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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. Nelson VACHON, Appellee.
    No. 4D15-424.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.
    Jan. 6, 2016.
    Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Richard Valuntas, Assistant Attorney General, -West Palm Beach, for appellant.
    No appearance for appellee.
   PER CURIAM.

We reyerse the county court’s order finding the mandatory $5,000 civil penalty imposed for solicitation of prostitution under section 796.07(6), Florida- Statutes (2014), to be unconstitutionally excessive. See State v. Jones, No. 4D14-3019, 2015 WL 7752702 (Fla. 4th DCA Dec. 2, 2015). We remand for further proceedings consistent with this opinion.

Reversed and Remanded.

GROSS, GERBER and KLINGENSMITH, JJ., concur.