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Fla. Stat. § 876.45 — Florida Code / Title XLVI / Chapter 876 / Section 876.45
876.45 Closing and restricting use of highway.
Status: in_force

(1) Any individual, partnership, association, corporation, municipal corporation or state or any political subdivision thereof engaged in or preparing to engage in the manufacture, transportation or storage of any product to be used in the preparation of the United States, or of any country with which the United States shall then maintain friendly relations or any of the states for defense or for war or in the prosecution of war by the United States, or in the manufacture, transportation, distribution or storage of gas, oil, coal, electricity or water, or any of said natural or artificial persons operating any public utility, who has property so used which he or she or it believes will be endangered if public use and travel is not restricted or prohibited on one or more highways or parts thereof upon which such property abuts, may petition the highway commissioners of any city, town or county to close one or more of said highways or parts thereof to public use and travel or to restrict by order the use and travel upon one or more of said highways or parts thereof.

(2) Upon receipt of such petition, the highway commissioners shall set a day for hearing and give notice thereof by publication in a newspaper having general circulation in the city, town or county in which such property is located, such notice to be at least 7 days prior to the date set for hearing. If after hearing the highway commissioners determine that the public safety and the safety of the property of the petitioner so require, they shall by suitable order close to public use and travel or reasonably restrict the use of and travel upon one or more of said highways or parts thereof; provided, the highway commissioners may issue written permits to travel over the highways so closed or restricted to responsible and reputable persons for such term, under such conditions and in such form as said commissioners may prescribe. Appropriate notices in letters at least 3 inches high shall be posted conspicuously at each end of any highway so closed or restricted by such order. The highway commissioners may at any time revoke or modify any order so made.

History: s. 9, ch. 20252, 1941; s. 65, ch. 74-383; s. 1423, ch. 97-102.
Fla. Stat. § 189.064 — Florida Code / Title XIII / Chapter 189 / Part VI / Section 189.064
189.064 Special District Accountability Program; duties and responsibilities.
Status: in_force

The Special District Accountability Program of the department has the following duties:

(1) Electronically publishing special district noncompliance status reports from the Department of Management Services, the Department of Financial Services, the Division of Bond Finance of the State Board of Administration, the Auditor General, and the Legislative Auditing Committee, for the reporting required in ss. 112.63, 218.32, 218.38, and 218.39. The noncompliance reports must list those special districts that did not comply with the statutory reporting requirements and be made available to the public electronically.

(2) Maintaining the official list of special districts as set forth in s. 189.061.

(3) Publishing and updating of a “Florida Special District Handbook” that contains, at a minimum: (a) A section that specifies definitions of special districts and status distinctions in the statutes. (b) A section or sections that specify current statutory provisions for special district creation, implementation, modification, dissolution, and operating procedures. (c) A section that summarizes the reporting requirements applicable to all types of special districts as provided in ss. 189.015 and 189.016. (d) A section that summarizes the public facilities reporting requirements and the evaluation and appraisal notification schedule as provided in s. 189.08(2).

(4) Coordinating and communicating among state agencies regarding special districts.

(5) Providing technical advisory assistance to special districts regarding the requirements specified in this chapter which may be performed by the department or by a qualified third-party vendor pursuant to a contract entered into in accordance with applicable bidding requirements.

(6) Providing assistance to local general-purpose governments and state agencies in collecting delinquent reports or information.

(7) Helping special districts comply with reporting requirements.

(8) Declaring special districts inactive when directed by the Legislative Auditing Committee or required by this chapter.

(9) Initiating enforcement proceedings as provided in ss. 189.062, 189.066, and 189.067.

History: s. 18, ch. 89-169; s. 15, ch. 90-502; s. 79, ch. 92-279; s. 55, ch. 92-326; s. 15, ch. 95-154; ss. 3, 17, ch. 95-272; ss. 11, 12, ch. 96-324; s. 15, ch. 97-255; s. 3, ch. 97-287; s. 69, ch. 99-255; s. 32, ch. 99-378; s. 45, ch. 2001-266; s. 25, ch. 2002-1; s. 168, ch. 2003-261; s. 18, ch. 2004-305; s. 48, ch. 2010-102; s. 65, ch. 2011-142; s. 13, ch. 2011-144; s. 33, ch. 2014-22; s. 12, ch. 2016-22.
Fla. Stat. § 1006.03 — Florida Code / Title XLVIII / Chapter 1006 / Part I / Section 1006.03
1006.03 Diagnostic and learning resource centers.
Status: in_force

(1) The department shall maintain regional diagnostic and learning resource centers for exceptional students, to assist in the provision of medical, physiological, psychological, and educational testing and other services designed to evaluate and diagnose exceptionalities, to make referrals for necessary instruction and services, and to facilitate the provision of instruction and services to exceptional students. The department shall cooperate with the Department of Children and Families in identifying service needs and areas.

(2) Within its identified service area, each regional center shall: (a) Provide assistance to parents, teachers, and other school personnel and community organizations in locating and identifying exceptional children and planning educational programs for them. (b) Assist in the provision of services for exceptional children, using to the maximum, but not supplanting, the existing facilities and services of each district. (c) Provide orientation meetings at least annually for teachers, principals, supervisors, and community agencies to familiarize them with center facilities and services for exceptional children. (d) Plan, coordinate, and assist in the implementation of inservice training programs, consistent with each district’s program of staff development, for the development and updating of attitudes, skills, and instructional practices and procedures necessary to the education of exceptional children. (e) Assist districts in the identification, selection, acquisition, use, and evaluation of media and materials appropriate to the implementation of instructional programs based on individual educational plans for exceptional children. (f) Provide for the dissemination and diffusion of significant information and promising practices derived from educational research, demonstration, and other projects. (g) Assist in the delivery, modification, and integration of instructional technology, including microcomputer applications and adaptive and assistive devices, appropriate to the unique needs of exceptional students.

(3) Diagnostic and resource centers may provide testing and evaluation services to private school students and other children who are not enrolled in public schools.

(4) Diagnostic and learning resource centers may assist districts in providing testing and evaluation services for infants and preschool children with or at risk of developing disabilities, and may assist districts in providing interdisciplinary training and resources to parents of infants and preschool children with or at risk of developing disabilities and to school readiness programs.

History: s. 267, ch. 2002-387; s. 374, ch. 2014-19.
Fla. Stat. § 641.402 — Florida Code / Title XXXVII / Chapter 641 / Part II / Section 641.402
641.402 Definitions.
Status: in_force

As used in this part, the term:

(1) “Basic services” includes any of the following: emergency care, physician care other than hospital inpatient physician services, ambulatory diagnostic treatment, and preventive health care services.

(2) “Guaranteeing organization” means an organization that is domiciled in the United States; that has authorized service of process against it; and that has appointed the Chief Financial Officer as its agent for service of process in connection with any cause of action arising in this state, based upon any guarantee entered into under this part.

(3) “Insolvent” or “insolvency” means the inability of a prepaid health clinic to discharge its liabilities as they become due in the normal course of business.

(4) “Prepaid health clinic” means any organization authorized under this part which provides, either directly or through arrangements with other persons, basic services to persons enrolled with such organization, on a prepaid per capita or prepaid aggregate fixed-sum basis, including those basic services which subscribers might reasonably require to maintain good health. However, no clinic that provides or contracts for, either directly or indirectly, inpatient hospital services, hospital inpatient physician services, or indemnity against the cost of such services shall be a prepaid health clinic.

(5) “Prepaid health clinic contract” means any contract entered into by a prepaid health clinic with a subscriber or group of subscribers to provide any of the basic services in exchange for a prepaid per capita or prepaid aggregate fixed sum.

(6) “Provider” means any physician or person other than a hospital that furnishes health care services and is licensed or authorized to practice in this state.

(7) “Reporting period” means the particular span of time by or for which accounts are redeemed on an annualized basis.

(8) “Subscriber” means an individual who has contracted, or on whose behalf a contract has been entered into, with a prepaid health clinic for health care services.

(9) “Surplus” means total unencumbered assets in excess of total liabilities. Surplus includes capital stock, capital in excess of par, and retained earnings and may include surplus notes.

(10) “Surplus notes” means debt that has been guaranteed by the United States Government or its agencies or debt that has been subordinated to all claims of subscribers and general creditors of the prepaid health clinic.

History: ss. 10, 11, ch. 84-313; ss. 187, 188, ch. 91-108; s. 4, ch. 91-429; s. 1599, ch. 2003-261.
Fla. Stat. § 159.414 — Florida Code / Title XI / Chapter 159 / Part II / Section 159.414
159.414 Authority to deal with financial institution which employs a board member.
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding any general or special law, rule, regulation, or ordinance to the contrary, including ss. 112.311-112.326, a board may sell its bonds to a financial institution, as defined in s. 655.005, which employs a member of the board as an officer, director, or employee and may appoint a financial institution to serve as trustee or cotrustee under a trust indenture relating to bonds issued under this part, notwithstanding the fact that an officer, director, or employee of the financial institution is a member of the board. However, no member of the board who is an officer, director, or employee of a financial institution which is interested in purchasing or serving as trustee or cotrustee for a proposed or outstanding bond issue shall vote on any matter related to such bond issue after the interest of the financial institution in such bond issue becomes known to the member.

History: s. 2, ch. 81-321; s. 42, ch. 83-217; s. 196, ch. 92-303; s. 885, ch. 95-147.
Fla. Stat. § 655.93 — Florida Code / Title XXXVIII / Chapter 655 / Section 655.93
655.93 Definitions for ss. 655.93-655.94.
Status: in_force

As used in ss. 655.93-655.94, the term:

(1) “Lessee” means a person who contracts with a lessor for the use of a safe-deposit box.

(2) “Lessor” means a financial institution that rents safe-deposit facilities.

(3) “Safe-deposit box” means a safe-deposit box, vault, or other safe-deposit receptacle maintained by a lessor, and the rules relating thereto apply to property or documents kept in safekeeping in the financial institution’s vault.

History: s. 60, ch. 92-303.
Fla. Stat. § 403.135 — Florida Code / Title XXIX / Chapter 403 / Part I / Section 403.135
403.135 Persons who accept wastewater for spray irrigation; civil liability.
Status: in_force

(1) Any person who in good faith accepts from any owner or operator of a permitted wastewater treatment or disposal plant any wastewater permitted and intended to be used for disposal through spray irrigation is not liable for any civil damages as a result of the acceptance and disposal of such wastewater through approved spray irrigation practices.

(2) Subsection (1) does not limit or otherwise affect the liability of: (a) Any person for damages resulting from such person’s negligence, gross negligence, or reckless, wanton, or intentional misconduct; (b) Any person for the improper management and use of the wastewater after its delivery to such person by any permitted wastewater treatment or disposal plant owner or operator; or (c) The owner or operator of the plant for damages caused as a result of the spray irrigation.

(3) Nothing in this section shall prohibit any governmental entity from taking such action within its jurisdiction as may be necessary to protect the public health, safety, or welfare or the environment.

(4) Terms used in this section have the meaning specified in this chapter and in the rules of the department under this chapter.

History: s. 1, ch. 87-207; s. 369, ch. 94-356.
Fla. Stat. § 333.11 — Florida Code / Title XXV / Chapter 333 / Section 333.11
333.11 Judicial review.
Status: in_force

(1) Any person, political subdivision, or joint airport zoning board affected by a decision of a political subdivision or its administrative agency may apply for judicial relief to the circuit court in the judicial circuit where the political subdivision is located within 30 days after rendition of the decision. Review shall be by petition for writ of certiorari, which shall be governed by the Florida Rules of Appellate Procedure.

(2) The court has exclusive jurisdiction to affirm, reverse, or modify the decision on the permit or other determination from which the appeal is taken and, if appropriate, to order further proceedings by the political subdivision or its administrative agency. The findings of fact by the political subdivision or its administrative agency, if supported by substantial evidence, shall be accepted by the court as conclusive, and an objection to a decision of the political subdivision or its administrative agency may not be considered by the court unless such objection was raised in the underlying proceeding.

(3) If airport zoning regulations adopted under this chapter are held by a court to interfere with the use and enjoyment of a particular structure or parcel of land to such an extent, or to be so onerous in their application to such a structure or parcel of land, as to constitute a taking or deprivation of that property in violation of the State Constitution or the Constitution of the United States, such holding shall not affect the application of such regulations to other structures and parcels of land, or such regulations as are not involved in the particular decision.

(4) A judicial appeal to any court may not be permitted under this section until the appellant has exhausted all of its remedies through application for local government permits, exceptions, and appeals.

History: s. 11, ch. 23079, 1945; s. 43, ch. 63-512; s. 7, ch. 88-356; s. 485, ch. 95-148; s. 9, ch. 2016-209; s. 32, ch. 2016-239.
Fla. Stat. § 667.007 — Florida Code / Title XXXVIII / Chapter 667 / Section 667.007
667.007 Supervisory case; emergency conversion, reorganization, merger; consolidation; acquisition of assets.
Status: in_force

(1) The office may determine that a state or federal savings bank is a supervisory case if it finds that: (a) The savings bank is insolvent; or (b) The savings bank is imminently insolvent. Any such finding by the office shall be based upon reports furnished to it by a state or federal regulatory agency or upon other evidence from which it is reasonable to conclude that the savings bank is a supervisory case.

(2) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter or chapter 120, if the office finds that immediate action is necessary to protect the interests of depositors and reduce the potential for claims against the insurance fund, or in order to prevent the probable failure of a state or federal savings bank which is a supervisory case, the office may, with the concurrence of the appropriate federal regulatory agency in the case of any savings bank the deposits of which are federally insured, issue an emergency order authorizing: (a) The conversion of such savings bank from a state to a federal charter, or vice versa, without change of business form; (b) The reorganization, merger, or consolidation of such state or federal savings bank with another state or federal savings bank; (c) The conversion of such state or federal savings bank into a state or federal capital stock savings bank; or (d) Any state or federal savings bank to acquire the assets of, and assume the liabilities of, such failing savings bank.

History: s. 15, ch. 97-30; s. 1869, ch. 2003-261.
Fla. Stat. § 377.2433 — Florida Code / Title XXVIII / Chapter 377 / Part I / Section 377.2433
377.2433 Protection of natural gas storage facilities; remedies.
Status: in_force

(1) The department may not authorize the drilling of any well into or through a permitted natural gas storage reservoir or reservoir protective area, except upon conditions deemed by the department to be sufficient to prevent the loss, migration, or escape of gas from the natural gas storage reservoir. The department shall provide written notice to the natural gas storage facility operator of any application filed with the department and any agency action taken related to drilling a well into or through a permitted natural gas storage facility boundary or reservoir protective area.

(2) As a condition for the issuance of a permit by the department, an applicant seeking to drill a well into or through a permitted natural gas storage facility boundary or reservoir protective area must provide the affected natural gas storage facility operator a reasonable right of entry to observe and monitor all drilling activities.

(3) The department shall require by permit condition that any well drilled into or through a permitted natural gas storage reservoir or reservoir protective area is cased and cemented in a manner sufficient to protect the integrity of the natural gas storage reservoir.

History: s. 16, ch. 2013-205.
Fla. Stat. § 475.625 — Florida Code / Title XXXII / Chapter 475 / Part II / Section 475.625
475.625 Final orders.
Status: in_force

The board may publish and distribute, in such manner and form as it may prescribe, any of its final orders or decisions made under this section, after they become final by lapse of time or upon affirmance on appeal, or opinions of appellate courts for the guidance of appraisers, appraiser users, and the public. The board may also publish or withhold from publication the names and addresses of any parties concerned. This section shall not be construed to affect compliance with chapter 119.

History: ss. 9, 11, ch. 91-89; s. 4, ch. 91-429.
Fla. Stat. § 689.111 — Florida Code / Title XL / Chapter 689 / Section 689.111
689.111 Conveyances of homestead; power of attorney.
Status: in_force

(1) A deed or mortgage of homestead realty owned by an unmarried person may be executed by virtue of a power of attorney executed in the same manner as a deed.

(2) A deed or mortgage of homestead realty owned by a married person, or owned as an estate by the entirety, may be executed by virtue of a power of attorney executed solely by one spouse to the other, or solely by one spouse or both spouses to a third party, provided the power of attorney is executed in the same manner as a deed. Nothing in this section shall be construed as dispensing with the requirement that husband and wife join in the conveyance or mortgage of homestead realty, but the joinder may be accomplished through the exercise of a power of attorney.

History: s. 1, ch. 71-27.
Fla. Stat. § 368.104 — Florida Code / Title XXVII / Chapter 368 / Part II / Section 368.104
368.104 Jurisdiction, authority to ensure compliance; rate regulation.
Status: in_force

Subject to ss. 368.101-368.112, the commission is vested with all authority and power of the state to ensure compliance of natural gas transmission companies with the obligations imposed by ss. 368.101-368.112. For this purpose, the commission is empowered to fix and regulate rates and services of natural gas transmission companies, including, without limitation, rules and regulations for determining the classification of customers and services, for determining the applicability of rates, and for ensuring that the provision (including access to transmission) or abandonment of service by a natural gas transmission company is not unreasonably preferential, prejudicial, or unduly discriminatory. In the exercise of its jurisdiction, the commission shall have the power to prescribe all rules and regulations reasonably necessary and appropriate for the administration and enforcement of ss. 368.101-368.112.

History: s. 5, ch. 92-284.
Fla. Stat. § 132.07 — Florida Code / Title XI / Chapter 132 / Section 132.07
132.07 Maturity date.
Status: in_force

Such resolution may provide that all or any part of the bonds issued thereunder shall mature in annual installments beginning at such time after date and running to such time, not longer than 60 years after date as said resolution may provide.

History: s. 7, ch. 15772, 1931; CGL 1936 Supp. 2383(7).