Case ID: so2d_383/html/0227-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

STATE of Florida, Petitioner, v. Marion Watkins KELLY, Respondent. STATE of Florida, Petitioner, v. Alfred W. COTE, Respondent. STATE of Florida, Petitioner, v. Leon Jessee HICKS, Respondent.
    Nos. 56509, 57140 and 57178.
    Supreme Court of Florida.
    April 24, 1980.
    Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., and Charles Core-es, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Tampa, Ed Austin, State’s Atty. and Susan Podzamski and John W. Pafford, Asst. State’s Attys., Jacksonville, and James T. Russell, State’s Atty. and C. Marie King, Asst. State’s Atty., Clearwater, for petitioner. •
    Louis 0. Frost, Jr., Public Defender, and Charles M. Johnston, Jr., Asst. Public Defender, Jacksonville, for Marion Watkins Kelly.
    Robert E. Jagger, Public Defender and Bruce P. Taylor, Asst. Public Defender, St. Petersburg, for Alfred W. Cote.
    Loyd C. Mosley, Clearwater, for Leon Jessee Hicks.
   OVERTON, Justice.

These consolidated cases are from county court orders declaring sections 322.261 and 322.262, Florida Statutes (1977), unconstitutional as an unlawful delegation of legislative authority to the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles and the Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services. We reverse and remand for trial for the reasons expressed in State v. Bender, 382 So.2d 697 (Fla. 1980).

It is so ordered.

ENGLAND, C. J., and ADKINS, BOYD, SUNDBERG, ALDERMAN and MCDONALD, JJ., concur.