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Fla. Stat. § 627.453 — Florida Code / Title XXXVII / Chapter 627 / Part III / Section 627.453
627.453 Grace period.
Status: in_force

Every insurance contract shall provide that the insured is entitled to a grace period of not less than 30 days within which payment of any premium after the first may be made. The payment may, at the option of the insurer, be subject to an interest charge not in excess of 8 percent per year for the number of days of grace elapsing before the payment of the premium, during which period of grace the policy shall continue in force. If the policy becomes a claim during the grace period before the overdue premium is paid, or the deferred premiums of the current policy year, if any, are paid, the amount of such premium or premiums with interest not in excess of 8 percent per year thereon may be deducted in any settlement under the policy.

History: s. 480, ch. 59-205; s. 3, ch. 76-168; s. 1, ch. 77-457; ss. 2, 3, ch. 81-318; ss. 380, 404, 809(2nd), ch. 82-243; s. 79, ch. 82-386; s. 114, ch. 92-318.
Fla. Stat. § 775.08 — Florida Code / Title XLVI / Chapter 775 / Section 775.08
775.08 Classes and definitions of offenses.
Status: in_force

When used in the laws of this state:

(1) The term “felony” shall mean any criminal offense that is punishable under the laws of this state, or that would be punishable if committed in this state, by death or imprisonment in a state penitentiary. “State penitentiary” shall include state correctional facilities. A person shall be imprisoned in the state penitentiary for each sentence which, except an extended term, exceeds 1 year.

(2) The term “misdemeanor” shall mean any criminal offense that is punishable under the laws of this state, or that would be punishable if committed in this state, by a term of imprisonment in a county correctional facility, except an extended term, not in excess of 1 year. The term “misdemeanor” shall not mean a conviction for any noncriminal traffic violation of any provision of chapter 316 or any municipal or county ordinance.

(3) The term “noncriminal violation” shall mean any offense that is punishable under the laws of this state, or that would be punishable if committed in this state, by no other penalty than a fine, forfeiture, or other civil penalty. A noncriminal violation does not constitute a crime, and conviction for a noncriminal violation shall not give rise to any legal disability based on a criminal offense. The term “noncriminal violation” shall not mean any conviction for any violation of any municipal or county ordinance. Nothing contained in this code shall repeal or change the penalty for a violation of any municipal or county ordinance.

(4) The term “crime” shall mean a felony or misdemeanor.

History: s. 1(11), ch. 1637, 1868; RS 2352; GS 3176; RGS 5006; CGL 7105; s. 1, ch. 71-136; s. 4, ch. 74-383; s. 1, ch. 75-298; s. 1, ch. 88-196.
Fla. Stat. § 296.33 — Florida Code / Title XX / Chapter 296 / Part II / Section 296.33
296.33 Definitions.
Status: in_force

As used in this part, the term:

(1) “Administrator” means the licensed person who has been appointed to serve as the chief executive of the home and has the general administrative charge of the facility.

(2) “Department” means the Florida Department of Veterans’ Affairs.

(3) “Director” means the executive director of the Florida Department of Veterans’ Affairs.

(4) “Home” means a licensed health care facility operated by the department pursuant to part II of chapter 400.

(5) “Resident” means any eligible veteran, or the spouse or surviving spouse of such veteran, who is admitted to the home.

(6) “Veteran” means a person as defined in s. 1.01(14).

History: s. 14, ch. 92-80; s. 84, ch. 99-13; s. 5, ch. 2002-298; s. 5, ch. 2024-250.
Fla. Stat. § 288.771 — Florida Code / Title XIX / Chapter 288 / Part V / Section 288.771
288.771 Legislative findings and intent.
Status: in_force

The Legislature finds that the expansion of international trade is vital to the overall health and growth of Florida’s economy; however, this expansion is severely slowed by the lack of financial and technical assistance for small and medium-sized Florida businesses. The Legislature further finds that these businesses could be assisted through the establishment of a Florida Export Finance Corporation designed to work with the United States Export-Import Bank, Small Business Administration, Foreign Credit Insurance Association, Overseas Private Investment Corporation, Private Export Funding Corporation, and other federal, state, and private agencies and institutions to provide Florida traders with information, technical assistance, and financial support. It is the intention of the Legislature to expand job opportunities for Florida’s workforce. Furthermore, it is the intention of the Legislature to avoid duplicating existing programs, and to coordinate, assist, augment, and improve the access to those programs by Florida-based small and medium-sized businesses and to promote Florida products and services in the international marketplace.

History: s. 47, ch. 93-187.
Fla. Stat. § 951.032 — Florida Code / Title XLVII / Chapter 951 / Section 951.032
951.032 Financial responsibility for medical expenses.
Status: in_force

(1) A county detention facility or municipal detention facility incurring expenses for providing medical care, treatment, hospitalization, or transportation may seek reimbursement for the expenses incurred in the following order: (a) From the prisoner or person receiving medical care, treatment, hospitalization, or transportation by deducting the cost from the prisoner’s cash account on deposit with the detention facility. If the prisoner’s cash account does not contain sufficient funds to cover medical care, treatment, hospitalization, or transportation, then the detention facility may place a lien against the prisoner’s cash account or other personal property, to provide payment in the event sufficient funds become available at a later time. Any existing lien may be carried over to future incarceration of the same prisoner as long as the future incarceration takes place within the county originating the lien and the future incarceration takes place within 3 years of the date the lien was placed against the prisoner’s account or other personal property. (b) From an insurance company, health care corporation, or other source if the prisoner or person is covered by an insurance policy or subscribes to a health care corporation or other source for those expenses.

(2) A prisoner who receives medical care, treatment, hospitalization, or transportation shall cooperate with the county detention facility or municipal detention facility in seeking reimbursement under paragraphs (1)(a) and (b) for expenses incurred by the facility for the prisoner. A prisoner who willfully refuses to cooperate with the reimbursement efforts of the detention facility may have a lien placed against the prisoner’s cash account or other personal property and may not receive gain-time as provided by s. 951.21.

History: s. 2, ch. 83-189; s. 45, ch. 95-283.
Fla. Stat. § 27.03 — Florida Code / Title V / Chapter 27 / Part II / Section 27.03
27.03 Duties before grand jury.
Status: in_force

Whenever required by the grand jury, the state attorney shall attend them for the purpose of examining witnesses in their presence, or of giving legal advice in any matter before them; and he or she shall prepare bills of indictment.

History: s. 4, ch. 1661, 1868; RS 1345; GS 1780; RGS 3006; CGL 4740; s. 117, ch. 95-147.
Fla. Stat. § 634.3385 — Florida Code / Title XXXVII / Chapter 634 / Part II / Section 634.3385
634.3385 Unauthorized entities; gifts and grants.
Status: in_force

A governmental unit, public agency, institution, person, firm, or legal entity may provide money to the department to enable the department to pursue unauthorized entities operating in violation of this part. The department may transfer funds to the office to investigate, discipline, sanction, and take all action consistent with this part relative to unauthorized entities. All donations or grants of moneys to the department shall be deposited into the Insurance Regulatory Trust Fund and shall be separately accounted for in accordance with this section. Moneys deposited into the Insurance Regulatory Trust Fund pursuant to this section may be appropriated by the Legislature, pursuant to chapter 216, for the purpose of enabling the department or the office to carry out the provisions of this section. Notwithstanding s. 216.301 and pursuant to s. 216.351, any balance of moneys deposited into the Insurance Regulatory Trust Fund pursuant to this section remaining at the end of any fiscal year shall be available for carrying out the duties and responsibilities of the department or the office.

History: s. 7, ch. 2012-77.
Fla. Stat. § 501.707 — Florida Code / Title XXXIII / Chapter 501 / Part V / Section 501.707
501.707 Appeal.
Status: in_force

(1) A controller shall establish a process for a consumer to appeal the controller’s refusal to take action on a request within a reasonable period of time after the consumer’s receipt of the decision under s. 501.706(3).

(2) The appeal process must be conspicuously available and similar to the process for initiating action to exercise consumer rights by submitting a request under s. 501.705.

(3) A controller shall inform the consumer in writing of any action taken or not taken in response to an appeal under this section within 60 days after the date of receipt of the appeal, including a written explanation of the reason or reasons for the decision.

History: s. 10, ch. 2023-201.
Fla. Stat. § 427.016 — Florida Code / Title XXX / Chapter 427 / Part I / Section 427.016
427.016 Expenditure of local government, state, and federal funds for the transportation disadvantaged.
Status: in_force

(1)(a) All transportation disadvantaged funds expended within the state shall be expended to purchase transportation services from community transportation coordinators or public, private, or private nonprofit transportation operators within the coordinated transportation system, except when the rates charged by proposed alternate operators are proven, pursuant to rules generated by the Commission for the Transportation Disadvantaged, to be more cost-effective and are not a risk to the public health, safety, or welfare. However, in areas where transportation suited to the unique needs of a transportation disadvantaged person cannot be purchased through the coordinated system, or where the agency has met the rule criteria for using an alternative provider, the service may be contracted for directly by the appropriate agency. (b) This subsection does not preclude a purchasing agency from establishing maximum fee schedules, individualized reimbursement policies by provider type, negotiated fees, or any other mechanism, including contracting after initial negotiation with the commission, which the agency considers more cost-effective and of comparable or higher quality and standards than those of the commission for the purchase of services on behalf of its clients if it has fulfilled the requirements of s. 427.0135(3) or the procedure for using an alternative provider. State and local agencies shall not contract for any transportation disadvantaged services, including Medicaid reimbursable transportation services, with any community transportation coordinator or transportation operator that has been determined by the Agency for Health Care Administration, the Department of Legal Affairs Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, or any state or federal agency to have engaged in any abusive or fraudulent billing activities.

(2) Each year, each agency, whether or not it is an ex officio, nonvoting adviser to the Commission for the Transportation Disadvantaged, shall identify in the legislative budget request provided to the Governor for the General Appropriations Act the specific amount of any money the agency will allocate for the provision of transportation disadvantaged services. Additionally, each state agency shall, by September 15 of each year, provide the commission with an accounting of the actual amount of funds expended and the total number of trips purchased.

(3) Each metropolitan planning organization or designated official planning agency shall annually compile a report accounting for all local government and direct federal funds for transportation for the disadvantaged expended in its jurisdiction and forward this report by September 15 to the commission.

History: ss. 5, 9, ch. 79-180; ss. 1, 3, ch. 84-56; ss. 10, 14, ch. 89-376; s. 5, ch. 91-429; s. 88, ch. 92-152; s. 70, ch. 94-237; s. 5, ch. 95-394; s. 11, ch. 2008-203.
Fla. Stat. § 90.601 — Florida Code / Title VII / Chapter 90 / Section 90.601
90.601 General rule of competency.
Status: in_force

Every person is competent to be a witness, except as otherwise provided by statute.

History: s. 1, ch. 76-237; s. 1, ch. 77-77; s. 22, ch. 78-361, s. 1, ch. 78-379.
Fla. Stat. § 403.523 — Florida Code / Title XXIX / Chapter 403 / Part II / Section 403.523
403.523 Department of Environmental Protection; powers and duties.
Status: in_force

The department has the following powers and duties:

(1) To adopt procedural rules pursuant to ss. 120.536(1) and 120.54 to administer this act and to adopt or amend rules to implement the provisions of subsection (10).

(2) To prescribe the form and content of the public notices and the form, content, and necessary supporting documentation, and any required studies, for certification applications. All data and studies shall be related to the jurisdiction of the agencies relevant to the application.

(3) To receive applications for transmission line and corridor certifications and initially determine the completeness thereof.

(4) To make or contract for studies of certification applications. All studies shall be related to the jurisdiction of the agencies relevant to the application. For studies in areas outside the jurisdiction of the department and in the jurisdiction of another agency, the department may initiate such studies, but only with the consent of the agency.

(5) To administer the processing of applications for certification and ensure that the applications, including postcertification reviews, are processed on an expeditious and priority basis.

(6) To collect and process such fees as allowed by this act.

(7) To prepare a report and project analysis as required by s. 403.526.

(8) To prescribe the means for monitoring the effects arising from the location of the transmission line corridor and the construction, operation, and maintenance of the transmission lines to assure continued compliance with the terms of the certification.

(9) To make a determination of acceptability of any alternate corridor proposed for consideration under s. 403.5271.

(10) To set requirements that reasonably protect the public health and welfare from the electric and magnetic fields of transmission lines for which an application is filed under this act.

(11) To present rebuttal evidence on any issue properly raised at the certification hearing.

(12) To issue final orders after receipt of the administrative law judge’s order relinquishing jurisdiction pursuant to s. 403.527(6).

(13) To act as clerk for the siting board.

(14) To administer and manage the terms and conditions of the certification order and supporting documents and records for the life of the facility.

(15) To issue emergency orders on behalf of the board for facilities licensed under this act.

History: s. 1, ch. 80-65; s. 37, ch. 81-167; s. 265, ch. 81-259; s. 39, ch. 83-55; s. 4, ch. 83-222; s. 8, ch. 86-173; s. 55, ch. 86-186; s. 28, ch. 90-331; s. 389, ch. 94-356; s. 103, ch. 98-200; s. 48, ch. 2006-230.
Fla. Stat. § 636.015 — Florida Code / Title XXXVII / Chapter 636 / Part I / Section 636.015
636.015 Language used in contracts and advertisements; translations.
Status: in_force

(1)(a) All contracts or forms must be printed in English. (b) If the negotiations leading up to the effectuation of a prepaid limited health service organization contract are conducted in a language other than English, the prepaid limited health service organization must supply to the member a written translation of the contract, which translation accurately reflects the substance of the contract and is in the language used to negotiate the contract. The written translation must be affixed to, and shall become a part of, the contract or form, including a certification that the written translation is identical to the English version. Any such translation must be furnished to the office as part of the filing of the prepaid limited health services contract form. No translation of a prepaid limited health services contract form may be approved by the office unless the translation accurately reflects the substance of the prepaid limited health services contract form in translation.

(2) The text of all advertisements by a prepaid limited health service organization, if printed or broadcast in a language other than English, also must be available in English and must be furnished to the office upon request. As used in this subsection, the term “advertisement” means any advertisement, circular, pamphlet, brochure, or other printed material disclosing or disseminating advertising material or information by a prepaid limited health service organization to prospective or existing subscribers and includes any radio or television transmittal of an advertisement or information.

History: s. 12, ch. 93-148; s. 1528, ch. 2003-261.
Fla. Stat. § 605.0411 — Florida Code / Title XXXVI / Chapter 605 / Section 605.0411
605.0411 Court-ordered inspection.
Status: in_force

(1) If a limited liability company does not allow a member, manager, or other person who complies with s. 605.0410(2)(a), (3)(a), (3)(b), or (4), as applicable, to inspect and copy any records required by that section to be available for inspection, the circuit court in the county where the limited liability company’s principal office is or was last located, as shown by the records of the department or, if there is no principal office in this state, where its registered office is or was last located, may summarily order inspection and copying of the records demanded, at the limited liability company’s expense, upon application of the member, manager, or other person.

(2) If the court orders inspection or copying of the records demanded, it shall also order the limited liability company to pay the costs, including reasonable attorney fees, reasonably incurred by the member, manager, or other person seeking the records to obtain the order and enforce its rights under this section unless the limited liability company proves that it refused inspection in good faith because the company had a reasonable basis for doubt about the right of the member, manager, or such other person to inspect or copy the records demanded.

(3) If the court orders inspection or copying of the records demanded, it may impose reasonable restrictions on the use or distribution of the records by the member, manager, or other person demanding such records.

History: s. 2, ch. 2013-180.
Fla. Stat. § 383.51 — Florida Code / Title XXIX / Chapter 383 / Section 383.51
383.51 Confidentiality; identification of parent leaving infant at hospital, emergency medical services station, or fire station.
Status: in_force

The identity of a parent who surrenders an infant at a hospital, an emergency medical services station, or a fire station in accordance with s. 383.50 is confidential and exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution. The identity of a parent leaving a child shall be disclosed to a person claiming to be a parent of the infant.

History: s. 1, ch. 2000-213; s. 1, ch. 2002-30; s. 1, ch. 2007-104; s. 6, ch. 2024-213; s. 4, ch. 2025-17.
Fla. Stat. § 522.06 — Florida Code / Title XXXIII / Chapter 522 / Section 522.06
522.06 Produce commission merchant to furnish shipper duplicate sales account; shipper to have access to certain records; proviso.
Status: in_force

All persons engaged in the business of selling any produce or other article on commission in this state shall, if the produce or other thing of value be shipped to them by any person from any place in the state, when the same is sold by them, issue in duplicate a sales account which shall prescribe the kind, quantity, quality and price received for the produce or article sold, and with check shall cause same to be delivered by mail or otherwise, within 7 days of such sale, to the party furnishing the produce or article for sale, and should such sale be unsatisfactory to the party furnishing said produce or article for sale, then at her or his request the commission house shall furnish to her or him, within 5 days, the name or names, and residences of the purchaser of said produce or article; she or he shall also have access to the original sales papers and books showing the name and address of the purchaser of the produce or article, to the commission house selling said produce or article, and every reasonable assistance extended to her or him to her or his satisfaction in the matter; provided, that the provisions of this section shall not apply to any consignment, or part thereof, sold at retail or in less quantity than original packages, nor to produce consigned to retail merchants, nor to lumber or naval stores.

History: ss. 1, 2, ch. 6921, 1915; RGS 4942; CGL 7029; s. 195, ch. 77-104; s. 700, ch. 97-103.
Fla. Stat. § 122.051 — Florida Code / Title X / Chapter 122 / Section 122.051
122.051 Eligibility of retired state employee for Legislature; compensation.
Status: in_force

Any retired state employee who is presently drawing retirement benefits under any state retirement system may, as any other citizen, serve in the Legislature without affecting in any way his or her retirement status or the receipt of retirement funds while a member of the Legislature. Such person may be paid the salary of a legislator, and per diem and mileage in connection with his or her official legislative duties in addition to his or her retirement benefits during the person’s term of legislative service except that service as a legislator after retirement shall not increase retirement benefits.

History: s. 1, ch. 65-476; s. 784, ch. 95-147.
Fla. Stat. § 92.28 — Florida Code / Title VII / Chapter 92 / Section 92.28
92.28 Records destroyed by fire; land title suits; what may be received in evidence.
Status: in_force

In all suits or proceedings concerning any land, or any estate, interest or right in, or any lien or encumbrance upon the same, when it shall be made to appear that the original of any deed, conveyance, map, plat or other written or record evidence has been lost or destroyed, or is not in the power, custody or control of the party wishing to use it on the trial to produce same, and the record thereof has been heretofore destroyed by fire, the court shall receive all such evidence as may have a bearing on the case to establish the execution or contents of any deed, conveyance, map, plat record, or other written evidence so lost or destroyed; provided, that the testimony of the parties themselves shall be received only in such cases, and subject to all the qualifications in respect to such testimony as now provided by law; and provided further, that any writing in the hands of any person or persons, which may become admissible in evidence under the provisions of this section, or any part of this law, shall be rejected and not admitted as evidence, unless the same appear upon the face thereof without erasure, blemish, alteration, interlineation or interpolation in any material part, unless the same shall be explained to the satisfaction of the court, and appear fairly and honestly made in the ordinary course of business.

History: s. 5, ch. 4951, 1901; GS 1532; RGS 2732; CGL 4404.