organizations; qualifying agents
  • 489.1195 — Responsibilities
  • 489.121 — Emergency registration upon death of contractor
  • 489.124 — Business records requirements; address of record; service
  • 489.125 — Prequalification of certificateholders
  • 489.126 — Moneys received by contractors
  • 489.127 — Prohibitions; penalties
  • 489.128 — Contracts entered into by unlicensed contractors unenforceable
  • 489.129 — Disciplinary proceedings
  • 489.13 — Unlicensed contracting; notice of noncompliance; fine; authority to issue or receive a building permit; web page
  • 489.131 — Applicability
  • 489.132 — Prohibited acts by unlicensed principals; investigation; hearing; penalties
  • 489.133 — Pollutant storage systems specialty contractors; definitions; certification; restrictions
  • 489.134 — Authority of licensed job scope
  • 489.140 — Florida Homeowners’ Construction Recovery Fund
  • 489.1401 — Legislative intent
  • 489.1402 — Homeowners’ Construction Recovery Fund; definitions
  • 489.141 — Conditions for recovery; eligibility
  • 489.142 — Board powers relating to recovery; conduct of hearings and service
  • 489.1425 — Duty of contractor to notify residential property owner of recovery fund
  • 489.143 — Payment from the fund
  • 489.144 — Investment of the fund
  • 489.145 — Guaranteed energy, water, and wastewater performance savings contracting
  • 489.1455 — Journeyman; reciprocity; standards
  • 489.146 — Privatization of services
  • 489.147 — Prohibited property insurance practices; contract requirements
  • 489.501 — Purpose
  • 489.503 — Exemptions
  • 489.505 — Definitions
  • 489.507 — Electrical Contractors’ Licensing Board
  • 489.509 — Fees
  • 489.510 — Evidence of workers’ compensation coverage
  • 489.511 — Certification; application; examinations; endorsement
  • 489.513 — Registration; application; requirements
  • 489.514 — Certification for registered contractors; grandfathering provisions
  • 489.515 — Issuance of certificates; registrations
  • 489.516 — Qualifications to practice; restrictions; prerequisites
  • 489.5161 — Credit for relevant military training and education
  • 489.517 — Renewal of certificate or registration; continuing education
  • 489.518 — Alarm system agents
  • 489.5185 — Fire alarm system agents
  • 489.519 — Inactive status
  • 489.520 — Automated licensure status information system
  • 489.521 — Business organizations; qualifying agents
  • 489.522 — Qualifying agents; responsibilities
  • 489.523 — Emergency registration upon death of contractor
  • 489.525 — Report to local building officials
  • 489.529 — Alarm confirmation required
  • 489.530 — Audible alarms
  • 489.531 — Prohibitions; penalties
  • 489.5315 — Proprietary electrical or alarm contractors
  • 489.532 — Contracts entered into by unlicensed contractors unenforceable
  • 489.533 — Disciplinary proceedings
  • 489.5335 — Journeyman; reciprocity; standards
  • 489.537 — Application of this part
  • 489.538 — Authority of licensed job scope
  • 489.551 — Definitions
  • 489.552 — Registration required
  • 489.553 — Administration of part; registration qualifications; examination
  • 489.554 — Registration renewal
  • 489.555 — Certification of partnerships and corporations
  • 489.556 — Suspension or revocation of registration
  • 489.557 — Fees, establishment
  • 489.558 — Penalties and prohibitions
Title 49 · FL Chapter 49 (13 sections)
  • 49.011 — Service of process by publication; cases in which allowed
  • 49.021 — Service of process by publication, upon whom
  • 49.031 — Sworn statement as condition precedent
  • 49.041 — Sworn statement, natural person as defendant
  • 49.051 — Sworn statement, corporation as defendant
  • 49.061 — Sworn statement, parties doing business under a corporate name as defendants
  • 49.071 — Sworn statement, unknown parties as defendants
  • 49.08 — Notice of action, form
  • 49.09 — Notice of action, return day
  • 49.10 — Notice of action, publication, proof
  • 49.11 — Notice of action, posting, proof
  • 49.12 — Mailing of notice of action
  • 49.31 — Appointment of ad litem
Title 490 · FL Chapter 490 (23 sections)
  • 490.001 — Short title
  • 490.002 — Intent
  • 490.003 — Definitions
  • 490.004 — Board of Psychology
  • 490.005 — Licensure by examination
  • 490.0051 — Provisional licensure; requirements
  • 490.006 — Licensure by endorsement
  • 490.007 — Renewal of license
  • 490.0075 — Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact
  • 490.0076 — Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact; public records and meetings exemptions
  • 490.0085 — Continuing education; approval of providers, programs, and courses; proof of completion
  • 490.009 — Discipline
  • 490.0111 — Sexual misconduct
  • 490.012 — Violations; penalties; injunction
  • 490.0121 — Licensed school psychologists; private sector services
  • 490.014 — Exemptions
  • 490.0141 — Practice of hypnosis
  • 490.0143 — Practice of sex therapy
  • 490.0145 — The practice of juvenile sexual offender therapy
  • 490.0147 — Confidentiality and privileged communications
  • 490.0148 — Psychologist and school psychologist records
  • 490.0149 — Specialties
  • 490.015 — Duties of the department
Title 491 · FL Chapter 491 (28 sections)
  • 491.002 — Intent
  • 491.003 — Definitions
  • 491.004 — Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy, and Mental Health Counseling
  • 491.0045 — Intern registration; requirements
  • 491.0046 — Provisional license; requirements
  • 491.005 — Licensure by examination
  • 491.0057 — Dual licensure as a marriage and family therapist
  • 491.006 — Licensure or certification by endorsement
  • 491.0065 — Requirement for instruction on HIV and AIDS
  • 491.007 — Renewal of license, registration, or certificate
  • 491.008 — Inactive status; reactivation of licenses; fees
  • 491.0085 — Continuing education and laws and rules courses; approval of providers, programs, and courses; proof of completion
  • 491.009 — Discipline
  • 491.0111 — Sexual misconduct
  • 491.0112 — Sexual misconduct by a psychotherapist; penalties
  • 491.012 — Violations; penalty; injunction
  • 491.014 — Exemptions
  • 491.0141 — Practice of hypnosis
  • 491.0143 — Practice of sex therapy
  • 491.0144 — The practice of juvenile sexual offender therapy
  • 491.0145 — Certified master social worker
  • 491.0147 — Confidentiality and privileged communications
  • 491.0148 — Records
  • 491.0149 — Display of license; use of professional title on promotional materials
  • 491.015 — Duties of the department as to certified master social workers
  • 491.016 — Social work; use of title
  • 491.017 — Professional Counselors Licensure Compact
  • 491.018 — Professional Counselors Licensure Compact; public records and meetings exemptions
Title 492 · FL Chapter 492 (18 sections)
  • 492.101 — Purpose
  • 492.102 — Definitions
  • 492.103 — Board of Professional Geologists
  • 492.104 — Rulemaking authority
  • 492.105 — Licensure by examination; requirements; fees
  • 492.1051 — Registered geologist-in-training; requirements
  • 492.106 — Provisional licenses
  • 492.107 — Seals
  • 492.108 — Licensure by endorsement; requirements; fees
  • 492.109 — Renewal of license; fees
  • 492.1101 — Inactive status
  • 492.111 — Practice of professional geology by a firm, corporation, or partnership
  • 492.112 — Prohibitions; penalties
  • 492.113 — Disciplinary proceedings
  • 492.114 — Lost, destroyed, stolen, or mutilated licenses
  • 492.115 — Roster of licensed professional geologists
  • 492.116 — Exemptions
  • 492.1165 — Construction of chapter
Title 493 · FL Chapter 493 (45 sections)
  • 493.6100 — Legislative intent
  • 493.6101 — Definitions
  • 493.6102 — Inapplicability of this chapter
  • 493.6103 — Authority to make rules
  • 493.61035 — Credit for relevant military training and education
  • 493.6104 — Advisory council
  • 493.6105 — Initial application for license
  • 493.6106 — License requirements; posting
  • 493.6107 — Fees
  • 493.6108 — Investigation of applicants by Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
  • 493.6109 — Reciprocity
  • 493.6110 — Licensee’s insurance
  • 493.6111 — License; contents; identification card
  • 493.6112 — Notification to Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services of changes of partner or officer or employees
  • 493.6113 — Renewal application for licensure
  • 493.6114 — Cancellation or inactivation of license
  • 493.6115 — Weapons and firearms
  • 493.6116 — Sponsorship of interns
  • 493.6117 — Division of Licensing Trust Fund
  • 493.6118 — Grounds for disciplinary action
  • 493.6119 — Divulging investigative information; false reports prohibited
  • 493.6120 — Violations; penalty
  • 493.6121 — Enforcement; investigation
  • 493.6122 — Information about licensees; confidentiality
  • 493.6123 — Publication to industry
  • 493.6124 — Use of state seal; prohibited
  • 493.6125 — Maintenance of information concerning administrative complaints and disciplinary actions
  • 493.6126 — Saving clauses
  • 493.6127 — Appointment of tax collectors to accept applications and renewals for licenses; fees; penalties
  • 493.6132 — Online training courses
  • 493.6201 — Classes of licenses
  • 493.6202 — Fees
  • 493.6203 — License requirements
  • 493.6301 — Classes of licenses
  • 493.6302 — Fees
  • 493.6303 — License requirements
  • 493.6304 — Security officer school or training facility
  • 493.6305 — Uniforms, required wear; exceptions
  • 493.631 — Temporary detention by a licensed security officer or licensed security agency manager at critical infrastructure facili
  • 493.6401 — Classes of licenses
  • 493.6402 — Fees
  • 493.6403 — License requirements
  • 493.6404 — Property inventory; vehicle license identification numbers
  • 493.6405 — Sale of motor vehicle, mobile home, motorboat, aircraft, personal watercraft, all-terrain vehicles, farm equipment, or i
  • 493.6406 — Recovery agent school or training facility
Title 494 · FL Chapter 494 (50 sections)
  • 494.001 — Definitions
  • 494.0011 — Powers and duties of the commission and office
  • 494.00115 — Exemptions
  • 494.0012 — Investigations; complaints; examinations
  • 494.00125 — Public records exemptions
  • 494.0013 — Injunction to restrain violations
  • 494.00135 — Subpoenas
  • 494.0014 — Cease and desist orders; refund orders
  • 494.0015 — Evidence; examiner’s worksheets, investigative reports, other related documents
  • 494.0016 — Books, accounts, and records; maintenance; examinations by the office
  • 494.00165 — Prohibited advertising; record requirements
  • 494.00172 — Mortgage Guaranty Trust Fund; payment of fees and claims
  • 494.00173 — Mortgage Guaranty Trust Fund; creation
  • 494.0018 — Penalties
  • 494.0019 — Liability in case of unlawful transaction
  • 494.002 — Statutory or common-law remedies
  • 494.0022 — Applicability of act
  • 494.0023 — Conflicting interest
  • 494.0024 — Waiver
  • 494.0025 — Prohibited practices
  • 494.00255 — Administrative penalties and fines; license violations
  • 494.0026 — Disposition of insurance proceeds
  • 494.00296 — Loan modification
  • 494.00312 — Loan originator license
  • 494.00313 — Loan originator license renewal
  • 494.00321 — Mortgage broker license
  • 494.00322 — Mortgage broker license renewal
  • 494.00331 — Loan originator and loan processor employment
  • 494.0035 — Principal loan originator and branch manager for mortgage broker
  • 494.0036 — Mortgage broker branch office license
  • 494.0038 — Mortgage broker fees
  • 494.0039 — Principal place of business requirements
  • 494.004 — Requirements of licensees
  • 494.0042 — Loan origination fees
  • 494.0043 — Requirements for brokering loans to noninstitutional investors
  • 494.00611 — Mortgage lender license
  • 494.00612 — Mortgage lender license renewal
  • 494.0063 — Audited financial statements
  • 494.0066 — Branch offices
  • 494.00665 — Principal loan originator and branch manager for mortgage lender
  • 494.0067 — Requirements of mortgage lenders
  • 494.0069 — Lock-in agreement
  • 494.007 — Commitment process
  • 494.0071 — Expiration of lock-in agreement or commitment
  • 494.00721 — Net worth
  • 494.0073 — Mortgage lender when acting as a mortgage broker
  • 494.0074 — Lender fees and charges
  • 494.0075 — Requirements for selling loans to noninstitutional investors
  • 494.0076 — Servicing audits
  • 494.0077 — Other products and services
Title 495 · FL Chapter 495 (22 sections)
Title 496 · FL Chapter 496 (34 sections)
  • 496.401 — Short title
  • 496.402 — Legislative intent
  • 496.403 — Application
  • 496.404 — Definitions
  • 496.405 — Registration statements by charitable organizations and sponsors
  • 496.4055 — Charitable organization or sponsor board duties
  • 496.406 — Exemption from registration
  • 496.407 — Financial statement
  • 496.4071 — Supplemental financial disclosure
  • 496.4072 — Financial statements for specific disaster relief solicitations
  • 496.409 — Registration and duties of professional fundraising consultant
  • 496.410 — Registration and duties of professional solicitors
  • 496.4101 — Licensure of professional solicitors and certain employees thereof
  • 496.411 — Disclosure requirements and duties of charitable organizations and sponsors
  • 496.412 — Disclosure requirements and duties of professional solicitors
  • 496.4121 — Collection receptacles used for donations
  • 496.413 — Contributions solicited for or accepted on behalf of a named individual
  • 496.414 — Duties of commercial co-venturers
  • 496.415 — Prohibited acts
  • 496.416 — Violation as deceptive or unfair trade practice
  • 496.417 — Criminal penalties
  • 496.418 — Recordkeeping and accounting
  • 496.419 — Powers of the department
  • 496.4191 — Additional penalty; immediate suspension
  • 496.420 — Civil remedies and enforcement
  • 496.421 — More stringent local provisions not preempted by ss. 496.401-496.424
  • 496.422 — Duties of the Department of State
  • 496.423 — Public information; annual report
  • 496.424 — Rulemaking authority
  • 496.425 — Solicitation of funds within public transportation facilities
  • 496.4255 — Public airport not required to grant permit or access
  • 496.426 — Registration and solicitation requirements
  • 496.430 — Disqualification from certain tax exemptions
  • 496.431 — Honest Services Registry
Title 497 · FL Chapter 497 (130 sections)
  • 497.001 — Short title
  • 497.002 — Purpose and intent
  • 497.0021 — Applicability of parts
  • 497.005 — Definitions
  • 497.101 — Board of Funeral, Cemetery, and Consumer Services; membership; appointment; terms
  • 497.103 — Authority of board and department; Chief Financial Officer recommendations
  • 497.107 — Headquarters
  • 497.140 — Fees
  • 497.141 — Licensing; general application procedures
  • 497.142 — Licensing; fingerprinting and criminal background checks
  • 497.143 — Licensing; limited licenses for times of critical need
  • 497.144 — Licensing; examinations, general provisions
  • 497.145 — Licensing; use of professional testing services
  • 497.146 — Licensing; address of record; changes; licensee responsibility
  • 497.147 — Continuing education; general provisions
  • 497.148 — Continuing education; monitoring of compliance
  • 497.149 — Investigations, hearings, and inspections
  • 497.150 — Compliance examinations of existing licensees
  • 497.151 — Complaints; logs; procedures
  • 497.152 — Disciplinary grounds
  • 497.153 — Disciplinary procedures and penalties
  • 497.154 — Disciplinary guidelines
  • 497.155 — Disciplinary citations and minor violations
  • 497.156 — Emergency action against licensees
  • 497.157 — Unlicensed practice; remedies concerning violations by unlicensed persons
  • 497.158 — Court enforcement actions; powers; abatement of nuisances
  • 497.159 — Crimes
  • 497.160 — Receivership proceedings
  • 497.161 — Other rulemaking provisions
  • 497.162 — Health and safety education
  • 497.163 — Restriction on requirement of citizenship
  • 497.164 — Solicitation of goods or services
  • 497.165 — Liability of owners, directors, and officers regarding trust funds
  • 497.166 — Preneed sales
  • 497.167 — Administrative matters
  • 497.168 — Members of Armed Forces in good standing with administrative boards
  • 497.169 — Private actions; actions on behalf of consumers; attorney’s fee
  • 497.170 — Unauthorized arrangements
  • 497.171 — Identification of human remains
  • 497.172 — Public records exemptions; public meetings exemptions
  • 497.260 — Cemeteries; exemption; investigation and mediation
  • 497.261 — Existing companies, effect of this chapter
  • 497.262 — Duty of care and maintenance of licensed cemetery
  • 497.263 — Cemetery companies; license required; licensure requirements and procedures
  • 497.264 — License not assignable or transferable
  • 497.265 — Annual license fees
  • 497.266 — Care and maintenance trust fund; remedy of department for noncompliance
  • 497.267 — Disposition of withdrawals from the care and maintenance trust fund; notice to purchasers and depositors
  • 497.2675 — Withdrawal methods from the care and maintenance trust fund
  • 497.268 — Care and maintenance trust fund, percentage of payments for burial rights to be deposited
  • 497.269 — Care and maintenance trust fund; financial reports
  • 497.270 — Minimum acreage; sale or disposition of cemetery lands
  • 497.271 — Standards for construction and significant alteration or renovation of mausoleums and columbaria
  • 497.272 — Construction of mausoleums, columbaria, and belowground crypts; preconstruction trust fund; compliance requirement
  • 497.273 — Cemetery companies; authorized functions
  • 497.274 — Standards for grave spaces
  • 497.276 — Records
  • 497.2765 — Recording purchase of burial rights
  • 497.277 — Other charges
  • 497.278 — Monuments; installation fees
  • 497.280 — Illegal tying arrangements
  • 497.281 — Licensure of brokers of burial rights
  • 497.282 — Disclosure of information to public
  • 497.283 — Prohibition on sale of personal property or services
  • 497.284 — Abandoned cemeteries; immunity; actions
  • 497.285 — Inactive cemeteries
  • 497.286 — Owners to provide addresses; presumption of abandonment; abandonment procedures; sale of abandoned unused burial rights
  • 497.287 — Report of identification of exempt cemeteries
  • 497.365 — Licensure; inactive and delinquent status
  • 497.366 — Licensure; renewal and cancellation notices
  • 497.368 — Embalmers; licensure as an embalmer by examination; provisional license
  • 497.369 — Embalmers; licensure as an embalmer by endorsement; licensure of a temporary embalmer
  • 497.370 — Embalmers; licensure of an embalmer intern
  • 497.371 — Embalmers; establishment of embalmer apprentice program
  • 497.372 — Funeral directing; conduct constituting practice of funeral directing
  • 497.373 — Funeral directing; licensure as a funeral director by examination; provisional license
  • 497.374 — Funeral directing; licensure as a funeral director by endorsement; licensure of a temporary funeral director
  • 497.375 — Funeral directing; licensure of a funeral director intern
  • 497.376 — License as funeral director and embalmer permitted
  • 497.377 — Combination funeral director and embalmer internships
  • 497.378 — Renewal of funeral director and embalmer licenses
  • 497.379 — Inactive status
  • 497.380 — Funeral establishment; licensure; display of license
  • 497.381 — Solicitation of goods or services
  • 497.382 — Reports of cases embalmed and bodies handled
  • 497.383 — Additional rights of legally authorized persons
  • 497.384 — Disinterment; transportation; authorization and notification
  • 497.385 — Removal services; refrigeration facilities; centralized embalming facilities
  • 497.386 — Storage, preservation, and transportation of human remains
  • 497.387 — Unlawful to remove or embalm body without consent of proper official when crime is suspected
  • 497.389 — Funeral establishments; cash advance accounts; escrow refund accounts
  • 497.390 — Reciprocity
  • 497.391 — Exceptions
  • 497.392 — Branch chapels
  • 497.393 — Licensure; military-issued credentials for licensure
  • 497.450 — Preneed sales; chapter exclusive; applicability of other laws
  • 497.451 — Insurance business not authorized
  • 497.452 — Preneed license required
  • 497.453 — Application for preneed license, procedures and criteria; renewal; reports
  • 497.454 — Approval of preneed contract and related forms
  • 497.455 — Nonconforming contracts
  • 497.4555 — Charges for preneed contract
  • 497.456 — Preneed Funeral Contract Consumer Protection Trust Fund
  • 497.457 — Ownership of proceeds received on contracts
  • 497.458 — Disposition of proceeds received on contracts
  • 497.459 — Cancellation of, or default on, preneed contracts; required notice
  • 497.460 — Payment of funds upon death of named beneficiary
  • 497.462 — Other alternatives to deposits under s. 497.458
  • 497.463 — Existing merchandise trust funds; proof of compliance with law
  • 497.464 — Alternative preneed contracts
  • 497.465 — Inactive, surrendered, and revoked preneed licensees
  • 497.466 — Preneed sales agents, license required; application procedures and criteria; appointment of agents; responsibility of pr
  • 497.467 — Acceptability of funeral and burial merchandise
  • 497.468 — Disclosure of information to the public
  • 497.469 — Fulfillment of preneed contracts
  • 497.550 — Licensure of monument establishments required; procedures and criteria
  • 497.551 — Renewal of monument establishment licensure
  • 497.552 — Required facilities
  • 497.553 — Regulation of monument establishments
  • 497.554 — Monument establishment sales representatives
  • 497.555 — Required rules
  • 497.601 — Direct disposition; duties
  • 497.602 — Direct disposers, license required; licensing procedures and criteria; regulation
  • 497.603 — Direct disposers, renewal of license
  • 497.604 — Direct disposal establishments, license required; licensing procedures and criteria; license renewal; regulation; displa
  • 497.605 — Direct disposition not funeral directing
  • 497.606 — Cinerator facility, licensure required; licensing procedures and criteria; license renewal; regulation
  • 497.607 — Cremation; procedure required
  • 497.608 — Liability for unintentional commingling of the residue of the cremation process
  • 497.609 — Liability of direct disposers, direct disposal establishments, funeral directors, funeral establishments, and cinerator
Title 499 · FL Chapter 499 (82 sections)
  • 499.001 — Florida Drug and Cosmetic Act; short title
  • 499.002 — Purpose, administration, and enforcement of and exemption from this part
  • 499.003 — Definitions of terms used in this part
  • 499.005 — Prohibited acts
  • 499.0051 — Criminal acts
  • 499.0054 — Advertising and labeling of drugs, devices, and cosmetics; exemptions
  • 499.006 — Adulterated drug or device
  • 499.007 — Misbranded drug or device
  • 499.008 — Adulterated cosmetics
  • 499.009 — Misbranded cosmetics
  • 499.01 — Permits
  • 499.012 — Permit application requirements
  • 499.01201 — Agency for Health Care Administration review and use of statute and rule violation or compliance data
  • 499.0121 — Storage and handling of prescription drugs; recordkeeping
  • 499.01211 — Drug Wholesale Distributor Advisory Council
  • 499.015 — Registration of drugs and devices; issuance of certificates of free sale
  • 499.023 — New drugs; sale, manufacture, repackaging, distribution
  • 499.024 — Drug product classification
  • 499.025 — Drug products in finished, solid, oral dosage form; identification requirements
  • 499.026 — Notification of manufacturer prescription drug price increases
  • 499.028 — Drug samples or complimentary drugs; starter packs; permits to distribute
  • 499.0285 — International Prescription Drug Importation Program
  • 499.02851 — Federal arrangement to operate a pilot program for importing prescription drugs
  • 499.029 — Cancer Drug Donation Program
  • 499.0295 — Experimental treatments for terminal conditions
  • 499.03 — Possession of certain drugs without prescriptions unlawful; exemptions and exceptions
  • 499.032 — Phenylalanine; prescription required
  • 499.033 — Ephedrine; prescription required
  • 499.035 — Dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO); labeling and advertising
  • 499.036 — Restrictions on sale of dextromethorphan
  • 499.039 — Sale, distribution, or transfer of harmful chemical substances; penalties; authority for enforcement
  • 499.04 — Fee authority
  • 499.041 — Schedule of fees for drug, device, and cosmetic applications and permits, product registrations, and free-sale certifica
  • 499.05 — Rules
  • 499.051 — Inspections and investigations
  • 499.052 — Records of interstate shipment
  • 499.055 — Reports and dissemination of information by department
  • 499.057 — Expenses and salaries
  • 499.06 — Embargoing, detaining, or destroying article or processing equipment which is in violation of law or rule
  • 499.062 — Seizure and condemnation of drugs, devices, or cosmetics
  • 499.065 — Inspections; imminent danger
  • 499.066 — Penalties; remedies
  • 499.0661 — Cease and desist orders; removal of certain persons
  • 499.067 — Denial, suspension, or revocation of permit, certification, or registration
  • 499.601 — Legislative intent; construction
  • 499.61 — Definitions
  • 499.62 — License or permit required of manufacturer, distributor, dealer, or purchaser of ether
  • 499.63 — Forms for applications for licenses and permits
  • 499.64 — Issuance of licenses and permits; prohibitions
  • 499.65 — Possession of ether without license or permit prohibited; confiscation and disposal; exceptions
  • 499.66 — Maintenance of records and sales of ether by manufacturers, distributors, and dealers; inspections
  • 499.67 — Maintenance of records by purchasers; inspections
  • 499.68 — Reports of thefts, illegal use, or illegal possession
  • 499.69 — Possession in or near residential housing prohibited; legal entitlement to possession of premises not a defense
  • 499.701 — Adoption of rules by the department
  • 499.71 — Procedure for cease and desist orders
  • 499.72 — Administrative fines
  • 499.73 — Suspension or revocation of license or permit
  • 499.74 — Conduct of hearings; review of orders of the department
  • 499.75 — Penalties
  • 499.76 — Injunctive relief
  • 499.77 — Exceptions
  • 499.78 — County and municipal ordinances
  • 499.79 — Deposit of fees
  • 499.81 — Administration and enforcement
  • 499.82 — Definitions
  • 499.83 — Permits
  • 499.831 — Permit application
  • 499.832 — Expiration and renewal of a permit
  • 499.833 — Permitholder changes
  • 499.834 — Minimum qualifications
  • 499.84 — Minimum requirements for the storage and handling of medical gases
  • 499.85 — Security
  • 499.86 — Examination of materials
  • 499.87 — Returned, damaged, and outdated medical gas
  • 499.88 — Due diligence
  • 499.89 — Recordkeeping
  • 499.90 — Policies and procedures
  • 499.91 — Prohibited acts
  • 499.92 — Criminal acts
  • 499.93 — Inspections
  • 499.94 — Fees
Title 50 · FL Chapter 50 (9 sections)
  • 50.011 — Publication of legal notices
  • 50.021 — Publication when no newspaper in county
  • 50.0211 — Internet website publication
  • 50.031 — Newspapers in which legal notices and process may be published
  • 50.0311 — Publication of advertisements and public notices on a publicly accessible website and governmental access channels
  • 50.041 — Proof of publication; uniform affidavits required
  • 50.051 — Proof of publication; form of uniform affidavit
  • 50.061 — Amounts chargeable
  • 50.0711 — Court docket fund; service charges; publications
Title 500 · FL Chapter 500 (40 sections)
  • 500.01 — Florida Food Safety Act; short title
  • 500.02 — Purpose of chapter
  • 500.03 — Definitions; construction; applicability
  • 500.032 — Declaration of policy and cooperation among departments
  • 500.033 — Florida Food Safety and Food Defense Advisory Council
  • 500.04 — Prohibited acts
  • 500.09 — Rulemaking; analytical work
  • 500.10 — Food deemed adulterated
  • 500.11 — Food deemed misbranded
  • 500.115 — Advertisement of food deemed false
  • 500.12 — Food permits; building permits
  • 500.121 — Disciplinary procedures
  • 500.13 — Addition of poisonous or deleterious substance to food
  • 500.147 — Inspection of food establishments, food records, and vehicles
  • 500.148 — Reports and dissemination of information; confidentiality
  • 500.149 — Employment of help; expenses and salaries
  • 500.165 — Transporting shipments of food items; rules; penalty
  • 500.166 — Records of interstate shipment
  • 500.167 — Carriers in interstate commerce; exception
  • 500.169 — Enforcement of federal act
  • 500.171 — Injunction to restrain violation
  • 500.172 — Embargoing, detaining, destroying of food, food processing equipment, or areas that are in violation
  • 500.173 — Causes for seizure and condemnation of foods
  • 500.174 — Seizure; procedure; prohibition on sale or disposal of article; penalty
  • 500.175 — Condemnation and sale; release of seized article
  • 500.177 — Penalty for violation of s. 500.04; dissemination of false advertisement
  • 500.178 — Duty of state attorney
  • 500.179 — Issuance of warnings for minor violations
  • 500.451 — Horse meat; offenses
  • 500.452 — Cultivated meat; prohibition; penalties
  • 500.459 — Water vending machines
  • 500.511 — Fees; enforcement; preemption
  • 500.60 — Regulation of meat preempted to state
  • 500.70 — Tomato food safety standards; inspections; penalties; tomato good agricultural practices; tomato best management practic
  • 500.75 — Mushroom spores and mycelium; offenses
  • 500.80 — Cottage food operations
  • 500.81 — Healthy Food Financing Initiative
  • 500.90 — Regulation of polystyrene products preempted to department
  • 500.92 — Florida Kratom Consumer Protection Act
  • 500.93 — Mislabeling of plant-based products as milk, meat, or poultry
Title 501 · FL Chapter 501 (162 sections)
  • 501.001 — Florida Anti-Tampering Act
  • 501.005 — Consumer report security freeze
  • 501.0051 — Protected consumer report security freeze
  • 501.011 — Credit cards; unsolicited delivery or mailing prohibited
  • 501.0113 — Unsolicited goods; no obligation on part of recipient
  • 501.0115 — Service station credit cards and franchise agreements; certain restrictions on sales and purchasers prohibited
  • 501.0117 — Credit cards; transactions in which seller or lessor prohibited from imposing surcharge; penalty
  • 501.0118 — Restrictions on information printed on receipts for payment-card transactions; penalties
  • 501.012 — Health studios; legislative findings
  • 501.0125 — Health studios; definitions
  • 501.013 — Health studios; exemptions
  • 501.014 — Health studios; powers and duties of the department
  • 501.015 — Health studios; registration requirements and fees
  • 501.016 — Health studios; security requirements
  • 501.017 — Health studios; contracts
  • 501.018 — Health studios; change of ownership or location
  • 501.019 — Health studios; penalties
  • 501.021 — Home solicitation sale; definitions
  • 501.022 — Home solicitation sale; permit required
  • 501.025 — Home solicitation sale; buyer’s right to cancel
  • 501.031 — Home solicitation sale; written agreement
  • 501.035 — Home solicitation sale; exclusions
  • 501.041 — Home solicitation sale; restoration of down payment
  • 501.045 — Home solicitation sale; duty of buyer
  • 501.046 — Home solicitation sale; duty of businesses conducting home solicitation sales
  • 501.047 — Home solicitation sale; prohibited practices
  • 501.052 — Home solicitation sale; enforcement authority; injunctive relief
  • 501.053 — Home solicitation sale; judicial review
  • 501.055 — Home solicitation sale; penalties
  • 501.057 — Commercial Weight-Loss Practices Act; short title
  • 501.0571 — Commercial Weight-Loss Practices Act; definitions
  • 501.0573 — Weight-loss provider requirements
  • 501.0575 — Weight-Loss Consumer Bill of Rights
  • 501.0577 — Commercial Weight-Loss Practices Act; exemptions
  • 501.0579 — Commercial Weight-Loss Practices Act; unlawful practices
  • 501.0581 — Commercial Weight-Loss Practices Act; civil remedies
  • 501.0583 — Selling, delivering, bartering, furnishing, or giving weight-loss pills to persons under age 18; penalties; defense
  • 501.059 — Telephone solicitation
  • 501.122 — Control of nonionizing radiations; laser; penalties
  • 501.137 — Mortgage lenders; tax and insurance payments from escrow accounts; duties
  • 501.1375 — Deposits received for purchase of residential dwelling units; placement in escrow; waiver; exceptions
  • 501.1377 — Violations involving homeowners during the course of residential foreclosure proceedings
  • 501.138 — Advertising of previews or trailers; standards
  • 501.139 — Advertisements for legal services
  • 501.1391 — Fraud prevention in the advertisement of immigration services
  • 501.141 — Delivery of crated goods; written statement of satisfaction; right to cancel
  • 501.142 — Retail sales establishments; preemption; notice of refund policy; exceptions; penalty
  • 501.145 — Bedding Label Act
  • 501.155 — Electronic dissemination of commercial recordings or audiovisual works; required disclosures; injunctive relief
  • 501.160 — Rental or sale of essential commodities during a declared state of emergency; prohibition against unconscionable prices
  • 501.164 — Civil penalties
  • 501.165 — Automatic renewal of service contracts
  • 501.171 — Security of confidential personal information
  • 501.1735 — Protection of children in online spaces; public records exemption
  • 501.1736 — Social media use for minors
  • 501.1737 — Age verification for online access to materials harmful to minors
  • 501.1738 — Anonymous age verification
  • 501.201 — Short title
  • 501.202 — Purposes; rules of construction
  • 501.203 — Definitions
  • 501.204 — Unlawful acts and practices
  • 501.2041 — Unlawful acts and practices by social media platforms
  • 501.2042 — Unlawful acts and practices by online crowd-funding campaigns
  • 501.205 — Rulemaking authority
  • 501.206 — Investigative powers of enforcing authority
  • 501.2065 — Confidentiality of intelligence or investigative information
  • 501.207 — Remedies of enforcing authority
  • 501.2075 — Civil penalty
  • 501.2077 — Violations involving senior citizen, person who has a disability, military servicemember, or the spouse or dependent chi
  • 501.2079 — Violations involving discrimination in the provision of video services
  • 501.208 — Cease and desist orders; procedures
  • 501.209 — Other supervision
  • 501.2101 — Enforcing authorities; moneys received in certain proceedings
  • 501.2105 — Attorney’s fees
  • 501.211 — Other individual remedies
  • 501.212 — Application
  • 501.213 — Effect on other remedies
  • 501.30 — Short title
  • 501.31 — Legislative purpose
  • 501.32 — Definitions
  • 501.33 — Disclosure
  • 501.34 — Enforcement
  • 501.601 — Short title
  • 501.602 — Purpose
  • 501.603 — Definitions
  • 501.604 — Exemptions
  • 501.605 — Licensure of commercial telephone sellers and entities providing substance abuse marketing services
  • 501.606 — Disclosures required of commercial telephone sellers and entities providing substance abuse marketing services
  • 501.607 — Licensure of salespersons
  • 501.608 — License or affidavit of exemption; occupational license
  • 501.609 — License renewal
  • 501.611 — Security
  • 501.612 — Grounds for departmental action against licensure applicants or licensees
  • 501.613 — General disclosures
  • 501.614 — Disclosures of gifts and premiums
  • 501.615 — Written contract; cancellation; refund
  • 501.616 — Unlawful acts and practices
  • 501.617 — Investigative powers of enforcing authority
  • 501.6175 — Recordkeeping
  • 501.618 — General civil remedies
  • 501.619 — Civil penalties
  • 501.621 — Attorney’s fees and costs
  • 501.622 — Criminal prosecuting authority
  • 501.623 — Criminal penalties
  • 501.624 — Exempt businesses; burden of proof
  • 501.625 — Other individual remedies
  • 501.626 — Rulemaking power
  • 501.701 — Short title
  • 501.702 — Definitions
  • 501.703 — Applicability
  • 501.704 — Exemptions
  • 501.705 — Consumer rights
  • 501.706 — Controller response to consumer requests
  • 501.707 — Appeal
  • 501.708 — Waiver or limitation of consumer rights prohibited
  • 501.709 — Submitting consumer requests
  • 501.71 — Controller duties
  • 501.711 — Privacy notices
  • 501.712 — Duties of processor
  • 501.713 — Data protection assessments
  • 501.714 — Deidentified data, pseudonymous data, and aggregate consumer information
  • 501.715 — Requirements for sensitive data
  • 501.716 — Exemptions for certain uses of consumer personal data
  • 501.717 — Collection, use, or retention of data for certain purposes
  • 501.718 — Disclosure of personal data to third-party controller or processor
  • 501.719 — Processing of certain personal data by controller or other person
  • 501.72 — Enforcement and implementation by the Department of Legal Affairs
  • 501.721 — Preemption
  • 501.722 — Public records exemption
  • 501.91 — Short title
  • 501.911 — Administration of act
  • 501.912 — Definitions
  • 501.913 — Registration
  • 501.914 — Cancellation of registration
  • 501.915 — Adulteration of antifreeze
  • 501.916 — Mislabeling of antifreeze
  • 501.917 — Inspection by department; sampling and analysis
  • 501.918 — Prohibited activity
  • 501.919 — Enforcement; stop-sale order
  • 501.92 — Formula may be required
  • 501.921 — Standards
  • 501.922 — Violation
  • 501.923 — Injunctive relief
  • 501.925 — Used watches; sales regulated
  • 501.93 — Copyright owners and performing rights societies
  • 501.937 — Industrial hygienists and safety professionals; use of professional titles; failure to comply
  • 501.95 — Gift certificates and credit memos
  • 501.97 — Deceptive trade practices; print advertisement; penalties
  • 501.971 — Fictitious Name Act not abrogated
  • 501.972 — Actions based upon use of a creation that is not protected under federal copyright law
  • 501.973 — Chambers of commerce
  • 501.974 — Veterans’ organizations; prohibition against advertising
  • 501.9741 — Assisting in veterans’ benefits matters
  • 501.975 — Definitions
  • 501.976 — Actionable, unfair, or deceptive acts or practices
  • 501.98 — Demand letter
  • 501.991 — Legislative intent; construction
  • 501.992 — Definitions
  • 501.993 — Bad faith assertions of patent infringement
  • 501.995 — Private right of action
  • 501.996 — Enforcement
  • 501.997 — Exemptions
Title 502 · FL Chapter 502 (13 sections)
  • 502.012 — Definitions
  • 502.013 — Purpose; intent
  • 502.014 — Powers and duties
  • 502.015 — General Inspection Trust Fund
  • 502.042 — Labeling of shelf life
  • 502.053 — Permits and fees; requirements; exemptions; temporary permits
  • 502.054 — Inspection and reinspection
  • 502.091 — Milk and milk products which may be sold
  • 502.121 — Future dairy farms and milk and frozen dessert plants
  • 502.165 — Imitation and substitute milk and milk products
  • 502.181 — Prohibited acts
  • 502.231 — Penalty and injunction
  • 502.232 — Local regulations superseded
Title 504 · FL Chapter 504 (4 sections)
Title 506 · FL Chapter 506 (27 sections)
  • 506.19 — Protection of owners of marked or branded field boxes or other specified containers; recordation
  • 506.20 — Filing and recording of marks and brands on field boxes
  • 506.21 — Filing fee; issuance of certificate of recordation
  • 506.22 — Transfer, release, or sale of registered mark or brand
  • 506.23 — Application of law
  • 506.24 — Unauthorized possession of field boxes or other specified containers; penalty
  • 506.25 — Alteration or obliteration of marks or brands on field boxes or other specified containers
  • 506.26 — Purchase of marked field boxes or other specified containers from one other than owner
  • 506.265 — Purchase of plastic bulk merchandise containers
  • 506.27 — Refusal to deliver marked field boxes or other specified containers to owner upon demand
  • 506.28 — Sending marked field boxes or other specified containers out of state; penalty
  • 506.501 — Carts, Cases, Baskets, Boxes, and Containers Act; short title
  • 506.502 — Definitions
  • 506.503 — Shopping carts, laundry carts, dairy cases, egg baskets, poultry boxes, and bakery containers; registration
  • 506.505 — Egg baskets; designation of owner
  • 506.506 — Poultry boxes; designation of owners
  • 506.507 — Bakery containers; designation of owners
  • 506.508 — Illegal use of dairy cases, egg baskets, poultry boxes, or bakery containers
  • 506.509 — Possession of shopping carts, laundry carts, dairy cases, egg baskets, poultry boxes, or bakery containers
  • 506.511 — Transportation of dairy cases, egg baskets, poultry boxes, or bakery containers; bill of lading
  • 506.513 — Illegal use of shopping carts and laundry carts
  • 506.5131 — Return of shopping carts; assessment of fees, fines, and costs
  • 506.514 — Unlawful removal of dairy cases
  • 506.515 — Unlawful removal of egg baskets, poultry boxes, or bakery containers
  • 506.517 — Deposits
  • 506.518 — Penalty
  • 506.519 — Scope of ss. 506.501-506.519
Title 507 · FL Chapter 507 (14 sections)
  • 507.01 — Definitions
  • 507.02 — Construction; intent; application
  • 507.03 — Registration
  • 507.04 — Required insurance coverages; liability limitations; valuation coverage
  • 507.05 — Estimates and contracts for service
  • 507.056 — Moving brokers; services
  • 507.06 — Delivery and storage of household goods
  • 507.07 — Violations
  • 507.08 — Deceptive and unfair trade practice
  • 507.09 — Administrative remedies; penalties
  • 507.10 — Civil penalties; remedies
  • 507.11 — Criminal penalties
  • 507.12 — General Inspection Trust Fund; payments
  • 507.13 — Local regulation
Title 509 · FL Chapter 509 (75 sections)
  • 509.013 — Definitions
  • 509.032 — Duties
  • 509.034 — Application
  • 509.035 — Immediate closure due to severe public health threat
  • 509.036 — Public food service inspector standardization
  • 509.039 — Food service manager certification
  • 509.049 — Food service employee training
  • 509.072 — Hotel and Restaurant Trust Fund; collection and disposition of moneys received
  • 509.091 — Notices; form and service
  • 509.092 — Public lodging establishments and public food service establishments; rights as private enterprises
  • 509.095 — Accommodations at public lodging establishments for individuals with a valid military identification card
  • 509.096 — Human trafficking awareness training and policies for public lodging establishments; enforcement
  • 509.098 — Prohibition of hourly rates
  • 509.101 — Establishment rules; posting of notice; food service inspection report; maintenance of guest register; mobile food dispe
  • 509.102 — Mobile food dispensing vehicles; temporary commercial kitchens; preemption
  • 509.103 — Food delivery platforms
  • 509.105 — Third-party reservation platforms prohibited; public food service establishments
  • 509.111 — Liability for property of guests
  • 509.141 — Refusal of admission and ejection of undesirable guests; notice; procedure; penalties for refusal to leave
  • 509.142 — Conduct on premises; refusal of service
  • 509.143 — Disorderly conduct on the premises of an establishment; detention; arrest; immunity from liability
  • 509.144 — Prohibited handbill distribution in a public lodging establishment; penalties
  • 509.151 — Obtaining food or lodging with intent to defraud; penalty
  • 509.161 — Rules of evidence in prosecutions
  • 509.162 — Theft of personal property; detaining and arrest of violator; theft by employee
  • 509.191 — Unclaimed property
  • 509.2015 — Telephone surcharges by public lodging establishments
  • 509.211 — Safety regulations
  • 509.2112 — Public lodging establishments three stories or more in height; inspection rules
  • 509.213 — Emergency first aid to choking victims
  • 509.214 — Notification of automatic operations charge and public food service establishment receipts
  • 509.215 — Firesafety
  • 509.2151 — Dining facility firesafety requirement limitation
  • 509.221 — Sanitary regulations
  • 509.232 — School carnivals and fairs; exemption from certain food service regulations
  • 509.233 — Public food service establishment requirements; local exemption for dogs in designated outdoor portions
  • 509.241 — Licenses required; exceptions; division online accounts and transactions
  • 509.242 — Public lodging establishments; classifications
  • 509.251 — License fees
  • 509.261 — Revocation or suspension of licenses; fines; procedure
  • 509.271 — Prerequisite for issuance of municipal or county occupational license
  • 509.281 — Prosecution for violation; duty of state attorney; penalties
  • 509.285 — Enforcement; city and county officers to assist
  • 509.291 — Advisory council
  • 509.292 — Misrepresenting food or food product; penalty
  • 509.302 — Hospitality Education Program
  • 509.4005 — Applicability of ss. 509.401-509.417
  • 509.401 — Operator’s right to lockout
  • 509.402 — Operator’s right to recover premises
  • 509.403 — Operator’s writ of distress
  • 509.404 — Writ of distress; venue and jurisdiction
  • 509.405 — Complaint; requirements
  • 509.406 — Prejudgment writ of distress
  • 509.407 — Writ of distress; levy of writ
  • 509.408 — Prejudgment writ; form; return
  • 509.409 — Writ; inventory
  • 509.411 — Exemptions from writ of distress
  • 509.412 — Writ; claims by third persons
  • 509.413 — Judgment for plaintiff when goods not delivered to defendant
  • 509.414 — Judgment for plaintiff when goods retained by or redelivered to defendant
  • 509.415 — Judgment for defendant when goods are retained by or redelivered to the defendant
  • 509.416 — Judgment for defendant when goods are not retained by or redelivered to the defendant
  • 509.417 — Writ; sale of property distrained
  • 509.501 — Short title
  • 509.502 — Definitions
  • 509.503 — Membership camping contracts
  • 509.504 — Cancellation
  • 509.505 — Required disclosures
  • 509.506 — Trust accounts
  • 509.507 — Advertising; disclosures; unlawful acts
  • 509.508 — Prize and gift promotional offers
  • 509.509 — Purchasers’ remedies
  • 509.510 — Violation of the Florida Membership Campground Act; exception
  • 509.511 — Violation; Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act
  • 509.512 — Timeshare plan developer and exchange company exemption
Title 513 · FL Chapter 513 (25 sections)
  • 513.01 — Definitions
  • 513.012 — Public health laws; enforcement
  • 513.014 — Applicability of recreational vehicle park provisions to mobile home parks
  • 513.02 — Permit
  • 513.03 — Application for and issuance of permit
  • 513.045 — Permit fees
  • 513.05 — Rules
  • 513.051 — Preemption
  • 513.052 — Inspection of premises
  • 513.053 — Prosecution for violation; duty of state attorney
  • 513.054 — Penalties for specified offenses by operator
  • 513.055 — Revocation or suspension of permit; fines; procedure
  • 513.065 — Enforcement; citations
  • 513.08 — Disposal of sewage
  • 513.10 — Operating without permit; enforcement of chapter; penalties
  • 513.1115 — Placement of recreational vehicles on lots in permitted parks
  • 513.112 — Maintenance of guest register and copy of laws
  • 513.114 — Liability for property of guests
  • 513.115 — Unclaimed property
  • 513.117 — Park rules and regulations
  • 513.118 — Conduct on premises; refusal of service
  • 513.121 — Obtaining accommodations in a recreational vehicle park with intent to defraud; penalty; rules of evidence
  • 513.122 — Theft of personal property; detention and arrest of violator; theft by employee
  • 513.13 — Recreational vehicle parks; ejection; grounds; proceedings
  • 513.151 — Recreational vehicle parks; guests in transient occupancy; operator’s rights and remedies; writ of distress
Title 514 · FL Chapter 514 (18 sections)
  • 514.011 — Definitions
  • 514.0115 — Exemptions from supervision or regulation; variances
  • 514.021 — Department authorization
  • 514.023 — Sampling of beach waters; and public bathing places; health advisories
  • 514.0231 — Advisory committee to oversee sampling of beach waters
  • 514.025 — Assignment of authority to county health departments
  • 514.028 — Advisory review board
  • 514.03 — Approval necessary to construct, develop, or modify public swimming pools or public bathing places
  • 514.031 — Permit necessary to operate public swimming pool
  • 514.0315 — Required safety features for public swimming pools and spas
  • 514.033 — Creation of fee schedules authorized
  • 514.04 — Right of entry
  • 514.05 — Denial, suspension, or revocation of permit; administrative fines
  • 514.06 — Injunction to restrain violations
  • 514.071 — Certification of swimming instructors and lifeguards required
  • 514.072 — Certification of swimming instructors for people who have developmental disabilities
  • 514.073 — Swimming Lesson Voucher Program
  • 514.075 — Public pool service technician; certification
Title 515 · FL Chapter 515 (9 sections)
  • 515.21 — Short title
  • 515.23 — Legislative findings and intent
  • 515.25 — Definitions
  • 515.27 — Residential swimming pool safety feature options; penalties
  • 515.29 — Residential swimming pool barrier requirements
  • 515.31 — Drowning prevention education program; public information publication
  • 515.33 — Information required to be furnished to buyers
  • 515.35 — Rulemaking authority
  • 515.37 — Exemptions
Title 516 · FL Chapter 516 (28 sections)
  • 516.001 — Short title
  • 516.01 — Definitions
  • 516.02 — Loans; lines of credit; rate of interest; license
  • 516.03 — Application for license; fees; etc
  • 516.031 — Finance charge; maximum rates
  • 516.035 — Rate of interest upon default
  • 516.037 — Unsafe and unsound practices
  • 516.05 — License
  • 516.07 — Grounds for denial of license or for disciplinary action
  • 516.11 — Investigations and complaints
  • 516.12 — Records to be kept by licensee
  • 516.15 — Duties of licensee
  • 516.16 — Confession of judgment; power of attorney; contents of notes and security
  • 516.17 — Assignment of wages, etc., given to secure loans
  • 516.19 — Penalties
  • 516.21 — Restriction of borrower’s indebtedness
  • 516.22 — Rules; certified copies
  • 516.221 — Liability when acting upon order, declaratory statement, or rule
  • 516.23 — Subpoenas; enforcement actions; rules
  • 516.26 — Purchase or assignment of wages, salaries, etc
  • 516.27 — Preexisting contracts
  • 516.31 — Consumer protection; certain negotiable instruments restricted; assigns subject to defenses; limitation on deficiency cl
  • 516.32 — Consumer credit counseling
  • 516.33 — Public disclosures
  • 516.35 — Credit insurance must comply with credit insurance act
  • 516.36 — Installment requirement
  • 516.38 — Annual reports by licensees
  • 516.39 — Suspension of penalties and remedial measures after federal disaster declaration
Title 517 · FL Chapter 517 (45 sections)
  • 517.011 — Short title
  • 517.021 — Definitions
  • 517.03 — Rulemaking; immunity for acts in conformity with rules
  • 517.051 — Exempt securities
  • 517.061 — Exempt transactions
  • 517.0611 — The Florida Limited Offering Exemption
  • 517.0612 — Florida Invest Local Exemption
  • 517.0613 — Failure to comply with a securities registration exemption
  • 517.0614 — Integration of offerings
  • 517.0615 — Solicitations of interest
  • 517.0616 — Disqualification
  • 517.07 — Registration of securities
  • 517.072 — Viatical settlement investments
  • 517.075 — Cuba, prospectus disclosure of doing business with, required
  • 517.081 — Registration procedure
  • 517.082 — Registration by notification; federal registration statements
  • 517.101 — Consent to service
  • 517.111 — Revocation or denial of registration of securities
  • 517.12 — Registration of dealers, associated persons, intermediaries, and investment advisers
  • 517.1201 — Notice filing requirements for federal covered advisers
  • 517.1202 — Notice-filing requirements for branch offices
  • 517.1205 — Registration of associated persons specific as to securities dealer, investment adviser, or federal covered adviser iden
  • 517.121 — Books and records requirements; examinations
  • 517.1214 — Continuing education requirements for associated persons of investment advisers and federal covered advisers
  • 517.1215 — Requirements, rules of conduct, and prohibited business practices for investment advisers and their associated persons
  • 517.1217 — Rules of conduct and prohibited business practices for dealers and their associated persons and for intermediaries
  • 517.122 — Arbitration
  • 517.131 — Securities Guaranty Fund
  • 517.141 — Payment from the fund
  • 517.151 — Investments of the fund
  • 517.161 — Revocation, denial, or suspension of registration of dealer, investment adviser, intermediary, or associated person
  • 517.1611 — Guidelines
  • 517.171 — Burden of proof
  • 517.191 — Enforcement by the Office of Financial Regulation; enforcement by Attorney General
  • 517.201 — Investigations; examinations; subpoenas; hearings; witnesses
  • 517.2015 — Confidentiality of information relating to investigations and examinations
  • 517.2016 — Public records exemption; examination techniques or procedures
  • 517.211 — Private remedies available in cases of unlawful sale
  • 517.275 — Commodities; prohibited practices
  • 517.301 — Fraudulent transactions; falsification or concealment of facts
  • 517.302 — Criminal penalties; alternative fine; Anti-Fraud Trust Fund; time limitation for criminal prosecution
  • 517.313 — Destroying certain records; reproduction
  • 517.315 — Fees
  • 517.32 — Exemption from excise tax, certain obligations to pay
  • 517.34 — Protection of specified adults
Title 518 · FL Chapter 518 (18 sections)
  • 518.01 — Investments of funds received from United States Department of Veterans Affairs
  • 518.06 — Investment of fiduciary funds in loans insured by Federal Housing Administrator
  • 518.07 — Investment of fiduciary funds in bonds, etc., issued by Federal Housing Administrator
  • 518.08 — Applicability of laws requiring security, etc
  • 518.09 — Housing bonds legal investments and security
  • 518.10 — Fiduciary defined as used in ss. 518.11-518.14
  • 518.11 — Investments by fiduciaries; prudent investor rule
  • 518.112 — Delegation of investment functions
  • 518.115 — Power of fiduciary or custodian to deposit securities in a central depository
  • 518.116 — Power of certain fiduciaries and custodians to deposit United States Government and agency securities with a Federal Res
  • 518.117 — Permissible investments of fiduciary funds
  • 518.12 — Instrument creating or defining powers, duties of fiduciary not affected
  • 518.13 — Authority of court to permit deviation from terms of instrument creating trust not affected
  • 518.14 — Scope of ss. 518.10-518.13
  • 518.15 — Bonds or motor vehicle tax anticipation certificates, legal investments and security
  • 518.151 — Higher education bonds or certificates, legal investments and security
  • 518.152 — Puerto Rican bonds or obligations, legal investments and securities
  • 518.16 — Chapter cumulative
Title 519 · FL Chapter 519 (1 sections)
  • 519.101 — Florida equity exchange feasibility study; structure, operation, and regulation
Title 520 · FL Chapter 520 (80 sections)
  • 520.01 — Motor Vehicle Retail Sales Finance Act
  • 520.02 — Definitions
  • 520.03 — Licenses
  • 520.07 — Requirements and prohibitions as to retail installment contracts
  • 520.08 — Finance charge limitation
  • 520.085 — Simple-interest contracts
  • 520.09 — Credit upon anticipation of payments
  • 520.10 — Refinancing retail installment contract
  • 520.12 — Penalties
  • 520.125 — Variable rate contracts; mobile homes
  • 520.13 — Waiver
  • 520.14 — Termination of retail installment contract for leasing a motor vehicle by a servicemember
  • 520.151 — Florida Vehicle Value Protection Agreements Act
  • 520.152 — Definitions
  • 520.153 — Requirements and prohibitions as to vehicle value protection agreements
  • 520.154 — Disclosures
  • 520.155 — Commercial transactions exempt
  • 520.156 — Penalties
  • 520.157 — Excess wear and use waiver
  • 520.20 — Definitions
  • 520.21 — Applicability
  • 520.22 — Safety compliance
  • 520.23 — Disclosures required
  • 520.24 — Rulemaking authority; standard disclosure form
  • 520.25 — Penalties
  • 520.26 — Exemptions
  • 520.30 — Short title
  • 520.31 — Definitions
  • 520.32 — Licenses
  • 520.34 — Retail installment contracts
  • 520.345 — Simple-interest contracts
  • 520.35 — Revolving accounts
  • 520.351 — Consolidated debts
  • 520.36 — Mail order and telephone sales
  • 520.37 — Delinquency charges, attorney’s fees and court costs
  • 520.38 — Transfer of contracts
  • 520.39 — Penalties
  • 520.40 — Waiver
  • 520.41 — Prior contracts not affected
  • 520.42 — Construction
  • 520.50 — Short title
  • 520.51 — Definitions
  • 520.52 — Licensees
  • 520.57 — Penalties
  • 520.60 — Short title
  • 520.61 — Definitions
  • 520.63 — Licensees
  • 520.68 — Persons not required to be licensed
  • 520.69 — Scope of license authority; scope of provisions
  • 520.70 — Employee of the seller
  • 520.71 — Contract copy to owner
  • 520.72 — Cancellation of contract
  • 520.73 — Home improvement contract; form and content; separate disclosures
  • 520.74 — Provisions expressly prohibited
  • 520.75 — Buyer’s waiver of statutory protection
  • 520.76 — Insurance provisions, procurement, rates
  • 520.78 — Finance charge limitation
  • 520.785 — Simple-interest contracts
  • 520.79 — Unauthorized charges
  • 520.80 — Mortgages, promissory notes
  • 520.81 — Completion certificate
  • 520.82 — Statement of account
  • 520.83 — Cancellation of contract on payment in full
  • 520.84 — Credit to owner on prepayment
  • 520.85 — Delinquency and collection charges; court costs and attorney’s fees
  • 520.86 — Extension or deferment
  • 520.87 — Receipt for cash payment; payment to assignor
  • 520.88 — Assignments of contracts or notes
  • 520.90 — Prohibited acts
  • 520.91 — Uttering a false completion certificate
  • 520.92 — Compensation of other than licensee prohibited
  • 520.98 — Penalties
  • 520.993 — Definitions
  • 520.994 — Powers of office
  • 520.995 — Grounds for disciplinary action
  • 520.996 — Investigations and complaints
  • 520.9965 — Confidentiality of information relating to investigations and examinations
  • 520.997 — Books, accounts, and records
  • 520.998 — Regulatory Trust Fund
  • 520.999 — Requirements of licensees
Title 521 · FL Chapter 521 (6 sections)
Title 522 · FL Chapter 522 (7 sections)
  • 522.01 — Fruit or produce brokers to make return of account sales
  • 522.02 — Persons presumed to be doing business in state
  • 522.03 — Liability of broker for loss by reason of delayed account sales; measure of damages
  • 522.04 — Liability of broker in case of failure to return account sales
  • 522.05 — Penalty for failure of commission merchant to make returns
  • 522.06 — Produce commission merchant to furnish shipper duplicate sales account; shipper to have access to certain records; provi
  • 522.07 — Violation of regulations as to sale of produce on commissions
Title 525 · FL Chapter 525 (11 sections)
  • 525.01 — Gasoline and oil to be inspected
  • 525.02 — Analyses of petroleum fuel
  • 525.035 — Mislabeled petroleum fuel
  • 525.037 — Petroleum fuel standards
  • 525.07 — Powers and duties of department; inspections; unlawful acts
  • 525.08 — Department to have access to all stores, warehouses, factories, petroleum terminals, storage houses, and railroad depots
  • 525.10 — Payment of expenses
  • 525.14 — Rules
  • 525.15 — Inspectors not to be interested in sales
  • 525.16 — Administrative fine; penalties; prosecution of cases by state attorney
  • 525.19 — Petroleum registration
Title 526 · FL Chapter 526 (39 sections)
  • 526.01 — Fraud and deception in sale of liquid fuel, lubricating oil, and greases; labeling; stop-sale order; penalty
  • 526.015 — Lubricating oil standards and labeling requirements
  • 526.02 — Proper trade name or mark to appear upon container or distributing device
  • 526.03 — Imitating trade names or equipment under which liquid fuel is marketed; prohibition
  • 526.04 — Sale of liquid fuel under trademark of another; prohibition
  • 526.05 — Mixing, blending, or compounding liquid fuels of different manufacturers prohibited
  • 526.06 — Mixing, blending, compounding, or adulteration of liquid fuels of same manufacturer prohibited
  • 526.07 — Assisting another in illegal storage or other violation of chapter prohibited
  • 526.08 — Participation of director, officer, agent, employee, or member in violations
  • 526.09 — Department to enforce law; rules
  • 526.10 — Department of Legal Affairs and state attorneys to assist in enforcing law
  • 526.11 — Penalty for violations
  • 526.111 — Prohibited display of gasoline prices; penalty
  • 526.121 — Pricing restrictions; separation of gasolines
  • 526.131 — Injunction against violations
  • 526.141 — Self-service gasoline stations; attendants; regulations
  • 526.142 — Air and vacuum devices
  • 526.143 — Alternate generated power capacity for motor fuel dispensing facilities
  • 526.144 — Florida Disaster Motor Fuel Supplier Program
  • 526.147 — Florida Retail Fuel Transfer Switch Modernization Grant Program
  • 526.301 — Short title
  • 526.302 — Legislative findings and intent
  • 526.303 — Definitions
  • 526.304 — Predatory practices unlawful; exceptions
  • 526.305 — Discriminatory practices unlawful; exceptions
  • 526.306 — Discriminatory allocations unlawful
  • 526.307 — Unfair practices unlawful
  • 526.308 — Certain rebates unlawful
  • 526.309 — Exempt sales
  • 526.311 — Enforcement; civil penalties; injunctive relief
  • 526.312 — Enforcement; private actions; injunctive relief
  • 526.313 — Limitations period for actions
  • 526.50 — Definition of terms
  • 526.51 — Registration; renewal and fees; departmental expenses; cancellation or refusal to issue or renew
  • 526.52 — Specifications; adulteration and misbranding
  • 526.53 — Enforcement; inspection and analysis, stop-sale and disposition, regulations
  • 526.54 — Certified copy of analysis as evidence
  • 526.55 — Violation and penalties
  • 526.56 — Injunction against violations
Title 527 · FL Chapter 527 (27 sections)
  • 527.01 — Definitions
  • 527.02 — License; penalty; fees
  • 527.0201 — Qualifiers; master qualifiers; examinations
  • 527.021 — Registration of transport vehicles
  • 527.03 — Renewal of license
  • 527.04 — Proof of insurance required
  • 527.055 — General powers and duties
  • 527.06 — Rules
  • 527.0605 — Liquefied petroleum gas bulk storage locations; jurisdiction
  • 527.061 — Inspection of buildings, systems, equipment, vehicles, or premises
  • 527.062 — Investigation and safety promotion; authority of department
  • 527.065 — Notification of accidents; leak calls
  • 527.067 — Responsibilities of persons engaged in servicing liquefied petroleum gas equipment and systems and consumers, end users,
  • 527.07 — Restriction on use of containers
  • 527.08 — Penalty for violation
  • 527.09 — Injunction
  • 527.10 — Restriction on use of unsafe container or system
  • 527.11 — Minimum storage
  • 527.12 — Cease and desist orders; administrative fines
  • 527.13 — Administrative fines and warning letters
  • 527.14 — Suspension and revocation of license
  • 527.15 — Conduct of proceedings; record costs
  • 527.16 — Witnesses and evidence
  • 527.20 — Short title and purpose
  • 527.21 — Definitions relating to Florida Propane Gas Education, Safety, and Research Act
  • 527.22 — Florida Propane Gas Education, Safety, and Research Council established; membership; duties and responsibilities
  • 527.23 — Marketing orders; referendum requirements; assessments
Title 531 · FL Chapter 531 (27 sections)
  • 531.36 — Title
  • 531.37 — Definitions
  • 531.38 — Systems of weights and measures
  • 531.39 — State standards
  • 531.40 — Technical requirements for commercial devices
  • 531.41 — Powers and duties of the department
  • 531.415 — Fees
  • 531.42 — Special police powers
  • 531.421 — Powers and duties of local officials
  • 531.43 — Misrepresentation of quantity
  • 531.44 — Misrepresentation of pricing; verification procedures
  • 531.45 — Method of sale
  • 531.46 — Bulk sale
  • 531.47 — Information required on packages
  • 531.48 — Declarations of unit price on random packages
  • 531.49 — Advertising packages for sale
  • 531.50 — Administrative fine, penalties, and offenses
  • 531.51 — Injunction
  • 531.52 — Presumptive evidence
  • 531.53 — Regulations to be unaffected by repeal of prior enabling statute
  • 531.60 — Permit for commercially operated or tested weights or measures instrument or devices
  • 531.61 — Exemptions from permit requirement
  • 531.62 — Permit application and renewal
  • 531.63 — Maximum permit fees
  • 531.64 — Suspension and revocation of permits
  • 531.65 — Unauthorized use; penalties
  • 531.66 — Forms; rules
Title 532 · FL Chapter 532 (3 sections)
  • 532.01 — Payment by check, draft, or other order for payment
  • 532.02 — Payment by other device
  • 532.04 — Payment by direct deposit of funds
Title 534 · FL Chapter 534 (19 sections)
  • 534.011 — Inspection and protection of livestock; jurisdiction of Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
  • 534.021 — Recording of marks or brands
  • 534.031 — Certified copies of marks and brands
  • 534.041 — Renewal of certificate of mark or brand
  • 534.051 — Transfer of ownership of mark or brand
  • 534.071 — Rules and regulations
  • 534.081 — Duties of law enforcement officers; appointment of special officers
  • 534.082 — Duties of livestock hide dealers
  • 534.083 — Livestock hauler’s waybill or bill of lading
  • 534.091 — Claim of ownership without title
  • 534.101 — Penalties
  • 534.111 — Injunction
  • 534.47 — Definitions
  • 534.48 — License and fee
  • 534.49 — Livestock drafts; effect
  • 534.501 — Unlawful delay or failure in payment
  • 534.52 — Violations; refusal, suspension, revocation; penalties
  • 534.53 — Information and records
  • 534.54 — Livestock purchasers; prompt payment; penalty; lien
Title 535 · FL Chapter 535 (9 sections)
  • 535.01 — License for the public sale of thoroughbred horses
  • 535.02 — Minimum requirements; rules
  • 535.05 — License fee
  • 535.08 — Thoroughbred sales; administration of medications prior to sale; testing
  • 535.11 — Prohibition against administration of drugs; testing; search powers of department; penalties
  • 535.12 — Horse shows or sales; penalties for violations
  • 535.13 — Inapplicability to horseracing
  • 535.14 — Rules
  • 535.16 — Sale and purchase of horses; unfair or deceptive trade practices
Title 536 · FL Chapter 536 (7 sections)
  • 536.13 — Stamp or brand for logs
  • 536.14 — Brands to be recorded by clerk of circuit court
  • 536.15 — May prevent use by others
  • 536.16 — Prima facie evidence of ownership
  • 536.17 — Where two or more brands the same
  • 536.18 — Defacing the mark or brand of lumber and timber
  • 536.19 — Unlawful use of recorded log brand or stamp
Title 537 · FL Chapter 537 (17 sections)
  • 537.001 — Short title
  • 537.002 — Legislative intent
  • 537.003 — Definitions
  • 537.004 — License required; license fees
  • 537.005 — Application for license
  • 537.006 — Denial, suspension, or revocation of license
  • 537.007 — Remedies for title loans made without licensure
  • 537.008 — Title loan agreement
  • 537.009 — Recordkeeping; reporting; safekeeping of property
  • 537.011 — Title loan charges
  • 537.012 — Repossession, disposal of pledged property; excess proceeds
  • 537.013 — Prohibited acts
  • 537.014 — Right to reclaim; lost title loan agreement
  • 537.015 — Criminal penalties
  • 537.016 — Subpoenas; enforcement actions; rules
  • 537.017 — Investigations and complaints
  • 537.018 — County and municipal ordinances
Title 538 · FL Chapter 538 (28 sections)
  • 538.03 — Definitions; applicability
  • 538.04 — Recordkeeping requirements; penalties
  • 538.05 — Inspection of records and premises of secondhand dealers
  • 538.06 — Holding period
  • 538.07 — Penalty for violation of chapter
  • 538.08 — Stolen goods; complaint for return
  • 538.09 — Registration
  • 538.11 — Powers and duties of department; rules
  • 538.15 — Certain acts and practices prohibited
  • 538.17 — Local regulation of secondhand dealers
  • 538.18 — Definitions
  • 538.19 — Records required; limitation of liability
  • 538.20 — Inspection of regulated metals property and records
  • 538.21 — Hold notice
  • 538.22 — Exemptions
  • 538.23 — Violations and penalties
  • 538.235 — Method of payment
  • 538.24 — Stolen regulated metals property; petition for return
  • 538.25 — Registration
  • 538.26 — Certain acts and practices prohibited
  • 538.28 — Local government regulation
  • 538.31 — Definitions; applicability
  • 538.32 — Registration, transaction, and recordkeeping requirements; penalties
  • 538.33 — Tendering payment
  • 538.34 — Inspection of records and premises
  • 538.35 — Holding period
  • 538.36 — Acts and practices prohibited; penalties
  • 538.37 — Powers and duties of department
Title 539 · FL Chapter 539 (3 sections)
Title 540 · FL Chapter 540 (11 sections)
  • 540.01 — Unfair discrimination and competition prohibited; definition of commodity
  • 540.02 — Duty of state attorneys
  • 540.03 — Complaints made to Department of State; duty
  • 540.04 — Department of State to revoke permit of corporation found guilty of discrimination
  • 540.05 — Ouster of corporation found guilty
  • 540.06 — Unfair commercial discrimination prohibited; penalty
  • 540.08 — Unauthorized publication of name or likeness
  • 540.09 — Unauthorized publication of photographs or pictures of areas to which admission is charged
  • 540.10 — Exemption of news media from liability
  • 540.11 — Unauthorized copying of phonograph records, disk, wire, tape, film, or other article on which sounds are recorded
  • 540.12 — Unlawful use of a recording device in a motion picture theater
Title 542 · FL Chapter 542 (31 sections)
  • 542.15 — Short title
  • 542.16 — Purpose
  • 542.17 — Definitions
  • 542.18 — Restraint of trade or commerce
  • 542.19 — Monopolization; attempts, combinations, or conspiracies to monopolize
  • 542.20 — Exemptions
  • 542.21 — Penalties for violation
  • 542.22 — Suits for damages
  • 542.23 — Equitable remedies
  • 542.235 — Limitations of actions and penalties against local governments and their officials and employees
  • 542.24 — Consent decrees and settlement agreements
  • 542.25 — Judgment in favor of state as prima facie evidence
  • 542.26 — Limitation of actions
  • 542.27 — Enforcement authority
  • 542.28 — Civil investigative demand
  • 542.29 — Duty of public officers
  • 542.30 — Jurisdiction and venue
  • 542.31 — Action not barred as affecting or involving interstate or foreign commerce
  • 542.32 — Rule of construction and coverage
  • 542.33 — Contracts in restraint of trade valid
  • 542.331 — Applicability of s. 542.33
  • 542.335 — Valid restraints of trade or commerce
  • 542.336 — Invalid restrictive covenants
  • 542.34 — Discriminatory trade practices
  • 542.35 — Remedies cumulative
  • 542.36 — Continuing violations
  • 542.41 — Short title
  • 542.42 — Legislative findings
  • 542.43 — Definitions
  • 542.44 — Covered garden leave agreement
  • 542.45 — Covered noncompete agreements
Title 545 · FL Chapter 545 (13 sections)
  • 545.01 — Definitions
  • 545.02 — Contracts designating finance company through which sale of motor vehicle to be financed declared void
  • 545.03 — Threats by manufacturer or wholesaler as prima facie evidence of intent to violate law
  • 545.04 — Threats by finance company presumed to be made by manufacturer or wholesaler
  • 545.045 — Purchase or assignment of third-party financing
  • 545.05 — Paying or giving anything to finance company to lessen competition prohibited
  • 545.06 — Acceptance of anything of value by finance company resulting in lessening competition prohibited
  • 545.07 — Acceptance of benefits by finance company for purpose of lessening competition prohibited
  • 545.08 — Department of Legal Affairs or state attorney to institute suit upon violation of law
  • 545.09 — Department of Legal Affairs to enjoin violations by foreign corporations; revocation of license by Department of State
  • 545.10 — Contract in violation of law declared void
  • 545.11 — Remedy for persons injured by violation of law
  • 545.12 — Penalty for violations of chapter
Title 546 · FL Chapter 546 (7 sections)
  • 546.001 — Short title
  • 546.002 — Definitions
  • 546.003 — Requirement for insurance coverage or bond
  • 546.004 — Local licenses, permits, and certificates
  • 546.006 — Exemptions
  • 546.008 — Penalties for violation of s. 546.003
  • 546.10 — Amusement games or machines
Title 548 · FL Chapter 548 (49 sections)
  • 548.001 — Short title
  • 548.002 — Definitions
  • 548.003 — Florida Athletic Commission
  • 548.004 — Executive director; duties, compensation, administrative support
  • 548.005 — Oversight of the commission; long-range policy planning; plans, reports, and recommendations
  • 548.006 — Power of commission to control professional and amateur boxing, kickboxing, and mixed martial arts matches; certificatio
  • 548.0065 — Amateur matches; sanctioning and supervision; health and safety standards; compliance checks; continuation, suspension,
  • 548.007 — Exemptions
  • 548.008 — Prohibited competitions
  • 548.011 — Power of commission to issue, withhold, suspend, or revoke licenses and permits
  • 548.012 — Promoter’s license
  • 548.014 — Promoters; bonds or other security
  • 548.017 — Participants, managers, and other persons required to have licenses
  • 548.021 — Applications for licenses and permits
  • 548.022 — Oral examinations
  • 548.024 — Background investigation of applicants for licensure
  • 548.025 — License fees
  • 548.026 — Duration of license
  • 548.028 — Refusal to issue license
  • 548.032 — Permit for program of matches
  • 548.033 — Local prohibiting ordinance
  • 548.035 — Permit fees
  • 548.037 — Admissions not to exceed seating capacity
  • 548.041 — Age, condition, and suspension of participants
  • 548.042 — Participation under fictitious name
  • 548.043 — Weights and classes, limitations; gloves
  • 548.046 — Physician’s attendance at match; examinations; cancellation of match
  • 548.047 — Duty of licensee to disclose condition of participant
  • 548.049 — Medical, surgical, and hospital insurance; life insurance
  • 548.05 — Control of contracts
  • 548.052 — Payment of advances by promoter regulated
  • 548.053 — Distribution of purses to participants; statements
  • 548.054 — Withholding of purses; hearing; disposition of withheld purse forfeiture
  • 548.056 — Prohibited financial interests in participant; penalties
  • 548.057 — Attendance of referee and judges at match; scoring; seconds
  • 548.058 — Sham or collusive contest prohibited
  • 548.06 — Payments to state; exemptions; audit of records
  • 548.062 — Public records exemption
  • 548.064 — Destruction of ticket or ticket stub
  • 548.066 — Ticket refunds
  • 548.069 — Age of spectators
  • 548.07 — Suspension of license or permit by commissioner; hearing
  • 548.071 — Suspension or revocation of license or permit by commission
  • 548.073 — Commission hearings
  • 548.074 — Power to administer oaths, take depositions, and issue subpoenas
  • 548.075 — Administrative fines; citations
  • 548.076 — Cease and desist notices
  • 548.077 — Florida Athletic Commission; collection and disposition of moneys
  • 548.079 — Misdemeanors
Title 549 · FL Chapter 549 (10 sections)
  • 549.01 — Holding automobile race meets; notice to sheriff
  • 549.02 — Duties of sheriffs
  • 549.03 — Sheriff to exclude from course vehicles and persons
  • 549.04 — Association holding race to pay sheriff’s fees
  • 549.05 — Holding race meet without notice to sheriff; penalty
  • 549.06 — Failure of person to remove from automobile racecourse; penalty
  • 549.08 — Motor vehicle racing event; permits to conduct on highway or street or in park within municipality
  • 549.09 — Motorsport nonspectator liability release
  • 549.10 — Motorsports entertainment complex; contracts
  • 549.102 — Motorsports entertainment complex; overnight parking
Title 55 · FL Chapter 55 (36 sections)
  • 55.01 — Judgments; general form
  • 55.03 — Judgments; rate of interest, generally
  • 55.04 — Judgments; rate of interest, bonds of county, etc
  • 55.05 — Judgments; power of attorney to confess invalid
  • 55.07 — Judgments; effect of failure to record
  • 55.071 — Judgments; effect of invalid affidavit or oath
  • 55.081 — Statute of limitations, lien of judgment
  • 55.10 — Judgments, orders, and decrees; lien of all, generally; extension of liens; transfer of liens to other security
  • 55.11 — Judgments; no lien against municipalities
  • 55.13 — Judgments; rights of sureties, etc
  • 55.141 — Satisfaction of judgments and decrees; duties of clerk
  • 55.145 — Discharge of judgments in bankruptcy
  • 55.146 — Certain property exempt
  • 55.201 — Central database of judgment liens on personal property
  • 55.202 — Judgments, orders, and decrees; lien on personal property
  • 55.203 — Judgment lien certificate; content, filing, and indexing
  • 55.204 — Duration and continuation of judgment lien; destruction of records
  • 55.205 — Effect of judgment lien
  • 55.206 — Amendment of judgment lien file; termination, partial release, assignment, continuation, tolling, correction
  • 55.207 — Correction of judgment lien file
  • 55.208 — Effect of prior liens on payment intangibles and accounts; effect of filed judgment lien on writs of execution previousl
  • 55.209 — Department of State; processing fees, responsibilities
  • 55.501 — Florida Enforcement of Foreign Judgments Act; short title
  • 55.502 — Construction of act
  • 55.503 — Recording and status of foreign judgments; fees
  • 55.505 — Notice of recording; prerequisite to enforcement
  • 55.507 — Lien; when effective
  • 55.509 — Stay of enforcement of foreign judgment
  • 55.601 — Uniform Out-of-Country Foreign Money-Judgment Recognition Act; short title
  • 55.602 — Definitions
  • 55.603 — Applicability
  • 55.604 — Recognition and enforcement
  • 55.605 — Grounds for nonrecognition
  • 55.6055 — Foreign defamation judgment
  • 55.606 — Personal jurisdiction
  • 55.607 — Stay in case of appeal
Title 550 · FL Chapter 550 (74 sections)
  • 550.001 — Short title
  • 550.002 — Definitions
  • 550.0115 — Permitholder operating license
  • 550.01215 — License application; periods of operation; license fees; bond
  • 550.0235 — Limitation of civil liability
  • 550.0251 — Powers and duties of the Florida Gaming Control Commission
  • 550.0351 — Charity days
  • 550.0425 — Minors attendance at pari-mutuel performances; restrictions
  • 550.054 — Application for permit to conduct pari-mutuel wagering
  • 550.0555 — Greyhound dogracing permits; relocation within a county; conditions
  • 550.0651 — Elections for ratification of permits; municipal prohibitions
  • 550.0745 — Summer jai alai permit periods of operation
  • 550.0951 — Payment of daily license fee and taxes; penalties
  • 550.09511 — Jai alai taxes; abandoned interest in a permit for nonpayment of taxes
  • 550.09512 — Harness horse taxes; abandoned interest in a permit for nonpayment of taxes
  • 550.09514 — Greyhound dogracing taxes; purse requirements
  • 550.09515 — Thoroughbred horse taxes; abandoned interest in a permit for nonpayment of taxes
  • 550.09516 — Credit for eligible permitholders conducting thoroughbred racing
  • 550.105 — Occupational licenses of racetrack employees; fees; denial, suspension, and revocation of license; penalties and fines
  • 550.1155 — Authority of stewards, judges, panel of judges, or player’s manager to impose penalties against occupational licensees
  • 550.125 — Uniform reporting system; bond requirement
  • 550.135 — Division of moneys derived under this law
  • 550.155 — Pari-mutuel pool within track enclosure; takeouts; breaks; penalty for purchasing part of a pari-mutuel pool for or thro
  • 550.1625 — Dogracing; taxes
  • 550.1645 — Escheat to state of abandoned interest in or contribution to pari-mutuel pools
  • 550.1646 — Credit for unclaimed property remitted to state
  • 550.1647 — Greyhound permitholders; unclaimed tickets; breaks
  • 550.175 — Petition for election to revoke permit
  • 550.1815 — Certain persons prohibited from holding racing or jai alai permits; suspension and revocation
  • 550.235 — Conniving to prearrange result of race or jai alai game; using medication or drugs on horse or dog; penalty
  • 550.24055 — Use of controlled substances or alcohol prohibited; testing of certain occupational licensees; penalty; evidence of test
  • 550.2415 — Racing of animals under certain conditions prohibited; penalties; exceptions
  • 550.255 — Penalty for conducting unauthorized race meeting
  • 550.2614 — Distribution of certain funds to a horsemen’s association
  • 550.26165 — Breeders’ awards
  • 550.2625 — Horseracing; minimum purse requirement; Florida breeders’ and owners’ awards
  • 550.2633 — Horseracing; distribution of abandoned interest in or contributions to pari-mutuel pools
  • 550.26352 — Breeders’ Cup Meet; pools authorized; conflicts; taxes; credits; transmission of races; rules; application
  • 550.2704 — Jai Alai Tournament of Champions Meet
  • 550.285 — Obtaining feed or other supplies for racehorses or greyhound racing dogs with intent to defraud
  • 550.334 — Quarter horse racing; substitutions
  • 550.3345 — Conversion of quarter horse permit to a limited thoroughbred permit
  • 550.3355 — Harness track licenses for summer quarter horse racing
  • 550.3551 — Transmission of racing and jai alai information; commingling of pari-mutuel pools
  • 550.3615 — Bookmaking on the grounds of a permitholder; penalties; reinstatement; duties of track employees; penalty; exceptions
  • 550.3616 — Racing greyhounds or other dogs prohibited; penalty
  • 550.375 — Operation of certain harness tracks
  • 550.475 — Lease of pari-mutuel facilities by pari-mutuel permitholders
  • 550.495 — Totalisator licensing
  • 550.505 — Nonwagering permits
  • 550.5251 — Florida thoroughbred racing; certain permits; operating days
  • 550.615 — Intertrack wagering
  • 550.625 — Intertrack wagering; purses; breeders’ awards
  • 550.6305 — Intertrack wagering; guest track payments; accounting rules
  • 550.6308 — Limited intertrack wagering license
  • 550.6315 — Applicability of s. 565.02(5) to guest tracks
  • 550.6325 — Uncashed tickets and breakage tax
  • 550.6335 — Surcharge
  • 550.6345 — Intertrack wagering; purses when host track is harness racetrack
  • 550.70 — Jai alai general provisions; chief court judges required; extension of time to construct fronton; amateur jai alai conte
  • 550.71 — Operation of ch. 96-364
  • 550.901 — Interstate Compact on Licensure of Participants in Pari-mutuel Wagering
  • 550.902 — Purposes
  • 550.903 — Definitions; Interstate Compact on Licensure of Participants in Pari-mutuel Wagering
  • 550.904 — Entry into force
  • 550.905 — States eligible to join compact
  • 550.906 — Withdrawal from compact; impact on force and effect
  • 550.907 — Compact committee
  • 550.908 — Powers and duties of compact committee
  • 550.909 — Voting requirements
  • 550.910 — Administration and management
  • 550.911 — Immunity from liability for performance of official responsibilities and duties
  • 550.912 — Rights and responsibilities of each party state
  • 550.913 — Construction and severability
Title 551 · FL Chapter 551 (21 sections)
  • 551.101 — Slot machine gaming authorized
  • 551.102 — Definitions
  • 551.103 — Powers and duties of the commission and law enforcement
  • 551.104 — License to conduct slot machine gaming
  • 551.1045 — Temporary licenses
  • 551.105 — Slot machine license renewal
  • 551.106 — License fee; tax rate; penalties
  • 551.107 — Slot machine occupational license; findings; application; fee
  • 551.108 — Prohibited relationships
  • 551.109 — Prohibited acts; penalties
  • 551.111 — Legal devices
  • 551.112 — Exclusions of certain persons
  • 551.113 — Persons prohibited from playing slot machines
  • 551.114 — Slot machine gaming areas
  • 551.116 — Days and hours of operation
  • 551.117 — Penalties
  • 551.118 — Compulsive or addictive gambling prevention program
  • 551.119 — Caterer’s license
  • 551.121 — Prohibited activities and devices; exceptions
  • 551.122 — Rulemaking
  • 551.123 — Legislative authority; administration of chapter
Title 552 · FL Chapter 552 (35 sections)
  • 552.081 — Definitions
  • 552.091 — License or permit required of manufacturer-distributor, dealer, user, or blaster of explosives
  • 552.092 — Forms for applications for licenses and permits
  • 552.093 — Competency examinations required
  • 552.094 — Issuance of licenses, permits; prohibitions
  • 552.101 — Possession without license prohibited; exceptions
  • 552.111 — Maintenance of records and sales of explosives by manufacturer-distributors and dealers; inspections
  • 552.112 — Maintenance of records by users; inspection
  • 552.113 — Reports of thefts, illegal use, or illegal possession
  • 552.114 — Sale, labeling, and disposition of explosives; unlawful possession
  • 552.12 — Transportation of explosives without license prohibited; exceptions
  • 552.13 — Promulgation of regulations by the Division of State Fire Marshal
  • 552.151 — Procedure for cease and desist orders; administrative fine
  • 552.161 — Administrative fines
  • 552.171 — Suspension or revocation of license or permit
  • 552.181 — Conduct of hearings
  • 552.20 — Review of order of the division
  • 552.21 — Confiscation and disposal of explosives
  • 552.211 — Explosives; general
  • 552.212 — Inspection of buildings, vehicles, vessels, aircraft, equipment, or premises
  • 552.22 — Penalties
  • 552.23 — Injunction
  • 552.24 — Exceptions
  • 552.241 — Limited exemptions
  • 552.25 — Municipal and county ordinances, rules, and regulations
  • 552.26 — Administration of chapter; personnel; fees to be deposited in Insurance Regulatory Trust Fund
  • 552.27 — Construction of chapter
  • 552.30 — Construction materials mining activities
  • 552.32 — Short title
  • 552.34 — Legislative findings; public purpose
  • 552.36 — Exclusive jurisdiction; Division of Administrative Hearings
  • 552.38 — Security requirement
  • 552.40 — Administrative remedy for alleged damage due to the use of explosives in connection with construction materials mining a
  • 552.42 — Appeal
  • 552.44 — Prior claims
Title 553 · FL Chapter 553 (109 sections)
  • 553.35 — Short title
  • 553.355 — Minimum construction requirements established
  • 553.36 — Definitions
  • 553.37 — Rules; inspections; and insignia
  • 553.375 — Recertification of manufactured buildings
  • 553.38 — Application and scope
  • 553.381 — Manufacturer certification
  • 553.382 — Placement of certain housing
  • 553.39 — Injunctive relief
  • 553.41 — Penalties
  • 553.415 — Factory-built school buildings
  • 553.42 — Legislative intent
  • 553.501 — Short title
  • 553.502 — Intent
  • 553.503 — Adoption of federal standards
  • 553.504 — Exceptions to applicability of the federal standards
  • 553.5041 — Parking spaces for persons who have disabilities
  • 553.505 — Exceptions to applicability of the Americans with Disabilities Act
  • 553.506 — Powers of the commission
  • 553.507 — Applicability
  • 553.508 — Architectural barrier removal
  • 553.509 — Vertical accessibility
  • 553.511 — Parking facilities; minimum height clearance requirement
  • 553.512 — Modifications and waivers; advisory council
  • 553.513 — Enforcement
  • 553.514 — Americans with Disabilities Act Standards for Accessible Design
  • 553.5141 — Certifications of conformity and remediation plans
  • 553.60 — Short title
  • 553.61 — Intent
  • 553.62 — State standard
  • 553.63 — Trench excavations in excess of 5 feet deep; required information
  • 553.64 — Certain requirements for contract bids
  • 553.70 — Short title
  • 553.71 — Definitions
  • 553.72 — Intent
  • 553.721 — Surcharge
  • 553.73 — Florida Building Code
  • 553.74 — Florida Building Commission
  • 553.75 — Organization of commission; rules and regulations; meetings; staff; fiscal affairs; public comment
  • 553.76 — General powers of the commission
  • 553.77 — Specific powers of the commission
  • 553.775 — Interpretations
  • 553.781 — Licensee accountability
  • 553.79 — Permits; applications; issuance; inspections
  • 553.791 — Alternative plans review and inspection
  • 553.792 — Building permit application to local government
  • 553.7921 — Fire alarm permit application to local enforcement agency
  • 553.7922 — Local government-expedited approval of certain permits
  • 553.793 — Streamlined low-voltage alarm system installation permitting
  • 553.7931 — Alarm system registrations
  • 553.7932 — Simplified permitting processes
  • 553.794 — Local government residential master building permit program
  • 553.80 — Enforcement
  • 553.83 — Injunctive relief
  • 553.835 — Implied warranties
  • 553.837 — Mandatory builder warranty
  • 553.84 — Statutory civil action
  • 553.841 — Building code compliance and mitigation program
  • 553.842 — Product evaluation and approval
  • 553.8425 — Local product approval
  • 553.844 — Windstorm loss mitigation; requirements for roofs and opening protection
  • 553.85 — Liquefied petroleum gases
  • 553.86 — Public restrooms; ratio of facilities for men and women; application; incorporation into the Florida Building Code
  • 553.865 — Private spaces
  • 553.88 — Adoption of electrical and alarm standards
  • 553.883 — Smoke alarms in one-family and two-family dwellings and townhomes
  • 553.885 — Carbon monoxide alarm required
  • 553.886 — Energy efficiency technologies
  • 553.895 — Firesafety
  • 553.896 — Mitigation grant program guideline
  • 553.898 — Preemption; certain special acts concerning general purpose local government repealed
  • 553.899 — Mandatory structural inspections for condominium and cooperative buildings
  • 553.8991 — Resiliency and Safe Structures Act
  • 553.900 — Short title
  • 553.901 — Purpose of thermal efficiency code
  • 553.902 — Definitions
  • 553.903 — Applicability
  • 553.904 — Thermal efficiency standards for new nonresidential buildings
  • 553.905 — Thermal efficiency standards for new residential buildings
  • 553.906 — Thermal efficiency standards for renovated buildings
  • 553.9065 — Thermal efficiency standards for unvented attic and unvented enclosed rafter assemblies
  • 553.907 — Compliance
  • 553.908 — Inspection
  • 553.9081 — Florida Building Code; required amendments
  • 553.9085 — Energy performance disclosure for residential buildings
  • 553.909 — Setting requirements for appliances; exceptions
  • 553.912 — Air conditioners
  • 553.951 — Short title
  • 553.953 — Purpose
  • 553.954 — Adoption of standards
  • 553.955 — Definitions
  • 553.957 — Products covered by this part
  • 553.959 — Applicability
  • 553.961 — Test methods
  • 553.963 — Energy conservation standards
  • 553.968 — Exemptions
  • 553.969 — Revisions of standards
  • 553.971 — Certification statements
  • 553.973 — Enforcement and penalties
  • 553.975 — Report to the Governor and Legislature
  • 553.98 — Development of building codes for radon-resistant buildings; funding; rules for radon-resistant passive construction sta
  • 553.990 — Short title
  • 553.991 — Purpose
  • 553.993 — Definitions
  • 553.994 — Applicability
  • 553.995 — Energy-efficiency ratings for buildings
  • 553.996 — Energy-efficiency information provided by building energy-efficiency rating systems providers
  • 553.997 — Public buildings
  • 553.998 — Compliance
Title 554 · FL Chapter 554 (15 sections)
  • 554.1011 — Short title; scope
  • 554.1021 — Definitions
  • 554.103 — Boiler code
  • 554.104 — Certification of boiler inspectors required; application; qualifications; renewal
  • 554.105 — Chief boiler inspector
  • 554.106 — Deputy boiler inspectors
  • 554.107 — Special boiler inspectors
  • 554.108 — Inspection
  • 554.1081 — Boiler inspections by insurance companies and local governmental agencies
  • 554.109 — Exemptions
  • 554.1101 — Certificate of operation
  • 554.111 — Fees
  • 554.114 — Prohibitions; penalties
  • 554.115 — Disciplinary proceedings
  • 554.1151 — Administrative fine in lieu of or in addition to suspension, revocation, or refusal to renew a certificate of operation
Title 556 · FL Chapter 556 (17 sections)
  • 556.101 — Short title; legislative intent
  • 556.102 — Definitions
  • 556.103 — Creation of the corporation; establishment of the board of directors; authority of the board; annual report
  • 556.104 — Free-access notification system
  • 556.105 — Procedures
  • 556.106 — Liability of the member operator, excavator, and system
  • 556.107 — Violations
  • 556.108 — Exemptions
  • 556.109 — Emergency excavations or demolitions attempted; exception
  • 556.110 — Costs assessed among member operators
  • 556.111 — Applicability to existing law
  • 556.112 — Design services
  • 556.113 — Sunshine State One-Call of Florida, Inc.; public records exemption
  • 556.114 — Low-impact marking practices
  • 556.115 — Alternative dispute resolution
  • 556.116 — High-priority subsurface installations; special procedures
  • 556.117 — Underground facility damage prevention and enforcement review
Title 558 · FL Chapter 558 (6 sections)
  • 558.001 — Legislative findings and declaration
  • 558.002 — Definitions
  • 558.003 — Action; compliance
  • 558.0035 — Design professionals; contractual limitation on liability
  • 558.004 — Notice and opportunity to repair
  • 558.005 — Contract provisions; application
Title 559 · FL Chapter 559 (119 sections)
  • 559.01 — Definitions
  • 559.02 — Fraud; false representation and lotteries prohibited
  • 559.03 — Declared face value; redemption
  • 559.06 — Penalties for violations
  • 559.10 — Definition; “budget planning.”
  • 559.11 — Budget planning prohibited
  • 559.12 — Exceptions
  • 559.13 — Penalty
  • 559.20 — Definitions
  • 559.21 — Regulation of sales
  • 559.22 — Duties of permittee
  • 559.23 — Fees
  • 559.24 — Enforcement
  • 559.25 — Exemptions
  • 559.26 — Violations
  • 559.27 — Tag required reflecting value of item offered for sale at auction
  • 559.3901 — Short title
  • 559.3902 — Definitions
  • 559.3903 — Contracts of membership; right of cancellation; how exercised; entitlement to refund; right not waivable
  • 559.3904 — Contracts of membership; requirements; notice; effect of noncompliance
  • 559.3905 — Required disclosures; prohibited acts
  • 559.3906 — Violations of act
  • 559.541 — Short title
  • 559.542 — Legislative intent
  • 559.543 — Definitions
  • 559.544 — Registration required; exemptions
  • 559.545 — Registration of commercial collection agencies; procedure
  • 559.546 — Bond; evidence of current and valid bond
  • 559.547 — Void registration
  • 559.548 — Penalties
  • 559.55 — Definitions
  • 559.551 — Short title
  • 559.552 — Relationship of state and federal law
  • 559.553 — Registration of consumer collection agencies required; exemptions
  • 559.554 — Powers and duties of the commission and office
  • 559.5541 — Examinations and investigations
  • 559.555 — Registration of consumer collection agencies; procedure
  • 559.5551 — Requirements of registrants
  • 559.5556 — Maintenance of records
  • 559.5558 — Public records exemption; investigations and examinations
  • 559.563 — Void registration
  • 559.565 — Enforcement action against out-of-state consumer debt collector
  • 559.715 — Assignment of consumer debts
  • 559.72 — Prohibited practices generally
  • 559.725 — Consumer complaints; administrative duties
  • 559.726 — Subpoenas
  • 559.727 — Cease and desist orders
  • 559.730 — Grounds for disciplinary action; administrative remedies
  • 559.77 — Civil remedies
  • 559.78 — Judicial enforcement
  • 559.785 — Criminal penalty
  • 559.79 — Applications for license or renewal
  • 559.791 — False swearing on application; penalties
  • 559.80 — Short title
  • 559.801 — Definitions
  • 559.802 — Franchises; exemption
  • 559.803 — Disclosure statement
  • 559.807 — Bond or other security required
  • 559.809 — Prohibited acts
  • 559.811 — Contracts to be in writing; form; provisions
  • 559.813 — Remedies; enforcement
  • 559.815 — Penalties
  • 559.901 — Short title
  • 559.902 — Scope and application
  • 559.903 — Definitions
  • 559.904 — Motor vehicle repair shop registration; application; exemption
  • 559.905 — Written motor vehicle repair estimate and disclosure statement required
  • 559.907 — Charges for motor vehicle repair estimate; requirement of waiver of rights prohibited
  • 559.909 — Notification of charges in excess of repair estimate; unlawful charges; refusal to return vehicle prohibited; inspection
  • 559.911 — Invoice required of motor vehicle repair shop
  • 559.915 — Motor vehicle repair shop records
  • 559.916 — Required disclosure; signs; notice to customers
  • 559.917 — Bond to release possessory lien claimed by motor vehicle repair shop
  • 559.919 — Enforcement of liens restricted
  • 559.920 — Unlawful acts and practices
  • 559.921 — Remedies
  • 559.9215 — Deposit of fees and fines
  • 559.92201 — Rulemaking power
  • 559.9221 — Motor Vehicle Repair Advisory Council
  • 559.9231 — Short title
  • 559.9232 — Definitions; exclusion of rental-purchase agreements from certain regulations
  • 559.9233 — Rental-purchase agreements
  • 559.9234 — Prohibited rental-purchase agreement provisions
  • 559.9235 — Reinstatement
  • 559.9236 — Receipts
  • 559.9237 — Rental renewal charges; attorney’s fees; court costs
  • 559.9238 — Willful violations
  • 559.9239 — Damages
  • 559.9240 — Waiver
  • 559.9241 — Statute of limitations
  • 559.926 — Short title
  • 559.927 — Definitions
  • 559.928 — Registration
  • 559.9281 — Student tour operators
  • 559.9285 — Certification of business activities
  • 559.929 — Security requirements
  • 559.9295 — Submission of vacation certificate documents
  • 559.931 — Vacation certificate recordkeeping
  • 559.932 — Vacation certificate disclosure
  • 559.933 — Vacation certificate cancellation and refund provisions
  • 559.9335 — Violations
  • 559.934 — Deceptive and unfair trade practice
  • 559.935 — Exemptions
  • 559.9355 — Administrative remedies; penalties
  • 559.936 — Civil penalties; remedies
  • 559.937 — Criminal penalties
  • 559.938 — General Inspection Trust Fund; payments
  • 559.939 — State preemption
  • 559.951 — Internet sales; prohibited practices
  • 559.952 — Financial Technology Sandbox
  • 559.955 — Home-based businesses; local government restrictions
  • 559.956 — Transfers of heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning system manufacturer warranties
  • 559.957 — Registration of heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning systems; prohibition against warranty conditioned upon regist
  • 559.961 — Short title
  • 559.9611 — Definitions
  • 559.9612 — Scope of this part
  • 559.9613 — Disclosures
  • 559.9614 — Prohibited acts
  • 559.9615 — Enforcement
Title 56 · FL Chapter 56 (28 sections)
  • 56.0101 — Definitions
  • 56.011 — Executions; capias ad satisfaciendum abolished
  • 56.021 — Executions; issuance and return, alias, etc
  • 56.031 — Executions; form
  • 56.041 — Executions; collection and return
  • 56.051 — Executions; collection when against principal and sureties
  • 56.061 — Property subject to execution
  • 56.071 — Executions on equities of redemption; discovery of value
  • 56.09 — Executions against corporate judgment debtors; generally
  • 56.10 — Executions against corporate judgment debtors; receivership
  • 56.12 — Executions; levy, forthcoming bond
  • 56.13 — Executions; forfeiture of forthcoming bond
  • 56.14 — Executions upon forthcoming bond; levy
  • 56.15 — Executions; stay of illegal writs
  • 56.16 — Executions; claims of third parties to property levied on
  • 56.17 — Executions; duty of officer on claim of third person being filed
  • 56.18 — Executions; trial of claims of third persons
  • 56.19 — Judgments upon claims of third persons
  • 56.20 — Executions on judgments against third person claimants
  • 56.21 — Execution sales; notice
  • 56.22 — Execution sales
  • 56.25 — Execution sale; bill of sale or deed
  • 56.26 — Executions; mandamus to force levy and sale
  • 56.27 — Executions; payment of money collected
  • 56.275 — Disposition of unclaimed money collected
  • 56.28 — Executions; failure of officer to pay over moneys collected
  • 56.29 — Proceedings supplementary
  • 56.30 — Discovery in proceedings supplementary
Title 560 · FL Chapter 560 (54 sections)
  • 560.103 — Definitions
  • 560.104 — Exemptions
  • 560.105 — Supervisory powers; rulemaking
  • 560.107 — Liability
  • 560.109 — Examinations and investigations
  • 560.1091 — Contracted examinations
  • 560.1092 — Examination expenses
  • 560.1105 — Records retention
  • 560.111 — Prohibited acts
  • 560.1115 — Unsafe and unsound practices
  • 560.113 — Injunctions; receiverships; restitution
  • 560.114 — Disciplinary actions; penalties
  • 560.1141 — Disciplinary guidelines
  • 560.115 — Surrender of license
  • 560.116 — Civil immunity
  • 560.118 — Reports
  • 560.121 — Access to records; record retention; penalties
  • 560.123 — Florida Control of Money Laundering in Money Services Business Act
  • 560.1235 — Anti-money laundering requirements
  • 560.124 — Sharing of information
  • 560.125 — Unlicensed activity; penalties
  • 560.126 — Required notice by licensee
  • 560.127 — Control of a money services business
  • 560.128 — Customer contacts; license display
  • 560.129 — Confidentiality
  • 560.1401 — Licensing standards
  • 560.141 — License application
  • 560.142 — License renewal
  • 560.143 — Fees
  • 560.144 — Deposit of fees and assessments
  • 560.155 — Gold and silver coin as legal tender
  • 560.203 — Exemptions from licensure
  • 560.204 — License required
  • 560.205 — Additional license application requirements
  • 560.208 — Conduct of business
  • 560.2085 — Authorized vendors
  • 560.209 — Net worth; corporate surety bond; collateral deposit in lieu of bond
  • 560.210 — Permissible investments
  • 560.211 — Required records
  • 560.212 — Financial liability
  • 560.213 — Payment instrument information
  • 560.214 — Custodians of gold coin or silver coin
  • 560.303 — License required
  • 560.304 — Exemption from licensure
  • 560.309 — Conduct of business
  • 560.310 — Records of check cashers and foreign currency exchangers
  • 560.312 — Database of payment instrument transactions; confidentiality
  • 560.402 — Definitions
  • 560.403 — Declaration of intent
  • 560.404 — Requirements for deferred presentment transactions
  • 560.4041 — Database for deferred presentment providers; public records exemption
  • 560.405 — Deposit; redemption
  • 560.406 — Worthless checks
  • 560.408 — Legislative intent; report
Title 561 · FL Chapter 561 (69 sections)
  • 561.01 — Definitions
  • 561.02 — Creation and duties of Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco
  • 561.025 — Alcoholic Beverage and Tobacco Trust Fund
  • 561.027 — Federal Law Enforcement Trust Fund
  • 561.051 — Reporting requirements of director
  • 561.08 — Enforcement of Beverage Law; division to prescribe forms
  • 561.11 — Power and authority of division
  • 561.1105 — Inspection of licensed premises; coin-operated amusement machines
  • 561.111 — Payment of taxes by electronic funds transfer
  • 561.121 — Deposit of revenue
  • 561.1211 — Credit for contributions to eligible nonprofit scholarship-funding organizations
  • 561.1212 — Credit for contributions to the New Worlds Reading Initiative
  • 561.1213 — Credit for contributions to eligible charitable organizations
  • 561.12135 — Credit for contributions to eligible charitable organizations for the Home Away From Home Tax Credit
  • 561.1214 — Child care tax credits
  • 561.14 — License and registration classification
  • 561.15 — Licenses; qualifications required
  • 561.17 — License and registration applications; approved person
  • 561.18 — License investigation
  • 561.181 — Temporary initial licenses
  • 561.19 — License issuance upon approval of division
  • 561.20 — Limitation upon number of licenses issued
  • 561.22 — Licensing manufacturers, distributors, and registered exporters as vendors prohibited
  • 561.221 — Licensing of manufacturers and distributors as vendors and of vendors as manufacturers; conditions and limitations
  • 561.23 — License display
  • 561.24 — Licensing manufacturers as distributors or registered exporters prohibited; procedure for issuance and renewal of distri
  • 561.25 — Officers and employees prohibited from being employed by or engaging in beverage business; penalties; exceptions
  • 561.26 — Term of license
  • 561.27 — Renewal of license
  • 561.29 — Revocation and suspension of license; power to subpoena
  • 561.32 — Transfer of licenses; change of officers or directors; transfer of interest
  • 561.33 — Licensee moving to new location; changing name of business
  • 561.331 — Temporary license upon application for transfer, change of location, or change of type or series
  • 561.342 — County and municipal license tax
  • 561.351 — Manufacturers, brokers, sales agents, importers, and passenger common carriers; term of license
  • 561.37 — Bond for payment of taxes
  • 561.371 — Bond for payment of taxes by spirituous liquor distributors
  • 561.38 — Issuance of license prohibited until bond approved; cancellation or expiration of bond
  • 561.41 — Maintenance and designation of principal office by manufacturers, distributors, importers, and exporters
  • 561.411 — Qualifications for distributors
  • 561.42 — Tied house evil; financial aid and assistance to vendor by manufacturer, distributor, importer, primary American source
  • 561.4205 — Keg deposits; limited alternative inventory and reconciliation process
  • 561.421 — Temporary convention permits
  • 561.422 — Nonprofit civic organizations, charitable organizations, municipalities, and counties; temporary permits
  • 561.423 — Beer and malt beverages; in-store servicing authorized
  • 561.424 — Vinous beverages; in-store servicing authorized
  • 561.425 — Distilled spirits; in-store servicing authorized
  • 561.43 — Dry counties; manufacturers’ or distributors’ licenses; exporters’ registrations; exemptions
  • 561.49 — No tax on out-of-state sales
  • 561.495 — Legislative findings; cost of regulating imported beverages
  • 561.50 — One state tax payment; reports
  • 561.5101 — Come-to-rest requirement; exceptions; penalties
  • 561.54 — Certain deliveries of beverages prohibited
  • 561.545 — Certain shipments of beverages prohibited; penalties; exceptions
  • 561.55 — Manufacturers’, distributors’, brokers’, sales agents’, importers’, vendors’, and exporters’ records and r
  • 561.56 — Transportation of beverages by manufacturers, distributors, and exporters
  • 561.57 — Deliveries by licensees
  • 561.58 — Issuance of license for a prior license revoked
  • 561.65 — Mortgagee’s interest in license
  • 561.66 — Legislative intent
  • 561.665 — Division to restrict licensees from permitting certain activities
  • 561.67 — Reclamation by distributor of beverages not paid for by licensed vendors
  • 561.68 — Licensure; distributor’s salespersons
  • 561.695 — Stand-alone bar enforcement; qualification; penalties
  • 561.701 — Short title
  • 561.702 — Legislative intent
  • 561.703 — Definitions relating to Florida Responsible Vendor Act
  • 561.705 — Responsible vendor qualification
  • 561.706 — Exemption from license suspension or revocation; mitigation for certain beverage law violations; records of arrests
Title 562 · FL Chapter 562 (52 sections)
  • 562.01 — Possession of untaxed beverages
  • 562.02 — Possession of beverage not permitted to be sold under license
  • 562.025 — Possession of beverages as food ingredients
  • 562.03 — Storage on licensed premises
  • 562.06 — Sale only on licensed premises
  • 562.061 — Misrepresentation of beverages sold on licensed premises
  • 562.07 — Illegal transportation of beverages
  • 562.11 — Selling, giving, or serving alcoholic beverages to person under age 21; providing a proper name; misrepresenting or miss
  • 562.111 — Possession of alcoholic beverages by persons under age 21 prohibited
  • 562.112 — Alcohol-related or drug-related overdoses; medical assistance; immunity from arrest, charge, prosecution, and penalizati
  • 562.12 — Beverages sold with improper license, or without license or registration, or held with intent to sell prohibited
  • 562.121 — Operating bottle club without license prohibited
  • 562.13 — Employment of minors or certain other persons by certain vendors prohibited; exceptions
  • 562.131 — Solicitation for sale of alcoholic beverage prohibited; penalty
  • 562.14 — Regulating the time for sale of alcoholic and intoxicating beverages; prohibiting use of licensed premises
  • 562.15 — Unlawful possession; unpaid taxes
  • 562.16 — Possession of beverages upon which tax is unpaid
  • 562.165 — Production of beer or wine for personal or family use; exemption
  • 562.17 — Collection of unpaid beverage taxes
  • 562.18 — Possession of beverage upon which federal tax unpaid
  • 562.20 — Monthly reports by common and other carriers of beverages required
  • 562.23 — Conspiracy to violate Beverage Law; penalty
  • 562.24 — Administration of oaths by director or authorized employees
  • 562.25 — State bonded warehouses
  • 562.26 — Delivering beverage on which tax unpaid
  • 562.27 — Seizure and forfeiture
  • 562.28 — Possession of beverages in fraud of Beverage Law
  • 562.29 — Raw materials and personal property; seizure and forfeiture
  • 562.30 — Possession of beverage prima facie evidence; exception
  • 562.31 — Possession of raw materials prima facie evidence; exception
  • 562.32 — Moving or concealing beverage with intent to defraud state of tax; penalty
  • 562.33 — Beverage and personal property; seizure and forfeiture
  • 562.34 — Containers; seizure and forfeiture
  • 562.35 — Conveyance; seizure and forfeiture
  • 562.36 — Beverage on conveyance prima facie evidence; proviso
  • 562.38 — Report of seizures
  • 562.408 — Exercise of police power
  • 562.41 — Searches; penalty
  • 562.42 — Destruction of forfeited property
  • 562.44 — Donation of forfeited beverages or raw materials to state institutions; sale of forfeited beverages
  • 562.45 — Penalties for violating Beverage Law; local ordinances; prohibiting regulation of certain activities or business transac
  • 562.451 — Moonshine whiskey; ownership, possession, or control prohibited; penalties; rule of evidence
  • 562.452 — Curb service of intoxicating liquor prohibited
  • 562.453 — Curb drinking of intoxicating liquor prohibited
  • 562.454 — Vendors to be closed in time of riot
  • 562.455 — Adulterating liquor; penalty
  • 562.46 — Legal remedies not impaired
  • 562.47 — Rules of evidence; Beverage Law
  • 562.48 — Minors patronizing, visiting, or loitering in a dance hall
  • 562.50 — Habitual drunkards; furnishing intoxicants to, after notice
  • 562.51 — Retail alcoholic beverage establishments; rights as private enterprise
  • 562.61 — Sale, offer for sale, purchase, or use of alcohol vaporizing devices prohibited
Title 563 · FL Chapter 563 (14 sections)
  • 563.01 — Definitions
  • 563.02 — License fees; vendors; manufacturers and distributors
  • 563.021 — Malt beverages; exclusive sales territories
  • 563.022 — Relations between beer distributors and manufacturers
  • 563.025 — Surtax on license fees
  • 563.03 — Regulation concerning draft beer
  • 563.045 — Brands or labels to be registered; qualification to do business; fee; revocation
  • 563.05 — Excise taxes on malt beverages
  • 563.06 — Malt beverages; imprint on individual container; size of containers; exemptions
  • 563.065 — Price differentials
  • 563.07 — Beer distributors’ collection credit
  • 563.08 — Cash deposit on beer sales
  • 563.09 — Malt beverage tastings by distributors and manufacturers
  • 563.13 — Florida brewery directional signs; fees
Title 564 · FL Chapter 564 (11 sections)
  • 564.01 — Definitions
  • 564.02 — License fees; vendors; manufacturers and distributors
  • 564.025 — Surtax on license fees
  • 564.03 — Wines; sacramental and religious purposes
  • 564.045 — Licensure as primary American source of supply
  • 564.05 — Limitation of size of individual wine containers; penalty
  • 564.055 — Cider containers
  • 564.06 — Excise taxes on wines and beverages
  • 564.07 — Wine lists furnished to vendors
  • 564.08 — Wine tastings by distributors and vendors
  • 564.09 — Restaurants; off-premises consumption of wine
Title 565 · FL Chapter 565 (16 sections)
  • 565.01 — Definition; liquor
  • 565.02 — License fees; vendors; clubs; caterers; and others
  • 565.03 — License fees; manufacturers, distributors, brokers, sales agents, and importers of alcoholic beverages; vendor licenses
  • 565.04 — Package store restrictions
  • 565.045 — Regulations for consumption on premises; penalty; exemptions
  • 565.05 — Purchase of distilled spirits by licensed clubs; size of individual containers
  • 565.06 — Clubs to sell only individual drinks
  • 565.07 — Sale or consumption of certain distilled spirits prohibited
  • 565.08 — Labeling regulations; liquor
  • 565.095 — Licensure as primary American source of supply
  • 565.10 — Distilled spirits container limit
  • 565.11 — Refilling liquor bottles; misrepresentation; penalty
  • 565.12 — Excise tax on liquors and beverages
  • 565.13 — Monthly payment of tax by distributor
  • 565.16 — Beverage lists furnished to vendors
  • 565.17 — Beverage tastings by distributors, craft distilleries, and vendors
Title 567 · FL Chapter 567 (15 sections)
  • 567.001 — Alcoholic content of intoxicating liquors
  • 567.01 — Petition, order, notice of election
  • 567.02 — Registration and qualification of electors
  • 567.03 — Mode of holding election
  • 567.04 — Time of holding elections
  • 567.05 — Inspectors, returns, and canvass
  • 567.06 — Form of ballot; canvassing votes
  • 567.07 — Results of election
  • 567.08 — Refund of unused portion of state license tax
  • 567.09 — Refund of unused portion of county license tax
  • 567.10 — Refund of unused portion of municipal license tax
  • 567.11 — Evidence of legal election
  • 567.12 — Proceedings to test legality of election
  • 567.13 — Sale by the package only
  • 567.14 — Penalty for violation
Title 568 · FL Chapter 568 (14 sections)
  • 568.01 — Alcoholic content of intoxicating liquors
  • 568.02 — Selling intoxicating liquors in counties where prohibited
  • 568.03 — Possessing intoxicating liquors in counties where prohibited with intent to sell
  • 568.04 — Maintaining place of business for sale of liquors in counties where prohibited
  • 568.05 — Penalty
  • 568.06 — Proof necessary to convict
  • 568.07 — Name sufficient proof; competency of witness
  • 568.08 — Person required to testify; exemption from prosecution
  • 568.09 — Holding federal license or tax stamp prima facie evidence
  • 568.10 — Confiscation of liquors
  • 568.11 — Right of property forfeited
  • 568.12 — Record of confiscation required
  • 568.13 — Form of information or indictment
  • 568.14 — Division vested with enforcing powers
Title 569 · FL Chapter 569 (40 sections)
  • 569.002 — Definitions
  • 569.0025 — Preemption
  • 569.00256 — Account; online system
  • 569.003 — Retail tobacco products dealer permits; application; qualifications; fees; renewal; duplicates
  • 569.004 — Consent to inspection and search without warrant
  • 569.005 — Operating without a retail tobacco products dealer permit; penalty
  • 569.006 — Retail tobacco products dealers; administrative penalties
  • 569.007 — Sale or delivery of tobacco products; restrictions
  • 569.0073 — Special provisions; smoking pipes and smoking devices
  • 569.0075 — Gift of sample tobacco products prohibited
  • 569.008 — Responsible retail tobacco products dealers; qualifications; mitigation of disciplinary penalties; diligent management a
  • 569.009 — Rulemaking authority
  • 569.101 — Selling, delivering, bartering, furnishing, or giving tobacco products to persons under 21 years of age; criminal penalt
  • 569.11 — Possession, misrepresenting age or military service to purchase, and purchase of tobacco products by persons under 21 ye
  • 569.12 — Jurisdiction; tobacco product and nicotine product enforcement officers or agents; enforcement
  • 569.14 — Posting of a sign stating that the sale of tobacco products or nicotine products to persons under 21 years of age is unl
  • 569.19 — Annual report
  • 569.21 — Expenditure of tobacco settlement proceeds
  • 569.215 — Confidential records relating to tobacco settlement agreement
  • 569.23 — Security requirements for tobacco settlement agreement signatories, successors, parents, and affiliates
  • 569.31 — Definitions
  • 569.311 — Control of nicotine dispensing devices; grant of authority to Attorney General to create a directory of nicotine product
  • 569.312 — Shipment of nicotine dispensing devices sold for retail sale in this state
  • 569.315 — Preemption
  • 569.3156 — Account; online system
  • 569.32 — Retail nicotine products dealer permits; application; qualifications; renewal; duplicates
  • 569.33 — Consent to inspection and search without warrant
  • 569.34 — Operating without a retail nicotine products dealer permit; penalty
  • 569.345 — Seizure and destruction of contraband nicotine dispensing devices
  • 569.346 — Agent for service of process
  • 569.35 — Retail nicotine product dealers; administrative penalties
  • 569.37 — Sale or delivery of nicotine products; restrictions
  • 569.38 — Gift of sample nicotine products and nicotine dispensing devices
  • 569.381 — Responsible retail nicotine products dealers; qualifications; mitigation of disciplinary penalties; diligent management
  • 569.39 — Rulemaking authority
  • 569.41 — Selling, delivering, bartering, furnishing, or giving nicotine products to persons under 21 years of age; criminal penal
  • 569.42 — Possession, misrepresenting age or military service to purchase, and purchase of nicotine products by persons under 21 y
  • 569.43 — Posting of a sign stating that the sale of nicotine products or nicotine dispensing devices to persons under 21 years of
  • 569.44 — Annual report
  • 569.45 — Mail order, Internet, and remote sales of nicotine products; age verification
Title 57 · FL Chapter 57 (15 sections)
  • 57.021 — Costs; taxing
  • 57.031 — Costs; record
  • 57.041 — Costs; recovery from losing party
  • 57.051 — Costs; prohibition against unlawful exaction
  • 57.061 — Costs; recovery of illegally exacted; procedure
  • 57.071 — Costs; what taxable
  • 57.081 — Costs; right to proceed where prepayment of costs and payment of filing fees waived
  • 57.082 — Determination of civil indigent status
  • 57.085 — Deferral of prepayment of court costs and fees for indigent prisoners
  • 57.104 — Computation of attorney fees
  • 57.105 — Attorney’s fee; sanctions for raising unsupported claims or defenses; exceptions; service of motions; damages for dela
  • 57.106 — Recovery of attorney fees and costs in certain disputes regarding property rights
  • 57.111 — Civil actions and administrative proceedings initiated by state agencies; attorneys’ fees and costs
  • 57.112 — Attorney fees and costs and damages; arbitrary, unreasonable, or expressly preempted local ordinances
  • 57.115 — Execution on judgments; attorney’s fees and costs
Title 570 · FL Chapter 570 (94 sections)
  • 570.01 — Department created; commissioner
  • 570.02 — Definitions
  • 570.031 — Seal of department
  • 570.041 — Organization of departmental work
  • 570.051 — Interference with department employees in performance of duties
  • 570.06 — Offices of the department
  • 570.07 — Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; functions, powers, and duties
  • 570.077 — Confidentiality of intelligence or investigative information
  • 570.081 — Division of work between department and experiment station and extension service
  • 570.09 — Assistant commissioner
  • 570.091 — Deputy commissioners
  • 570.092 — Inspector general
  • 570.10 — Counsel
  • 570.11 — Directors; oath of office
  • 570.12 — Other officers and employees
  • 570.13 — Salary of commissioner, officers, and employees; expenses
  • 570.15 — Access to places of business and vehicles
  • 570.161 — E-mail address of record
  • 570.191 — Agricultural Emergency Eradication Trust Fund
  • 570.1912 — Funding of Agricultural Emergency Eradication Trust Fund
  • 570.192 — Administrative Trust Fund
  • 570.193 — Federal Grants Trust Fund
  • 570.194 — Florida Saltwater Products Promotion Trust Fund
  • 570.20 — General Inspection Trust Fund
  • 570.205 — Federal Law Enforcement Trust Fund
  • 570.209 — Market Improvements Working Capital Trust Fund
  • 570.21 — Publication of department’s bulletins, publications, and reports
  • 570.22 — Service of process
  • 570.232 — Advisory committees
  • 570.30 — Division of Administration; powers and duties
  • 570.31 — Director; duties
  • 570.32 — Division of Plant Industry; powers and duties
  • 570.321 — Plant Industry Trust Fund
  • 570.33 — Director; qualifications; duties
  • 570.36 — Division of Animal Industry; powers and duties
  • 570.37 — Director; qualifications; duties
  • 570.44 — Division of Agricultural Environmental Services; powers and duties
  • 570.441 — Pest Control Trust Fund
  • 570.45 — Director; duties
  • 570.451 — Agricultural Feed, Seed, and Fertilizer Advisory Council
  • 570.48 — Division of Fruit and Vegetables; powers and duties; records
  • 570.482 — Citrus Inspection Trust Fund
  • 570.49 — Director; duties
  • 570.50 — Division of Food Safety; powers and duties
  • 570.51 — Director; qualifications; duties
  • 570.53 — Division of Marketing and Development; powers and duties
  • 570.54 — Director; duties
  • 570.543 — Florida Consumers’ Council
  • 570.544 — Division of Consumer Services; director; powers; processing of complaints; records
  • 570.546 — Licensing
  • 570.548 — Florida Forest Service; powers and duties
  • 570.5481 — Incidental Trust Fund
  • 570.549 — Director; duties
  • 570.61 — Division of Aquaculture; powers and duties
  • 570.62 — Director; duties
  • 570.64 — Division of Food, Nutrition, and Wellness
  • 570.65 — Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, law enforcement officers
  • 570.66 — Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; water policy
  • 570.67 — Office of Energy
  • 570.68 — Office of Agriculture Technology Services
  • 570.681 — Florida Agriculture Center and Horse Park; legislative findings
  • 570.685 — Florida Agriculture Center and Horse Park Authority
  • 570.686 — Agriculture Center and Horse Park Authority; donor identity; records; confidentiality
  • 570.69 — Definitions; ss. 570.69 and 570.691
  • 570.691 — Direct-support organization
  • 570.692 — Florida Agricultural Legacy Learning Center
  • 570.693 — Florida agriculture in the classroom
  • 570.694 — Florida Aquaculture Foundation
  • 570.70 — Legislative findings
  • 570.71 — Conservation easements and agreements
  • 570.715 — Conservation easement acquisition procedures
  • 570.73 — Short title
  • 570.74 — Definitions relating to Agricultural Economic Development Act
  • 570.75 — Agricultural Economic Development Program; legislative intent
  • 570.76 — Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; powers and duties
  • 570.77 — Interaction with other economic development agencies and groups
  • 570.78 — Agricultural economic development funding
  • 570.79 — Adoption of rules
  • 570.81 — Agricultural Economic Development Project Review Committee; powers and duties
  • 570.822 — Agriculture and Aquaculture Producers Emergency Recovery Loan Program
  • 570.823 — Silviculture emergency recovery program
  • 570.831 — Florida beef marketing program
  • 570.841 — Farm-to-fuel initiative
  • 570.844 — Florida Young Farmer and Rancher Resource Clearinghouse
  • 570.85 — Agritourism
  • 570.86 — Definitions
  • 570.87 — Agritourism participation impact on land classification
  • 570.88 — Liability
  • 570.89 — Posting and notification
  • 570.916 — Water supply agreements; department negotiation
  • 570.921 — Environmental Stewardship Certification Program
  • 570.93 — Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; agricultural water conservation and agricultural water supply planning
  • 570.94 — Best management practices for wildlife
  • 570.971 — Penalties; administrative and civil
Title 571 · FL Chapter 571 (21 sections)
  • 571.01 — Short title
  • 571.02 — Purpose
  • 571.03 — Definitions
  • 571.04 — Powers and duties of the department
  • 571.05 — Rules
  • 571.06 — License; application, fee, and conditions
  • 571.07 — Suspension or revocation of license
  • 571.08 — Unlawful acts
  • 571.09 — Penalties
  • 571.10 — Injunction
  • 571.11 — Eggs and poultry; seal of quality violations; administrative penalties
  • 571.21 — Short title
  • 571.22 — Legislative intent
  • 571.23 — Definitions
  • 571.24 — Purpose; duties of the department
  • 571.25 — Registration and fees
  • 571.26 — Florida Agricultural Promotional Campaign Trust Fund
  • 571.265 — Promotion of Florida thoroughbred breeding and of thoroughbred racing at Florida thoroughbred tracks; distribution of fu
  • 571.27 — Rules
  • 571.29 — Unlawful acts; administrative remedies; criminal penalties
  • 571.301 — Injunction
Title 573 · FL Chapter 573 (24 sections)
  • 573.101 — Short title
  • 573.102 — Purposes
  • 573.103 — Definitions
  • 573.104 — Required consent to marketing order by industry
  • 573.105 — Petition of producers
  • 573.106 — Petitioner’s expense
  • 573.107 — Public hearing
  • 573.108 — Findings required to issue marketing order
  • 573.109 — Procedure for referendum
  • 573.1101 — Referendum
  • 573.111 — Notice of effective date of marketing order
  • 573.112 — Advisory council
  • 573.113 — Advisory council; exemption from liability
  • 573.114 — Possible subjects of marketing orders
  • 573.115 — Cooperation with other governments
  • 573.116 — Limited marketing orders
  • 573.117 — Marketing agreement
  • 573.118 — Assessment; funds; review of accounts; loans
  • 573.119 — Department; powers and duties
  • 573.1201 — Certificates of exemption
  • 573.121 — Termination or suspension of marketing orders
  • 573.122 — Inspections
  • 573.123 — Maintenance and production of records
  • 573.124 — Penalties; violation; hearings
Title 574 · FL Chapter 574 (10 sections)
  • 574.01 — Administration of law
  • 574.02 — Purpose of act
  • 574.03 — Warehouseman; licenses and fees
  • 574.07 — Revocation of licenses
  • 574.08 — Accounts of sales; weekly reports
  • 574.09 — Department; records; penalty
  • 574.12 — Tobacco warehouses; charges, fees, penalties
  • 574.13 — Penalty
  • 574.131 — Injunction proceedings
  • 574.14 — Rules
Title 576 · FL Chapter 576 (21 sections)
  • 576.011 — Definitions
  • 576.021 — Registration and licensing
  • 576.031 — Labeling
  • 576.041 — Inspection fees; records
  • 576.045 — Nitrogen and phosphorus; findings and intent; fees; purpose; best management practices; waiver of liability; compliance;
  • 576.051 — Inspection, sampling, analysis
  • 576.055 — Deconing
  • 576.061 — Plant nutrient investigational allowances, deficiencies, and penalties
  • 576.071 — Commercial value
  • 576.085 — Minimum plant nutrient content
  • 576.087 — Antisiphon requirements for irrigation systems
  • 576.101 — License denial, revocation, or suspension
  • 576.111 — Stop-sale, stop-use, removal, or hold orders
  • 576.122 — Seizure, condemnation, and sale
  • 576.132 — Recovery of damages
  • 576.141 — Sales or exchanges between manufacturers or licensees
  • 576.151 — Prohibited acts
  • 576.161 — Criminal penalties
  • 576.171 — Remedy by injunction
  • 576.181 — Administration; rules; procedure
  • 576.191 — Enforcing official
Title 578 · FL Chapter 578 (18 sections)
  • 578.001 — Short title
  • 578.011 — Definitions; Florida Seed Law
  • 578.012 — Preemption
  • 578.08 — Registrations
  • 578.09 — Label requirements for agricultural, vegetable, flower, tree, or shrub seeds
  • 578.092 — Seed in hermetically sealed containers
  • 578.10 — Exemptions
  • 578.11 — Duties, authority, and rules of the department
  • 578.12 — Stop-sale, stop-use, removal, or hold orders
  • 578.13 — Prohibitions
  • 578.181 — Penalties; administrative fine
  • 578.22 — Disposition of fees collected
  • 578.23 — Records
  • 578.24 — Mixed varieties of seed oats prohibited
  • 578.25 — Use of disclaimer clause
  • 578.26 — Complaint, investigation, hearings, findings, and recommendation prerequisite to legal action
  • 578.27 — Seed investigation and conciliation council; composition; purpose; meetings; duties; expenses
  • 578.29 — Prohibited noxious weed seed
Title 580 · FL Chapter 580 (15 sections)
  • 580.011 — Title
  • 580.031 — Definitions of words and terms
  • 580.036 — Powers and duties
  • 580.0365 — Preemption of regulatory authority over commercial feed and feedstuff
  • 580.041 — Master registration; fee; refusal or cancellation of registration; reporting
  • 580.051 — Labels; requirements; penalty
  • 580.065 — Laboratory certifications; application; fees; requirements; reporting; refusal or cancellation of certification
  • 580.071 — Adulteration
  • 580.081 — Misbranding
  • 580.091 — Inspection; sampling; analysis; exemption
  • 580.111 — Detained commercial feed and feedstuff
  • 580.112 — Certain acts prohibited
  • 580.121 — Penalties; duties of law enforcement officers; injunctive relief
  • 580.131 — Penalty payable to consumer
  • 580.141 — Reports
Title 581 · FL Chapter 581 (33 sections)
  • 581.011 — Definitions
  • 581.021 — Continuance of powers, duties, and jurisdiction in department; privileges
  • 581.031 — Department; powers and duties
  • 581.035 — Preemption of regulatory authority over nurseries
  • 581.041 — Director of Division of Plant Industry; powers and duties
  • 581.071 — Principal responsible for actions of employees
  • 581.083 — Introduction or release of plant pests, noxious weeds, or organisms affecting plant life; cultivation of nonnative plant
  • 581.091 — Noxious weeds and infected plants or regulated articles; sale or distribution; receipt; information to department; withh
  • 581.101 — Quarantines; declaration; confiscation of contraband; removal or tampering with tag or certificate
  • 581.111 — Emergency
  • 581.121 — Nursery stock; prohibited conduct
  • 581.122 — Nursery stock; thefts and trespass
  • 581.131 — Certificate of registration
  • 581.141 — Certificate of registration or of inspection; revocation and suspension; fines
  • 581.142 — Viable nursery stock; requirements for sale
  • 581.145 — Aquatic plant nursery registration; special permit requirements
  • 581.151 — Control of spreading decline
  • 581.161 — Fumigation or treatment of plants and plant products
  • 581.181 — Notice of infection of plants; destruction
  • 581.182 — Citrus plants and citrus plant products from other states, territories, or foreign countries
  • 581.183 — New citrus varieties
  • 581.184 — Adoption of rules; citrus disease management
  • 581.1843 — Citrus nursery stock propagation and production and the establishment of regulated areas around citrus nurseries
  • 581.185 — Preservation of native flora of Florida
  • 581.186 — Endangered Plant Advisory Council; organization; meetings; powers and duties
  • 581.187 — Exemptions from s. 581.185
  • 581.189 — Dealing in, buying, transporting, and processing saw palmetto berries
  • 581.191 — Appropriations
  • 581.199 — Confidential business information
  • 581.201 — Injunction
  • 581.211 — Penalties for violations
  • 581.212 — Handling of moneys received
  • 581.217 — State hemp program
Title 582 · FL Chapter 582 (21 sections)
  • 582.01 — Definitions
  • 582.02 — Legislative policy and findings; purpose of districts
  • 582.055 — Powers and duties of the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; rules
  • 582.06 — Soil and Water Conservation Council; powers and duties
  • 582.10 — Creation of soil and water conservation districts
  • 582.11 — Hearing upon question of creation; notice, etc
  • 582.12 — Referendum for creation
  • 582.13 — Expenses of referendum
  • 582.14 — Results of referendum; publication, etc
  • 582.15 — Organization of district, etc
  • 582.16 — Change of district boundaries
  • 582.18 — Election of supervisors of each district
  • 582.19 — Qualifications and tenure of supervisors
  • 582.195 — Mandatory meeting of supervisors
  • 582.20 — Powers of districts and supervisors
  • 582.28 — Cooperation between districts
  • 582.29 — State agencies to cooperate
  • 582.295 — Automatic dissolution of districts
  • 582.30 — Discontinuance of districts; referendum; commissioner’s authority
  • 582.31 — Certification of results of referendum; dissolution
  • 582.32 — Effect of dissolution
Title 583 · FL Chapter 583 (18 sections)
  • 583.01 — Definitions
  • 583.02 — Labeling, marking, and advertising eggs; sales between dealers; unlawful acts
  • 583.021 — Nest run eggs; limitation on sale
  • 583.022 — Refrigeration of eggs for sale or processing; temperature requirements
  • 583.03 — Grades and standards for eggs
  • 583.04 — Rulemaking
  • 583.05 — Powers of department to make inspections, issue stop-sale orders, or condemn and destroy eggs, egg products, or poultry
  • 583.051 — Power of department to bill and collect moneys due under poultry or egg programs
  • 583.052 — Cooperation by the department with other state or federal agencies
  • 583.06 — Employment of assistants by department
  • 583.09 — Egg dealers and poultry dealers; permit requirements
  • 583.10 — Dealer records, invoices, and information; inspection; penalty
  • 583.11 — Exemption for interstate egg or poultry shipment
  • 583.13 — Labeling and advertising requirements for dressed poultry; unlawful acts
  • 583.17 — Grades and standards for fowl
  • 583.181 — Disposal of dead poultry and hatchery residue; inspection and quarantine; penalties
  • 583.19 — Sale of fowl unfit for human consumption prohibited
  • 583.20 — Penalties for violations of chapter or rules
Title 585 · FL Chapter 585 (36 sections)
  • 585.001 — Definitions
  • 585.002 — Department control; continuance of powers, duties, rules, orders, etc
  • 585.003 — Power of department to enter private premises for purpose of inspection, testing, etc
  • 585.004 — Department charged with enforcement of law; duties of state attorneys
  • 585.005 — Courts have power to enforce provisions by mandamus or injunction
  • 585.006 — Interference with department employees
  • 585.007 — Violation of rules; violation of chapter
  • 585.01 — Definitions
  • 585.08 — General powers of the department; rules
  • 585.09 — Procedure for condemnation of animals and property by department
  • 585.11 — Cooperation with United States authorities and United States Department of Agriculture accredited private veterinarians
  • 585.14 — Information concerning animal diseases
  • 585.145 — Control of animal diseases
  • 585.147 — Permit for transporting or hauling certain animals or animal products; vehicle and container requirements
  • 585.15 — Dangerous transmissible disease or pest a public nuisance
  • 585.16 — Powers of division in connection with certain diseases
  • 585.17 — Care of animals with transmissible diseases and liability therefor
  • 585.18 — Duty to report diseased animals
  • 585.19 — Duty of practitioners of veterinary medicine and owners of animals to report dangerous transmissible diseases or pests;
  • 585.20 — Injection of pathogenic organisms into animals
  • 585.21 — Sale of biological products
  • 585.22 — Public notice of general quarantines
  • 585.23 — Owners of animals and premises under quarantine to comply with rules
  • 585.38 — Injuring property used in the eradication of diseases of animals, etc
  • 585.40 — Violation of quarantine regulations
  • 585.45 — Right to declaratory judgment
  • 585.48 — Policy and purpose of ss. 585.50-585.59
  • 585.50 — Garbage feeding prohibited unless sterilized
  • 585.51 — Permitting of feeders of garbage
  • 585.52 — Requirement regarding the collection, transportation, and distribution of garbage
  • 585.53 — Permit revocation
  • 585.59 — Penalties for violation
  • 585.61 — Animal disease diagnostic laboratory
  • 585.611 — Animal research identifying information
  • 585.671 — Control and eradication of equine infectious anemia and equine piroplasmosis
  • 585.68 — Animals suspected of harboring biological or chemical residues; inspection, testing, and restriction of premises and ani
Title 586 · FL Chapter 586 (14 sections)
  • 586.01 — Short title
  • 586.02 — Definitions
  • 586.025 — Unlawful acts
  • 586.03 — Certification and labeling of Florida-produced honey
  • 586.045 — Certificates of registration and inspection
  • 586.055 — Location of apiaries
  • 586.10 — Powers and duties of department; preemption of local government ordinances
  • 586.11 — Certificate of inspection to accompany interstate shipments; enforcement
  • 586.112 — Stop-sale or stop-movement notice
  • 586.13 — Removal, destruction, or treatment of infested or infected honeybees or beekeeping equipment
  • 586.14 — Compensation for beekeeping equipment and honeybees contained therein destroyed due to infection with American foulbrood
  • 586.15 — Penalty for violation
  • 586.16 — Handling of money received
  • 586.161 — Honeybee Technical Council
Title 588 · FL Chapter 588 (18 sections)
  • 588.01 — Requirements of general fence
  • 588.011 — Legal fence; requirements
  • 588.09 — Legally enclosed land; fenced and posted
  • 588.10 — Posted notices; requirement
  • 588.11 — Owner to maintain fences and notices
  • 588.12 — Livestock at large; legislative findings
  • 588.13 — Definitions
  • 588.15 — Liability of owner
  • 588.16 — Authority to impound livestock running at large or strays
  • 588.17 — Disposition of impounded livestock
  • 588.18 — Livestock at large; fees
  • 588.19 — Failure to secure purchaser or insufficient funds to defray certain costs
  • 588.20 — Report of sale and disposition of proceeds
  • 588.21 — Duty of commissioners to provide places for impounding of livestock and transportation of same
  • 588.22 — Duty of impounder
  • 588.23 — Right of owner
  • 588.24 — Penalty
  • 588.25 — Application; limitation
Title 589 · FL Chapter 589 (35 sections)
  • 589.01 — Florida Forestry Council
  • 589.011 — Use of state forest lands; fees; rules
  • 589.012 — Friends of Florida State Forests Program
  • 589.02 — Headquarters and meetings of council
  • 589.04 — Duties of Florida Forest Service
  • 589.06 — Warrants for payment of accounts
  • 589.065 — Florida Forever Program Trust Fund of the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
  • 589.07 — Florida Forest Service may acquire lands for forest purposes
  • 589.071 — Traffic control within state forest or Florida Forest Service-assigned lands
  • 589.08 — Land acquisition restrictions
  • 589.09 — Use of lands acquired
  • 589.10 — Disposition of lands
  • 589.101 — Blackwater River State Forest; lease of board’s interest in gas, oil, and other minerals
  • 589.102 — Blackwater River State Forest; use of leased forest lands
  • 589.11 — Duties of Florida Forest Service as to Clarke-McNary Law
  • 589.12 — Rules and regulations
  • 589.13 — Lien of Florida Forest Service and other parties, for forestry work, etc
  • 589.14 — Enforcement of lien; notice
  • 589.15 — Form of notice
  • 589.16 — Time for filing notice of lien
  • 589.17 — Application of general laws
  • 589.18 — Florida Forest Service to make certain investigations
  • 589.19 — Creation of certain state forests; naming of certain state forests; Operation Outdoor Freedom Program
  • 589.20 — Cooperation by Florida Forest Service
  • 589.21 — Management to be for public interest
  • 589.27 — Power of eminent domain; procedure
  • 589.275 — Planting of indigenous trees on state lands
  • 589.277 — Tree planting programs
  • 589.28 — County commissions or municipalities authorized to cooperate with Florida Forest Service
  • 589.29 — Quality of assistance
  • 589.30 — Duty of district or center manager
  • 589.31 — Cooperative agreement
  • 589.32 — Cost of providing county forestry assistance
  • 589.33 — Expenditure of budgeted funds
  • 589.34 — Revocation of agreement
Title 590 · FL Chapter 590 (23 sections)
  • 590.01 — Wildfire protection
  • 590.015 — Definitions
  • 590.02 — Florida Forest Service; powers, authority, and duties; liability; building structures; Withlacoochee Training Center
  • 590.081 — Severe drought conditions; burning prohibited
  • 590.082 — Extraordinary fire hazard; certain acts made unlawful; proclamations by the Governor
  • 590.10 — Disposing of lighted substances, etc
  • 590.11 — Recreational fires
  • 590.125 — Open burning authorized by the Florida Forest Service
  • 590.13 — Civil liability
  • 590.14 — Notice of violation; penalties; legislative intent
  • 590.15 — Burden of proof
  • 590.16 — Rewards
  • 590.25 — Penalty for obstructing the prevention, detection, or suppression of wildfires
  • 590.27 — Penalty for mutilating or destroying forestry or fire control signs and posters
  • 590.28 — Intentional or reckless burning of lands
  • 590.29 — Illegal possession of incendiary device
  • 590.31 — Southeastern Interstate Forest Fire Protection Compact
  • 590.32 — Compact; effective date; ratification
  • 590.33 — State compact administrator; compact advisory committee
  • 590.34 — State compact administrator and compact advisory committee members; powers; aid from other state agencies
  • 590.35 — Construction of ss. 590.31-590.34
  • 590.42 — Federally funded fire protection assistance programs
  • 590.61 — Forestry arson alert program
Title 591 · FL Chapter 591 (12 sections)
  • 591.15 — Community forests; short title
  • 591.16 — Community forests; purposes
  • 591.17 — Community forests; definitions
  • 591.18 — Community forests; purchase or establishment
  • 591.19 — Community forests; tax delinquent lands
  • 591.20 — Community forests; forestry committee
  • 591.21 — Community forests; duties of forestry committee
  • 591.22 — Community forests; appropriations
  • 591.23 — Community forests; revenues, use
  • 591.24 — Community forests; fiscal reports
  • 591.25 — Community forests; fire protection, etc
  • 591.26 — Community forests; sale upon referendum approval
Title 593 · FL Chapter 593 (6 sections)
  • 593.20 — Emergency aerial application of pesticides in urban areas; duties of department
  • 593.21 — Monitoring of health complaints by Department of Health; hotline; rulemaking authority
  • 593.22 — Notice and information
  • 593.23 — Provision of physicians and health care facilities by Department of Health
  • 593.24 — Technical assistance by Department of Health; health advisory committee
  • 593.25 — Definition
Title 595 · FL Chapter 595 (12 sections)
  • 595.401 — Short title
  • 595.402 — Definitions
  • 595.403 — State policy
  • 595.404 — School food and other nutrition programs; powers and duties of the department
  • 595.405 — School nutrition program requirements
  • 595.406 — Florida Farm to School Program
  • 595.407 — Children’s summer nutrition program
  • 595.408 — Food distribution services; department responsibilities and functions
  • 595.409 — Public records exemption
  • 595.420 — Food recovery; legislative intent; department functions
  • 595.501 — Corrective action plans; penalties
  • 595.601 — Food and Nutrition Services Trust Fund
Title 597 · FL Chapter 597 (12 sections)
  • 597.001 — Florida Aquaculture Policy Act; short title
  • 597.0015 — Definitions
  • 597.002 — Legislative declaration of public policy respecting aquaculture
  • 597.0021 — Legislative intent
  • 597.003 — Powers and duties of Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
  • 597.004 — Aquaculture certificate of registration
  • 597.0041 — Prohibited acts; penalties
  • 597.0042 — Public records exemptions; aquaculture records
  • 597.0045 — Cultured shellfish theft reward program
  • 597.005 — Aquaculture Review Council
  • 597.010 — Shellfish regulation; leases
  • 597.020 — Shellfish processors; regulation
Title 599 · FL Chapter 599 (6 sections)
  • 599.0005 — Florida Viticulture Policy Act; short title
  • 599.001 — Legislative declaration of public policy respecting viticulture
  • 599.002 — Florida Wine Advisory Council
  • 599.003 — State Wine Plan
  • 599.004 — Florida Farm Winery Program; registration; logo; fees
  • 599.012 — Florida Wine Trust Fund; creation
Title 60 · FL Chapter 60 (7 sections)
  • 60.01 — Injunction; against levy of execution issued against another than the plaintiff
  • 60.03 — Injunction against removal of mortgaged personal property
  • 60.04 — Injunction; sureties on bond of fiduciaries may restrain disposition of principal’s property
  • 60.05 — Abatement of nuisances
  • 60.06 — Abatement of nuisances; enforcement
  • 60.07 — Assessment of damages after dissolution
  • 60.08 — Injunctions sought by the state pursuant to statute shall issue without bond
Title 600 · FL Chapter 600 (5 sections)
Title 601 · FL Chapter 601 (103 sections)
  • 601.01 — Short title
  • 601.02 — Purposes
  • 601.03 — Definitions
  • 601.04 — Florida Citrus Commission; creation and membership
  • 601.041 — The Friends of Florida Citrus Program; advisory council
  • 601.045 — Commission meetings; report of department’s internal auditor
  • 601.05 — Department of Citrus a body corporate
  • 601.06 — Compensation and expenses of commission members
  • 601.07 — Location of executive offices
  • 601.08 — Authenticated copies of commission records as evidence
  • 601.09 — Citrus districts
  • 601.091 — Florida SunRidge, Indian River, and Gulf production areas, boundaries and designation
  • 601.10 — Powers of the Department of Citrus
  • 601.101 — Ownership of rights under patent and trademark laws developed or acquired under this chapter
  • 601.11 — Department of Citrus; power to establish standards; rulemaking authority
  • 601.111 — Maturity standards; modification by emergency rule
  • 601.13 — Citrus research; administration by Department of Citrus; appropriation
  • 601.15 — Advertising campaign; methods of conducting; assessments; emergency reserve fund; citrus research
  • 601.152 — Special marketing orders
  • 601.155 — Equalizing assessment; credit; exemption
  • 601.24 — Department of Citrus to prescribe methods of testing and grading
  • 601.25 — Determination of soluble solids and acid
  • 601.27 — Department of Agriculture; citrus inspectors
  • 601.28 — Inspection fees
  • 601.281 — Road guard fees
  • 601.29 — Powers of Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
  • 601.31 — Citrus inspectors; employment
  • 601.32 — Compensation of inspectors
  • 601.33 — Interference with inspectors
  • 601.34 — Duties of law enforcement officers
  • 601.35 — Disputes as to quality, etc.; procedure
  • 601.36 — Inspection information required when two or more lots of fruit run simultaneously
  • 601.37 — Unlawful acts of inspectors
  • 601.38 — Citrus inspectors; authority
  • 601.39 — Special inspectors
  • 601.40 — Registration of citrus packinghouses, processing plants with Department of Agriculture
  • 601.41 — Operation without registration unlawful
  • 601.42 — Revocation of registration
  • 601.43 — Immature and unfit citrus fruit; individual sampling
  • 601.44 — Destruction of immature fruit
  • 601.45 — Grading of fresh citrus fruit
  • 601.46 — Condition precedent to sale of citrus fruit
  • 601.461 — Falsification of weights; penalty
  • 601.47 — Condition precedent to processing citrus
  • 601.471 — Definition of “canned or concentrated citrus fruit products” expanded
  • 601.48 — Grading processed citrus products
  • 601.49 — Condition precedent to selling processed citrus products
  • 601.50 — Exemptions; sale or shipment of citrus or citrus products for certain purposes
  • 601.501 — Charitable shipments exempt from assessments
  • 601.51 — Certification required for shipment of citrus fruit or products
  • 601.52 — Carriers not to accept fruit without evidence of payment of assessments and fees
  • 601.53 — Unlawful to process unwholesome citrus
  • 601.54 — Seizure of unwholesome fruit by Department of Agriculture’s agents
  • 601.55 — Citrus fruit dealer; license required
  • 601.56 — Application for dealers’ licenses; requirements
  • 601.57 — Examination of application; approval of dealers’ licenses
  • 601.58 — Application approval or disapproval
  • 601.59 — Dealer’s license fee; agent’s registration fee
  • 601.60 — Issuance of dealers’ licenses
  • 601.601 — Registration of dealers’ agents
  • 601.61 — Bond requirements of citrus fruit dealers
  • 601.611 — Applicable law in event ch. 61-389 held invalid
  • 601.64 — Citrus fruit dealers; unlawful acts
  • 601.641 — Fraudulent representations, penalties
  • 601.65 — Liability of citrus fruit dealers
  • 601.66 — Complaints of violations by citrus fruit dealers; procedure; bond distribution; court action on bond
  • 601.67 — Disciplinary action by Department of Agriculture against citrus fruit dealers
  • 601.671 — Appropriation of fines collected
  • 601.68 — Investigation of violations
  • 601.69 — Records to be kept by citrus fruit dealers
  • 601.70 — Inspection of records by Department of Agriculture
  • 601.701 — Penalty for failure to keep records
  • 601.72 — Penalties for violations
  • 601.73 — Additional methods of enforcement
  • 601.731 — Transporting citrus on highways; name and dealer designation on vehicles; load identification; penalty
  • 601.74 — Fees for licensing and analysis of processing materials
  • 601.79 — To color grapefruit and tangerines prohibited
  • 601.80 — Unlawful to use uncertified coloring matter
  • 601.85 — Standard shipping box for fresh fruit
  • 601.86 — Standard field boxes for fresh citrus fruit
  • 601.88 — Oversized boxes to be stamped
  • 601.89 — Citrus fruit; when damaged by freezing
  • 601.91 — Unlawful to sell, transport, prepare, receive, or deliver freeze-damaged citrus
  • 601.92 — Use of arsenic in connection with citrus
  • 601.93 — Sale of citrus containing arsenic
  • 601.94 — Fruit containing arsenic; powers of inspection
  • 601.95 — Seizure of citrus fruit containing arsenic
  • 601.96 — Seized fruit; taking samples for analysis
  • 601.97 — Destruction of certain fruit containing arsenic
  • 601.98 — Shipment, sale, or offer of imported citrus fruit or citrus products
  • 601.99 — Unlawful to misbrand wrappers or packages containing citrus fruit
  • 601.9901 — Certificates of inspection; form
  • 601.9902 — Payment of salaries and expenses; Department of Citrus
  • 601.9903 — Annual report of Department of Citrus
  • 601.99035 — Annual travel report of Department of Citrus
  • 601.99036 — Approval of specified salary changes
  • 601.9904 — Frozen citrus juices; rules of Department of Citrus
  • 601.9908 — Canned tangerine juice; standards; labeling
  • 601.9910 — Legislative findings of fact; strict enforcement of maturity standard in public interest
  • 601.9911 — Fruit may be sold or transported direct from producer
  • 601.9912 — Penalties
  • 601.9918 — Rules related to issuance and use of symbols
  • 601.992 — Collection of dues and other payments on behalf of certain nonprofit corporations engaged in market news and grower educ
Title 603 · FL Chapter 603 (13 sections)
  • 603.011 — Fruit and vegetable inspection fees; penalty
  • 603.11 — Grades of fruits, vegetables, nuts, grains, and other agricultural products
  • 603.12 — Inspection of fruits, vegetables, nuts, grains, and other agricultural products; certificates
  • 603.13 — Fees for inspections
  • 603.14 — Cooperative certificates as evidence
  • 603.15 — United States inspection certificates as evidence
  • 603.151 — Enforcement of Federal Marketing Agreement Act by state as to certain vegetables
  • 603.152 — Maturity standard for limes; applicability; testing of limes; rules and regulations
  • 603.161 — Sales certificates, work orders to accompany certain fruit
  • 603.201 — Short title
  • 603.202 — Legislative declarations and findings
  • 603.204 — South Florida Tropical Fruit Plan
  • 603.211 — Identification of sellers or handlers of tropical or subtropical fruit and vegetables; containers specified; penalties
Title 604 · FL Chapter 604 (38 sections)
  • 604.001 — Public policy with respect to agricultural production
  • 604.01 — Statewide soil survey and mapping; declaration of policy
  • 604.02 — Costs of surveys, by whom payable
  • 604.04 — Administration of law
  • 604.05 — Standard procedure to be used; cooperation with federal and other agencies
  • 604.06 — Determination of soils to be surveyed
  • 604.07 — Analyses of type materials
  • 604.08 — Reports; maps; publications
  • 604.09 — Limited agricultural association; purpose of law
  • 604.10 — Limited agricultural association; powers, membership
  • 604.11 — Limited agricultural association; formation, fees
  • 604.12 — Limited agricultural association; articles of association, name
  • 604.13 — Limited agricultural association; bylaws
  • 604.14 — Limited agricultural association; dissolution; conversion to a corporation not for profit
  • 604.15 — Dealers in agricultural products; definitions
  • 604.151 — Purpose
  • 604.16 — Exceptions to provisions of ss. 604.15-604.34
  • 604.17 — License required
  • 604.18 — Application; form; contents
  • 604.19 — License; fee; bond; certificate of deposit; penalty
  • 604.20 — Bond or certificate of deposit prerequisite; amount; form
  • 604.21 — Complaint; investigation; hearing
  • 604.211 — Limitation on successive consignments
  • 604.22 — Dealers to keep records; contents
  • 604.23 — Examination of records, sales, accounts, books, and other documents
  • 604.25 — Refusal to grant, or suspension or revocation of, license
  • 604.27 — Rules
  • 604.28 — Department may employ help
  • 604.29 — License fees; disposition
  • 604.30 — Penalties; injunctive relief; administrative fines
  • 604.32 — Grain dealers to provide delivery tickets
  • 604.33 — Security requirements for grain dealers
  • 604.34 — When grain dealer required to pay for grain delivered
  • 604.40 — Farm equipment
  • 604.50 — Nonresidential farm buildings; farm fences; farm signs
  • 604.60 — Damage or destruction of agricultural products or agricultural production systems; civil action
  • 604.71 — Local regulation of vegetable gardens
  • 604.73 — Urban agriculture pilot projects; local regulation of urban agriculture
Title 605 · FL Chapter 605 (191 sections)
  • 605.0101 — Short title
  • 605.0102 — Definitions
  • 605.0103 — Knowledge; notice
  • 605.0104 — Governing law
  • 605.0105 — Operating agreement; scope, function, and limitations
  • 605.0106 — Operating agreement; effect on limited liability company and person becoming member; preformation agreement; other matte
  • 605.0107 — Operating agreement; effect on third parties and relationship to records effective on behalf of limited liability compan
  • 605.0108 — Nature, purpose, and duration of limited liability company
  • 605.0109 — Powers
  • 605.0110 — Limited liability company property
  • 605.0111 — Rules of construction and supplemental principles of law
  • 605.0112 — Name
  • 605.01125 — Reserved name
  • 605.0113 — Registered agent
  • 605.0114 — Change of registered agent or registered office
  • 605.0115 — Resignation of registered agent
  • 605.0116 — Change of name or address by registered agent
  • 605.0117 — Serving process, giving notice, or making a demand
  • 605.0118 — Delivery of record
  • 605.0119 — Waiver of notice
  • 605.0201 — Formation of limited liability company; articles of organization
  • 605.0202 — Amendment or restatement of articles of organization
  • 605.0203 — Signing of records to be delivered for filing to department
  • 605.0204 — Signing and filing pursuant to judicial order
  • 605.0205 — Liability for inaccurate information in filed record
  • 605.0206 — Filing requirements
  • 605.0207 — Effective date and time
  • 605.0208 — Withdrawal of filed record before effectiveness
  • 605.0209 — Correcting filed record
  • 605.0210 — Duty of department to file; review of refusal to file; transmission of information by department
  • 605.0211 — Certificate of status
  • 605.0212 — Annual report for department
  • 605.0213 — Fees of the department
  • 605.0214 — Powers of department
  • 605.0215 — Certificates to be received in evidence and evidentiary effect of certified copy of filed document
  • 605.0216 — Statement of dissociation or resignation
  • 605.0301 — Power to bind limited liability company
  • 605.0302 — Statement of authority
  • 605.0303 — Statement of denial
  • 605.0304 — Liability of members and managers
  • 605.0401 — Becoming a member
  • 605.0402 — Form of contribution
  • 605.0403 — Liability for contributions
  • 605.0404 — Sharing of distributions before dissolution and profits and losses
  • 605.0405 — Limitations on distributions
  • 605.0406 — Liability for improper distributions
  • 605.0407 — Management of limited liability company
  • 605.04071 — Delegation of rights and powers to manage
  • 605.04072 — Selection and terms of managers in a manager-managed limited liability company
  • 605.04073 — Voting rights of members and managers
  • 605.04074 — Agency rights of members and managers
  • 605.0408 — Reimbursement, indemnification, advancement, and insurance
  • 605.04091 — Standards of conduct for members and managers
  • 605.04092 — Conflict of interest transactions
  • 605.04093 — Limitation of liability of managers and members
  • 605.0410 — Records to be kept; rights of member, manager, and person dissociated to information
  • 605.0411 — Court-ordered inspection
  • 605.0501 — Nature of transferable interest
  • 605.0502 — Transfer of transferable interest
  • 605.0503 — Charging order
  • 605.0504 — Power of legal representative
  • 605.0601 — Power to dissociate as member; wrongful dissociation
  • 605.0602 — Events causing dissociation
  • 605.0603 — Effect of dissociation
  • 605.0701 — Events causing dissolution
  • 605.0702 — Grounds for judicial dissolution
  • 605.0703 — Procedure for judicial dissolution; alternative remedies
  • 605.0704 — Receivership or custodianship
  • 605.0705 — Decree of dissolution
  • 605.0706 — Election to purchase instead of dissolution
  • 605.0707 — Articles of dissolution; filing of articles of dissolution
  • 605.0708 — Revocation of articles of dissolution
  • 605.0709 — Winding up
  • 605.0710 — Disposition of assets in winding up
  • 605.0711 — Known claims against dissolved limited liability company
  • 605.0712 — Other claims against a dissolved limited liability company
  • 605.0713 — Court proceedings
  • 605.0714 — Administrative dissolution
  • 605.0715 — Reinstatement
  • 605.0716 — Judicial review of denial of reinstatement
  • 605.0717 — Effect of dissolution
  • 605.0801 — Direct action by member
  • 605.0802 — Derivative action
  • 605.0803 — Proper plaintiff
  • 605.0804 — Special litigation committee
  • 605.0805 — Proceeds and expenses
  • 605.0806 — Voluntary dismissal or settlement; notice
  • 605.0901 — Governing law
  • 605.0902 — Application for certificate of authority
  • 605.0903 — Effect of a certificate of authority
  • 605.0904 — Effect of failure to have certificate of authority
  • 605.0905 — Activities not constituting transacting business
  • 605.0906 — Noncomplying name of foreign limited liability company
  • 605.0907 — Amendment to certificate of authority
  • 605.0908 — Revocation of certificate of authority
  • 605.0909 — Reinstatement following revocation of certificate of authority
  • 605.09091 — Judicial review of denial of reinstatement
  • 605.0910 — Withdrawal and cancellation of certificate of authority
  • 605.0911 — Withdrawal deemed on conversion to domestic filing entity
  • 605.0912 — Withdrawal on dissolution, merger, or conversion to nonfiling entity
  • 605.0913 — Action by Department of Legal Affairs
  • 605.1001 — Relationship of the provisions of this section and ss. 605.1002-605.1072 to other laws
  • 605.1002 — Charitable and donative provisions
  • 605.1003 — Status of filings
  • 605.1004 — Nonexclusivity
  • 605.1005 — Reference to external facts
  • 605.1006 — Appraisal rights
  • 605.1021 — Merger authorized
  • 605.1022 — Plan of merger
  • 605.1023 — Approval of merger
  • 605.1024 — Amendment or abandonment of plan of merger
  • 605.1025 — Articles of merger
  • 605.1026 — Effect of merger
  • 605.1031 — Interest exchange authorized
  • 605.1032 — Plan of interest exchange
  • 605.1033 — Approval of interest exchange
  • 605.1034 — Amendment or abandonment of plan of interest exchange
  • 605.1035 — Articles of interest exchange
  • 605.1036 — Effect of interest exchange
  • 605.1041 — Conversion authorized
  • 605.1042 — Plan of conversion
  • 605.1043 — Approval of conversion
  • 605.1044 — Amendment or abandonment of plan of conversion
  • 605.1045 — Articles of conversion
  • 605.1046 — Effect of conversion
  • 605.1051 — Domestication authorized
  • 605.1052 — Plan of domestication
  • 605.1053 — Approval of domestication
  • 605.1054 — Amendment or abandonment of plan of domestication
  • 605.1055 — Articles of domestication
  • 605.1056 — Effect of domestication
  • 605.1061 — Appraisal rights; definitions
  • 605.1062 — Assertion of rights by nominees and beneficial owners
  • 605.1063 — Notice of appraisal rights
  • 605.1064 — Notice of intent to demand payment
  • 605.1065 — Appraisal notice and form
  • 605.1066 — Perfection of rights; right to withdraw
  • 605.1067 — Member’s acceptance of limited liability company’s offer
  • 605.1068 — Procedure if member is dissatisfied with offer
  • 605.1069 — Court action
  • 605.1070 — Court costs and attorney fees
  • 605.1071 — Limitation on limited liability company payment
  • 605.1072 — Other remedies limited
  • 605.1101 — Uniformity of application and construction
  • 605.1102 — Relation to Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act
  • 605.1103 — Tax exemption on income of certain limited liability companies
  • 605.1104 — Interrogatories by department; other powers of department
  • 605.1105 — Reservation of power to amend or repeal
  • 605.1106 — Savings clause
  • 605.1107 — Severability clause
  • 605.1108 — Application to limited liability company formed under the Florida Limited Liability Company Act
  • 605.2101 — Short title
  • 605.2102 — Definitions
  • 605.2103 — Nature of protected status
  • 605.2104 — Powers and duration of protected series
  • 605.2105 — Protected series governing law
  • 605.2106 — Relation of a protected series operating agreement and the protected series provisions of this chapter
  • 605.2107 — Additional limitations on operating agreements
  • 605.2108 — Application of this chapter to protected series
  • 605.2201 — Establishment of protected series; change of designation
  • 605.2202 — Protected series name
  • 605.2203 — Registered agent
  • 605.2204 — Series limited liability company; service of process; giving notice or making demand
  • 605.2205 — Certificate of status for domestic or foreign protected series
  • 605.2206 — Information required in annual report; failure to comply
  • 605.2301 — Associated asset
  • 605.2302 — Associated member
  • 605.2303 — Protected-series transferable interest
  • 605.2304 — Management
  • 605.2305 — Right of a person that is not an associated member of a protected series to information of a protected series
  • 605.2401 — Limitations on liability
  • 605.2402 — Claim seeking to disregard limitation of liability
  • 605.2403 — Remedies of judgment creditor of associated member or other holder of a protected-series transferee
  • 605.2404 — Enforcement of claim against non-associated asset
  • 605.2501 — Events causing dissolution of protected series
  • 605.2502 — Winding up dissolved protected series
  • 605.2503 — Effects of reinstatement of series limited liability company; revocation of voluntary dissolution
  • 605.2601 — Entity transactions involving a series limited liability company or a protected series of the company restricted; defini
  • 605.2602 — Restrictions on entity transactions involving protected series
  • 605.2603 — Restrictions on entity transactions involving series limited liability company
  • 605.2604 — Restrictions on merger
  • 605.2605 — Plan of merger
  • 605.2606 — Articles of merger
  • 605.2607 — Effect of merger
  • 605.2608 — Application of s. 605.2404 after merger
  • 605.2701 — Governing law; foreign series limited liability companies and foreign protected series
  • 605.2702 — No attribution of activities constituting transacting business or for establishing jurisdiction
  • 605.2703 — Certificate of authority for foreign series limited liability company and foreign protected series; amendment of applica
  • 605.2704 — Disclosure required when a foreign series limited liability company or foreign protected series becomes a party to a pro
  • 605.2801 — Relation to Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act
  • 605.2802 — Effective date
Title 606 · FL Chapter 606 (6 sections)
Title 607 · FL Chapter 607 (263 sections)
  • 607.0101 — Short title; applicability
  • 607.0102 — Reservation of power to amend or repeal
  • 607.0120 — Filing requirements
  • 607.0121 — Forms
  • 607.0122 — Fees for filing documents and issuing certificates
  • 607.0123 — Effective time and date of document
  • 607.0124 — Correcting filed document; withdrawal of filed record before effectiveness
  • 607.0125 — Filing duties of the department
  • 607.0126 — Appeal from department’s refusal to file document
  • 607.0127 — Certificates to be received in evidence; evidentiary effect of certified copy of filed document
  • 607.0128 — Certificate of status
  • 607.0130 — Powers of department
  • 607.01401 — Definitions
  • 607.0141 — Notice
  • 607.0143 — Qualified director
  • 607.0145 — Definitions
  • 607.0146 — Defective corporate actions
  • 607.0147 — Ratification of defective corporate actions
  • 607.0148 — Action on ratification
  • 607.0149 — Notice requirements
  • 607.0150 — Effects of ratification
  • 607.0151 — Filings
  • 607.0152 — Judicial proceedings regarding validity of corporate actions
  • 607.0201 — Incorporators
  • 607.0202 — Articles of incorporation; content
  • 607.0203 — Incorporation
  • 607.0204 — Liability for preincorporation transactions
  • 607.0205 — Organizational meeting of directors
  • 607.0206 — Bylaws
  • 607.0207 — Emergency bylaws
  • 607.0208 — Forum selection
  • 607.0301 — Purposes and application
  • 607.0302 — General powers
  • 607.0303 — Emergency powers
  • 607.0304 — Lack of power to act
  • 607.0401 — Corporate name
  • 607.04021 — Reserved name
  • 607.0403 — Registered name; application; renewal; revocation
  • 607.0501 — Registered office and registered agent
  • 607.0502 — Change of registered office or registered agent
  • 607.0503 — Resignation of registered agent
  • 607.05031 — Change of name or address by registered agent
  • 607.05032 — Delivery of notice or other communication
  • 607.0504 — Serving process, giving notice, or making a demand on a corporation
  • 607.0505 — Registered agent; duties
  • 607.0601 — Authorized shares
  • 607.0602 — Terms of class or series determined by board of directors
  • 607.0603 — Issued and outstanding shares
  • 607.0604 — Fractional shares
  • 607.0620 — Subscriptions for shares
  • 607.0621 — Issuance of shares
  • 607.0622 — Liability for shares issued before payment
  • 607.0623 — Share dividends
  • 607.0624 — Share rights, options, warrants, and awards
  • 607.0625 — Form and content of certificates
  • 607.0626 — Shares without certificates
  • 607.0627 — Restriction on transfer of shares and other securities
  • 607.0628 — Expenses of issue
  • 607.0630 — Shareholders’ preemptive rights
  • 607.0631 — Corporation’s acquisition of its own shares
  • 607.06401 — Distributions to shareholders
  • 607.0701 — Annual meeting
  • 607.0702 — Special meeting
  • 607.0703 — Court-ordered meeting
  • 607.0704 — Action by shareholders without a meeting
  • 607.0705 — Notice of meeting
  • 607.0706 — Waiver of notice
  • 607.0707 — Record date
  • 607.0709 — Remote participation in annual and special meetings of shareholders
  • 607.0720 — Shareholders’ list for meeting
  • 607.0721 — Voting entitlement of shares
  • 607.0722 — Proxies
  • 607.0723 — Shares held by intermediaries and nominees
  • 607.0724 — Acceptance of votes and other instruments
  • 607.0725 — Quorum and voting requirements for voting groups
  • 607.0726 — Action by single and multiple voting groups
  • 607.0728 — Voting for directors; cumulative voting
  • 607.0729 — Voting procedures; inspectors of election
  • 607.0730 — Voting trusts
  • 607.0731 — Voting agreements
  • 607.0732 — Shareholder agreements
  • 607.0741 — Standing
  • 607.0742 — Complaint; demand and excuse
  • 607.0743 — Stay of proceedings
  • 607.0744 — Dismissal
  • 607.0745 — Discontinuance or settlement; notice
  • 607.0746 — Proceeds and expenses
  • 607.0747 — Applicability to foreign corporations
  • 607.0748 — Shareholder action to appoint custodians or receivers
  • 607.0749 — Provisional director
  • 607.0750 — Direct action by shareholder
  • 607.0801 — Requirement for and duties of board of directors
  • 607.0802 — Qualifications of directors
  • 607.0803 — Number of directors
  • 607.0804 — Election of directors by certain voting groups; special voting rights of certain directors
  • 607.0805 — Terms of directors generally
  • 607.0806 — Staggered terms for directors
  • 607.0807 — Resignation of directors
  • 607.0808 — Removal of directors by shareholders
  • 607.08081 — Removal of directors by judicial proceedings
  • 607.0809 — Vacancy on board
  • 607.08101 — Compensation of directors
  • 607.0820 — Meetings
  • 607.0821 — Action by directors without a meeting
  • 607.0822 — Notice of meetings
  • 607.0823 — Waiver of notice
  • 607.0824 — Quorum and voting
  • 607.0825 — Committees
  • 607.0826 — Submission of matters for a shareholder vote
  • 607.0830 — General standards for directors
  • 607.0831 — Liability of directors
  • 607.0832 — Director conflicts of interest
  • 607.0833 — Loans to officers, directors, and employees; guaranty of obligations
  • 607.0834 — Liability for unlawful distributions
  • 607.08401 — Required officers
  • 607.0841 — Duties of officers
  • 607.08411 — General standards for officers
  • 607.0842 — Resignation and removal of officers
  • 607.0843 — Contract rights of officers
  • 607.0850 — Definitions
  • 607.0851 — Permissible indemnification
  • 607.0852 — Mandatory indemnification
  • 607.0853 — Advance for expenses
  • 607.0854 — Court-ordered indemnification and advance for expenses
  • 607.0855 — Determination and authorization of indemnification
  • 607.0857 — Insurance
  • 607.0858 — Variation by corporate action; application of ss. 607.0850-607.0859
  • 607.0859 — Overriding restrictions on indemnification
  • 607.0901 — Affiliated transactions
  • 607.0902 — Control-share acquisitions
  • 607.1001 — Authority to amend the articles of incorporation
  • 607.1002 — Amendment by board of directors
  • 607.10025 — Shares; combination or division
  • 607.1003 — Amendment by board of directors and shareholders
  • 607.1004 — Voting on amendments by voting groups
  • 607.1005 — Amendment before issuance of shares
  • 607.1006 — Articles of amendment
  • 607.1007 — Restated articles of incorporation
  • 607.1008 — Amendment pursuant to reorganization
  • 607.1009 — Effect of amendment
  • 607.1020 — Amendment of bylaws by board of directors or shareholders
  • 607.1021 — Bylaw increasing quorum or voting requirements for shareholders
  • 607.1022 — Bylaw increasing quorum or voting requirements for directors
  • 607.1023 — Bylaw provisions relating to the election of directors
  • 607.1101 — Merger
  • 607.1102 — Share exchange
  • 607.1103 — Action on a plan of merger or share exchange
  • 607.11035 — Shareholder approval of a merger or share exchange in connection with a tender offer
  • 607.1104 — Merger between parent and subsidiary or between subsidiaries
  • 607.11045 — Holding company formation by merger by certain corporations
  • 607.1105 — Articles of merger or share exchange
  • 607.1106 — Effect of merger or share exchange
  • 607.1107 — Abandonment of a merger or share exchange
  • 607.11920 — Domestication
  • 607.11921 — Action on a plan of domestication
  • 607.11922 — Articles of domestication; effectiveness
  • 607.11923 — Amendment of a plan of domestication; abandonment
  • 607.11924 — Effect of domestication
  • 607.11930 — Conversion
  • 607.11931 — Plan of conversion
  • 607.11932 — Action on a plan of conversion
  • 607.11933 — Articles of conversion; effectiveness
  • 607.11934 — Amendment to a plan of conversion; abandonment
  • 607.11935 — Effect of conversion
  • 607.1201 — Disposition of assets not requiring shareholder approval
  • 607.1202 — Shareholder approval of certain dispositions
  • 607.1301 — Appraisal rights; definitions
  • 607.1302 — Right of shareholders to appraisal
  • 607.1303 — Assertion of rights by nominees and beneficial owners
  • 607.1320 — Notice of appraisal rights
  • 607.1321 — Notice of intent to demand payment
  • 607.1322 — Appraisal notice and form
  • 607.1323 — Perfection of rights; right to withdraw
  • 607.1324 — Shareholder’s acceptance of corporation’s offer
  • 607.1326 — Procedure if shareholder is dissatisfied with offer
  • 607.1330 — Court action
  • 607.1331 — Court costs and counsel fees
  • 607.1332 — Disposition of acquired shares
  • 607.1333 — Limitation on corporate payment
  • 607.1340 — Other remedies limited
  • 607.1401 — Dissolution by incorporators or directors
  • 607.1402 — Dissolution by board of directors and shareholders; dissolution by written consent of shareholders
  • 607.1403 — Articles of dissolution
  • 607.1404 — Revocation of dissolution
  • 607.1405 — Effect of dissolution
  • 607.1406 — Known claims against dissolved corporation
  • 607.1407 — Other claims against dissolved corporation
  • 607.1408 — Claims against dissolved corporations; enforcement
  • 607.1409 — Court proceedings
  • 607.1410 — Director duties
  • 607.1420 — Administrative dissolution
  • 607.1422 — Reinstatement following administrative dissolution
  • 607.1423 — Judicial review of denial of reinstatement
  • 607.1430 — Grounds for judicial dissolution
  • 607.1431 — Procedure for judicial dissolution
  • 607.1432 — Receivership or custodianship
  • 607.1433 — Judgment of dissolution
  • 607.1434 — Alternative remedies to judicial dissolution
  • 607.1435 — Provisional director
  • 607.1436 — Election to purchase instead of dissolution
  • 607.14401 — Deposit with Department of Financial Services
  • 607.1501 — Authority of foreign corporation to transact business required; activities not constituting transacting business
  • 607.15015 — Governing law
  • 607.1502 — Effect of failure to have a certificate of authority
  • 607.1503 — Application for certificate of authority
  • 607.1504 — Amended certificate of authority
  • 607.1505 — Effect of a certificate of authority
  • 607.1506 — Corporate name of foreign corporation
  • 607.1507 — Registered office and registered agent of foreign corporation
  • 607.1508 — Change of registered office and registered agent of foreign corporation
  • 607.1509 — Resignation of registered agent of foreign corporation
  • 607.15091 — Change of name or address by registered agent
  • 607.15092 — Delivery of notice or other communication
  • 607.15101 — Serving process, giving notice, or making a demand on a foreign corporation
  • 607.1520 — Withdrawal and cancellation of certificate of authority for foreign corporation
  • 607.1521 — Withdrawal deemed on conversion to domestic filing entity
  • 607.1522 — Withdrawal on dissolution, merger, or conversion to certain nonfiling entities
  • 607.1523 — Action by Department of Legal Affairs
  • 607.1530 — Revocation of certificate of authority to transact business
  • 607.15315 — Reinstatement following revocation of certificate of authority
  • 607.1532 — Judicial review of denial of reinstatement
  • 607.1601 — Corporate records
  • 607.1602 — Inspection of records by shareholders
  • 607.1603 — Scope of inspection right
  • 607.1604 — Court-ordered inspection
  • 607.1605 — Inspection rights of directors
  • 607.1620 — Financial statements for shareholders
  • 607.1622 — Annual report for department
  • 607.1701 — Application to existing domestic corporation
  • 607.1702 — Application to qualified foreign corporations
  • 607.1703 — Interrogatories by department; other powers of department
  • 607.1711 — Application to foreign and interstate commerce
  • 607.1805 — Procedures for conversion to professional service corporation
  • 607.1904 — Estoppel
  • 607.1907 — Saving provision
  • 607.1908 — Severability clause
  • 607.193 — Supplemental corporate fee
  • 607.501 — Application and effect of part
  • 607.502 — Definitions
  • 607.503 — Incorporation
  • 607.504 — Election of social purpose corporation status
  • 607.505 — Termination of social purpose corporation status
  • 607.506 — Corporate purpose
  • 607.507 — Standard of conduct for directors
  • 607.508 — Benefit director
  • 607.509 — Standard of conduct for officers
  • 607.510 — Benefit officer
  • 607.511 — Right of action
  • 607.512 — Preparation of annual benefit report
  • 607.513 — Availability of annual benefit report
  • 607.601 — Application and effect of part
  • 607.602 — Definitions
  • 607.603 — Incorporation
  • 607.604 — Election of benefit corporation status
  • 607.605 — Termination of benefit corporation status
  • 607.606 — Corporate purpose
  • 607.607 — Standard of conduct for directors
  • 607.608 — Benefit director
  • 607.609 — Standard of conduct for officers
  • 607.610 — Benefit officer
  • 607.611 — Right of action
  • 607.612 — Preparation of annual benefit report
  • 607.613 — Availability of annual benefit report
Title 609 · FL Chapter 609 (9 sections)
  • 609.01 — Common-law declaration of trust
  • 609.02 — Filing a declaration of trust
  • 609.03 — Issuance of certificate to association
  • 609.04 — Unlawful to transact business prior to compliance
  • 609.05 — Qualification with Office of Financial Regulation
  • 609.051 — Shares, personal property
  • 609.06 — Penalties
  • 609.07 — Issuance of certain units, shares, certificates, or other security
  • 609.08 — Merger of association into wholly owned subsidiary corporation; dissenters’ rights of appraisal
Title 61 · FL Chapter 61 (128 sections)
  • 61.001 — Purpose of chapter
  • 61.011 — Dissolution in chancery
  • 61.021 — Residence requirements
  • 61.031 — Dissolution of marriage to be a vinculo
  • 61.0401 — Application of the law of a foreign country in courts relating to matters arising out of or relating to this chapter and
  • 61.043 — Commencement of a proceeding for dissolution of marriage or for alimony and child support; dissolution questionnaire
  • 61.044 — Certain existing defenses abolished
  • 61.046 — Definitions
  • 61.052 — Dissolution of marriage
  • 61.061 — Proceedings against nonresidents
  • 61.071 — Alimony pendente lite; suit money
  • 61.075 — Equitable distribution of marital assets and liabilities
  • 61.076 — Distribution of retirement plans upon dissolution of marriage
  • 61.077 — Determination of entitlement to setoffs or credits upon sale of marital home
  • 61.079 — Premarital agreements
  • 61.08 — Alimony
  • 61.09 — Alimony and child support unconnected with dissolution
  • 61.10 — Adjudication of obligation to support spouse or minor child unconnected with dissolution; parenting plan
  • 61.11 — Writs
  • 61.12 — Attachment or garnishment of amounts due for alimony or child support
  • 61.122 — Parenting plan recommendation; presumption of psychologist’s good faith; prerequisite to parent’s filing suit; award
  • 61.125 — Parenting coordination
  • 61.1255 — Support for dependent adult children; legislative intent; powers of court
  • 61.13 — Support of children; parenting and time-sharing; powers of court
  • 61.13001 — Parental relocation with a child
  • 61.13003 — Court-ordered electronic communication between a parent and a child
  • 61.1301 — Income deduction orders
  • 61.13015 — Petition for suspension or denial of professional licenses and certificates
  • 61.13016 — Suspension of driver licenses and motor vehicle registrations
  • 61.1354 — Sharing of information between consumer reporting agencies and the IV-D agency
  • 61.14 — Enforcement and modification of support, maintenance, or alimony agreements or orders
  • 61.16 — Attorney’s fees, suit money, and costs
  • 61.17 — Alimony and child support; additional method for enforcing orders and judgments; costs, expenses
  • 61.18 — Alimony and child support; default in undertaking of bond posted to ensure payment
  • 61.181 — Depositories for alimony transactions, support, maintenance, and support payments; fees
  • 61.1811 — Clerk of the Court Child Support Enforcement Collection System Trust Fund
  • 61.1812 — Child Support Incentive Trust Fund
  • 61.1814 — Child Support Enforcement Application and Program Revenue Trust Fund
  • 61.1816 — Child Support Clearing Trust Fund
  • 61.1824 — State Disbursement Unit
  • 61.1825 — State Case Registry
  • 61.1826 — Procurement of services for State Disbursement Unit and the non-Title IV-D component of the State Case Registry; contrac
  • 61.1827 — Identifying information concerning applicants for and recipients of child support services
  • 61.183 — Mediation of certain contested issues
  • 61.19 — Entry of judgment of dissolution of marriage, delay period
  • 61.191 — Application
  • 61.20 — Social investigation and recommendations regarding a parenting plan
  • 61.21 — Parenting course authorized; fees; required attendance authorized; contempt
  • 61.29 — Child support guidelines; principles; applicability
  • 61.30 — Child support guidelines; retroactive child support
  • 61.31 — Amount of support for a dependent adult child
  • 61.401 — Appointment of guardian ad litem
  • 61.402 — Qualifications of guardians ad litem
  • 61.403 — Guardians ad litem; powers and authority
  • 61.404 — Guardians ad litem; confidentiality
  • 61.405 — Guardians ad litem; immunity
  • 61.45 — Court-ordered parenting plan; risk of violation; bond
  • 61.455 — Court-ordered parenting plan; neutral safe exchange location or a location authorized by a supervised visitation program
  • 61.501 — Short title
  • 61.502 — Purposes of part; construction of provisions
  • 61.503 — Definitions
  • 61.504 — Proceedings governed by other law
  • 61.505 — Application to Indian tribes
  • 61.506 — International application of part
  • 61.507 — Effect of child custody determination
  • 61.508 — Priority
  • 61.509 — Notice to persons outside the state
  • 61.510 — Appearance and limited immunity
  • 61.511 — Communication between courts
  • 61.512 — Taking testimony in another state
  • 61.513 — Cooperation between courts; preservation of records
  • 61.514 — Initial child custody jurisdiction
  • 61.515 — Exclusive, continuing jurisdiction
  • 61.516 — Jurisdiction to modify a determination
  • 61.517 — Temporary emergency jurisdiction
  • 61.518 — Notice; opportunity to be heard; joinder
  • 61.519 — Simultaneous proceedings
  • 61.520 — Inconvenient forum
  • 61.521 — Jurisdiction declined by reason of conduct
  • 61.522 — Information to be submitted to the court
  • 61.523 — Appearance of parties and child
  • 61.524 — Definitions
  • 61.525 — Enforcement under the Hague Convention
  • 61.526 — Duty to enforce
  • 61.527 — Temporary visitation
  • 61.528 — Registration of child custody determination
  • 61.529 — Enforcement of registered determination
  • 61.530 — Simultaneous proceedings
  • 61.531 — Expedited enforcement of child custody determination
  • 61.532 — Service of petition and order
  • 61.533 — Hearing and order
  • 61.534 — Warrant to take physical custody of child
  • 61.535 — Costs, fees, and expenses
  • 61.536 — Recognition and enforcement
  • 61.537 — Appeals
  • 61.538 — Role of state attorney
  • 61.539 — Role of law enforcement officers
  • 61.540 — Costs and expenses
  • 61.541 — Application and construction
  • 61.542 — Transitional provision
  • 61.55 — Purpose
  • 61.56 — Definitions
  • 61.57 — Beginning, concluding, and terminating a collaborative law process
  • 61.58 — Confidentiality of a collaborative law communication
  • 61.703 — Definitions
  • 61.705 — Remedies for noncompliance
  • 61.707 — Jurisdiction
  • 61.709 — Notice requirement for deploying parent
  • 61.711 — Duty to notify of change of address
  • 61.713 — General consideration in custody proceeding of parent’s service
  • 61.721 — Form of temporary custodial responsibility agreement
  • 61.723 — Nature of authority created by temporary custodial responsibility agreement
  • 61.725 — Modification of agreement
  • 61.727 — Power of attorney
  • 61.729 — Filing custodial responsibility agreement or power of attorney with court
  • 61.733 — Proceeding for temporary custody order
  • 61.735 — Testimony by electronic means
  • 61.737 — Effect of prior judicial order or agreement
  • 61.739 — Grant of temporary caretaking authority to nonparent
  • 61.741 — Grant of limited contact
  • 61.743 — Nature of authority created by temporary custody order
  • 61.745 — Content of temporary custody order
  • 61.747 — Order for child support
  • 61.749 — Modifying or terminating temporary grant of custodial responsibility or limited contact to nonparent
  • 61.761 — Procedure for terminating temporary agreement granting custodial responsibility
  • 61.763 — Visitation before termination of temporary grant of custodial responsibility
  • 61.771 — Relation to electronic signatures in Global and National Commerce Act
  • 61.773 — Applicability
Title 610 · FL Chapter 610 (16 sections)
  • 610.102 — Department of State authority to issue statewide cable and video franchise
  • 610.103 — Definitions
  • 610.104 — State authorization to provide cable or video service
  • 610.105 — Eligibility for state-issued franchise
  • 610.106 — Franchise fees prohibited
  • 610.107 — Buildout
  • 610.108 — Customer service standards
  • 610.109 — Public, educational, and governmental access channels
  • 610.112 — Cable or video services for public facilities
  • 610.113 — Nondiscrimination by municipality or county
  • 610.114 — Limitation on local authority
  • 610.115 — Discrimination prohibited
  • 610.116 — Compliance
  • 610.117 — Limitation
  • 610.118 — Impairment; court-ordered operations
  • 610.1201 — Severability
Title 616 · FL Chapter 616 (42 sections)
  • 616.001 — Definitions
  • 616.01 — Number of persons required; requisites of proposed charter
  • 616.02 — Acknowledgment of charter
  • 616.03 — Notice of application; approval and record of charter
  • 616.04 — Evidence of existence and contents of charter
  • 616.05 — Amendment of charter
  • 616.051 — Dissolving a charter
  • 616.06 — Amount of indebtedness authorized
  • 616.07 — Members not personally liable; property of association held in trust; exempt from taxation
  • 616.08 — Additional powers of association
  • 616.09 — Not authorized to carry on gambling, etc.; forfeiture of charter for violations; annulment proceedings
  • 616.101 — Annual review of accounts and records
  • 616.11 — Association authorized to contract with municipality, county, or state for use of land; admission fees; state, counties,
  • 616.12 — Licenses upon certain shows; distribution of fees; exemptions
  • 616.121 — Making false application
  • 616.13 — Restrictions on other amusement rides
  • 616.14 — Number of fairs; penalty
  • 616.15 — Permit from Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services required
  • 616.165 — Rules
  • 616.17 — Minimum exhibits
  • 616.185 — Trespass upon grounds or facilities of public fair; penalty; arrests
  • 616.19 — Designation of fairs
  • 616.21 — Agricultural and livestock exhibit buildings; conditions for expenditures
  • 616.22 — Exhibit buildings; matching funds for construction or repair
  • 616.23 — Use of buildings
  • 616.24 — Enforcement
  • 616.241 — Trade standards for operation at public fairs and expositions
  • 616.242 — Safety standards for amusement rides
  • 616.251 — Florida State Fair Authority; creation; responsibility for staging annual state fair
  • 616.252 — Florida State Fair Authority; membership; number, terms, compensation
  • 616.253 — Florida State Fair Authority; officers; quorum
  • 616.254 — Authority of Florida State Fair Authority to sue and be a party to suits
  • 616.255 — Duties of authority; Florida State Fairgrounds
  • 616.256 — Powers of authority
  • 616.257 — Issuance of revenue bonds by authority
  • 616.258 — Revenues from projects of authority
  • 616.259 — Revenues of authority; trust funds
  • 616.260 — Tax exemption of authority
  • 616.261 — Finances of Florida State Fair
  • 616.262 — Conveyance by the authority; option to acquire by Board of Trustees of Internal Improvement Trust Fund
  • 616.263 — Annual reports of authority
  • 616.265 — Issuance of beverage license to the authority
Title 617 · FL Chapter 617 (150 sections)
  • 617.01011 — Short title
  • 617.0102 — Reservation of power to amend or repeal
  • 617.01201 — Filing requirements
  • 617.0121 — Forms
  • 617.0122 — Fees for filing documents and issuing certificates
  • 617.0123 — Effective date of document
  • 617.0124 — Correcting filed document
  • 617.0125 — Filing duties of Department of State
  • 617.0126 — Appeal from Department of State’s refusal to file document
  • 617.0127 — Evidentiary effect of copy of filed document
  • 617.0128 — Certificate of status
  • 617.01301 — Powers of Department of State
  • 617.01401 — Definitions
  • 617.0141 — Notice
  • 617.02011 — Incorporators
  • 617.0202 — Articles of incorporation; content
  • 617.0203 — Incorporation
  • 617.0204 — Liability for preincorporation transactions
  • 617.0205 — Organizational meeting of directors
  • 617.0206 — Bylaws
  • 617.0207 — Emergency bylaws
  • 617.0301 — Purposes and application
  • 617.0302 — Corporate powers
  • 617.0303 — Emergency powers
  • 617.0304 — Ultra vires
  • 617.0401 — Corporate name
  • 617.0403 — Registered name; application; renewal; revocation
  • 617.0501 — Registered office and registered agent
  • 617.05015 — Reserved name
  • 617.0502 — Change of registered office or registered agent; resignation of registered agent
  • 617.0503 — Registered agent; duties; confidentiality of investigation records
  • 617.0504 — Serving process, giving notice, or making a demand on a corporation
  • 617.0505 — Distributions; exceptions
  • 617.0601 — Members, generally
  • 617.0604 — Liability of members
  • 617.0605 — Transfer of membership interests
  • 617.0606 — Resignation of members
  • 617.0607 — Termination, expulsion, and suspension
  • 617.0608 — Purchase of memberships
  • 617.0701 — Meetings of members, generally; failure to hold annual meeting; special meeting; consent to corporate actions without me
  • 617.0721 — Voting by members
  • 617.0725 — Quorum
  • 617.07401 — Members’ derivative actions
  • 617.0801 — Duties of board of directors
  • 617.0802 — Qualifications of directors
  • 617.0803 — Number of directors
  • 617.0806 — Staggered terms for directors
  • 617.0807 — Resignation of directors
  • 617.0808 — Removal of directors
  • 617.0809 — Board vacancy
  • 617.08101 — Compensation of directors
  • 617.0820 — Meetings
  • 617.0821 — Action by directors without a meeting
  • 617.0822 — Notice of meetings
  • 617.0823 — Waiver of notice
  • 617.0824 — Quorum and voting
  • 617.0825 — Board committees and advisory committees
  • 617.0830 — General standards for directors
  • 617.0831 — Indemnification and liability of officers, directors, employees, and agents
  • 617.0832 — Director conflicts of interest
  • 617.0833 — Loans to directors or officers
  • 617.0834 — Officers and directors of certain corporations and associations not for profit; immunity from civil liability
  • 617.0835 — Prohibited activities by private foundations
  • 617.0840 — Required officers
  • 617.0841 — Duties of officers
  • 617.0842 — Resignation and removal of officers
  • 617.0843 — Contract rights of officers
  • 617.0901 — Reincorporation
  • 617.1001 — Authority to amend the articles of incorporation
  • 617.1002 — Procedure for amending articles of incorporation
  • 617.1006 — Contents of articles of amendment
  • 617.1007 — Restated articles of incorporation
  • 617.1008 — Amendment pursuant to reorganization
  • 617.1009 — Effect of amendment
  • 617.1101 — Plan of merger
  • 617.1102 — Limitation on merger
  • 617.1103 — Approval of plan of merger; abandonment of plan thereafter
  • 617.1105 — Articles of merger
  • 617.1106 — Effect of merger
  • 617.1107 — Merger of domestic and foreign corporations
  • 617.1108 — Merger of domestic corporation and other eligible entities
  • 617.1201 — Secured transactions and other dispositions of corporate property and assets not requiring member approval
  • 617.1202 — Sale, lease, exchange, or other disposition of corporate property and assets requiring member approval
  • 617.1301 — Prohibited distributions
  • 617.1302 — Authorized distributions
  • 617.1401 — Voluntary dissolution of corporation prior to conducting its affairs
  • 617.1402 — Dissolution of corporation
  • 617.1403 — Articles of dissolution
  • 617.1404 — Revocation of dissolution
  • 617.1405 — Effect of dissolution
  • 617.1406 — Plan of distribution of assets
  • 617.1407 — Unknown claims against dissolved corporation
  • 617.1408 — Known claims against dissolved corporation
  • 617.1420 — Grounds for administrative dissolution
  • 617.1421 — Procedure for and effect of administrative dissolution
  • 617.1422 — Reinstatement following administrative dissolution
  • 617.1423 — Appeal from denial of reinstatement
  • 617.1430 — Grounds for judicial dissolution
  • 617.1431 — Procedure for judicial dissolution
  • 617.1432 — Receivership or custodianship
  • 617.1433 — Judgment of dissolution
  • 617.1440 — Deposit with Department of Financial Services
  • 617.1501 — Authority of foreign corporation to conduct affairs required
  • 617.1502 — Consequences of conducting affairs without authority
  • 617.1503 — Application for certificate of authority
  • 617.1504 — Amended certificate of authority
  • 617.1505 — Effect of certificate of authority
  • 617.1506 — Corporate name of foreign corporation
  • 617.1507 — Registered office and registered agent of foreign corporation
  • 617.1508 — Change of registered office and registered agent of foreign corporation
  • 617.1509 — Resignation of registered agent of foreign corporation
  • 617.1510 — Serving process, giving notice, or making a demand on a foreign corporation
  • 617.1520 — Withdrawal of foreign corporation
  • 617.1530 — Grounds for revocation of authority to conduct affairs
  • 617.1531 — Procedure for and effect of revocation
  • 617.1532 — Appeal from revocation
  • 617.1533 — Reinstatement following revocation
  • 617.1601 — Corporate records
  • 617.1602 — Inspection of records by members
  • 617.1603 — Scope of inspection right
  • 617.1604 — Court-ordered inspection
  • 617.1605 — Financial reports for members
  • 617.1606 — Access to records
  • 617.1622 — Annual report for Department of State
  • 617.1623 — Corporate information available to the public; application to corporations incorporated by circuit courts and by special
  • 617.1701 — Application to existing domestic corporation
  • 617.1702 — Application to qualified foreign corporations
  • 617.1703 — Application of chapter
  • 617.1711 — Application to foreign and interstate commerce
  • 617.1803 — Domestication of foreign not-for-profit corporations
  • 617.1805 — Corporations for profit; when may become corporations not for profit
  • 617.1806 — Conversion to corporation not for profit; petition and contents
  • 617.1807 — Conversion to corporation not for profit; authority of circuit judge
  • 617.1808 — Application of act to corporation converted to corporation not for profit
  • 617.1809 — Limited agricultural association; conversion to a domestic corporation not for profit
  • 617.1904 — Estoppel
  • 617.1907 — Effect of repeal or amendment of prior acts
  • 617.1908 — Applicability of Florida Business Corporation Act
  • 617.2001 — Corporations which may be incorporated hereunder; incorporation of certain medical services corporations
  • 617.2002 — Corporation not for profit organized pursuant to s. 2, ch. 87-296; requirements
  • 617.2003 — Proceedings to revoke articles of incorporation or charter or prevent its use
  • 617.2004 — Extinct churches and religious societies; property
  • 617.2005 — Extinct churches and religious societies; dissolution
  • 617.2006 — Incorporation of labor unions or bodies
  • 617.2007 — Sponge packing and marketing corporations
  • 617.2101 — Corporation authorized to act as trustee
  • 617.2102 — Fines and penalties against members
  • 617.2104 — Florida Uniform Prudent Management of Institutional Funds Act
  • 617.2105 — Corporation issued a deed to real property
  • 617.221 — Membership associations
Title 618 · FL Chapter 618 (29 sections)
  • 618.01 — Definitions
  • 618.02 — Who may organize association
  • 618.03 — Preliminary investigation
  • 618.04 — Articles of incorporation; fees
  • 618.05 — Amendment of articles of incorporation
  • 618.06 — Purposes of incorporation
  • 618.07 — Powers of corporations
  • 618.08 — Corporations may mortgage farm supplies
  • 618.09 — Bylaws
  • 618.10 — Membership of corporation
  • 618.11 — How meetings called
  • 618.12 — Directors; election
  • 618.13 — Officers; election
  • 618.14 — Removal of officers and directors
  • 618.15 — Capital stock and membership
  • 618.16 — Referendum upon certain motions
  • 618.17 — Marketing contracts
  • 618.18 — Remedies for breach of marketing contract
  • 618.19 — Contracts and agreements with other like associations
  • 618.20 — Purchase of interest in like corporations
  • 618.21 — Corporations not in restraint of trade
  • 618.22 — Adoption of provisions of this chapter by prior corporations
  • 618.221 — Conversion into a corporation for profit
  • 618.23 — Quo warranto to test validity of corporation
  • 618.24 — Application of general corporation laws
  • 618.25 — Dissolution
  • 618.26 — Conditions under which foreign similar corporation may do business in this state
  • 618.27 — Use of term “cooperative.”
  • 618.28 — This chapter not to affect certain laws
Title 619 · FL Chapter 619 (9 sections)
  • 619.01 — Nonprofit cooperative associations; powers
  • 619.02 — Associations not in restraint of trade
  • 619.03 — Prohibitions; membership; assignment
  • 619.04 — Articles of incorporation
  • 619.05 — Amendment of articles of incorporation
  • 619.06 — Bylaws
  • 619.07 — Special powers; marketing contracts; voluntary dissolution
  • 619.08 — May own stock in certain corporations
  • 619.09 — Quo warranto to test validity of incorporation
Title 620 · FL Chapter 620 (192 sections)
  • 620.1101 — Popular name
  • 620.1102 — Definitions
  • 620.1103 — Knowledge and notice
  • 620.1104 — Nature, purpose, and duration of entity
  • 620.1105 — Powers
  • 620.1106 — Governing law
  • 620.1107 — Supplemental principles of law; rate of interest
  • 620.1108 — Name
  • 620.11085 — Reserved name
  • 620.1109 — Department of State; fees
  • 620.1110 — Effect of partnership agreement; nonwaivable provisions
  • 620.1111 — Required information
  • 620.1112 — Business transactions of partner with partnership
  • 620.1113 — Dual capacity
  • 620.1114 — Designated office, registered office, and registered agent
  • 620.1115 — Change of registered agent or registered office
  • 620.1116 — Resignation of registered agent
  • 620.1117 — Serving process, giving notice, or making a demand on a limited partnership or a foreign limited partnership
  • 620.1118 — Consent and proxies of partners
  • 620.1201 — Formation of limited partnership; certificate of limited partnership
  • 620.1202 — Amendment or restatement of certificate
  • 620.1203 — Certificate of dissolution; statement of termination
  • 620.1204 — Signing of records
  • 620.1205 — Signing and filing pursuant to judicial order
  • 620.1206 — Delivery to and filing of records by Department of State; effective time and date; notice
  • 620.1207 — Correcting filed record
  • 620.1208 — Liability for false information in filed record
  • 620.1209 — Certificate of status
  • 620.1210 — Annual report for Department of State
  • 620.1301 — Becoming limited partner
  • 620.1302 — No right or power as limited partner to bind limited partnership; certain approval rights
  • 620.1303 — No liability as limited partner for limited partnership obligations
  • 620.1304 — Right of limited partner and former limited partner to information
  • 620.1305 — Limited duties of limited partners
  • 620.1306 — Person erroneously believing self to be limited partner
  • 620.1401 — Becoming general partner
  • 620.1402 — General partner agent of limited partnership
  • 620.1403 — Limited partnership liable for general partner’s actionable conduct
  • 620.1404 — General partner’s liability
  • 620.1405 — Actions by and against partnership and partners
  • 620.1406 — Management rights of general partner; approval rights of other partners
  • 620.1407 — Right of general partner and former general partner to information
  • 620.1408 — General standards of conduct for general partner
  • 620.1501 — Form of contribution
  • 620.1502 — Liability for contribution
  • 620.1503 — Sharing of profits, losses, and distributions
  • 620.1504 — Interim distributions
  • 620.1505 — No distribution on account of dissociation
  • 620.1506 — Distribution in kind
  • 620.1507 — Right to distribution
  • 620.1508 — Limitations on distribution
  • 620.1509 — Liability for improper distributions
  • 620.1601 — Dissociation as limited partner
  • 620.1602 — Effect of dissociation as limited partner
  • 620.1603 — Dissociation as general partner
  • 620.1604 — Person’s power to dissociate as general partner; wrongful dissociation
  • 620.1605 — Effect of dissociation as general partner
  • 620.1606 — Power to bind and liability to limited partnership before dissolution of partnership of person dissociated as general pa
  • 620.1607 — Liability to other persons of person dissociated as general partner
  • 620.1701 — Partner’s transferable interest; certificates
  • 620.1702 — Transfer of partner’s transferable interest
  • 620.1703 — Rights of creditor of partner or transferee
  • 620.1704 — Power of estate of deceased partner
  • 620.1801 — Nonjudicial dissolution
  • 620.1802 — Judicial dissolution
  • 620.1803 — Winding up
  • 620.1804 — Power of general partner and person dissociated as general partner to bind partnership after dissolution
  • 620.1805 — Liability after dissolution of general partner and person dissociated as general partner to limited partnership, other g
  • 620.1806 — Known claims against dissolved limited partnership
  • 620.1807 — Unknown claims against dissolved limited partnership
  • 620.1808 — Liability of general partner and person dissociated as general partner when claim against limited partnership barred
  • 620.1809 — Administrative dissolution
  • 620.1810 — Reinstatement following administrative dissolution
  • 620.1811 — Appeal from denial of reinstatement
  • 620.1812 — Revocation of dissolution
  • 620.1813 — Disposition of assets; when contributions required
  • 620.1901 — Governing law regarding foreign limited partnerships
  • 620.1902 — Application for certificate of authority
  • 620.1903 — Activities not constituting transacting business
  • 620.1904 — Filing of certificate of authority
  • 620.1905 — Noncomplying name of foreign limited partnership
  • 620.1906 — Revocation of certificate of authority
  • 620.1907 — Cancellation of certificate of authority; effect of failure to have certificate
  • 620.1908 — Action by Attorney General
  • 620.1909 — Reinstatement following administrative revocation
  • 620.1910 — Amending certificate of authority
  • 620.2001 — Direct action by partner
  • 620.2002 — Derivative action
  • 620.2003 — Proper plaintiff
  • 620.2004 — Pleading
  • 620.2005 — Proceeds and expenses
  • 620.2101 — Definitions
  • 620.2102 — Conversion
  • 620.2103 — Action on plan of conversion by converting limited partnership
  • 620.2104 — Filings required for conversion; effective date
  • 620.2105 — Effect of conversion
  • 620.2106 — Merger
  • 620.2107 — Action on plan of merger by constituent limited partnership
  • 620.2108 — Filings required for merger; effective date
  • 620.2109 — Effect of merger
  • 620.2110 — Restrictions on approval of conversions and mergers and on relinquishing limited liability limited partnership status
  • 620.2111 — Liability of general partner after conversion or merger
  • 620.2112 — Power of general partners and persons dissociated as general partners to bind organization after conversion or merger
  • 620.2113 — Appraisal rights; definitions
  • 620.2114 — Right of limited partners to appraisal
  • 620.2115 — Assertion of rights by nominees and beneficial owners
  • 620.2116 — Notice of appraisal rights
  • 620.2117 — Notice of intent to demand payment
  • 620.2118 — Appraisal notice and form
  • 620.2119 — Perfection of rights; right to withdraw
  • 620.2120 — Limited partner’s acceptance of limited partnership’s offer
  • 620.2121 — Procedure if limited partner is dissatisfied with offer
  • 620.2122 — Court action
  • 620.2123 — Court costs and counsel fees
  • 620.2124 — Limitation on limited partnership payment
  • 620.2125 — Application of other laws to provisions governing conversions and mergers
  • 620.2201 — Uniformity of application and construction
  • 620.2202 — Severability clause
  • 620.2203 — Relation to Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act
  • 620.2204 — Application to existing relationships
  • 620.2205 — Savings clause
  • 620.81001 — Uniformity of application and construction
  • 620.81002 — Short title
  • 620.8101 — Definitions
  • 620.8102 — Knowledge and notice
  • 620.8103 — Effect of partnership agreement; nonwaivable provisions
  • 620.8104 — Supplemental principles of law
  • 620.8105 — Execution, filing, and recording of partnership registration and other statements
  • 620.81054 — Correcting a filed record
  • 620.81055 — Fees for filing documents and issuing certificates; powers of the Department of State
  • 620.8106 — Governing law
  • 620.8107 — Partnership subject to amendment or repeal of act
  • 620.8201 — Partnership as entity
  • 620.8202 — Formation of partnership
  • 620.8203 — Partnership property
  • 620.8204 — When property is partnership property
  • 620.8301 — Partner agent of partnership
  • 620.8302 — Transfer of partnership property
  • 620.8303 — Statement of partnership authority
  • 620.8304 — Statement of denial
  • 620.8305 — Partnership liable for partner’s actionable conduct
  • 620.8306 — Partner’s liability
  • 620.8307 — Actions by and against partnership and partners
  • 620.8308 — Liability of purported partner
  • 620.8401 — Partner’s rights and duties
  • 620.8402 — Distributions in kind
  • 620.8403 — Partner’s rights and duties with respect to information
  • 620.8404 — General standards of partner’s conduct
  • 620.8405 — Actions by partnership and partners
  • 620.8406 — Continuation of partnership beyond definite term or particular undertaking
  • 620.8501 — Partner not co-owner of partnership property
  • 620.8502 — Partner’s transferable interest in partnership
  • 620.8503 — Transfer of partner’s transferable interest
  • 620.8504 — Partner’s transferable interest subject to charging order
  • 620.8601 — Events causing partner’s dissociation
  • 620.8602 — Partner’s power to dissociate; wrongful dissociation
  • 620.8603 — Effect of partner’s dissociation
  • 620.8701 — Purchase of dissociated partner’s interest
  • 620.8702 — Dissociated partner’s power to bind and liability to partnership
  • 620.8703 — Dissociated partner’s liability to other persons
  • 620.8704 — Statement of dissociation
  • 620.8705 — Continued use of partnership name
  • 620.8801 — Events causing dissolution and winding up of partnership business
  • 620.8802 — Partnership continues after dissolution
  • 620.8803 — Right to wind up partnership business
  • 620.8804 — Partner’s power to bind partnership after dissolution
  • 620.8805 — Statement of dissolution
  • 620.8806 — Partner’s liability to other partners after dissolution
  • 620.8807 — Settlement of accounts and contributions among partners
  • 620.8911 — Definitions
  • 620.8912 — Conversion
  • 620.8913 — Action on plan of conversion by converting partnership
  • 620.8914 — Filings required for conversion; effective date
  • 620.8915 — Effect of conversion
  • 620.8916 — Merger
  • 620.8917 — Action on plan of merger by constituent partnership
  • 620.8918 — Filings required for merger; effective date
  • 620.8919 — Effect of merger
  • 620.8920 — Restrictions on approval of conversions and mergers and on relinquishing limited liability partnership status
  • 620.8921 — Liability of a partner after conversion or merger
  • 620.8922 — Power of partners and persons dissociated as partners to bind organization after conversion or merger
  • 620.8923 — Application of other laws to provisions governing conversions and mergers
  • 620.9001 — Statement of qualification
  • 620.9002 — Name
  • 620.9003 — Annual report
  • 620.9101 — Law governing foreign limited liability partnership
  • 620.9102 — Statement of foreign qualification
  • 620.9103 — Effect of failure to qualify
  • 620.9104 — Activities not constituting transacting business
  • 620.9105 — Action by Attorney General
  • 620.9901 — Applicability
  • 620.9902 — Saving clause
Title 621 · FL Chapter 621 (15 sections)
  • 621.01 — Legislative intent
  • 621.02 — Short title
  • 621.03 — Definitions
  • 621.04 — Exemptions
  • 621.05 — Corporation organization
  • 621.051 — Limited liability company organization
  • 621.06 — Rendition of professional services, limitations
  • 621.07 — Liability of officers, agents, employees, shareholders, members, and corporation or limited liability company
  • 621.08 — Limitation on corporation’s or limited liability company’s business transactions; investment of funds
  • 621.09 — Limitation on issuance and transfer of ownership
  • 621.10 — Disqualification of member, shareholder, officer, agent, or employee; administrative dissolution
  • 621.11 — Alienation of shares and ownership interests; restrictions
  • 621.12 — Identification with individual shareholders or individual members
  • 621.13 — Applicability of chapters 605 and 607
  • 621.14 — Construction of law
Title 622 · FL Chapter 622 (7 sections)
Title 623 · FL Chapter 623 (14 sections)
  • 623.01 — Short title
  • 623.02 — Private school corporation; charter
  • 623.03 — Charter; submission to and approval by circuit court; recordation
  • 623.04 — Charter; amendment
  • 623.05 — Evidence in court proceedings
  • 623.06 — Dissolution of corporation
  • 623.07 — Consolidation or merger of corporations
  • 623.08 — Operation of separate schools in same county
  • 623.09 — Taxation exemption
  • 623.10 — Powers and duties
  • 623.11 — Corporation membership
  • 623.12 — Board of directors
  • 623.13 — Administration, supervision, and operation by private persons or entities
  • 623.14 — Construction
Title 624 · FL Chapter 624 (222 sections)
  • 624.01 — Short title
  • 624.02 — “Insurance” defined
  • 624.03 — “Insurer” defined
  • 624.031 — “Self-insurance” defined
  • 624.04 — “Person” defined
  • 624.05 — “Department,” “commission,” and “office” defined
  • 624.06 — “Domestic,” “foreign,” “alien” insurer defined
  • 624.07 — “Domicile” defined
  • 624.075 — “Commercially domiciled insurer” defined
  • 624.08 — “State” defined
  • 624.09 — “Authorized,” “unauthorized” insurer defined
  • 624.10 — Other definitions
  • 624.105 — Waiver of customer liability
  • 624.1055 — Right of contribution among liability insurers for defense costs
  • 624.11 — Compliance required
  • 624.115 — Referral of criminal violations
  • 624.12 — Application of code as to fraternal benefit societies
  • 624.123 — Certain international health insurance policies; exemption from code
  • 624.124 — Motor vehicle services; exemption from code
  • 624.125 — Certain motor vehicle service agreements; exemption from code
  • 624.126 — Certain mutual aid associations; exemption from code
  • 624.1265 — Nonprofit religious organization exemption; authority; notice
  • 624.127 — Certain political subdivisions offering prepaid ambulance service plans; exemption from code
  • 624.1275 — Insurance agents; prohibited exclusion from public bidding and negotiations
  • 624.128 — Crime victims exemption
  • 624.129 — Certain location and recovery services; exemption from code
  • 624.13 — Particular provisions prevail
  • 624.15 — General penalty
  • 624.155 — Civil remedy
  • 624.1551 — Civil remedy actions against property insurers
  • 624.1552 — Civil actions involving an insurance contract; applicability of offer of judgment provisions
  • 624.19 — Existing forms and filings
  • 624.21 — Prospective operation of amendments to code
  • 624.215 — Proposals for legislation which mandates health benefit coverage; review by Legislature
  • 624.23 — Public records exemption
  • 624.231 — Disclosure and fees for production of records
  • 624.24 — Prohibition against requiring the purchase of health insurance; exceptions
  • 624.25 — Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
  • 624.26 — Collaborative arrangement with the Department of Health and Human Services
  • 624.27 — Direct health care agreements; exemption from code
  • 624.302 — Offices
  • 624.303 — Seal; certified copies as evidence
  • 624.307 — General powers; duties
  • 624.308 — Rules
  • 624.310 — Enforcement; cease and desist orders; removal of certain persons; fines
  • 624.3102 — Immunity from civil liability for providing department, commission, or office with information about condition of insure
  • 624.311 — Records; reproductions; destruction
  • 624.312 — Reproductions and certified copies of records as evidence
  • 624.313 — Publications
  • 624.314 — Publications; Insurance Regulatory Trust Fund
  • 624.315 — Annual reports; quarterly reports
  • 624.316 — Examination of insurers
  • 624.3161 — Market conduct examinations
  • 624.317 — Investigation of agents, adjusters, administrators, service companies, and others
  • 624.318 — Conduct of examination or investigation; access to records; correction of accounts; appraisals
  • 624.319 — Examination and investigation reports
  • 624.320 — Examination expenses
  • 624.321 — Witnesses and evidence
  • 624.322 — Testimony compelled; immunity from prosecution
  • 624.324 — Hearings
  • 624.33 — Jurisdiction regarding health or life coverage
  • 624.34 — Authority of Department of Law Enforcement to accept fingerprints of, and exchange criminal history records with respect
  • 624.36 — Availability of description of specified behavioral health care benefits on department website
  • 624.401 — Certificate of authority required
  • 624.402 — Exceptions, certificate of authority required
  • 624.4031 — Church benefit plans and church benefit board
  • 624.4032 — Nonprofit agricultural organization medical benefit plans
  • 624.404 — General eligibility of insurers for certificate of authority
  • 624.4055 — Restrictions on existing private passenger automobile insurance
  • 624.406 — Combinations of insuring powers, one insurer
  • 624.407 — Surplus required; new insurers
  • 624.40711 — Restrictions on insurers that are wholly owned subsidiaries of insurers to do business in state
  • 624.4073 — Officers and directors of insolvent insurers
  • 624.408 — Surplus required; current insurers
  • 624.4085 — Risk-based capital requirements for insurers
  • 624.40851 — Confidentiality of risk-based capital information
  • 624.4094 — Bail bond premiums
  • 624.4095 — Premiums written; restrictions
  • 624.410 — Permissible insuring combinations without additional capital funds
  • 624.411 — Deposit requirement; domestic insurers and foreign insurers
  • 624.412 — Deposit of alien insurers
  • 624.413 — Application for certificate of authority
  • 624.4135 — Redomestication
  • 624.414 — Issuance or refusal of authority
  • 624.415 — Ownership of certificate of authority; return
  • 624.416 — Continuance, expiration, reinstatement, and amendment of certificate of authority
  • 624.418 — Suspension, revocation of certificate of authority for violations and special grounds
  • 624.420 — Order, notice of suspension or revocation of certificate of authority; effect; publication
  • 624.421 — Duration of suspension; insurer’s obligations during suspension period; reinstatement
  • 624.4211 — Administrative fine in lieu of suspension or revocation
  • 624.4212 — Confidentiality of proprietary business and other information
  • 624.4213 — Trade secret documents
  • 624.422 — Service of process; appointment of Chief Financial Officer as process agent
  • 624.423 — Serving process
  • 624.424 — Annual statement and other information
  • 624.4241 — NAIC filing requirements
  • 624.4243 — Reporting of premium growth
  • 624.4245 — Change in controlling interest of foreign or alien insurer; report required
  • 624.425 — Agent countersignature required, property, casualty, surety insurance
  • 624.426 — Exceptions to countersignature law
  • 624.428 — Licensed agent law, life and health insurances
  • 624.430 — Withdrawal of insurer or discontinuance of writing certain kinds or lines of insurance
  • 624.4301 — Notice of temporary discontinuance of writing new residential property insurance policies
  • 624.4305 — Nonrenewal of residential property insurance policies
  • 624.4315 — Workers’ compensation insurers; notice of significant underwriting change
  • 624.436 — Florida Nonprofit Multiple-Employer Welfare Arrangement Act
  • 624.4361 — Definitions
  • 624.437 — “Multiple-employer welfare arrangement” defined; certificate of authority required; penalty
  • 624.438 — General eligibility
  • 624.4385 — Certain words prohibited in name of organization
  • 624.439 — Filing of application
  • 624.4392 — Fund balance
  • 624.44 — Examination by the office
  • 624.441 — Insolvency protection
  • 624.4411 — Administrative, provider, and management contracts
  • 624.4412 — Policy forms
  • 624.4414 — Employer participants’ liability
  • 624.4415 — Assessments
  • 624.4416 — Assessments by receiver
  • 624.4417 — Certain sales prohibited
  • 624.442 — Annual reports; actuarial certification; quarterly reports; penalties
  • 624.443 — Place of business; maintenance of records
  • 624.4431 — Administration; rules
  • 624.4432 — Assets, liabilities, and investments
  • 624.444 — Suspension, revocation of approval
  • 624.445 — Order, notice, duration, effect of suspension or revocation; administrative fine
  • 624.446 — Rehabilitation, dissolution
  • 624.447 — Certificate of insurance for contractors
  • 624.448 — Assets of insurers; reporting requirements
  • 624.449 — Insurer investment in foreign companies
  • 624.45 — Participation of financial institutions in reinsurance and in insurance exchanges
  • 624.460 — Short title
  • 624.461 — Definition
  • 624.462 — Commercial self-insurance funds
  • 624.4621 — Group self-insurance funds
  • 624.4622 — Local government self-insurance funds
  • 624.46223 — Notice of intent to withdraw
  • 624.46225 — Self-insured public utilities
  • 624.46226 — Public housing authorities self-insurance funds; exemption for taxation and assessments
  • 624.4623 — Independent Educational Institution Self-Insurance Funds
  • 624.4625 — Corporation not for profit self-insurance funds
  • 624.4626 — Electric cooperative self-insurance fund
  • 624.464 — Certificate of authority required; penalties
  • 624.466 — Application requirements for certificate of authority
  • 624.468 — Continuing requirements for certificate of authority
  • 624.470 — Annual reports
  • 624.472 — Member’s liability
  • 624.473 — Dividends
  • 624.474 — Assessments
  • 624.4741 — Venue in assessment actions
  • 624.475 — Tax on premiums, contributions, and assessments
  • 624.476 — Impaired self-insurance funds
  • 624.477 — Liquidation, rehabilitation, reorganization, and conservation
  • 624.480 — Filing, approval, and disapproval of forms
  • 624.482 — Making and use of rates
  • 624.483 — Self-insurer members; payment of delinquent premiums and assessments
  • 624.484 — Registration of agent
  • 624.486 — Examination
  • 624.487 — Enforcement of specified insurance provisions
  • 624.488 — Applicability of related laws
  • 624.489 — Liability of trustees of self-insurance trust fund and directors of self-insurance funds operating as corporations
  • 624.490 — Registration of pharmacy benefit managers
  • 624.491 — Pharmacy audits
  • 624.501 — Filing, license, appointment, and miscellaneous fees
  • 624.5015 — Advance collection of fees and taxes; title insurers not to pay without reimbursement
  • 624.502 — Service of process fee
  • 624.504 — Liability for state, county tax
  • 624.505 — County tax; determination; additional offices; nonresident agents
  • 624.506 — County tax; deposit and remittance
  • 624.507 — Municipal tax
  • 624.508 — Insurer’s license tax; when payable
  • 624.509 — Premium tax; rate and computation
  • 624.5091 — Retaliatory provision, insurers
  • 624.5092 — Administration of taxes; payments
  • 624.50921 — Adjustments
  • 624.5094 — Casualty insurance premiums
  • 624.510 — Tax on wet marine and transportation insurance
  • 624.5105 — Community contribution tax credit; authorization; limitations; eligibility and application requirements; administration;
  • 624.51055 — Credit for contributions to eligible nonprofit scholarship-funding organizations
  • 624.51056 — Credit for contributions to the New Worlds Reading Initiative
  • 624.51057 — Credit for contributions to eligible charitable organizations
  • 624.51058 — Credit for contributions to the Live Local Program
  • 624.51059 — Credit for contributions to eligible charitable organizations for the Home Away From Home Tax Credit
  • 624.5107 — Child care tax credits
  • 624.5108 — Property insurance discount to policyholders; insurance premium deduction; insurer credit for deductions
  • 624.511 — Tax statement; overpayments
  • 624.515 — State Fire Marshal regulatory assessment and surcharge; levy and amount
  • 624.516 — State Fire Marshal regulatory assessment and surcharge; deposit and use of funds
  • 624.517 — State Fire Marshal regulatory assessment; reduction of assessment
  • 624.518 — State Fire Marshal regulatory assessment and surcharge; tax return, overpayment
  • 624.519 — Nonpayment of premium tax or fire marshal assessment; penalty
  • 624.520 — Preemption by state
  • 624.521 — Deposit of certain tax receipts; refund of improper payments
  • 624.523 — Insurance Regulatory Trust Fund
  • 624.601 — Definitions not mutually exclusive
  • 624.6011 — “Kinds of insurance” defined
  • 624.6012 — “Lines of insurance” defined
  • 624.602 — “Life insurance,” “life insurer” defined
  • 624.603 — “Health insurance” defined
  • 624.604 — “Property insurance” defined
  • 624.605 — “Casualty insurance” defined
  • 624.606 — “Surety insurance” defined
  • 624.6065 — “Fidelity insurance” defined
  • 624.607 — “Marine insurance,” “wet marine and transportation insurance,” and “inland marine insurance” defined
  • 624.608 — “Title insurance” defined
  • 624.6081 — “Residual value insurance” defined
  • 624.6085 — “Collateral protection insurance” defined
  • 624.6086 — “Paid family leave insurance” defined; paid family leave insurance issuance and purchase
  • 624.609 — Limit of risk
  • 624.610 — Reinsurance
  • 624.80 — Definitions
  • 624.805 — Hazardous insurer standards; office’s evaluation and enforcement authority; immediate final order
  • 624.81 — Notice to comply with written requirements of office; noncompliance
  • 624.82 — Confidentiality of certain proceedings and records
  • 624.83 — Prohibited acts during period of supervision
  • 624.84 — Review
  • 624.85 — Administrative election of proceedings
  • 624.86 — Other laws; conflicts; meetings between the office and the supervisor
  • 624.865 — Rulemaking
  • 624.87 — Administrative supervision; expenses
  • 624.91 — The Florida Healthy Kids Corporation Act
  • 624.915 — Florida Healthy Kids Corporation; operating fund
Title 625 · FL Chapter 625 (78 sections)
  • 625.01115 — Definitions
  • 625.012 — “Assets” defined
  • 625.031 — Assets not allowed
  • 625.041 — Liabilities, in general
  • 625.051 — Unearned premium reserve
  • 625.061 — Unearned premium reserve for marine and transportation insurance
  • 625.071 — Special reserve for bail and judicial bonds
  • 625.081 — Reserve for health insurance
  • 625.091 — Losses and loss adjustment expense reserves; liability insurance and workers’ compensation insurance
  • 625.101 — Increase of inadequate loss reserves
  • 625.111 — Title insurance reserve
  • 625.121 — Standard Valuation Law; life insurance
  • 625.1212 — Valuation of policies and contracts issued on or after the operative date of the valuation manual
  • 625.1214 — Use of confidential information
  • 625.141 — Valuation of bonds
  • 625.151 — Valuation of other securities
  • 625.161 — Valuation of property
  • 625.171 — Valuation of purchase money mortgages
  • 625.172 — Replacing certain assets; reporting certain liabilities
  • 625.181 — Assets received as capital or surplus contributions
  • 625.301 — Scope of part
  • 625.302 — Eligible investments
  • 625.303 — General qualifications
  • 625.304 — Authorization of investment
  • 625.305 — Diversification
  • 625.306 — Cash and deposits
  • 625.307 — United States Government obligations
  • 625.308 — Loans guaranteed by the United States
  • 625.309 — State and Canadian public obligations
  • 625.310 — County, municipal, and district obligations
  • 625.311 — Public improvement bonds
  • 625.312 — Public utility obligations
  • 625.313 — Securities of certain agencies
  • 625.314 — Public housing obligations
  • 625.315 — Obligations of State Board of Education
  • 625.316 — International development banks
  • 625.317 — Corporate bonds and debentures
  • 625.318 — Religious institution obligations
  • 625.319 — Equipment trust certificates
  • 625.320 — Building and loan or savings and loan association accounts
  • 625.321 — Policy loans
  • 625.322 — Collateral loans
  • 625.323 — Ship loans
  • 625.324 — Corporate stocks
  • 625.325 — Investments in subsidiaries and related corporations
  • 625.3255 — Capital participation instrument
  • 625.326 — Foreign investments
  • 625.3262 — State of Israel obligations
  • 625.327 — Mortgage loans
  • 625.329 — Chattel mortgages
  • 625.330 — Special investments by title insurer
  • 625.331 — Special consent investments
  • 625.332 — Prohibited investments and investment underwriting
  • 625.333 — Real estate, in general
  • 625.338 — Time limit for disposal of ineligible property and securities; effect of failure to dispose
  • 625.340 — Investments of foreign or alien insurers
  • 625.50 — Authorized deposits of insurers and agents
  • 625.51 — Purpose of deposit
  • 625.52 — Securities eligible for deposit
  • 625.53 — Depository
  • 625.55 — Custodial arrangements
  • 625.56 — Registration, conveyance of assets or securities
  • 625.57 — Appraisal
  • 625.58 — Excess and deficit deposits
  • 625.59 — Rights of insurer during solvency
  • 625.60 — Levy upon deposit
  • 625.62 — Duration and release of deposit
  • 625.63 — Proofs for release of deposit
  • 625.75 — Certain persons and directors and officers of domestic stock insurer to file statements
  • 625.76 — Preventing unfair use of information; insurer to recover profit by suit
  • 625.765 — Exemptions from ss. 625.75 and 625.76
  • 625.77 — Unlawful to sell equity security not owned; delayed delivery
  • 625.78 — Certain sale and purchase exempted; investment account
  • 625.79 — Certain foreign or domestic arbitrage transactions exempted
  • 625.80 — “Equity security” defined
  • 625.81 — Equity securities of certain domestic stock insurer exempted
  • 625.82 — Rules
  • 625.83 — Failure to file reporting forms
Title 626 · FL Chapter 626 (368 sections)
  • 626.011 — Short title
  • 626.015 — Definitions
  • 626.016 — Powers and duties of department, commission, and office
  • 626.022 — Scope of part
  • 626.025 — Consumer protections
  • 626.0428 — Agency personnel powers, duties, and limitations
  • 626.112 — License and appointment required; agents, customer representatives, adjusters, insurance agencies, service representativ
  • 626.141 — Violation not to affect validity of insurance
  • 626.161 — Licensing forms
  • 626.171 — Application for license as an agent, customer representative, adjuster, service representative, or reinsurance intermedi
  • 626.172 — Application for insurance agency license
  • 626.173 — Insurance agency closure; cancellation of licenses
  • 626.175 — Temporary licensing
  • 626.181 — Number of applications for licensure required
  • 626.191 — Repeated applications
  • 626.201 — Investigation
  • 626.202 — Fingerprinting requirements
  • 626.207 — Disqualification of applicants and licensees; penalties against licensees; rulemaking authority
  • 626.211 — Approval, disapproval of application
  • 626.221 — Examination requirement; exemptions
  • 626.231 — Eligibility; application for examination
  • 626.241 — Scope of examination
  • 626.2415 — Annual report of results of life insurance examinations
  • 626.251 — Time and place of examination; notice
  • 626.261 — Conduct of examination
  • 626.266 — Printing of examinations or related materials to preserve examination security
  • 626.271 — Examination fee; determination, refund
  • 626.281 — Reexamination
  • 626.2815 — Continuing education requirements
  • 626.2816 — Regulation of continuing education for licensees, course providers, instructors, school officials, and monitor groups
  • 626.2817 — Regulation of course providers, instructors, and school officials involved in prelicensure education for insurance agent
  • 626.291 — Examination results; denial, issuance of license
  • 626.292 — Transfer of license from another state
  • 626.301 — Form and contents of licenses, in general
  • 626.311 — Scope of license
  • 626.321 — Limited licenses and registration
  • 626.322 — License, appointment; certain military installations
  • 626.331 — Number of appointments permitted or required
  • 626.341 — Additional appointments; general lines, life, and health agents
  • 626.342 — Furnishing supplies to unlicensed agent prohibited; civil liability
  • 626.371 — Payment of fees, taxes for appointment period without appointment
  • 626.381 — Renewal, continuation, reinstatement, or termination of appointment
  • 626.382 — Continuation, expiration of license; insurance agencies
  • 626.431 — Effect of expiration of license and appointment
  • 626.441 — License or appointment; transferability
  • 626.451 — Appointment of agent or other representative
  • 626.461 — Continuation of appointment of agent or other representative
  • 626.471 — Termination of appointment
  • 626.511 — Reasons for termination; confidential information
  • 626.536 — Reporting of administrative actions
  • 626.541 — Firm, corporate, and business names; officers; associates; notice of changes
  • 626.551 — Notice of change of address, name
  • 626.561 — Reporting and accounting for funds
  • 626.571 — Delinquent agencies; notice of trusteeship
  • 626.5715 — Parity of regulation of insurance agents and agencies
  • 626.572 — Rebating; when allowed
  • 626.581 — Commissions contingent upon adjustment savings; prohibition
  • 626.591 — Penalty for violation of s. 626.581
  • 626.593 — Insurance agent; written contract for compensation
  • 626.601 — Improper conduct; inquiry; fingerprinting
  • 626.602 — Insurance agency and adjusting firm names; disapproval
  • 626.611 — Grounds for compulsory refusal, suspension, or revocation of agent’s, title agency’s, adjuster’s, customer represe
  • 626.6115 — Grounds for compulsory refusal, suspension, or revocation of insurance agency license
  • 626.621 — Grounds for discretionary refusal, suspension, or revocation of agent’s, adjuster’s, customer representative’s, se
  • 626.6215 — Grounds for discretionary refusal, suspension, or revocation of insurance agency license
  • 626.631 — Procedure for refusal, suspension, or revocation of license
  • 626.641 — Duration of suspension or revocation
  • 626.651 — Effect of suspension, revocation upon associated licenses and appointments and licensees and appointees
  • 626.6515 — Effect of suspension or revocation upon associated agencies
  • 626.661 — Surrender of license
  • 626.681 — Administrative fine in lieu of or in addition to suspension, revocation, or refusal of license, appointment, or disappro
  • 626.691 — Probation
  • 626.692 — Restitution
  • 626.711 — Retaliatory provision, agents
  • 626.726 — Short title
  • 626.727 — Scope of this part
  • 626.728 — This part supplements licensing law
  • 626.729 — “Industrial fire insurance” defined
  • 626.730 — Purpose of license
  • 626.731 — Qualifications for general lines agent’s license
  • 626.7315 — Prohibition against the unlicensed transaction of general lines insurance
  • 626.732 — Requirement as to knowledge, experience, or instruction
  • 626.733 — Agency firms and corporations; special requirements
  • 626.734 — Corporations, liability of agent
  • 626.7351 — Qualifications for customer representative’s license
  • 626.7352 — Customer representative’s office
  • 626.7353 — Appointment of customer representatives
  • 626.7354 — Customer representative’s powers; agent’s or agency’s responsibility
  • 626.741 — Nonresident agents; licensing and restrictions
  • 626.742 — Nonresident agents; service of process
  • 626.743 — Nonresident agents; retaliatory provision
  • 626.744 — Service representatives; application for license
  • 626.745 — Service representatives, managing general agents; managers; activities
  • 626.7451 — Managing general agents; required contract provisions
  • 626.7452 — Managing general agents; examination authority
  • 626.7453 — Managing general agents; errors and omissions insurance
  • 626.7454 — Managing general agents; duties of insurers
  • 626.7455 — Managing general agent; responsibility of insurer
  • 626.748 — Agent’s records
  • 626.749 — Place of business in residence
  • 626.7491 — Business transacted with producer controlled property and casualty insurer
  • 626.7492 — Reinsurance intermediaries
  • 626.752 — Exchange of business
  • 626.753 — Sharing commissions; penalty
  • 626.754 — Rights of agent following termination of appointment
  • 626.776 — Short title
  • 626.777 — Scope of this part
  • 626.778 — This part supplements licensing law
  • 626.779 — “Life agent” defined
  • 626.780 — “Life insurer” defined
  • 626.781 — “Ordinary class insurer” and “ordinary-variable contract class insurer” defined
  • 626.782 — “Industrial class insurer” defined
  • 626.783 — “Ordinary-combination class insurer” defined
  • 626.784 — Purpose of license
  • 626.7845 — Prohibition against unlicensed transaction of life insurance
  • 626.785 — Qualifications for license
  • 626.7851 — Requirement as to knowledge, experience, or instruction
  • 626.788 — United States Department of Veterans Affairs employees disqualified
  • 626.789 — Military service; special provisions
  • 626.792 — Nonresident agents; licensing and restrictions
  • 626.793 — Excess or rejected business
  • 626.794 — Unlawful payment or sharing of commissions
  • 626.795 — Corporations, liability of agent
  • 626.797 — Code of ethics
  • 626.798 — Life agent as beneficiary; prohibition
  • 626.826 — Short title
  • 626.827 — Scope of this part
  • 626.828 — This part supplements licensing law
  • 626.829 — “Health agent” defined
  • 626.830 — Purpose of license
  • 626.8305 — Prohibition against the unlicensed transaction of health insurance
  • 626.831 — Qualifications for license
  • 626.8311 — Requirement as to knowledge, experience, or instruction
  • 626.833 — United States Department of Veterans Affairs employees disqualified
  • 626.834 — Military service; special provisions
  • 626.835 — Nonresident agents; licensing and restrictions
  • 626.836 — Nonresident agents; service of process
  • 626.837 — Excess or rejected business
  • 626.8373 — Overinsurance of health insurance coverage
  • 626.838 — Unlawful payment or sharing of commissions
  • 626.839 — Corporations, liability of agent
  • 626.841 — Definitions
  • 626.8411 — Application of Florida Insurance Code provisions to title insurance agents or agencies
  • 626.8412 — License and appointments required
  • 626.8413 — Title insurance agents; certain names prohibited
  • 626.8414 — Qualifications for examination
  • 626.8417 — Title insurance agent licensure; exemptions
  • 626.8418 — Application for title insurance agency license
  • 626.8419 — Appointment of title insurance agency
  • 626.84195 — Confidentiality of information supplied by title insurance agencies and insurers
  • 626.842 — Credit and character reports
  • 626.84201 — Nonresident title insurance agents
  • 626.8421 — Number of appointments permitted or required
  • 626.8423 — Investigation of applicants for license or renewal or continuation
  • 626.8427 — Number of applications for licensure required; exemption; effect of expiration of license
  • 626.843 — Renewal, continuation, reinstatement, termination of title insurance agent’s and title insurance agency’s appointmen
  • 626.8433 — Filing of reasons for terminating appointments of title insurance agent and title insurance agency; confidential informa
  • 626.8437 — Grounds for denial, suspension, revocation, or refusal to renew license or appointment
  • 626.844 — Grounds for discretionary refusal, suspension, or revocation of license or appointment
  • 626.8443 — Duration of suspension or revocation
  • 626.8447 — Effect of suspension or revocation upon other licensees, appointees
  • 626.845 — Cancellation of license
  • 626.8453 — Penalty for violation
  • 626.8457 — Administrative fine in lieu of suspension or revocation of license or appointment
  • 626.846 — Probation
  • 626.8463 — Witnesses and evidence
  • 626.8467 — Testimony compelled; immunity from prosecution
  • 626.847 — Penalty for refusal to testify
  • 626.8473 — Escrow; trust fund
  • 626.851 — Short title
  • 626.852 — Scope of this part
  • 626.853 — Part supplements licensing law
  • 626.854 — “Public adjuster” defined; prohibitions
  • 626.8548 — “All-lines adjuster” defined
  • 626.855 — “Independent adjuster” defined
  • 626.856 — “Company employee adjuster” defined
  • 626.8561 — “Public adjuster apprentice” defined
  • 626.8582 — “Nonresident public adjuster” defined
  • 626.8584 — “Nonresident all-lines adjuster” defined
  • 626.859 — “Catastrophe” or “emergency” adjuster defined
  • 626.860 — Attorneys at law; exemption
  • 626.861 — Insurer’s officers, insurer’s employees, reciprocal insurer’s representatives; adjustments by
  • 626.862 — Agents; adjustments by
  • 626.8621 — Adjustments by guaranty association employees
  • 626.863 — Claims referrals to independent adjusters
  • 626.864 — Adjuster license types
  • 626.865 — Public adjuster’s qualifications, bond
  • 626.8651 — Public adjuster apprentice appointment; qualifications
  • 626.866 — All-lines adjuster qualifications
  • 626.8685 — Portable electronics insurance claims; exemption; licensure restriction
  • 626.869 — License, adjusters; continuing education
  • 626.8695 — Primary adjuster
  • 626.8696 — Application for adjusting firm license
  • 626.8697 — Grounds for refusal, suspension, or revocation of adjusting firm license
  • 626.8698 — Disciplinary guidelines for public adjusters and public adjuster apprentices
  • 626.870 — Application for license
  • 626.871 — Reappointment after military service
  • 626.8732 — Nonresident public adjuster’s qualifications, bond
  • 626.8734 — Nonresident all-lines adjuster license qualifications
  • 626.8736 — Nonresident independent or public adjusters; service of process
  • 626.8737 — Nonresident adjusters; retaliatory provision
  • 626.8738 — Penalty for violation
  • 626.874 — Catastrophe or emergency adjusters
  • 626.875 — Office and records
  • 626.876 — Exclusive employment; public adjusters, all-lines adjusters
  • 626.877 — Adjustments to comply with insurance contract and law
  • 626.878 — Rules; code of ethics
  • 626.8795 — Public adjusters; prohibition of conflict of interest
  • 626.8796 — Public adjuster contracts; disclosure statement; fraud statement
  • 626.8797 — Proof of loss; fraud statement
  • 626.88 — Definitions
  • 626.8805 — Certificate of authority to act as administrator
  • 626.8809 — Fidelity bond
  • 626.8814 — Disclosure of ownership or affiliation
  • 626.8817 — Responsibilities of insurance company with respect to administration of coverage insured
  • 626.882 — Agreement between administrator and insurer; required provisions; maintenance of records
  • 626.8825 — Pharmacy benefit manager transparency and accountability
  • 626.8827 — Pharmacy benefit manager prohibited practices
  • 626.8828 — Investigations and examinations of pharmacy benefit managers; expenses; penalties
  • 626.883 — Administrator as intermediary; collections held in fiduciary capacity; establishment of account; disbursement; payments
  • 626.884 — Maintenance of records by administrator; access; confidentiality
  • 626.885 — Notice; statement of charge or premium for coverage
  • 626.886 — Delivery of insurer’s written communications to policyholders
  • 626.887 — Advertising; approval by insurer
  • 626.888 — Adjustment or settlement of claims; compensation of administrator
  • 626.89 — Annual financial statement and filing fee; notice of change of ownership; pharmacy benefit manager filings
  • 626.891 — Grounds for suspension or revocation of certificate of authority
  • 626.892 — Order of suspension or revocation of certificate of authority; notice
  • 626.893 — Period of suspension; obligations during suspension; reinstatement
  • 626.894 — Administrative fine in lieu of suspension or revocation
  • 626.895 — Definition of “service company” or “service agent.”
  • 626.896 — Servicing requirements for self-insurers and multiple-employer welfare arrangements
  • 626.897 — Application for authorization to act as service company; bond
  • 626.898 — Requirements for retaining authorization as service company; recertification
  • 626.899 — Withdrawal of authorization as service company
  • 626.8991 — Adoption of rules
  • 626.901 — Representing or aiding unauthorized insurer prohibited
  • 626.902 — Penalty for representing unauthorized insurer
  • 626.903 — Suits by unauthorized insurers prohibited
  • 626.904 — Unauthorized Insurers Process Law; short title; interpretation
  • 626.905 — Purpose of Unauthorized Insurers Process Law
  • 626.906 — Acts constituting Chief Financial Officer as process agent
  • 626.907 — Service of process; judgment by default
  • 626.908 — Defense of action by unauthorized insurer or person representing or aiding such insurer; damages and attorney fee
  • 626.909 — Jurisdiction of office and department; service of process on Secretary of State
  • 626.910 — Penalty for violation by unauthorized insurers and persons representing or aiding such insurers
  • 626.911 — Attorney’s fee
  • 626.912 — Exemptions from ss. 626.904-626.911
  • 626.913 — Surplus Lines Law; short title; purposes
  • 626.914 — Definitions
  • 626.915 — Surplus lines insurance authorized
  • 626.916 — Eligibility for export
  • 626.917 — Eligibility for export; wet marine and transportation, aviation risks
  • 626.918 — Eligible surplus lines insurers
  • 626.9181 — Levy upon deposit
  • 626.919 — Withdrawal of eligibility; surplus lines insurer
  • 626.9201 — Notice of cancellation or nonrenewal
  • 626.9202 — Loss run statements for all lines of insurance
  • 626.921 — Florida Surplus Lines Service Office
  • 626.922 — Evidence of the insurance; changes; penalty
  • 626.923 — Filing copy of policy or certificate
  • 626.924 — Information required on contract
  • 626.925 — Surplus lines insurance valid
  • 626.926 — Liability of insurer as to losses and unearned premiums
  • 626.927 — Licensing of surplus lines agent
  • 626.9271 — Temporary license; death, disability, absence of surplus lines agent
  • 626.9272 — Licensing of nonresident surplus lines agents
  • 626.929 — Origination, acceptance, placement of surplus lines business
  • 626.9295 — Corporations, liability of agent
  • 626.930 — Records of surplus lines agent
  • 626.931 — Agent affidavit and insurer reporting requirements
  • 626.932 — Surplus lines tax
  • 626.9325 — Service fee
  • 626.933 — Collection of tax and service fee
  • 626.934 — Accounting for funds; contingent commissions
  • 626.935 — Suspension, revocation, or refusal of surplus lines agent’s license
  • 626.936 — Failure to file reports or pay tax or service fee; administrative penalty
  • 626.9361 — Failure to file report; administrative penalty
  • 626.9362 — Cooperative reciprocal agreement authorized for collection and allocation of certain nonadmitted insurance taxes
  • 626.937 — Actions against insurer; service of process
  • 626.9371 — Payment of premiums and claims
  • 626.9372 — Disclosure statement of certain information required; liability claims
  • 626.9374 — Liability of insureds; deductible and coinsurance
  • 626.938 — Report and tax of independently procured coverages
  • 626.939 — Records produced on order
  • 626.951 — Declaration of purpose
  • 626.9511 — Definitions
  • 626.9521 — Unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive acts or practices prohibited; penalties
  • 626.9531 — Identification of insurers, agents, and insurance contracts
  • 626.9541 — Unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive acts or practices defined
  • 626.9543 — Holocaust victims
  • 626.9545 — Improper charge identification incentive program
  • 626.9551 — Favored agent or insurer; coercion of debtors
  • 626.9561 — Power of department and office
  • 626.9571 — Defined practices; hearings, witnesses, appearances, production of books and service of process
  • 626.9581 — Cease and desist and penalty orders
  • 626.9591 — Appeals from the department or office
  • 626.9601 — Penalty for violation of cease and desist orders
  • 626.9611 — Rules
  • 626.9621 — Provisions of part additional to existing law
  • 626.9631 — Civil liability
  • 626.9641 — Policyholders, bill of rights
  • 626.9651 — Privacy
  • 626.9701 — Rate increases and premium surcharges; consideration of certain noncriminal violations for excessive speed prohibited
  • 626.9702 — Illegal dealings in premiums; excess charges for insurance
  • 626.9705 — Life or disability insurance; illegal dealings
  • 626.9706 — Life insurance; discrimination on basis of sickle-cell trait prohibited
  • 626.9707 — Disability insurance; discrimination on basis of sickle-cell trait prohibited
  • 626.97075 — Life insurance, disability insurance, and long-term care insurance; discrimination against living organ donors prohibite
  • 626.973 — Fictitious groups
  • 626.9741 — Use of credit reports and credit scores by insurers
  • 626.9743 — Claim settlement practices relating to motor vehicle insurance
  • 626.9744 — Claim settlement practices relating to property insurance
  • 626.9885 — Financial institutions conducting insurance transactions
  • 626.989 — Investigation by department or Division of Criminal Investigations; compliance; immunity; confidential information; repo
  • 626.9891 — Insurer anti-fraud investigative units; reporting requirements; penalties for noncompliance
  • 626.9892 — Anti-Fraud Reward Program; reporting of insurance fraud
  • 626.9893 — Disposition of revenues; criminal or forfeiture proceedings
  • 626.9894 — Gifts and grants
  • 626.9896 — Dedicated insurance fraud prosecutors
  • 626.99 — Life insurance solicitation
  • 626.991 — Short title
  • 626.9911 — Definitions
  • 626.9912 — Viatical settlement provider license required; application for license
  • 626.9913 — Viatical settlement provider license continuance; annual report; fees; deposit
  • 626.9914 — Suspension, revocation, denial, or nonrenewal of viatical settlement provider license; grounds; administrative fine
  • 626.9915 — Effect of suspension or revocation of viatical settlement provider license; duration of suspension; reinstatement
  • 626.9916 — Viatical settlement broker license required
  • 626.99175 — Life expectancy providers; registration required; denial, suspension, revocation
  • 626.99181 — Viatical settlement broker’s compensation
  • 626.9919 — Notice of change of licensee or registrant’s address or name
  • 626.992 — Use of licensed viatical settlement providers, viatical settlement brokers, and registered life expectancy providers req
  • 626.9921 — Filing of forms; required procedures; approval
  • 626.9922 — Examination
  • 626.9923 — Viatical settlement contracts; required disclosures
  • 626.9924 — Viatical settlement contracts; procedures; rescission
  • 626.99245 — Conflict of regulation of viaticals
  • 626.9925 — Rules
  • 626.9926 — Rate regulation not authorized
  • 626.9927 — Unfair trade practices; cease and desist; injunctions; civil remedy
  • 626.99272 — Cease and desist orders and fines
  • 626.99275 — Prohibited practices; penalties
  • 626.99278 — Viatical provider anti-fraud plan
  • 626.9928 — Acquisitions
  • 626.99285 — Applicability of insurance code
  • 626.99287 — Contestability of viaticated policies
  • 626.99289 — Void and unenforceable contracts, agreements, arrangements, and transactions
  • 626.99291 — Contestability of life insurance policies
  • 626.99292 — Notice to insureds
  • 626.99295 — Grace period
  • 626.99296 — Transfers of structured settlement payment rights
  • 626.9931 — Legislative findings; intent
  • 626.9932 — Interstate Insurance Product Regulation Compact
  • 626.9933 — Opt out from long-term care products standards
  • 626.9934 — Effective date of compact standards; opt out procedures; state law exemptions; legislative notice
  • 626.9935 — Applicability of taxes
  • 626.9936 — Access to records
  • 626.9937 — Rules
  • 626.9938 — Severability
  • 626.995 — Scope of part
  • 626.9951 — Definitions
  • 626.9952 — Registration required; purpose
  • 626.9953 — Qualifications for registration; application required
  • 626.9954 — Disqualification from registration
  • 626.9955 — Registered navigator list
  • 626.9956 — Notice of change of registrant information
  • 626.9957 — Conduct prohibited; denial, revocation, termination, expiration, or suspension of registration
  • 626.9958 — Rulemaking
Title 627 · FL Chapter 627 (628 sections)
  • 627.011 — Short title
  • 627.021 — Scope of this part
  • 627.031 — Purposes of this part; interpretation
  • 627.041 — Definitions
  • 627.0612 — Administrative proceedings in rating determinations
  • 627.0613 — Consumer advocate
  • 627.062 — Rate standards
  • 627.0621 — Transparency in rate regulation
  • 627.0625 — Commercial property and casualty risk management plans
  • 627.0628 — Florida Commission on Hurricane Loss Projection Methodology; public records exemption; public meetings exemption
  • 627.06281 — Public hurricane loss projection model; reporting of data by insurers
  • 627.0629 — Residential property insurance; rate filings
  • 627.06291 — Excess profits of residential property insurer; return
  • 627.06292 — Reports of hurricane loss data and associated exposure data; public records exemption
  • 627.0645 — Annual filings
  • 627.06501 — Insurance discounts for certain persons completing driver improvement course
  • 627.0651 — Making and use of rates for motor vehicle insurance
  • 627.0652 — Insurance discounts for certain persons completing safety course
  • 627.0653 — Insurance discounts for specified motor vehicle equipment
  • 627.06535 — Electric vehicles; restrictions on imposing surcharges
  • 627.0654 — Insurance discounts for buildings with fire sprinklers
  • 627.0655 — Policyholder loss or expense-related premium discounts
  • 627.066 — Excessive profits for motor vehicle insurance prohibited
  • 627.0665 — Automatic bank withdrawal agreements; notification required
  • 627.072 — Making and use of rates
  • 627.091 — Rate filings; workers’ compensation and employer’s liability insurances
  • 627.0915 — Rate filings; workers’ compensation, drug-free workplace, and safe employers
  • 627.0916 — Agricultural horse farms
  • 627.092 — Workers’ Compensation Administrator
  • 627.093 — Application of s. 286.011 to workers’ compensation and employer’s liability insurances
  • 627.096 — Workers’ Compensation Rating Bureau
  • 627.101 — When filing becomes effective; workers’ compensation and employer’s liability insurances
  • 627.111 — Effective date of filing
  • 627.141 — Subsequent disapproval of filing; workers’ compensation and employer’s liability insurances
  • 627.151 — Basis of approval or disapproval of workers’ compensation or employer’s liability insurance filing; scope of disappr
  • 627.1615 — Workers’ compensation applicant discrimination
  • 627.162 — Requirements for premium installments; delinquency, collection, and check return charges; attorney’s fees
  • 627.171 — Excess rates
  • 627.191 — Adherence to filings; workers’ compensation and employer’s liability insurances
  • 627.192 — Workers’ compensation insurance; employee leasing arrangements
  • 627.211 — Deviations; workers’ compensation and employer’s liability insurances
  • 627.212 — Workplace safety program surcharge
  • 627.215 — Excessive profits for commercial property and commercial casualty insurance prohibited
  • 627.221 — Rating organizations; licensing; fee
  • 627.231 — Subscribers to rating organizations
  • 627.241 — Notice of changes
  • 627.251 — Bureau rules not to affect dividends
  • 627.261 — Actuarial and technical services
  • 627.281 — Appeal from rating organization; workers’ compensation and employer’s liability insurance filings
  • 627.285 — Independent actuarial peer review of workers’ compensation rating organization
  • 627.291 — Information to be furnished insureds; appeal by insureds; workers’ compensation and employer’s liability insurances
  • 627.301 — Advisory organizations
  • 627.311 — Joint underwriters and joint reinsurers; public records and public meetings exemptions
  • 627.312 — Transitional provisions
  • 627.3121 — Public records and public meetings exemptions
  • 627.313 — Workers’ Compensation Joint Underwriting Plan; audit requirements
  • 627.314 — Concerted action by two or more insurers
  • 627.318 — Records
  • 627.331 — Recording and reporting of loss, expense, and claims experience; rating information
  • 627.351 — Insurance risk apportionment plans
  • 627.3511 — Depopulation of Citizens Property Insurance Corporation
  • 627.3512 — Recoupment of residual market deficit assessments
  • 627.3513 — Standards for sale of bonds by Citizens Property Insurance Corporation
  • 627.3515 — Market assistance plan; property and casualty risks
  • 627.3517 — Consumer choice
  • 627.3518 — Citizens Property Insurance Corporation policyholder eligibility clearinghouse program
  • 627.35191 — Required reports
  • 627.35193 — Consumer reporting agency request for claims data from Citizens Property Insurance Corporation
  • 627.352 — Security of data and information technology in Citizens Property Insurance Corporation
  • 627.357 — Medical malpractice self-insurance
  • 627.361 — False or misleading information
  • 627.371 — Hearings
  • 627.381 — Penalty for violation
  • 627.401 — Scope of this part
  • 627.402 — Definitions
  • 627.4025 — Residential coverage and hurricane coverage defined
  • 627.403 — “Premium” defined
  • 627.4035 — Payment of premiums; claims
  • 627.404 — Insurable interest; personal insurance
  • 627.405 — Insurable interest; property
  • 627.406 — Power to contract; purchase of insurance by or for minor
  • 627.407 — Alteration of application
  • 627.408 — Application as evidence
  • 627.4085 — Insurer name, agent name, and license identification number required on application
  • 627.409 — Representations in applications; warranties
  • 627.4091 — Specific reasons for denial, cancellation, or nonrenewal
  • 627.40951 — Standard personal lines residential insurance policy
  • 627.40952 — Savings reflections in residential property and motor vehicle insurer rate filings related to specified chapter laws
  • 627.410 — Filing, approval of forms
  • 627.4101 — Credit insurance enrollment forms
  • 627.4102 — Informational filing of forms
  • 627.4105 — Life and health insurance; reduced premiums upon rigorous physical examination
  • 627.4107 — Government employees exposed to toxic drug chemicals; cancellation of life or health policy or certificate prohibited
  • 627.4108 — Claims-handling manuals; submission; attestation
  • 627.411 — Grounds for disapproval
  • 627.412 — Standard provisions, in general
  • 627.413 — Contents of policies, in general; identification
  • 627.4131 — Telephone number required
  • 627.4132 — Stacking of coverages prohibited
  • 627.4133 — Notice of cancellation, nonrenewal, or renewal premium
  • 627.4135 — Casualty insurance contracts subject to general provisions for insurance contracts
  • 627.4136 — Nonjoinder of insurers
  • 627.4137 — Disclosure of certain information required
  • 627.4138 — Wrap-up insurance policies for nonpublic construction projects
  • 627.414 — Additional policy contents
  • 627.4143 — Outline of coverage
  • 627.4145 — Readable language in insurance policies
  • 627.4147 — Medical malpractice insurance contracts
  • 627.4148 — Medical malpractice insurers; required offer of coverage limits
  • 627.41495 — Public notice of medical malpractice rate filings
  • 627.415 — Charter, bylaw provisions
  • 627.416 — Execution of policies
  • 627.417 — Underwriters’ and combination policies
  • 627.418 — Validity of noncomplying contracts
  • 627.419 — Construction of policies
  • 627.4195 — Health insurance; claims for payment of psychotherapeutic services; confidentiality
  • 627.420 — Binders
  • 627.4205 — Coverage identification number required
  • 627.421 — Delivery of policy
  • 627.4215 — Disclosures to policyholders; coverage of behavioral health care services
  • 627.422 — Assignment of policies or post-loss benefits
  • 627.423 — Payment discharges insurer
  • 627.4232 — Health insurance out-of-hospital benefits
  • 627.4233 — Total disability defined
  • 627.4234 — Health insurance cost containment provisions required
  • 627.4235 — Coordination of benefits
  • 627.4236 — Coverage for bone marrow transplant procedures
  • 627.4237 — Sickness disability or disability due to sickness
  • 627.4238 — Health insurer examinations
  • 627.4239 — Coverage for use of drugs in treatment of cancer
  • 627.42391 — Insurance policies; cancer treatment parity; orally administered cancer treatment medications
  • 627.42392 — Prior authorization
  • 627.42393 — Step-therapy protocol
  • 627.42395 — Coverage for certain prescription and nonprescription enteral formulas
  • 627.42396 — Reimbursement for telehealth services
  • 627.42397 — Coverage for air ambulance services
  • 627.424 — Minor may give acquittance
  • 627.425 — Forms for proof of loss to be furnished
  • 627.426 — Claims administration
  • 627.4265 — Payment of settlement
  • 627.427 — Payment of judgment by insurer; penalty for failure
  • 627.429 — Medical tests for HIV infection and AIDS for insurance purposes
  • 627.4295 — Dental procedures; anesthesia and hospitalization coverage
  • 627.4301 — Genetic information for insurance purposes
  • 627.4302 — Identification cards for processing prescription drug claims
  • 627.43141 — Notice of change in policy terms
  • 627.441 — Commercial general liability policies; coverage to contractors for completed operations
  • 627.442 — Insurance contracts
  • 627.443 — Essential health benefits
  • 627.444 — Loss run statements for all lines of insurance
  • 627.445 — Paid family leave insurance
  • 627.446 — Advanced explanation of benefits
  • 627.451 — Scope of this part
  • 627.452 — Standard provisions required
  • 627.453 — Grace period
  • 627.454 — Entire contract; statements in application
  • 627.455 — Incontestability
  • 627.4553 — Recommendations to surrender
  • 627.4554 — Suitability in annuity transactions
  • 627.4555 — Secondary notice
  • 627.4556 — Life insurance automatic policy loan provision
  • 627.456 — Misstatement of age or sex
  • 627.457 — Dividends
  • 627.458 — Policy loan
  • 627.4585 — Maximum rate of interest on policy loans
  • 627.459 — Reinstatement
  • 627.460 — Authority to alter contract
  • 627.4605 — Replacement notice
  • 627.461 — Settlement on proof of death
  • 627.4615 — Interest payable on death claim payments
  • 627.462 — Table of installments
  • 627.463 — Excluded or restricted coverage
  • 627.464 — Annuity contracts, pure endowment contracts; standard provisions
  • 627.465 — Annuity contracts, pure endowment contracts; grace period
  • 627.466 — Annuity contracts, pure endowment contracts; incontestability
  • 627.467 — Annuity contracts, pure endowment contracts; entire contract
  • 627.468 — Annuity contracts, pure endowment contracts; misstatement of age or sex
  • 627.469 — Annuity contracts, pure endowment contracts; dividends
  • 627.470 — Annuity contracts, pure endowment contracts; reinstatement
  • 627.471 — Reversionary annuities; standard provisions
  • 627.472 — Incontestability after reinstatement
  • 627.473 — Policy settlements
  • 627.474 — Policy must contain entire contract
  • 627.475 — Nonforfeiture benefits; certain interim policies
  • 627.476 — Standard Nonforfeiture Law for Life Insurance
  • 627.479 — Prohibited policy plans
  • 627.480 — Cash payments of single-premium life policies
  • 627.481 — Requirements for certain annuity agreements
  • 627.482 — Interest payable on cash surrender of policy
  • 627.501 — Scope of this part
  • 627.502 — “Industrial life insurance” defined; reporting; prohibition on new policies after a certain date
  • 627.503 — Required provisions
  • 627.504 — Grace period
  • 627.5045 — Secondary notice
  • 627.505 — Entire contract; statements in application
  • 627.506 — Incontestability
  • 627.507 — Misstatement of age or sex
  • 627.508 — Dividends
  • 627.509 — Reinstatement
  • 627.510 — Settlement on proof of death
  • 627.511 — Authority to alter contract
  • 627.512 — Beneficiary
  • 627.513 — Facility of payment
  • 627.514 — Nonforfeiture benefits; certain interim policies
  • 627.515 — Title of industrial life insurance policy
  • 627.516 — Advance payment of premiums
  • 627.517 — Conversion
  • 627.521 — Disclosure statements
  • 627.522 — Policy requirements and prohibitions
  • 627.551 — Group contracts and plans of self-insurance must meet group requirements
  • 627.5515 — Out-of-state groups
  • 627.552 — Employee groups
  • 627.553 — Debtor groups
  • 627.554 — Labor union groups
  • 627.555 — Trustee groups
  • 627.556 — Credit union groups
  • 627.5565 — Additional groups
  • 627.5567 — Group life insurance; association groups
  • 627.5575 — Group life insurance for dependents
  • 627.558 — Provisions required in group contracts
  • 627.559 — Grace period
  • 627.560 — Incontestability
  • 627.561 — Application; statements deemed representations
  • 627.562 — Insurability
  • 627.563 — Misstatement of age
  • 627.564 — Payment of benefits
  • 627.565 — Certificate
  • 627.566 — Conversion on termination of eligibility
  • 627.567 — Conversion on termination of policy
  • 627.568 — Death pending conversion
  • 627.5685 — Continuance of coverage during disability
  • 627.5686 — Waiver of premium for disabled insured
  • 627.569 — Use of dividends, refunds, rate reductions, commissions, service fees
  • 627.570 — Premium rates
  • 627.571 — Assignment of incidents of ownership in group life insurance policies, including conversion privileges
  • 627.5725 — Notification to insureds of cancellation or expiration
  • 627.573 — Replacement or termination of group life insurance; liability of prior insurer
  • 627.574 — Liability of succeeding insurer on replacement of group policy
  • 627.575 — Extension of benefits
  • 627.601 — Scope of this part
  • 627.6011 — Mandated coverages
  • 627.602 — Scope, format of policy
  • 627.603 — Death benefits
  • 627.604 — Nonresident insured
  • 627.6041 — Children with disabilities; continuation of coverage
  • 627.6043 — Notification of cancellation, nonrenewal, or change in rates
  • 627.6044 — Use of a specific methodology for payment of claims
  • 627.6045 — Preexisting condition
  • 627.6046 — Limit on preexisting conditions
  • 627.605 — Required provisions; captions, omissions, substitutions
  • 627.6056 — Coverage for ambulatory surgical center service
  • 627.606 — Entire contract; changes
  • 627.607 — Time limit on certain defenses
  • 627.608 — Grace period
  • 627.609 — Reinstatement
  • 627.610 — Notice of claim
  • 627.611 — Claim forms
  • 627.612 — Proof of loss
  • 627.613 — Time of payment of claims
  • 627.6131 — Payment of claims
  • 627.614 — Payment of claims
  • 627.6141 — Denial of claims
  • 627.615 — Physical examination, autopsy
  • 627.616 — Legal actions
  • 627.617 — Change of beneficiary
  • 627.618 — Optional policy provisions
  • 627.619 — Change of occupation
  • 627.620 — Misstatement of age or sex
  • 627.621 — Other insurance with this insurer
  • 627.622 — Insurance with other insurers
  • 627.623 — Insurance with other insurers; other benefits
  • 627.624 — Relation of earnings to insurance
  • 627.625 — Unpaid premiums
  • 627.6265 — Cancellation or nonrenewal prohibited
  • 627.627 — Conformity with statutes
  • 627.628 — Illegal occupation
  • 627.629 — Intoxicants and narcotics
  • 627.630 — Order of certain provisions
  • 627.631 — Third-party ownership
  • 627.632 — Requirements of other jurisdictions
  • 627.633 — Other policy provisions
  • 627.634 — Age limit
  • 627.635 — Excess insurance
  • 627.636 — Industrial health insurance
  • 627.637 — Construction of noncomplying contracts
  • 627.638 — Direct payment for hospital, medical services
  • 627.6385 — Disclosures to policyholders; calculations of cost sharing
  • 627.6387 — Shared savings incentive program
  • 627.639 — Application signed by agent
  • 627.640 — Filing of classifications and rates
  • 627.6401 — Refunds for persons age 64
  • 627.6402 — Insurance rebates for healthy lifestyles
  • 627.64025 — Advanced practice registered nurse services
  • 627.6403 — Payment of acupuncture benefits to certified acupuncturists
  • 627.6405 — Decreasing inappropriate utilization of emergency care
  • 627.6406 — Maternity care
  • 627.6407 — Massage
  • 627.6408 — Diabetes treatment services
  • 627.6409 — Coverage for osteoporosis screening, diagnosis, treatment, and management
  • 627.641 — Coverage for newborn children
  • 627.6415 — Coverage for natural-born, adopted, and foster children; children in insured’s custodial care
  • 627.6416 — Coverage for child health supervision services
  • 627.6417 — Coverage for surgical procedures and devices incident to mastectomy
  • 627.64171 — Coverage for length of stay and outpatient postsurgical care
  • 627.64172 — Requirements with respect to breast cancer and routine followup care
  • 627.6418 — Coverage for mammograms
  • 627.6419 — Requirements with respect to breast cancer
  • 627.64193 — Required coverage for cleft lip and cleft palate
  • 627.64194 — Coverage requirements for services provided by nonparticipating providers; payment collection limitations
  • 627.64195 — Requirements for opioid coverage
  • 627.64196 — Medication synchronization
  • 627.64197 — Coverage for organ transplants
  • 627.642 — Outline of coverage
  • 627.6425 — Renewability of individual coverage
  • 627.6426 — Short-term health insurance
  • 627.643 — Uniform minimum standards
  • 627.644 — Discrimination against handicapped prohibited
  • 627.645 — Denial of health insurance claims restricted
  • 627.646 — Conversion on termination of eligibility
  • 627.647 — Standard health claim form
  • 627.6471 — Contracts for reduced rates of payment; limitations; coinsurance and deductibles
  • 627.6472 — Exclusive provider organizations
  • 627.64725 — Health maintenance organization or exclusive provider organization; disclosure of terms and conditions of plan
  • 627.6473 — Combined preferred provider and exclusive provider policies
  • 627.64731 — Leasing, renting, or granting access to a participating provider
  • 627.6474 — Provider contracts
  • 627.64741 — Pharmacy benefit manager contracts
  • 627.6475 — Individual reinsurance pool
  • 627.6487 — Guaranteed availability of individual health insurance coverage to eligible individuals
  • 627.64995 — Restrictions on use of state and federal funds for state exchanges
  • 627.651 — Group contracts and plans of self-insurance must meet group requirements
  • 627.6512 — Exemption of certain group health insurance policies
  • 627.6513 — Scope
  • 627.6515 — Out-of-state groups
  • 627.6516 — Trustee groups
  • 627.652 — Group health insurance; definitions
  • 627.6525 — Short-term health insurance
  • 627.653 — Employee groups
  • 627.654 — Labor union, association, and small employer health alliance groups
  • 627.655 — Debtor groups
  • 627.6551 — Teacher and student groups
  • 627.656 — Additional groups
  • 627.6561 — Preexisting conditions
  • 627.65612 — Limit on preexisting conditions
  • 627.65615 — Special enrollment periods
  • 627.6562 — Dependent coverage
  • 627.65625 — Prohibiting discrimination against individual participants and beneficiaries based on health status
  • 627.65626 — Insurance rebates for healthy lifestyles
  • 627.6563 — Full-time employment defined
  • 627.657 — Provisions of group health insurance policies
  • 627.6571 — Guaranteed renewability of coverage
  • 627.6572 — Pharmacy benefit manager contracts
  • 627.65735 — Nondiscrimination of coverage for surgical procedures
  • 627.65736 — Coverage for organ transplants
  • 627.6574 — Maternity care
  • 627.65745 — Diabetes treatment services
  • 627.6575 — Coverage for newborn children
  • 627.65755 — Dental procedures; anesthesia and hospitalization coverage
  • 627.6577 — Dental care
  • 627.6578 — Coverage for natural-born, adopted, and foster children; children in insured’s custodial care
  • 627.6579 — Coverage for child health supervision services
  • 627.658 — Use of dividends, refunds, rate reductions, commissions, service fees; premium rates
  • 627.659 — Blanket health insurance; eligible groups
  • 627.660 — Conditions and provisions of blanket health insurance policies
  • 627.661 — School accident insurance claims; policy service
  • 627.6612 — Coverage for surgical procedures and devices incident to mastectomy
  • 627.66121 — Coverage for length of stay and outpatient postsurgical care
  • 627.66122 — Requirements with respect to breast cancer and routine followup care
  • 627.6613 — Coverage for mammograms
  • 627.6615 — Children with disabilities; continuation of coverage under group policy
  • 627.6616 — Coverage for ambulatory surgical center service
  • 627.6617 — Coverage for home health care services
  • 627.6618 — Payment of acupuncture benefits to certified acupuncturists
  • 627.6619 — Massage
  • 627.662 — Other provisions applicable
  • 627.6621 — Advanced practice registered nurse services
  • 627.663 — Franchise health insurance
  • 627.664 — Assignment of incidents of ownership in group, blanket, or franchise health policies
  • 627.6645 — Notification of cancellation, expiration, nonrenewal, or change in rates
  • 627.6646 — Cancellation or nonrenewal prohibited
  • 627.6648 — Shared savings incentive program
  • 627.6651 — Replacement or termination of group, blanket, or franchise health policy or contract; liability of prior insurer
  • 627.666 — Liability of succeeding insurer on replacement of group, blanket, or franchise health insurance policy
  • 627.667 — Extension of benefits
  • 627.6675 — Conversion on termination of eligibility
  • 627.668 — Optional coverage for mental and nervous disorders required; exception
  • 627.6686 — Coverage for individuals with autism spectrum disorder required; exception
  • 627.669 — Optional coverage required for substance abuse impaired persons; exception
  • 627.6691 — Coverage for osteoporosis screening, diagnosis, treatment, and management
  • 627.66911 — Required coverage for cleft lip and cleft palate
  • 627.6692 — Florida Health Insurance Coverage Continuation Act
  • 627.6698 — Attorney’s fees
  • 627.6699 — Employee Health Care Access Act
  • 627.66996 — Restrictions on use of state and federal funds for state exchanges
  • 627.66997 — Stop-loss insurance
  • 627.671 — Medicare supplement reform; short title
  • 627.672 — Definitions
  • 627.673 — Designation as Medicare supplement policy; penalties for violations
  • 627.6735 — Order to discontinue certain advertising
  • 627.6736 — Filing requirements for out-of-state group policies
  • 627.6737 — Reporting of multiple policies
  • 627.674 — Minimum standards; filing requirements
  • 627.6741 — Issuance, cancellation, nonrenewal, and replacement
  • 627.6742 — Permitted compensation arrangements
  • 627.6743 — Standards for marketing
  • 627.6744 — Recommended purchase and excessive insurance
  • 627.6745 — Loss ratio standards; public rate hearings
  • 627.6746 — Compliance with Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Acts
  • 627.675 — Mandated coverages inapplicable to Medicare supplement policies unless specifically made applicable
  • 627.676 — Scope of this part
  • 627.677 — Definitions
  • 627.678 — Rules
  • 627.6785 — Filing of rates with department
  • 627.679 — Amount of insurance; disclosure
  • 627.681 — Term and evidence of insurance
  • 627.682 — Filing, approval of forms
  • 627.683 — Licensed agent required
  • 627.684 — Premium not deemed loan or finance charge
  • 627.6841 — Credit insurance consolidations; general requirements
  • 627.6842 — Group-to-group consolidations
  • 627.6843 — Consolidation disclosure requirements
  • 627.6844 — Replacement rules
  • 627.6845 — Policy forms used in connection with consolidations
  • 627.701 — Liability of insureds; coinsurance; deductibles
  • 627.7011 — Homeowners’ policies; offer of replacement cost coverage and law and ordinance coverage
  • 627.70121 — Payment of claims for dual interest property
  • 627.70131 — Insurer’s duty to acknowledge communications regarding claims; investigation
  • 627.70132 — Notice of property insurance claim
  • 627.7015 — Alternative procedure for resolution of disputed property insurance claims
  • 627.70151 — Appraisal; conflicts of interest
  • 627.70152 — Suits arising under a property insurance policy
  • 627.70153 — Consolidation of residential property insurance actions
  • 627.70154 — Mandatory binding arbitration
  • 627.7016 — Insurer contracts with building contractors
  • 627.70161 — Family day care insurance
  • 627.7017 — Hurricane loss mitigation projects
  • 627.7018 — Standards for determining risk of coverage
  • 627.7019 — Standardization of requirements applicable to insurers after natural disasters
  • 627.702 — Valued policy law
  • 627.705 — Return of unearned premium on overinsured personal property
  • 627.706 — Sinkhole insurance; catastrophic ground cover collapse; definitions
  • 627.7061 — Coverage inquiries
  • 627.7063 — Building code effectiveness grading schedule
  • 627.707 — Investigation of sinkhole claims; insurer payment; nonrenewals
  • 627.7072 — Testing standards for sinkholes
  • 627.7073 — Sinkhole reports
  • 627.7074 — Alternative procedure for resolution of disputed sinkhole insurance claims
  • 627.711 — Notice of premium discounts for hurricane loss mitigation; uniform mitigation verification inspection form
  • 627.712 — Residential windstorm coverage required; availability of exclusions for windstorm or contents
  • 627.713 — Report of hurricane loss data
  • 627.714 — Residential condominium unit owner coverage; loss assessment coverage required
  • 627.7142 — Homeowner Claims Bill of Rights
  • 627.715 — Flood insurance
  • 627.7151 — Limited sinkhole coverage insurance
  • 627.7152 — Assignment agreements
  • 627.7153 — Policies restricting assignment of post-loss benefits under a property insurance policy
  • 627.7154 — Property Insurer Stability Unit; duties and required reports
  • 627.71545 — Pet insurance; noninsurance wellness programs
  • 627.7155 — Wind and flood coverage in residential and commercial property insurance policies
  • 627.7261 — Refusal to issue policy
  • 627.7263 — Rental and leasing driver’s insurance to be primary; exception
  • 627.727 — Motor vehicle insurance; uninsured and underinsured vehicle coverage; insolvent insurer protection
  • 627.7275 — Motor vehicle liability
  • 627.7276 — Notice of limited coverage
  • 627.7277 — Notice of renewal premium
  • 627.728 — Cancellations; nonrenewals
  • 627.7281 — Cancellation notice
  • 627.7282 — Notice of additional premium; cancellation upon nonpayment
  • 627.7283 — Cancellation; return of unearned premium
  • 627.7285 — Experience while operating a train
  • 627.7286 — Renewal of policy and setting of rates; certain experience not a factor
  • 627.7288 — Comprehensive coverage; deductible not to apply to motor vehicle glass
  • 627.7289 — Assignment of post-loss motor vehicle glass benefits prohibited
  • 627.7291 — Motor vehicle windshield claims and practices; steering prohibited; exceptions
  • 627.7295 — Motor vehicle insurance contracts
  • 627.72951 — Temporary binding permitted
  • 627.730 — Florida Motor Vehicle No-Fault Law
  • 627.731 — Purpose
  • 627.7311 — Effect of law on personal injury protection policies
  • 627.732 — Definitions
  • 627.733 — Required security
  • 627.734 — Proof of security; security requirements; penalties
  • 627.736 — Required personal injury protection benefits; exclusions; priority; claims
  • 627.737 — Tort exemption; limitation on right to damages; punitive damages
  • 627.739 — Personal injury protection; optional limitations; deductibles
  • 627.7401 — Notification of insured’s rights
  • 627.7403 — Mandatory joinder of derivative claim
  • 627.7405 — Insurers’ right of reimbursement
  • 627.7407 — Application of the Florida Motor Vehicle No-Fault Law
  • 627.7415 — Commercial motor vehicles; additional liability insurance coverage
  • 627.742 — Nonpublic sector buses; additional liability insurance coverage
  • 627.743 — Payment of third-party claims
  • 627.744 — Preinsurance inspection of private passenger motor vehicles
  • 627.745 — Mediation of claims
  • 627.746 — Coverage for minors who have a learner’s driver license; additional premium prohibited
  • 627.747 — Named driver exclusion
  • 627.748 — Transportation network companies
  • 627.7483 — Peer-to-peer car sharing; insurance requirements
  • 627.749 — Autonomous vehicles; insurance requirements
  • 627.7491 — Official law enforcement vehicles; motor vehicle insurance requirements
  • 627.751 — Surety on required bonds; release
  • 627.752 — Bonds in judicial proceedings
  • 627.754 — Sureties upon official bonds
  • 627.756 — Bonds for construction contracts; attorney fees in case of suit
  • 627.758 — Surety on auto club traffic arrest bond; conditions, limit; bail bond
  • 627.759 — Estoppel to deny power
  • 627.7711 — Definitions
  • 627.776 — Applicability or inapplicability of Florida Insurance Code provisions to title insurers
  • 627.777 — Approval of forms
  • 627.7773 — Accounting and auditing of forms by title insurers
  • 627.7776 — Furnishing of supplies; civil liability
  • 627.778 — Limit of risk
  • 627.780 — Illegal dealings in premium
  • 627.782 — Adoption of rates
  • 627.783 — Rate deviation
  • 627.7831 — Commitments; charges; collection
  • 627.784 — Casualty title insurance prohibited
  • 627.7841 — Insurance against adverse matters or defects in the title
  • 627.7842 — Policy exceptions
  • 627.7843 — Property information reports
  • 627.7845 — Determination of insurability required; preservation of evidence of title search and examination
  • 627.785 — Preemption by state
  • 627.786 — Transaction of title insurance and any other kind of insurance prohibited
  • 627.7865 — Title insurer assessments
  • 627.791 — Penalties against title insurers for violations by persons or entities not licensed
  • 627.792 — Liability of title insurers for defalcation by title insurance agents or agencies
  • 627.796 — Errors and omissions policy requirements
  • 627.797 — Exempt agent list
  • 627.798 — Rulemaking authority
  • 627.801 — Application of this part
  • 627.8015 — “Indeterminate value contracts” and “variable contracts” defined
  • 627.802 — Establishment and maintenance of separate accounts
  • 627.803 — Statement of value of benefits
  • 627.804 — Investment of assets
  • 627.805 — Regulation of variable and indeterminate value contracts; rules
  • 627.8055 — Qualification of companies to issue variable or indeterminate value contracts
  • 627.806 — Applicability of code to indeterminate value contracts and variable life insurance contracts and accounts
  • 627.807 — Variable or indeterminate value contract reserve requirements
  • 627.826 — “Premium finance company” defined
  • 627.827 — “Premium finance agreement” defined
  • 627.828 — License required
  • 627.8281 — Levy upon deposit
  • 627.829 — Approval, disapproval of application; license renewal
  • 627.832 — Grounds for refusal, suspension, or revocation of license
  • 627.833 — Administrative fine and probation in lieu of suspension, revocation, or refusal to renew license
  • 627.834 — Examinations
  • 627.835 — Excessive premium finance charge; penalty
  • 627.836 — Licensee’s books and records; reports
  • 627.838 — Filing and approval of forms; service charges
  • 627.839 — Form and content of premium finance agreements
  • 627.840 — Limitation on service and other charges
  • 627.8405 — Prohibited acts; financing companies
  • 627.841 — Delinquency, collection, cancellation, and check return charges; attorney’s fees
  • 627.842 — Restrictions on premium finance agreements
  • 627.843 — Delivery of copy of premium finance agreement
  • 627.844 — Assignment of premium finance agreement
  • 627.845 — Statement of account; receipts
  • 627.847 — Extensions or deferrals
  • 627.848 — Cancellation of insurance contract upon default
  • 627.849 — Fees
  • 627.901 — Premium financing by an insurance agent or agency
  • 627.902 — Premium financing by an insurer or subsidiary
  • 627.903 — Premium finance cost specified
  • 627.904 — Insurer filing; approval of forms; service charge filing
  • 627.911 — Scope of this part
  • 627.912 — Professional liability claims and actions; reports by insurers and health care providers; annual report by office
  • 627.9122 — Officers’ and directors’ liability claims; reports by insurers
  • 627.9126 — Reports by liability insurers
  • 627.913 — Reports by products liability insurers
  • 627.914 — Reports of information by workers’ compensation insurers required
  • 627.915 — Insurer experience reporting
  • 627.917 — Uniform risk classification reporting system for motor vehicle insurance
  • 627.9175 — Reports of information on health and accident insurance
  • 627.918 — Reporting formats
  • 627.919 — Maintenance of insurance data
  • 627.9401 — Short title
  • 627.9402 — Purpose
  • 627.9403 — Scope
  • 627.9404 — Definitions
  • 627.9405 — Authorized groups; filing requirements
  • 627.9406 — Out-of-state group long-term care insurance
  • 627.9407 — Disclosure, advertising, and performance standards for long-term care insurance
  • 627.94071 — Minimum standards for home health care benefits
  • 627.94072 — Mandatory offers
  • 627.94073 — Notice of cancellation; grace period
  • 627.94074 — Standards for benefit triggers
  • 627.94075 — A qualified state Long-Term Care Insurance Partnership Program in Florida
  • 627.94076 — Time limit on certain defenses
  • 627.9408 — Rules
  • 627.941 — Purpose
  • 627.942 — Definitions
  • 627.943 — Risk retention groups certified in Florida
  • 627.944 — Risk retention groups not certificated in this state
  • 627.945 — Compulsory association
  • 627.946 — Countersignatures not required
  • 627.947 — Purchasing groups; exemption from certain insurer provisions
  • 627.948 — Notice and registration requirements of purchasing groups
  • 627.949 — Restrictions on insurance purchased by purchasing groups
  • 627.950 — Administrative and procedural authority regarding risk retention and purchasing groups
  • 627.951 — Penalties; cease and desist orders; injunctions
  • 627.952 — Risk retention and purchasing group agents
  • 627.953 — Binding effect of orders issued in United States District Court
  • 627.954 — Rules
  • 627.955 — Limitation on deductibles
  • 627.971 — Definitions
  • 627.972 — Organization; financial requirements
  • 627.973 — Limitations
  • 627.974 — Filing of policy forms and rates
  • 627.975 — Reinsurance
  • 627.981 — Scope of part
  • 627.982 — Definitions
  • 627.983 — General requirements
  • 627.984 — Group-to-group consolidations
  • 627.985 — Disclosure requirements
  • 627.986 — Replacement rules
  • 627.987 — Policy forms
  • 627.9901 — Purpose
  • 627.9902 — Scope
  • 627.9903 — Definitions
  • 627.9904 — Term of insurance policy
  • 627.9905 — Calculation of coverage and payment of premiums
  • 627.9906 — Prohibited practices
  • 627.9907 — Noncircumvention
  • 627.9908 — Evidence of coverage
  • 627.9909 — Filing, approval, and withdrawal of forms and rates
  • 627.9911 — Enforcement; proceedings; penalties
  • 627.9912 — Rulemaking
  • 627.9913 — Severability
Title 628 · FL Chapter 628 (99 sections)
  • 628.011 — Scope of part
  • 628.021 — “Stock insurer” defined
  • 628.031 — “Mutual insurer” defined
  • 628.041 — Applicability of general corporation statutes
  • 628.051 — Application for permit to form insurer; contents; fee
  • 628.061 — Investigation of proposed organization
  • 628.071 — Granting, denial of permit
  • 628.081 — Incorporation of domestic insurer
  • 628.091 — Filing, approval of articles of incorporation
  • 628.101 — Amendment of certificate of incorporation; stock insurer
  • 628.111 — Amendment of articles of incorporation; mutual insurer
  • 628.121 — Capital stock; amount; payment
  • 628.131 — Limitation on organization and stock sales expenses
  • 628.151 — Insurance business exclusive
  • 628.152 — Domestic stock insurers; proxies, consents, and authorizations with respect to any voting security
  • 628.161 — Initial qualifications; mutuals
  • 628.171 — Formation of mutual insurer; bond
  • 628.221 — Bylaws of mutual insurer
  • 628.231 — Directors
  • 628.251 — Management and exclusive agency contracts
  • 628.255 — Person with effective control cannot receive commission unless contract approved; penalties
  • 628.261 — Notice of change of director or officer
  • 628.271 — Office and records; penalty for unlawful removal of records
  • 628.281 — Exceptions to requirement that office, records, and assets be maintained in this state
  • 628.291 — Unauthorized transactions in other states
  • 628.301 — Membership in mutual insurer
  • 628.341 — Nonassessable policies; mutual insurers
  • 628.351 — Nonassessable policies; revocation of authority of mutual insurer
  • 628.361 — Participating policies
  • 628.371 — Dividends to stockholders
  • 628.381 — Dividends to mutual policyholders
  • 628.391 — Illegal dividends; penalty
  • 628.401 — Borrowed surplus
  • 628.411 — Impairment of capital or assets
  • 628.421 — Assessment of stockholders or members
  • 628.431 — Mutualization of stock insurers
  • 628.441 — Converting mutual insurer
  • 628.451 — Merger or share exchange of stock insurers and other entities
  • 628.461 — Acquisition of controlling stock
  • 628.4615 — Specialty insurers; acquisition of controlling stock, ownership interest, assets, or control; merger or consolidation
  • 628.471 — Mergers; mutual insurers
  • 628.481 — Bulk reinsurance; stock insurers
  • 628.491 — Mergers and consolidations; mutual insurers; agreement of bulk reinsurance
  • 628.501 — Mutual member’s share of assets on liquidation
  • 628.511 — Ownership or transfer of securities without physical delivery of certificates
  • 628.520 — Change of domicile of a foreign insurer
  • 628.525 — Change of domicile of a domestic insurer
  • 628.530 — Effects of redomestication
  • 628.535 — Authority to adopt rules
  • 628.6011 — Assessable mutual insurers
  • 628.6012 — Premiums written; restrictions
  • 628.6013 — Converted self-insurance fund; trade association; board of directors
  • 628.6014 — Annual reports
  • 628.6015 — Tax on premiums, contributions, and assessments of assessable mutual insurers
  • 628.6016 — Applicability of related laws
  • 628.6017 — Converting assessable mutual insurer
  • 628.6018 — Assessments
  • 628.701 — Scope
  • 628.703 — Definitions
  • 628.705 — Prohibition of stock transfers
  • 628.707 — Applicability of general corporation statutes
  • 628.709 — Formation of a mutual insurance holding company
  • 628.711 — Plan of reorganization
  • 628.713 — Dividends
  • 628.715 — Merger and acquisitions
  • 628.717 — Filing of articles of incorporation
  • 628.719 — Amendment of articles of incorporation
  • 628.721 — Bylaws
  • 628.723 — Directors
  • 628.725 — Notice of change of director or officer
  • 628.727 — Membership
  • 628.729 — Member’s share of assets on voluntary dissolution
  • 628.730 — Merger with intermediate holding company
  • 628.731 — Application of holding company statutes and regulations
  • 628.733 — Converting mutual insurance holding company
  • 628.801 — Insurance holding companies; registration; regulation
  • 628.8015 — Own-risk and solvency assessment; corporate governance annual disclosure
  • 628.802 — Injunction
  • 628.803 — Sanctions
  • 628.804 — Groupwide supervision for international insurance groups
  • 628.805 — Supervisory colleges
  • 628.901 — Definitions
  • 628.905 — Licensing; authority
  • 628.906 — Application requirements; restrictions on eligibility of officers and directors
  • 628.907 — Minimum capital and net assets requirements; restriction on payment of dividends
  • 628.908 — Surplus requirements; restriction on payment of dividends
  • 628.909 — Applicability of other laws
  • 628.910 — Incorporation options and requirements
  • 628.911 — Reports and statements
  • 628.912 — Discounting of loss and loss adjustment expense reserves
  • 628.913 — Captive reinsurance companies
  • 628.914 — Minimum capitalization or reserves for captive reinsurance companies
  • 628.9141 — Incorporation of a captive reinsurance company
  • 628.9142 — Reinsurance; effect on reserves
  • 628.915 — Exemption from compulsory association
  • 628.917 — Insolvency and liquidation
  • 628.918 — Management of assets of captive reinsurance company
  • 628.919 — Standards to ensure risk management control by parent company
  • 628.920 — Eligibility of licensed captive insurance company for certificate of authority to act as insurer
Title 629 · FL Chapter 629 (35 sections)
  • 629.011 — Definitions
  • 629.031 — Scope of chapter
  • 629.041 — Insuring powers of reciprocals
  • 629.051 — Name; suits
  • 629.071 — Surplus funds required
  • 629.081 — Organization of reciprocal insurer
  • 629.091 — Reciprocal certificate of authority
  • 629.094 — Continued eligibility for certificate of authority
  • 629.101 — Power of attorney
  • 629.111 — Modifications
  • 629.121 — Attorney’s bond
  • 629.131 — Deposit in lieu of bond
  • 629.141 — Action on bond
  • 629.161 — Contributions to insurer
  • 629.171 — Annual statement
  • 629.181 — Financial condition; method of determining
  • 629.191 — Who may be subscribers
  • 629.201 — Subscribers’ advisory committee
  • 629.211 — Subscribers’ liability
  • 629.221 — Subscribers’ liability; on judgment
  • 629.225 — Acquisitions
  • 629.227 — Background information
  • 629.229 — Attorneys in fact, officers, and directors of insolvent reciprocal insurers or other insurers
  • 629.231 — Assessments
  • 629.241 — Time limit for assessments
  • 629.251 — Aggregate liability
  • 629.261 — Nonassessable policies
  • 629.271 — Distribution of savings
  • 629.281 — Subscribers’ share in assets
  • 629.291 — Merger or conversion
  • 629.301 — Impaired reciprocal insurers
  • 629.401 — Insurance exchange
  • 629.5011 — Tax on premiums
  • 629.520 — Authority of a limited reciprocal insurer
  • 629.525 — Rulemaking authority
Title 63 · FL Chapter 63 (51 sections)
  • 63.012 — Short title
  • 63.022 — Legislative intent
  • 63.032 — Definitions
  • 63.037 — Proceedings applicable to cases resulting from a termination of parental rights under chapter 39
  • 63.039 — Duty of adoption entity to prospective adoptive parents; sanctions
  • 63.042 — Who may be adopted; who may adopt
  • 63.0422 — Prohibited conditions on adoptions; firearms and ammunition
  • 63.0423 — Procedures with respect to surrendered infants
  • 63.0425 — Grandparent’s right to notice
  • 63.0427 — Agreements for continued communication or contact between adopted child and siblings, parents, and other relatives
  • 63.043 — Mandatory screening or testing for sickle-cell trait prohibited
  • 63.052 — Guardians designated; proof of commitment
  • 63.053 — Rights and responsibilities of an unmarried biological father; legislative findings
  • 63.054 — Actions required by an unmarried biological father to establish parental rights; Florida Putative Father Registry
  • 63.0541 — Public records exemption for the Florida Putative Father Registry
  • 63.062 — Persons required to consent to adoption; affidavit of nonpaternity; waiver of venue
  • 63.063 — Responsibility of parents for actions; fraud or misrepresentation; contesting termination of parental rights and adoptio
  • 63.064 — Persons whose consent to an adoption may be waived
  • 63.082 — Execution of consent to adoption or affidavit of nonpaternity; family social and medical history; revocation of consent
  • 63.085 — Disclosure by adoption entity
  • 63.087 — Proceeding to terminate parental rights pending adoption; general provisions
  • 63.088 — Proceeding to terminate parental rights pending adoption; notice and service; diligent search
  • 63.089 — Proceeding to terminate parental rights pending adoption; hearing; grounds; dismissal of petition; judgment
  • 63.092 — Report to the court of intended placement by an adoption entity; at-risk placement; preliminary study
  • 63.093 — Adoption of children from the child welfare system
  • 63.097 — Fees
  • 63.102 — Filing of petition for adoption or declaratory statement; venue; proceeding for approval of fees and costs
  • 63.112 — Petition for adoption; description; report or recommendation, exceptions; mailing
  • 63.122 — Notice of hearing on petition
  • 63.125 — Final home investigation
  • 63.132 — Affidavit of expenses and receipts
  • 63.135 — Information to be submitted to the court
  • 63.142 — Hearing; judgment of adoption
  • 63.152 — Application for new birth record
  • 63.162 — Hearings and records in adoption proceedings; confidential nature
  • 63.165 — State registry of adoption information; duty to inform and explain
  • 63.167 — State adoption information center
  • 63.172 — Effect of judgment of adoption
  • 63.182 — Statute of repose
  • 63.192 — Recognition of foreign judgment or decree affecting adoption
  • 63.202 — Authority to license; adoption of rules
  • 63.207 — Out-of-state placement
  • 63.212 — Prohibited acts; penalties for violation
  • 63.213 — Preplanned adoption agreement
  • 63.219 — Sanctions
  • 63.222 — Effect on prior adoption proceedings
  • 63.232 — Duty of person adopting
  • 63.2325 — Conditions for invalidation of a consent to adoption or affidavit of nonpaternity
  • 63.233 — Rulemaking authority
  • 63.235 — Petitions filed before effective date; governing law
  • 63.236 — Petitions filed before July 1, 2008; governing law
Title 630 · FL Chapter 630 (16 sections)
  • 630.011 — Scope of chapter
  • 630.021 — Required deposit of assets
  • 630.031 — Existing trusts
  • 630.041 — Purpose and duration
  • 630.051 — Trust agreement; approval; amendment
  • 630.061 — Authority to execute trust agreement
  • 630.071 — Requirements and contents of trust agreement
  • 630.081 — Withdrawal of assets, in general
  • 630.091 — Statement of trustee
  • 630.101 — Examination of assets
  • 630.111 — Canadian insurers
  • 630.121 — Domestication of alien insurer; definitions
  • 630.131 — Domestication procedure
  • 630.141 — Domestication agreement; authorization; execution
  • 630.151 — Office approval of domestication agreement
  • 630.161 — Consummation of domestication; transfer of assets and deposits
Title 631 · FL Chapter 631 (150 sections)
  • 631.001 — Title, construction, and purpose
  • 631.011 — Definitions
  • 631.015 — Reciprocity; treatment of policyholders
  • 631.021 — Jurisdiction of delinquency proceeding; venue; change of venue; exclusiveness of remedy; appeal; construction
  • 631.025 — Persons subject to this part
  • 631.031 — Initiation and commencement of delinquency proceeding
  • 631.041 — Automatic stay; relief from stay; injunctions
  • 631.042 — Extension of time
  • 631.051 — Grounds for rehabilitation; domestic insurers
  • 631.0515 — Appointment of receiver; insurance holding company
  • 631.061 — Grounds for liquidation
  • 631.071 — Grounds for conservation; foreign insurers
  • 631.081 — Grounds for conservation; alien insurers
  • 631.091 — Grounds for ancillary liquidation; foreign insurers
  • 631.101 — Order of rehabilitation; termination
  • 631.111 — Order of liquidation; domestic insurers
  • 631.112 — Subordination of claims for noncooperation
  • 631.121 — Order of liquidation; alien insurers
  • 631.131 — Order of conservation or ancillary liquidation of foreign or alien insurers
  • 631.141 — Conduct of delinquency proceeding; domestic and alien insurers
  • 631.152 — Conduct of delinquency proceeding; foreign insurers
  • 631.1521 — Actions by and against the receiver
  • 631.1522 — Unrecorded obligations and defenses and claims of affiliates
  • 631.153 — Intervention; exclusiveness of claims procedure
  • 631.154 — Funds, assets, or other property in the possession of third person
  • 631.155 — Agents’ balances; premiums and unearned commissions
  • 631.156 — Investigation by the department; scope of authority; sharing of materials
  • 631.157 — Civil action by the receiver
  • 631.161 — Claims of nonresidents against insurers domiciled in this state
  • 631.171 — Claims of residents against insurers domiciled in reciprocal states
  • 631.181 — Filing and proof of claim
  • 631.182 — Receiver claims report and claimants objections procedure
  • 631.191 — Special deposit claims; secured claims; administration of workers’ compensation large deductible policies and insured
  • 631.192 — Allowance of certain claims
  • 631.193 — Releases
  • 631.195 — Records of insurers; public records exemptions
  • 631.201 — Attachment and garnishment of assets
  • 631.205 — Reinsurance proceeds
  • 631.206 — Arbitration
  • 631.221 — Deposit of moneys collected
  • 631.231 — Exemption from fees
  • 631.241 — Borrowing on pledge of assets
  • 631.251 — Date rights fixed on liquidation
  • 631.252 — Continuation of coverage
  • 631.261 — Voidable transfers
  • 631.262 — Transfers prior to petition
  • 631.263 — Transfers after petition
  • 631.271 — Priority of claims
  • 631.2715 — Liability under federal priority of claims law
  • 631.281 — Offsets
  • 631.311 — Report and petition for assessment
  • 631.321 — Order and levy of assessment
  • 631.331 — Assessment prima facie correct; notice; payment; proceeding to collect
  • 631.341 — Notice of insolvency to policyholders by insurer, general agent, or agent
  • 631.361 — Seizure under court order
  • 631.371 — Seizure under order of the department
  • 631.391 — Cooperation of officers and employees
  • 631.3915 — Actions for damages
  • 631.392 — Immunity
  • 631.395 — Guaranty fund; orders of court
  • 631.397 — Use of certain marshaled assets
  • 631.398 — Prevention of insolvencies
  • 631.399 — Receiver’s right to recover distributions made to affiliate
  • 631.400 — Rehabilitation of title insurer
  • 631.401 — Recovery of assessments and assumed policy obligations
  • 631.50 — Title
  • 631.51 — Purposes
  • 631.52 — Scope
  • 631.53 — Construction
  • 631.54 — Definitions
  • 631.55 — Creation of the association
  • 631.56 — Board of directors
  • 631.57 — Powers and duties of the association
  • 631.58 — Plan of operation
  • 631.582 — Public records exemption
  • 631.59 — Duties and powers of department and office; association contracts and purchases
  • 631.60 — Effect of paid claims
  • 631.61 — Nonduplication of recovery
  • 631.62 — Prevention of insolvencies
  • 631.63 — Examination of the association
  • 631.64 — Recognition of assessments
  • 631.65 — Advertisement or solicitation
  • 631.66 — Immunity
  • 631.67 — Stay of proceedings; reopening of default judgments
  • 631.68 — Limitation; certain actions
  • 631.695 — Revenue bond issuance through counties or municipalities
  • 631.711 — Short title
  • 631.712 — Purpose; construction
  • 631.713 — Application of part
  • 631.714 — Definitions
  • 631.715 — Florida Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association
  • 631.716 — Board of directors
  • 631.717 — Powers and duties of the association
  • 631.718 — Assessments
  • 631.72 — Premium or income tax credits for assessments paid
  • 631.721 — Plan of operation
  • 631.722 — Powers and duties of department and office; association contracts and purchases
  • 631.723 — Prevention of insolvencies
  • 631.724 — Records and meetings of association
  • 631.725 — Examination of the association; annual report
  • 631.726 — Tax exemptions
  • 631.727 — Immunity
  • 631.728 — Extent of liability of association
  • 631.729 — Liability of insureds for unpaid assessments
  • 631.7295 — Reinsurance
  • 631.731 — Liquidation, rehabilitation, or conservation proceedings; distributions
  • 631.733 — Stay of proceedings
  • 631.734 — Reopening default judgments
  • 631.735 — Prohibited advertisement of Florida Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association Act in sale of insurance
  • 631.737 — Rescission and review generally
  • 631.738 — Applicability as to certain health maintenance organizations
  • 631.811 — Short title
  • 631.812 — Purpose; construction
  • 631.813 — Application of part
  • 631.814 — Definitions
  • 631.815 — Florida Health Maintenance Organization Consumer Assistance Plan
  • 631.816 — Board of directors
  • 631.817 — Eligibility
  • 631.818 — Powers and duties of the plan
  • 631.819 — Assessments
  • 631.820 — Plan of operation
  • 631.821 — Powers and duties of the department; board contracts and purchases
  • 631.822 — Records of plan
  • 631.823 — Examination of the plan; annual report
  • 631.824 — Tax exemptions
  • 631.825 — Immunity
  • 631.826 — Extent of liability of plan
  • 631.827 — Prohibited advertisement
  • 631.828 — Assessments against member HMOs; income tax credit for assessments paid
  • 631.901 — Title
  • 631.902 — Purposes
  • 631.903 — Construction
  • 631.904 — Definitions
  • 631.911 — Creation of the Florida Workers’ Compensation Insurance Guaranty Association, Incorporated; merger; effect of merger
  • 631.912 — Board of directors
  • 631.913 — Powers and duties of the corporation
  • 631.914 — Assessments
  • 631.916 — Plan of operation
  • 631.917 — Prevention of insolvencies
  • 631.918 — Immunity
  • 631.919 — Prohibited advertisement of solicitation
  • 631.921 — Department powers; board contracts and purchases
  • 631.922 — Liability of members of an impaired self-insurance fund for unpaid claims
  • 631.923 — Effect of paid claims
  • 631.924 — Stay of proceedings; reopening of default judgments
  • 631.927 — Assumption of liability
  • 631.928 — Florida Workers’ Compensation Insurance Guaranty Association Account
  • 631.929 — Election of remedies
  • 631.931 — Reports and recommendations by board; public records exemption
  • 631.932 — Negotiations; public meetings and records exemptions
Title 632 · FL Chapter 632 (35 sections)
  • 632.601 — “Fraternal benefit society” defined
  • 632.602 — “Lodge system” defined
  • 632.603 — “Representative form of government” defined
  • 632.604 — Terms used
  • 632.605 — Purposes and powers
  • 632.606 — Qualifications for membership
  • 632.607 — Location of office; meetings; communications to members; grievance procedures
  • 632.608 — No personal liability
  • 632.609 — Waiver prohibited
  • 632.611 — Organization
  • 632.612 — Amendments to laws
  • 632.613 — Institutions
  • 632.614 — Reinsurance
  • 632.615 — Consolidations and mergers
  • 632.616 — Conversion of fraternal benefit society into mutual life insurance company
  • 632.617 — Benefits
  • 632.618 — Beneficiaries
  • 632.619 — Benefits not attachable
  • 632.621 — The benefit contract
  • 632.622 — Nonforfeiture benefits, cash surrender values, certificate loans, and other options
  • 632.623 — Investments
  • 632.624 — Funds
  • 632.625 — Exemptions
  • 632.626 — Taxation
  • 632.627 — Valuation
  • 632.628 — Reports
  • 632.629 — Annual license
  • 632.631 — Examination of societies; no adverse publications
  • 632.632 — Foreign or alien society; admission
  • 632.633 — Additional grounds for suspension, revocation, or denial of certificate of authority; receivership; insolvency
  • 632.634 — Licensing and appointment of agents
  • 632.635 — Unfair and deceptive acts and practices
  • 632.636 — Violations; penalties
  • 632.637 — Exemption of certain societies
  • 632.638 — Applicability of other code provisions
Title 633 · FL Chapter 633 (89 sections)
  • 633.102 — Definitions
  • 633.104 — State Fire Marshal; authority; duties; rules
  • 633.106 — State Fire Marshal; disciplinary authority; administrative fine and probation in lieu of suspension, revocation, or refu
  • 633.107 — Exemption from disqualification from licensure or certification
  • 633.108 — State Fire Marshal; chapter and rules; force and effect
  • 633.112 — State Fire Marshal; hearings; investigations; recordkeeping and reports; subpoenas of witnesses; orders of circuit court
  • 633.114 — State Fire Marshal agents; authority; duties; compensation
  • 633.116 — Agents; powers to make arrests, conduct searches and seizures, serve summonses, and carry firearms
  • 633.118 — Persons authorized to enforce laws and rules of State Fire Marshal
  • 633.122 — Impersonating State Fire Marshal, firefighter, volunteer firefighter, or firesafety inspector; criminal penalties
  • 633.124 — Penalty for violation of law, rule, or order to cease and desist or for failure to comply with corrective order
  • 633.126 — Investigation of fraudulent insurance claims and crimes; immunity of insurance companies supplying information
  • 633.128 — Division of State Fire Marshal; powers, duties
  • 633.132 — Fees
  • 633.134 — Gifts and grants
  • 633.135 — Firefighter Assistance Grant Program
  • 633.136 — Fire and Emergency Incident Information Reporting Program; duties; fire reports
  • 633.137 — Firefighter Cancer Decontamination Equipment Grant Program
  • 633.138 — Notice of change of address of record; notice of felony actions
  • 633.142 — Reduced Cigarette Ignition Propensity Standard and Firefighter Protection Act; preemption
  • 633.1423 — State Fire Marshal direct-support organization
  • 633.202 — Florida Fire Prevention Code
  • 633.204 — Florida Fire Code Advisory Council
  • 633.206 — Uniform firesafety standards
  • 633.208 — Minimum firesafety standards
  • 633.212 — Legislative intent; informal interpretations of the Florida Fire Prevention Code
  • 633.214 — Ordinances relating to firesafety; definitions; penalties
  • 633.216 — Inspection of buildings and equipment; orders; firesafety inspection training requirements; certification; disciplinary
  • 633.217 — Influencing a firesafety inspector; prohibited acts
  • 633.218 — Inspections of state buildings and premises; tests of firesafety equipment; building plans to be approved
  • 633.222 — Buildings with light-frame truss-type construction; notice requirements; enforcement
  • 633.224 — Automatic fire sprinkler systems for one-family dwellings, two-family dwellings, and mobile homes
  • 633.226 — Exemptions; farm outbuildings; standpipe systems installed by plumbing contractors
  • 633.228 — Violations; orders to cease and desist, correct hazardous conditions, preclude occupancy, or vacate; enforcement; penalt
  • 633.302 — Florida Fire Safety Board; membership; duties; meetings; officers; quorum; compensation; seal
  • 633.304 — Fire suppression equipment; license to install or maintain
  • 633.306 — Requirements for installation, inspection, and maintenance of fire suppression equipment
  • 633.308 — Standard service tag required on all fire extinguishers and preengineered systems; serial number required on all portabl
  • 633.312 — Inspection of fire control systems, fire hydrants, and fire protection systems
  • 633.314 — Sale or use of certain types of fire extinguishers prohibited; penalty
  • 633.316 — Fire suppression system contractors; disciplinary action
  • 633.318 — Certificate application and issuance; permit issuance; examination and investigation of applicant
  • 633.322 — County, municipal, and special district powers; effect of ch. 75-240
  • 633.324 — Records concerning applicant; extent of confidentiality
  • 633.326 — Certificate effective statewide; not transferable
  • 633.328 — Issuance of certificate to individuals and business organizations
  • 633.332 — Certificate; expiration; renewal; inactive certificate; continuing education
  • 633.334 — Requirements for installation, inspection, and maintenance of fire protection systems
  • 633.336 — Contracting without certificate prohibited; violations; penalty
  • 633.338 — Disciplinary action; fire protection system contractors; grounds for denial, nonrenewal, suspension, or revocation of ce
  • 633.342 — Violations subject to injunction
  • 633.344 — Application of law regulating contracting and contractors
  • 633.346 — Jurisdiction of State Fire Marshal over alarm system contractors and certified unlimited electrical contractors
  • 633.348 — Requirements for fire alarm system equipment
  • 633.3482 — Prohibited acts regarding alarm system contractors or certified unlimited electrical contractors; penalties
  • 633.402 — Firefighters Employment, Standards, and Training Council; organization; meetings; quorum; compensation; seal; special po
  • 633.404 — Additional standards authorized
  • 633.406 — Classes of certification
  • 633.408 — Firefighter and volunteer firefighter training and certification
  • 633.412 — Firefighters; qualifications for certification
  • 633.414 — Retention of firefighter and volunteer firefighter certifications
  • 633.415 — Lifetime Firefighter designation
  • 633.416 — Firefighter employment and volunteer firefighter service; saving clause
  • 633.418 — Inservice training and promotion; participation
  • 633.422 — Firefighters; supplemental compensation
  • 633.424 — Falsification of qualifications
  • 633.426 — Disciplinary action; standards for revocation of certification
  • 633.428 — Florida State Fire College established
  • 633.432 — Purpose of fire college
  • 633.434 — Superintendent of college
  • 633.436 — Use of Insurance Regulatory Trust Fund
  • 633.438 — Procedure for making expenditures
  • 633.442 — Buildings, equipment, and other facilities; use
  • 633.444 — Division powers and duties; Florida State Fire College
  • 633.446 — Fees
  • 633.502 — Short title
  • 633.504 — Definitions
  • 633.506 — Legislative intent
  • 633.508 — Workplace safety; rulemaking authority; division authority
  • 633.512 — Compliance
  • 633.516 — Studies of occupational diseases of firefighters or persons in other fire-related fields
  • 633.518 — Studies, investigations, inspections, or inquiries by the division; refusal to admit; penalty
  • 633.520 — Safety; firefighter employer responsibilities
  • 633.522 — Firefighter employers; high frequency of work-related injuries; corrective plans; workplace safety committees and coordi
  • 633.526 — Firefighter employer penalties
  • 633.528 — Division cooperation with Federal Government; exemption from requirements for private firefighter employers
  • 633.532 — Firefighter employee rights and responsibilities
  • 633.5341 — False, fictitious, or fraudulent acts, statements, and representations prohibited; penalty; statute of limitations
  • 633.536 — Expenses of administration
Title 634 · FL Chapter 634 (154 sections)
  • 634.011 — Definitions
  • 634.021 — Powers of department, commission, and office; rules
  • 634.023 — Part exclusive; applicability of other laws
  • 634.031 — License required
  • 634.041 — Qualifications for license
  • 634.042 — Prohibited investments and loans
  • 634.044 — Assets and liabilities
  • 634.045 — Guarantee agreements
  • 634.052 — Required deposit
  • 634.053 — Levy upon deposit limited
  • 634.061 — Application for and issuance of license
  • 634.071 — License continuance
  • 634.081 — Suspension or revocation of license; grounds
  • 634.095 — Prohibited acts
  • 634.101 — Order, notice of suspension or revocation of license; effect; publication
  • 634.111 — Duration of suspension; obligations of company during suspension period; reinstatement
  • 634.121 — Forms, required procedures, provisions; delivery and definitions
  • 634.1213 — Noncompliant forms
  • 634.131 — Tax on premiums and assessments
  • 634.136 — Office records required
  • 634.137 — Financial and statistical reporting requirements
  • 634.141 — Examination of companies
  • 634.151 — Service of process; appointment of commissioner as process agent
  • 634.161 — Service of process; method
  • 634.171 — Salesperson to be licensed and appointed
  • 634.181 — Grounds for compulsory refusal, suspension, or revocation of license or appointment of salespersons
  • 634.1815 — Rebating; when allowed
  • 634.191 — Grounds for discretionary refusal, suspension, or revocation of license or appointment of salespersons
  • 634.201 — Refusal, suspension, or revocation of license or appointment of salespersons
  • 634.211 — Administrative fine in lieu of suspension or revocation of license or appointment
  • 634.221 — Disposition of taxes and fees
  • 634.231 — Insurance business not authorized
  • 634.241 — Prohibition against fronting
  • 634.242 — Injunctive proceedings
  • 634.251 — Penalty for violation
  • 634.2515 — Penalty for selling agreements of a nonlicensed company
  • 634.252 — Acquisition
  • 634.253 — Delinquency proceedings
  • 634.261 — Voluntary compliance in lieu of suspension or revocation
  • 634.271 — Civil remedy
  • 634.2815 — Unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive acts or practices prohibited
  • 634.282 — Unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive acts or practices defined
  • 634.2825 — Motor vehicle service agreement cost specified in “price package.”
  • 634.283 — Power of department and office to examine and investigate
  • 634.284 — Prohibited practices; hearings; procedure; service of process
  • 634.285 — Cease and desist and penalty orders
  • 634.2855 — Unauthorized entities; gifts and grants
  • 634.286 — Appeals from orders of the department or office
  • 634.287 — Penalty for violation of cease and desist order
  • 634.288 — Civil liability
  • 634.301 — Definitions
  • 634.302 — Powers of department, commission, and office; rules
  • 634.3025 — Part exclusive; applicability of other laws
  • 634.303 — License required
  • 634.304 — Qualifications for license
  • 634.305 — Required deposit or bond
  • 634.3051 — Levy upon deposit limited
  • 634.306 — Application for and issuance of license
  • 634.307 — License expiration; renewal
  • 634.3073 — Acquisition
  • 634.3076 — Prohibited investments and loans
  • 634.3077 — Financial requirements
  • 634.3078 — Assets and liabilities
  • 634.308 — Grounds for suspension or revocation of license
  • 634.309 — Procedure to suspend or revoke license
  • 634.310 — Order, notice of suspension or revocation of license; effect; publication
  • 634.311 — Duration of suspension; obligations of association during suspension period; reinstatement
  • 634.3112 — Administrative fine in lieu of suspension or revocation of license of association
  • 634.312 — Forms; required provisions and procedures
  • 634.3123 — Noncompliant forms
  • 634.313 — Tax on premiums; annual statement; reports
  • 634.3135 — Office records required
  • 634.314 — Examination of associations
  • 634.315 — Service of process
  • 634.317 — License and appointment required
  • 634.318 — License and appointment of sales representatives
  • 634.319 — Reporting and accounting for funds
  • 634.320 — Grounds for compulsory refusal, suspension, or revocation of license or appointment of sales representatives
  • 634.3205 — Rebating; when allowed
  • 634.321 — Grounds for discretionary refusal, suspension, or revocation of license or appointment of sales representatives
  • 634.322 — Procedure for refusal, suspension, or revocation of license or appointment of sales representatives
  • 634.3225 — Duration of suspension or revocation of license or appointment
  • 634.323 — Administrative fine in lieu of suspension or revocation of sales representative’s license or appointment
  • 634.324 — Disposition of taxes and fees
  • 634.325 — Insurance business not authorized
  • 634.326 — Fronting not permitted
  • 634.327 — Applicability to warranty on new home
  • 634.328 — Penalty for violation
  • 634.3284 — Civil remedy
  • 634.329 — Dissolution or liquidation
  • 634.331 — Coverage of property for sale
  • 634.335 — Unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive acts or practices prohibited
  • 634.336 — Unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive acts or practices defined
  • 634.337 — Power of department and office to examine and investigate
  • 634.338 — Prohibited practices; hearings; procedure; service of process
  • 634.3385 — Unauthorized entities; gifts and grants
  • 634.339 — Cease and desist and penalty orders
  • 634.34 — Appeals from orders of the department or office
  • 634.341 — Penalty for violation of cease and desist order
  • 634.342 — Injunctive proceedings
  • 634.343 — Civil liability
  • 634.344 — Coercion of debtor prohibited
  • 634.346 — Home warranty coverage requirements
  • 634.348 — Investigatory records
  • 634.401 — Definitions
  • 634.402 — Powers of department, commission, and office; rules
  • 634.4025 — Part exclusive; applicability of other laws
  • 634.403 — License required; exemptions
  • 634.404 — Qualifications for license
  • 634.405 — Required deposit or bond
  • 634.4051 — Levy upon deposit limited
  • 634.406 — Financial requirements
  • 634.4061 — Assets and liabilities
  • 634.4062 — Prohibited investments and loans
  • 634.4065 — Guarantee agreements
  • 634.407 — Application for and issuance of license
  • 634.408 — License continuance
  • 634.4085 — Acquisition
  • 634.409 — Grounds for suspension or revocation of license
  • 634.411 — Order; notice of suspension or revocation of license; effect; publication
  • 634.412 — Duration of suspension; obligations of association during suspension; reinstatement
  • 634.413 — Administrative fine in lieu of suspension or revocation
  • 634.414 — Forms; required provisions
  • 634.4145 — Noncompliant forms
  • 634.415 — Tax on premiums; annual statement; reports
  • 634.416 — Examination of associations
  • 634.4165 — Office records required
  • 634.417 — Service of process
  • 634.419 — License and appointment required
  • 634.420 — License and appointment of sales representatives
  • 634.421 — Reporting and accounting for funds
  • 634.422 — Grounds for compulsory refusal, suspension, or revocation of license or appointment of sales representatives
  • 634.4225 — Rebating; when allowed
  • 634.423 — Grounds for discretionary refusal, suspension, or revocation of license or appointment of sales representatives
  • 634.424 — Procedure for refusal, suspension, or revocation of license or appointment of sales representatives
  • 634.425 — Duration of suspension or revocation
  • 634.426 — Administrative fine in lieu of suspension or revocation of license or appointment
  • 634.427 — Disposition of taxes and fees
  • 634.428 — Insurance business not authorized
  • 634.429 — Fronting not permitted
  • 634.430 — Dissolution or liquidation
  • 634.431 — Penalty for violation
  • 634.433 — Civil remedy
  • 634.435 — Unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive acts or practices prohibited
  • 634.436 — Unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive acts or practices defined
  • 634.437 — Power of department and office to examine and investigate
  • 634.438 — Prohibited practices; hearings; procedure; service of process
  • 634.4385 — Unauthorized entities; gifts and grants
  • 634.439 — Cease and desist and penalty orders
  • 634.44 — Appeals from orders of the department or office
  • 634.441 — Penalty for violation of cease and desist order
  • 634.442 — Injunctive proceedings
  • 634.443 — Civil liability
  • 634.444 — Investigatory records
Title 635 · FL Chapter 635 (11 sections)
  • 635.011 — Definitions
  • 635.021 — Authority to transact mortgage guaranty insurance
  • 635.031 — Additional limitations
  • 635.041 — Contingency reserve
  • 635.042 — Minimum surplus requirement
  • 635.051 — Licensing and appointment of mortgage guaranty insurance agents
  • 635.061 — Premium cost
  • 635.071 — Filings, approval of forms; rate filings
  • 635.075 — Restoration of property
  • 635.081 — Administration and enforcement
  • 635.091 — Provisions of Florida Insurance Code applicable to mortgage guaranty insurance
Title 636 · FL Chapter 636 (79 sections)
  • 636.002 — Short title
  • 636.003 — Definitions
  • 636.004 — Applicability of other laws
  • 636.005 — Incorporation required; exceptions
  • 636.006 — Insurance business not authorized
  • 636.007 — Certificate of authority required
  • 636.008 — Application for certificate of authority
  • 636.009 — Issuance of certificate of authority; denial
  • 636.012 — Continued eligibility for certificate of authority
  • 636.0145 — Certain entities contracting with Medicaid
  • 636.015 — Language used in contracts and advertisements; translations
  • 636.0155 — Disclosures required in contracts and marketing materials
  • 636.016 — Prepaid limited health service contracts
  • 636.017 — Rates and charges
  • 636.018 — Changes in rates and benefits; material modifications; addition of limited health services
  • 636.019 — Additional contract contents
  • 636.0201 — Genetic information restrictions
  • 636.022 — Restrictions upon expulsion or refusal to issue or renew contract
  • 636.023 — Charter; bylaw provisions
  • 636.024 — Execution of contracts
  • 636.025 — Validity of noncomplying contracts
  • 636.026 — Construction of contracts
  • 636.027 — Delivery of contract
  • 636.028 — Notice of cancellation of contract
  • 636.029 — Construction and relationship with other laws
  • 636.032 — Acceptable payments
  • 636.033 — Certain words prohibited in name of organization
  • 636.034 — Extension of benefits
  • 636.035 — Provider arrangements
  • 636.036 — Administrative, provider, and management contracts
  • 636.037 — Contract providers
  • 636.038 — Complaint system; annual report
  • 636.039 — Examination by the office
  • 636.042 — Assets, liabilities, and investments
  • 636.043 — Annual, quarterly, and miscellaneous reports
  • 636.044 — Agent licensing
  • 636.045 — Minimum surplus requirements
  • 636.046 — Insolvency protection
  • 636.047 — Officers’ and employees’ fidelity bond
  • 636.048 — Suspension or revocation of certificate of authority; suspension of enrollment of new subscribers; terms of suspension
  • 636.049 — Administrative penalty in lieu of suspension or revocation
  • 636.052 — Civil remedy
  • 636.053 — Injunction
  • 636.054 — Payment of judgment by prepaid limited health service organization
  • 636.055 — Levy upon deposit limited
  • 636.056 — Rehabilitation, conservation, liquidation, or reorganization; exclusive methods of remedy
  • 636.057 — Fees
  • 636.058 — Investigative power of department and office
  • 636.059 — Unfair methods of competition, unfair or deceptive acts or practices defined
  • 636.062 — Appeals from the office or department
  • 636.063 — Civil liability
  • 636.064 — Confidentiality
  • 636.065 — Acquisitions
  • 636.066 — Taxes imposed
  • 636.067 — Rules
  • 636.202 — Definitions
  • 636.204 — License required
  • 636.205 — Issuance of license; denial
  • 636.206 — Examinations and investigations
  • 636.207 — Applicability of part
  • 636.208 — Fees; charges; reimbursement
  • 636.210 — Prohibited activities of a discount plan organization
  • 636.212 — Disclosures
  • 636.214 — Provider agreements
  • 636.216 — Written agreement
  • 636.218 — Annual reports
  • 636.220 — Minimum capital requirements
  • 636.222 — Suspension or revocation of license; suspension of enrollment of new members; terms of suspension
  • 636.223 — Administrative penalty
  • 636.224 — Notice of change of name or address of discount plan organization
  • 636.226 — Provider name listing
  • 636.228 — Marketing of discount plans
  • 636.230 — Bundling discount plans with other products
  • 636.232 — Rules
  • 636.234 — Service of process on a discount plan organization
  • 636.236 — Surety bond or security deposit
  • 636.238 — Penalties for violation of this part
  • 636.240 — Injunctions
  • 636.244 — Unlicensed discount plan organizations
Title 641 · FL Chapter 641 (165 sections)
  • 641.17 — Short title
  • 641.18 — Declaration of legislative intent, findings, and purposes
  • 641.183 — Statutory accounting procedures; transition provisions
  • 641.185 — Health maintenance organization subscriber protections
  • 641.19 — Definitions
  • 641.201 — Applicability of other laws
  • 641.2011 — Insurance holding companies
  • 641.2015 — Incorporation required
  • 641.2017 — Insurance business not authorized
  • 641.2018 — Limited coverage for home health care authorized
  • 641.20185 — High-deductible contracts for medical savings accounts
  • 641.2019 — Provider service network certificate of authority
  • 641.21 — Application for certificate
  • 641.215 — Conditions precedent to issuance or maintenance of certificate of authority; effect of bankruptcy proceedings
  • 641.217 — Minority recruitment and retention plans required
  • 641.22 — Issuance of certificate of authority
  • 641.221 — Continued eligibility for certificate of authority
  • 641.225 — Surplus requirements
  • 641.2261 — Application of solvency requirements to provider-sponsored organizations and Medicaid provider service networks
  • 641.227 — Rehabilitation Administrative Expense Fund
  • 641.228 — Florida Health Maintenance Organization Consumer Assistance Plan
  • 641.23 — Revocation or cancellation of certificate of authority; suspension of enrollment of new subscribers; terms of suspension
  • 641.234 — Administrative, provider, and management contracts
  • 641.2342 — Contract providers
  • 641.25 — Administrative penalty in lieu of suspension or revocation
  • 641.255 — Acquisition, merger, or consolidation
  • 641.26 — Annual and quarterly reports
  • 641.261 — Other reporting requirements
  • 641.27 — Examination by the department
  • 641.28 — Civil remedy
  • 641.281 — Injunction
  • 641.282 — Payment of judgment by health maintenance organization
  • 641.284 — Liquidation, rehabilitation, reorganization, and conservation; exclusive methods of remedy
  • 641.285 — Insolvency protection
  • 641.286 — Levy upon deposit limited
  • 641.29 — Fees
  • 641.30 — Construction and relationship to other laws
  • 641.3005 — Application of ch. 85-177
  • 641.3007 — HIV infection and AIDS for contract purposes
  • 641.305 — Language used in contracts and advertisements; translations
  • 641.309 — Standards for marketing to persons eligible for Medicare
  • 641.31 — Health maintenance contracts
  • 641.3101 — Additional contract contents
  • 641.31015 — Health maintenance organization or exclusive provider organization; disclosure of terms and conditions of plan
  • 641.3102 — Restrictions upon expulsion or refusal to issue or renew contract
  • 641.3103 — Charter, bylaw provisions
  • 641.3104 — Execution of contracts
  • 641.3105 — Validity of noncomplying contracts
  • 641.3106 — Construction of contracts
  • 641.3107 — Delivery of contract; definitions
  • 641.31071 — Preexisting conditions
  • 641.31072 — Special enrollment periods
  • 641.31073 — Prohibiting discrimination against individual participants and beneficiaries based on health status
  • 641.31074 — Guaranteed renewability of coverage
  • 641.31075 — Advanced practice registered nurse services
  • 641.31076 — Shared savings incentive program
  • 641.31077 — Coverage for organ transplants
  • 641.3108 — Notice of cancellation of contract
  • 641.31085 — Disclosures to subscribers; coverage of behavioral health care services
  • 641.31094 — Nondiscrimination of coverage for certain surgical procedures involving bones or joints
  • 641.31095 — Coverage for mammograms
  • 641.31096 — Requirements with respect to breast cancer and routine followup care
  • 641.31097 — Decreasing inappropriate utilization of emergency care
  • 641.31098 — Coverage for individuals with developmental disabilities
  • 641.31099 — Restrictions on use of state and federal funds for state exchanges
  • 641.3111 — Extension of benefits
  • 641.312 — Scope
  • 641.313 — Health maintenance contracts; cancer treatment parity; orally administered cancer treatment medications
  • 641.314 — Pharmacy benefit manager contracts
  • 641.315 — Provider contracts
  • 641.3154 — Organization liability; provider billing prohibited
  • 641.3155 — Prompt payment of claims
  • 641.3156 — Treatment authorization; payment of claims
  • 641.316 — Fiscal intermediary services
  • 641.32 — Acceptable payments
  • 641.33 — Certain words prohibited in name of organization
  • 641.35 — Assets, liabilities, and investments
  • 641.36 — Adoption of rules; penalty for violation
  • 641.365 — Dividends
  • 641.37 — Prohibited activities; penalties
  • 641.38 — Operational health maintenance organizations; issuance of certificate
  • 641.385 — Order to discontinue certain advertising
  • 641.386 — Agent licensing and appointment required; exceptions
  • 641.39001 — Soliciting or accepting new or renewal health maintenance contracts by insolvent or impaired health maintenance organiza
  • 641.3901 — Unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive acts or practices prohibited
  • 641.3903 — Unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive acts or practices defined
  • 641.3905 — General powers and duties of the department and office
  • 641.3907 — Defined unfair practices; hearings, witnesses, appearances, production of books, and service of process
  • 641.3909 — Cease and desist and penalty orders
  • 641.3911 — Appeals from the department or office
  • 641.3913 — Penalty for violation of cease and desist orders
  • 641.3915 — Health maintenance organization anti-fraud plans and investigative units
  • 641.3917 — Civil liability
  • 641.3921 — Conversion on termination of eligibility
  • 641.3922 — Conversion contracts; conditions
  • 641.3923 — Discrimination against providers prohibited
  • 641.40 — Short title
  • 641.401 — Declaration of legislative intent, findings, and purposes
  • 641.4015 — Part exclusive; applicability of other laws
  • 641.402 — Definitions
  • 641.403 — Rulemaking authority
  • 641.405 — Application for certificate of authority to operate prepaid health clinic
  • 641.406 — Issuance of certificate of authority
  • 641.4065 — Insurance business not authorized
  • 641.407 — Minimum surplus
  • 641.408 — Use of certain words prohibited in the name of a prepaid health clinic
  • 641.409 — Insolvency protection
  • 641.4091 — Levy upon deposit; limitation
  • 641.41 — Annual report of prepaid health clinic; administrative penalty
  • 641.411 — Other reporting requirements
  • 641.412 — Fees
  • 641.414 — Investment of funds of prepaid health clinic
  • 641.416 — Acquisition
  • 641.418 — Examination of prepaid health clinic by the office
  • 641.419 — Rehabilitation, liquidation, conservation, or dissolution of prepaid health clinic
  • 641.42 — Prepaid health clinic contracts
  • 641.421 — Language used in contracts and advertisements; translations
  • 641.422 — Contract provisions incorporating charter or bylaw provisions
  • 641.423 — Execution of contracts
  • 641.424 — Validity of noncomplying contracts
  • 641.425 — Construction of contracts
  • 641.426 — Delivery of contract to subscriber
  • 641.427 — Notice of cancellation, termination, or nonrenewal of contract
  • 641.428 — Nondiscrimination of coverage for certain surgical procedures involving bones or joints
  • 641.429 — Acceptable payments to prepaid health clinic
  • 641.43 — Provider contracts
  • 641.432 — Providers of service; penalty for unauthorized use of providers; interference with judgment prohibited
  • 641.437 — Investigatory power of office
  • 641.438 — Genetic information restrictions
  • 641.44 — Unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive acts or practices prohibited
  • 641.441 — Unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive acts or practices defined
  • 641.442 — Penalty for operation of prepaid health clinic, or issuance, delivery, or renewal of prepaid health clinic contract, wit
  • 641.443 — Temporary restraining orders
  • 641.444 — Injunction
  • 641.445 — Defined practices; hearings, witnesses, appearances, production of books, and service of process
  • 641.446 — Cease and desist and penalty orders
  • 641.447 — Appeal from order
  • 641.448 — Penalty for violation of cease and desist order
  • 641.45 — Revocation or cancellation of certificate of authority; suspension of authority to enroll new subscribers; terms of susp
  • 641.452 — Administrative penalty in lieu of suspension or revocation of certificate of authority
  • 641.453 — Civil liability
  • 641.454 — Civil action to enforce prepaid health clinic contract; attorney’s fees; court costs
  • 641.455 — Disposition of moneys collected under this part
  • 641.457 — Exemption for certain operational prepaid health clinics
  • 641.459 — Construction and relationship to other laws
  • 641.47 — Definitions
  • 641.48 — Purpose and application of part
  • 641.49 — Certification of health maintenance organization and prepaid health clinic as health care providers; application procedu
  • 641.495 — Requirements for issuance and maintenance of certificate
  • 641.51 — Quality assurance program; second medical opinion requirement
  • 641.511 — Subscriber grievance reporting and resolution requirements
  • 641.512 — Accreditation and external quality assurance assessment
  • 641.513 — Requirements for providing emergency services and care
  • 641.514 — Coverage for air ambulance services
  • 641.515 — Investigation by the agency
  • 641.52 — Revocation of certificate; suspension of new enrollment; suspension of the health care provider certificate; administrat
  • 641.54 — Information disclosure
  • 641.545 — Subscriber risk assessments; requirements
  • 641.55 — Internal risk management program
  • 641.56 — Rulemaking authority
  • 641.57 — Disposition of moneys collected under this part
  • 641.58 — Regulatory assessment; levy and amount; use of funds; tax returns; penalty for failure to pay
  • 641.59 — Psychotherapeutic services; records and reports
  • 641.61 — Subscriber satisfaction assessment
  • 641.62 — Chronic diseases among subscriber populations
Title 642 · FL Chapter 642 (31 sections)
  • 642.011 — Short title
  • 642.013 — Purpose
  • 642.015 — Definitions
  • 642.016 — Chapter exclusive; applicability of other laws
  • 642.017 — Exemptions
  • 642.019 — Organization of legal expense insurance corporations
  • 642.021 — Certificate of authority
  • 642.022 — Insurance business not authorized
  • 642.023 — Required deposit or bond
  • 642.024 — Levy upon deposit
  • 642.025 — Policy and certificate forms
  • 642.0261 — Net worth required of applicants
  • 642.0262 — Net worth required to maintain certificate of authority
  • 642.027 — Premium rates
  • 642.029 — Contracts by insurers
  • 642.0301 — Filing, license, statement, and miscellaneous fees
  • 642.032 — Provisions of general insurance law applicable to legal expense insurance corporations
  • 642.0331 — Grounds for suspension or revocation of certificate
  • 642.0334 — Order; notice of suspension or revocation of certificate; effect; publication
  • 642.0336 — Duration of suspension; obligations during suspension; reinstatement
  • 642.0338 — Administrative fine in lieu of suspension or revocation
  • 642.034 — License and appointment required
  • 642.036 — Sales representatives to be licensed and appointed
  • 642.038 — Reporting and accounting for funds
  • 642.041 — Grounds for compulsory refusal, suspension, or revocation of license or appointment of contracting sales representatives
  • 642.043 — Grounds for discretionary refusal, suspension, or revocation of license or appointment of sales representatives
  • 642.045 — Procedure for refusal, suspension, or revocation of license and appointment of sales representative; departmental action
  • 642.047 — Administrative fine in lieu of suspension or revocation of license or appointment
  • 642.0475 — Civil remedy
  • 642.048 — Prohibited sales
  • 642.049 — Construction
Title 647 · FL Chapter 647 (8 sections)
Title 648 · FL Chapter 648 (49 sections)
  • 648.24 — Declaration of public policy
  • 648.25 — Definitions
  • 648.26 — Department of Financial Services; administration
  • 648.27 — Licenses and appointments; general
  • 648.279 — Scope of license
  • 648.285 — Bond agency; ownership requirements; applications for bail bond agency licenses
  • 648.29 — Build-up funds posted by bail bond agent
  • 648.295 — Reporting and accounting of funds
  • 648.30 — Licensure and appointment required; prohibited acts; penalties
  • 648.31 — Appointment taxes and fees
  • 648.315 — Number of applications for licensure required
  • 648.33 — Bail bond rates
  • 648.34 — Bail bond agents; qualifications
  • 648.35 — Professional bail bond agent; qualifications
  • 648.355 — Limited surety agents and professional bail bond agents; qualifications
  • 648.36 — Bail bond agent’s records
  • 648.365 — Statistical reporting requirements; penalty for failure to comply
  • 648.38 — Licensure examination for bail bond agents; time; place; fees; scope
  • 648.381 — Reexamination
  • 648.382 — Appointment of bail bond agents and bail bond agencies; effective date of appointment
  • 648.383 — Renewal, continuation, reinstatement, and termination of appointment; bail bond agents
  • 648.384 — Effect of expiration of appointment; bail bond agents
  • 648.385 — Continuing education required; requirements
  • 648.386 — Qualifications for prelicensing and continuing education schools and instructors
  • 648.387 — Bail bond agent in charge; duties
  • 648.3875 — Bail bond agent in charge; qualifications
  • 648.388 — Insurer must appoint managing general agent
  • 648.39 — Termination of appointment of managing general agents, bail bond agents, and bail bond agencies
  • 648.40 — Application for appointment of professional bail bond agents; termination
  • 648.42 — Registration of bail bond agents
  • 648.421 — Notice of change of address or telephone number
  • 648.43 — Power of attorney; approval by office; filing of copies; notification of transfer bond
  • 648.44 — Prohibitions; penalty
  • 648.441 — Furnishing supplies to unlicensed bail bond agent prohibited; civil liability and penalty
  • 648.442 — Collateral security
  • 648.4425 — Notice
  • 648.45 — Actions against a licensee; suspension or revocation of eligibility to hold a license
  • 648.46 — Procedure for disciplinary action against licensees
  • 648.48 — Witnesses and evidence
  • 648.49 — Duration of suspension or revocation
  • 648.50 — Effect of suspension, revocation upon associated licenses and licensees
  • 648.51 — Surrender of license
  • 648.52 — Administrative fine
  • 648.525 — Civil assessment
  • 648.53 — Probation
  • 648.55 — All bail bond agents of same agency; licensed by same companies
  • 648.57 — Penalty
  • 648.571 — Failure to return collateral; penalty
  • 648.58 — Injunctive proceedings
Title 65 · FL Chapter 65 (9 sections)
  • 65.011 — Real estate; certain jurisdiction over
  • 65.021 — Real estate; removing clouds
  • 65.031 — Real estate; removing clouds; plaintiffs
  • 65.041 — Real estate; removing clouds; defendants
  • 65.051 — Real estate; removing clouds; joinder
  • 65.061 — Quieting title; additional remedy
  • 65.071 — Quieting title; deeds without joinder of wife when separated for 30 years
  • 65.081 — Tax titles; quieting title
  • 65.091 — Quieting title; fraudulent conveyances
Title 650 · FL Chapter 650 (8 sections)
  • 650.01 — Declaration of policy
  • 650.02 — Definitions
  • 650.03 — Federal-state agreement; interstate instrumentalities
  • 650.04 — Contributions by state employees
  • 650.05 — Plans for coverage of employees of political subdivisions
  • 650.07 — Rules and regulations
  • 650.09 — Liberal construction
  • 650.10 — Referenda and certification
Title 651 · FL Chapter 651 (54 sections)
  • 651.011 — Definitions
  • 651.012 — Exempted facility; written disclosure of exemption
  • 651.013 — Chapter exclusive; applicability of other laws
  • 651.014 — Insurance business not authorized
  • 651.015 — Administration; forms; fees; rules; fines
  • 651.018 — Administrative supervision
  • 651.019 — New financing, additional financing, or refinancing
  • 651.021 — Certificate of authority required
  • 651.0215 — Consolidated application for a provisional certificate of authority and a certificate of authority; required restriction
  • 651.022 — Provisional certificate of authority; application
  • 651.023 — Certificate of authority; application
  • 651.0235 — Validity of provisional certificates of authority and certificates of authority
  • 651.024 — Acquisition
  • 651.0245 — Application for the simultaneous acquisition of a facility and issuance of a certificate of authority
  • 651.0246 — Expansions
  • 651.026 — Annual reports
  • 651.0261 — Quarterly and monthly statements
  • 651.028 — Accredited facilities
  • 651.033 — Escrow accounts
  • 651.034 — Financial and operating requirements for providers
  • 651.035 — Minimum liquid reserve requirements
  • 651.043 — Approval of change in management
  • 651.051 — Maintenance of assets and records in state
  • 651.055 — Continuing care contracts; right to rescind
  • 651.057 — Continuing care at-home contracts
  • 651.061 — Dismissal or discharge of resident; refund
  • 651.065 — Waiver of statutory protection
  • 651.071 — Contracts as preferred claims on liquidation or receivership
  • 651.081 — Residents’ council
  • 651.083 — Residents’ rights
  • 651.085 — Quarterly meetings between residents and the governing body of the provider; resident representation before the governin
  • 651.091 — Availability, distribution, and posting of reports and records; requirement of full disclosure
  • 651.095 — Advertisements; requirements; penalties
  • 651.105 — Examination
  • 651.106 — Grounds for discretionary refusal, suspension, or revocation of certificate of authority
  • 651.1065 — Soliciting or accepting new continuing care contracts by impaired or insolvent facilities or providers
  • 651.107 — Duration of suspension; obligations during suspension period; reinstatement
  • 651.108 — Administrative fines
  • 651.1081 — Remedies available in cases of unlawful sale
  • 651.111 — Requests for inspections
  • 651.114 — Delinquency proceedings; remedial rights
  • 651.1141 — Immediate final orders
  • 651.1151 — Administrative, vendor, and management contracts
  • 651.116 — Delinquency proceedings; additional provisions
  • 651.117 — Order of liquidation; duties of the Department of Children and Families and the Agency for Health Care Administration
  • 651.118 — Agency for Health Care Administration; certificates of need; sheltered beds; community beds
  • 651.119 — Assistance to persons affected by closure due to liquidation or pending liquidation
  • 651.121 — Continuing Care Advisory Council
  • 651.123 — Alternative dispute resolution
  • 651.125 — Criminal penalties; injunctive relief
  • 651.13 — Civil action
  • 651.131 — Actions under prior law
  • 651.132 — Amendment or renewal of existing contracts
  • 651.134 — Investigatory records
Title 655 · FL Chapter 655 (94 sections)
  • 655.001 — Purpose; application
  • 655.005 — Definitions
  • 655.012 — General supervisory powers; rulemaking; seal
  • 655.013 — Effect on existing financial institutions
  • 655.015 — Construction; standards to be observed by commission and office
  • 655.016 — Liability when acting upon rule, order, or declaratory statement
  • 655.017 — Local regulation preempted
  • 655.0201 — Service of process, notice, levy, or demand on financial institutions
  • 655.031 — Administrative enforcement guidelines
  • 655.032 — Investigations, subpoenas, hearings, and witnesses
  • 655.0321 — Restricted access to certain hearings, proceedings, and related documents
  • 655.0322 — Prohibited acts and practices; criminal penalties
  • 655.0323 — Unsafe and unsound practices
  • 655.033 — Cease and desist orders
  • 655.034 — Injunctions
  • 655.035 — Military lending
  • 655.037 — Removal of a financial institution-affiliated party by the office
  • 655.0385 — Disapproval of directors and executive officers
  • 655.03855 — Provisional directors and executive officers
  • 655.0386 — Transactions with financial institution-affiliated parties
  • 655.0391 — Retention of supervision by office
  • 655.0392 — Place of transacting business
  • 655.041 — Administrative fines; enforcement
  • 655.043 — Articles of incorporation; amendments; approval
  • 655.044 — Accounting practices; bad debts ineligible to be carried as assets
  • 655.045 — Examinations, reports, and internal audits; penalty
  • 655.047 — Assessments; financial institutions
  • 655.049 — Deposit of fees and assessments
  • 655.057 — Records; limited restrictions upon public access
  • 655.059 — Access to books and records; confidentiality; penalty for disclosure
  • 655.0591 — Trade secret documents
  • 655.061 — Competitive equality with federally organized or chartered financial institutions
  • 655.071 — International banking facilities; definitions; notice before establishment
  • 655.41 — Definitions
  • 655.411 — Conversion of charter
  • 655.412 — Merger and consolidation
  • 655.414 — Acquisition of assets; assumption of liabilities
  • 655.416 — Book value of assets
  • 655.417 — Effect of merger, consolidation, conversion, or acquisition
  • 655.418 — Nonconforming activities; cessation
  • 655.4185 — Emergency action
  • 655.419 — Effect
  • 655.50 — Florida Control of Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing in Financial Institutions Act
  • 655.51 — Employment information
  • 655.55 — Law applicable to deposits in and contracts relating to extensions of credit by a deposit or lending institution located
  • 655.56 — Collection of fines, interest, or premiums on loans made by financial institutions
  • 655.60 — Appraisals
  • 655.762 — Sale of assets
  • 655.769 — Definitions of terms used in ss. 655.77-655.91
  • 655.77 — Deposits by minors
  • 655.78 — Deposit accounts in two or more names
  • 655.79 — Deposits and accounts in two or more names; presumption as to vesting on death
  • 655.80 — Convenience accounts
  • 655.82 — Pay-on-death accounts
  • 655.825 — Deposits in trust; applicability of s. 655.82 in place of former s. 655.81
  • 655.83 — Adverse claim to a deposit or fiduciary account
  • 655.84 — Limitations; statements as correct
  • 655.85 — Settlement of checks
  • 655.851 — Unclaimed credit balances
  • 655.86 — Issuance of postdated checks
  • 655.89 — Legal holidays; business days; business and transactions
  • 655.90 — Closing during emergencies and other special days
  • 655.91 — Records of institutions and copies thereof; retention and destruction
  • 655.921 — Transaction of business by out-of-state financial institutions; exempt transactions
  • 655.922 — Banking business by unauthorized persons; use of name
  • 655.93 — Definitions for ss. 655.93-655.94
  • 655.931 — Authority to engage in safe-deposit business
  • 655.932 — Lease to minor
  • 655.933 — Access by fiduciaries
  • 655.934 — Effect of lessee’s death or incapacity
  • 655.935 — Search procedure on death of lessee
  • 655.936 — Delivery of safe-deposit box contents or property held in safekeeping to personal representative
  • 655.937 — Access to safe-deposit boxes leased in two or more names
  • 655.938 — Adverse claims to contents of safe-deposit box
  • 655.939 — Limiting right of access for failure to comply with security procedures
  • 655.94 — Special remedies for nonpayment of rent
  • 655.942 — Standards of conduct; institutions
  • 655.943 — Applications; verification
  • 655.946 — Single interest insurance placed by financial institutions
  • 655.947 — Debt cancellation products
  • 655.948 — Significant events; notice required
  • 655.949 — Personnel; qualifications
  • 655.954 — Financial institution loans; credit cards
  • 655.955 — Liability of financial institution to third parties
  • 655.960 — Definitions; ss. 655.960-655.965
  • 655.961 — Violation of specified provisions not negligence per se
  • 655.962 — Lighting; mirrors; landscaping
  • 655.963 — Access devices
  • 655.964 — Application
  • 655.965 — Preemption; prohibition
  • 655.966 — Automated teller machine; surcharge disclosure
  • 655.967 — State-funded endowments
  • 655.968 — Financial institutions; transactions relating to Iran or terrorism
  • 655.97 — Gold and silver coin as legal tender
Title 657 · FL Chapter 657 (28 sections)
  • 657.001 — Short title
  • 657.002 — Definitions
  • 657.003 — Purposes
  • 657.005 — Application for authority to organize a credit union; investigation
  • 657.0061 — Amendments to bylaws
  • 657.008 — Place of doing business
  • 657.021 — Board of directors; executive committee responsibilities; oaths; reports to the office
  • 657.022 — Executive officers
  • 657.023 — Membership
  • 657.024 — Membership meetings
  • 657.026 — Supervisory or audit committee
  • 657.0265 — Liability of credit union directors, supervisory committee members, or audit committee members
  • 657.027 — Credit committee and credit manager
  • 657.028 — Activities of directors, officers, committee members, employees, and agents
  • 657.031 — Powers
  • 657.033 — Accounts
  • 657.0335 — Additional power to restrict withdrawals
  • 657.038 — Loan powers
  • 657.039 — Loan powers; extension of credit to directors and certain others
  • 657.041 — Insurance; employee benefit plans
  • 657.042 — Investment powers and limitations
  • 657.043 — Reserves
  • 657.053 — Assessments; state credit unions
  • 657.062 — Conservatorship
  • 657.063 — Involuntary liquidation
  • 657.064 — Voluntary liquidation
  • 657.065 — Merger
  • 657.066 — Conversion from state credit union to federal credit union and conversely
Title 658 · FL Chapter 658 (49 sections)
  • 658.12 — Definitions
  • 658.16 — Creation of banking or trust corporation
  • 658.165 — Banker’s banks; formation; applicability of financial institutions codes; exceptions
  • 658.19 — Application for authority to organize a bank or trust company
  • 658.20 — Investigation by office
  • 658.21 — Approval of application; findings required
  • 658.22 — Coordination with federal agencies
  • 658.23 — Submission of articles of incorporation; contents; form; approval; filing; commencement of corporate existence; bylaws
  • 658.235 — Subscriptions for stock; approval of major shareholders
  • 658.24 — Organizational procedures
  • 658.25 — Opening for business
  • 658.26 — Places of transacting business; branches; facilities
  • 658.27 — Control of bank or trust company; definitions and related provisions
  • 658.28 — Acquisition of control of a bank or trust company
  • 658.285 — Acquisition or ownership of state banks by international banking corporations
  • 658.2953 — Interstate branching
  • 658.30 — Application of the Florida Business Corporation Act
  • 658.32 — Annual meetings
  • 658.33 — Directors, number, qualifications; officers
  • 658.34 — Shares of capital stock
  • 658.35 — Share options; warrants
  • 658.36 — Changes in capital
  • 658.37 — Dividends and surplus
  • 658.38 — Deposit insurance
  • 658.39 — Stockholders; examination of records
  • 658.40 — Definitions for merger and consolidation
  • 658.41 — Merger; resulting state or national bank
  • 658.42 — Plan of merger and merger agreement
  • 658.43 — Approval by office; valuation of assets; emergency action
  • 658.44 — Approval by stockholders; rights of dissenters; preemptive rights
  • 658.45 — Certificate of merger and effective date; effect on charters and powers
  • 658.48 — Loans
  • 658.491 — Commercial loans by financial institutions
  • 658.51 — Banks authorized to make commodity loans
  • 658.53 — Borrowing; limits of indebtedness
  • 658.60 — Depositories of public moneys and pledge of assets
  • 658.67 — Investment powers and limitations
  • 658.73 — Fees and assessments
  • 658.79 — Taking possession of insolvent state banks or trust companies
  • 658.80 — Appointment of receiver or liquidator
  • 658.81 — Office action; notice and court confirmation
  • 658.82 — Receiver; powers and duties
  • 658.83 — Liquidator; powers and duties
  • 658.84 — Transfers by banks and other acts in contemplation of insolvency
  • 658.90 — Receivers or liquidators under supervision of office
  • 658.94 — Prima facie evidence
  • 658.95 — Voluntary liquidation
  • 658.96 — Procedure in voluntary liquidation
  • 658.995 — Credit Card Bank Act
Title 660 · FL Chapter 660 (28 sections)
  • 660.25 — Definitions
  • 660.26 — Trust department licensing
  • 660.265 — Examination fees
  • 660.27 — Deposit of securities with Chief Financial Officer
  • 660.28 — Exemption from bond and other security as fiduciary
  • 660.29 — Use of personnel and facilities
  • 660.30 — Segregation of books, records, and assets; fiduciary assets not liable
  • 660.31 — General trust business by trust companies and departments
  • 660.33 — Trust service offices
  • 660.34 — General powers
  • 660.35 — Oaths, affidavits, and acknowledgments
  • 660.36 — Fiduciary agency contracts
  • 660.37 — Security for deposit of fiduciary funds
  • 660.38 — Loans by and to fiduciary accounts
  • 660.39 — Sales between fiduciary accounts
  • 660.40 — Self dealing
  • 660.41 — Corporations; certain fiduciary functions prohibited
  • 660.415 — Investment by trust companies, trust departments, trustees, and fiduciaries
  • 660.417 — Investment of fiduciary funds in investment instruments; permissible activity under certain circumstances; limitations
  • 660.418 — Investment of fiduciary funds in syndicate securities
  • 660.42 — Establishment of common trust funds
  • 660.43 — Common trust fund investments
  • 660.431 — Prudent investor rule
  • 660.44 — Common trust fund to be audited annually
  • 660.45 — Common trust fund court accountings
  • 660.46 — Substitution of fiduciaries
  • 660.47 — Surrender of fiduciary powers
  • 660.48 — Receivership or voluntary liquidation
Title 662 · FL Chapter 662 (37 sections)
  • 662.10 — Short title
  • 662.102 — Purposes; findings
  • 662.111 — Definitions
  • 662.112 — Degrees of kinship
  • 662.113 — Applicability of other chapters of the financial institutions codes
  • 662.114 — Family trust company and foreign licensed family trust company licensing not required
  • 662.115 — Applicability of chapter to a family trust company or foreign licensed family trust company
  • 662.120 — Maximum number of designated relatives
  • 662.121 — Application for licensed family trust company; fees
  • 662.1215 — Investigation of license applicants
  • 662.122 — Registration of a family trust company or a foreign licensed family trust company
  • 662.1225 — Requirements for a family trust company, licensed family trust company, or foreign licensed family trust company
  • 662.123 — Organizational documents; use of term “family trust” in name
  • 662.124 — Minimum capital account required
  • 662.125 — Directors or managers
  • 662.126 — Fidelity bonds; insurance
  • 662.127 — Segregation of books, records, and assets; fiduciary assets not liable
  • 662.128 — Annual renewal
  • 662.129 — Discontinuing business
  • 662.130 — Powers of family trust companies, licensed family trust companies, and foreign licensed family trust companies
  • 662.131 — Prohibitions
  • 662.132 — Investments
  • 662.133 — Oaths, affidavits, and acknowledgments
  • 662.134 — Unlawful to advertise services
  • 662.135 — Service as court-appointed fiduciary; bond requirement
  • 662.140 — Rules
  • 662.141 — Examination, investigations, and fees
  • 662.142 — Revocation of license
  • 662.143 — Cease and desist authority
  • 662.144 — Failure to submit required report; fines
  • 662.145 — Grounds for removal
  • 662.146 — Confidentiality of books and records
  • 662.1465 — Family trust company proceedings; public records exemption
  • 662.147 — Records relating to the office examination; limited restrictions on public access
  • 662.148 — Public records exemption
  • 662.150 — Domestication of a foreign family trust company
  • 662.151 — Registration of a foreign licensed family trust company to operate in this state
Title 663 · FL Chapter 663 (84 sections)
  • 663.001 — Purpose
  • 663.01 — Definitions
  • 663.02 — Applicability of the financial institutions codes
  • 663.021 — Civil action subpoena enforcement
  • 663.03 — Applicability of the Florida Business Corporation Act
  • 663.04 — Requirements for carrying on financial institution business
  • 663.05 — Application for license; approval or disapproval
  • 663.055 — Capital requirements
  • 663.06 — Licenses; permissible activities
  • 663.0601 — After-the-fact licensure process in the event of the acquisition, merger, or consolidation of international banking corp
  • 663.061 — International bank agencies; permissible activities
  • 663.062 — International representative offices; permissible activities
  • 663.063 — International administrative offices
  • 663.064 — International branches; permissible activities; requirements
  • 663.065 — State-chartered investment companies; formation; permissible activities; restrictions
  • 663.07 — Asset maintenance or capital equivalency
  • 663.08 — Certification of capital accounts
  • 663.083 — Lending limits
  • 663.09 — Reports; records
  • 663.10 — Conversion of license
  • 663.11 — Termination of international banking corporation’s charter or authority
  • 663.12 — Fees; assessments; fines
  • 663.13 — Rules; exemption from statement of estimated regulatory costs requirements
  • 663.14 — Foreign travel expenses
  • 663.16 — Definitions; ss. 663.17-663.181
  • 663.17 — Liquidation; possession of business and property; inventory of assets; wages; depositing collected assets; appointing ag
  • 663.171 — Liquidation; repudiation of contracts
  • 663.172 — Liability on repudiation or termination of contracts
  • 663.173 — Qualified financial contract; net obligation and net entitlement
  • 663.174 — Repudiation; lease, lessee, or lessor; real or personal property
  • 663.175 — Liquidation; continuation, stay, and injunction
  • 663.176 — Liquidation; notice of possession
  • 663.177 — Disposition of property held as bailee or depositary; opening of safe-deposit boxes; disposal of contents
  • 663.178 — Claims; valuation; priority; listing; filing; objection; endorsement; adverse interest
  • 663.18 — Fees
  • 663.181 — Manner and time within which taking possession may be tested
  • 663.301 — Definitions
  • 663.302 — Applicability of state banking laws
  • 663.303 — Creation of an international development bank
  • 663.304 — Application for authority to organize an international development bank
  • 663.305 — Investigation by the office
  • 663.306 — Decision by office
  • 663.307 — Name
  • 663.308 — Place of transacting business; branches
  • 663.309 — Permissible activities; prohibited activities
  • 663.310 — Directors
  • 663.311 — Shares of stock
  • 663.312 — Changes in capital
  • 663.313 — Ownership of stock
  • 663.314 — Lending limits
  • 663.315 — Investment limits
  • 663.316 — Borrowing; capital accounts
  • 663.317 — Foreign currency lending, borrowing, and deposits
  • 663.318 — Reserve requirements
  • 663.4001 — Purpose
  • 663.401 — Definitions
  • 663.402 — Applicability of the financial institutions codes
  • 663.403 — Applicability of the Florida Business Corporation Act
  • 663.404 — Requirements for conducting financial institution business
  • 663.405 — Civil action subpoena enforcement
  • 663.406 — Application for license; approval or disapproval
  • 663.407 — Capital requirements
  • 663.408 — Licenses; permissible activities of licensees
  • 663.4081 — After-the-fact licensure process in the event of the acquisition, merger, or consolidation of international trust entiti
  • 663.409 — International trust company representative offices; permissible activities; requirements
  • 663.410 — Certification of capital accounts
  • 663.411 — Reports; records
  • 663.412 — Termination of international trust entity’s charter or authority
  • 663.413 — Application and examination fees
  • 663.414 — Rules; exemption from statement of estimated regulatory costs requirements
  • 663.415 — Travel expenses
  • 663.416 — Public records exemption
  • 663.530 — Definitions
  • 663.531 — Permissible activities; prohibited activities
  • 663.532 — Qualification
  • 663.5325 — Civil action subpoena enforcement
  • 663.533 — Applicability of the financial institutions codes
  • 663.534 — Events that require notice to be provided to the office
  • 663.535 — Notice to customers
  • 663.536 — Recordkeeping requirements for trade, industry, or professional events
  • 663.537 — Examination or investigation of a qualified limited service affiliate
  • 663.538 — Suspension, revocation, or voluntary surrender of qualification
  • 663.539 — Biennial qualification renewal
  • 663.540 — Public records exemption
Title 665 · FL Chapter 665 (14 sections)
  • 665.012 — Definitions
  • 665.013 — Applicability of chapter 658
  • 665.0211 — Name
  • 665.0315 — Reorganization, merger, or consolidation with a foreign association
  • 665.033 — Conversion of state or federal mutual association to capital stock association
  • 665.0335 — Supervisory case; emergency conversion, reorganization, merger; consolidation; acquisition of assets
  • 665.034 — Acquisition of assets of or control over an association
  • 665.0345 — Regulatory supervision of foreign associations
  • 665.0501 — Powers of association generally
  • 665.0711 — Loans
  • 665.074 — Loan expenses
  • 665.075 — Dealing with successors in interest
  • 665.1001 — Foreign associations
  • 665.1011 — Federal associations
Title 667 · FL Chapter 667 (13 sections)
  • 667.001 — Short title
  • 667.002 — Definitions
  • 667.003 — Applicability of chapter 658
  • 667.004 — Name
  • 667.005 — Reorganization, merger, or consolidation with a foreign savings bank
  • 667.006 — Conversion of state or federal mutual savings bank or state or federal mutual association to capital stock savings bank
  • 667.007 — Supervisory case; emergency conversion, reorganization, merger; consolidation; acquisition of assets
  • 667.008 — Acquisition of assets of or control over a savings bank
  • 667.009 — Powers of savings bank generally
  • 667.010 — Loans
  • 667.011 — Loan expenses
  • 667.012 — Dealing with successors in interest
  • 667.013 — Foreign savings banks
Title 668 · FL Chapter 668 (27 sections)
Title 669 · FL Chapter 669 (17 sections)
  • 669.101 — Short title
  • 669.102 — Definitions
  • 669.103 — Relation to chapter 679 and consumer laws
  • 669.104 — Rights in controllable account, controllable electronic record, and controllable payment intangible
  • 669.105 — Control of controllable electronic record
  • 669.106 — Discharge of account debtor on controllable account or controllable payment intangible
  • 669.107 — Governing law
  • 669.501 — Short title
  • 669.502 — Definitions
  • 669.601 — Saving clause
  • 669.701 — Saving clause
  • 669.702 — Security interest perfected before effective date
  • 669.703 — Security interest unperfected before effective date
  • 669.704 — Effectiveness of actions taken before effective date
  • 669.705 — Priority
  • 669.706 — Priority of claims when priority rules of chapter 679 do not apply
  • 669.711 — Construction
Title 670 · FL Chapter 670 (39 sections)
  • 670.101 — Short title
  • 670.102 — Subject matter
  • 670.103 — Payment order: definitions
  • 670.104 — Funds transfer: definitions
  • 670.105 — Other definitions
  • 670.106 — Time payment order is received
  • 670.107 — Federal Reserve regulations and operating circulars
  • 670.108 — Relationship to Electronic Fund Transfer Act
  • 670.201 — Security procedure
  • 670.202 — Authorized and verified payment orders
  • 670.203 — Unenforceability of certain verified payment orders
  • 670.204 — Refund of payment and duty of customer to report with respect to unauthorized payment order
  • 670.205 — Erroneous payment orders
  • 670.206 — Transmission of payment order through funds-transfer system or other communication system
  • 670.207 — Misdescription of beneficiary
  • 670.208 — Misdescription of intermediary bank or beneficiary’s bank
  • 670.209 — Acceptance of payment order
  • 670.21 — Rejection of payment order
  • 670.211 — Cancellation and amendment of payment order
  • 670.212 — Liability and duty of receiving bank regarding unaccepted payment order
  • 670.301 — Execution and execution date
  • 670.302 — Obligations of receiving bank in execution of payment order
  • 670.303 — Erroneous execution of payment order
  • 670.304 — Duty of sender to report erroneously executed payment order
  • 670.305 — Liability for late or improper execution or failure to execute payment order
  • 670.401 — Payment date
  • 670.402 — Obligation of sender to pay receiving bank
  • 670.403 — Payment by sender to receiving bank
  • 670.404 — Obligation of beneficiary’s bank to pay and give notice to beneficiary
  • 670.405 — Payment by beneficiary’s bank to beneficiary
  • 670.406 — Payment by originator to beneficiary; discharge of underlying obligation
  • 670.501 — Variation by agreement and effect of funds-transfer system rule
  • 670.502 — Creditor process served on receiving bank; set-off by beneficiary’s bank
  • 670.503 — Injunction or restraining order with respect to funds transfer
  • 670.504 — Order in which items and payment orders may be charged to account; order of withdrawals from account
  • 670.505 — Preclusion of objection to debit of customer’s account
  • 670.506 — Rate of interest
  • 670.507 — Choice of law
  • 670.601 — Saving clause
Title 671 · FL Chapter 671 (28 sections)
  • 671.101 — Short title; scope of chapter
  • 671.102 — Purposes; rules of construction; variation by agreement
  • 671.103 — Supplementary general principles of law applicable
  • 671.104 — Construction against implicit repeal
  • 671.105 — Territorial application of the code; parties’ power to choose applicable law
  • 671.106 — Remedies to be liberally administered
  • 671.107 — Waiver or renunciation of claim or right after breach
  • 671.108 — Severability
  • 671.109 — Section captions
  • 671.201 — General definitions
  • 671.202 — Prima facie evidence by third-party documents
  • 671.203 — Obligation of good faith
  • 671.204 — Actions taken within reasonable time; seasonably
  • 671.205 — Course of performance; course of dealing; usage of trade
  • 671.207 — Performance or acceptance under reservation of rights
  • 671.208 — Option to accelerate at will
  • 671.209 — Notice; knowledge
  • 671.21 — Presumptions
  • 671.211 — Value
  • 671.212 — Relation to Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act
  • 671.213 — Subordinated obligations
  • 671.301 — Effective date; provision for transition; preservation of old transition provision
  • 671.304 — Laws not repealed; precedence where code provisions in conflict with other laws; certain statutory remedies retained
  • 671.308 — Transition provisions on place of filing
  • 671.309 — Required refilings
  • 671.31 — Transition provisions as to priorities
  • 671.311 — Presumption that rule of law continues unchanged
  • 671.401 — Saving clause
Title 672 · FL Chapter 672 (104 sections)
  • 672.101 — Short title
  • 672.102 — Scope; certain security and other transactions excluded from this chapter
  • 672.103 — Definitions and index of definitions
  • 672.104 — Definitions: “merchant”; “between merchants”; “financing agency.”
  • 672.105 — Definitions: transferability; “goods”; “future” goods; “lot”; “commercial unit.”
  • 672.106 — Definitions: “contract”; “agreement”; “contract for sale”; “sale”; “present sale”; “conforming”
  • 672.107 — Goods to be severed from realty; recording
  • 672.201 — Formal requirements; statute of frauds
  • 672.202 — Final expression; parol or extrinsic evidence
  • 672.203 — Seals inoperative
  • 672.204 — Formation in general
  • 672.205 — Firm offers
  • 672.206 — Offer and acceptance in formation of contract
  • 672.207 — Additional terms in acceptance or confirmation
  • 672.208 — Course of performance or practical construction
  • 672.209 — Modification, rescission, and waiver
  • 672.210 — Delegation of performance; assignment of rights
  • 672.301 — General obligations of parties
  • 672.302 — Unconscionable contract or clause
  • 672.303 — Allocation or division of risks
  • 672.304 — Price payable in money, goods, realty, or otherwise
  • 672.305 — Open price term
  • 672.306 — Output, requirements, and exclusive dealings
  • 672.307 — Delivery in single lot or several lots
  • 672.308 — Absence of specified place for delivery
  • 672.309 — Absence of specific time provisions; notice of termination
  • 672.310 — Open time for payment or running of credit; authority to ship under reservation
  • 672.311 — Options and cooperation respecting performance
  • 672.312 — Warranty of title and against infringement; buyer’s obligation against infringement
  • 672.313 — Express warranties by affirmation, promise, description, sample
  • 672.314 — Implied warranty; merchantability; usage of trade
  • 672.315 — Implied warranty; fitness for particular purpose
  • 672.316 — Exclusion or modification of warranties
  • 672.317 — Cumulation and conflict of warranties express or implied
  • 672.318 — Third-party beneficiaries of warranties express or implied
  • 672.319 — “F.O.B.” and “F.A.S.” terms
  • 672.320 — “C.I.F.” and “C. & F.” terms
  • 672.321 — C.I.F. or C. & F.; “net landed weights”; “payment on arrival”; warranty of condition on arrival
  • 672.322 — Delivery “ex-ship.”
  • 672.323 — Form of bill of lading required in overseas shipment; “overseas.”
  • 672.324 — “No arrival, no sale” term
  • 672.325 — “Letter of credit” term; “confirmed credit.”
  • 672.326 — Sale on approval and sale or return; rights of creditors
  • 672.327 — Special incidents of sale on approval and sale or return
  • 672.328 — Sale by auction
  • 672.401 — Passing of title; reservation for security; limited application of this section
  • 672.402 — Rights of seller’s creditors against sold goods
  • 672.403 — Power to transfer; good faith purchase of goods; “entrusting.”
  • 672.501 — Insurable interest in goods; manner of identification of goods
  • 672.502 — Buyer’s right to goods on seller’s repudiation, failure to deliver, or insolvency
  • 672.503 — Manner of seller’s tender of delivery
  • 672.504 — Shipment by seller
  • 672.505 — Seller’s shipment under reservation
  • 672.506 — Rights of financing agency
  • 672.507 — Effect of seller’s tender; delivery on condition
  • 672.508 — Cure by seller of improper tender or delivery; replacement
  • 672.509 — Risk of loss in the absence of breach
  • 672.510 — Effect of breach on risk of loss
  • 672.511 — Tender of payment by buyer; payment by check
  • 672.512 — Payment by buyer before inspection
  • 672.513 — Buyer’s right to inspection of goods
  • 672.514 — When documents deliverable on acceptance; when on payment
  • 672.515 — Preserving evidence of goods in dispute
  • 672.601 — Buyer’s rights on improper delivery
  • 672.602 — Manner and effect of rightful rejection
  • 672.603 — Merchant buyer’s duties as to rightfully rejected goods
  • 672.604 — Buyer’s options as to salvage of rightfully rejected goods
  • 672.605 — Waiver of buyer’s objections by failure to particularize
  • 672.606 — What constitutes acceptance of goods
  • 672.607 — Effect of acceptance; notice of breach; burden of establishing breach after acceptance; notice of claim or litigation to
  • 672.608 — Revocation of acceptance in whole or in part
  • 672.609 — Right to adequate assurance of performance
  • 672.610 — Anticipatory repudiation
  • 672.611 — Retraction of anticipatory repudiation
  • 672.612 — “Installment contract”; breach
  • 672.613 — Casualty to identified goods
  • 672.614 — Substituted performance
  • 672.615 — Excuse by failure of presupposed conditions
  • 672.616 — Procedure on notice claiming excuse
  • 672.701 — Remedies for breach of collateral contracts not impaired
  • 672.702 — Seller’s remedies on discovery of buyer’s insolvency
  • 672.703 — Seller’s remedies in general
  • 672.704 — Seller’s right to identify goods to the contract notwithstanding breach or to salvage unfinished goods
  • 672.705 — Seller’s stoppage of delivery in transit or otherwise
  • 672.706 — Seller’s resale including contract for resale
  • 672.707 — “Person in the position of a seller.”
  • 672.708 — Seller’s damages for nonacceptance or repudiation
  • 672.709 — Action for the price
  • 672.710 — Seller’s incidental damages
  • 672.711 — Buyer’s remedies in general; buyer’s security interest in rejected goods
  • 672.712 — “Cover”; buyer’s procurement of substitute goods
  • 672.713 — Buyer’s damages for nondelivery or repudiation
  • 672.714 — Buyer’s damages for breach in regard to accepted goods
  • 672.715 — Buyer’s incidental and consequential damages
  • 672.716 — Buyer’s right to specific performance or replevin
  • 672.717 — Deduction of damages from the price
  • 672.718 — Liquidation or limitation of damages; deposits
  • 672.719 — Contractual modification or limitation of remedy
  • 672.720 — Effect of “cancellation” or “rescission” on claims for antecedent breach
  • 672.721 — Remedies for fraud
  • 672.722 — Who can sue third parties for injury to goods
  • 672.723 — Proof of market price; time and place
  • 672.724 — Admissibility of market quotations
  • 672.801 — Saving clause
Title 673 · FL Chapter 673 (69 sections)
  • 673.1011 — Short title
  • 673.1021 — Subject matter
  • 673.1031 — Definitions
  • 673.1041 — Negotiable instrument
  • 673.1051 — Issue of instrument
  • 673.1061 — Unconditional promise or order
  • 673.1071 — Instrument payable in foreign money
  • 673.1081 — Payable on demand or at definite time
  • 673.1091 — Payable to bearer or to order
  • 673.1101 — Identification of person to whom instrument is payable
  • 673.1111 — Place of payment
  • 673.1121 — Interest
  • 673.1131 — Date of instrument
  • 673.1141 — Contradictory terms of instrument
  • 673.1151 — Incomplete instrument
  • 673.1161 — Joint and several liability; contribution
  • 673.1171 — Other agreements affecting instrument
  • 673.1181 — Statute of limitations
  • 673.1191 — Notice of right to defend action
  • 673.2011 — Negotiation
  • 673.2021 — Negotiation subject to rescission
  • 673.2031 — Transfer of instrument; rights acquired by transfer
  • 673.2041 — Indorsement
  • 673.2051 — Special indorsement; blank indorsement; anomalous indorsement
  • 673.2061 — Restrictive indorsement
  • 673.2071 — Reacquisition
  • 673.3011 — Person entitled to enforce instrument
  • 673.3021 — Holder in due course
  • 673.3031 — Value and consideration
  • 673.3041 — Overdue instrument
  • 673.3051 — Defenses and claims in recoupment
  • 673.3061 — Claims to an instrument
  • 673.3071 — Notice of breach of fiduciary duty
  • 673.3081 — Proof of signatures and status as holder in due course
  • 673.3091 — Enforcement of lost, destroyed, or stolen instrument
  • 673.3101 — Effect of instrument on obligation for which taken
  • 673.3111 — Accord and satisfaction by use of instrument
  • 673.3121 — Lost, destroyed, or stolen cashier’s check, teller’s check, or certified check
  • 673.4011 — Signature
  • 673.4021 — Signature by representative
  • 673.4031 — Unauthorized signature
  • 673.4041 — Impostors; fictitious payees
  • 673.4051 — Employer’s responsibility for fraudulent indorsement by employee
  • 673.4061 — Negligence contributing to forged signature or alteration of instrument
  • 673.4071 — Alteration
  • 673.4081 — Drawee not liable on unaccepted draft
  • 673.4091 — Acceptance of draft; certified check
  • 673.4101 — Acceptance varying draft
  • 673.4111 — Refusal to pay cashier’s checks, teller’s checks, and certified checks
  • 673.4121 — Obligation of issuer of note or cashier’s check
  • 673.4131 — Obligation of acceptor
  • 673.4141 — Obligation of drawer
  • 673.4151 — Obligation of indorser
  • 673.4161 — Transfer warranties
  • 673.4171 — Presentment warranties
  • 673.4181 — Payment or acceptance by mistake
  • 673.4191 — Instruments signed for accommodation
  • 673.4201 — Conversion of instrument
  • 673.5011 — Presentment
  • 673.5021 — Dishonor
  • 673.5031 — Notice of dishonor
  • 673.5041 — Excused presentment and notice of dishonor
  • 673.5051 — Evidence of dishonor
  • 673.6011 — Discharge and effect of discharge
  • 673.6021 — Payment
  • 673.6031 — Tender of payment
  • 673.6041 — Discharge by cancellation or renunciation
  • 673.6051 — Discharge of indorsers and accommodation parties
  • 673.702 — Savings clause
Title 674 · FL Chapter 674 (41 sections)
  • 674.101 — Short title
  • 674.102 — Applicability
  • 674.103 — Variation by agreement; measure of damages; action constituting ordinary care
  • 674.104 — Definitions and index of definitions
  • 674.105 — “Bank”; “depositary bank”; “payor bank”; “intermediary bank”; “collecting bank”; “presenting bank.
  • 674.1061 — Payable through or payable at bank; collecting bank
  • 674.1071 — Separate office of bank
  • 674.1081 — Time of receipt of items
  • 674.1091 — Delays
  • 674.1101 — Electronic presentment
  • 674.111 — Statute of limitations
  • 674.201 — Status of collecting bank as agent and provisional status of credits; applicability of chapter; item indorsed “pay any
  • 674.202 — Responsibility for collection or return; when action timely
  • 674.203 — Effect of instructions
  • 674.204 — Methods of sending and presenting; sending directly to payor bank
  • 674.205 — Depositary bank holder of unindorsed item
  • 674.206 — Transfer between banks
  • 674.207 — Transfer warranties
  • 674.2081 — Presentment warranties
  • 674.2091 — Encoding and retention warranties
  • 674.2101 — Security interest of collecting bank in items, accompanying documents, and proceeds
  • 674.2111 — When bank gives value for purposes of holder in due course
  • 674.2121 — Presentment by notice of item not payable by, through, or at a bank; liability of drawer or indorser
  • 674.2131 — Medium and time of settlement by bank
  • 674.2141 — Right of charge-back or refund; liability of collecting bank; return of item
  • 674.215 — Final payment of item by payor bank; when provisional debits and credits become final; when certain credits become avail
  • 674.216 — Insolvency and preference
  • 674.301 — Deferred posting; recovery of payment by return of items; time of dishonor; return of items by payor bank
  • 674.302 — Payor bank’s responsibility for late return of item
  • 674.303 — When items subject to notice, stop-payment order, legal process, or setoff; order in which items may be charged or certi
  • 674.401 — When bank may charge customer’s account
  • 674.402 — Bank’s liability to customer for wrongful dishonor; time of determining insufficiency of account
  • 674.403 — Customer’s right to stop payment; burden of proof of loss
  • 674.404 — Bank not obliged to pay check more than 6 months old
  • 674.405 — Death or incompetence of customer
  • 674.406 — Customer’s duty to discover and report unauthorized signature or alteration
  • 674.407 — Payor bank’s right to subrogation on improper payment
  • 674.501 — Handling of documentary drafts; duty to send for presentment and to notify customer of dishonor
  • 674.502 — Presentment of “on arrival” drafts
  • 674.503 — Responsibility of presenting bank for documents and goods; report of reasons for dishonor; referee in case of need
  • 674.504 — Privilege of presenting bank to deal with goods; security interest for expenses
Title 675 · FL Chapter 675 (20 sections)
  • 675.101 — Short title
  • 675.102 — Scope
  • 675.103 — Definitions
  • 675.104 — Formal requirements
  • 675.105 — Consideration
  • 675.106 — Issuance, amendment, cancellation, and duration
  • 675.107 — Confirmer, nominated person, and adviser
  • 675.108 — Issuer’s rights and obligations
  • 675.109 — Fraud and forgery
  • 675.110 — Warranties
  • 675.111 — Remedies
  • 675.112 — Transfer of letter of credit
  • 675.113 — Transfer by operation of law
  • 675.114 — Assignment of proceeds
  • 675.115 — Statute of limitations
  • 675.116 — Choice of law and forum
  • 675.117 — Subrogation of issuer, applicant, and nominated person
  • 675.118 — Applicability of ch. 99-137
  • 675.1181 — Security interest of issuer or nominated person
  • 675.119 — Saving clause
Title 677 · FL Chapter 677 (42 sections)
  • 677.101 — Short title
  • 677.102 — Definitions and index of definitions
  • 677.103 — Relation of chapter to treaty, statute, classification, or regulation
  • 677.104 — Negotiable and nonnegotiable document of title
  • 677.105 — Reissuance in alternative medium
  • 677.106 — Control of electronic document of title
  • 677.201 — Persons that may issue a warehouse receipt; storage under bond
  • 677.202 — Form of warehouse receipt; effect of omission
  • 677.203 — Liability of nonreceipt or misdescription
  • 677.204 — Duty of care; contractual limitation of warehouse’s liability
  • 677.205 — Title under warehouse receipt defeated in certain cases
  • 677.206 — Termination of storage at warehouse’s option
  • 677.207 — Goods shall be kept separate; fungible goods
  • 677.208 — Altered warehouse receipts
  • 677.209 — Lien of warehouse
  • 677.210 — Enforcement of warehouse’s lien
  • 677.301 — Liability for nonreceipt or misdescription; “said to contain”; “shipper’s weight, load, and count”; improper h
  • 677.302 — Through bills of lading and similar documents of title
  • 677.303 — Diversion; reconsignment; change of instructions
  • 677.304 — Tangible bills of lading in a set
  • 677.305 — Destination bills
  • 677.306 — Altered bills of lading
  • 677.307 — Lien of carrier
  • 677.308 — Enforcement of carrier’s lien
  • 677.309 — Duty of care; contractual limitation of carrier’s liability
  • 677.401 — Irregularities in issue of receipt or bill or conduct of issuer
  • 677.402 — Duplicate document of title; overissue
  • 677.403 — Obligation of bailee to deliver; excuse
  • 677.404 — No liability for good faith delivery pursuant to document of title
  • 677.501 — Form of negotiation and requirements of due negotiation
  • 677.502 — Rights acquired by due negotiation
  • 677.503 — Document of title to goods defeated in certain cases
  • 677.504 — Rights acquired in the absence of due negotiation; effect of diversion; stoppage of delivery
  • 677.505 — Indorser not guarantor for other parties
  • 677.506 — Delivery without indorsement; right to compel indorsement
  • 677.507 — Warranties on negotiation or delivery of document of title
  • 677.508 — Warranties of collecting bank as to documents of title
  • 677.509 — Adequate compliance with commercial contract
  • 677.601 — Lost, stolen, or destroyed documents of title
  • 677.602 — Judicial process against goods covered by negotiable document of title
  • 677.603 — Conflicting claims; interpleader
  • 677.701 — Saving clause
Title 678 · FL Chapter 678 (53 sections)
  • 678.1011 — Short title
  • 678.1021 — Definitions
  • 678.1031 — Rules for determining whether certain obligations and interests are securities or financial assets
  • 678.1041 — Acquisition of security or financial asset or interest therein
  • 678.1051 — Notice of adverse claim
  • 678.1061 — Control
  • 678.1071 — Whether indorsement, instruction, or entitlement order is effective
  • 678.1081 — Warranties in direct holding
  • 678.1091 — Warranties in indirect holding
  • 678.1101 — Applicability; choice of law
  • 678.1111 — Clearing corporation rules
  • 678.1121 — Creditor’s legal process
  • 678.1131 — Statute of frauds inapplicable
  • 678.1141 — Evidentiary rules concerning certificated securities
  • 678.1151 — Securities intermediary and others not liable to adverse claimant
  • 678.1161 — Securities intermediary as purchaser for value
  • 678.1171 — Application of ch. 98-11
  • 678.2011 — Issuer
  • 678.2021 — Issuer’s responsibility and defenses; notice of defect or defense
  • 678.2031 — Staleness as notice of defect or defense
  • 678.2041 — Effect of issuer’s restriction on transfer
  • 678.2051 — Effect of unauthorized signature on security certificate
  • 678.2061 — Completion or alteration of security certificate
  • 678.2071 — Rights and duties of issuer with respect to registered owners
  • 678.2081 — Effect of signature of authenticating trustee, registrar, or transfer agent
  • 678.2091 — Issuer’s lien
  • 678.2101 — Overissue
  • 678.3011 — Delivery
  • 678.3021 — Rights of purchaser
  • 678.3031 — Protected purchaser
  • 678.3041 — Indorsement
  • 678.3051 — Instruction
  • 678.3061 — Effect of guaranteeing signature, indorsement, or instruction
  • 678.3071 — Purchaser’s right to requisites for registration of transfer
  • 678.4011 — Duty of issuer to register transfer
  • 678.4021 — Assurance that indorsement or instruction is effective
  • 678.4031 — Demand that issuer not register transfer
  • 678.4041 — Wrongful registration
  • 678.4051 — Replacement of lost, destroyed, or wrongfully taken security certificate
  • 678.4061 — Obligation to notify issuer of lost, destroyed, or wrongfully taken security certificate
  • 678.4071 — Authenticating trustee, transfer agent, and registrar
  • 678.5011 — Securities account; acquisition of security entitlement from securities intermediary
  • 678.5021 — Assertion of adverse claim against entitlement holder
  • 678.5031 — Property interest of entitlement holder in financial asset held by securities intermediary
  • 678.5041 — Duty of securities intermediary to maintain financial asset
  • 678.5051 — Duty of securities intermediary with respect to payments and distributions
  • 678.5061 — Duty of securities intermediary to exercise rights as directed by entitlement holder
  • 678.5071 — Duty of securities intermediary to comply with entitlement order
  • 678.5081 — Duty of securities intermediary to change entitlement holder’s position to other form of security holding
  • 678.5091 — Specification of duties of securities intermediary by other statute or regulation; manner of performance of duties of se
  • 678.5101 — Rights of purchaser of security entitlement from entitlement holder
  • 678.5111 — Priority among security interests and entitlement holders
  • 678.601 — Saving clause
Title 679 · FL Chapter 679 (152 sections)
  • 679.1011 — Short title
  • 679.1021 — Definitions and index of definitions
  • 679.1031 — Purchase-money security interest; application of payments; burden of establishing
  • 679.1041 — Control of deposit account
  • 679.1051 — Control of electronic chattel paper
  • 679.1052 — Control of electronic money
  • 679.1053 — Control of controllable electronic record, controllable account, or controllable payment intangible
  • 679.1054 — No requirement to acknowledge or confirm; no duties
  • 679.1061 — Control of investment property
  • 679.1071 — Control of letter-of-credit right
  • 679.1081 — Sufficiency of description
  • 679.1091 — Scope
  • 679.1101 — Security interests arising under chapter 672 or chapter 680
  • 679.2011 — General effectiveness of security agreement
  • 679.2021 — Title to collateral immaterial
  • 679.2031 — Attachment and enforceability of security interest; proceeds; supporting obligations; formal requisites
  • 679.2041 — After-acquired property; future advances
  • 679.2051 — Use or disposition of collateral permissible
  • 679.2061 — Security interest arising in purchase or delivery of financial asset
  • 679.2071 — Rights and duties of secured party having possession or control of collateral
  • 679.2081 — Additional duties of secured party having control of collateral
  • 679.209 — Duties of secured party if account debtor has been notified of assignment
  • 679.210 — Request for accounting; request regarding list of collateral or statement of account
  • 679.3011 — Law governing perfection and priority of security interests
  • 679.3021 — Law governing perfection and priority of agricultural liens
  • 679.3031 — Law governing perfection and priority of security interests in goods covered by a certificate of title
  • 679.3041 — Law governing perfection and priority of security interests in deposit accounts
  • 679.3051 — Law governing perfection and priority of security interests in investment property
  • 679.3061 — Law governing perfection and priority of security interests in letter-of-credit rights
  • 679.3062 — Law governing perfection and priority of security interests in chattel paper
  • 679.3063 — Law governing perfection and priority of security interests in controllable accounts, controllable electronic records, a
  • 679.3071 — Location of debtor
  • 679.3081 — When security interest or agricultural lien is perfected; continuity of perfection
  • 679.3091 — Security interest perfected upon attachment
  • 679.3101 — When filing required to perfect security interest or agricultural lien; security interests and agricultural liens to whi
  • 679.3111 — Perfection of security interests in property subject to certain statutes, regulations, and treaties
  • 679.3121 — Perfection of security interests in chattel paper, controllable accounts, controllable electronic records, controllable
  • 679.3131 — When possession by or delivery to secured party perfects security interest without filing
  • 679.3141 — Perfection by control
  • 679.3151 — Secured party’s rights on disposition of collateral and in proceeds
  • 679.3152 — Perfection by possession and control of chattel paper
  • 679.3161 — Continued perfection of security interest following change in governing law
  • 679.3171 — Interests that take priority over or take free of security interest or agricultural lien
  • 679.3181 — No interest retained in right to payment that is sold; rights and title of seller of account or chattel paper with respe
  • 679.319 — Rights and title of consignee with respect to creditors and purchasers
  • 679.320 — Buyer of goods
  • 679.321 — Licensee of general intangible and lessee of goods in ordinary course of business
  • 679.322 — Priorities among conflicting security interests in and agricultural liens on same collateral
  • 679.323 — Future advances
  • 679.324 — Priority of purchase-money security interests
  • 679.325 — Priority of security interests in transferred collateral
  • 679.3251 — Priority of security interest in controllable account, controllable electronic record, and controllable payment intangib
  • 679.326 — Priority of security interests created by new debtor
  • 679.327 — Priority of security interests in deposit account
  • 679.328 — Priority of security interests in investment property
  • 679.329 — Priority of security interests in letter-of-credit right
  • 679.330 — Priority of purchaser of chattel paper or instrument
  • 679.331 — Priority of rights of purchasers of controllable accounts, controllable electronic records, controllable payment intangi
  • 679.332 — Transfer of money; transfer of funds from deposit account; transfer of electronic money
  • 679.333 — Priority of certain liens arising by operation of law
  • 679.334 — Priority of security interests in fixtures and crops
  • 679.335 — Accessions
  • 679.336 — Commingled goods
  • 679.337 — Priority of security interests in goods covered by certificate of title
  • 679.338 — Priority of security interest or agricultural lien perfected by filed financing statement providing certain incorrect in
  • 679.339 — Priority subject to subordination
  • 679.340 — Effectiveness of right of recoupment or set-off against deposit account
  • 679.341 — Bank’s rights and duties with respect to deposit account
  • 679.342 — Bank’s right to refuse to enter into or disclose existence of control agreement
  • 679.40111 — Alienability of debtor’s rights
  • 679.4021 — Secured party not obligated on contract of debtor or in tort
  • 679.4031 — Agreement not to assert defenses against assignee
  • 679.4041 — Rights acquired by assignee; claims and defenses against assignee
  • 679.4051 — Modification of assigned contract
  • 679.4061 — Discharge of account debtor; notification of assignment; identification and proof of assignment; restrictions on assignm
  • 679.4071 — Restrictions on creation or enforcement of security interest in leasehold interest or in lessor’s residual interest
  • 679.4081 — Restrictions on assignment of promissory notes, health-care-insurance receivables, and certain general intangibles ineff
  • 679.409 — Restrictions on assignment of letter-of-credit rights ineffective
  • 679.5011 — Filing office
  • 679.5021 — Contents of financing statement; record of mortgage as financing statement; time of filing financing statement
  • 679.5031 — Name of debtor and secured party
  • 679.5041 — Indication of collateral
  • 679.5051 — Filing and compliance with other statutes and treaties for consignments, leases, bailments, and other transactions
  • 679.5061 — Effect of errors or omissions
  • 679.5071 — Effect of certain events on effectiveness of financing statement
  • 679.508 — Effectiveness of financing statement if new debtor becomes bound by security agreement
  • 679.509 — Persons entitled to file a record
  • 679.510 — Effectiveness of filed record
  • 679.511 — Secured party of record
  • 679.512 — Amendment of financing statement
  • 679.513 — Termination statement
  • 679.514 — Assignment of powers of secured party of record
  • 679.515 — Duration and effectiveness of financing statement; effect of lapsed financing statement
  • 679.516 — What constitutes filing; effectiveness of filing
  • 679.517 — Effect of indexing errors
  • 679.518 — Claim concerning inaccurate or wrongfully filed record
  • 679.519 — Numbering, maintaining, and indexing records; communicating information provided in records
  • 679.520 — Acceptance and refusal to accept record
  • 679.521 — Uniform form of written financing statement and amendment
  • 679.522 — Maintenance and destruction of records
  • 679.523 — Information from filing office; sale or license of records
  • 679.524 — Delay by filing office
  • 679.525 — Processing fees
  • 679.526 — Filing-office rules
  • 679.527 — Florida Secured Transaction Registry
  • 679.601 — Rights after default; judicial enforcement; consignor or buyer of accounts, chattel paper, payment intangibles, or promi
  • 679.602 — Waiver and variance of rights and duties
  • 679.603 — Agreement on standards concerning rights and duties
  • 679.604 — Procedure if security agreement covers real property or fixtures
  • 679.605 — Unknown debtor or secondary obligor
  • 679.606 — Time of default for agricultural lien
  • 679.607 — Collection and enforcement by secured party
  • 679.608 — Application of proceeds of collection or enforcement; liability for deficiency and right to surplus
  • 679.609 — Secured party’s right to take possession after default
  • 679.610 — Disposition of collateral after default
  • 679.611 — Notification before disposition of collateral
  • 679.612 — Timeliness of notification before disposition of collateral
  • 679.613 — Contents and form of notification before disposition of collateral; general
  • 679.614 — Contents and form of notification before disposition of collateral; consumer-goods transaction
  • 679.615 — Application of proceeds of disposition; liability for deficiency and right to surplus
  • 679.616 — Explanation of calculation of surplus or deficiency
  • 679.617 — Rights of transferee of collateral
  • 679.618 — Rights and duties of certain secondary obligors
  • 679.619 — Transfer of record or legal title
  • 679.620 — Acceptance of collateral in full or partial satisfaction of obligation; compulsory disposition of collateral
  • 679.621 — Notification of proposal to accept collateral
  • 679.622 — Effect of acceptance of collateral
  • 679.623 — Right to redeem collateral
  • 679.624 — Waiver
  • 679.625 — Remedies for failure to comply with article
  • 679.626 — Action in which deficiency or surplus is in issue
  • 679.627 — Determination of whether conduct was commercially reasonable
  • 679.628 — Nonliability and limitation on liability of secured party; liability of secondary obligor
  • 679.701 — Effective date
  • 679.702 — Savings clause
  • 679.703 — Security interest perfected before effective date
  • 679.704 — Security interest unperfected before effective date
  • 679.705 — Effectiveness of action taken before effective date
  • 679.706 — When initial financing statement suffices to continue effectiveness of financing statement
  • 679.707 — Amendment or pre-effective date financing statement
  • 679.708 — Persons entitled to file initial financing statement or continuation statement
  • 679.709 — Priority
  • 679.801 — Saving clause
  • 679.802 — Security interest perfected before effective date
  • 679.803 — Security interest unperfected before effective date
  • 679.804 — Effectiveness of action taken before effective date
  • 679.805 — When initial financing statement suffices to continue effectiveness of financing statement
  • 679.806 — Amendment of financing statement filed before July 1, 2013
  • 679.807 — Person entitled to file initial financing statement or continuation statement
  • 679.808 — Priority
  • 679.901 — Saving clause
  • 679.902 — Transitional provisions
Title 68 · FL Chapter 68 (34 sections)
  • 68.01 — Declaring tax assessment invalid
  • 68.02 — Ne exeat
  • 68.03 — Sequestration; proceedings prescribed
  • 68.04 — Chancery jurisdiction over liens
  • 68.05 — Creditors’ bills
  • 68.06 — Actions upon negotiable and other instruments; consideration, etc
  • 68.065 — Actions to collect worthless payment instruments; attorney fees and collection costs
  • 68.07 — Change of name
  • 68.081 — Florida False Claims Act; short title
  • 68.082 — False claims against the state; definitions; liability
  • 68.083 — Civil actions for false claims
  • 68.0831 — Subpoena
  • 68.084 — Rights of the parties in civil actions
  • 68.085 — Awards to plaintiffs bringing action
  • 68.086 — Expenses; attorney fees and costs
  • 68.087 — Exemptions to civil actions
  • 68.088 — Protection for participating employees
  • 68.089 — Limitation of actions; effect of interventions by department
  • 68.09 — Burden of proof
  • 68.091 — Construction and severability of provisions
  • 68.092 — Deposit of recovered moneys
  • 68.093 — Florida Vexatious Litigant Law
  • 68.094 — Short title
  • 68.095 — Legislative intent
  • 68.096 — Definitions
  • 68.097 — Authority and duties of the department
  • 68.098 — Limitations
  • 68.099 — Funding
  • 68.10 — Eligible activities
  • 68.101 — Accountability
  • 68.102 — State support
  • 68.103 — Unconstitutionality or unenforceability of fund limitations
  • 68.104 — Construction
  • 68.105 — Use of funds; reports
Title 680 · FL Chapter 680 (82 sections)
  • 680.1011 — Short title
  • 680.1021 — Scope
  • 680.1031 — Definitions and index of definitions
  • 680.1041 — Leases subject to other statutes
  • 680.1051 — Territorial application of chapter to goods covered by certificate of title
  • 680.1061 — Limitation on power of parties to consumer lease to choose applicable law and judicial forum
  • 680.1071 — Waiver or renunciation of claim or right after default
  • 680.1081 — Unconscionability
  • 680.1091 — Option to accelerate at will
  • 680.1095 — Application of ch. 98-11
  • 680.201 — Statute of frauds
  • 680.202 — Final expression: parol or extrinsic evidence
  • 680.203 — Seals inoperative
  • 680.204 — Formation in general
  • 680.205 — Firm offers
  • 680.206 — Offer and acceptance in formation of lease contract
  • 680.207 — Course of performance or practical construction
  • 680.208 — Modification, rescission, and waiver
  • 680.209 — Lessee under finance lease as beneficiary of supply contract
  • 680.21 — Express warranties
  • 680.211 — Warranties against interference and against infringement; lessee’s obligation against infringement
  • 680.212 — Implied warranty of merchantability
  • 680.213 — Implied warranty of fitness for particular purpose
  • 680.214 — Exclusion or modification of warranties
  • 680.215 — Cumulation and conflict of warranties express or implied
  • 680.216 — Third-party beneficiaries of express and implied warranties
  • 680.217 — Identification
  • 680.218 — Insurance and proceeds
  • 680.219 — Risk of loss
  • 680.22 — Effect of default on risk of loss
  • 680.221 — Casualty to identified goods
  • 680.301 — Enforceability of lease contract
  • 680.302 — Title to and possession of goods
  • 680.303 — Alienability of party’s interest under lease contract or of lessor’s residual interest in goods; delegation of perfo
  • 680.304 — Subsequent lease of goods by lessor
  • 680.305 — Sale or sublease of goods by lessee
  • 680.306 — Priority of certain liens arising by operation of law
  • 680.307 — Priority of liens arising by attachment or levy on, security interests in, and other claims to goods
  • 680.308 — Special rights of creditors
  • 680.309 — Lessor’s and lessee’s rights when goods become fixtures
  • 680.31 — Lessor’s and lessee’s rights when goods become accessions
  • 680.32 — Priority subject to subordination
  • 680.401 — Insecurity: adequate assurance of performance
  • 680.402 — Anticipatory repudiation
  • 680.403 — Retraction of anticipatory repudiation
  • 680.404 — Substituted performance
  • 680.405 — Excused performance
  • 680.406 — Procedure on excused performance
  • 680.407 — Irrevocable promises: finance leases
  • 680.501 — Default: procedure
  • 680.502 — Notice after default
  • 680.503 — Modification or impairment of rights and remedies
  • 680.504 — Liquidation of damages
  • 680.505 — Cancellation and termination; effect of cancellation, termination, rescission, or fraud on rights and remedies
  • 680.506 — Statute of limitation
  • 680.507 — Proof of market rent; time and place
  • 680.508 — Lessee’s remedies
  • 680.509 — Lessee’s rights on improper delivery; rightful rejection
  • 680.51 — Installment lease contracts: rejection and default
  • 680.511 — Merchant lessee’s duties as to rightfully rejected goods
  • 680.512 — Lessee’s duties as to rightfully rejected goods
  • 680.513 — Cure by lessor of improper tender or delivery; replacement
  • 680.514 — Waiver of lessee’s objections
  • 680.515 — Acceptance of goods
  • 680.516 — Effect of acceptance of goods; notice of default; burden of establishing default after acceptance; notice of claim or li
  • 680.517 — Revocation of acceptance of goods
  • 680.518 — Cover; substitute goods
  • 680.519 — Lessee’s damages for nondelivery, repudiation, default, or breach of warranty in regard to accepted goods
  • 680.52 — Lessee’s incidental and consequential damages
  • 680.521 — Lessee’s right to specific performance or replevin
  • 680.522 — Lessee’s right to goods on lessor’s insolvency
  • 680.523 — Lessor’s remedies
  • 680.524 — Lessor’s right to identify goods to lease contract
  • 680.525 — Lessor’s right to possession of goods
  • 680.526 — Lessor’s stoppage of delivery in transit or otherwise
  • 680.527 — Lessor’s rights to dispose of goods
  • 680.528 — Lessor’s damages for nonacceptance or repudiation
  • 680.529 — Lessor’s action for the rent
  • 680.53 — Lessor’s incidental damages
  • 680.531 — Standing to sue third parties for injury to goods
  • 680.532 — Lessor’s rights to residual interest
  • 680.601 — Saving clause
Title 681 · FL Chapter 681 (20 sections)
  • 681.10 — Short title
  • 681.101 — Legislative intent
  • 681.102 — Definitions
  • 681.103 — Duty of manufacturer to conform a motor vehicle to the warranty
  • 681.104 — Nonconformity of motor vehicles
  • 681.106 — Bad faith claims
  • 681.108 — Dispute-settlement procedures
  • 681.109 — Florida New Motor Vehicle Arbitration Board; dispute eligibility
  • 681.1095 — Florida New Motor Vehicle Arbitration Board; creation and function
  • 681.1096 — RV Mediation and Arbitration Program; creation and qualifications
  • 681.1097 — RV Mediation and Arbitration Program; dispute eligibility and program function
  • 681.110 — Compliance and disciplinary actions
  • 681.111 — Unfair or deceptive trade practice
  • 681.112 — Consumer remedies
  • 681.113 — Dealer liability
  • 681.114 — Resale of returned vehicles
  • 681.115 — Certain agreements void
  • 681.116 — Preemption
  • 681.117 — Fee
  • 681.118 — Rulemaking authority
Title 682 · FL Chapter 682 (31 sections)
  • 682.01 — Short title
  • 682.011 — Definitions
  • 682.012 — Notice
  • 682.013 — Applicability of revised code
  • 682.014 — Effect of agreement to arbitrate; nonwaivable provisions
  • 682.015 — Petition for judicial relief
  • 682.02 — Arbitration agreements made valid, irrevocable, and enforceable; scope
  • 682.03 — Proceedings to compel and to stay arbitration
  • 682.031 — Provisional remedies
  • 682.032 — Initiation of arbitration
  • 682.033 — Consolidation of separate arbitration proceedings
  • 682.04 — Appointment of arbitrators by court
  • 682.041 — Disclosure by arbitrator
  • 682.05 — Majority action by arbitrators
  • 682.051 — Immunity of arbitrator; competency to testify; attorney fees and costs
  • 682.06 — Hearing
  • 682.07 — Representation by attorney
  • 682.08 — Witnesses, subpoenas, depositions
  • 682.081 — Judicial enforcement of preaward ruling by arbitrator
  • 682.09 — Award
  • 682.10 — Change of award by arbitrators
  • 682.11 — Remedies; fees and expenses of arbitration proceeding
  • 682.12 — Confirmation of an award
  • 682.13 — Vacating an award
  • 682.14 — Modification or correction of award
  • 682.15 — Judgment or decree on award
  • 682.181 — Jurisdiction
  • 682.19 — Venue
  • 682.20 — Appeals
  • 682.23 — Relationship to Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act
  • 682.25 — Disputes excluded
Title 683 · FL Chapter 683 (45 sections)
  • 683.01 — Legal holidays
  • 683.02 — Meaning of term “legal holidays” as used in contracts
  • 683.04 — Arbor Day
  • 683.05 — Pan-American Day
  • 683.06 — Pascua Florida Day
  • 683.08 — Gasparilla Day, legal holiday in Hillsborough County
  • 683.09 — DeSoto Day, legal holiday in Manatee County
  • 683.10 — Grandparents’ and Family Caregivers’ Day
  • 683.11 — Law Enforcement Appreciation Day and Law Enforcement Appreciation Month
  • 683.115 — Law Enforcement Memorial Day
  • 683.12 — Parade Day, Hillsborough County
  • 683.13 — State observance of national day of mourning
  • 683.14 — Patriots’ Day
  • 683.145 — I Am An American Day
  • 683.1455 — American Founders’ Month
  • 683.146 — Purple Heart Day
  • 683.147 — Medal of Honor Day
  • 683.1475 — Veterans Appreciation Month
  • 683.15 — Teacher’s Day
  • 683.16 — Retired Teachers’ Day
  • 683.17 — Parents’ and Children’s Day
  • 683.18 — Save the Florida Panther Day
  • 683.185 — Everglades Day
  • 683.19 — Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, and Good Friday; designation as legal holiday by chief circuit judges
  • 683.195 — Florida Jewish History Month
  • 683.196 — Holocaust Remembrance Day
  • 683.21 — Juneteenth Day
  • 683.22 — Law Day and Law Week
  • 683.23 — Florida Missing Children’s Day
  • 683.231 — Citizen support organization for Florida Missing Children’s Day
  • 683.24 — Florida Alzheimer’s Disease Day
  • 683.25 — Bill of Rights Day
  • 683.26 — Ronald Reagan Day
  • 683.325 — Homeless Persons’ Memorial Day
  • 683.33 — Three Kings Day
  • 683.331 — Child Welfare Professionals Recognition Day
  • 683.332 — Ronshay Dugans Act
  • 683.333 — Foster Family Appreciation Week
  • 683.334 — Victims of Communism Day
  • 683.3341 — Responsible Fatherhood Month
  • 683.3342 — Revive Awareness Day
  • 683.3343 — Fentanyl Awareness and Education Day
  • 683.335 — 9/11 Heroes’ Day
  • 683.336 — Hot Car Death Prevention Month
  • 683.337 — Move Over Awareness Week
Title 684 · FL Chapter 684 (49 sections)
  • 684.0001 — Short title
  • 684.0002 — Scope of application
  • 684.0003 — Definitions and rules of interpretation
  • 684.0004 — International origin and general principles
  • 684.0005 — Receipt of written communications
  • 684.0006 — Waiver of right to object
  • 684.0007 — Extent of court intervention
  • 684.0008 — Court for certain functions of arbitration assistance and supervision
  • 684.0009 — Arbitration agreement and substantive claim before court
  • 684.001 — Arbitration agreement and interim measures by a court
  • 684.0011 — Number of arbitrators
  • 684.0012 — Appointment of arbitrators
  • 684.0013 — Grounds for challenge
  • 684.0014 — Challenge procedure
  • 684.0015 — Failure or impossibility to act
  • 684.0016 — Appointment of substitute arbitrator
  • 684.0017 — Competence of arbitral tribunal to rule on its jurisdiction
  • 684.0018 — Power of arbitral tribunal to order interim measures
  • 684.0019 — Conditions for granting interim measures
  • 684.002 — Applications for preliminary orders and conditions for granting preliminary orders
  • 684.0021 — Specific regime for preliminary orders
  • 684.0022 — Modification, suspension, or termination; interim measure or preliminary order
  • 684.0023 — Provision of security
  • 684.0024 — Disclosure
  • 684.0025 — Costs and damages
  • 684.0026 — Recognition and enforcement
  • 684.0027 — Grounds for refusing recognition or enforcement
  • 684.0028 — Court-ordered interim measures
  • 684.0029 — Equal treatment of parties
  • 684.003 — Determination of rules of procedure
  • 684.0031 — Place of arbitration
  • 684.0032 — Commencement of arbitral proceedings
  • 684.0033 — Language
  • 684.0034 — Statements of claim and defense
  • 684.0035 — Hearings and written proceedings
  • 684.0036 — Default of a party
  • 684.0037 — Expert appointed by arbitral tribunal
  • 684.0038 — Court assistance in taking evidence
  • 684.0039 — Rules applicable to substance of dispute
  • 684.004 — Decisionmaking by panel of arbitrators
  • 684.0041 — Settlement
  • 684.0042 — Form and contents of award
  • 684.0043 — Termination of proceedings
  • 684.0044 — Correction and interpretation of award; additional award
  • 684.0045 — Immunity for arbitrators
  • 684.0046 — Application to set aside as exclusive recourse against arbitral award
  • 684.0047 — Recognition and enforcement
  • 684.0048 — Grounds for refusing recognition or enforcement
  • 684.0049 — Consent to jurisdiction
Title 685 · FL Chapter 685 (2 sections)
Title 686 · FL Chapter 686 (36 sections)
  • 686.30 — Contract agreements for repair parts for motor vehicles and trucks; termination must be done in good faith; definition o
  • 686.40 — Agricultural Equipment Manufacturers and Dealers Act
  • 686.401 — Legislative finding and intent; construction of ss. 686.40-686.418
  • 686.402 — Definitions of terms used in ss. 686.40-686.418
  • 686.403 — Application of ss. 686.40-686.418
  • 686.405 — Warranty agreements; claims; compensation of dealers
  • 686.406 — Parts; availability; return
  • 686.407 — Repurchase of inventory upon termination of franchise agreement; establishment or relocation of dealership; sale or leas
  • 686.408 — Repurchase of inventory upon death or incapacity of dealer
  • 686.409 — Compensation for inventory upon refusal to renew, termination of, or restriction on transfer of a franchise
  • 686.41 — Indemnification of dealer with respect to legal actions
  • 686.413 — Unlawful acts and practices
  • 686.415 — Unenforceable contract or franchise agreement
  • 686.417 — Remedies
  • 686.418 — Effect of act on other remedies
  • 686.501 — Definitions; ss. 686.501-686.506
  • 686.502 — Consignment relationship; notice; proceeds of sales held in trust; contract requirements
  • 686.503 — Contract provisions
  • 686.504 — Warranties by art dealers; written statement; terminology
  • 686.505 — Construction of language
  • 686.506 — Rights and liabilities, additional; merchant’s liability
  • 686.60 — Short title
  • 686.601 — Legislative finding and intent; construction
  • 686.602 — Definitions of terms used in ss. 686.601-686.614
  • 686.603 — Application
  • 686.604 — Warranty agreements; claims; compensation of dealers
  • 686.605 — Parts; availability; return
  • 686.606 — Repurchase of inventory upon termination of dealer agreement
  • 686.607 — Repurchase of inventory upon death or incapacity of dealer
  • 686.608 — Compensation for inventory upon refusal to renew, termination of, or restriction on transfer of a dealer agreement
  • 686.609 — Indemnification of dealer with respect to legal actions
  • 686.611 — Unlawful acts and practices
  • 686.612 — Unenforceable contract or agreement
  • 686.613 — Remedies
  • 686.614 — Effect of act on other remedies
  • 686.701 — Reimbursement of federal excise taxes on motor fuel
Title 687 · FL Chapter 687 (27 sections)
  • 687.01 — Rate of interest in absence of contract
  • 687.02 — “Usurious contracts” defined
  • 687.03 — “Unlawful rates of interest” defined; proviso
  • 687.0303 — “Line of credit” defined
  • 687.0304 — Credit agreements
  • 687.031 — Construction, ss. 687.02 and 687.03
  • 687.04 — Penalty for usury; not to apply in certain situations
  • 687.05 — Provisions for payment of attorney’s fees
  • 687.06 — Attorney’s fee in enforcing nonusurious contracts; proviso; insurance premiums; attorney’s fee provided in note
  • 687.071 — Criminal usury, loan sharking
  • 687.08 — Person lending money to give borrower receipt for payments; contents of receipt; penalty for violation
  • 687.09 — Persons accepting chattel mortgage as security for loans under $100 to cause amount as principal, interest, and fees to
  • 687.10 — Not applicable to chartered banks, trust companies, building and loan associations, savings and loan associations, or in
  • 687.12 — Interest rates; parity among licensed lenders or creditors
  • 687.125 — Compounding of interest
  • 687.13 — International transactions
  • 687.14 — Definitions
  • 687.141 — Loan brokers; prohibited acts
  • 687.142 — Responsibility of principals
  • 687.143 — Loan brokers; investigations; cease and desist orders; administrative fines
  • 687.144 — Investigations; examinations; subpoenas; hearings; witnesses
  • 687.145 — Injunction to restrain violations
  • 687.146 — Criminal penalties
  • 687.147 — Actions for damages
  • 687.148 — Duties and powers of the commission and office
  • 687.15 — Benchmark replacements for the London Interbank Offered Rate
  • 687.16 — Florida Farmer Financial Protection Act
Title 688 · FL Chapter 688 (9 sections)
Title 689 · FL Chapter 689 (37 sections)
  • 689.01 — How real estate conveyed
  • 689.02 — Form of warranty deed prescribed
  • 689.025 — Form of quitclaim deed prescribed
  • 689.03 — Effect of such deed
  • 689.04 — How executed
  • 689.041 — Curative procedure for scrivener’s errors in deeds
  • 689.045 — Conveyances to or by partnership
  • 689.05 — How declarations of trust proved
  • 689.06 — How trust estate conveyed
  • 689.07 — “Trustee” or “as trustee” added to name of grantee, transferee, assignee, or mortgagee transfers interest or cre
  • 689.071 — Florida Land Trust Act
  • 689.072 — Real estate interests transferred to or by a custodian or trustee of an individual retirement account or qualified plan
  • 689.073 — Powers conferred on trustee in recorded instrument
  • 689.075 — Inter vivos trusts; powers retained by settlor
  • 689.08 — Fines and common recoveries
  • 689.09 — Deeds under statute of uses
  • 689.10 — Words of limitation and the words “fee simple” dispensed with
  • 689.11 — Conveyances between husband and wife direct; homestead
  • 689.111 — Conveyances of homestead; power of attorney
  • 689.115 — Estate by the entirety in mortgage made or assigned to husband and wife
  • 689.12 — How state lands conveyed for educational purposes
  • 689.13 — Rule against perpetuities not applicable to dispositions of property for private cemeteries, etc
  • 689.14 — Entailed estates
  • 689.15 — Estates by survivorship
  • 689.17 — Rule in Shelley’s Case abolished
  • 689.175 — Worthier title doctrine abolished
  • 689.18 — Reverter or forfeiture provisions, limitations; exceptions
  • 689.19 — Variances of names in recorded instruments
  • 689.20 — Limitation on use of word “minerals.”
  • 689.225 — Statutory rule against perpetuities
  • 689.25 — Failure to disclose homicide, suicide, deaths, or diagnosis of HIV or AIDS infection in an occupant of real property
  • 689.261 — Sale of residential property; disclosure of ad valorem taxes to prospective purchaser
  • 689.27 — Termination by servicemember of agreement to purchase real property
  • 689.28 — Prohibition against transfer fee covenants
  • 689.29 — Disclosure of subsurface rights to prospective purchaser
  • 689.301 — Disclosure of known defects in sanitary sewer laterals to prospective purchaser
  • 689.302 — Disclosure of flood risks to prospective purchaser
Title 69 · FL Chapter 69 (8 sections)
  • 69.011 — Supreme Court; bond not to be required of certain officers in certain original proceedings
  • 69.021 — Bondholders’ committee
  • 69.031 — Designated financial institutions for property in hands of guardians, curators, administrators, trustees, receivers, or
  • 69.041 — State named party; lien foreclosure, suit to quiet title
  • 69.051 — General and special magistrates; compensation
  • 69.061 — Loss of negotiable instrument; indemnity
  • 69.071 — Number of jurors
  • 69.081 — Sunshine in litigation; concealment of public hazards prohibited
Title 692 · FL Chapter 692 (10 sections)
  • 692.01 — Conveyances executed by corporations
  • 692.02 — Validation of conveyances
  • 692.03 — Validity of conveyances by certain foreign corporations recorded for 7 years; limitation
  • 692.04 — Validation of deeds and similar instruments executed by corporations
  • 692.101 — Conveyances to or by trustees of unincorporated churches
  • 692.201 — Definitions
  • 692.202 — Purchase of agricultural land by foreign principals prohibited
  • 692.203 — Purchase of real property on or around military installations or critical infrastructure facilities by foreign principal
  • 692.204 — Purchase or acquisition of real property by the People’s Republic of China prohibited
  • 692.205 — Inapplicability of this part to real property for diplomatic purposes
Title 694 · FL Chapter 694 (17 sections)
  • 694.01 — Conveyances executed between 1817 and 1822
  • 694.02 — Married women’s conveyances validated
  • 694.03 — Married women’s conveyances by attorney validated
  • 694.04 — Conveyances by married women; defective acknowledgments validated
  • 694.05 — Certain other conveyances validated
  • 694.06 — Deeds executed by State Board of Education
  • 694.07 — Certain grant of lands confirmed
  • 694.08 — Certain instruments validated, notwithstanding lack of seals or witnesses, or defect in acknowledgment
  • 694.09 — Certified copies admissible in evidence
  • 694.10 — Certain titles not affected
  • 694.11 — Certain deeds of county commissioners validated
  • 694.12 — Validation of instruments in which name of corporation is incorrectly set out
  • 694.13 — Ratifying, validating, and confirming conveyances of real estate by county commissioners, district school boards, or boa
  • 694.14 — Validation of deeds executed by guardians appointed under Veterans’ Guardianship Law
  • 694.15 — Validation of conveyances by board of trustees
  • 694.16 — Conveyances by merger or conversion of business entities
  • 694.17 — Validation of conveyances to custodian or trustee of an individual retirement account or qualified plan
Title 695 · FL Chapter 695 (28 sections)
  • 695.01 — Conveyances and liens to be recorded
  • 695.015 — Conveyances by law between governmental agencies, recording
  • 695.02 — Blank or master form of instruments may be recorded
  • 695.03 — Acknowledgment and proof; validation of certain acknowledgments; legalization or authentication before foreign officials
  • 695.031 — Affidavits and acknowledgments by members of armed forces and their spouses
  • 695.032 — Provisions not applicable to transactions under chapter 679, Uniform Commercial Code
  • 695.04 — Requirements of certificate
  • 695.05 — Certain defects cured as to acknowledgments and witnesses
  • 695.06 — Certain irregularities as to venue validated
  • 695.07 — Use of scrawl as seal
  • 695.08 — Prior use of scrawl as seal
  • 695.09 — Identity of grantor
  • 695.10 — Proof by others
  • 695.11 — Instruments deemed to be recorded from time of filing
  • 695.12 — Imperfect record
  • 695.13 — Want of certificate of record
  • 695.14 — Unsigned certificate of record
  • 695.15 — Recording conveyances lost by fire
  • 695.16 — When mortgage or lien is destroyed
  • 695.17 — United States deeds and patents may be recorded
  • 695.18 — Indorsement by clerk
  • 695.19 — Certified copies of recorded instruments may be recorded
  • 695.20 — Unperformed contracts of record
  • 695.22 — Daily schedule of deeds and conveyances filed for record to be furnished property appraiser
  • 695.25 — Short form of acknowledgment
  • 695.26 — Requirements for recording instruments affecting real property
  • 695.27 — Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act
  • 695.28 — Validity of recorded electronic documents
Title 696 · FL Chapter 696 (6 sections)
  • 696.01 — Contracts for sale of realty must be acknowledged in order to be recorded
  • 696.02 — Assignments of contracts for sale of realty not entitled to record unless original is recorded or entitled to record
  • 696.03 — When agreement executed by agent or attorney may be recorded
  • 696.04 — What instruments affected by ss. 696.01-696.03
  • 696.05 — Photographic recording by clerk of circuit court
  • 696.06 — Photographic recording by county court judge
Title 697 · FL Chapter 697 (9 sections)
  • 697.01 — Instruments deemed mortgages
  • 697.02 — Nature of a mortgage
  • 697.03 — Cooperative association mortgages
  • 697.04 — Future advances may be secured
  • 697.05 — Balloon mortgages; scope of law; definition; requirements as to contents; penalties for violations; exemptions
  • 697.06 — Prepayment of note
  • 697.07 — Assignment of rents
  • 697.08 — Equity skimming
  • 697.10 — Liability for error in mortgage deed or note
Title 698 · FL Chapter 698 (9 sections)
  • 698.01 — To be recorded
  • 698.02 — Acknowledgment
  • 698.03 — Power of sale may be included in certain mortgages; exercise of power
  • 698.04 — Sale under power
  • 698.05 — Remedy concurrent
  • 698.08 — Notice given by filing for record of chattel mortgages generally, to extend 7 years
  • 698.09 — Extension of period of notice
  • 698.11 — Duties of clerk in connection with extension
  • 698.12 — Chapter not applicable to transactions under Uniform Commercial Code
Title 7 · FL Chapter 7 (68 sections)
  • 7.01 — Alachua County
  • 7.02 — Baker County
  • 7.03 — Bay County
  • 7.04 — Bradford County
  • 7.05 — Brevard County
  • 7.06 — Broward County
  • 7.07 — Calhoun County
  • 7.08 — Charlotte County
  • 7.09 — Citrus County
  • 7.10 — Clay County
  • 7.11 — Collier County
  • 7.12 — Columbia County
  • 7.13 — Miami-Dade County
  • 7.14 — DeSoto County
  • 7.15 — Dixie County
  • 7.16 — Duval County
  • 7.17 — Escambia County
  • 7.18 — Flagler County
  • 7.19 — Franklin County
  • 7.20 — Gadsden County
  • 7.21 — Gilchrist County
  • 7.22 — Glades County
  • 7.221 — Glades County, extension of boundary
  • 7.23 — Gulf County
  • 7.24 — Hamilton County
  • 7.25 — Hardee County
  • 7.26 — Hendry County
  • 7.27 — Hernando County
  • 7.28 — Highlands County
  • 7.29 — Hillsborough County
  • 7.30 — Holmes County
  • 7.31 — Indian River County
  • 7.32 — Jackson County
  • 7.33 — Jefferson County
  • 7.34 — Lafayette County
  • 7.35 — Lake County
  • 7.36 — Lee County
  • 7.37 — Leon County
  • 7.38 — Levy County
  • 7.39 — Liberty County
  • 7.40 — Madison County
  • 7.41 — Manatee County
  • 7.42 — Marion County
  • 7.43 — Martin County
  • 7.44 — Monroe County
  • 7.45 — Nassau County
  • 7.46 — Okaloosa County
  • 7.47 — Okeechobee County
  • 7.48 — Orange County
  • 7.49 — Osceola County
  • 7.50 — Palm Beach County
  • 7.51 — Pasco County
  • 7.52 — Pinellas County
  • 7.53 — Polk County
  • 7.54 — Putnam County
  • 7.55 — Santa Rosa County
  • 7.56 — Sarasota County
  • 7.57 — Seminole County
  • 7.58 — St. Johns County
  • 7.59 — St. Lucie County
  • 7.60 — Sumter County
  • 7.61 — Suwannee County
  • 7.62 — Taylor County
  • 7.63 — Union County
  • 7.64 — Volusia County
  • 7.65 — Wakulla County
  • 7.66 — Walton County
  • 7.67 — Washington County
Title 70 · FL Chapter 70 (6 sections)
  • 70.001 — Private property rights protection
  • 70.002 — Property Owner Bill of Rights
  • 70.20 — Balancing of interests
  • 70.45 — Governmental exactions
  • 70.51 — Land use and environmental dispute resolution
  • 70.80 — Construction of ss. 70.001, 70.45, and 70.51
Title 701 · FL Chapter 701 (6 sections)
  • 701.01 — Assignment
  • 701.02 — Assignment not effectual against creditors unless recorded and indicated in title of document; applicability
  • 701.03 — Cancellation
  • 701.04 — Cancellation of mortgages, liens, and judgments
  • 701.041 — Title insurer; mortgage release certificate
  • 701.06 — Certain cancellations and satisfactions of mortgages validated
Title 702 · FL Chapter 702 (15 sections)
  • 702.01 — Equity
  • 702.015 — Elements of complaint; lost, destroyed, or stolen note affidavit
  • 702.03 — Certain foreclosures validated
  • 702.035 — Legal notice concerning foreclosure proceedings
  • 702.036 — Finality of foreclosure judgment
  • 702.04 — Mortgaged lands in different counties
  • 702.05 — Mortgaged lands sold for taxes
  • 702.06 — Deficiency decree; common-law suit to recover deficiency
  • 702.065 — Final judgment in uncontested proceedings where deficiency judgment waived; attorney’s fees when default judgment ente
  • 702.07 — Power of courts and judges to set aside foreclosure decrees at any time before sale
  • 702.08 — Effect of setting aside foreclosure decree
  • 702.09 — Definitions
  • 702.10 — Order to show cause; entry of final judgment of foreclosure; payment during foreclosure
  • 702.11 — Adequate protections for lost, destroyed, or stolen notes in mortgage foreclosure
  • 702.12 — Actions in foreclosure
Title 703 · FL Chapter 703 (17 sections)
  • 703.01 — County commissioners authorized to require clerk to make abstracts
  • 703.02 — Abstracts of real estate upon petition; service charge of clerk
  • 703.03 — What abstract to show
  • 703.04 — Abstracting tax sales
  • 703.05 — Service charge of clerk for furnishing abstract
  • 703.06 — Board may purchase abstract books
  • 703.07 — Abstracts of records destroyed by fire; purchase of abstract books by county; proceedings
  • 703.08 — Copies of abstracts as evidence
  • 703.09 — Condemnation of abstracts by county when records have been destroyed
  • 703.10 — Order to show cause; enjoining owners from removing abstracts beyond jurisdiction of court
  • 703.11 — Order granting petition; jury to assess compensation; copies of original abstracts
  • 703.13 — Payment of compensation and delivery of abstracts; petitioner to pay cost
  • 703.14 — Penalty for failure to deliver abstracts
  • 703.15 — Abstracts acquired by condemnation
  • 703.17 — Alteration of abstracts condemned by county for use of the public
  • 703.18 — Refusing to make abstract
  • 703.19 — Filing untrue copies of abstracts ordered filed for use of public
Title 704 · FL Chapter 704 (9 sections)
  • 704.01 — Common-law and statutory easements defined and determined
  • 704.02 — When lands enclosed, person using easement to maintain gates
  • 704.03 — “Practicable” defined
  • 704.04 — Judicial remedy and compensation to servient owner
  • 704.05 — Easements and rights of entry
  • 704.06 — Conservation easements; creation; acquisition; enforcement
  • 704.07 — Solar easements; creation; remedies
  • 704.08 — Cemeteries; right of ingress and egress for visiting or maintenance
  • 704.09 — Creation of easements, servitudes, and other interests affecting real property owned by the same owner
Title 705 · FL Chapter 705 (14 sections)
  • 705.101 — Definitions
  • 705.1015 — County or municipal code inspectors or code enforcement officers; duties
  • 705.102 — Reporting lost or abandoned property
  • 705.103 — Procedure for abandoned or lost property
  • 705.104 — Title to lost or abandoned property
  • 705.105 — Procedure regarding unclaimed evidence
  • 705.106 — Recovery from person wrongfully in possession
  • 705.17 — Exceptions
  • 705.18 — Disposal of personal property lost or abandoned on university or Florida College System institution campuses; dispositio
  • 705.182 — Disposal of personal property found on the premises of public-use airports
  • 705.183 — Disposal of derelict or abandoned aircraft on the premises of public-use airports
  • 705.184 — Derelict or abandoned motor vehicles on the premises of public-use airports
  • 705.185 — Disposal of personal property lost or abandoned on the premises of certain facilities
  • 705.19 — Abandonment of animals by owner; procedure for handling
Title 707 · FL Chapter 707 (4 sections)
  • 707.18 — Owners of strayed animals may enter pasture of another to seek for same
  • 707.19 — Owner of strayed animals to notify owner of pasture of intention to enter
  • 707.20 — Duty of owner of pasture to facilitate entry
  • 707.21 — Refusing entrance to pasture to seek strayed domestic animals
Title 708 · FL Chapter 708 (4 sections)
  • 708.05 — Husband not liable for antenuptial debts of wife
  • 708.08 — Married women’s rights; separate property
  • 708.09 — Married women’s rights; agreements with husband, power of attorney, etc
  • 708.10 — Married women’s rights; construction of law
Title 709 · FL Chapter 709 (36 sections)
  • 709.02 — Power of appointment; method of release
  • 709.03 — Power of appointment; property held in trust
  • 709.04 — Power of appointment; effect of release
  • 709.05 — Powers of appointment; validation of prior releases
  • 709.06 — Powers of appointment included in law
  • 709.07 — Power of appointment; effect of release on title to property
  • 709.2101 — Short title
  • 709.2102 — Definitions
  • 709.2103 — Applicability
  • 709.2104 — Durable power of attorney
  • 709.2105 — Qualifications of agent; execution of power of attorney
  • 709.2106 — Validity of power of attorney
  • 709.2107 — Meaning and effectiveness of power of attorney
  • 709.2108 — When power of attorney is effective
  • 709.2109 — Termination or suspension of power of attorney or agent’s authority
  • 709.2110 — Revocation of power of attorney
  • 709.2111 — Co-agents and successor agents
  • 709.2112 — Reimbursement and compensation of agent
  • 709.2113 — Agent’s acceptance of appointment
  • 709.2114 — Agent’s duties
  • 709.2115 — Exoneration of agent
  • 709.2116 — Judicial relief; conflicts of interests
  • 709.2117 — Agent’s liability
  • 709.2118 — Agent’s resignation
  • 709.2119 — Acceptance of and reliance upon power of attorney
  • 709.2120 — Rejecting power of attorney
  • 709.2121 — Notice
  • 709.2201 — Authority of agent
  • 709.2202 — Authority that requires separate signed enumeration
  • 709.2208 — Banks and other financial institutions
  • 709.2209 — Supported decisionmaking agreements
  • 709.2301 — Principles of law and equity
  • 709.2302 — Laws applicable to financial institutions and entities
  • 709.2303 — Remedies under other law
  • 709.2401 — Relation to electronic signatures in federal law
  • 709.2402 — Effect on existing powers of attorney
Title 710 · FL Chapter 710 (24 sections)
  • 710.101 — Short title
  • 710.102 — Definitions
  • 710.103 — Scope and jurisdiction
  • 710.104 — Nomination of custodian
  • 710.105 — Transfer by gift or exercise of power of appointment
  • 710.106 — Transfer authorized by will or trust
  • 710.107 — Other transfer by fiduciary
  • 710.108 — Transfer by obligor
  • 710.109 — Receipt for custodial property
  • 710.111 — Manner of creating custodial property and effecting transfer; designation of initial custodian; control
  • 710.112 — Single custodianship
  • 710.113 — Validity and effect of transfer
  • 710.114 — Care of custodial property
  • 710.115 — Powers of custodian
  • 710.116 — Use of custodial property
  • 710.117 — Custodian’s expenses, compensation, and bond
  • 710.118 — Exemption of third person from liability
  • 710.119 — Liability to third persons
  • 710.121 — Renunciation, resignation, death, or removal of custodian; designation of successor custodian
  • 710.122 — Accounting by and determination of liability of custodian
  • 710.123 — Termination of custodianship
  • 710.124 — Applicability
  • 710.125 — Effect on existing custodianships
  • 710.126 — Uniformity of application and construction
Title 711 · FL Chapter 711 (13 sections)
  • 711.50 — Short title
  • 711.501 — Definitions
  • 711.502 — Registration in beneficiary form; sole or joint tenancy ownership
  • 711.503 — Registration in beneficiary form; applicable law
  • 711.504 — Origination of registration in beneficiary form
  • 711.505 — Form of registration in beneficiary form
  • 711.506 — Effect of registration in beneficiary form
  • 711.507 — Ownership on death of owner
  • 711.508 — Protection of registering entity
  • 711.509 — Nontestamentary transfer on death
  • 711.51 — Terms, conditions, and forms for registration
  • 711.511 — Rules of construction
  • 711.512 — Application of ss. 711.50-711.512
Title 712 · FL Chapter 712 (15 sections)
  • 712.001 — Short title
  • 712.01 — Definitions
  • 712.02 — Marketable record title; suspension of applicability
  • 712.03 — Exceptions to marketability
  • 712.04 — Interests extinguished by marketable record title
  • 712.05 — Effect of filing notice
  • 712.06 — Contents of notice; recording and indexing
  • 712.065 — Extinguishment of discriminatory restrictions
  • 712.07 — Limitations of actions and recording acts
  • 712.08 — Filing false claim
  • 712.09 — Extension of 30-year period
  • 712.095 — Notice required by July 1, 1983
  • 712.10 — Law to be liberally construed
  • 712.11 — Covenant revitalization
  • 712.12 — Covenant or restriction revitalization by parcel owners not subject to a homeowners’ association
Title 713 · FL Chapter 713 (91 sections)
  • 713.001 — Short title of part
  • 713.01 — Definitions
  • 713.011 — Computation of time
  • 713.012 — Written notices, demands, or requests
  • 713.015 — Mandatory provisions for direct contracts
  • 713.02 — Types of lienors and exemptions
  • 713.03 — Liens for professional services
  • 713.04 — Subdivision improvements
  • 713.05 — Liens of persons in privity
  • 713.06 — Liens of persons not in privity; proper payments
  • 713.07 — Priority of liens
  • 713.08 — Claim of lien
  • 713.09 — Single claim of lien
  • 713.10 — Extent of liens
  • 713.11 — Liens for improving land in which the contracting party has no interest
  • 713.12 — Liens for improving real property under contract with husband or wife on property of the other or of both
  • 713.13 — Notice of commencement
  • 713.132 — Notice of termination
  • 713.135 — Notice of commencement and applicability of lien
  • 713.14 — Application of money to materials account
  • 713.15 — Repossession of materials not used
  • 713.16 — Demand for copy of contract and statements of account; form
  • 713.165 — Request for list of subcontractors and suppliers
  • 713.17 — Materials not attachable for debts of purchaser
  • 713.18 — Manner of serving documents
  • 713.19 — Assignment of lien
  • 713.20 — Waiver or release of liens
  • 713.21 — Discharge of lien
  • 713.22 — Duration of lien
  • 713.23 — Payment bond
  • 713.235 — Waivers of right to claim against payment bond; forms
  • 713.24 — Transfer of liens to security
  • 713.245 — Conditional payment bond
  • 713.26 — Redemption and sale
  • 713.27 — Interplead
  • 713.28 — Judgments in case of failure to establish liens; personal and deficiency judgments or decrees
  • 713.29 — Attorney fees
  • 713.30 — Other actions not barred
  • 713.31 — Remedies in case of fraud or collusion
  • 713.32 — Insurance proceeds liable for demands
  • 713.33 — Disbursing agent and others may rely on owner’s notices
  • 713.345 — Moneys received for real property improvements; penalty for misapplication
  • 713.346 — Payment on construction contracts
  • 713.3471 — Lender responsibilities with construction loans
  • 713.35 — Making or furnishing false statement
  • 713.37 — Rule of construction
  • 713.50 — Liens upon property
  • 713.56 — Liens for labor on and with machines, etc
  • 713.57 — Liens for labor on logs and timber
  • 713.58 — Liens for labor or services on personal property
  • 713.585 — Enforcement of lien by sale of motor vehicle
  • 713.59 — Liens for labor in raising crops
  • 713.595 — Liens for labor or services in ginning cotton
  • 713.596 — Molder’s liens
  • 713.60 — Liens for labor on or for vessels
  • 713.61 — Liens for manufacturing and repairing articles
  • 713.62 — Liens for furnishing articles to be manufactured
  • 713.63 — Liens for furnishing locomotives, machinery, etc
  • 713.64 — Liens for furnishing material for vessels
  • 713.65 — Liens for care and maintenance of animals
  • 713.655 — Liens for professional services of veterinarians
  • 713.66 — Liens for feed, etc., for racehorses, polo ponies and race dogs
  • 713.665 — Liens for furnishing pest control
  • 713.67 — Liens for board, lodging, etc., at hotels, etc
  • 713.68 — Liens for hotels, apartment houses, roominghouses, boardinghouses, etc
  • 713.69 — Unlawful to remove property upon which lien has accrued
  • 713.691 — Landlord’s lien for rent; exemptions
  • 713.70 — Lien for service of stallions and other animals
  • 713.71 — Liens for loans and advances
  • 713.73 — Priority of foregoing liens
  • 713.74 — Acquisition of liens by persons in privity with the owner
  • 713.75 — Acquisition of liens by persons not in privity with the owner
  • 713.76 — Release of lien by filing bond
  • 713.77 — Liens of owners, operators, or keepers of mobile home or recreational vehicle parks; ejection of occupants
  • 713.78 — Liens for recovering, towing, or storing vehicles and vessels
  • 713.785 — Liens for recovering, towing, or storing mobile homes
  • 713.79 — Liens for interior design services
  • 713.801 — Definitions
  • 713.803 — Entitlement to lien
  • 713.805 — Property subject to lien
  • 713.807 — Subcontractors’ lien
  • 713.809 — Forfeiture or failure of title
  • 713.811 — Notice to purchasers of oil and gas
  • 713.813 — Liability of interest holder to subcontractors
  • 713.815 — Date lien arises
  • 713.817 — Parity of liens; exception
  • 713.819 — When single claim of lien sufficient
  • 713.821 — Claim of lien
  • 713.823 — Release of lien by filing bond
  • 713.825 — Duration of lien
  • 713.901 — Florida Uniform Federal Lien Registration Act
Title 714 · FL Chapter 714 (28 sections)
  • 714.01 — Short title
  • 714.02 — Definitions
  • 714.03 — Notice and opportunity for hearing
  • 714.04 — Scope; exclusions
  • 714.05 — Power of the court
  • 714.06 — Appointment of receiver
  • 714.07 — Disqualification from appointment as receiver; disclosure of interest
  • 714.08 — Receiver’s bond; alternative security
  • 714.09 — Status of receiver as lien creditor
  • 714.10 — Security agreement covering after-acquired property
  • 714.11 — Collection and turnover of receivership property
  • 714.12 — Powers and duties of receiver
  • 714.13 — Duties of owner
  • 714.14 — Stay; injunction
  • 714.15 — Engagement and compensation of professional
  • 714.16 — Use or transfer of receivership property not in ordinary course of business
  • 714.17 — Executory contract
  • 714.18 — Defenses and immunities of receiver
  • 714.19 — Interim report of receiver
  • 714.20 — Notice of appointment; claim against receivership; distribution to creditors
  • 714.21 — Fees and expenses
  • 714.22 — Removal of receiver; replacement; termination of receivership
  • 714.23 — Final report of receiver; discharge
  • 714.24 — Receivership in another state; ancillary proceeding
  • 714.25 — Effect of enforcement by mortgagee
  • 714.26 — Uniformity of application and construction
  • 714.27 — Relation to Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act
  • 714.28 — Transition
Title 715 · FL Chapter 715 (19 sections)
  • 715.02 — Prohibiting recovery from seller of forfeited deposit or down payment made by check, draft, or obligation refused throug
  • 715.03 — Laundries and drycleaners; disposition of unclaimed articles
  • 715.06 — Real estate; exploration for minerals
  • 715.065 — Jewelry stores; television or radio repair stores; disposition of unclaimed articles
  • 715.07 — Vehicles or vessels parked on private property; towing
  • 715.075 — Vehicles parked on private property; rules and rates authorized
  • 715.10 — Disposition of Personal Property Landlord and Tenant Act; short title
  • 715.101 — Application of ss. 715.10-715.111
  • 715.102 — Definitions of terms used in ss. 715.10-715.111
  • 715.103 — Lost property
  • 715.104 — Notification of former tenant of personal property remaining on premises after tenancy has terminated
  • 715.105 — Form of notice concerning abandoned property to former tenant
  • 715.106 — Form of notice concerning abandoned property to owner other than former tenant
  • 715.107 — Storage of abandoned property
  • 715.108 — Release of personal property
  • 715.109 — Sale or disposition of abandoned property
  • 715.11 — Nonliability of landlord after disposition of property
  • 715.111 — Assessing costs of storage
  • 715.12 — Construction Contract Prompt Payment Law
Title 716 · FL Chapter 716 (7 sections)
  • 716.01 — Declaration of policy
  • 716.02 — Escheat of funds in the possession of federal agencies
  • 716.03 — Department to institute proceedings to recover escheated property
  • 716.04 — Jurisdiction
  • 716.05 — Money recovered to be paid into State Treasury
  • 716.06 — Public records
  • 716.07 — Recovery of escheated property by claimant
Title 717 · FL Chapter 717 (66 sections)
  • 717.001 — Short title
  • 717.101 — Definitions
  • 717.102 — Property presumed unclaimed; general rule
  • 717.103 — General rules for taking custody of intangible unclaimed property
  • 717.1035 — Property originated or issued by this state, any political subdivision of this state, or any entity incorporated, organi
  • 717.104 — Traveler’s checks and money orders
  • 717.1045 — Gift certificates and similar credit items
  • 717.105 — Checks, drafts, and similar instruments issued or certified by banking and financial organizations
  • 717.106 — Bank deposits and funds in financial organizations
  • 717.1065 — Virtual currency
  • 717.107 — Funds owing under life insurance policies, annuity contracts, and retained asset accounts; fines, penalties, and interes
  • 717.1071 — Unclaimed demutualization proceeds
  • 717.108 — Deposits held by utilities
  • 717.109 — Refunds held by business associations
  • 717.1101 — Unclaimed equity and debt of business associations
  • 717.111 — Property of business associations held in course of dissolution
  • 717.112 — Property held by agents and fiduciaries
  • 717.1125 — Property held by fiduciaries under trust instruments
  • 717.113 — Property held by courts and public agencies
  • 717.115 — Wages
  • 717.116 — Contents of safe-deposit box or other safekeeping repository
  • 717.117 — Report of unclaimed property
  • 717.118 — Notification of apparent owners of unclaimed property
  • 717.119 — Payment or delivery of unclaimed property
  • 717.1201 — Custody by state; holder liability; reimbursement of holder paying claim; reclaiming for owner; payment of safe-deposit
  • 717.121 — Crediting of dividends, interest, or increments to owner’s account
  • 717.122 — Public sale of unclaimed property
  • 717.123 — Deposit of funds
  • 717.1235 — Dormant campaign accounts; report of unclaimed property
  • 717.124 — Unclaimed property claims
  • 717.12403 — Unclaimed demand, savings, or checking account in a financial institution held in the name of more than one person
  • 717.12404 — Claims on behalf of a business entity or trust
  • 717.12405 — Claims by estates
  • 717.12406 — Joint ownership of unclaimed securities or dividends
  • 717.1241 — Conflicting claims
  • 717.1242 — Restatement of jurisdiction of the circuit court sitting in probate and the department
  • 717.1243 — Small estate accounts
  • 717.1244 — Determinations of unclaimed property claims
  • 717.1245 — Garnishment of unclaimed property
  • 717.125 — Claim of another state to recover property; procedure
  • 717.126 — Administrative hearing; burden of proof; proof of entitlement; venue
  • 717.1261 — Death certificates
  • 717.1262 — Court documents
  • 717.127 — Election to take payment or delivery
  • 717.128 — Destruction or disposition of property having insubstantial commercial value; immunity from liability
  • 717.129 — Periods of limitation
  • 717.1301 — Investigations; examinations; subpoenas
  • 717.1311 — Retention of records
  • 717.1315 — Retention of records by claimant’s representatives and buyers of unclaimed property
  • 717.132 — Enforcement; cease and desist orders; fines
  • 717.1322 — Administrative and civil enforcement
  • 717.1323 — Prohibited practice
  • 717.133 — Interstate agreements and cooperation; joint and reciprocal actions with other states
  • 717.1331 — Actions against holders
  • 717.1333 — Evidence; estimations; audit reports and worksheets, investigator reports and worksheets, other related documents
  • 717.134 — Penalties and interest
  • 717.1341 — Invalid claims, recovery of property, interest and penalties
  • 717.135 — Recovery agreements and purchase agreements for claims filed by a claimant’s representative; fees and costs or total n
  • 717.1355 — Theme park and entertainment complex tickets
  • 717.136 — Foreign transactions
  • 717.138 — Rulemaking authority
  • 717.1382 — United States savings bond; unclaimed property; escheatment; procedure
  • 717.1383 — United States savings bond; claim for bond
  • 717.139 — Uniformity of application and construction
  • 717.1400 — Registration
  • 717.1401 — Repeal
Title 718 · FL Chapter 718 (90 sections)
  • 718.101 — Short title
  • 718.102 — Purposes
  • 718.103 — Definitions
  • 718.1035 — Power of attorney; compliance with chapter
  • 718.104 — Creation of condominiums; contents of declaration
  • 718.1045 — Timeshare estates; limitation on creation
  • 718.105 — Recording of declaration
  • 718.106 — Condominium parcels; appurtenances; possession and enjoyment
  • 718.107 — Restraint upon separation and partition of common elements
  • 718.108 — Common elements
  • 718.1085 — Certain regulations not to be retroactively applied
  • 718.109 — Legal description of condominium parcels
  • 718.110 — Amendment of declaration; correction of error or omission in declaration by circuit court
  • 718.111 — The association
  • 718.112 — Bylaws
  • 718.1124 — Failure to fill vacancies on board of administration sufficient to constitute a quorum; appointment of receiver upon pet
  • 718.113 — Maintenance; limitation upon improvement; display of flag; hurricane protection; display of religious decorations
  • 718.114 — Association powers
  • 718.115 — Common expenses and common surplus
  • 718.116 — Assessments; liability; lien and priority; interest; collection
  • 718.117 — Termination of condominium
  • 718.118 — Equitable relief
  • 718.119 — Limitation of liability
  • 718.120 — Separate taxation of condominium parcels; survival of declaration after tax sale; assessment of timeshare estates
  • 718.121 — Liens
  • 718.122 — Unconscionability of certain leases; rebuttable presumption
  • 718.1224 — Prohibition against SLAPP suits; other prohibited actions
  • 718.1225 — Federal Condominium and Cooperative Abuse Relief Act of 1980; applicability
  • 718.123 — Right of owners to peaceably assemble
  • 718.1232 — Cable television service; resident’s right to access without extra charge
  • 718.124 — Limitation on actions by association
  • 718.125 — Attorney’s fees
  • 718.1255 — Alternative dispute resolution; mediation; nonbinding arbitration; applicability
  • 718.1256 — Condominiums as residential property
  • 718.1265 — Association emergency powers
  • 718.127 — Receivership notification
  • 718.128 — Electronic voting
  • 718.129 — Law enforcement vehicles
  • 718.202 — Sales or reservation deposits prior to closing
  • 718.203 — Warranties
  • 718.301 — Transfer of association control; claims of defect by association
  • 718.302 — Agreements entered into by the association
  • 718.3025 — Agreements for operation, maintenance, or management of condominiums; specific requirements
  • 718.3026 — Contracts for products and services; in writing; bids; exceptions
  • 718.3027 — Conflicts of interest
  • 718.303 — Obligations of owners and occupants; remedies
  • 718.401 — Leaseholds
  • 718.4015 — Condominium leases; escalation clauses
  • 718.402 — Conversion of existing improvements to condominium
  • 718.403 — Phase condominiums
  • 718.404 — Mixed-use condominiums
  • 718.405 — Multicondominiums; multicondominium associations
  • 718.406 — Condominiums created within condominium parcels
  • 718.407 — Condominiums created within a portion of a building or within a multiple parcel building
  • 718.501 — Authority, responsibility, and duties of Division of Florida Condominiums, Timeshares, and Mobile Homes
  • 718.5011 — Ombudsman; appointment; administration
  • 718.5012 — Ombudsman; powers and duties
  • 718.5014 — Ombudsman location
  • 718.50152 — Offices
  • 718.50153 — Payment of per diem, mileage, and other expenses to division employees
  • 718.50154 — Seal and authentication of records
  • 718.50155 — Service of process
  • 718.502 — Filing prior to sale or lease
  • 718.503 — Developer disclosure prior to sale; nondeveloper unit owner disclosure prior to sale; voidability
  • 718.504 — Prospectus or offering circular
  • 718.505 — Good faith effort to comply
  • 718.506 — Publication of false and misleading information
  • 718.507 — Zoning and building laws, ordinances, and regulations
  • 718.508 — Regulation by Division of Hotels and Restaurants
  • 718.509 — Division of Florida Condominiums, Timeshares, and Mobile Homes Trust Fund
  • 718.604 — Short title
  • 718.606 — Conversion of existing improvements to condominium; rental agreements
  • 718.608 — Notice of intended conversion; time of delivery; content
  • 718.61 — Notices
  • 718.612 — Right of first refusal
  • 718.614 — Economic information to be provided
  • 718.616 — Disclosure of condition of building and estimated replacement costs and notification of municipalities
  • 718.618 — Converter reserve accounts; warranties
  • 718.62 — Prohibition of discrimination against nonpurchasing tenants
  • 718.621 — Rulemaking authority
  • 718.622 — Saving clause
  • 718.701 — Short title
  • 718.702 — Legislative intent
  • 718.703 — Definitions
  • 718.704 — Assignment and assumption of developer rights by bulk assignee; bulk buyer
  • 718.705 — Board of administration; transfer of control
  • 718.706 — Specific provisions pertaining to offering of units by a bulk assignee or bulk buyer
  • 718.707 — Time limitation for classification as bulk assignee or bulk buyer
  • 718.708 — Liability of developers and others
  • 718.71 — Financial reporting
Title 719 · FL Chapter 719 (54 sections)
  • 719.101 — Short title
  • 719.102 — Purpose
  • 719.103 — Definitions
  • 719.1035 — Creation of cooperatives
  • 719.104 — Cooperatives; access to units; records; financial reports; assessments; purchase of leases
  • 719.105 — Cooperative parcels; appurtenances; possession and enjoyment
  • 719.1055 — Amendment of cooperative documents; alteration and acquisition of property
  • 719.106 — Bylaws; cooperative ownership
  • 719.1064 — Failure to fill vacancies on board of administration; appointment of receiver upon petition of unit owner
  • 719.1065 — Power of attorney; compliance with chapter
  • 719.107 — Common expenses; assessment
  • 719.108 — Rents and assessments; liability; lien and priority; interest; collection; cooperative ownership
  • 719.109 — Right of owners to peaceably assemble
  • 719.110 — Limitation on actions by association
  • 719.111 — Attorney’s fees
  • 719.112 — Unconscionability of certain leases; rebuttable presumption
  • 719.1124 — Failure to fill vacancies on board of administration sufficient to constitute a quorum; appointment of receiver upon pet
  • 719.114 — Separate taxation of cooperative parcels; survival of contractual provisions after tax sale
  • 719.115 — Limitation of liability
  • 719.1255 — Alternative resolution of disputes
  • 719.127 — Receivership notification
  • 719.128 — Association emergency powers
  • 719.129 — Electronic voting
  • 719.131 — Law enforcement vehicles
  • 719.202 — Sales or reservation deposits prior to closing
  • 719.203 — Warranties
  • 719.301 — Transfer of association control
  • 719.302 — Agreements entered into by the association
  • 719.3026 — Contracts for products and services; in writing; bids; exceptions
  • 719.303 — Obligations of owners
  • 719.304 — Association’s right to amend cooperative documents
  • 719.401 — Leaseholds
  • 719.4015 — Cooperative leases; escalation clauses
  • 719.402 — Conversion of existing improvements to cooperative
  • 719.403 — Phase cooperatives
  • 719.501 — Powers and duties of Division of Florida Condominiums, Timeshares, and Mobile Homes
  • 719.502 — Filing prior to sale or lease
  • 719.503 — Disclosure prior to sale
  • 719.504 — Prospectus or offering circular
  • 719.505 — Good faith effort to comply
  • 719.506 — Publication of false and misleading information
  • 719.507 — Zoning and building laws, ordinances, and regulations
  • 719.508 — Regulation by Division of Hotels and Restaurants
  • 719.604 — Short title
  • 719.606 — Conversion of existing improvements to cooperative; rental agreements
  • 719.608 — Notice of intended conversion; time of delivery; content
  • 719.61 — Notices
  • 719.612 — Right of first refusal
  • 719.614 — Economic information to be provided
  • 719.616 — Disclosure of condition of building and estimated replacement costs
  • 719.618 — Converter reserve accounts; warranties
  • 719.62 — Prohibition of discrimination against nonpurchasing tenants
  • 719.621 — Rulemaking authority
  • 719.622 — Saving clause
Title 72 · FL Chapter 72 (3 sections)
  • 72.011 — Jurisdiction of circuit courts in specific tax matters; administrative hearings and appeals; time for commencing action;
  • 72.031 — Actions under s. 72.011(1); parties; service of process
  • 72.041 — Tax liabilities arising under the laws of other states
Title 720 · FL Chapter 720 (36 sections)
  • 720.301 — Definitions
  • 720.3015 — Short title
  • 720.302 — Purposes, scope, and application
  • 720.303 — Association powers and duties; meetings of board; official records; budgets; financial reporting; association funds; rec
  • 720.3032 — Notice of association information; preservation from Marketable Record Title Act
  • 720.3033 — Officers and directors
  • 720.3035 — Architectural control covenants; parcel owner improvements; rights and privileges
  • 720.304 — Right of owners to peaceably assemble; display of flags; SLAPP suits prohibited
  • 720.3045 — Installation, display, and storage of items
  • 720.305 — Obligations of members; remedies at law or in equity; levy of fines and suspension of use rights
  • 720.3053 — Failure to fill vacancies on board of directors sufficient to constitute a quorum; appointment of receiver upon petition
  • 720.3055 — Contracts for products and services; in writing; bids; exceptions
  • 720.306 — Meetings of members; voting and election procedures; amendments
  • 720.3065 — Fraudulent voting activities relating to association elections; penalties
  • 720.307 — Transition of association control in a community
  • 720.3075 — Prohibited clauses in association documents
  • 720.308 — Assessments and charges
  • 720.3085 — Payment for assessments; lien claims
  • 720.30851 — Estoppel certificates
  • 720.3086 — Financial report
  • 720.309 — Agreements entered into by the association
  • 720.31 — Recreational leaseholds; right to acquire; escalation clauses
  • 720.311 — Dispute resolution
  • 720.312 — Declaration of covenants; survival after tax deed or foreclosure
  • 720.313 — Receivership notification
  • 720.315 — Passage of special assessments
  • 720.316 — Association emergency powers
  • 720.317 — Electronic voting
  • 720.318 — First responder vehicles
  • 720.401 — Prospective purchasers subject to association membership requirement; disclosure required; covenants; assessments; contr
  • 720.402 — Publication of false and misleading information
  • 720.403 — Preservation of communities; revival of declaration of covenants
  • 720.404 — Eligible communities; requirements for revival of declaration
  • 720.405 — Organizing committee; parcel owner approval
  • 720.406 — Department of Commerce; submission; review and determination
  • 720.407 — Recording; notice of recording; applicability and effective date
Title 721 · FL Chapter 721 (65 sections)
  • 721.01 — Short title
  • 721.02 — Purposes
  • 721.03 — Scope of chapter
  • 721.04 — Saving clause
  • 721.05 — Definitions
  • 721.056 — Supervisory duties of developer
  • 721.06 — Contracts for purchase of timeshare interests
  • 721.065 — Resale purchase agreements
  • 721.07 — Public offering statement
  • 721.071 — Trade secrets
  • 721.075 — Incidental benefits
  • 721.08 — Escrow accounts; nondisturbance instruments; alternate security arrangements; transfer of legal title
  • 721.09 — Reservation agreements; escrows
  • 721.10 — Cancellation
  • 721.11 — Advertising materials; oral statements
  • 721.111 — Prize and gift promotional offers
  • 721.12 — Recordkeeping by seller
  • 721.121 — Recordkeeping by resale service providers and lead dealers
  • 721.125 — Termination of timeshare plans
  • 721.1255 — Extension of timeshare plans
  • 721.13 — Management
  • 721.14 — Discharge of managing entity
  • 721.15 — Assessments for common expenses
  • 721.16 — Liens for overdue assessments; liens for labor performed on, or materials furnished to, a timeshare unit
  • 721.165 — Insurance
  • 721.17 — Transfer of interest; resale transfer agreements
  • 721.18 — Exchange programs; filing of information and other materials; filing fees; unlawful acts in connection with an exchange
  • 721.19 — Provisions requiring purchase or lease of timeshare property by owners’ association or purchasers; validity
  • 721.20 — Licensing requirements; suspension or revocation of license; exceptions to applicability; collection of advance fees for
  • 721.205 — Resale service providers; disclosure obligations
  • 721.21 — Purchasers’ remedies
  • 721.22 — Partition
  • 721.23 — Securities
  • 721.24 — Firesafety
  • 721.25 — Zoning and building
  • 721.26 — Regulation by division
  • 721.265 — Service of process
  • 721.27 — Annual fee for each timeshare unit in plan
  • 721.28 — Division of Florida Condominiums, Timeshares, and Mobile Homes Trust Fund
  • 721.29 — Recording
  • 721.301 — Florida Timesharing, Vacation Club, and Hospitality Program
  • 721.32 — Effect of ch. 2000-302
  • 721.50 — Short title
  • 721.51 — Legislative purpose; scope
  • 721.52 — Definitions
  • 721.53 — Subordination instruments; alternate security arrangements
  • 721.55 — Multisite timeshare plan public offering statement
  • 721.551 — Delivery of multisite timeshare plan purchaser public offering statement
  • 721.552 — Additions, substitutions, or deletions of component site accommodations or facilities; purchaser remedies for violations
  • 721.56 — Management of multisite timeshare plans; reservation systems; demand balancing
  • 721.57 — Offering of timeshare estates in specific multisite timeshare plans; required provisions in the timeshare instrument
  • 721.58 — Filing fee; annual fee
  • 721.80 — Short title
  • 721.81 — Legislative purpose
  • 721.82 — Definitions
  • 721.83 — Consolidation of judicial foreclosure actions
  • 721.84 — Appointment of a registered agent; duties
  • 721.85 — Service to notice address or on registered agent
  • 721.855 — Procedure for the trustee foreclosure of assessment liens
  • 721.856 — Procedure for the trustee foreclosure of mortgage liens
  • 721.8561 — Administrative fee
  • 721.86 — Miscellaneous provisions
  • 721.96 — Purpose
  • 721.97 — Timeshare commissioner of deeds
  • 721.98 — Powers of the division
Title 723 · FL Chapter 723 (69 sections)
  • 723.001 — Short title
  • 723.002 — Application of chapter
  • 723.003 — Definitions
  • 723.004 — Legislative intent; preemption of subject matter
  • 723.005 — Regulation by division
  • 723.0051 — Rulemaking authority for implementation of ch. 2024-123
  • 723.006 — Powers and duties of division
  • 723.007 — Annual fees; surcharge
  • 723.008 — Applicability of chapter 212 to fees, penalties, and fines under this chapter
  • 723.009 — Division of Florida Condominiums, Timeshares, and Mobile Homes Trust Fund
  • 723.011 — Disclosure prior to rental of a mobile home lot; prospectus, filing, approval
  • 723.012 — Prospectus or offering circular
  • 723.013 — Written notification in the absence of a prospectus
  • 723.014 — Failure to provide prospectus or offering circular prior to occupancy
  • 723.016 — Advertising materials; oral statements
  • 723.017 — Publication of false or misleading information; remedies
  • 723.021 — Obligation of good faith and fair dealings
  • 723.022 — Mobile home park owner’s general obligations
  • 723.023 — Mobile home owner’s general obligations
  • 723.024 — Compliance by mobile home park owners and mobile home owners
  • 723.025 — Park owner’s access to mobile home and mobile home lot
  • 723.027 — Persons authorized by park owner to receive notices
  • 723.031 — Mobile home lot rental agreements
  • 723.032 — Prohibited or unenforceable provisions in mobile home lot rental agreements
  • 723.033 — Unreasonable lot rental agreements; increases, changes
  • 723.035 — Rules and regulations
  • 723.037 — Lot rental increases; reduction in services or utilities; change in rules and regulations; mediation
  • 723.038 — Dispute settlement; mediation
  • 723.0381 — Civil actions; arbitration
  • 723.041 — Entrance fees; refunds; exit fees prohibited; replacement homes
  • 723.042 — Provision of improvements
  • 723.043 — Purchase of equipment
  • 723.044 — Interference with installation of appliances or interior improvements
  • 723.045 — Sale of utilities by park owner or developer
  • 723.046 — Capital costs of utility improvements
  • 723.051 — Invitees and live-in health care aides; rights and obligations
  • 723.054 — Right of mobile home owners to peaceably assemble; right to communicate
  • 723.055 — Right of mobile home owner to invite public officers, candidates for public office, or representatives of a tenant organ
  • 723.056 — Enforcement of right of assembly and right to hear outside speakers
  • 723.058 — Restrictions on sale of mobile homes
  • 723.059 — Purchaser of a mobile home within a mobile home park
  • 723.061 — Eviction; grounds, proceedings
  • 723.0611 — Florida Mobile Home Relocation Corporation
  • 723.06115 — Florida Mobile Home Relocation Trust Fund
  • 723.06116 — Payments to the Florida Mobile Home Relocation Corporation
  • 723.0612 — Change in use; relocation expenses; payments by park owner
  • 723.0615 — Retaliatory conduct
  • 723.062 — Removal of mobile home owner; process
  • 723.063 — Defenses to action for rent or possession; procedure
  • 723.068 — Attorney’s fees
  • 723.071 — Sale of mobile home parks
  • 723.072 — Affidavit of compliance with statutory requirements
  • 723.073 — Conveyance by the association
  • 723.074 — Sale of facilities serving a mobile home subdivision
  • 723.075 — Homeowners’ associations
  • 723.0751 — Mobile home subdivision homeowners’ association
  • 723.076 — Incorporation; notification of park owner
  • 723.077 — Articles of incorporation
  • 723.078 — Bylaws of homeowners’ associations
  • 723.0781 — Board member training programs
  • 723.079 — Powers and duties of homeowners’ association
  • 723.0791 — Mobile home cooperative homeowners’ associations; elections
  • 723.081 — Notice of application for change in zoning
  • 723.083 — Governmental action affecting removal of mobile home owners
  • 723.084 — Storage charges on mobile homes
  • 723.085 — Rights of lienholder on mobile homes in rental mobile home parks
  • 723.086 — Property and lienholder contracts
  • 723.0861 — Attorney’s fees and costs
  • 723.1255 — Alternative resolution of recall, election, and inspection and photocopying of official records disputes
Title 725 · FL Chapter 725 (7 sections)
  • 725.01 — Promise to pay another’s debt, etc
  • 725.03 — Newspaper subscription
  • 725.04 — Voluntary payment; pleading
  • 725.05 — Satisfaction for less than amount due
  • 725.06 — Construction contracts; limitation on indemnification
  • 725.07 — Discrimination on basis of sex, marital status, or race forbidden
  • 725.08 — Design professional contracts; limitation in indemnification
Title 726 · FL Chapter 726 (13 sections)
  • 726.101 — Short title
  • 726.102 — Definitions
  • 726.103 — Insolvency
  • 726.104 — Value
  • 726.105 — Transfers fraudulent as to present and future creditors
  • 726.106 — Transfers fraudulent as to present creditors
  • 726.107 — When transfer made or obligation incurred
  • 726.108 — Remedies of creditors
  • 726.109 — Defenses, liability, and protection of transferee
  • 726.110 — Extinguishment of cause of action
  • 726.111 — Supplementary provisions
  • 726.112 — Uniformity of application and construction
  • 726.201 — Fraudulent loans void
Title 727 · FL Chapter 727 (17 sections)
Title 73 · FL Chapter 73 (26 sections)
  • 73.012 — Procedure
  • 73.013 — Conveyance of property taken by eminent domain; preservation of government entity communications services eminent domain
  • 73.014 — Taking property to eliminate nuisance, slum, or blight conditions prohibited
  • 73.015 — Presuit negotiation
  • 73.0155 — Confidentiality; business information provided to a governmental condemning authority
  • 73.021 — Petition; contents
  • 73.031 — Process; service and publication
  • 73.032 — Offer of judgment
  • 73.041 — Acquiring or perfecting title after appropriation
  • 73.051 — Returns; defaults
  • 73.0511 — Prelitigation notice
  • 73.061 — Pretrial hearing
  • 73.071 — Jury trial; compensation; severance damages; business damages
  • 73.0715 — Valuation of electric utility property
  • 73.072 — Mobile home parks; compensation for permanent improvements by mobile home owners
  • 73.073 — Eminent domain procedure with respect to condominium common elements
  • 73.081 — Form of verdict
  • 73.091 — Costs of the proceedings
  • 73.092 — Attorney’s fees
  • 73.101 — Form of judgment
  • 73.111 — Deposit and possession
  • 73.121 — Writs of assistance and possession
  • 73.131 — Appeals; costs
  • 73.141 — Payment
  • 73.151 — Railroads and canal companies
  • 73.161 — Right-of-way for telephone and telegraph over railroad right-of-way
Title 731 · FL Chapter 731 (18 sections)
Title 732 · FL Chapter 732 (93 sections)
  • 732.101 — Intestate estate
  • 732.102 — Spouse’s share of intestate estate
  • 732.103 — Share of other heirs
  • 732.104 — Inheritance per stirpes
  • 732.105 — Half blood
  • 732.106 — Afterborn heirs
  • 732.107 — Escheat
  • 732.108 — Adopted persons and persons born out of wedlock
  • 732.1081 — Termination of parental rights
  • 732.109 — Debts to decedent
  • 732.1101 — Aliens
  • 732.111 — Dower and curtesy abolished
  • 732.201 — Right to elective share
  • 732.2025 — Definitions
  • 732.2035 — Property entering into elective estate
  • 732.2045 — Exclusions and overlapping application
  • 732.2055 — Valuation of the elective estate
  • 732.2065 — Amount of the elective share
  • 732.2075 — Sources from which elective share payable; abatement
  • 732.2085 — Liability of direct recipients and beneficiaries
  • 732.2095 — Valuation of property used to satisfy elective share
  • 732.2105 — Effect of election on other interests
  • 732.2115 — Protection of payors and other third parties
  • 732.2125 — Right of election; by whom exercisable
  • 732.2135 — Time of election; extensions; withdrawal
  • 732.2145 — Order of contribution; personal representative’s duty to collect contribution
  • 732.2151 — Award of fees and costs in elective share proceedings
  • 732.2155 — Effective date; effect of prior waivers; transition rules
  • 732.216 — Short title
  • 732.217 — Application
  • 732.218 — Rebuttable presumptions
  • 732.219 — Disposition upon death; waiver
  • 732.2211 — Demands or disputes; statute of repose
  • 732.222 — Purchaser for value or lender
  • 732.2231 — Protection of payors and other third parties
  • 732.224 — Creditor’s rights
  • 732.225 — Acts of married persons
  • 732.226 — Limitations on testamentary disposition
  • 732.227 — Homestead defined
  • 732.228 — Uniformity of application and construction
  • 732.301 — Pretermitted spouse
  • 732.302 — Pretermitted children
  • 732.401 — Descent of homestead
  • 732.4015 — Devise of homestead
  • 732.4017 — Inter vivos transfer of homestead property
  • 732.402 — Exempt property
  • 732.403 — Family allowance
  • 732.501 — Who may make a will
  • 732.502 — Execution of wills
  • 732.503 — Self-proof of will
  • 732.504 — Who may witness
  • 732.505 — Revocation by writing
  • 732.506 — Revocation by act
  • 732.507 — Effect of subsequent marriage, birth, adoption, or dissolution of marriage
  • 732.508 — Revival by revocation
  • 732.509 — Revocation of codicil
  • 732.5105 — Republication of wills by codicil
  • 732.511 — Republication of wills by reexecution
  • 732.512 — Incorporation by reference
  • 732.513 — Devises to trustee
  • 732.514 — Vesting of devises
  • 732.515 — Separate writing identifying devises of tangible property
  • 732.5165 — Effect of fraud, duress, mistake, and undue influence
  • 732.517 — Penalty clause for contest
  • 732.518 — Will contests
  • 732.521 — Definitions
  • 732.522 — Method and place of execution
  • 732.523 — Self-proof of electronic will
  • 732.524 — Qualified custodians
  • 732.525 — Liability coverage; receivership of qualified custodians
  • 732.526 — Probate
  • 732.6005 — Rules of construction and intention
  • 732.601 — Simultaneous Death Law
  • 732.603 — Antilapse; deceased devisee; class gifts
  • 732.604 — Failure of testamentary provision
  • 732.605 — Change in securities; accessions; nonademption
  • 732.606 — Nonademption of specific devises in certain cases; sale by guardian of the property; unpaid proceeds of sale, condemnati
  • 732.607 — Exercise of power of appointment
  • 732.608 — Construction of terms
  • 732.609 — Ademption by satisfaction
  • 732.611 — Devises to multigeneration classes to be per stirpes
  • 732.615 — Reformation to correct mistakes
  • 732.616 — Modification to achieve testator’s tax objectives
  • 732.701 — Agreements concerning succession
  • 732.702 — Waiver of spousal rights
  • 732.7025 — Waiver of homestead rights through deed
  • 732.703 — Effect of divorce, dissolution, or invalidity of marriage on disposition of certain assets at death
  • 732.802 — Killer not entitled to receive property or other benefits by reason of victim’s death
  • 732.8031 — Forfeiture for abuse, neglect, exploitation, or aggravated manslaughter of an elderly person or a disabled adult
  • 732.804 — Provisions relating to disposition of the body
  • 732.805 — Spousal rights procured by fraud, duress, or undue influence
  • 732.806 — Gifts to lawyers and other disqualified persons
  • 732.901 — Production of wills
Title 733 · FL Chapter 733 (94 sections)
  • 733.101 — Venue of probate proceedings
  • 733.103 — Effect of probate
  • 733.104 — Suspension of statutes of limitation in favor of the personal representative
  • 733.105 — Determination of beneficiaries
  • 733.1051 — Limited judicial construction of will with federal tax provisions
  • 733.106 — Costs and attorney fees
  • 733.1061 — Fees and costs; will reformation and modification
  • 733.107 — Burden of proof in contests; presumption of undue influence
  • 733.109 — Revocation of probate
  • 733.201 — Proof of wills
  • 733.202 — Petition
  • 733.204 — Probate of a will written in a foreign language
  • 733.205 — Probate of notarial will
  • 733.206 — Probate of will of resident after foreign probate
  • 733.207 — Establishment and probate of lost or destroyed will
  • 733.208 — Discovery of later will
  • 733.209 — Estates of missing persons
  • 733.212 — Notice of administration; filing of objections
  • 733.2121 — Notice to creditors; filing of claims
  • 733.2123 — Adjudication before issuance of letters
  • 733.213 — Probate as prerequisite to judicial construction of will
  • 733.301 — Preference in appointment of personal representative
  • 733.302 — Who may be appointed personal representative
  • 733.303 — Persons not qualified
  • 733.304 — Nonresidents
  • 733.305 — Trust companies and other corporations and associations
  • 733.306 — Effect of appointment of debtor
  • 733.307 — Succession of administration
  • 733.308 — Administrator ad litem
  • 733.309 — Executor de son tort
  • 733.3101 — Personal representative not qualified
  • 733.402 — Bond of fiduciary; when required; form
  • 733.403 — Amount of bond
  • 733.404 — Liability of surety
  • 733.405 — Release of surety
  • 733.406 — Bond premium allowable as expense of administration
  • 733.501 — Curators
  • 733.502 — Resignation of personal representative
  • 733.503 — Appointment of successor upon resignation
  • 733.5035 — Surrender of assets after resignation
  • 733.5036 — Accounting and discharge following resignation
  • 733.504 — Removal of personal representative; causes for removal
  • 733.505 — Jurisdiction in removal proceedings
  • 733.506 — Proceedings for removal
  • 733.5061 — Appointment of successor upon removal
  • 733.508 — Accounting and discharge of removed personal representatives upon removal
  • 733.509 — Surrender of assets upon removal
  • 733.601 — Time of accrual of duties and powers
  • 733.602 — General duties
  • 733.603 — Personal representative to proceed without court order
  • 733.604 — Inventories and accountings; public records exemptions
  • 733.6065 — Opening safe-deposit box
  • 733.607 — Possession of estate
  • 733.608 — General power of the personal representative
  • 733.609 — Improper exercise of power; breach of fiduciary duty
  • 733.610 — Sale, encumbrance, or transaction involving conflict of interest
  • 733.611 — Persons dealing with the personal representative; protection
  • 733.612 — Transactions authorized for the personal representative; exceptions
  • 733.6121 — Personal representative; powers as to environmental issues relating to property subject to administration; liability
  • 733.613 — Personal representative’s right to sell real property
  • 733.614 — Powers and duties of successor personal representative
  • 733.615 — Joint personal representatives; when joint action required
  • 733.616 — Powers of surviving personal representatives
  • 733.617 — Compensation of personal representative
  • 733.6171 — Compensation of attorney for the personal representative
  • 733.6175 — Proceedings for review of employment of agents and compensation of personal representatives and employees of estate
  • 733.619 — Individual liability of personal representative
  • 733.620 — Exculpation of personal representative
  • 733.701 — Notifying creditors
  • 733.702 — Limitations on presentation of claims
  • 733.703 — Form and manner of presenting claim
  • 733.704 — Amendment of claims
  • 733.705 — Payment of and objection to claims
  • 733.706 — Executions and levies
  • 733.707 — Order of payment of expenses and obligations
  • 733.708 — Compromise
  • 733.710 — Limitations on claims against estates
  • 733.801 — Delivery of devises and distributive shares
  • 733.802 — Proceedings for compulsory payment of devises or distributive interest
  • 733.803 — Encumbered property; liability for payment
  • 733.805 — Order in which assets abate
  • 733.806 — Advancement
  • 733.808 — Death benefits; disposition of proceeds
  • 733.809 — Right of retainer
  • 733.810 — Distribution in kind; valuation
  • 733.811 — Distribution; right or title of distributee
  • 733.812 — Improper distribution or payment; liability of distributee or payee
  • 733.813 — Purchasers from distributees protected
  • 733.814 — Partition for purpose of distribution
  • 733.815 — Private contracts among interested persons
  • 733.816 — Disposition of unclaimed property held by personal representatives
  • 733.817 — Apportionment of estate taxes
  • 733.901 — Final discharge
  • 733.903 — Subsequent administration
Title 734 · FL Chapter 734 (6 sections)
  • 734.101 — Foreign personal representative
  • 734.102 — Ancillary administration
  • 734.1025 — Nonresident decedent’s testate estate with property not exceeding $50,000 in this state; determination of claims
  • 734.104 — Foreign wills; admission to record; effect on title
  • 734.201 — Jurisdiction by act of foreign personal representative
  • 734.202 — Jurisdiction by act of decedent
Title 735 · FL Chapter 735 (10 sections)
  • 735.201 — Summary administration; nature of proceedings
  • 735.202 — May be administered in the same manner as other estates
  • 735.203 — Petition for summary administration
  • 735.2055 — Filing of petition
  • 735.206 — Summary administration distribution
  • 735.2063 — Notice to creditors
  • 735.301 — Disposition without administration
  • 735.302 — Income tax refunds in certain cases
  • 735.303 — Payment to successor without court proceedings
  • 735.304 — Disposition without administration of intestate property in small estates
Title 736 · FL Chapter 736 (161 sections)
  • 736.0101 — Short title
  • 736.0102 — Scope
  • 736.0103 — Definitions
  • 736.0104 — Knowledge
  • 736.0105 — Default and mandatory rules
  • 736.0106 — Common law of trusts; principles of equity
  • 736.0107 — Governing law
  • 736.0108 — Principal place of administration
  • 736.0109 — Methods and waiver of notice
  • 736.0110 — Others treated as qualified beneficiaries
  • 736.0111 — Nonjudicial settlement agreements
  • 736.0112 — Qualification of foreign trustee
  • 736.0201 — Role of court in trust proceedings
  • 736.0202 — Jurisdiction over trustee and beneficiary
  • 736.02025 — Service of process
  • 736.0203 — Subject matter jurisdiction
  • 736.0204 — Venue
  • 736.0206 — Proceedings for review of employment of agents and review of compensation of trustee and employees of trust
  • 736.0207 — Trust contests
  • 736.0301 — Representation; basic effect
  • 736.0302 — Representation by holder of power of appointment
  • 736.0303 — Representation by fiduciaries and parents
  • 736.0304 — Representation by person having substantially identical interest
  • 736.0305 — Appointment of representative
  • 736.0306 — Designated representative
  • 736.0401 — Methods of creating trust
  • 736.0402 — Requirements for creation
  • 736.0403 — Trusts created in other jurisdictions; formalities required for revocable trusts
  • 736.0404 — Trust purposes
  • 736.0405 — Charitable purposes; enforcement
  • 736.0406 — Effect of fraud, duress, mistake, or undue influence
  • 736.0407 — Evidence of oral trust
  • 736.0408 — Trust for care of an animal
  • 736.0409 — Noncharitable trust without ascertainable beneficiary
  • 736.0410 — Modification or termination of trust; proceedings for disapproval of nonjudicial acts
  • 736.04113 — Judicial modification of irrevocable trust when modification is not inconsistent with settlor’s purpose
  • 736.04114 — Limited judicial construction of irrevocable trust with federal tax provisions
  • 736.04115 — Judicial modification of irrevocable trust when modification is in best interests of beneficiaries
  • 736.04117 — Trustee’s power to invade principal in trust
  • 736.0412 — Nonjudicial modification of irrevocable trust
  • 736.0413 — Cy pres
  • 736.0414 — Modification or termination of uneconomic trust
  • 736.0415 — Reformation to correct mistakes
  • 736.0416 — Modification to achieve settlor’s tax objectives
  • 736.0417 — Combination and division of trusts
  • 736.0501 — Rights of beneficiary’s creditor or assignee
  • 736.0502 — Spendthrift provision
  • 736.0503 — Exceptions to spendthrift provision
  • 736.0504 — Discretionary trusts; effect of standard
  • 736.0505 — Creditors’ claims against settlor
  • 736.05053 — Trustee’s duty to pay expenses and obligations of settlor’s estate
  • 736.05055 — Notice of trust
  • 736.0506 — Overdue distribution
  • 736.0507 — Personal obligations of trustee
  • 736.0601 — Capacity of settlor of revocable trust
  • 736.0602 — Revocation or amendment of revocable trust
  • 736.0603 — Settlor’s powers; powers of withdrawal
  • 736.0604 — Limitation on action contesting validity of revocable trust
  • 736.0701 — Accepting or declining trusteeship
  • 736.0702 — Trustee’s bond
  • 736.0703 — Cotrustees
  • 736.0704 — Vacancy in trusteeship; appointment of successor
  • 736.0705 — Resignation of trustee
  • 736.0706 — Removal of trustee
  • 736.0707 — Delivery of property by former trustee
  • 736.0708 — Compensation of trustee
  • 736.0709 — Reimbursement of expenses
  • 736.0801 — Duty to administer trust
  • 736.0802 — Duty of loyalty
  • 736.0803 — Impartiality
  • 736.0804 — Prudent administration
  • 736.0805 — Expenses of administration
  • 736.0806 — Trustee’s skills
  • 736.0807 — Delegation by trustee
  • 736.0809 — Control and protection of trust property
  • 736.0810 — Recordkeeping and identification of trust property
  • 736.08105 — Duty to ascertain marketable title of trust real property
  • 736.0811 — Enforcement and defense of claims
  • 736.0812 — Collecting trust property
  • 736.08125 — Protection of successor trustees
  • 736.0813 — Duty to inform and account
  • 736.08135 — Trust accountings
  • 736.0814 — Discretionary powers; tax savings
  • 736.08145 — Grantor trust reimbursement
  • 736.08147 — Duty to distribute trust income
  • 736.0815 — General powers of trustee
  • 736.0816 — Specific powers of trustee
  • 736.08163 — Powers of trustees relating to environmental or human health laws or to trust property contaminated with hazardous or to
  • 736.08165 — Administration pending outcome of contest or other proceeding
  • 736.0817 — Distribution on termination
  • 736.0901 — Applicability of chapter 518
  • 736.0902 — Nonapplication of prudent investor rule
  • 736.1001 — Remedies for breach of trust
  • 736.1002 — Damages for breach of trust
  • 736.1003 — Damages in absence of breach
  • 736.1004 — Attorney’s fees and costs
  • 736.1005 — Attorney fees for services to the trust
  • 736.1006 — Costs in trust proceedings
  • 736.1007 — Trustee’s attorney fees
  • 736.1008 — Limitations on proceedings against trustees
  • 736.10085 — Claims against former trustees
  • 736.1009 — Reliance on trust instrument
  • 736.1010 — Event affecting administration or distribution
  • 736.1011 — Exculpation of trustee
  • 736.1012 — Beneficiary’s consent, release, or ratification
  • 736.1013 — Limitation on personal liability of trustee
  • 736.1014 — Limitations on actions against certain trusts
  • 736.1015 — Interest as general partner
  • 736.1016 — Protection of person dealing with trustee
  • 736.1017 — Certification of trust
  • 736.1018 — Improper distribution or payment; liability of distributee
  • 736.1101 — Rules of construction; general provisions
  • 736.1102 — Construction of terms
  • 736.1103 — Gifts to multigeneration classes to be per stirpes
  • 736.1104 — Person not entitled to receive property or other benefits by reason of victim’s death
  • 736.1105 — Effect of subsequent marriage, birth, adoption, or dissolution of marriage
  • 736.1106 — Antilapse; survivorship with respect to future interests under terms of inter vivos and testamentary trusts; substitute
  • 736.1107 — Change in securities; accessions; nonademption
  • 736.1108 — Penalty clause for contest
  • 736.1109 — Testamentary and revocable trusts; homestead protections
  • 736.1110 — Ademption by satisfaction
  • 736.1201 — Definitions
  • 736.1202 — Application of this part
  • 736.1203 — Trustee of a private foundation trust or a split interest trust
  • 736.1204 — Powers and duties of trustee of a private foundation trust or a split interest trust
  • 736.1205 — Notice that this part does not apply
  • 736.1206 — Power to amend trust instrument
  • 736.1207 — Power of court to permit deviation
  • 736.1208 — Release; property and persons affected; manner of effecting
  • 736.1209 — Election to come under this part
  • 736.1210 — Interpretation
  • 736.1211 — Protections afforded to certain charitable trusts and organizations
  • 736.1301 — Electronic records and signatures
  • 736.1302 — Severability clause
  • 736.1303 — Application to existing relationships
  • 736.1401 — Short title
  • 736.1403 — Application; principal place of administration
  • 736.1405 — Exclusions
  • 736.1406 — Power of trust director
  • 736.1407 — Limitations on trust director
  • 736.1408 — Duty and liability of trust director
  • 736.1409 — Duty and liability of directed trustee
  • 736.141 — Duty to provide information
  • 736.1411 — No duty to monitor, inform, or advise
  • 736.1412 — Application to cotrustee
  • 736.1413 — Limitation of action against trust director
  • 736.1414 — Defenses in action against trust director
  • 736.1415 — Jurisdiction over trust director
  • 736.1416 — Office of trust director
  • 736.1501 — Short title
  • 736.1502 — Definitions
  • 736.1503 — Requirements for community property trust
  • 736.1504 — Agreement establishing community property trust; amendments and revocation
  • 736.1505 — Classification of property as community property; enforcement; duration; management and control; effect of distributions
  • 736.1506 — Satisfaction of obligations
  • 736.1507 — Death of a spouse
  • 736.1508 — Dissolution of marriage
  • 736.1509 — Right of child to support
  • 736.151 — Homestead property
  • 736.1511 — Application of Internal Revenue Code; community property classified by another jurisdiction
  • 736.1512 — Unenforceable trusts
Title 738 · FL Chapter 738 (50 sections)
  • 738.101 — Short title
  • 738.102 — Definitions
  • 738.103 — Scope
  • 738.104 — Governing law
  • 738.201 — Fiduciary duties; general principles
  • 738.202 — Judicial review of exercise of discretionary power; request for instruction
  • 738.203 — Fiduciary’s power to adjust
  • 738.301 — Definitions
  • 738.302 — Applications; duties and remedies
  • 738.303 — Authority of fiduciary
  • 738.304 — Notice
  • 738.305 — Unitrust policy
  • 738.306 — Unitrust rate
  • 738.307 — Applicable value
  • 738.308 — Period
  • 738.309 — Express unitrust
  • 738.310 — Other rules
  • 738.401 — Character of receipts from entity
  • 738.402 — Distribution from trust or estate
  • 738.403 — Business or other activity conducted by fiduciary
  • 738.404 — Principal receipts
  • 738.405 — Rental property
  • 738.406 — Receipt on obligation to be paid in money
  • 738.407 — Insurance policy or contract
  • 738.408 — Insubstantial allocation not required
  • 738.409 — Deferred compensation, annuity, or similar payment
  • 738.410 — Liquidating asset
  • 738.411 — Minerals, water, and other natural resources
  • 738.412 — Timber
  • 738.413 — Marital deduction property not productive of income
  • 738.414 — Derivatives or options
  • 738.415 — Asset-backed securities
  • 738.416 — Other financial instrument or arrangement
  • 738.501 — Disbursement from income
  • 738.502 — Disbursement from principal
  • 738.503 — Transfers from income to principal for depreciation
  • 738.504 — Reimbursement of income from principal
  • 738.505 — Reimbursement of principal from income
  • 738.506 — Income taxes
  • 738.507 — Adjustment between income and principal because of taxes
  • 738.508 — Apportionment of property expenses between tenant and remainderman
  • 738.601 — Determination and distribution of net income
  • 738.602 — Distribution to successor beneficiary
  • 738.701 — When right to income begins and ends
  • 738.702 — Apportionment of receipts and disbursements when decedent dies or income interest begins
  • 738.703 — Apportionment when income interest ends
  • 738.801 — Uniformity of application and construction
  • 738.802 — Relation to Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act
  • 738.803 — Severability
  • 738.804 — Application
Title 739 · FL Chapter 739 (17 sections)
  • 739.101 — Short title
  • 739.102 — Definitions
  • 739.103 — Scope
  • 739.104 — Power to disclaim; general requirements; when irrevocable
  • 739.201 — Disclaimer of interest in property
  • 739.202 — Disclaimer of rights of survivorship in jointly held property
  • 739.203 — Disclaimer of property held as tenancy by the entirety
  • 739.204 — Disclaimer of interest by trustee
  • 739.205 — Disclaimer of power of appointment or other power not held in a fiduciary capacity
  • 739.206 — Disclaimer by appointee, object, or taker in default of exercise of power of appointment
  • 739.207 — Disclaimer of power held in fiduciary capacity
  • 739.301 — Delivery or filing
  • 739.401 — When disclaimer is permitted
  • 739.402 — When disclaimer is barred or limited
  • 739.501 — Tax-qualified disclaimer
  • 739.601 — Recording of disclaimer relating to real estate
  • 739.701 — Application to existing relationships
Title 740 · FL Chapter 740 (19 sections)
  • 740.001 — Short title
  • 740.002 — Definitions
  • 740.003 — User direction for disclosure of digital assets
  • 740.004 — Terms-of-service agreement preserved
  • 740.005 — Procedure for disclosing digital assets
  • 740.006 — Disclosure of content of electronic communications of deceased user
  • 740.007 — Disclosure of other digital assets of deceased user
  • 740.008 — Disclosure of content of electronic communications of principal
  • 740.009 — Disclosure of other digital assets of principal
  • 740.01 — Disclosure of digital assets held in trust when trustee is the original user
  • 740.02 — Disclosure of content of electronic communications held in trust when trustee is not the original user
  • 740.03 — Disclosure of other digital assets held in trust when trustee is not the original user
  • 740.04 — Disclosure of digital assets to guardian of ward
  • 740.05 — Fiduciary duty and authority
  • 740.06 — Custodian compliance and immunity
  • 740.07 — Relation to Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act
  • 740.08 — Applicability
  • 740.09 — Severability
  • 740.11 — Relation to wills
Title 741 · FL Chapter 741 (45 sections)
  • 741.01 — County court judge or clerk of the circuit court to issue marriage license; fee
  • 741.011 — Installment payments
  • 741.02 — Additional fee
  • 741.03 — County court judge or clerk of the circuit court not to send out marriage license signed in blank
  • 741.0305 — Marriage fee reduction for completion of premarital preparation course
  • 741.0306 — Creation of a family law handbook
  • 741.04 — Issuance of marriage license
  • 741.041 — Marriage license application valid for 60 days
  • 741.05 — Penalty for violation of s. 741.03 or s. 741.04(2)
  • 741.07 — Persons authorized to solemnize matrimony
  • 741.08 — Marriage not to be solemnized without a license
  • 741.09 — Record of license and certificate
  • 741.10 — Proof of marriage where no certificate available
  • 741.21 — Incestuous marriages prohibited
  • 741.211 — Common-law marriages void
  • 741.212 — Marriages between persons of the same sex
  • 741.23 — Husband not liable for wife’s torts
  • 741.235 — Doctrine of interspousal tort immunity abrogated
  • 741.24 — Civil action against parents; willful destruction or theft of property by minor
  • 741.28 — Domestic violence; definitions
  • 741.281 — Court to order batterers’ intervention program attendance
  • 741.283 — Minimum term of imprisonment for domestic violence
  • 741.29 — Domestic violence; investigation of incidents; notice to victims of legal rights and remedies; reporting
  • 741.2901 — Domestic violence cases; prosecutors; legislative intent; investigation; duty of circuits; first appearance
  • 741.2902 — Domestic violence; legislative intent with respect to judiciary’s role
  • 741.30 — Domestic violence; injunction; powers and duties of court and clerk; petition; notice and hearing; temporary injunction;
  • 741.31 — Violation of an injunction for protection against domestic violence
  • 741.311 — Hope Card Program for persons issued orders of protection
  • 741.313 — Unlawful action against employees seeking protection
  • 741.315 — Recognition of foreign protection orders
  • 741.316 — Domestic violence fatality review teams; definition; membership; duties
  • 741.3165 — Certain information exempt from disclosure
  • 741.32 — Batterers’ intervention programs
  • 741.325 — Requirements for batterers’ intervention programs
  • 741.327 — Certification and monitoring of batterers’ intervention programs; rules
  • 741.401 — Legislative findings; purpose
  • 741.402 — Definitions; ss. 741.401-741.409
  • 741.403 — Address confidentiality program; application; certification
  • 741.404 — Certification cancellation
  • 741.405 — Agency use of designated address
  • 741.406 — Voting by program participant; use of designated address by supervisor of elections
  • 741.408 — Assistance for program applicants
  • 741.409 — Adoption of rules
  • 741.465 — Public records exemption for the Address Confidentiality Program for Victims of Domestic Violence
  • 741.4651 — Public records exemption; victims of stalking or aggravated stalking
Title 742 · FL Chapter 742 (22 sections)
  • 742.011 — Proceedings for determination of paternity, rights, and responsibilities; jurisdiction
  • 742.021 — Venue, process, complaint
  • 742.031 — Hearings; court orders for support, hospital expenses, and attorney fees
  • 742.032 — Filing of location information
  • 742.045 — Attorney’s fees, suit money, and costs
  • 742.06 — Jurisdiction retained for future orders
  • 742.07 — Effect of adoption
  • 742.08 — Default of support payments
  • 742.09 — Publishing names; penalty
  • 742.091 — Marriage of parents
  • 742.10 — Establishment of paternity for children born out of wedlock
  • 742.105 — Effect of a determination of paternity from a foreign jurisdiction
  • 742.107 — Determining paternity of child with mother under 16 years of age when impregnated
  • 742.108 — Criminal penalties for false statements of paternity
  • 742.11 — Presumed status of child conceived by means of artificial or in vitro insemination or donated eggs or preembryos
  • 742.12 — Scientific testing to determine paternity
  • 742.13 — Definitions
  • 742.14 — Donation of eggs, sperm, or preembryos
  • 742.15 — Gestational surrogacy contract
  • 742.16 — Expedited affirmation of parental status for gestational surrogacy
  • 742.17 — Disposition of eggs, sperm, or preembryos; rights of inheritance
  • 742.18 — Disestablishment of paternity or termination of child support obligation
Title 743 · FL Chapter 743 (18 sections)
  • 743.01 — Removal of disabilities of married minors
  • 743.015 — Disabilities of nonage; removal
  • 743.04 — Removal of disabilities of persons entitled to benefits under the “Home, Farm and Business Loans Act.”
  • 743.044 — Removal of disabilities of minors; executing agreements for depository financial services
  • 743.045 — Removal of disabilities of minors; executing contracts for a residential lease
  • 743.046 — Removal of disabilities of minors; executing agreements for utility services
  • 743.047 — Removal of disabilities of minors; executing agreements for motor vehicle insurance
  • 743.05 — Removal of disabilities of minors; borrowing money for educational purposes
  • 743.06 — Removal of disabilities of minors; donation of blood without parental consent
  • 743.064 — Emergency medical care or treatment to minors without parental consent
  • 743.0645 — Other persons who may consent to medical care or treatment of a minor
  • 743.065 — Unwed pregnant minor or minor mother; consent to medical services for minor or minor’s child valid
  • 743.066 — Removal of disability of minors adjudicated as adults
  • 743.067 — Certified unaccompanied homeless youths
  • 743.07 — Rights, privileges, and obligations of persons 18 years of age or older
  • 743.08 — Removal of disabilities of minors; artistic or creative services; professional sports contracts; judicial approval
  • 743.09 — Removal of disabilities of minors; artistic or creative services; professional sports contracts; procedure for court app
  • 743.095 — Removal of disabilities of minors; artistic or creative services; professional sports contracts; guardianship of the pro
Title 744 · FL Chapter 744 (148 sections)
  • 744.101 — Short title
  • 744.1012 — Legislative intent
  • 744.102 — Definitions
  • 744.1025 — Additional definitions
  • 744.104 — Verification of documents
  • 744.105 — Costs
  • 744.106 — Notice
  • 744.107 — Court monitors
  • 744.1075 — Emergency court monitor
  • 744.1076 — Court orders appointing court monitors and emergency court monitors; reports of court monitors; orders finding no probab
  • 744.108 — Guardian and attorney fees and expenses
  • 744.109 — Records
  • 744.1095 — Hearings
  • 744.1096 — Domicile of ward
  • 744.1097 — Venue
  • 744.1098 — Change of ward’s residence
  • 744.2001 — Office of Public and Professional Guardians
  • 744.2002 — Professional guardian registration
  • 744.2003 — Regulation of professional guardians; application; bond required; educational requirements
  • 744.2004 — Complaints; disciplinary proceedings; penalties; enforcement
  • 744.20041 — Grounds for discipline; penalties; enforcement
  • 744.2005 — Order of appointment
  • 744.2006 — Office of Public and Professional Guardians; appointment, notification
  • 744.2007 — Powers and duties
  • 744.2008 — Costs of public guardian
  • 744.2009 — Preparation of budget
  • 744.2101 — Procedures and rules
  • 744.2102 — Surety bond
  • 744.2103 — Reports and standards
  • 744.21031 — Public records exemption
  • 744.2104 — Access to records by the Office of Public and Professional Guardians; confidentiality
  • 744.2105 — Direct-support organization; definition; use of property; board of directors; audit; dissolution
  • 744.2106 — Joining Forces for Public Guardianship grant program; purpose
  • 744.2107 — Program administration; duties of the Office of Public and Professional Guardians
  • 744.2108 — Eligibility
  • 744.2109 — Grant application requirements; review criteria; awards process
  • 744.2111 — Confidentiality
  • 744.2112 — Guardianship information and transparency
  • 744.301 — Natural guardians
  • 744.3021 — Guardians of minors
  • 744.3025 — Claims of minors
  • 744.3031 — Emergency temporary guardianship
  • 744.304 — Standby guardianship
  • 744.3045 — Preneed guardian
  • 744.3046 — Preneed guardian for minor
  • 744.306 — Foreign guardians
  • 744.307 — Foreign guardian may manage the property of nonresident ward
  • 744.308 — Resident guardian of the property of nonresident ward
  • 744.3085 — Guardian advocates
  • 744.309 — Who may be appointed guardian of a resident ward
  • 744.3115 — Advance directives for health care
  • 744.312 — Considerations in appointment of guardian
  • 744.3125 — Application for appointment
  • 744.3135 — Credit and criminal investigation
  • 744.3145 — Guardian education requirements
  • 744.3201 — Petition to determine incapacity
  • 744.3203 — Suspension of power of attorney before incapacity determination
  • 744.3215 — Rights of persons determined incapacitated
  • 744.331 — Procedures to determine incapacity
  • 744.334 — Petition for appointment of guardian or professional guardian; contents
  • 744.3371 — Notice of petition for appointment of guardian and hearing
  • 744.341 — Voluntary guardianship
  • 744.342 — Minors; guardianship
  • 744.345 — Letters of guardianship
  • 744.347 — Oath of guardian
  • 744.351 — Bond of guardian
  • 744.354 — Validity of bond
  • 744.357 — Liability of surety
  • 744.358 — Liability of a guardian
  • 744.359 — Abuse, neglect, or exploitation by a guardian
  • 744.361 — Powers and duties of guardian
  • 744.362 — Initial guardianship report
  • 744.363 — Initial guardianship plan
  • 744.365 — Verified inventory
  • 744.367 — Duty to file annual guardianship report
  • 744.3675 — Annual guardianship plan
  • 744.3678 — Annual accounting
  • 744.3679 — Simplified accounting procedures in certain cases
  • 744.368 — Responsibilities of the clerk of the circuit court
  • 744.3685 — Order requiring guardianship report; contempt
  • 744.369 — Judicial review of guardianship reports
  • 744.3701 — Confidentiality
  • 744.371 — Relief to be granted
  • 744.3715 — Petition for interim judicial review
  • 744.372 — Judicial review of guardianships
  • 744.3725 — Procedure for extraordinary authority
  • 744.373 — Production of property
  • 744.3735 — Annual appearance of the guardian
  • 744.374 — Payments to guardian
  • 744.381 — Appraisals
  • 744.384 — Subsequently discovered or acquired property
  • 744.387 — Settlement of claims
  • 744.391 — Actions by and against guardian or ward
  • 744.394 — Suspension of statutes of limitations in favor of guardian
  • 744.397 — Application of income of property of ward
  • 744.421 — Petition for support of ward’s dependents
  • 744.422 — Petition for support for a dependent adult child
  • 744.441 — Powers of guardian upon court approval
  • 744.442 — Delegation of authority
  • 744.4431 — Guardianship power regarding life-prolonging procedures
  • 744.444 — Power of guardian without court approval
  • 744.446 — Conflicts of interest; prohibited activities; court approval; breach of fiduciary duty
  • 744.447 — Petition for authorization to act
  • 744.451 — Order
  • 744.454 — Guardian forbidden to borrow or purchase; exceptions
  • 744.457 — Conveyance of various property rights by guardians of the property
  • 744.461 — Purchasers and lenders protected
  • 744.462 — Determination regarding alternatives to guardianship
  • 744.464 — Restoration to capacity
  • 744.467 — Resignation of guardian
  • 744.471 — Appointment of successor
  • 744.474 — Reasons for removal of guardian
  • 744.477 — Proceedings for removal of a guardian
  • 744.511 — Accounting upon removal
  • 744.514 — Surrender of property upon removal
  • 744.517 — Proceedings for contempt
  • 744.521 — Termination of guardianship
  • 744.524 — Termination of guardianship on change of domicile of resident ward
  • 744.527 — Final reports and application for discharge; hearing
  • 744.528 — Discharge of guardian named as personal representative
  • 744.531 — Order of discharge
  • 744.534 — Disposition of unclaimed funds held by guardian
  • 744.602 — Short title; scope of part
  • 744.604 — Definitions
  • 744.607 — Secretary of Veterans Affairs as party in interest
  • 744.609 — Procedure for commitment of veteran to United States Department of Veterans Affairs hospital
  • 744.613 — Appointment of guardian for ward authorized
  • 744.616 — Petition for appointment of guardian
  • 744.617 — Notice by court of petition filed for appointment of guardian
  • 744.618 — Persons who may be appointed guardian
  • 744.619 — Bond of guardian
  • 744.621 — Inventory of ward’s property; guardian’s failure to file inventory; discharge; forfeiture of commissions
  • 744.622 — Guardian empowered to receive moneys due ward from the United States Government
  • 744.624 — Guardian’s application of estate funds for support and maintenance of person other than ward
  • 744.625 — Petition for support, or support and education, of ward’s dependents; payments of apportioned benefits prohibit contem
  • 744.626 — Exemption of benefits from claims of creditors
  • 744.627 — Investment of funds of estate by guardian
  • 744.631 — Guardian’s petition for authority to sell ward’s real estate; notice by publication; penalties
  • 744.634 — Guardian’s accounts, filing with court and certification to United States Department of Veterans Affairs; notice and h
  • 744.637 — Certified copies of public records made available
  • 744.638 — Clerk of the circuit court; fees; duties
  • 744.639 — Attorney’s fee
  • 744.641 — Guardian’s compensation; bond premiums
  • 744.643 — Discharge of guardian of minor or incompetent ward
  • 744.646 — Final settlement of guardianship; notice required; guardian ad litem fee; papers required by United States Department of
  • 744.649 — Notice of appointment of general guardian; closing of veteran’s guardianship; transfer of responsibilities and penalti
  • 744.652 — Construction and application of part
  • 744.653 — Annual guardianship report
Title 747 · FL Chapter 747 (13 sections)
  • 747.01 — Who are absentees under this law
  • 747.011 — Absentee incompetent for certain purposes
  • 747.02 — Jurisdiction
  • 747.03 — Petition
  • 747.031 — Notice; hearing
  • 747.032 — Order of appointment
  • 747.033 — Oath
  • 747.034 — Bond
  • 747.035 — Rights, powers, and duties of conservator
  • 747.036 — Resignation or removal of conservator
  • 747.04 — Termination of conservatorship
  • 747.051 — Summary procedure
  • 747.052 — Procedure for order authorizing action by spouse or next of kin
Title 75 · FL Chapter 75 (16 sections)
  • 75.01 — Jurisdiction
  • 75.02 — Plaintiff
  • 75.03 — Condition precedent
  • 75.04 — Complaint
  • 75.05 — Order and service
  • 75.06 — Publication of notice
  • 75.07 — Intervention; hearings
  • 75.08 — Appeal and review
  • 75.09 — Effect of final judgment
  • 75.10 — Recording of judgment in other counties
  • 75.11 — Stamping instruments validated
  • 75.12 — Payment of costs
  • 75.13 — Certain prior proceedings validated
  • 75.14 — Landowner or taxpayer not disqualification of judge
  • 75.16 — Certain orders and decrees validated
  • 75.17 — Commencement of action after validation; affidavit of good faith
Title 751 · FL Chapter 751 (6 sections)
  • 751.01 — Purpose of act
  • 751.011 — Definitions
  • 751.02 — Temporary or concurrent custody proceedings; jurisdiction
  • 751.03 — Petition for temporary or concurrent custody; contents
  • 751.04 — Notice and opportunity to be heard
  • 751.05 — Order granting temporary or concurrent custody
Title 752 · FL Chapter 752 (5 sections)
  • 752.001 — Definitions
  • 752.011 — Petition for grandparent visitation with a minor child
  • 752.015 — Mediation of visitation disputes
  • 752.02 — Persons who must be served notice of petition; manner of service
  • 752.071 — Effect of adoption by stepparent or close relative
Title 753 · FL Chapter 753 (5 sections)
  • 753.01 — Definitions
  • 753.02 — Clearinghouse responsibilities and authority
  • 753.03 — Standards for supervised visitation and supervised exchange programs
  • 753.04 — Interim minimum standards for supervised visitation programs
  • 753.05 — Referrals involving child sexual abuse
Title 760 · FL Chapter 760 (35 sections)
  • 760.01 — Purposes; construction; title
  • 760.02 — Definitions
  • 760.021 — Enforcement
  • 760.03 — Commission on Human Relations; staff
  • 760.04 — Commission on Human Relations, assigned to Department of Management Services
  • 760.05 — Functions of the commission
  • 760.06 — Powers of the commission
  • 760.065 — Florida Civil Rights Hall of Fame
  • 760.07 — Remedies for unlawful discrimination
  • 760.08 — Discrimination in places of public accommodation
  • 760.10 — Unlawful employment practices
  • 760.11 — Administrative and civil remedies; construction
  • 760.20 — Fair Housing Act; short title
  • 760.21 — State policy on fair housing
  • 760.22 — Definitions
  • 760.23 — Discrimination in the sale or rental of housing and other prohibited practices
  • 760.24 — Discrimination in the provision of brokerage services
  • 760.25 — Discrimination in the financing of housing or in residential real estate transactions
  • 760.26 — Prohibited discrimination in land use decisions and in permitting of development
  • 760.27 — Prohibited discrimination in housing provided to persons with a disability or disability-related need for an emotional s
  • 760.29 — Exemptions
  • 760.30 — Administration of ss. 760.20-760.37
  • 760.31 — Powers and duties of commission
  • 760.32 — Investigations; subpoenas; oaths
  • 760.34 — Enforcement
  • 760.35 — Civil actions and relief; administrative procedures
  • 760.36 — Conciliation agreements
  • 760.37 — Interference, coercion, or intimidation; enforcement by administrative or civil action
  • 760.40 — Genetic testing; definitions; express consent required; confidentiality; notice of use of results
  • 760.50 — Discrimination on the basis of AIDS, AIDS-related complex, and HIV prohibited
  • 760.51 — Violations of constitutional rights, civil action by the Attorney General; civil penalty
  • 760.60 — Discriminatory practices of certain clubs prohibited; remedies
  • 760.701 — Lawsuits by prisoners
  • 760.80 — Minority representation on boards, commissions, councils, and committees
  • 760.854 — Center for Environmental Equity and Justice
Title 761 · FL Chapter 761 (6 sections)
  • 761.01 — Short title
  • 761.02 — Definitions
  • 761.03 — Free exercise of religion protected
  • 761.04 — Attorney’s fees and costs
  • 761.05 — Applicability; construction
  • 761.061 — Rights of certain churches or religious organizations or individuals
Title 765 · FL Chapter 765 (54 sections)
  • 765.101 — Definitions
  • 765.102 — Legislative findings and intent
  • 765.103 — Existing advance directives
  • 765.104 — Amendment or revocation
  • 765.105 — Review of surrogate or proxy’s decision
  • 765.106 — Preservation of existing rights
  • 765.107 — Construction
  • 765.108 — Effect with respect to insurance
  • 765.109 — Immunity from liability; weight of proof; presumption
  • 765.110 — Health care facilities and providers; discipline
  • 765.1103 — Pain management and palliative care
  • 765.1105 — Transfer of a patient
  • 765.1115 — Falsification, forgery, or willful concealment, cancellation, or destruction of directive or revocation or amendment; pe
  • 765.112 — Recognition of advance directive executed in another state
  • 765.113 — Restrictions on providing consent
  • 765.201 — Short title
  • 765.202 — Designation of a health care surrogate
  • 765.203 — Suggested form of designation
  • 765.2035 — Designation of a health care surrogate for a minor
  • 765.2038 — Designation of health care surrogate for a minor; suggested form
  • 765.204 — Capacity of principal; procedure
  • 765.205 — Responsibility of the surrogate
  • 765.301 — Short title
  • 765.302 — Procedure for making a living will; notice to physician
  • 765.303 — Suggested form of a living will
  • 765.304 — Procedure for living will
  • 765.305 — Procedure in absence of a living will
  • 765.306 — Determination of patient condition
  • 765.309 — Mercy killing or euthanasia not authorized; suicide distinguished
  • 765.401 — The proxy
  • 765.404 — Persistent vegetative state
  • 765.510 — Legislative declaration
  • 765.511 — Definitions
  • 765.512 — Persons who may make an anatomical gift
  • 765.513 — Donees; purposes for which anatomical gifts may be made
  • 765.514 — Manner of making anatomical gifts
  • 765.515 — Delivery of donor document
  • 765.5155 — Donor registry; education program
  • 765.51551 — Donor registry; public records exemption
  • 765.516 — Donor amendment or revocation of anatomical gift
  • 765.517 — Rights and duties at death
  • 765.518 — Eye banks
  • 765.5185 — Corneal removal by medical examiners
  • 765.519 — Enucleation of eyes by licensed funeral directors
  • 765.521 — Donations as part of driver license or identification card process
  • 765.522 — Duty of hospital administrators; liability of hospital administrators and procurement organizations
  • 765.523 — Discrimination in access to anatomical gifts and organ transplants prohibited
  • 765.541 — Certification of procurement organizations; agency responsibilities
  • 765.542 — Requirements to engage in organ, tissue, or eye procurement
  • 765.543 — Organ and Tissue Procurement and Transplantation Advisory Board; creation; duties
  • 765.544 — Fees; organ and tissue donor education and procurement
  • 765.545 — Physician supervision of cadaveric organ and tissue procurement coordinators
  • 765.546 — Procurement of cadaveric organs for transplant by out-of-state physicians
  • 765.547 — Cooperation between medical examiner and procurement organization
Title 766 · FL Chapter 766 (47 sections)
  • 766.101 — Medical review committee, immunity from liability
  • 766.1015 — Civil immunity for members of or consultants to certain boards, committees, or other entities
  • 766.1016 — Patient safety data privilege
  • 766.102 — Medical negligence; standards of recovery; expert witness
  • 766.103 — Florida Medical Consent Law
  • 766.104 — Medical negligence cases; reasonable investigation required before filing
  • 766.106 — Notice before filing action for medical negligence; presuit screening period; offers for admission of liability and for
  • 766.1065 — Authorization for release of protected health information
  • 766.108 — Mandatory mediation and mandatory settlement conference in medical negligence actions
  • 766.110 — Liability of health care facilities
  • 766.111 — Engaging in unnecessary diagnostic testing; penalties
  • 766.1115 — Health care providers; creation of agency relationship with governmental contractors
  • 766.1116 — Health care practitioner; waiver of license renewal fees and continuing education requirements
  • 766.112 — Comparative fault
  • 766.113 — Settlement agreements; prohibition on restricting disclosure to Division of Medical Quality Assurance
  • 766.118 — Determination of noneconomic damages
  • 766.1185 — Bad faith actions
  • 766.201 — Legislative findings and intent
  • 766.202 — Definitions; ss. 766.201-766.212
  • 766.2021 — Limitation on damages against insurers, prepaid limited health service organizations, health maintenance organizations,
  • 766.203 — Presuit investigation of medical negligence claims and defenses by prospective parties
  • 766.204 — Availability of medical records for presuit investigation of medical negligence claims and defenses; penalty
  • 766.205 — Presuit discovery of medical negligence claims and defenses
  • 766.206 — Presuit investigation of medical negligence claims and defenses by court
  • 766.207 — Voluntary binding arbitration of medical negligence claims
  • 766.208 — Arbitration to allocate responsibility among multiple defendants
  • 766.209 — Effects of failure to offer or accept voluntary binding arbitration
  • 766.21 — Misarbitration
  • 766.211 — Payment of arbitration award; interest
  • 766.212 — Appeal of arbitration awards and allocations of financial responsibility
  • 766.301 — Legislative findings and intent
  • 766.302 — Definitions; ss. 766.301-766.316
  • 766.303 — Florida Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Plan; exclusiveness of remedy
  • 766.304 — Administrative law judge to determine claims
  • 766.305 — Filing of claims and responses; medical disciplinary review
  • 766.306 — Tolling of statute of limitations
  • 766.307 — Hearing; parties; discovery
  • 766.309 — Determination of claims; presumption; findings of administrative law judge binding on participants
  • 766.31 — Administrative law judge awards for birth-related neurological injuries; notice of award
  • 766.311 — Conclusiveness of determination or award; appeal
  • 766.312 — Enforcement of awards
  • 766.313 — Limitation on claim
  • 766.314 — Assessments; plan of operation
  • 766.3145 — Code of ethics
  • 766.315 — Florida Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Association; board of directors; notice of meetings; report
  • 766.316 — Notice to obstetrical patients of participation in the plan
  • 766.318 — Civil liability for provision of sex-reassignment prescriptions or procedures to minors
Title 767 · FL Chapter 767 (15 sections)
  • 767.01 — Dog owner’s liability for damages to persons, domestic animals, or livestock
  • 767.02 — Sheep-killing dogs not to roam about
  • 767.03 — Good defense for killing dog
  • 767.04 — Dog owner’s liability for damages to persons bitten
  • 767.05 — Owner’s liability for damages by dog to dairy cattle
  • 767.07 — Interpretation
  • 767.10 — Legislative findings
  • 767.11 — Definitions
  • 767.12 — Classification of dogs as dangerous; owner requirements; penalty
  • 767.13 — Attack or bite by dangerous dog; penalties; confiscation; destruction
  • 767.135 — Attack or bite by unclassified dog that causes death; confiscation; destruction
  • 767.136 — Attack or bite by unclassified dog that causes severe injury or death; penalties
  • 767.14 — Additional local restrictions authorized
  • 767.15 — Other provisions of chapter 767 not superseded
  • 767.16 — Police canine or service dog; exemption
Title 768 · FL Chapter 768 (79 sections)
  • 768.041 — Release or covenant not to sue
  • 768.0415 — Liability for injury to parent
  • 768.042 — Damages
  • 768.0425 — Damages in actions against contractors for injuries sustained from negligence, malfeasance, or misfeasance
  • 768.0427 — Admissibility of evidence to prove medical expenses in personal injury or wrongful death actions; disclosure of letters
  • 768.043 — Remittitur and additur actions arising out of operation of motor vehicles
  • 768.07 — Railroad liability for injury to employees
  • 768.0701 — Premises liability for criminal acts of third parties
  • 768.0705 — Limitation on premises liability
  • 768.0706 — Multifamily residential property safety and security; presumption against liability
  • 768.075 — Immunity from liability for injury to trespassers on real property
  • 768.0755 — Premises liability for transitory foreign substances in a business establishment
  • 768.08 — Liability of corporations having relief department for injury to employees; contracts in violation of act void
  • 768.0895 — Limitation of liability for employers of persons with disabilities
  • 768.091 — Employer liability limits; ridesharing
  • 768.092 — Special mobile equipment; liability of lessors
  • 768.093 — Owner liability limits; powered shopping carts
  • 768.095 — Employer immunity from liability; disclosure of information regarding former or current employees
  • 768.096 — Employer presumption against negligent hiring
  • 768.098 — Limitation of liability for employee leasing
  • 768.0981 — Limitation on actions against insurers, prepaid limited health service organizations, health maintenance organizations,
  • 768.10 — Pits and holes not to be left open
  • 768.11 — Pits and holes; measure of damages
  • 768.12 — Motor vehicle colliding with any animal at large on a public highway
  • 768.125 — Liability for injury or damage resulting from intoxication
  • 768.1256 — Government rules defense
  • 768.1257 — State-of-the-art defense for products liability
  • 768.128 — Hazardous spills; definitions; persons who assist in containing or treating spills; immunity from liability; exceptions
  • 768.13 — Good Samaritan Act; immunity from civil liability
  • 768.1315 — Good Samaritan Volunteer Firefighters’ Assistance Act; immunity from civil liability
  • 768.1325 — Cardiac Arrest Survival Act; immunity from civil liability
  • 768.1326 — Placement of automated external defibrillators in state buildings; rulemaking authority
  • 768.1335 — Emergency Medical Dispatch Act; presumption
  • 768.1345 — Professional malpractice; immunity
  • 768.135 — Volunteer team physicians; immunity
  • 768.1355 — Florida Volunteer Protection Act
  • 768.136 — Liability for canned or perishable food distributed free of charge
  • 768.137 — Definition; limitation of civil liability for certain farmers; exception
  • 768.138 — Interruption of electric utility service by order of law enforcement; immunity
  • 768.1382 — Streetlights, security lights, and other similar illumination; limitation on liability
  • 768.139 — Rescue of vulnerable person or domestic animal from a motor vehicle; immunity from civil liability
  • 768.14 — Suit by state; waiver of sovereign immunity
  • 768.16 — Wrongful Death Act
  • 768.17 — Legislative intent
  • 768.18 — Definitions
  • 768.19 — Right of action
  • 768.20 — Parties
  • 768.21 — Damages
  • 768.22 — Form of verdict
  • 768.23 — Protection of minors and incompetents
  • 768.24 — Death of a survivor before judgment
  • 768.25 — Court approval of settlements
  • 768.26 — Litigation expenses
  • 768.28 — Waiver of sovereign immunity in tort actions; recovery limits; civil liability for damages caused during a riot; limitat
  • 768.295 — Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPP) prohibited
  • 768.31 — Contribution among tortfeasors
  • 768.35 — Continuing domestic violence
  • 768.36 — Alcohol or drug defense
  • 768.37 — Limitation on civil liability arising from long-term consumption of food and nonalcoholic beverages
  • 768.38 — Liability protections for COVID-19-related claims
  • 768.381 — COVID-19-related claims against health care providers
  • 768.382 — Limitation of liability for certain voluntary engineering or architectural services
  • 768.39 — Immunity for educational institutions for actions related to the COVID-19 pandemic
  • 768.395 — Roller skating rink safety
  • 768.71 — Applicability; conflicts
  • 768.72 — Pleading in civil actions; claim for punitive damages
  • 768.725 — Punitive damages; burden of proof
  • 768.73 — Punitive damages; limitation
  • 768.733 — Bonds in class actions; limitations
  • 768.734 — Capacity to sue
  • 768.735 — Punitive damages; exceptions; limitation
  • 768.736 — Punitive damages; exceptions for intoxication
  • 768.737 — Punitive damages; application in arbitration
  • 768.74 — Remittitur and additur
  • 768.76 — Collateral sources of indemnity
  • 768.77 — Itemized verdict
  • 768.78 — Alternative methods of payment of damage awards
  • 768.79 — Offer of judgment and demand for judgment
  • 768.81 — Comparative fault
Title 769 · FL Chapter 769 (6 sections)
  • 769.01 — Employers affected by fellow servant act
  • 769.02 — Liability of certain persons and corporations for injuries from negligence of fellow servants
  • 769.03 — Recovery for injuries where employee and employer both at fault; damages; negligence of fellow servant
  • 769.04 — Doctrine of “assumption of risk” abrogated
  • 769.05 — Proceeds of recovery for injuries exempt from garnishment and execution
  • 769.06 — Contracts limiting liability invalid
Title 77 · FL Chapter 77 (25 sections)
  • 77.01 — Right to writ of garnishment
  • 77.02 — Garnishment in tort actions
  • 77.03 — Issuance of writ after judgment
  • 77.0305 — Continuing writ of garnishment against salary or wages
  • 77.031 — Issuance of writ before judgment
  • 77.04 — Writ; form
  • 77.041 — Notice to individual defendant for claim of exemption from garnishment; procedure for hearing
  • 77.055 — Service of garnishee’s answer and notice of right to dissolve writ
  • 77.06 — Writ; effect
  • 77.061 — Reply
  • 77.07 — Dissolution of writ
  • 77.08 — Writ; jury trial
  • 77.081 — Default; judgment
  • 77.082 — No reply filed
  • 77.083 — Judgment
  • 77.13 — Execution on garnishee’s refusal to surrender property
  • 77.14 — Disposition of property surrendered by garnishee
  • 77.15 — Proceedings against third persons named in answer
  • 77.16 — Claims by third persons to garnisheed property
  • 77.17 — Compensation to garnishee
  • 77.19 — Amount retained by garnishee
  • 77.22 — Before judgment; effect of judgment for defendant
  • 77.24 — Before judgment; discharge
  • 77.27 — No appeal until fees are paid
  • 77.28 — Garnishment; attorney fees, costs, expenses
Title 770 · FL Chapter 770 (8 sections)
  • 770.01 — Notice condition precedent to action or prosecution for libel or slander
  • 770.02 — Correction, apology, or retraction by newspaper or broadcast station
  • 770.03 — Civil liability of broadcasting stations
  • 770.04 — Civil liability of radio or television broadcasting stations; care to prevent publication or utterance required
  • 770.05 — Limitation of choice of venue
  • 770.06 — Adverse judgment in any jurisdiction a bar to additional action
  • 770.07 — Cause of action, time of accrual
  • 770.08 — Limitation on recovery of damages
Title 771 · FL Chapter 771 (6 sections)
  • 771.01 — Certain tort actions abolished
  • 771.04 — No act done in state to give cause of action
  • 771.05 — Unlawful to file certain causes of action
  • 771.06 — Validity of certain contracts
  • 771.07 — Penalties
  • 771.08 — Construction of law
Title 772 · FL Chapter 772 (13 sections)
  • 772.101 — Short title
  • 772.102 — Definitions
  • 772.103 — Prohibited activities
  • 772.104 — Civil cause of action
  • 772.11 — Civil remedy for theft or exploitation
  • 772.12 — Drug Dealer Liability Act
  • 772.13 — Civil remedy for terrorism or facilitating or furthering terrorism
  • 772.14 — Estoppel of defendant
  • 772.15 — Admissibility of not guilty verdict
  • 772.17 — Limitation of actions
  • 772.18 — Cumulative remedy
  • 772.185 — Attorney’s fees taxed as costs
  • 772.19 — Exemption
Title 773 · FL Chapter 773 (6 sections)
  • 773.01 — Definitions
  • 773.02 — General provisions
  • 773.03 — Limitation on liability for equine activity; exceptions
  • 773.04 — Posting and notification
  • 773.05 — Limitation on liability of persons making land available to public for recreational purposes
  • 773.06 — Helmet requirements; penalties
Title 774 · FL Chapter 774 (17 sections)
  • 774.001 — Legislative findings and intent
  • 774.002 — Definitions
  • 774.003 — Applicability
  • 774.004 — Limitations on successor asbestos-related liabilities
  • 774.005 — Establishing fair market value of total gross assets
  • 774.006 — Adjustment
  • 774.007 — Scope
  • 774.008 — Severability
  • 774.201 — Short title
  • 774.202 — Purpose
  • 774.203 — Definitions
  • 774.204 — Physical impairment
  • 774.205 — Claimant proceedings
  • 774.206 — Statute of limitations; two-disease rule
  • 774.207 — Scope of liability; damages
  • 774.208 — Liability rules applicable to protect sellers, renters, and lessors
  • 774.209 — Miscellaneous provisions
Title 775 · FL Chapter 775 (55 sections)
  • 775.01 — Common law of England
  • 775.011 — Short title; applicability to antecedent offenses
  • 775.012 — General purposes
  • 775.02 — Punishment of common-law offenses
  • 775.021 — Rules of construction
  • 775.022 — Effect of reenactment or amendment of criminal statutes; references in criminal statutes
  • 775.027 — Insanity defense
  • 775.03 — Benefit of clergy
  • 775.04 — What penal acts or omissions not public offenses
  • 775.051 — Voluntary intoxication; not a defense; evidence not admissible for certain purposes; exception
  • 775.08 — Classes and definitions of offenses
  • 775.081 — Classifications of felonies and misdemeanors
  • 775.082 — Penalties; applicability of sentencing structures; mandatory minimum sentences for certain reoffenders previously releas
  • 775.0823 — Violent offenses committed against specified justice system personnel
  • 775.0824 — Dangerous unauthorized alien offender; legislative intent; definitions; mandatory minimum prison terms
  • 775.083 — Fines
  • 775.0835 — Fines; surcharges; Crimes Compensation Trust Fund
  • 775.0837 — Habitual misdemeanor offenders
  • 775.084 — Violent career criminals; habitual felony offenders and habitual violent felony offenders; three-time violent felony off
  • 775.0841 — Legislative findings and intent
  • 775.0842 — Persons subject to career criminal prosecution efforts
  • 775.0843 — Policies to be adopted for career criminal cases
  • 775.08435 — Prohibition on withholding adjudication in felony cases
  • 775.0844 — White Collar Crime Victim Protection Act
  • 775.0845 — Wearing mask while committing offense; reclassification
  • 775.0846 — Possession of bulletproof vest while committing certain offenses
  • 775.0847 — Possession or promotion of certain images of child pornography; reclassification
  • 775.0848 — Offenses committed by an unauthorized alien; reclassification
  • 775.0849 — Public service announcements; ch. 99-188
  • 775.085 — Evidencing prejudice while committing offense; reclassification
  • 775.0861 — Offenses against persons on the grounds of religious institutions; reclassification
  • 775.0862 — Sexual offenses against students by authority figures; reclassification
  • 775.0863 — Evidencing prejudice while committing offense against person with mental or physical disability; reclassification
  • 775.087 — Possession or use of weapon; aggravated battery; felony reclassification; minimum sentence
  • 775.0871 — Public service announcements
  • 775.0875 — Unlawful taking, possession, or use of law enforcement officer’s firearm; crime reclassification; penalties
  • 775.0877 — Criminal transmission of HIV; procedures; penalties
  • 775.089 — Restitution
  • 775.091 — Public service
  • 775.13 — Registration of convicted felons, exemptions; penalties
  • 775.14 — Limitation on withheld sentences
  • 775.15 — Time limitations; general time limitations; exceptions
  • 775.16 — Drug offenses; additional penalties
  • 775.21 — The Florida Sexual Predators Act
  • 775.215 — Residency restriction for persons convicted of certain sex offenses
  • 775.24 — Duty of the court to uphold laws governing sexual predators and sexual offenders
  • 775.25 — Prosecutions for acts or omissions
  • 775.26 — Registration of career offenders and public notification; legislative findings and intent
  • 775.261 — The Florida Career Offender Registration Act
  • 775.30 — Terrorism; defined; penalties
  • 775.31 — Facilitating or furthering terrorism; felony or misdemeanor reclassification
  • 775.32 — Use of military-type training provided by a designated foreign terrorist organization
  • 775.33 — Providing material support or resources for terrorism or to terrorist organizations
  • 775.34 — Membership in a designated foreign terrorist organization
  • 775.35 — Agroterrorism; penalties
Title 776 · FL Chapter 776 (12 sections)
  • 776.012 — Use or threatened use of force in defense of person
  • 776.013 — Home protection; use or threatened use of deadly force; presumption of fear of death or great bodily harm
  • 776.031 — Use or threatened use of force in defense of property
  • 776.032 — Immunity from criminal prosecution and civil action for justifiable use or threatened use of force
  • 776.041 — Use or threatened use of force by aggressor
  • 776.05 — Law enforcement officers; use of force in making an arrest
  • 776.051 — Use or threatened use of force in resisting arrest or making an arrest or in the execution of a legal duty; prohibition
  • 776.06 — Deadly force by a law enforcement or correctional officer
  • 776.07 — Use of force to prevent escape
  • 776.08 — Forcible felony
  • 776.085 — Defense to civil action for damages; party convicted of forcible or attempted forcible felony
  • 776.09 — Retention of records pertaining to persons found to be acting in lawful self-defense; expunction of criminal history rec
Title 777 · FL Chapter 777 (4 sections)
  • 777.011 — Principal in first degree
  • 777.03 — Accessory after the fact
  • 777.04 — Attempts, solicitation, and conspiracy
  • 777.201 — Entrapment
Title 782 · FL Chapter 782 (17 sections)
  • 782.02 — Justifiable use of deadly force
  • 782.03 — Excusable homicide
  • 782.035 — Abrogation of common-law rule of evidence known as “year-and-a-day rule.”
  • 782.04 — Murder
  • 782.051 — Attempted felony murder
  • 782.065 — Murder; law enforcement officer, correctional officer, correctional probation officer
  • 782.07 — Manslaughter; aggravated manslaughter of an elderly person or disabled adult; aggravated manslaughter of a child; aggrav
  • 782.071 — Vehicular homicide
  • 782.072 — Vessel homicide
  • 782.08 — Assisting self-murder
  • 782.081 — Commercial exploitation of self-murder
  • 782.09 — Killing of unborn child by injury to mother
  • 782.11 — Unnecessary killing to prevent unlawful act
  • 782.30 — Short title
  • 782.32 — Definitions
  • 782.34 — Partial-birth abortion
  • 782.36 — Exceptions
Title 784 · FL Chapter 784 (28 sections)
  • 784.011 — Assault
  • 784.021 — Aggravated assault
  • 784.03 — Battery; felony battery
  • 784.031 — Battery by strangulation
  • 784.041 — Felony battery; domestic battery by strangulation
  • 784.045 — Aggravated battery
  • 784.046 — Action by victim of repeat violence, sexual violence, or dating violence for protective injunction; dating violence inve
  • 784.047 — Penalties for violating protective injunction against violators
  • 784.048 — Stalking; definitions; penalties
  • 784.0485 — Stalking; injunction; powers and duties of court and clerk; petition; notice and hearing; temporary injunction; issuance
  • 784.0487 — Violation of an injunction for protection against stalking or cyberstalking
  • 784.049 — Sexual cyberharassment
  • 784.0493 — Harassment or intimidation based on religious or ethnic heritage
  • 784.0495 — Mob intimidation
  • 784.05 — Culpable negligence
  • 784.062 — Misuse of laser lighting devices
  • 784.07 — Assault or battery of law enforcement officers and other specified personnel; reclassification of offenses; minimum sent
  • 784.071 — Assault or battery on a law enforcement officer; missing while in line of duty; blue alert
  • 784.074 — Assault or battery on sexually violent predators detention or commitment facility staff; reclassification of offenses
  • 784.075 — Battery on detention or commitment facility staff or a juvenile probation officer
  • 784.076 — Battery on health services personnel
  • 784.078 — Battery of facility employee by throwing, tossing, or expelling certain fluids or materials
  • 784.08 — Assault or battery on persons 65 years of age or older; reclassification of offenses; minimum sentence
  • 784.081 — Assault or battery on specified officials or employees; reclassification of offenses
  • 784.082 — Assault or battery by a person who is being detained in a prison, jail, or other detention facility upon visitor or othe
  • 784.083 — Assault or battery on code inspectors
  • 784.085 — Battery of child by throwing, tossing, projecting, or expelling certain fluids or materials
  • 784.086 — Reproductive battery
Title 787 · FL Chapter 787 (12 sections)
  • 787.001 — Victim’s age; ignorance and misrepresentation not defenses
  • 787.01 — Kidnapping; kidnapping of child under age 13, aggravating circumstances
  • 787.02 — False imprisonment; false imprisonment of child under age 13, aggravating circumstances
  • 787.025 — Luring or enticing a child
  • 787.03 — Interference with custody
  • 787.035 — Sheltering unmarried minors; aiding unmarried minor runaways; violations
  • 787.04 — Removing minors from state or concealing minors contrary to state agency order or court order
  • 787.06 — Human trafficking
  • 787.061 — Civil actions by victims of human trafficking
  • 787.07 — Human smuggling
  • 787.29 — Human trafficking public awareness signs
  • 787.30 — Employing persons under the age of 21 years in adult entertainment establishments prohibited
Title 790 · FL Chapter 790 (64 sections)
  • 790.001 — Definitions
  • 790.01 — Carrying of concealed weapons or concealed firearms
  • 790.013 — Carrying of concealed weapons or concealed firearms without a license
  • 790.015 — Nonresidents; reciprocity
  • 790.02 — Officer to arrest without warrant and upon probable cause
  • 790.051 — Exemption from licensing requirements; law enforcement officers
  • 790.052 — Carrying concealed firearms; off-duty law enforcement officers
  • 790.053 — Open carrying of weapons
  • 790.054 — Prohibited use of self-defense weapon or device against law enforcement officer; penalties
  • 790.06 — License to carry concealed weapon or concealed firearm
  • 790.0601 — Public records exemption for concealed weapons
  • 790.061 — Judges and justices; exceptions from licensure provisions
  • 790.062 — Members and veterans of United States Armed Forces; exceptions from licensure provisions
  • 790.0625 — Appointment of tax collectors to accept applications for a concealed weapon or firearm license; fees; penalties
  • 790.064 — Firearm possession and firearm ownership disability
  • 790.065 — Sale and delivery of firearms
  • 790.0655 — Purchase and delivery of firearms; mandatory waiting period; exceptions; penalties
  • 790.07 — Persons engaged in criminal offense, having weapons
  • 790.08 — Taking possession of weapons and arms; reports; disposition; custody
  • 790.09 — Manufacturing or selling metallic knuckles
  • 790.10 — Improper exhibition of dangerous weapons or firearms
  • 790.115 — Possessing or discharging weapons or firearms at a school-sponsored event or on school property prohibited; penalties; e
  • 790.15 — Discharging firearm in public or on residential property
  • 790.151 — Using firearm while under the influence of alcoholic beverages, chemical substances, or controlled substances; penalties
  • 790.153 — Tests for impairment or intoxication; right to refuse
  • 790.155 — Blood test for impairment or intoxication in cases of death or serious bodily injury; right to use reasonable force
  • 790.157 — Presumption of impairment; testing methods
  • 790.16 — Discharging machine guns; penalty
  • 790.161 — Making, possessing, throwing, projecting, placing, or discharging any destructive device or attempt so to do, felony; pe
  • 790.1612 — Authorization for governmental manufacture, possession, and use of destructive devices
  • 790.1615 — Unlawful throwing, projecting, placing, or discharging of destructive device or bomb that results in injury to another;
  • 790.162 — Threat to throw, project, place, or discharge any destructive device, felony; penalty
  • 790.163 — False report concerning planting a bomb, an explosive, or a weapon of mass destruction, or concerning the use of firearm
  • 790.164 — False reports concerning planting a bomb, explosive, or weapon of mass destruction in, or committing arson against, stat
  • 790.165 — Planting of “hoax bomb” prohibited; penalties
  • 790.166 — Manufacture, possession, sale, delivery, display, use, or attempted or threatened use of a weapon of mass destruction or
  • 790.169 — Juvenile offenders; release of names and addresses
  • 790.17 — Furnishing weapons to minors under 18 years of age or persons of unsound mind and furnishing firearms to minors under 18
  • 790.173 — Legislative findings and intent
  • 790.174 — Safe storage of firearms required
  • 790.175 — Transfer or sale of firearms; required warnings; penalties
  • 790.18 — Sale or transfer of arms to minors by dealers
  • 790.19 — Shooting into or throwing deadly missiles into dwellings, public or private buildings, occupied or not occupied; vessels
  • 790.22 — Use of BB guns, air or gas-operated guns, or electric weapons or devices by minor under 16; limitation; possession of fi
  • 790.221 — Possession of short-barreled rifle, short-barreled shotgun, or machine gun; penalty
  • 790.222 — Bump-fire stocks prohibited
  • 790.225 — Ballistic self-propelled knives; unlawful to manufacture, sell, or possess; forfeiture; penalty
  • 790.23 — Felons and delinquents; possession of firearms, ammunition, or electric weapons or devices unlawful
  • 790.233 — Possession of firearm or ammunition prohibited when person is subject to an injunction against committing acts of domest
  • 790.235 — Possession of firearm or ammunition by violent career criminal unlawful; penalty
  • 790.24 — Report of medical treatment of certain wounds; penalty for failure to report
  • 790.25 — Lawful ownership, possession, and use of firearms and other weapons
  • 790.251 — Protection of the right to keep and bear arms in motor vehicles for self-defense and other lawful purposes; prohibited a
  • 790.256 — Public service announcements
  • 790.27 — Alteration or removal of firearm serial number or possession, sale, or delivery of firearm with serial number altered or
  • 790.29 — Paramilitary training; teaching or participation prohibited
  • 790.31 — Armor-piercing or exploding ammunition or dragon’s breath shotgun shells, bolo shells, or flechette shells prohibited
  • 790.33 — Field of regulation of firearms and ammunition preempted
  • 790.331 — Prohibition of civil actions against firearms or ammunition manufacturers, firearms trade associations, firearms or ammu
  • 790.333 — Sport shooting and training range protection; liability; claims, expenses, and fees; penalties; preemption; construction
  • 790.335 — Prohibition of registration of firearms; electronic records
  • 790.336 — Lists, records, or registries to be destroyed
  • 790.338 — Medical privacy concerning firearms; prohibitions; penalties; exceptions
  • 790.401 — Risk protection orders
Title 791 · FL Chapter 791 (13 sections)
  • 791.001 — Application and enforcement
  • 791.01 — Definitions
  • 791.012 — Minimum fireworks safety standards
  • 791.013 — Testing and approval of sparklers; penalties
  • 791.015 — Registration of manufacturers, distributors, wholesalers, and retailers of sparklers
  • 791.02 — Sale of fireworks regulated; rules and regulations
  • 791.03 — Bond of licensees
  • 791.04 — Sale at wholesale, etc., exempted
  • 791.05 — Seizure of illegal fireworks
  • 791.055 — Restrictions upon storage of sparklers
  • 791.06 — Penalties
  • 791.07 — Agricultural and fish hatchery use
  • 791.08 — Use during designated holidays; exemption
Title 796 · FL Chapter 796 (7 sections)
  • 796.001 — Offenses by adults involving minors; intent
  • 796.04 — Forcing, compelling, or coercing another to become a prostitute
  • 796.05 — Deriving support from the proceeds of prostitution
  • 796.06 — Renting space to be used for lewdness, assignation, or prostitution
  • 796.07 — Prohibiting prostitution and related acts
  • 796.08 — Screening for HIV and sexually transmissible diseases; providing penalties
  • 796.09 — Coercion; civil cause of action; evidence; defenses; attorney’s fees
Title 797 · FL Chapter 797 (2 sections)
  • 797.02 — Advertising drugs, etc., for abortion
  • 797.03 — Prohibited acts; penalties
Title 798 · FL Chapter 798 (2 sections)
  • 798.01 — Living in open adultery
  • 798.02 — Lewd and lascivious behavior
Title 8 · FL Chapter 8 (13 sections)
  • 8.0001 — Definitions
  • 8.0002 — Division of state into congressional districts
  • 8.0111 — Inclusion of unlisted territory in contiguous districts
  • 8.0112 — Districts with noncontiguous territory
  • 8.02 — New counties
  • 8.031 — Election of representatives to Congress
  • 8.05 — Members of governmental agencies appointed pursuant to former district boundaries unaffected by new district boundaries
  • 8.051 — Electronic maps to serve as the official maps of congressional districts; availability
  • 8.0611 — Severability of chapter
  • 8.06111 — Severability of act
  • 8.062 — Limitation on choice of venue for actions challenging congressional districts
  • 8.063 — Limitations on actions challenging congressional districts
  • 8.07 — Applicability
Title 800 · FL Chapter 800 (7 sections)
  • 800.02 — Unnatural and lascivious act
  • 800.03 — Exposure of sexual organs
  • 800.04 — Lewd or lascivious offenses committed upon or in the presence of persons less than 16 years of age
  • 800.045 — Lewd or lascivious images; penalties
  • 800.05 — Forfeiture of retirement benefits for a felony defined in s. 800.04
  • 800.09 — Lewd or lascivious exhibition in the presence of an employee
  • 800.101 — Offenses against students by authority figures
Title 806 · FL Chapter 806 (8 sections)
  • 806.01 — Arson
  • 806.031 — Arson resulting in injury to another; penalty
  • 806.10 — Preventing or obstructing extinguishment of fire
  • 806.101 — False alarms of fires
  • 806.111 — Fire bombs
  • 806.13 — Criminal mischief; penalties; penalty for minor
  • 806.135 — Destroying or demolishing a memorial or historic property
  • 806.14 — Art works in public buildings; willful damage; unauthorized removal; penalties
Title 810 · FL Chapter 810 (21 sections)
  • 810.011 — Definitions
  • 810.015 — Legislative findings and intent; burglary
  • 810.02 — Burglary
  • 810.06 — Possession of burglary tools
  • 810.061 — Impairing or impeding telephone or power to a dwelling; facilitating or furthering a burglary; penalty
  • 810.07 — Prima facie evidence of intent
  • 810.08 — Trespass in structure or conveyance
  • 810.09 — Trespass on property other than structure or conveyance
  • 810.095 — Trespass on school property with firearm or other weapon prohibited
  • 810.097 — Trespass upon grounds or facilities of a school; penalties; arrest
  • 810.0975 — School safety zones; definition; trespass prohibited; penalty
  • 810.098 — Trespass for the purpose of threatening or intimidating another person
  • 810.10 — Posted land; removing notices unlawful; penalty
  • 810.11 — Placing signs adjacent to highways; penalty
  • 810.115 — Breaking or injuring fences
  • 810.12 — Unauthorized entry on land; prima facie evidence of trespass
  • 810.125 — Injury to certain trespassers on agricultural land; recovery limited
  • 810.13 — Cave vandalism and related offenses
  • 810.14 — Voyeurism prohibited; penalties
  • 810.145 — Digital voyeurism
  • 810.15 — Residential picketing
Title 811 · FL Chapter 811 (3 sections)
  • 811.101 — Definitions
  • 811.102 — Illegal entry by adult unauthorized alien into this state
  • 811.103 — Illegal reentry of an adult unauthorized alien
Title 812 · FL Chapter 812 (44 sections)
  • 812.005 — Short title
  • 812.012 — Definitions
  • 812.014 — Theft
  • 812.0145 — Theft from persons 65 years of age or older; reclassification of offenses
  • 812.0147 — Unlawful possession or use of a fifth wheel
  • 812.015 — Retail and farm theft; transit fare evasion; mandatory fine; alternative punishment; detention and arrest; exemption fro
  • 812.0151 — Retail fuel theft
  • 812.0155 — Driver license suspension as an alternative sentence for a person under 18 years of age
  • 812.016 — Possession of altered property
  • 812.017 — Use of a fraudulently obtained or false receipt
  • 812.019 — Dealing in stolen property
  • 812.0191 — Dealing in property paid for in whole or in part by the Medicaid program
  • 812.0195 — Dealing in stolen property by use of the Internet
  • 812.022 — Evidence of theft or dealing in stolen property
  • 812.025 — Charging theft and dealing in stolen property
  • 812.028 — Defenses precluded
  • 812.032 — Supplemental fine
  • 812.035 — Civil remedies; limitation on civil and criminal actions
  • 812.037 — Construction of ss. 812.012-812.037
  • 812.052 — Certain purchases prohibited
  • 812.055 — Physical inspection of junkyards, scrap metal processing plants, salvage yards, licensed motor vehicle or vessel dealers
  • 812.061 — Larceny; return of property to owner; procedure
  • 812.062 — Notification to owner and law enforcement agency initiating stolen motor vehicle report upon recovery of stolen vehicle
  • 812.081 — Theft of or trafficking in trade secrets; definitions; penalties; providing to foreign entities; restitution
  • 812.13 — Robbery
  • 812.131 — Robbery by sudden snatching
  • 812.133 — Carjacking
  • 812.135 — Home-invasion robbery
  • 812.136 — Mail theft
  • 812.14 — Trespass and larceny with relation to utility fixtures; theft of utility services
  • 812.141 — Offenses involving critical infrastructure; improper tampering; civil remedies; trespass on critical infrastructure; com
  • 812.145 — Theft of copper or other nonferrous metals
  • 812.146 — Civil liability of owner of metal property
  • 812.15 — Unauthorized reception of communications services; penalties
  • 812.155 — Hiring, leasing, or obtaining personal property or equipment with the intent to defraud; failing to return hired or leas
  • 812.16 — Operating chop shops; definitions; penalties; restitution; forfeiture
  • 812.1701 — Short title
  • 812.171 — Definition
  • 812.172 — Intent
  • 812.1725 — Preemption
  • 812.173 — Convenience business security
  • 812.174 — Training of employees
  • 812.175 — Enforcement; civil fine
  • 812.176 — Rulemaking authority
Title 815 · FL Chapter 815 (9 sections)
  • 815.01 — Short title
  • 815.02 — Legislative intent
  • 815.03 — Definitions
  • 815.04 — Offenses against intellectual property
  • 815.045 — Trade secret information
  • 815.06 — Offenses against users of computers, computer systems, computer networks, and electronic devices
  • 815.061 — Offenses against public utilities
  • 815.062 — Offenses against governmental entities
  • 815.07 — This chapter not exclusive
Title 817 · FL Chapter 817 (134 sections)
  • 817.011 — Definition
  • 817.02 — Obtaining property by false personation
  • 817.021 — False information to obtain a seaport security identification card
  • 817.025 — Home or private business invasion by false personation; penalties
  • 817.03 — Making false statement to obtain property or credit or to detain real property
  • 817.031 — Making false statements; venue of prosecution
  • 817.0311 — Fraudulent sale or lease of real property
  • 817.032 — Information available to identity theft victims
  • 817.034 — Florida Communications Fraud Act
  • 817.0345 — Prohibition of fraudulent marketing practices
  • 817.037 — Fraudulent refunds
  • 817.05 — False statements to merchants as to financial condition
  • 817.06 — Misleading advertisements prohibited; penalty
  • 817.061 — Misleading solicitation of payments prohibited
  • 817.08 — Receiving money or property upon false promises of services as seaman or sponge fisher
  • 817.091 — Fraudulent use of gift cards
  • 817.11 — Obtaining property by fraudulent promise to furnish inside information
  • 817.14 — Procuring assignments of produce upon false representations
  • 817.15 — False entries in books of business entity
  • 817.155 — Matters within jurisdiction of Department of State; false, fictitious, or fraudulent acts, statements, and representatio
  • 817.16 — False reports, etc., by officers of banks, trust companies, etc., with intent to defraud
  • 817.17 — Wrongful use of city, county, or other political subdivision name
  • 817.18 — Wrongful marking with a city, county, or other political subdivision name
  • 817.19 — Fraudulent issue of stock certificate or indicia of membership interest
  • 817.20 — Issuing stock or obligation of corporation beyond authorized amount
  • 817.21 — Books to be evidence in such cases
  • 817.22 — Making false invoice to defraud insurer
  • 817.23 — Making false affidavit to defraud insurer
  • 817.233 — Burning to defraud the insurer
  • 817.234 — False and fraudulent insurance claims
  • 817.2341 — False or misleading statements or supporting documents; penalty
  • 817.235 — Personal property; removing or altering identification marks
  • 817.236 — False and fraudulent motor vehicle insurance application
  • 817.2361 — False or fraudulent proof of motor vehicle insurance
  • 817.24 — Unlawful to add or alter or deface existing brand
  • 817.25 — Fraudulently marking or branding
  • 817.26 — Fraudulently changing marks on animal
  • 817.265 — False or fraudulent proof of need for an emotional support animal
  • 817.28 — Fraudulent obtaining of property by gaming
  • 817.29 — Cheating
  • 817.30 — Punishment for unlawful use of badge of certain orders and organizations
  • 817.31 — Unlawful use of insignia of American Legion; penalty
  • 817.311 — Unlawful use of badges, etc
  • 817.312 — Unlawful use of uniforms, medals, or insignia
  • 817.32 — Fraudulent operation of coin-operated devices
  • 817.33 — Manufacture, etc., of slugs to be used in coin-operated devices prohibited
  • 817.34 — False entries and statements by investment companies offering stock or security for sale
  • 817.35 — Sale of cemetery lots or mausoleum space; promises
  • 817.355 — Fraudulent creation or possession of admission ticket
  • 817.357 — Purchase of tickets
  • 817.36 — Resale of tickets
  • 817.361 — Sale or transfer of multiuse tickets
  • 817.37 — Touting; defining; providing punishment; ejection from racetracks
  • 817.38 — Simulated process
  • 817.39 — Simulated forms of court or legal process, or official seal or stationery; publication, sale or circulation unlawful; pe
  • 817.40 — False, misleading and deceptive advertising and sales; definitions
  • 817.41 — Misleading advertising prohibited
  • 817.411 — False information; advertising
  • 817.4115 — False, deceptive, or misleading advertisement of live musical performances
  • 817.412 — Sale of used goods as new; penalty
  • 817.413 — Sale of used motor vehicle goods as new; penalty
  • 817.414 — Sale of counterfeit security signs and decals
  • 817.415 — Florida Free Gift Advertising Law
  • 817.416 — Franchises and distributorships; misrepresentations
  • 817.417 — Government Impostor and Deceptive Advertisements Act
  • 817.418 — Offering for sale or advertising personal protective equipment with intent to defraud
  • 817.43 — Exemption
  • 817.44 — Intentional false advertising prohibited
  • 817.45 — Penalty
  • 817.47 — Insurance advertising exempt
  • 817.481 — Credit or purchases; obtaining illicitly
  • 817.482 — Possessing or transferring device for theft of telecommunications service; concealment of destination of telecommunicati
  • 817.4821 — Cellular telephone counterfeiting offenses
  • 817.483 — Transmission or publication of information regarding schemes, devices, means, or methods for theft of communication serv
  • 817.484 — Obtaining telephone calling records by fraudulent means prohibited
  • 817.487 — Telephone caller identification systems
  • 817.49 — False reports of commission of crimes; penalty
  • 817.50 — Fraudulently obtaining goods or services from a health care provider; false reports of a communicable disease
  • 817.504 — Offering or advertising a vaccine with intent to defraud
  • 817.505 — Patient brokering prohibited; exceptions; penalties
  • 817.51 — Obtaining groceries, retail poultry, dairy, bakery, and other retail products; intent to defraud
  • 817.52 — Obtaining vehicles with intent to defraud, failing to return hired vehicle, or tampering with mileage device of hired ve
  • 817.53 — False charges for radio and television repairs and parts; penalty
  • 817.535 — Unlawful filing of false documents or records against real or personal property
  • 817.54 — Obtaining of mortgage, mortgage note, promissory note, etc., by false representation
  • 817.545 — Mortgage fraud
  • 817.55 — Tourist attraction advertisement; misleading use of the word “free.”
  • 817.554 — Fraudulently offering for sale tour or travel-related services
  • 817.558 — Water-treatment devices
  • 817.561 — Violations may be enjoined
  • 817.5615 — Marks required on optical discs; prohibited acts; penalties
  • 817.562 — Fraud involving a security interest
  • 817.5621 — Unlawful subleasing of a motor vehicle
  • 817.563 — Controlled substance named or described in s. 893.03; sale of substance in lieu thereof
  • 817.564 — Imitation controlled substances defined; possession and distribution prohibited
  • 817.565 — Urine testing, fraudulent practices; penalties
  • 817.5655 — Unlawful use of DNA; penalties; exceptions
  • 817.566 — Misrepresentation of association with, or academic standing at, postsecondary educational institution
  • 817.568 — Criminal use of personal identification information
  • 817.5685 — Unlawful possession of the personal identification information of another person
  • 817.569 — Criminal use of a public record or public records information; providing false information; penalties
  • 817.5695 — Exploitation of a person 65 years of age or older
  • 817.57 — Short title
  • 817.58 — Definitions
  • 817.59 — False statement as to financial condition or identity
  • 817.60 — Theft; obtaining credit card through fraudulent means
  • 817.61 — Fraudulent use of credit cards
  • 817.611 — Traffic in or possess counterfeit credit cards
  • 817.612 — Expired or revoked credit cards
  • 817.62 — Fraud by person authorized to provide goods or services
  • 817.625 — Use of scanning device, skimming device, or reencoder to defraud; possession of skimming device; penalties
  • 817.631 — Possession and transfer of credit-card-making equipment
  • 817.64 — Receipt of money, etc., obtained by fraudulent use of credit cards
  • 817.645 — Alteration of credit card invoice; penalties
  • 817.646 — Credit card lists prohibited; penalty
  • 817.65 — Defenses not available
  • 817.66 — Presumptions
  • 817.67 — Penalties
  • 817.68 — Part II not exclusive
  • 817.685 — Credit card transaction records
  • 817.7001 — Definitions
  • 817.7005 — Prohibited acts
  • 817.701 — Surety bonds; exemption
  • 817.702 — Statement to buyer
  • 817.703 — Information statement
  • 817.704 — Provisions of contract
  • 817.705 — Waivers; burden of proof; penalties
  • 817.706 — Actions for damages
  • 817.801 — Definitions
  • 817.802 — Unlawful fees and costs
  • 817.803 — Exceptions
  • 817.804 — Requirements; disclosure and financial reporting
  • 817.805 — Disbursement of funds
  • 817.806 — Violations
Title 818 · FL Chapter 818 (5 sections)
  • 818.01 — Disposing of personal property under lien or subject to conditional sale
  • 818.02 — Executing mortgage on personalty without notifying mortgagee of prior mortgages
  • 818.03 — Removing such property beyond the limits of county
  • 818.04 — Selling collateral security before debt due
  • 818.05 — Sale, concealment, or disposal of property held under contract or conditional sale; penalty
Title 82 · FL Chapter 82 (10 sections)
  • 82.01 — Definitions
  • 82.02 — Applicability
  • 82.03 — Remedies
  • 82.035 — Remedy for unlawful detention by a transient occupant of residential property; recovery of transient occupant’s person
  • 82.036 — Limited alternative remedy to remove unauthorized persons from residential real property
  • 82.037 — Limited alternative remedy to remove unauthorized persons from commercial real property
  • 82.04 — Questions involved in this proceeding
  • 82.05 — Service of process
  • 82.091 — Judgment and execution
  • 82.101 — Effect of judgment
Title 823 · FL Chapter 823 (18 sections)
  • 823.01 — Nuisances; penalty
  • 823.02 — Building bonfires
  • 823.04 — Animals suffering from disease or pests
  • 823.041 — Disposal of bodies of dead animals; penalty
  • 823.05 — Places and groups engaged in certain activities declared a nuisance; abatement and enjoinment
  • 823.06 — Doors of public buildings to open outward
  • 823.07 — Iceboxes, refrigerators, deep-freeze lockers, clothes washers, clothes dryers, or airtight units; abandonment, discard
  • 823.08 — Iceboxes, refrigerators, deep-freeze lockers, clothes washers, clothes dryers, or similar airtight units abandoned or di
  • 823.09 — Violation of s. 823.07; penalty
  • 823.10 — Place where controlled substances are illegally kept, sold, or used declared a public nuisance
  • 823.11 — Derelict and migrant vessels; relocation or removal; penalty
  • 823.12 — Smoking in elevators unlawful; penalty
  • 823.13 — Places where obscene materials are illegally kept, sold, or used declared a public nuisance; drive-in theaters, films vi
  • 823.14 — Florida Right to Farm Act
  • 823.145 — Disposal by open burning of certain materials used in agricultural operations
  • 823.15 — Public or private animal agencies; sterilization required for dogs and cats released; recordkeeping requirements; microc
  • 823.151 — Lost or stray dogs and cats
  • 823.16 — Sport shooting ranges; definitions; exemption from liability; exemption from specified rules; exemption from nuisance ac
Title 825 · FL Chapter 825 (9 sections)
  • 825.101 — Definitions
  • 825.102 — Abuse, aggravated abuse, and neglect of an elderly person or disabled adult; penalties
  • 825.1025 — Lewd or lascivious offenses committed upon or in the presence of an elderly person or disabled person
  • 825.103 — Exploitation of an elderly person or disabled adult; penalties
  • 825.1035 — Injunction for protection against exploitation of a vulnerable adult
  • 825.1036 — Violation of an injunction for protection against exploitation of a vulnerable adult
  • 825.104 — Knowledge of victim’s age
  • 825.105 — Good faith assistance
  • 825.106 — Criminal actions involving elderly persons or disabled adults; speedy trial
Title 826 · FL Chapter 826 (4 sections)
  • 826.01 — Bigamy; punishment
  • 826.02 — Exceptions
  • 826.03 — Knowingly marrying husband or wife of another
  • 826.04 — Incest
Title 827 · FL Chapter 827 (10 sections)
  • 827.01 — Definitions
  • 827.03 — Abuse, aggravated abuse, and neglect of a child; penalties
  • 827.035 — Infants
  • 827.04 — Contributing to the delinquency or dependency of a child; penalty
  • 827.06 — Nonsupport of dependents
  • 827.071 — Sexual performance by a child; child pornography; penalties
  • 827.072 — Generated child pornography
  • 827.08 — Misuse of child support money
  • 827.10 — Unlawful desertion of a child
  • 827.11 — Exposing children to an adult live performance
Title 828 · FL Chapter 828 (35 sections)
  • 828.02 — Definitions
  • 828.03 — Agents of counties, societies, etc., may prosecute violators
  • 828.05 — Killing an injured or diseased domestic animal
  • 828.055 — Controlled substances and legend drugs; permits for use
  • 828.058 — Euthanasia of dogs and cats
  • 828.065 — Euthanasia of animals offered for sale by pet shops
  • 828.073 — Animals found in distress
  • 828.08 — Penalty for exposing poison
  • 828.12 — Cruelty to animals
  • 828.121 — Conduct of simulated bullfighting exhibitions
  • 828.122 — Fighting or baiting animals; offenses; penalties
  • 828.123 — Killing dog or cat with intent of selling or giving away pelt; possession, sale, or importation of pelt with intent of s
  • 828.1231 — Sale of garments or items of clothing containing dog or cat fur prohibited; sale of pelt of any dog or cat prohibited; p
  • 828.125 — Killing or aggravated abuse of horses or cattle; offenses; penalties
  • 828.126 — Sexual activities involving animals
  • 828.13 — Confinement of animals without sufficient food, water, or exercise; abandonment of animals
  • 828.14 — Water and food for stock on trains, vessels, etc
  • 828.16 — Contagious diseases
  • 828.1615 — Prohibiting artificial coloring and sale of certain animals
  • 828.17 — Officer to arrest without warrant
  • 828.22 — Humane Slaughter Act; humane slaughter and livestock euthanasia; requirements
  • 828.23 — Definitions; ss. 828.22-828.26
  • 828.24 — Prohibited acts; exemption
  • 828.25 — Administration; rules; inspection; fees
  • 828.251 — Instruction
  • 828.252 — Nonambulatory animals
  • 828.26 — Penalties
  • 828.27 — Local animal control or cruelty ordinances; penalty
  • 828.28 — Local animal licensing ordinances; notices
  • 828.29 — Dogs and cats transported or offered for sale; health requirements; consumer guarantee
  • 828.30 — Rabies vaccination of dogs, cats, and ferrets
  • 828.40 — Short title
  • 828.41 — Definitions relating to Florida Animal Enterprise Protection Act
  • 828.42 — Animal enterprise disruption; criminal penalties
  • 828.43 — Injunction
Title 83 · FL Chapter 83 (74 sections)
  • 83.001 — Application
  • 83.01 — Unwritten lease tenancy at will; duration
  • 83.02 — Certain written leases tenancies at will; duration
  • 83.03 — Termination of tenancy at will; length of notice
  • 83.04 — Holding over after term, tenancy at sufferance, etc
  • 83.05 — Right of possession upon default in rent; determination of right of possession in action or surrender or abandonment of
  • 83.06 — Right to demand double rent upon refusal to deliver possession
  • 83.07 — Action for use and occupation
  • 83.08 — Landlord’s lien for rent
  • 83.09 — Exemptions from liens for rent
  • 83.10 — Landlord’s lien for advances
  • 83.11 — Distress for rent; complaint
  • 83.12 — Distress writ
  • 83.13 — Levy of writ
  • 83.135 — Dissolution of writ
  • 83.14 — Replevy of distrained property
  • 83.15 — Claims by third persons
  • 83.18 — Distress for rent; trial; verdict; judgment
  • 83.19 — Sale of property distrained
  • 83.20 — Causes for removal of tenants
  • 83.201 — Notice to landlord of failure to maintain or repair, rendering premises wholly untenantable; right to withhold rent
  • 83.202 — Waiver of right to proceed with eviction claim
  • 83.21 — Removal of tenant
  • 83.22 — Removal of tenant; service
  • 83.231 — Removal of tenant; judgment
  • 83.232 — Rent paid into registry of court
  • 83.241 — Removal of tenant; process
  • 83.251 — Removal of tenant; costs
  • 83.40 — Short title
  • 83.41 — Application
  • 83.42 — Exclusions from application of part
  • 83.425 — Preemption
  • 83.43 — Definitions
  • 83.44 — Obligation of good faith
  • 83.45 — Unconscionable rental agreement or provision
  • 83.46 — Rent; duration of tenancies
  • 83.47 — Prohibited provisions in rental agreements
  • 83.48 — Attorney fees
  • 83.49 — Deposit money or advance rent; duty of landlord and tenant
  • 83.491 — Fee in lieu of security deposit
  • 83.50 — Disclosure of landlord’s address
  • 83.505 — Electronic delivery of notices
  • 83.51 — Landlord’s obligation to maintain premises
  • 83.512 — Disclosure of flood risks to prospective tenant of residential real property
  • 83.515 — Background screening of apartment employees; employment disqualification
  • 83.52 — Tenant’s obligation to maintain dwelling unit
  • 83.53 — Landlord’s access to dwelling unit
  • 83.535 — Flotation bedding system; restrictions on use
  • 83.54 — Enforcement of rights and duties; civil action; criminal offenses
  • 83.55 — Right of action for damages
  • 83.56 — Termination of rental agreement
  • 83.5615 — Protecting Tenants at Foreclosure Act
  • 83.57 — Termination of tenancy without specific term
  • 83.575 — Termination of tenancy with specific duration
  • 83.58 — Remedies; tenant holding over
  • 83.59 — Right of action for possession
  • 83.595 — Choice of remedies upon breach or early termination by tenant
  • 83.60 — Defenses to action for rent or possession; procedure
  • 83.61 — Disbursement of funds in registry of court; prompt final hearing
  • 83.62 — Restoration of possession to landlord
  • 83.625 — Power to award possession and enter money judgment
  • 83.63 — Casualty damage
  • 83.64 — Retaliatory conduct
  • 83.67 — Prohibited practices
  • 83.681 — Orders to enjoin violations of this part
  • 83.682 — Termination of rental agreement by a servicemember
  • 83.683 — Rental application by a servicemember
  • 83.801 — Short title
  • 83.803 — Definitions
  • 83.805 — Lien
  • 83.8055 — Withholding access to personal property upon nonpayment of rent
  • 83.806 — Enforcement of lien
  • 83.808 — Contracts
  • 83.809 — Application of act
Title 831 · FL Chapter 831 (36 sections)
  • 831.01 — Forgery
  • 831.02 — Uttering forged instruments
  • 831.025 — Evidence in prosecution for forgery or counterfeiting
  • 831.03 — Forging or counterfeiting private labels; definitions
  • 831.031 — Evidence
  • 831.032 — Offenses involving forging or counterfeiting private labels
  • 831.033 — Forging or counterfeiting private labels; destruction; forfeiture
  • 831.034 — Prosecutions
  • 831.04 — Penalty for changing or forging certain instruments of writing
  • 831.06 — Fictitious signature of officer of corporation
  • 831.07 — Forging bank bills, checks, drafts, or promissory notes
  • 831.08 — Possessing certain forged notes, bills, checks, or drafts
  • 831.09 — Uttering forged bills, checks, drafts, or notes
  • 831.10 — Second conviction of uttering forged bills
  • 831.11 — Bringing into the state forged bank bills, checks, drafts, or notes
  • 831.12 — Fraudulently connecting parts of genuine instrument
  • 831.13 — Having in possession uncurrent bills
  • 831.14 — Uttering uncurrent bills
  • 831.15 — Counterfeiting coin; having 10 or more such coins in possession with intent to utter
  • 831.16 — Having fewer than 10 counterfeit coins in possession with intent to utter
  • 831.17 — Violation of s. 831.16; second or subsequent conviction
  • 831.18 — Making or possessing instruments for forging bills
  • 831.19 — Making or having instruments for counterfeiting coin
  • 831.20 — Counterfeit bills and counterfeiters’ tools to be seized
  • 831.21 — Forging or counterfeiting doctor’s certificate of examination
  • 831.22 — Damaging bank bills
  • 831.23 — Impeding circulation
  • 831.24 — Issuing shop bills similar to bank notes
  • 831.25 — Bringing private bills similar to bank bills into the state
  • 831.26 — Circulating any substitute for regular currency
  • 831.27 — Issuing notes
  • 831.28 — Counterfeiting a payment instrument; possessing a counterfeit payment instrument; penalties
  • 831.29 — Making or having instruments and material for counterfeiting driver licenses or identification cards
  • 831.30 — Medicinal drugs; fraud in obtaining
  • 831.31 — Counterfeit controlled substance; sale, manufacture, delivery, or possession with intent to sell, manufacture, or delive
  • 831.311 — Unlawful sale, manufacture, alteration, delivery, uttering, or possession of counterfeit-resistant prescription blanks f
Title 832 · FL Chapter 832 (10 sections)
  • 832.04 — Stopping payment; purchase of farm or grove products
  • 832.041 — Stopping payment with intent to defraud
  • 832.05 — Giving worthless checks, drafts, and debit card orders; penalty; duty of drawee; evidence; costs; complaint form
  • 832.06 — Prosecution for worthless checks given tax collector for licenses or taxes; refunds
  • 832.062 — Prosecution for worthless checks, drafts, debit card orders, or electronic funds transfers made to pay any tax or associ
  • 832.07 — Prima facie evidence of intent; identity
  • 832.075 — Requiring credit card information for check or draft acceptance prohibited
  • 832.08 — State attorney bad check diversion program; fees for collections
  • 832.09 — Suspension of driver license after warrant or capias is issued in worthless check case
  • 832.10 — Alternative to bad check diversion program; fees for collection
Title 836 · FL Chapter 836 (15 sections)
  • 836.01 — Punishment for libel
  • 836.02 — Must give name of the party written about
  • 836.03 — Owner or editor of the paper also guilty
  • 836.04 — Defamation
  • 836.05 — Threats; extortion
  • 836.06 — Punishment for making derogatory statements concerning banks and building and loan associations
  • 836.07 — Notice condition precedent to prosecution for libel
  • 836.08 — Correction, apology, or retraction by newspaper
  • 836.09 — Communicating libelous matter to newspapers; penalty
  • 836.10 — Written or electronic threats to kill, do bodily injury, or conduct a mass shooting or an act of terrorism; punishment;
  • 836.11 — Publications which tend to expose persons to hatred, contempt, or ridicule prohibited
  • 836.115 — Cyberintimidation by publication
  • 836.12 — Threats or harassment
  • 836.13 — Altered sexual depictions; prohibited acts; penalties; applicability
  • 836.14 — Theft or unauthorized promotion of a sexually explicit image
Title 837 · FL Chapter 837 (8 sections)
  • 837.011 — Definitions
  • 837.012 — Perjury when not in an official proceeding
  • 837.02 — Perjury in official proceedings
  • 837.021 — Perjury by contradictory statements
  • 837.05 — False reports to law enforcement authorities
  • 837.055 — False information to law enforcement during investigation
  • 837.06 — False official statements
  • 837.07 — Recantation as a defense
Title 838 · FL Chapter 838 (11 sections)
  • 838.014 — Definitions
  • 838.015 — Bribery
  • 838.016 — Unlawful compensation or reward for official behavior
  • 838.021 — Corruption by threat against public servant
  • 838.022 — Official misconduct
  • 838.12 — Bribery in athletic contests
  • 838.15 — Commercial bribe receiving
  • 838.16 — Commercial bribery
  • 838.21 — Disclosure or use of confidential criminal justice information
  • 838.22 — Bid tampering
  • 838.23 — Restitution and community service
Title 839 · FL Chapter 839 (18 sections)
  • 839.04 — County officers not to speculate in county warrants or certificates
  • 839.05 — Municipal officers not to speculate in municipal scrip
  • 839.06 — Collectors not to deal in warrants, etc.; removal
  • 839.11 — Extortion by officers of the state
  • 839.12 — Officer failing to keep record of costs
  • 839.13 — Falsifying records
  • 839.14 — Officer withholding records from successor
  • 839.15 — Judicial officer withholding records
  • 839.16 — Fraud of clerk in drawing jury
  • 839.17 — Misappropriation of moneys by commissioners to make sales
  • 839.18 — Penalty for officer assuming to act before qualification
  • 839.19 — Failure to execute process generally
  • 839.20 — Refusal to execute criminal process
  • 839.21 — Refusal to receive prisoner
  • 839.23 — Officer taking insufficient bail
  • 839.24 — Penalty for failure to perform duty required of officer
  • 839.26 — Misuse of confidential information
  • 839.27 — Restitution and community service
Title 843 · FL Chapter 843 (30 sections)
  • 843.01 — Resisting, obstructing, or opposing by offering or doing violence to legally authorized person, police canine, or police
  • 843.02 — Resisting officer without violence to his or her person
  • 843.021 — Unlawful possession of a concealed handcuff key
  • 843.025 — Depriving officer of means of protection or communication
  • 843.03 — Obstruction by disguised person
  • 843.04 — Refusing to assist prison officers in arresting escaped convicts
  • 843.05 — Resisting timber agent
  • 843.06 — Neglect or refusal to aid peace officers
  • 843.08 — False personation
  • 843.081 — Prohibited use of certain lights; penalty
  • 843.085 — Unlawful use of badges or other indicia of authority
  • 843.0855 — Criminal actions under color of law or through use of simulated legal process
  • 843.09 — Escape through voluntary action of officer
  • 843.10 — Escape by negligence of officer
  • 843.11 — Conveying tools into jail to aid escape; forcible rescue
  • 843.12 — Aiding escape
  • 843.13 — Aiding escape of juvenile inmates of correctional institutions
  • 843.14 — Compounding felony
  • 843.15 — Failure of defendant on bail to appear
  • 843.16 — Unlawful to install or transport radio equipment using assigned frequency of state or law enforcement officers; definiti
  • 843.165 — Unauthorized transmissions to and interference with governmental and associated radio frequencies prohibited; penalties;
  • 843.167 — Unlawful use of police communications; enhanced penalties
  • 843.17 — Publishing name and address of law enforcement officer
  • 843.18 — Boats; fleeing or attempting to elude a law enforcement officer
  • 843.19 — Offenses against police canines, fire canines, SAR canines, or police horses
  • 843.20 — Harassment of participant of neighborhood crime watch program prohibited; penalty; definitions
  • 843.21 — Depriving crime victim of medical care
  • 843.22 — Traveling across county lines with intent to commit a burglary
  • 843.23 — Tampering with an electronic monitoring device
  • 843.31 — Approaching a first responder with specified intent after a warning
Title 847 · FL Chapter 847 (25 sections)
  • 847.001 — Definitions
  • 847.002 — Child pornography prosecutions
  • 847.011 — Prohibition of certain acts in connection with obscene, lewd, etc., materials; penalty
  • 847.012 — Harmful materials; sale or distribution to minors or using minors in production prohibited; penalty
  • 847.0125 — Retail display of materials harmful to minors prohibited
  • 847.013 — Exposing minors to harmful motion pictures, exhibitions, shows, presentations, or representations
  • 847.0133 — Protection of minors; prohibition of certain acts in connection with obscenity; penalty
  • 847.0134 — Prohibition of adult entertainment establishment that displays, sells, or distributes materials harmful to minors within
  • 847.0135 — Computer pornography; prohibited computer usage; traveling to meet minor; penalties
  • 847.01357 — Exploited children’s civil remedy
  • 847.0137 — Transmission of pornography by electronic device or equipment prohibited; penalties
  • 847.0138 — Transmission of material harmful to minors to a minor by electronic device or equipment prohibited; penalties
  • 847.01385 — Harmful communication to a minor
  • 847.0139 — Immunity from civil liability for reporting child pornography, transmission of child pornography, or any image, informat
  • 847.0141 — Sexting; prohibited acts; penalties
  • 847.0145 — Selling or buying of minors; penalties
  • 847.0147 — Obscene telephone service prohibited; penalty
  • 847.02 — Confiscation of obscene material
  • 847.03 — Officer to seize obscene material
  • 847.06 — Obscene matter; transportation into state prohibited; penalty
  • 847.07 — Wholesale promotion of obscene materials; penalties
  • 847.08 — Hearings for determination of probable cause
  • 847.09 — Legislative intent
  • 847.201 — Obscene programming on cable television during promotional period unlawful; penalty; applicability
  • 847.202 — Video movie; official rating of motion picture
Title 849 · FL Chapter 849 (57 sections)
  • 849.01 — Keeping gambling houses, etc
  • 849.02 — Agents or employees of keeper of gambling house
  • 849.03 — Renting house for gambling purposes
  • 849.04 — Permitting minors and persons under guardianship to gamble
  • 849.05 — Prima facie evidence
  • 849.07 — Permitting gambling on billiard or pool table by holder of license
  • 849.08 — Gambling
  • 849.085 — Certain penny-ante games not crimes; restrictions
  • 849.086 — Cardrooms authorized
  • 849.09 — Lottery prohibited; exceptions
  • 849.091 — Chain letters, pyramid clubs, etc., declared a lottery; prohibited; penalties
  • 849.0915 — Referral selling
  • 849.092 — Motor fuel retail business; certain activities permitted
  • 849.0931 — Bingo authorized; conditions for conduct; permitted uses of proceeds; limitations
  • 849.0935 — Charitable, nonprofit organizations; drawings by chance; required disclosures; unlawful acts and practices; penalties
  • 849.094 — Game promotion in connection with sale of consumer products or services
  • 849.10 — Printing lottery tickets, etc., prohibited
  • 849.11 — Plays at games of chance by lot
  • 849.12 — Money and prizes to be forfeited
  • 849.13 — Punishment on second conviction
  • 849.14 — Unlawful to bet on result of trial or contest of skill, etc
  • 849.141 — Bowling tournaments exempted from chapter
  • 849.142 — Exempted activities
  • 849.15 — Manufacture, sale, possession, etc., of slot machines or devices prohibited
  • 849.16 — Machines or devices which come within provisions of law defined
  • 849.17 — Confiscation of machines by arresting officer
  • 849.18 — Disposition of machines upon conviction
  • 849.19 — Property rights in confiscated machine
  • 849.20 — Machines and devices declared nuisance; place of operation subject to lien for fine
  • 849.21 — Injunction to restrain violation
  • 849.22 — Fees of clerk of circuit court and sheriff
  • 849.23 — Penalty for violations of ss. 849.15-849.22
  • 849.231 — Gambling devices; manufacture, sale, purchase or possession unlawful
  • 849.232 — Property right in gambling devices; confiscation
  • 849.233 — Penalty for violation of s. 849.231
  • 849.235 — Possession of certain gambling devices; defense
  • 849.25 — “Bookmaking” defined; penalties; exceptions
  • 849.251 — Wagering, aiding, abetting, or conniving to race or wager on greyhounds or other dogs; penalty
  • 849.26 — Gambling contracts declared void; exception
  • 849.29 — Persons against whom suits may be brought to recover on gambling contracts
  • 849.30 — Plaintiff entitled to writs of attachment, garnishment and replevin
  • 849.31 — Loser’s testimony not to be used against her or him
  • 849.32 — Notice to state attorney; prosecution of suit
  • 849.33 — Judgment and collection of money; execution
  • 849.34 — Loser’s judgment; recovery of property; writ of assistance
  • 849.35 — Definitions
  • 849.36 — Seizure and forfeiture of property used in the violation of lottery and gambling statutes
  • 849.37 — Disposition and appraisal of property seized under this chapter
  • 849.38 — Proceedings for forfeiture; notice of seizure and order to show cause
  • 849.39 — Delivery of property to claimant
  • 849.40 — Proceeding when no claim filed
  • 849.41 — Proceeding when claim filed
  • 849.42 — State attorney to represent state
  • 849.43 — Judgment of forfeiture
  • 849.44 — Disposition of proceeds of forfeiture
  • 849.45 — Fees for services
  • 849.46 — Exercise of police power
Title 85 · FL Chapter 85 (5 sections)
  • 85.011 — Enforcement by persons in privity with the owner
  • 85.021 — Enforcement by persons not in privity with the owner
  • 85.031 — Remedies against personal property only; all lienors
  • 85.041 — Joinder
  • 85.051 — Time of bringing action
Title 856 · FL Chapter 856 (6 sections)
  • 856.011 — Disorderly intoxication
  • 856.015 — Open house parties
  • 856.021 — Loitering or prowling; penalty
  • 856.022 — Loitering or prowling by certain offenders in close proximity to children; penalty
  • 856.031 — Arrest without warrant
  • 856.04 — Desertion; withholding support; proviso
Title 859 · FL Chapter 859 (4 sections)
  • 859.01 — Poisoning food or water
  • 859.02 — Selling certain poisons by registered pharmacists and others
  • 859.04 — Provisions concerning poisons
  • 859.08 — Penalty for selling adulterated drugs
Title 860 · FL Chapter 860 (22 sections)
  • 860.02 — Carelessness of common carrier
  • 860.03 — Intoxicated servant of common carrier
  • 860.04 — Riding or attempting to ride on a railroad train with intent to ride free
  • 860.05 — Unauthorized person interfering with railroad train, cars, or engines
  • 860.065 — Commercial transportation; penalty for use in commission of a felony
  • 860.07 — Unauthorized persons giving signals to railroad trains or engines
  • 860.08 — Interference with railroad signals prohibited; penalty
  • 860.09 — Interference with railroad track and other equipment prohibited; penalties
  • 860.091 — Violations of s. 860.05, s. 860.08, or s. 860.09 resulting in death; penalty
  • 860.10 — Disposing of duplicate switch keys of railroad companies; penalty
  • 860.11 — Injuring railroad structures; driving cattle on tracks
  • 860.121 — Crimes against railroad vehicles; penalties
  • 860.13 — Operation of aircraft while intoxicated or in careless or reckless manner; penalty
  • 860.14 — Motor vehicle parts and accessories; records of certain purchases
  • 860.142 — Catalytic Converter Antitheft Act
  • 860.145 — Airbag Antitheft Act
  • 860.146 — Fake airbags; junk-filled airbag compartment
  • 860.147 — Import, sale, or installation of counterfeit, fake, or nonfunctional catalytic converters
  • 860.15 — Overcharging for repairs and parts; penalty
  • 860.16 — Aircraft piracy; penalty
  • 860.17 — Tampering with or interfering with motor vehicles or trailers
  • 860.20 — Outboard motors; identification numbers
Title 861 · FL Chapter 861 (13 sections)
  • 861.01 — Obstructing highway
  • 861.011 — Obstructing transportation facility
  • 861.02 — Obstructing watercourse
  • 861.021 — Obstructing channels; misdemeanor
  • 861.03 — Injuries to dams
  • 861.04 — Placing water hyacinths in any of the streams or waters of the state
  • 861.05 — Obstruction to navigation by bridges
  • 861.06 — Obstructing harbors
  • 861.07 — Obstructing roads
  • 861.08 — Obstructing county and settlement roads
  • 861.09 — Certain vehicles prohibited from using hard-surfaced roads
  • 861.11 — Penalty for cutting or destroying shade trees along public roads
  • 861.12 — Penalty for road official or overseer neglecting duty
Title 865 · FL Chapter 865 (7 sections)
  • 865.02 — Falsely shipping fruit or oranges as Florida-grown
  • 865.05 — Selling trees, plants, or vines under false name
  • 865.065 — Disparagement of perishable agricultural food products; cause of action; limitation
  • 865.07 — Adulterated syrup
  • 865.08 — Purchase of cotton or leaf tobacco
  • 865.09 — Fictitious name registration
  • 865.10 — Linen suppliers
Title 870 · FL Chapter 870 (13 sections)
  • 870.01 — Affrays and riots
  • 870.02 — Unlawful assemblies
  • 870.04 — Specified officers to disperse riotous assembly
  • 870.041 — Preservation of the public peace by local authority
  • 870.042 — Designation of local authority
  • 870.043 — Declaration of emergency
  • 870.045 — Discretionary emergency measures
  • 870.046 — Filing and publication
  • 870.047 — Duration and termination of emergency
  • 870.048 — Violations
  • 870.05 — When killing excused
  • 870.06 — Unauthorized military organizations
  • 870.07 — Affirmative defense in civil action; party convicted of riot
Title 871 · FL Chapter 871 (5 sections)
  • 871.01 — Disturbing schools and religious and other assemblies
  • 871.015 — Unlawful protests
  • 871.02 — Indictments or informations for disturbing assembly
  • 871.04 — Advertising; religious discrimination; public places
  • 871.05 — Interference with a sporting or entertainment event
Title 872 · FL Chapter 872 (6 sections)
  • 872.01 — Dealing in dead bodies
  • 872.02 — Injuring or removing tomb or monument; disturbing contents of grave or tomb; penalties
  • 872.03 — Cremating human bodies; limitation
  • 872.04 — Autopsies; consent required, exception
  • 872.05 — Unmarked human burials
  • 872.06 — Abuse of a dead human body; penalty
Title 873 · FL Chapter 873 (2 sections)
  • 873.01 — Purchase or sale of human organs and tissue prohibited
  • 873.05 — Advertising, purchase, sale, or transfer of human embryos or fetal remains prohibited
Title 874 · FL Chapter 874 (12 sections)
  • 874.01 — Short title
  • 874.02 — Legislative findings and intent
  • 874.03 — Definitions
  • 874.04 — Gang-related offenses; enhanced penalties
  • 874.045 — Arrest and prosecution under other provisions
  • 874.05 — Causing, encouraging, soliciting, or recruiting criminal gang membership
  • 874.06 — Civil cause of action
  • 874.08 — Criminal gang activity and recruitment; forfeiture
  • 874.09 — Crime data information
  • 874.10 — Directing the activities of a criminal gang
  • 874.11 — Electronic communication
  • 874.12 — Identification documents; unlawful possession or creation
Title 876 · FL Chapter 876 (52 sections)
  • 876.01 — Advocacy of specified doctrines relating to overthrow of constitutional government by force or violence prohibited
  • 876.02 — Criminal anarchy, Communism, and other specified doctrines; prohibitions
  • 876.03 — Unlawful assembly for purposes of anarchy, communism, or other specified doctrines
  • 876.04 — Allowing unlawful assembly in building prohibited
  • 876.05 — Public employees; oath
  • 876.06 — Discharge for refusal to execute
  • 876.08 — Penalty for not discharging
  • 876.09 — Scope of law
  • 876.10 — False oath; penalty
  • 876.11 — Public place defined
  • 876.12 — Wearing mask, hood, or other device on public way
  • 876.13 — Wearing mask, hood, or other device on public property
  • 876.14 — Wearing mask, hood, or other device on property of another
  • 876.15 — Wearing mask, hood, or other device at demonstration or meeting
  • 876.155 — Applicability; ss. 876.12-876.15
  • 876.16 — Sections 876.11-876.15; exemptions
  • 876.17 — Placing burning or flaming cross in public place
  • 876.18 — Placing burning or flaming cross on property of another
  • 876.19 — Exhibits that intimidate
  • 876.20 — Wearing mask and placing exhibit to intimidate
  • 876.21 — Sections 876.11-876.20; penalty
  • 876.22 — Subversive activities law; definitions
  • 876.23 — Subversive activities unlawful; penalty
  • 876.24 — Membership in subversive organization; penalty
  • 876.25 — Persons convicted under s. 876.23 or s. 876.24 not to hold office or vote
  • 876.26 — Unlawful for subversive organizations to exist or function
  • 876.27 — Enforcement of ss. 876.22-876.31
  • 876.28 — Grand jury to investigate violations of ss. 876.22-876.31
  • 876.29 — Subversive person prohibited from holding office or employment
  • 876.30 — Subversive person not to be candidate for election
  • 876.31 — Short title; ss. 876.22-876.30
  • 876.32 — Treason
  • 876.33 — Misprision of treason
  • 876.34 — Combination to usurp government
  • 876.35 — Combination against part of the people of the state
  • 876.36 — Inciting insurrection
  • 876.37 — Sabotage prevention law; definitions
  • 876.38 — Intentional injury to or interference with property
  • 876.39 — Intentionally defective workmanship
  • 876.40 — Attempts
  • 876.41 — Conspirators
  • 876.42 — Witnesses’ privileges
  • 876.43 — Unlawful entry on property
  • 876.44 — Questioning and detaining suspected persons
  • 876.45 — Closing and restricting use of highway
  • 876.46 — Penalty for going upon closed or restricted highway
  • 876.47 — Rights of labor
  • 876.48 — Relation to other statutes
  • 876.49 — Construction
  • 876.50 — Effective period of law
  • 876.51 — Short title
  • 876.52 — Public mutilation of flag
Title 877 · FL Chapter 877 (27 sections)
  • 877.01 — Instigation of litigation; penalty
  • 877.02 — Solicitation of legal services or retainers therefor; penalty
  • 877.03 — Breach of the peace; disorderly conduct
  • 877.05 — Killing young veal for sale; penalty; exception
  • 877.06 — Labeling of beef not slaughtered according to state or United States standards; enforcement; penalty
  • 877.061 — Marketing establishments; maintenance of scales
  • 877.08 — Coin-operated vending machines and parking meters; defined; prohibited acts, penalties
  • 877.09 — Tampering with or damaging sewer systems
  • 877.10 — Real property; dual contracts prohibited
  • 877.101 — Escrow business by unauthorized persons; use of name
  • 877.111 — Inhalation, ingestion, possession, sale, purchase, or transfer of harmful chemical substances; penalties
  • 877.13 — Educational institutions or school boards; penalty for disruption
  • 877.14 — Merchandising of dogs; required records; penalty for violation
  • 877.15 — Failure to control or report dangerous fire
  • 877.155 — Report of initial treatment of burn injuries; penalty for failure to report
  • 877.16 — Exhibition of deformed animals prohibited; penalty
  • 877.17 — Works to be submitted by students without substantial alteration
  • 877.18 — Identification card or document purporting to contain applicant’s age or date of birth; penalties for failure to compl
  • 877.19 — Hate Crimes Reporting Act
  • 877.20 — Local juvenile curfew ordinances; legislative intent
  • 877.21 — Definitions; ss. 877.20-877.25
  • 877.22 — Minors prohibited in public places and establishments during certain hours; penalty; procedure
  • 877.23 — Legal duty of parent; penalty
  • 877.24 — Nonapplication of s. 877.22
  • 877.25 — Local ordinance required; effect
  • 877.26 — Direct observation, videotaping, or visual surveillance of customers in merchant’s dressing room, etc., prohibited; pe
  • 877.27 — Unauthorized transmissions to, or interference with, a public or commercial radio station licensed by the Federal Commun
Title 88 · FL Chapter 88 (78 sections)
  • 88.0011 — Short title
  • 88.1011 — Definitions
  • 88.1021 — State tribunal and support enforcement agency
  • 88.1031 — Remedies cumulative
  • 88.1041 — Application of act to resident of foreign country and foreign support proceeding
  • 88.2011 — Bases for jurisdiction over nonresident
  • 88.2021 — Duration of personal jurisdiction
  • 88.2031 — Initiating and responding tribunal of state
  • 88.2041 — Simultaneous proceedings in another state
  • 88.2051 — Continuing exclusive jurisdiction
  • 88.2061 — Continuing jurisdiction to enforce child support order
  • 88.2071 — Determination of controlling child support order
  • 88.2081 — Child support orders for two or more obligees
  • 88.2091 — Credit for payments
  • 88.2101 — Application of act to nonresident subject to personal jurisdiction
  • 88.2111 — Continuing, exclusive jurisdiction to modify spousal support order
  • 88.3011 — Proceedings under this act
  • 88.3021 — Proceeding by minor parent
  • 88.3031 — Application of law of state
  • 88.3041 — Duties of initiating tribunal
  • 88.3051 — Duties and powers of responding tribunal
  • 88.3061 — Inappropriate tribunal
  • 88.3071 — Duties of support enforcement agency
  • 88.3081 — Duty of Governor and Cabinet
  • 88.3091 — Private counsel
  • 88.3101 — Duties of state information agency
  • 88.3111 — Pleadings and accompanying documents
  • 88.3121 — Nondisclosure of information in exceptional circumstances
  • 88.3131 — Costs and fees
  • 88.3141 — Limited immunity of petitioner
  • 88.3151 — Nonparentage as defense
  • 88.3161 — Special rules of evidence and procedure
  • 88.3171 — Communications between tribunals
  • 88.3181 — Assistance with discovery
  • 88.3191 — Receipt and disbursement of payments
  • 88.4011 — Establishment of support order
  • 88.4021 — Proceeding to determine parentage
  • 88.5011 — Employer’s receipt of income-withholding order of another state
  • 88.50211 — Employer’s compliance with income-withholding order of another state
  • 88.5031 — Employer’s compliance with two or more income-withholding orders
  • 88.5041 — Immunity from civil liability
  • 88.5051 — Penalties for noncompliance
  • 88.5061 — Contest by obligor
  • 88.5071 — Administrative enforcement of orders
  • 88.6011 — Registration of order for enforcement
  • 88.6021 — Procedure to register order for enforcement
  • 88.6031 — Effect of registration for enforcement
  • 88.6041 — Choice of law
  • 88.6051 — Notice of registration of order
  • 88.6061 — Procedure to contest validity or enforcement of registered order
  • 88.6071 — Contest of registration or enforcement
  • 88.6081 — Confirmed order
  • 88.6091 — Procedure to register child support order of another state for modification
  • 88.6101 — Effect of registration for modification
  • 88.6111 — Modification of child support order of another state
  • 88.6121 — Recognition of order modified in another state
  • 88.6131 — Jurisdiction to modify child support order of another state when individual parties reside in this state
  • 88.6141 — Notice to issuing tribunal of modifications
  • 88.6151 — Jurisdiction to modify child support order of foreign country
  • 88.6161 — Procedure to register child support order of foreign country for modification
  • 88.70111 — Definitions
  • 88.7021 — Applicability
  • 88.7031 — Relationship of Department of Revenue to United States central authority
  • 88.7041 — Initiation by Department of Revenue of support proceeding under convention
  • 88.7051 — Direct request
  • 88.7061 — Registration of convention support order
  • 88.7071 — Contest of registered convention support order
  • 88.7081 — Recognition and enforcement of convention support order
  • 88.7091 — Partial enforcement
  • 88.7101 — Foreign support agreement
  • 88.7111 — Modification of convention child support order
  • 88.7121 — Personal information; limit on use
  • 88.7131 — Record in original language; English translation
  • 88.8011 — Grounds for rendition
  • 88.8021 — Conditions of rendition
  • 88.9011 — Uniformity of application and construction
  • 88.9021 — Transitional provision
  • 88.9031 — Severability
Title 893 · FL Chapter 893 (40 sections)
  • 893.01 — Short title
  • 893.015 — Statutory references
  • 893.02 — Definitions
  • 893.03 — Standards and schedules
  • 893.0301 — Death resulting from apparent drug overdose; reporting requirements
  • 893.031 — Industrial exceptions to controlled substance scheduling
  • 893.033 — Listed chemicals
  • 893.035 — Control of new substances; findings of fact; delegation of authority to Attorney General to control substances by rule
  • 893.0355 — Control of scheduled substances; delegation of authority to Attorney General to reschedule substance, or delete substanc
  • 893.0356 — Control of new substances; findings of fact; “controlled substance analog” defined
  • 893.04 — Pharmacist and practitioner
  • 893.05 — Practitioners and persons administering controlled substances in their absence
  • 893.055 — Prescription drug monitoring program
  • 893.0551 — Public records exemption for the prescription drug monitoring program
  • 893.06 — Distribution of controlled substances; order forms; labeling and packaging requirements
  • 893.065 — Counterfeit-resistant prescription blanks for controlled substances listed in Schedule II, Schedule III, Schedule IV, or
  • 893.07 — Records
  • 893.08 — Exceptions
  • 893.09 — Enforcement
  • 893.10 — Burden of proof; photograph or video recording of evidence
  • 893.101 — Legislative findings and intent
  • 893.105 — Testing and destruction of seized substances
  • 893.11 — Suspension, revocation, and reinstatement of business and professional licenses
  • 893.12 — Contraband; seizure, forfeiture, sale
  • 893.13 — Prohibited acts; penalties
  • 893.131 — Distribution of controlled substances resulting in overdose or serious bodily injury
  • 893.132 — Dangerous fentanyl exposure of first responder resulting in overdose or serious bodily injury
  • 893.135 — Trafficking; mandatory sentences; suspension or reduction of sentences; conspiracy to engage in trafficking
  • 893.1351 — Ownership, lease, rental, or possession for trafficking in or manufacturing a controlled substance
  • 893.138 — Local administrative action to abate certain activities declared public nuisances
  • 893.145 — “Drug paraphernalia” defined
  • 893.146 — Determination of paraphernalia
  • 893.147 — Use, possession, manufacture, delivery, transportation, advertisement, or retail sale of drug paraphernalia, specified m
  • 893.149 — Unlawful possession of listed chemical
  • 893.1495 — Retail sale of ephedrine and related compounds
  • 893.15 — Rehabilitation
  • 893.165 — County alcohol and other drug abuse treatment or education trust funds
  • 893.20 — Continuing criminal enterprise
  • 893.21 — Alcohol-related or drug-related overdoses; medical assistance; immunity from arrest, charge, prosecution, and penalizati
  • 893.30 — Controlled substance safety education and awareness
Title 895 · FL Chapter 895 (9 sections)
  • 895.01 — Short title
  • 895.02 — Definitions
  • 895.03 — Prohibited activities and defense
  • 895.04 — Criminal penalties and alternative fine
  • 895.05 — Civil remedies
  • 895.06 — Civil investigative subpoenas; public records exemption
  • 895.07 — RICO lien notice
  • 895.08 — Term of RICO lien notice
  • 895.09 — Disposition of funds obtained through forfeiture proceedings
Title 896 · FL Chapter 896 (8 sections)
  • 896.101 — Florida Money Laundering Act; definitions; penalties; injunctions; seizure warrants; immunity
  • 896.102 — Currency more than $10,000 received in trade or business; report required; noncompliance penalties
  • 896.103 — Transaction which constitutes separate offense
  • 896.104 — Structuring transactions to evade reporting or registration requirements prohibited
  • 896.105 — Penalty provisions not applicable to law enforcement
  • 896.106 — Fugitive disentitlement
  • 896.107 — Rewards for informants
  • 896.108 — Rewards for private entities combating international money laundering
Title 90 · FL Chapter 90 (88 sections)
  • 90.101 — Short title
  • 90.102 — Construction
  • 90.103 — Scope; applicability
  • 90.104 — Rulings on evidence
  • 90.105 — Preliminary questions
  • 90.106 — Summing up and comment by judge
  • 90.107 — Limited admissibility
  • 90.108 — Introduction of related writings or recorded statements
  • 90.201 — Matters which must be judicially noticed
  • 90.202 — Matters which may be judicially noticed
  • 90.203 — Compulsory judicial notice upon request
  • 90.2035 — Judicial notice of information taken from web mapping services, global satellite imaging sites, or Internet mapping tool
  • 90.204 — Determination of propriety of judicial notice and nature of matter noticed
  • 90.205 — Denial of a request for judicial notice
  • 90.206 — Instructing jury on judicial notice
  • 90.207 — Judicial notice by trial court in subsequent proceedings
  • 90.301 — Presumption defined; inferences
  • 90.302 — Classification of rebuttable presumptions
  • 90.303 — Presumption affecting the burden of producing evidence defined
  • 90.304 — Presumption affecting the burden of proof defined
  • 90.401 — Definition of relevant evidence
  • 90.402 — Admissibility of relevant evidence
  • 90.4025 — Admissibility of paternity determination in certain criminal prosecutions
  • 90.4026 — Statements expressing sympathy; admissibility; definitions
  • 90.403 — Exclusion on grounds of prejudice or confusion
  • 90.404 — Character evidence; when admissible
  • 90.405 — Methods of proving character
  • 90.406 — Routine practice
  • 90.407 — Subsequent remedial measures
  • 90.408 — Compromise and offers to compromise
  • 90.409 — Payment of medical and similar expenses
  • 90.410 — Offer to plead guilty; nolo contendere; withdrawn pleas of guilty
  • 90.501 — Privileges recognized only as provided
  • 90.5015 — Journalist’s privilege
  • 90.502 — Lawyer-client privilege
  • 90.5021 — Fiduciary lawyer-client privilege
  • 90.503 — Psychotherapist-patient privilege
  • 90.5035 — Sexual assault counselor-victim privilege
  • 90.5036 — Domestic violence advocate-victim privilege
  • 90.5037 — Human trafficking victim advocate-victim privilege
  • 90.504 — Husband-wife privilege
  • 90.505 — Privilege with respect to communications to clergy
  • 90.5055 — Accountant-client privilege
  • 90.506 — Privilege with respect to trade secrets
  • 90.507 — Waiver of privilege by voluntary disclosure
  • 90.508 — Privileged matter disclosed under compulsion or without opportunity to claim privilege
  • 90.509 — Application of privileged communication
  • 90.510 — Privileged communication necessary to adverse party
  • 90.601 — General rule of competency
  • 90.603 — Disqualification of witness
  • 90.604 — Lack of personal knowledge
  • 90.605 — Oath or affirmation of witness
  • 90.606 — Interpreters and translators
  • 90.6063 — Interpreter services for deaf persons
  • 90.607 — Competency of certain persons as witnesses
  • 90.608 — Who may impeach
  • 90.609 — Character of witness as impeachment
  • 90.610 — Conviction of certain crimes as impeachment
  • 90.611 — Religious beliefs or opinions
  • 90.612 — Mode and order of interrogation and presentation
  • 90.613 — Refreshing the memory of a witness
  • 90.614 — Prior statements of witnesses
  • 90.615 — Calling witnesses by the court
  • 90.616 — Exclusion of witnesses
  • 90.701 — Opinion testimony of lay witnesses
  • 90.702 — Testimony by experts
  • 90.703 — Opinion on ultimate issue
  • 90.704 — Basis of opinion testimony by experts
  • 90.705 — Disclosure of facts or data underlying expert opinion
  • 90.706 — Authoritativeness of literature for use in cross-examination
  • 90.801 — Hearsay; definitions; exceptions
  • 90.802 — Hearsay rule
  • 90.803 — Hearsay exceptions; availability of declarant immaterial
  • 90.804 — Hearsay exceptions; declarant unavailable
  • 90.805 — Hearsay within hearsay
  • 90.806 — Attacking and supporting credibility of declarant
  • 90.901 — Requirement of authentication or identification
  • 90.902 — Self-authentication
  • 90.903 — Testimony of subscribing witness unnecessary
  • 90.91 — Photographs of property wrongfully taken; use in prosecution, procedure; return of property to owner
  • 90.951 — Definitions
  • 90.952 — Requirement of originals
  • 90.953 — Admissibility of duplicates
  • 90.954 — Admissibility of other evidence of contents
  • 90.955 — Public records
  • 90.956 — Summaries
  • 90.957 — Testimony or written admissions of a party
  • 90.958 — Functions of court and jury
Title 900 · FL Chapter 900 (5 sections)
  • 900.01 — Title
  • 900.02 — Effective date
  • 900.03 — Courts vested with criminal jurisdiction; process
  • 900.04 — Contempts
  • 900.05 — Criminal justice data collection
Title 901 · FL Chapter 901 (36 sections)
  • 901.01 — Judicial officers have committing authority
  • 901.02 — Issuance of arrest warrants
  • 901.04 — Direction and execution of warrant
  • 901.07 — Admission to bail when arrest occurs in another county
  • 901.08 — Issue of warrant when offense triable in another county
  • 901.09 — When summons shall be issued
  • 901.10 — How summons served
  • 901.11 — Effect of not answering summons
  • 901.12 — Summons against corporation
  • 901.14 — Effect of failure by corporation to answer summons
  • 901.15 — When arrest by officer without warrant is lawful
  • 901.1501 — Immediate arrest of a person with a significant medical condition
  • 901.1503 — When notice to appear by officer without warrant is lawful
  • 901.1505 — Federal law enforcement officers; powers
  • 901.151 — Stop and Frisk Law
  • 901.16 — Method of arrest by officer by a warrant
  • 901.17 — Method of arrest by officer without warrant
  • 901.18 — Officer may summon assistance
  • 901.19 — Right of officer to break into building
  • 901.20 — Use of force to effect release of person making arrest detained in building
  • 901.21 — Search of person arrested
  • 901.211 — Strip searches of persons arrested; body cavity search
  • 901.215 — Search of person arrested for identifying device indicating a medical disability
  • 901.22 — Arrest after escape or rescue
  • 901.24 — Right of person arrested to consult attorney
  • 901.245 — Interpreter services for deaf persons
  • 901.25 — Fresh pursuit; arrest outside jurisdiction
  • 901.252 — Authority to patrol municipally owned or leased property and facilities outside municipal limits; taking into custody ou
  • 901.26 — Arrest and detention of foreign nationals
  • 901.28 — Notice to appear for misdemeanors or violations of municipal or county ordinances; effect on authority to conduct search
  • 901.29 — Authorization to take person to medical facility
  • 901.31 — Failure to obey written promise to appear
  • 901.35 — Financial responsibility for medical expenses
  • 901.36 — Prohibition against giving false name or false identification by person arrested or lawfully detained; penalties; court
  • 901.41 — Prearrest diversion programs
  • 901.43 — Dissemination of arrest booking photographs
Title 902 · FL Chapter 902 (5 sections)
  • 902.15 — Undertaking by witness
  • 902.17 — Procedure when witness does not give security
  • 902.19 — When prosecutor liable for costs
  • 902.20 — Contempts before committing trial court judge
  • 902.21 — Commitment to jail in another county
Title 903 · FL Chapter 903 (35 sections)
  • 903.011 — Pretrial release; general terms; statewide uniform bond schedule
  • 903.02 — Actions following denial; changes in bail conditions or bond amount; separation by charge or offense
  • 903.03 — Jurisdiction of trial court to admit to bail; duties and responsibilities of Department of Corrections
  • 903.035 — Applications for bail; information provided; hearing on application for modification; penalty for providing false or mis
  • 903.0351 — Restrictions on pretrial release pending probation-violation hearing or community-control-violation hearing
  • 903.045 — Nature of criminal surety bail bonds
  • 903.046 — Purpose of and criteria for bail determination
  • 903.047 — Conditions of pretrial release
  • 903.0471 — Violation of condition of pretrial release
  • 903.05 — Qualification of sureties
  • 903.06 — Validity of undertaking by minor
  • 903.08 — Sufficiency of sureties
  • 903.09 — Justification of sureties
  • 903.101 — Sureties; licensed persons; to have equal access
  • 903.105 — Appearance bonds
  • 903.131 — Bail on appeal, revocation; recommission
  • 903.132 — Bail on appeal; conditions for granting; appellate review
  • 903.133 — Bail on appeal; prohibited for certain felony convictions
  • 903.14 — Contracts to indemnify sureties
  • 903.16 — Deposit of money or bonds as bail
  • 903.17 — Substitution of cash bail for other bail
  • 903.18 — Bail after deposit of money or bonds
  • 903.20 — Surrender of defendant
  • 903.21 — Method of surrender; exoneration of obligors
  • 903.22 — Arrest of principal by surety before forfeiture
  • 903.26 — Forfeiture of the bond; when and how directed; discharge; how and when made; effect of payment
  • 903.27 — Forfeiture to judgment
  • 903.28 — Remission of forfeiture; conditions
  • 903.286 — Return of cash bond; requirement to withhold unpaid fines, fees, court costs; cash bond forms
  • 903.29 — Arrest of principal by surety after forfeiture
  • 903.31 — Canceling the bond
  • 903.32 — Defects in bond
  • 903.33 — Bail not discharged for certain defects
  • 903.34 — Who may admit to bail
  • 903.36 — Guaranteed arrest bond certificates as cash bail
Title 905 · FL Chapter 905 (43 sections)
  • 905.01 — Number and procurement of grand jury; replacement of member; term of grand jury
  • 905.02 — Who may challenge
  • 905.03 — Ground for challenge to panel
  • 905.04 — Grounds for challenge to individual prospective grand juror
  • 905.05 — When challenge or objection to be made
  • 905.06 — How challenge made and tried
  • 905.07 — Effect of sustaining challenge to panel
  • 905.075 — Excusing grand juror related to person being investigated
  • 905.08 — Appointment of foreperson
  • 905.09 — Discharge and recall of grand jury
  • 905.095 — Extension of grand jury term
  • 905.10 — Oath of grand jurors
  • 905.11 — Charge of court
  • 905.12 — Retirement of grand jurors
  • 905.13 — Appointment of clerk
  • 905.15 — Appointment of interpreter
  • 905.16 — Duties of grand jury
  • 905.165 — Grand jury to make presentments
  • 905.17 — Who may be present during session of grand jury
  • 905.18 — Duty of court
  • 905.185 — State attorney to issue process
  • 905.19 — Duty of state attorney
  • 905.195 — List of witnesses; minutes
  • 905.20 — Duty of grand juror having knowledge of offense
  • 905.21 — When grand jury of another county may indict in other cases
  • 905.22 — Swearing of witnesses
  • 905.23 — Number of grand jurors required to return indictment
  • 905.24 — Proceedings of grand jury to be kept secret
  • 905.25 — Grand juror not permitted to state or testify
  • 905.26 — Not to disclose finding of indictment
  • 905.27 — Testimony not to be disclosed; exceptions
  • 905.28 — Publication of report or presentment; motion to repress
  • 905.31 — Short title
  • 905.32 — Legislative intent
  • 905.33 — Petition to Supreme Court by Governor; order
  • 905.34 — Powers and duties; law applicable
  • 905.35 — Appointment of foreperson and deputy foreperson
  • 905.36 — Duty of state attorney or other legal adviser; presentation of evidence
  • 905.37 — List of prospective jurors; impanelment; composition of jury; compensation
  • 905.38 — Summoning of jurors
  • 905.39 — Judicial supervision; returns
  • 905.395 — Unlawful acts related to disclosure of proceedings; penalty
  • 905.40 — Payment of costs and expenses
Title 907 · FL Chapter 907 (5 sections)
  • 907.04 — Disposition of defendant upon arrest
  • 907.041 — Pretrial detention and release
  • 907.043 — Pretrial release; citizens’ right to know
  • 907.044 — Annual study of pretrial release program effectiveness and cost efficiency
  • 907.045 — Habeas corpus; motion to dismiss; preliminary hearing
Title 908 · FL Chapter 908 (16 sections)
  • 908.101 — Legislative findings and intent
  • 908.102 — Definitions
  • 908.103 — Sanctuary policies prohibited
  • 908.1031 — State Board of Immigration Enforcement; creation; purpose and duties
  • 908.1032 — State Immigration Enforcement Council
  • 908.1033 — Local Law Enforcement Immigration Grant Program
  • 908.104 — Cooperation with federal immigration authorities
  • 908.105 — Duties related to immigration detainers
  • 908.106 — Reimbursement of costs
  • 908.107 — Enforcement
  • 908.108 — Education records
  • 908.109 — Discrimination prohibited
  • 908.11 — Immigration enforcement assistance agreements; reporting requirement
  • 908.111 — Prohibition against governmental entity contracts with common carriers; required termination provisions
  • 908.12 — Transnational crime organizations; reclassification
  • 908.13 — Unauthorized Alien Transport Program
Title 910 · FL Chapter 910 (17 sections)
  • 910.005 — State criminal jurisdiction
  • 910.006 — State special maritime criminal jurisdiction
  • 910.01 — Offenses committed partly in this state
  • 910.02 — Offense committed while in transit
  • 910.03 — Place of trial generally
  • 910.035 — Transfer from county for plea, sentence, or participation in a problem-solving court
  • 910.04 — Where aider in one county and offense committed in another
  • 910.05 — Where acts constituting one offense are committed in two or more counties
  • 910.06 — Where person in one county commits offense in another
  • 910.09 — Cause of death inflicted in one county and death occurs in another
  • 910.10 — Where stolen property brought into another county
  • 910.11 — Conviction or acquittal bar to prosecution
  • 910.12 — Trial of aider
  • 910.13 — Accessory after the fact
  • 910.14 — Kidnapping
  • 910.15 — Crimes facilitated by communication systems
  • 910.16 — Venue; public meetings law violations
Title 913 · FL Chapter 913 (6 sections)
  • 913.03 — Grounds for challenge to individual jurors for cause
  • 913.08 — Number of peremptory challenges
  • 913.10 — Number of jurors
  • 913.12 — Qualifications of jurors
  • 913.13 — Jurors in capital cases
  • 913.15 — Special jurors
Title 914 · FL Chapter 914 (19 sections)
  • 914.001 — Witnesses; subpoenas to run throughout the state; all names to be included in one subpoena
  • 914.03 — Attendance of witnesses
  • 914.04 — Witnesses; person not excused from testifying or producing evidence in certain prosecutions on ground testimony might in
  • 914.05 — Compelled testimony tending to incriminate witness; immunity
  • 914.07 — Competency of evidence
  • 914.11 — Indigent defendants
  • 914.12 — Memorandum of recognizance of witness; removal for violation
  • 914.13 — Commitment for perjury
  • 914.14 — Witnesses accepting bribes
  • 914.15 — Law enforcement officers; nondisclosure of personal information
  • 914.16 — Child abuse and sexual abuse of victims under age 16 or who have an intellectual disability; limits on interviews
  • 914.17 — Appointment of advocate for victims or witnesses who are minors or intellectually disabled
  • 914.21 — Definitions
  • 914.22 — Tampering with or harassing a witness, victim, or informant; penalties
  • 914.23 — Retaliating against a witness, victim, or informant
  • 914.24 — Civil action to restrain harassment of a victim or witness
  • 914.25 — Protective services for certain victims and witnesses
  • 914.27 — Confidentiality of victim and witness information
  • 914.28 — Confidential informants
Title 916 · FL Chapter 916 (28 sections)
  • 916.10 — Short title
  • 916.105 — Legislative intent
  • 916.106 — Definitions
  • 916.1065 — Confidentiality of forensic behavioral health evaluations
  • 916.107 — Rights of forensic clients
  • 916.1075 — Sexual misconduct prohibited; reporting required; penalties
  • 916.1081 — Escape from program; penalty
  • 916.1085 — Introduction or removal of certain articles unlawful; penalty
  • 916.1091 — Duties, functions, and powers of institutional security personnel
  • 916.1093 — Operation and administration; rules
  • 916.111 — Training of mental health experts
  • 916.115 — Appointment of experts
  • 916.12 — Mental competence to proceed
  • 916.13 — Involuntary commitment of defendant adjudicated incompetent
  • 916.135 — Misdemeanor or ordinance violation mental health diversion program
  • 916.136 — Pretrial felony mental health diversion program
  • 916.14 — Statute of limitations; former jeopardy
  • 916.145 — Dismissal of charges
  • 916.15 — Involuntary commitment of defendant adjudicated not guilty by reason of insanity
  • 916.16 — Jurisdiction of committing court
  • 916.17 — Conditional release
  • 916.185 — Forensic Hospital Diversion Pilot Program
  • 916.301 — Appointment of experts
  • 916.3012 — Mental competence to proceed
  • 916.302 — Involuntary commitment of defendant determined to be incompetent to proceed
  • 916.3025 — Jurisdiction of committing court
  • 916.303 — Determination of incompetency; dismissal of charges
  • 916.304 — Conditional release
Title 918 · FL Chapter 918 (16 sections)
  • 918.015 — Right to speedy trial
  • 918.0155 — Expeditious disposition of particular criminal cases involving a child under age 16
  • 918.0157 — Right to trial by jury
  • 918.016 — Trial of remaining defendants after grant of continuance to others
  • 918.03 — Procedure when offense committed outside state
  • 918.04 — Procedure when offense committed in another county
  • 918.05 — View by jury
  • 918.06 — Separation and detention of jurors; admonition by court
  • 918.07 — Admonition to officer in charge of jurors
  • 918.10 — Charge to jury; request for instructions
  • 918.115 — Definitions; ss. 918.12 and 918.125
  • 918.12 — Tampering with or harassing a court official
  • 918.125 — Retaliating against a court official
  • 918.13 — Tampering with or fabricating physical evidence
  • 918.16 — Sex offenses; testimony of person under age 16 or who has an intellectual disability; testimony of victim; courtroom cle
  • 918.19 — Closing argument
Title 92 · FL Chapter 92 (51 sections)
  • 92.05 — Final judgments and decrees of courts of record
  • 92.06 — Judgments and decrees of United States District Courts
  • 92.07 — Judgments and decrees of this state
  • 92.08 — Deeds and powers of attorney of record for 20 years or more
  • 92.09 — Effect of reversal, etc., of judgment or successful attack on deed
  • 92.13 — Certified copies of records of certified copies
  • 92.14 — United States deeds and patents and copies thereof
  • 92.141 — Law enforcement employees; travel expenses; compensation as witness
  • 92.142 — Witnesses; pay
  • 92.143 — Compensation to traffic court witnesses
  • 92.151 — Witness compensation; payment; overcharges
  • 92.153 — Production of documents by witnesses; reimbursement of costs
  • 92.16 — Certificates of Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund respecting the ownership, conveyance of, and ot
  • 92.17 — Effect of seal of Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund
  • 92.18 — Certificate of state officer
  • 92.19 — Portions of records
  • 92.20 — Certificates issued under authority of Congress
  • 92.21 — Certificate as to sanitary condition of buildings
  • 92.23 — Rule of evidence in suits on fire policies for loss or damage to building
  • 92.231 — Expert witnesses; fee
  • 92.233 — Compensation of witness summoned in two or more criminal cases
  • 92.24 — Certain tax deeds prima facie evidence of title
  • 92.25 — Records destroyed by fire; use of abstracts
  • 92.251 — Uniform Interstate Depositions and Discovery Act
  • 92.26 — Records destroyed by fire; use of sworn copies
  • 92.27 — Records destroyed by fire; effect of abstracts in evidence
  • 92.28 — Records destroyed by fire; land title suits; what may be received in evidence
  • 92.29 — Photographic or electronic copies
  • 92.295 — Copies of voter registration records
  • 92.30 — Presumption of death; official findings
  • 92.31 — Missing persons and persons imprisoned or interned in foreign countries; official reports
  • 92.32 — Official findings and reports; presumption of authority to issue or execute
  • 92.33 — Written statement concerning injury to person or property; furnishing copies; admission as evidence
  • 92.351 — Prohibition against prisoners submitting nondocumentary physical evidence without authorization of court; prisoner maili
  • 92.38 — Comparison of disputed writings
  • 92.39 — Evidence of individual’s claim against the state in suits between them
  • 92.40 — Reports of building, housing, or health code violations; admissibility
  • 92.50 — Oaths, affidavits, and acknowledgments; who may take or administer; requirements
  • 92.51 — Oaths, affidavits, and acknowledgments; taken or administered by commissioned officer of United States Armed Forces
  • 92.52 — Affirmation equivalent to oath
  • 92.525 — Verification of documents; perjury by false written declaration, penalty
  • 92.53 — Videotaping the testimony of a victim or witness under age 18 or who has an intellectual disability
  • 92.54 — Use of closed-circuit television and audio-video communication technology in proceedings involving a victim or witness u
  • 92.55 — Special protections in proceedings involving victim or witness under 18, person with intellectual disability, or sexual
  • 92.56 — Judicial proceedings and court records involving sexual offenses and human trafficking
  • 92.561 — Prohibition on reproduction of child pornography
  • 92.565 — Admissibility of confession in sexual abuse cases
  • 92.57 — Termination of employment of witness prohibited
  • 92.60 — Foreign records of regularly conducted business activity
  • 92.605 — Production of certain records by Florida businesses and out-of-state corporations
  • 92.70 — Eyewitness identification
Title 921 · FL Chapter 921 (38 sections)
  • 921.0017 — Credit upon recommitment of offender serving split sentence
  • 921.002 — The Criminal Punishment Code
  • 921.0021 — Definitions
  • 921.0022 — Criminal Punishment Code; offense severity ranking chart
  • 921.0023 — Criminal Punishment Code; ranking unlisted felony offenses
  • 921.0024 — Criminal Punishment Code; worksheet computations; scoresheets
  • 921.00241 — Prison diversion program
  • 921.0025 — Adoption and implementation of revised sentencing scoresheets
  • 921.0026 — Mitigating circumstances
  • 921.00265 — Recommended sentences; departure sentences; mandatory minimum sentences
  • 921.0027 — Criminal Punishment Code and revisions; applicability
  • 921.09 — Fees of physicians who determine sanity at time of sentence
  • 921.12 — Fees of physicians when pregnancy is alleged as cause for not pronouncing sentence
  • 921.137 — Imposition of the death sentence upon an intellectually disabled defendant prohibited
  • 921.1401 — Sentence of life imprisonment for persons who are under the age of 18 years at the time of the offense; sentencing proce
  • 921.1402 — Review of sentences for persons convicted of specified offenses committed while under the age of 18 years
  • 921.141 — Sentence of death or life imprisonment for capital felonies; further proceedings to determine sentence
  • 921.142 — Sentence of death or life imprisonment for capital drug trafficking felonies; further proceedings to determine sentence
  • 921.1425 — Sentence of death or life imprisonment for capital sexual battery; further proceedings to determine sentence
  • 921.1426 — Sentence of death for capital offense committed by unauthorized alien
  • 921.1427 — Sentence of death or life imprisonment for capital human trafficking of vulnerable persons for sexual exploitation; furt
  • 921.143 — Appearance of victim, next of kin, or law enforcement, correctional, or correctional probation officer to make statement
  • 921.15 — Stay of execution of sentence to fine; bond and proceedings
  • 921.16 — When sentences to be concurrent and when consecutive
  • 921.161 — Sentence not to run until imposed; credit for county jail time after sentence; certificate of custodian of jail
  • 921.18 — Sentence for indeterminate period for noncapital felony
  • 921.185 — Sentence; restitution a mitigation in certain crimes
  • 921.186 — Substantial assistance
  • 921.187 — Disposition and sentencing; alternatives; restitution
  • 921.188 — Placement of certain state inmates in local detention facilities
  • 921.20 — Classification summary; Florida Commission on Offender Review
  • 921.21 — Progress reports to Florida Commission on Offender Review
  • 921.22 — Determination of exact period of imprisonment by Florida Commission on Offender Review
  • 921.231 — Presentence investigation reports
  • 921.241 — Felony judgments; fingerprints required in record
  • 921.242 — Subsequent offenses under chapter 796; method of proof applicable
  • 921.243 — Offenses involving minor victims; offender records
  • 921.244 — Order of no contact; penalties
Title 922 · FL Chapter 922 (16 sections)
  • 922.02 — Execution of sentence imposing fine
  • 922.04 — Discharge of prisoner unable to pay fine
  • 922.051 — Imprisonment in county jail, term of 1 year or less
  • 922.052 — Issuance of warrant of execution
  • 922.06 — Stay of execution of death sentence
  • 922.07 — Proceedings when person under sentence of death appears to be insane
  • 922.08 — Proceedings when person under sentence of death appears to be pregnant
  • 922.095 — Pursuit of collateral remedies
  • 922.10 — Execution of death sentence; executioner
  • 922.105 — Execution of death sentence; prohibition against reduction of death sentence as a result of determination that a method
  • 922.108 — Sentencing orders in capital cases
  • 922.11 — Regulation of execution
  • 922.111 — Transfer to state prison for safekeeping before death warrant issued
  • 922.12 — Return of warrant of execution issued by Governor
  • 922.14 — Sentence of death unexecuted for unjustifiable reasons
  • 922.15 — Return of warrant of execution issued by Supreme Court
Title 923 · FL Chapter 923 (3 sections)
  • 923.01 — Criminal report
  • 923.02 — Notice of setting case for trial
  • 923.03 — Indictment and information
Title 924 · FL Chapter 924 (28 sections)
  • 924.02 — Who may appeal
  • 924.04 — Appeal by one of several defendants
  • 924.05 — Appeal as matter of right
  • 924.051 — Terms and conditions of appeals and collateral review in criminal cases
  • 924.055 — Postconviction review in capital cases; legislative findings and intent
  • 924.056 — Capital postconviction proceedings; reporting requirements
  • 924.057 — Capital postconviction proceedings; legislative intent
  • 924.06 — Appeal by defendant
  • 924.065 — Denial of motion for new trial or arrest of judgment; appeal bond; supersedeas
  • 924.066 — Collateral relief
  • 924.07 — Appeal by state
  • 924.071 — Additional grounds for appeal by the state; time for taking; stay of cause
  • 924.09 — When appeal to be taken by defendant
  • 924.14 — Stay of execution when defendant appeals
  • 924.15 — Approval of appeal bonds
  • 924.16 — Discharge pending appeal
  • 924.17 — Costs when appellant is indigent
  • 924.18 — Bail when state appeals
  • 924.19 — When operation of order in favor of defendant not stayed
  • 924.20 — Duty of court upon breach of undertaking
  • 924.22 — Stay when execution of sentence already commenced
  • 924.28 — Failure of clerk to transmit appeal papers as required
  • 924.31 — When argument necessary
  • 924.33 — When judgment not to be reversed or modified
  • 924.34 — When evidence sustains only conviction of lesser offense
  • 924.35 — Enforcement of judgment on affirmance
  • 924.37 — Order or decision when state appeals
  • 924.38 — When removal shall be allowed on new trial
Title 925 · FL Chapter 925 (8 sections)
  • 925.0352 — Notice of hearings in capital cases; expedited hearings
  • 925.05 — Statements or confessions; availability to defendant
  • 925.055 — Law enforcement investigative funds
  • 925.07 — Parent or guardian to be notified before trial of minor; service of notice
  • 925.08 — Prisoners awaiting trial may be worked on roads and other projects
  • 925.09 — Authority of state attorney to order autopsies
  • 925.11 — Postsentencing DNA testing
  • 925.12 — DNA testing; defendants entering pleas
Title 932 · FL Chapter 932 (20 sections)
  • 932.47 — Informations filed by prosecuting attorneys
  • 932.48 — Informations; duties of clerks of courts
  • 932.49 — Failure of motor vehicle operators to stop and assist persons injured; form of information or indictment
  • 932.50 — Evidence necessary in treason
  • 932.51 — Execution on affirmance of judgment
  • 932.61 — Transfer of county or municipal charge to court providing trial by jury
  • 932.62 — Date for arraignment upon transfer; petitioner not incarcerated
  • 932.63 — Filing of charges; petitioner not incarcerated
  • 932.64 — Transfer of surety bond
  • 932.65 — Filing formal charges; petitioner incarcerated
  • 932.66 — Suggested forms for transfer
  • 932.701 — Short title; definitions
  • 932.702 — Unlawful to transport, conceal, or possess contraband articles or to acquire real or personal property with contraband p
  • 932.703 — Forfeiture of contraband article; exceptions
  • 932.704 — Forfeiture proceedings
  • 932.705 — Law enforcement trust funds; Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles deposits
  • 932.7055 — Disposition of liens and forfeited property
  • 932.706 — Forfeiture training requirements
  • 932.7061 — Reporting seized property for forfeiture
  • 932.7062 — Penalty for noncompliance with reporting requirements
Title 933 · FL Chapter 933 (32 sections)
  • 933.01 — Persons competent to issue search warrant
  • 933.02 — Grounds for issuance of search warrant
  • 933.03 — Destruction of obscene prints and literature
  • 933.04 — Affidavits
  • 933.05 — Issuance in blank prohibited
  • 933.06 — Sworn application required before issuance
  • 933.07 — Issuance of search warrants
  • 933.08 — Search warrants to be served by officers mentioned therein
  • 933.09 — Officer may break open door, etc., to execute warrant
  • 933.10 — Execution of search warrant during day or night
  • 933.101 — Service on Sunday
  • 933.11 — Duplicate to be delivered when warrant served
  • 933.12 — Return and inventory
  • 933.13 — Copy of inventory shall be delivered upon request
  • 933.14 — Return of property taken under search warrant
  • 933.15 — Obstruction of service or execution of search warrant; penalty
  • 933.16 — Maliciously procuring search warrant to be issued; penalty
  • 933.17 — Exceeding authority in executing search warrant; penalty
  • 933.18 — When warrant may be issued for search of private dwelling
  • 933.19 — Searches and seizures of vehicles carrying contraband or illegal intoxicating liquors or merchandise
  • 933.20 — “Inspection warrant”; definition
  • 933.21 — Requirements for issuance of inspection warrant
  • 933.22 — When cause deemed to exist
  • 933.23 — Examination of applicant for inspection warrant
  • 933.24 — Issuance of inspection warrant; contents
  • 933.25 — Duration of inspection warrant
  • 933.26 — Conduct of inspection; notice
  • 933.27 — Refusal to permit authorized inspection; penalty
  • 933.28 — Maliciously causing issuance of inspection warrant; penalty
  • 933.29 — Powers of state agency not restricted
  • 933.30 — Inspector; restrictions on giving information, testifying, etc
  • 933.40 — Agriculture warrants
Title 934 · FL Chapter 934 (30 sections)
  • 934.01 — Legislative findings
  • 934.02 — Definitions
  • 934.03 — Interception and disclosure of wire, oral, or electronic communications prohibited
  • 934.04 — Manufacture, distribution, or possession of wire, oral, or electronic communication intercepting devices prohibited
  • 934.05 — Confiscation of wire, oral, or electronic communication intercepting devices
  • 934.06 — Prohibition of use as evidence of intercepted wire or oral communications; exception
  • 934.07 — Authorization for interception of wire, oral, or electronic communications
  • 934.08 — Authorization for disclosure and use of intercepted wire, oral, or electronic communications
  • 934.09 — Procedure for interception of wire, oral, or electronic communications
  • 934.10 — Civil remedies
  • 934.15 — Situations in which law enforcement officer may order telephone line cut, rerouted, or diverted
  • 934.21 — Unlawful access to stored communications; penalties
  • 934.215 — Unlawful use of a two-way communications device
  • 934.22 — Voluntary disclosure of customer communications or records
  • 934.23 — Required disclosure of customer communications or records
  • 934.24 — Backup preservation; customer notification; challenges by customer
  • 934.25 — Delayed notice
  • 934.255 — Subpoenas in investigations of sexual offenses
  • 934.26 — Cost reimbursement
  • 934.27 — Civil action: relief; damages; defenses
  • 934.28 — Exclusivity of remedies and sanctions
  • 934.31 — General prohibition on pen register and trap and trace device use; exception
  • 934.32 — Application for an order for a pen register or a trap and trace device
  • 934.33 — Issuance of an order for a pen register or a trap and trace device
  • 934.34 — Assistance in installation and use of a pen register or a trap and trace device
  • 934.41 — Alternative penalty
  • 934.42 — Mobile tracking device authorization
  • 934.425 — Installation or use of tracking devices or tracking applications; exceptions; penalties
  • 934.43 — Criminal disclosure of subpoena, order, or authorization
  • 934.50 — Searches and seizure using a drone
Title 936 · FL Chapter 936 (3 sections)
Title 937 · FL Chapter 937 (10 sections)
  • 937.0201 — Definitions
  • 937.0205 — Purple Alert
  • 937.021 — Missing child and missing adult reports
  • 937.022 — Missing Endangered Persons Information Clearinghouse
  • 937.023 — Department of Education to compile list of missing Florida school children; forms; notification
  • 937.024 — Birth records of missing children; registrars’ duties
  • 937.025 — Missing children; student records; reporting requirements; penalties
  • 937.028 — Fingerprints; missing persons
  • 937.031 — Dental records of missing persons; access and use
  • 937.0401 — Spectrum Alert
Title 938 · FL Chapter 938 (22 sections)
  • 938.01 — Additional Court Cost Clearing Trust Fund
  • 938.03 — Crimes Compensation Trust Fund
  • 938.04 — Additional cost with respect to criminal fines
  • 938.05 — Additional court costs for felonies, misdemeanors, and criminal traffic offenses
  • 938.055 — Operating Trust Fund of the Department of Law Enforcement
  • 938.06 — Cost for crime stoppers programs
  • 938.07 — Driving or boating under the influence
  • 938.08 — Additional cost to fund programs in domestic violence
  • 938.085 — Additional cost to fund rape crisis centers
  • 938.10 — Additional court cost imposed in cases of certain crimes
  • 938.13 — Misdemeanor convictions involving drugs or alcohol
  • 938.15 — Criminal justice education for local government
  • 938.17 — County delinquency prevention; juvenile assessment centers and school board suspension programs
  • 938.19 — Teen courts
  • 938.21 — Alcohol and drug abuse programs
  • 938.23 — Assistance grants for alcohol and other drug abuse programs
  • 938.27 — Judgment for costs of prosecution and investigation
  • 938.29 — Legal assistance; lien for payment of attorney’s fees or costs
  • 938.30 — Financial obligations in criminal cases; supplementary proceedings
  • 938.301 — Judicial oversight and jurisdiction
  • 938.31 — Incorporation by reference
  • 938.35 — Collection of court-related financial obligations
Title 939 · FL Chapter 939 (12 sections)
  • 939.02 — Costs before committing trial court judge
  • 939.03 — Execution for costs in capital cases
  • 939.04 — Execution for costs in other cases
  • 939.06 — Acquitted defendant not liable for costs
  • 939.08 — Costs to be certified before audit
  • 939.09 — Sheriff’s mileage
  • 939.11 — Unnecessary charge for confining prisoner not to be allowed
  • 939.12 — Cost against state in Supreme Court
  • 939.13 — Power of Chief Financial Officer
  • 939.14 — County not to pay costs in cases where information is not filed or indictment found
  • 939.17 — Application of cash deposit to fine and costs
  • 939.185 — Assessment of additional court costs and surcharges
Title 940 · FL Chapter 940 (6 sections)
  • 940.01 — Clemency; suspension or remission of fines and forfeitures, reprieves, pardons, restoration of civil rights, and commuta
  • 940.03 — Application for executive clemency
  • 940.031 — Clemency counsel when sentence of death imposed
  • 940.04 — Copy of information or indictment to be furnished without charge
  • 940.05 — Restoration of civil rights
  • 940.061 — Informing persons about executive clemency, restoration of civil rights, and restoration of voting rights
Title 941 · FL Chapter 941 (49 sections)
  • 941.01 — Definition
  • 941.02 — Fugitives from justice; duty of Governor
  • 941.03 — Form of demand
  • 941.04 — Governor may investigate case
  • 941.05 — Extradition of persons imprisoned or awaiting trial in another state or who have left the demanding state under compulsi
  • 941.06 — Extradition of persons not present in demanding state at time of commission of crime
  • 941.07 — Issue of Governor’s warrant of arrest; its recitals
  • 941.08 — Manner and place of execution
  • 941.09 — Authority of arresting officer
  • 941.10 — Rights of accused person; application for writ of habeas corpus
  • 941.11 — Penalty for noncompliance with s. 941.10
  • 941.12 — Confinement in jail when necessary
  • 941.13 — Arrest prior to requisition
  • 941.14 — Arrest without a warrant
  • 941.15 — Commitment to await requisition; bail
  • 941.16 — Bail; in what cases; conditions of bond
  • 941.17 — Extension of time of commitment, adjournment
  • 941.18 — Forfeiture of bail
  • 941.19 — Persons under criminal prosecution in this state at time of requisition
  • 941.20 — Guilt or innocence of accused, when inquired into
  • 941.21 — Governor may recall warrant or issue alias
  • 941.22 — Fugitives from this state; duty of Governor
  • 941.23 — Application for issuance of requisition; by whom made; contents
  • 941.24 — Costs and expenses
  • 941.25 — Immunity from service of process in certain civil actions
  • 941.26 — Written waiver of extradition proceedings
  • 941.27 — Nonwaiver by this state
  • 941.28 — No right of asylum; no immunity from other criminal prosecutions while in this state
  • 941.29 — Interpretation
  • 941.30 — Short title; ss. 941.01-941.29
  • 941.31 — Fresh pursuit; authority of officers of other states; etc
  • 941.32 — Fresh pursuit; arrest; etc
  • 941.33 — Fresh pursuit; validity of arrest
  • 941.34 — Definition of “state.”
  • 941.35 — Definition of “fresh pursuit.”
  • 941.37 — Short title; ss. 941.31-941.35
  • 941.38 — Extradition of persons alleged to be of unsound mind
  • 941.39 — Extradition of persons alleged to be of unsound mind; definitions
  • 941.40 — Extradition of persons alleged to be of unsound mind; procedure; limitation of detention; costs
  • 941.41 — Extradition of persons alleged to be of unsound mind; Governor to demand
  • 941.42 — Extradition of persons alleged to be of unsound mind; purpose of law
  • 941.45 — Interstate Agreement on Detainers
  • 941.46 — Definition
  • 941.47 — Cooperation with other states
  • 941.49 — Responsibility of delivery
  • 941.50 — Designation of officer
  • 941.55 — Title
  • 941.56 — Interstate Corrections Compact
  • 941.57 — Powers
Title 942 · FL Chapter 942 (6 sections)
  • 942.01 — Definitions
  • 942.02 — Summoning witness in this state to testify in another state
  • 942.03 — Witness from another state summoned to testify in this state
  • 942.04 — Exemption from arrest and service of process
  • 942.05 — Uniformity of interpretation
  • 942.06 — Short title
Title 943 · FL Chapter 943 (160 sections)
  • 943.01 — Short title
  • 943.02 — Definitions
  • 943.03 — Department of Law Enforcement
  • 943.03101 — Counter-terrorism and immigration enforcement coordination
  • 943.0311 — Chief of Domestic Security; duties of the department with respect to domestic security
  • 943.0312 — Regional domestic security task forces
  • 943.0313 — Domestic Security Oversight Council
  • 943.0314 — Public records and public meetings exemptions; Domestic Security Oversight Council
  • 943.032 — Financial Crime Analysis Center and Financial Transaction Database
  • 943.0321 — The Florida Domestic Security and Counter-Terrorism Intelligence Center and the Florida Domestic Security and Counter-Te
  • 943.04 — Criminal Justice Investigations and Forensic Science Program; creation; investigative, forensic, and related authority
  • 943.041 — Child Exploitation and Crimes Against Children Program
  • 943.0411 — Online Sting Operations Grant Program for local law enforcement agencies to protect children
  • 943.0412 — Identity Theft and Fraud Grant Program
  • 943.0413 — Critical Infrastructure Mapping Grant Program
  • 943.0415 — Cybercrime Office
  • 943.043 — Toll-free telephone number; Internet notification; sexual predator and sexual offender information
  • 943.0435 — Sexual offenders required to register with the department; penalty
  • 943.04351 — Search of registration information regarding sexual predators and sexual offenders required before appointment or employ
  • 943.04352 — Search of registration information regarding sexual predators and sexual offenders required when placement on misdemeano
  • 943.04353 — Triennial study of sexual predator and sexual offender registration and notification procedures
  • 943.04354 — Removal of the requirement to register as a sexual offender or sexual predator in special circumstances
  • 943.0436 — Duty of the court to uphold laws governing sexual predators and sexual offenders
  • 943.0437 — Commercial social networking websites
  • 943.0438 — Athletic coaches for independent sanctioning authorities
  • 943.0439 — Interviews of victims, suspects, or defendants with autism or an autism spectrum disorder
  • 943.045 — Definitions; ss. 943.045-943.08
  • 943.046 — Notification of criminal offender information
  • 943.05 — Criminal Justice Information Program; duties; crime reports
  • 943.051 — Criminal justice information; collection and storage; fingerprinting
  • 943.0515 — Retention of criminal history records of minors
  • 943.052 — Disposition reporting
  • 943.0525 — Criminal justice information systems; use by state and local agencies
  • 943.053 — Dissemination of criminal justice information; fees
  • 943.0535 — Aliens, criminal records
  • 943.054 — Exchange of federal criminal history records and information
  • 943.0542 — Access to criminal history information provided by the department to qualified entities
  • 943.0543 — National Crime Prevention and Privacy Compact; ratification and implementation
  • 943.0544 — Criminal justice information network and information management
  • 943.055 — Records and audit
  • 943.056 — Criminal history records; access, review, and challenge
  • 943.057 — Access to criminal justice information for research or statistical purposes
  • 943.0575 — Public access to records
  • 943.0578 — Lawful self-defense expunction
  • 943.0581 — Administrative expunction for arrests made contrary to law or by mistake
  • 943.0582 — Diversion program expunction
  • 943.0583 — Human trafficking victim expunction
  • 943.0584 — Criminal history records ineligible for court-ordered expunction or court-ordered sealing
  • 943.0585 — Court-ordered expunction of criminal history records
  • 943.059 — Court-ordered sealing of criminal history records
  • 943.0595 — Automatic sealing of criminal history records; confidentiality of related court records
  • 943.06 — Criminal and Juvenile Justice Information Systems Council
  • 943.08 — Duties; Criminal and Juvenile Justice Information Systems Council
  • 943.081 — Public safety system information technology resources; guiding principles
  • 943.082 — School Safety Awareness Program
  • 943.085 — Legislative intent with respect to upgrading the quality of law enforcement officers and correctional officers
  • 943.09 — Criminal Justice Professionalism Program
  • 943.10 — Definitions; ss. 943.085-943.255
  • 943.11 — Criminal Justice Standards and Training Commission; membership; meetings; compensation
  • 943.12 — Powers, duties, and functions of the commission
  • 943.125 — Accreditation of state and local law enforcement agencies, correctional facilities, public agency offices of inspectors
  • 943.13 — Officers’ minimum qualifications for employment or appointment
  • 943.131 — Temporary employment or appointment; minimum basic recruit training exemptions
  • 943.132 — Implementation of federal qualified active or qualified retired law enforcement concealed firearms provisions
  • 943.133 — Responsibilities of employing agency, commission, and program with respect to compliance with employment qualifications
  • 943.134 — Release of employee information by employers
  • 943.135 — Requirements for continued employment
  • 943.137 — Establishment of qualifications and standards above the minimum
  • 943.139 — Notice of employment, appointment, or separation; response by the officer; duty of commission
  • 943.1395 — Certification for employment or appointment; concurrent certification; reemployment or reappointment; inactive status; r
  • 943.1397 — Officer certification examinations; fee
  • 943.14 — Commission-certified criminal justice training schools; certificates and diplomas; exemptions; injunctive relief; fines
  • 943.146 — Securing of copyrights by the department and sale of department work products
  • 943.16 — Payment of tuition or officer certification examination fee by employing agency; reimbursement of tuition, other course
  • 943.17 — Basic recruit, advanced, and career development training programs; participation; cost; evaluation
  • 943.1701 — Uniform statewide policies and procedures; duty of the commission
  • 943.1702 — Collection of statistics on domestic violence
  • 943.171 — Basic skills training in handling domestic violence cases
  • 943.1715 — Basic skills training relating to diverse populations
  • 943.1716 — Continued employment training relating to diverse populations
  • 943.1717 — Use of dart-firing stun guns
  • 943.1718 — Body cameras; policies and procedures
  • 943.1719 — Basic skills training relating to the use of electronic databases
  • 943.17191 — Continued employment training relating to the use of electronic databases
  • 943.172 — Basic skills training in victims assistance and rights
  • 943.1724 — Sexual assault investigation training
  • 943.1725 — Basic skills training on human immunodeficiency virus infection and acquired immune deficiency syndrome
  • 943.1726 — Continued employment training relating to diabetic emergencies
  • 943.17261 — Department of Law Enforcement; training related to medical use of marijuana
  • 943.1727 — Continued employment training relating to autism spectrum disorder
  • 943.1728 — Basic skills training relating to the protection of archaeological sites
  • 943.1729 — Skills training relating to community policing
  • 943.17291 — Basic skills training in juvenile sexual offender investigation
  • 943.17295 — Continued employment training relating to juvenile sexual offender investigation
  • 943.17296 — Training in identifying and investigating elder abuse and neglect
  • 943.17297 — Training in identifying and investigating human trafficking
  • 943.17298 — Training in the recognition of and responses to head trauma and brain injury in a child under 6 years of age
  • 943.17299 — Continued employment training relating to Alzheimer’s disease and related forms of dementia
  • 943.173 — Examinations; administration; materials not public records; disposal of materials
  • 943.1735 — Basic skills training related to use of force; use of force policies; contents
  • 943.1740 — Standards for use of force investigations
  • 943.1745 — Training relating to officer health and wellness principles
  • 943.175 — Inservice training
  • 943.1755 — Florida Criminal Justice Executive Institute
  • 943.1757 — Criminal justice executives; training; policy report
  • 943.1758 — Curriculum revision for diverse populations; skills training
  • 943.18 — Compensation and benefits study; recommendation
  • 943.19 — Saving clause
  • 943.22 — Salary incentive program for full-time officers
  • 943.25 — Criminal justice trust funds; source of funds; use of funds
  • 943.253 — Exemption; elected officers
  • 943.255 — Effect of chs. 80-71 and 81-24 on prior rules and administrative proceedings
  • 943.256 — Criminal justice selection centers; creation
  • 943.2561 — Definitions
  • 943.2562 — Advisory boards
  • 943.2563 — Advisory board organization; center oversight
  • 943.2564 — Center supervision; role of directing school or directing agency
  • 943.2565 — Centralized information centers on prospective employment candidates
  • 943.2566 — Promotions; feasibility study to establish pool of evaluators to assess qualifications
  • 943.2567 — Operation and administration accounts; annual budget
  • 943.2568 — Advisory boards; expense reimbursement
  • 943.257 — Independent audit documentation subject to inspection
  • 943.31 — Legislative intent
  • 943.32 — Statewide criminal analysis laboratory system
  • 943.324 — Rapid DNA Grant Program for county jails or sheriffs’ offices
  • 943.325 — DNA database
  • 943.3251 — Postsentencing DNA testing
  • 943.326 — DNA evidence collected in sexual offense forensic physical examinations and investigations
  • 943.327 — Forensic Investigative Genetic Genealogy Grant Program
  • 943.328 — Expedited DNA Testing Grant Program
  • 943.33 — State-operated criminal analysis laboratories
  • 943.34 — Powers and duties of department in relation to state-operated laboratories
  • 943.35 — Funding for existing laboratories
  • 943.36 — Submission of annual budget
  • 943.361 — Statewide criminal analysis laboratory system; funding through fine surcharges
  • 943.362 — Forfeiture and Investigative Support Trust Fund
  • 943.365 — Federal Law Enforcement Trust Fund
  • 943.366 — Federal Grants Trust Fund
  • 943.367 — Administrative Trust Fund
  • 943.37 — Option to become state-operated laboratory; operational control
  • 943.403 — Rulemaking; criminal justice program
  • 943.44353 — Automatic notification of registration information regarding sexual predators and offenders
  • 943.60 — Definitions
  • 943.601 — Preservation of legislative powers
  • 943.61 — Powers and duties of the Capitol Police
  • 943.611 — Director of Capitol Police
  • 943.62 — Investigations by the Capitol Police
  • 943.63 — Arrest by the Capitol Police
  • 943.64 — Ex officio agents
  • 943.66 — Rules; Facilities Program, Capitol Police; traffic regulation
  • 943.67 — Equipment
  • 943.68 — Transportation and protective services
  • 943.681 — Capitol Police program; funding
  • 943.685 — Authority to purchase good will and promotional materials
  • 943.686 — Unauthorized use of Department of Law Enforcement emblems or names prohibited
  • 943.687 — Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Commission
  • 943.6871 — Criminal justice data transparency
  • 943.6872 — Use of force data collection
  • 943.6873 — Active assailant response policy
  • 943.69 — Care for Retired Police Dogs Program
Title 944 · FL Chapter 944 (103 sections)
  • 944.01 — Short title
  • 944.012 — Legislative intent
  • 944.02 — Definitions
  • 944.023 — Comprehensive correctional master plan
  • 944.0231 — Reduction of capacity
  • 944.024 — Adult intake and evaluation
  • 944.026 — Community-based facilities and programs
  • 944.033 — Community correctional centers; existence; location; purpose; restriction
  • 944.053 — Forestry Work Camps
  • 944.0611 — Department employees; personal vehicle damage claims
  • 944.08 — Commitment to custody of department; venue of institutions
  • 944.09 — Rules of the department; offenders, probationers, and parolees
  • 944.091 — United States prisoners, board authorized
  • 944.095 — Siting of additional correctional facilities; procedure
  • 944.096 — Budget requests for residential facility construction; estimates; appropriations; population in excess of capacity
  • 944.10 — Department of Corrections to provide buildings; sale and purchase of land; contracts to provide services and inmate labo
  • 944.105 — Contractual arrangements with contractor-operated entities for operation and maintenance of correctional facilities and
  • 944.11 — Department to regulate admission of books
  • 944.115 — Smoking prohibited inside state correctional facilities
  • 944.14 — Supervision of correctional institutions; enforcement of orders and regulations
  • 944.151 — Safe operation and security of correctional institutions and facilities
  • 944.17 — Commitments and classification; transfers
  • 944.171 — Housing of inmates
  • 944.1905 — Initial inmate classification; inmate reclassification
  • 944.23 — Persons authorized to visit state prisons
  • 944.24 — Administration of correctional institutions for women
  • 944.241 — Incarcerated pregnant women
  • 944.242 — Dignity for women in correctional facilities
  • 944.275 — Gain-time
  • 944.278 — Cancellation of administrative gain-time and provisional credits
  • 944.279 — Disciplinary procedures applicable to prisoner for filing frivolous or malicious actions or bringing false information b
  • 944.28 — Forfeiture of gain-time and the right to earn gain-time in the future
  • 944.281 — Ineligibility to earn gain-time due to disciplinary action
  • 944.282 — Rules governing inmate use of weight training equipment
  • 944.291 — Prisoner released by reason of gain-time allowances or attainment of provisional release date
  • 944.292 — Suspension of civil rights
  • 944.31 — Inspector general; inspectors; power and duties
  • 944.32 — Reports of prison inspectors; recordation; inspection
  • 944.33 — Failure of inspector to make report; false report; penalty
  • 944.331 — Inmate grievance procedure
  • 944.35 — Authorized use of force; malicious battery and sexual misconduct prohibited; reporting required; penalties
  • 944.36 — Permitting inmates to escape
  • 944.37 — Acceptance of unauthorized compensation; penalty
  • 944.38 — Acceptance of remuneration from contractor; dealing or barter with prisoners; interest in contract; penalty
  • 944.39 — Interference with prisoners; penalty
  • 944.40 — Escapes; penalty
  • 944.402 — Reward for capture of escapee from correctional institution
  • 944.405 — Warrant for retaking offender who has escaped from custody or absconded from rehabilitative community reentry program, o
  • 944.44 — Holding persons as hostages; penalty
  • 944.45 — Mutiny, riot, strike; penalty
  • 944.46 — Harboring, concealing, aiding escaped prisoners; penalty
  • 944.47 — Introduction, removal, or possession of contraband; penalty
  • 944.471 — Short title
  • 944.472 — Drug-free corrections; legislative findings and purposes
  • 944.473 — Inmate substance abuse testing program
  • 944.4731 — Addiction-Recovery Supervision Program
  • 944.474 — Legislative intent; employee wellness program; drug and alcohol testing
  • 944.48 — Service of sentence
  • 944.485 — Subsistence fees with respect to certain prisoners; time of adoption; requirements
  • 944.512 — State lien on proceeds from literary or other type of account of crime for which convicted
  • 944.516 — Money or other property received for personal use or benefit of inmate; deposit; disposition of unclaimed trust funds
  • 944.52 — Legal adviser
  • 944.596 — Transfer of convicted foreign citizens or nationals under treaty
  • 944.597 — Transportation and return of prisoners by private transport company
  • 944.602 — Agency notification before release of intellectually disabled inmates
  • 944.605 — Inmate release; notification; identification card
  • 944.606 — Sexual offenders; notification upon release
  • 944.607 — Notification to Department of Law Enforcement of information on sexual offenders
  • 944.608 — Notification to Department of Law Enforcement of information on career offenders
  • 944.609 — Career offenders; notification upon release
  • 944.611 — Legislative intent
  • 944.612 — Definitions for s. 944.613
  • 944.613 — Methods of transportation
  • 944.70 — Conditions for release from incarceration
  • 944.701 — Short title
  • 944.702 — Legislative intent
  • 944.703 — Eligible inmates
  • 944.7031 — Eligible inmates released from contractor-operated correctional facilities
  • 944.704 — Staff who provide transition assistance; duties
  • 944.705 — Release orientation program
  • 944.706 — Basic release assistance
  • 944.7065 — Transition course for inmates
  • 944.707 — Postrelease special services; job placement services
  • 944.7071 — Operation New Hope
  • 944.708 — Rules
  • 944.710 — Definitions of terms relating to contractor-operated state correctional facilities and s. 944.105
  • 944.711 — Requests for proposals
  • 944.712 — Bidder and private vendor qualifications
  • 944.713 — Insurance against liability
  • 944.714 — Quality assurance and standards of operation
  • 944.715 — Delegation of authority
  • 944.716 — Contract termination and control of a correctional facility by the department
  • 944.717 — Conflicts of interest
  • 944.718 — Withdrawal of request for proposals
  • 944.719 — Adoption of rules, monitoring, and reporting
  • 944.72 — Contractor-Operated Institutions Inmate Welfare Trust Fund
  • 944.73 — State-Operated Institutions Inmate Welfare Trust Fund
  • 944.801 — Education for state prisoners
  • 944.802 — Direct-support organization; definition; use of property; board of directors; audit
  • 944.803 — Faith- and character-based programs
  • 944.8031 — Inmate’s family visitation; legislative intent; minimum services provided to visitors; budget requests
  • 944.804 — Elderly offenders correctional facilities program of 2000
  • 944.8041 — Elderly offenders; annual review
Title 945 · FL Chapter 945 (53 sections)
  • 945.01 — Definitions
  • 945.025 — Jurisdiction of department
  • 945.0311 — Employment of relatives
  • 945.035 — Notice of employment, appointment, or separation; response by the correctional officer; duty of department
  • 945.04 — Department of Corrections; general function; seal; use of inmate labor
  • 945.041 — Reports
  • 945.043 — Department-operated day care services
  • 945.047 — Licensing requirements for physicians, osteopathic physicians, and chiropractic physicians employed by the department
  • 945.091 — Extension of the limits of confinement; restitution by employed inmates
  • 945.0913 — Inmates prohibited from driving state-owned vehicles to transport inmates in a work-release program
  • 945.092 — Limits on work-release and minimum security custody for persons who have committed the crime of escape
  • 945.093 — Requirements for work assignments and programs
  • 945.10 — Confidential information
  • 945.12 — Transfers for rehabilitative treatment
  • 945.215 — Inmate welfare and employee benefit trust funds
  • 945.21501 — Employee Benefit Trust Fund
  • 945.21503 — Federal Grants Trust Fund
  • 945.2151 — Verifying social security numbers
  • 945.25 — Records
  • 945.27 — Proceedings by department
  • 945.28 — Selection of probation or parole offices by the department; public notice
  • 945.31 — Restitution and other payments
  • 945.35 — Requirement for education on human immunodeficiency virus, acquired immune deficiency syndrome, and other communicable d
  • 945.355 — HIV testing of inmates prior to release
  • 945.36 — Law enforcement personnel authorized to conduct drug tests on inmates and releasees
  • 945.40 — Corrections Mental Health Act; short title for ss. 945.40-945.49
  • 945.41 — Mental health treatment for inmates; legislative intent of ss. 945.40-945.49
  • 945.42 — Definitions; ss. 945.40-945.49
  • 945.43 — Involuntary examination
  • 945.44 — Placement and treatment of an inmate in a mental health treatment facility
  • 945.46 — Initiation of involuntary placement proceedings with respect to a mentally ill inmate scheduled for release
  • 945.47 — Discharge of inmate from mental health treatment
  • 945.48 — Emergency treatment orders and use of force
  • 945.485 — Management and treatment for self-injurious behaviors
  • 945.49 — Operation and administration
  • 945.601 — Correctional Medical Authority; ss. 945.601-945.6035, definitions
  • 945.602 — State of Florida Correctional Medical Authority; creation; members
  • 945.603 — Powers and duties of authority
  • 945.6031 — Required reports and surveys
  • 945.6032 — Quality management program requirements
  • 945.6033 — Continuing contracts with health care providers
  • 945.6034 — Minimum health care standards
  • 945.6035 — Dispute resolution
  • 945.6036 — Enforcement
  • 945.6037 — Nonemergency health care; inmate copayments
  • 945.6038 — Inmate litigation costs
  • 945.604 — Medical claims
  • 945.6041 — Inmate medical services
  • 945.6402 — Inmate health care advance directives
  • 945.71 — Inmate training programs; intent and purposes
  • 945.72 — Eligibility and screening of inmates
  • 945.73 — Inmate training program operation
  • 945.74 — Implementation
Title 946 · FL Chapter 946 (33 sections)
  • 946.002 — Requirement of labor; compensation; amount; crediting of account of prisoner; forfeiture; civil rights; prisoner not emp
  • 946.205 — Institutional work
  • 946.25 — Sale of hobbycrafts by prisoners
  • 946.31 — Sources of fund
  • 946.32 — Use of fund
  • 946.33 — Disbursements from fund
  • 946.40 — Use of prisoners in public works
  • 946.41 — Promotion of inmate work programs; safety signage
  • 946.42 — Use of inmates on private property
  • 946.501 — Findings of fact
  • 946.502 — Legislative intent with respect to operation of correctional work programs
  • 946.5025 — Authorization of corporation to enter into contracts
  • 946.5026 — Sovereign immunity in tort actions
  • 946.503 — Definitions to be used with respect to correctional work programs
  • 946.504 — Organization of corporation to operate correctional work programs; lease of facilities
  • 946.505 — Reversion upon dissolution of corporation or termination of lease
  • 946.506 — Modification or termination of correctional work program by the corporation
  • 946.509 — Insurance of property leased or acquired by the corporation
  • 946.5095 — Elimination of hazardous conditions
  • 946.510 — Insurance by Division of Risk Management
  • 946.511 — Inmate labor to operate correctional work programs
  • 946.512 — Inmate compensation plan
  • 946.513 — Private employment of inmates; disposition of compensation received
  • 946.514 — Civil rights of inmates; inmates not state employees; liability of corporation for inmate injuries
  • 946.515 — Use of goods and services produced in correctional work programs
  • 946.516 — Corporation status report and annual financial audit report
  • 946.517 — Corporation records
  • 946.518 — Sale of goods made by prisoners; when prohibited, when permitted
  • 946.520 — Assignment of inmates by Department of Corrections
  • 946.522 — Prison Industries Trust Fund
  • 946.523 — Prison industry enhancement (PIE) programs
  • 946.524 — Corporation work camps
  • 946.525 — Participation by the corporation in the state group health insurance and prescription drug programs
Title 947 · FL Chapter 947 (42 sections)
  • 947.001 — Short title
  • 947.002 — Intent
  • 947.005 — Definitions
  • 947.01 — Florida Commission on Offender Review; creation; number of members
  • 947.02 — Florida Commission on Offender Review; members, appointment
  • 947.03 — Commissioners; tenure and removal
  • 947.04 — Organization of commission; officers; offices
  • 947.045 — Federal Grants Trust Fund
  • 947.05 — Seal
  • 947.06 — Meeting; when commission may act
  • 947.07 — Rules
  • 947.071 — Rulemaking procedures; indexing of orders
  • 947.10 — Business and political activity upon part of members and full-time employees of commission
  • 947.11 — Legal adviser
  • 947.12 — Members, employees, expenses
  • 947.13 — Powers and duties of commission
  • 947.135 — Mutual participation program
  • 947.1405 — Conditional release program
  • 947.141 — Violations of conditional release, control release, or conditional medical release or addiction-recovery supervision
  • 947.146 — Control Release Authority
  • 947.147 — Victim restitution as condition of control release
  • 947.149 — Conditional medical release
  • 947.15 — Reports
  • 947.16 — Eligibility for parole; initial parole interviews; powers and duties of commission
  • 947.165 — Objective parole guidelines
  • 947.168 — Consideration for persons serving parole-eligible and parole-ineligible sentences
  • 947.172 — Establishment of presumptive parole release date
  • 947.173 — Review of presumptive parole release date
  • 947.174 — Subsequent interviews
  • 947.1745 — Establishment of effective parole release date
  • 947.1746 — Establishment of effective parole release date
  • 947.1747 — Community control as a special condition of parole
  • 947.18 — Conditions of parole
  • 947.181 — Fines, fees, restitution, or other costs ordered to be paid as conditions of parole
  • 947.185 — Application for intellectual disability services as condition of parole
  • 947.19 — Terms of parole
  • 947.20 — Rules of commission
  • 947.21 — Violations of parole
  • 947.22 — Authority to arrest parole violators with or without warrant
  • 947.23 — Action of commission upon arrest of parolee
  • 947.24 — Discharge from parole supervision or release supervision
  • 947.26 — Cooperation of custodian of prisoner; right of access
Title 948 · FL Chapter 948 (42 sections)
  • 948.001 — Definitions
  • 948.01 — When court may place defendant on probation or into community control
  • 948.011 — When court may impose fine and place on probation or into community control as an alternative to imprisonment
  • 948.012 — Split sentence of probation or community control and imprisonment
  • 948.013 — Administrative probation
  • 948.014 — Requirement to submit to drawing of blood or other biological specimens
  • 948.015 — Presentence investigation reports
  • 948.03 — Terms and conditions of probation
  • 948.031 — Condition of probation or community control; community service
  • 948.032 — Condition of probation; restitution
  • 948.033 — Condition of probation or community control; criminal gang
  • 948.035 — Residential treatment as a condition of probation or community control
  • 948.036 — Work programs as a condition of probation, community control, or other court-ordered community supervision
  • 948.037 — Education and learning as a condition of probation or community control
  • 948.038 — Batterers’ intervention program as a condition of probation, community control, or other court-ordered community super
  • 948.039 — Special terms and conditions of probation or community control imposed by court order
  • 948.0395 — Probation conditions for defendants with mental illness
  • 948.04 — Period of probation; duty of probationer; early termination; conversion of term
  • 948.041 — Notification of outstanding terms of sentence upon termination of probation or community control
  • 948.05 — Court to admonish or commend probationer or offender in community control; graduated incentives
  • 948.06 — Violation of probation or community control; revocation; modification; continuance; failure to pay restitution or cost o
  • 948.061 — Identifying, assessing, and monitoring high-risk sex offenders on community supervision; providing cumulative criminal a
  • 948.062 — Reviewing and reporting serious offenses committed by offenders placed on probation or community control
  • 948.063 — Violations of probation or community control by designated sexual offenders and sexual predators
  • 948.064 — Notification of status as a violent felony offender of special concern
  • 948.08 — Pretrial intervention program
  • 948.081 — Community court programs
  • 948.09 — Payment for cost of supervision and other monetary obligations
  • 948.10 — Community control programs; home confinement
  • 948.101 — Terms and conditions of community control
  • 948.11 — Electronic monitoring devices
  • 948.12 — Intensive supervision for postprison release of violent offenders
  • 948.15 — Misdemeanor probation services
  • 948.16 — Misdemeanor pretrial substance abuse education and treatment intervention program; misdemeanor pretrial veterans’ trea
  • 948.20 — Drug offender probation
  • 948.21 — Condition of probation or community control; military servicemembers and veterans
  • 948.30 — Additional terms and conditions of probation or community control for certain sex offenses
  • 948.301 — Electronic monitoring as a condition of probation or community control for certain offenders
  • 948.31 — Evaluation and treatment of sexual predators and offenders on probation or community control
  • 948.32 — Requirements of law enforcement agency upon arrest of persons for certain sex offenses
  • 948.51 — Community corrections assistance to counties or county consortiums
  • 948.90 — Local offender advisory councils
Title 949 · FL Chapter 949 (10 sections)
  • 949.01 — Juvenile matters unaffected
  • 949.02 — Youth parolees
  • 949.04 — Law to be liberally construed
  • 949.05 — Constitutionality
  • 949.06 — Short title: chs. 947, 948, and 949
  • 949.07 — Compact for the supervision of adult offenders
  • 949.071 — Definition of “state” as used in s. 949.07; further declaration relating to interstate compacts
  • 949.072 — State Council for Interstate Adult Offender Supervision
  • 949.08 — Department of Corrections may expend funds relating to compacts; limitation on assessments
  • 949.09 — Short title: ss. 949.07-949.08
Title 95 · FL Chapter 95 (24 sections)
  • 95.011 — Applicability
  • 95.03 — Contracts shortening time
  • 95.031 — Computation of time
  • 95.04 — Promise to pay barred debt
  • 95.051 — When limitations tolled
  • 95.091 — Limitation on actions to collect taxes
  • 95.10 — Cause of action arising in another state
  • 95.11 — Limitations other than for the recovery of real property
  • 95.111 — Limitations after death of a person served by publication
  • 95.12 — Real property actions
  • 95.13 — Real property actions; possession by legal owner presumed
  • 95.14 — Real property actions; limitation upon action founded upon title
  • 95.16 — Real property actions; adverse possession under color of title
  • 95.18 — Real property actions; adverse possession without color of title
  • 95.191 — Limitations when tax deed holder in possession
  • 95.192 — Limitation upon acting against tax deeds
  • 95.21 — Adverse possession against lands purchased at sales made by executors
  • 95.22 — Limitation upon claims by remaining heirs, when deed made by one or more
  • 95.231 — Limitations where deed or will on record
  • 95.281 — Limitations; instruments encumbering real property
  • 95.35 — Termination of contracts to purchase real estate in which there is no maturity date
  • 95.36 — Dedications to municipalities or counties for park purposes
  • 95.361 — Roads presumed to be dedicated
  • 95.371 — Actions against real estate appraisers and appraisal management companies
Title 950 · FL Chapter 950 (8 sections)
  • 950.001 — Regional jails; establishment, operation
  • 950.002 — County work camps
  • 950.01 — Confinement in jail of another county
  • 950.02 — Removal to jail of another county
  • 950.03 — County jailers to receive United States prisoners
  • 950.04 — Penalty for neglect of duty in keeping prisoners of the United States
  • 950.061 — Unlawful for male and female prisoners to be confined together
  • 950.09 — Malpractice by jailers
Title 951 · FL Chapter 951 (35 sections)
  • 951.01 — County prisoners may be put to labor
  • 951.03 — County commissioners to provide food, etc
  • 951.032 — Financial responsibility for medical expenses
  • 951.033 — Income and assets; payment of subsistence costs
  • 951.04 — Furnishing of transportation to discharged prisoners
  • 951.05 — Working county prisoners on roads and bridges or other public works of the county; hiring out to another county
  • 951.06 — Employment of correctional officers; duties; salary
  • 951.061 — Designation of sheriff as chief correctional officer; duties
  • 951.062 — Contractual arrangements for operation and maintenance of county detention facilities
  • 951.0623 — Application of ch. 86-183; agreement or contract as of July 1, 1986
  • 951.063 — Contractor-operated county correctional facilities
  • 951.08 — Prisoner workday
  • 951.10 — Leasing prisoners to work for private interests prohibited
  • 951.11 — Turning prisoners over to board of bond trustees, etc
  • 951.12 — Working prisoners on public roads and exchange of prisoners between counties
  • 951.13 — Transferring from one county to another
  • 951.14 — Failure of person to discharge his or her duty; penalty
  • 951.15 — Credit on fines and costs
  • 951.16 — Prisoners entitled to receive credit on fine based on imprisonment
  • 951.175 — Provision of programs for women
  • 951.176 — Provision of education
  • 951.19 — Interference with county prisoners
  • 951.21 — Gain-time for good conduct for county prisoners
  • 951.22 — County detention facilities; contraband articles
  • 951.221 — Sexual misconduct between detention facility employees and inmates; penalties
  • 951.225 — Persons authorized to visit county and municipal detention facilities
  • 951.23 — County and municipal detention facilities; definitions; administration; standards and requirements
  • 951.2302 — Inspection of county and municipal detention facilities; penalties for noncompliance with jail standards
  • 951.231 — County residential probation program
  • 951.24 — Extend the limits of confinement for county prisoners
  • 951.25 — Sale of goods and services produced by county prisoners
  • 951.26 — Public safety coordinating councils
  • 951.27 — Blood tests of inmates
  • 951.28 — Transmitting prisoner information to reduce public assistance fraud
  • 951.29 — Procedure for requesting restoration of civil rights or restoration of voting rights of county prisoners convicted of fe
Title 957 · FL Chapter 957 (14 sections)
  • 957.01 — Short title
  • 957.02 — Definition
  • 957.04 — Contract requirements
  • 957.05 — Requirements for contractors operating contractor-operated correctional facilities
  • 957.06 — Powers and duties not delegable to contractor
  • 957.07 — Cost-saving requirements
  • 957.08 — Capacity requirements
  • 957.09 — Applicability of chapter to other provisions of law
  • 957.11 — Evaluation of costs and benefits of contracts
  • 957.12 — Prohibition on contact
  • 957.13 — Background checks
  • 957.14 — Contract termination and control of a correctional facility by the department
  • 957.15 — Funding of contracts for operation, maintenance, and lease-purchase of contractor-operated correctional facilities
  • 957.16 — Expanding capacity
Title 958 · FL Chapter 958 (14 sections)
  • 958.011 — Short title
  • 958.021 — Legislative intent
  • 958.03 — Definitions
  • 958.04 — Judicial disposition of youthful offenders
  • 958.045 — Youthful offender basic training program
  • 958.046 — Placement in county-operated boot camp programs for youthful offenders
  • 958.06 — Suspension of sentence by court
  • 958.07 — Presentence report; access by defendant
  • 958.09 — Extension of limits of confinement
  • 958.11 — Designation of institutions and programs for youthful offenders; assignment from youthful offender institutions and prog
  • 958.12 — Participation in certain activities required
  • 958.13 — Sealing, expunction, and dissemination of records
  • 958.14 — Violation of probation or community control program
  • 958.15 — Mutual participation agreements
Title 960 · FL Chapter 960 (38 sections)
  • 960.001 — Guidelines for fair treatment of victims and witnesses in the criminal justice and juvenile justice systems
  • 960.0015 — Victim’s right to a speedy trial; speedy trial demand by the state attorney
  • 960.0021 — Legislative intent; advisement to victims
  • 960.003 — Hepatitis and HIV testing for persons charged with or alleged by petition for delinquency to have committed certain offe
  • 960.01 — Short title
  • 960.02 — Declaration of policy and legislative intent
  • 960.03 — Definitions; ss. 960.01-960.28
  • 960.045 — Department of Legal Affairs; powers and duties
  • 960.05 — Crime Victims’ Services Office
  • 960.065 — Eligibility for awards
  • 960.07 — Filing of claims for compensation
  • 960.09 — Determination of claims
  • 960.12 — Emergency awards
  • 960.13 — Awards
  • 960.14 — Manner of payment; execution or attachment
  • 960.15 — Records
  • 960.16 — Subrogation
  • 960.17 — Award constitutes debt owed to state
  • 960.18 — Penalty for fraud
  • 960.194 — Emergency responder death benefits
  • 960.195 — Awards to elderly persons or disabled adults for property loss
  • 960.196 — Relocation assistance for victims of human trafficking
  • 960.197 — Assistance to victims of online sexual exploitation and child pornography
  • 960.198 — Relocation assistance for victims of domestic violence
  • 960.199 — Relocation assistance for victims of sexual battery
  • 960.21 — Crimes Compensation Trust Fund
  • 960.22 — Application for federal funds
  • 960.23 — Notice of provisions of this chapter
  • 960.28 — Payment for victims’ initial forensic physical examinations
  • 960.29 — Legislative findings and intent
  • 960.291 — Definitions
  • 960.292 — Enforcement of the civil restitution lien through civil restitution lien order
  • 960.293 — Determination of damages and losses
  • 960.294 — Effect of civil restitution liens
  • 960.295 — Civil restitution lien supplemental to other forms of restitution available to lienholder
  • 960.296 — Construction and severability
  • 960.297 — Authorization for governmental right of restitution for costs of incarceration
  • 960.298 — Priority of liens
Title 961 · FL Chapter 961 (7 sections)
  • 961.01 — Short title
  • 961.02 — Definitions
  • 961.03 — Determination of status as a wrongfully incarcerated person; determination of eligibility for compensation
  • 961.04 — Eligibility for compensation for wrongful incarceration
  • 961.05 — Application for compensation for wrongful incarceration; administrative expunction; determination of entitlement to comp
  • 961.06 — Compensation for wrongful incarceration
  • 961.07 — Continuing appropriation
Title 97 · FL Chapter 97 (31 sections)
  • 97.011 — Short title
  • 97.0115 — Preemption
  • 97.012 — Secretary of State as chief election officer
  • 97.021 — Definitions
  • 97.022 — Office of Election Crimes and Security; creation; purpose and duties
  • 97.023 — Procedures on complaints of violations
  • 97.025 — Election Code; copies thereof
  • 97.026 — Forms to be available in alternative formats and via the Internet
  • 97.028 — Procedures on complaints of violations of Title III of the Help America Vote Act of 2002
  • 97.029 — Civil actions challenging the validity of election laws
  • 97.0291 — Prohibition on use of private funds for election-related expenses
  • 97.032 — Short title
  • 97.041 — Qualifications to register or vote
  • 97.051 — Oath upon registering
  • 97.052 — Uniform statewide voter registration application
  • 97.0525 — Online voter registration
  • 97.053 — Acceptance of voter registration applications
  • 97.0535 — Special requirements for certain applicants
  • 97.055 — Registration books; when closed for an election
  • 97.0555 — Late registration
  • 97.057 — Voter registration by the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles
  • 97.0575 — Third-party voter registration organizations
  • 97.058 — Voter registration agencies
  • 97.0583 — Voter registration at qualifying educational institutions
  • 97.05831 — Voter registration applications made available to the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission
  • 97.0585 — Public records exemption; information regarding voters and voter registration; confidentiality
  • 97.061 — Special registration for electors requiring assistance
  • 97.071 — Voter information card
  • 97.073 — Disposition of voter registration applications; cancellation notice
  • 97.1031 — Notice of change of residence, change of name, or change of party affiliation
  • 97.105 — Permanent single registration system established
Title 98 · FL Chapter 98 (15 sections)
  • 98.015 — Supervisor of elections; election, tenure of office, compensation, custody of registration-related documents, office hou
  • 98.035 — Statewide voter registration system; implementation, operation, and maintenance
  • 98.045 — Administration of voter registration
  • 98.065 — Registration list maintenance programs
  • 98.0655 — Registration list maintenance forms
  • 98.075 — Registration records maintenance activities; ineligibility determinations
  • 98.0751 — Restoration of voting rights; termination of ineligibility subsequent to a felony conviction
  • 98.0755 — Appeal of determination of ineligibility
  • 98.077 — Update of voter signature
  • 98.081 — Names removed from the statewide voter registration system; restrictions on reregistering; recordkeeping; restoration of
  • 98.093 — Duty of officials to furnish information relating to deceased persons, persons adjudicated mentally incapacitated, perso
  • 98.0981 — Reports; voting history; statewide voter registration system information; precinct-level election results; book closing
  • 98.212 — Department and supervisors to furnish statistical and other information
  • 98.255 — Voter education programs
  • 98.461 — Registration application, precinct register; contents
Title 984 · FL Chapter 984 (27 sections)
  • 984.01 — Purposes and intent; personnel standards and screening
  • 984.02 — Legislative intent for prevention and intervention under this chapter
  • 984.03 — Definitions
  • 984.04 — Early truancy intervention; families in need of services and children in need of services; procedures and jurisdiction
  • 984.06 — Oaths, records, and confidential information
  • 984.07 — Right to counsel; waiver; appointed counsel; compensation
  • 984.071 — Resources and information
  • 984.086 — Children locked out of the home; interagency cooperation
  • 984.0861 — Prohibited use of detention
  • 984.09 — Punishment for contempt of court; alternative sanctions
  • 984.10 — Intake
  • 984.11 — Services to families
  • 984.12 — Case staffing; services and treatment related to a family in need of services
  • 984.13 — Taking a child into custody
  • 984.14 — Voluntary shelter services
  • 984.15 — Petition for a child in need of services
  • 984.151 — Early truancy intervention; truancy petition; judgment
  • 984.16 — Process and service for child in need of services petitions
  • 984.17 — Response to petition and representation of parties
  • 984.19 — Medical screening and treatment of child; examination of parent, legal guardian, or person requesting custody
  • 984.20 — Hearings for child in need of services cases
  • 984.21 — Orders of adjudication
  • 984.22 — Powers of disposition
  • 984.225 — Powers of disposition; placement in a shelter
  • 984.226 — Physically secure shelter
  • 984.23 — Court and witness fees
  • 984.24 — Appeal
Title 985 · FL Chapter 985 (111 sections)
  • 985.01 — Purposes and intent
  • 985.02 — Legislative intent for the juvenile justice system
  • 985.03 — Definitions
  • 985.0301 — Jurisdiction
  • 985.031 — Age limitation; exception
  • 985.032 — Legal representation for delinquency cases
  • 985.033 — Right to counsel
  • 985.035 — Opening hearings
  • 985.036 — Rights of victims; juvenile proceedings
  • 985.037 — Punishment for contempt of court; alternative sanctions
  • 985.039 — Cost of supervision; cost of care
  • 985.04 — Oaths; records; confidential information
  • 985.045 — Court records
  • 985.046 — Statewide information-sharing system; interagency workgroup
  • 985.047 — Information systems
  • 985.101 — Taking a child into custody
  • 985.11 — Fingerprinting and photographing
  • 985.115 — Release or delivery from custody
  • 985.12 — Prearrest delinquency citation programs
  • 985.125 — Postarrest diversion programs
  • 985.126 — Prearrest and postarrest diversion programs; data collection; denial of participation or expunged record
  • 985.13 — Probable cause affidavits
  • 985.135 — Juvenile assessment centers
  • 985.14 — Intake and case management system
  • 985.145 — Responsibilities of the department during intake; screenings and assessments
  • 985.15 — Filing decisions
  • 985.155 — Neighborhood restorative justice
  • 985.16 — Community arbitration
  • 985.17 — Prevention services
  • 985.175 — The PACE Center for Girls
  • 985.18 — Medical, psychiatric, psychological, substance abuse, and educational examination and treatment
  • 985.185 — Evaluations for disposition
  • 985.19 — Incompetency in juvenile delinquency cases
  • 985.195 — Transfer to other treatment services
  • 985.24 — Use of detention; prohibitions
  • 985.245 — Risk assessment instrument
  • 985.25 — Detention intake
  • 985.255 — Detention criteria; detention hearing
  • 985.26 — Length of detention
  • 985.265 — Detention transfer and release; education; adult jails
  • 985.27 — Postdisposition detention while awaiting residential commitment placement
  • 985.275 — Detention of escapee or absconder on authority of the department
  • 985.318 — Petition
  • 985.319 — Process and service
  • 985.325 — Threatening or dismissing an employee prohibited
  • 985.331 — Court and witness fees
  • 985.335 — No answer to petition required
  • 985.345 — Delinquency pretrial intervention programs
  • 985.35 — Adjudicatory hearings; withheld adjudications; orders of adjudication
  • 985.43 — Predisposition reports; other evaluations
  • 985.433 — Disposition hearings in delinquency cases
  • 985.435 — Probation; community service
  • 985.437 — Restitution
  • 985.438 — Graduated response matrix
  • 985.439 — Violation of probation
  • 985.441 — Commitment
  • 985.442 — Form of commitment; certified copy of charge attached
  • 985.45 — Liability and remuneration for work
  • 985.455 — Other dispositional issues
  • 985.46 — Conditional release
  • 985.461 — Transition to adulthood
  • 985.465 — Maximum-risk residential facilities
  • 985.475 — Juvenile sexual offenders
  • 985.48 — Juvenile sexual offender commitment programs; sexual abuse intervention networks
  • 985.481 — Sexual offenders adjudicated delinquent; notification upon release
  • 985.4815 — Notification to Department of Law Enforcement of information on juvenile sexual offenders
  • 985.494 — Commitment programs for juvenile felony offenders
  • 985.511 — Costs of representation
  • 985.512 — Powers with respect to certain children
  • 985.513 — Powers of the court over parent or guardian at disposition
  • 985.514 — Responsibility for cost of care; fees
  • 985.534 — Appeal
  • 985.535 — Additional grounds for appeal by the state; time for taking
  • 985.536 — Order or decision when state appeals
  • 985.556 — Waiver of juvenile court jurisdiction; hearing
  • 985.557 — Direct filing of an information; discretionary criteria
  • 985.56 — Indictment of a juvenile
  • 985.565 — Sentencing powers; procedures; alternatives for juveniles prosecuted as adults
  • 985.57 — Transfer of children from the Department of Corrections to the Department of Juvenile Justice
  • 985.601 — Administering the juvenile justice continuum
  • 985.6015 — Shared County/State Juvenile Detention Trust Fund
  • 985.614 — Children locked out of the home; interagency cooperation
  • 985.618 — Educational and career-related programs
  • 985.619 — Florida Scholars Academy
  • 985.622 — Multiagency plan for career and professional education (CAPE)
  • 985.629 — Contracts for the transfer of Florida children in federal custody
  • 985.632 — Quality improvement and cost-effectiveness; Comprehensive Accountability Report
  • 985.64 — Rulemaking
  • 985.644 — Departmental contracting powers; personnel standards and investigation
  • 985.6441 — Health care services
  • 985.645 — Protective action response
  • 985.648 — Consultants
  • 985.652 — Participation of certain programs in the State Risk Management Trust Fund
  • 985.66 — Juvenile justice training; staff development and training; Juvenile Justice Training Trust Fund
  • 985.664 — Juvenile justice circuit advisory boards
  • 985.668 — Innovation zones
  • 985.672 — Direct-support organization; definition; use of property; board of directors; audit
  • 985.676 — Community juvenile justice partnership grants
  • 985.682 — Siting of facilities; criteria
  • 985.6865 — Juvenile detention costs
  • 985.688 — Administering county and municipal delinquency programs and facilities
  • 985.6885 — Persons authorized to visit juvenile facilities
  • 985.69 — Repair and maintenance funding for juvenile justice purposes
  • 985.692 — Juvenile Welfare Trust Fund
  • 985.701 — Sexual misconduct prohibited; reporting required; penalties
  • 985.702 — Willful and malicious neglect of a juvenile offender prohibited; reporting required; penalties
  • 985.711 — Introduction, removal, or possession of certain articles unlawful; penalty
  • 985.721 — Escapes from secure detention or residential commitment facility
  • 985.801 — Interstate Compact on Juveniles; implementing legislation; legislative findings and policy
  • 985.802 — Execution of interstate compact for juveniles
  • 985.8025 — State Council for Interstate Juvenile Offender Supervision
Title 99 · FL Chapter 99 (16 sections)
  • 99.012 — Restrictions on individuals qualifying for public office
  • 99.021 — Form of candidate oath
  • 99.0215 — Name of candidate
  • 99.061 — Method of qualifying for nomination or election to federal, state, county, or district office
  • 99.063 — Candidates for Governor and Lieutenant Governor
  • 99.081 — United States Senators elected in general election
  • 99.091 — Representatives to Congress
  • 99.092 — Qualifying fee of candidate; notification of Department of State
  • 99.093 — Municipal candidates; election assessment
  • 99.095 — Petition process in lieu of a qualifying fee and party assessment
  • 99.0955 — Candidates with no party affiliation; name on general election ballot
  • 99.096 — Minor political party candidates; names on ballot
  • 99.09651 — Signature requirements for ballot position in year of apportionment
  • 99.097 — Verification of signatures on petitions
  • 99.103 — Department of State to remit part of filing fees and party assessments of candidates to state executive committee
  • 99.121 — Department of State to certify nominations to supervisors of elections