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Fla. Stat. § 477.022 — Florida Code / Title XXXII / Chapter 477 / Section 477.022
477.022 Examinations.
Status: in_force

(1) The board shall ensure that examinations adequately measure both an applicant’s competency and her or his knowledge of related statutory requirements. Professional testing services may be utilized to formulate the examinations. The board may offer a written clinical examination or a performance examination, or both, in addition to a written theory examination.

(2) The board shall ensure that examinations comply with state and federal equal employment opportunity guidelines.

(3) The examination shall be given at least once a year.

(4) All licensing examinations shall be conducted in such manner that the applicant shall be known by number only until her or his examination is completed and the proper grade determined. An accurate record of each examination shall be made; and that record shall be filed with the secretary of the department and shall be kept for reference and inspection for a period of not less than 2 years immediately following the examination.

History: s. 1, ch. 78-253; ss. 13, 15, 25, 30, 34, 44, 62, ch. 80-406; s. 2, ch. 81-318; ss. 34, 46, ch. 82-179; s. 96, ch. 83-218; s. 71, ch. 83-329; ss. 35, 36, ch. 85-297; s. 40, ch. 89-344; s. 4, ch. 91-429; s. 404, ch. 97-103; s. 12, ch. 98-323; s. 49, ch. 2015-4.
Fla. Stat. § 92.19 — Florida Code / Title VII / Chapter 92 / Section 92.19
92.19 Portions of records.
Status: in_force

In all cases where any certified copy of any record, pleading, document, deed, conveyance, paper or instrument in writing, involving the title to real estate shall be lawfully admissible in evidence in any of the courts of this state, a certified copy of such portions of such instrument as shall contain the essential parts thereof and only such portion of the descriptive matter thereof as shall be involved in the case on trial, shall likewise be admissible in evidence; and in no case shall it be necessary to include in such certified copies descriptive matter not involved in the case in which such copy is offered in evidence.

History: s. 1, ch. 10237, 1925; CGL 4400.
Fla. Stat. § 280.051 — Florida Code / Title XIX / Chapter 280 / Section 280.051
280.051 Grounds for suspension or disqualification of a qualified public depository.
Status: in_force

A qualified public depository may be suspended or disqualified or both if the Chief Financial Officer determines that the qualified public depository:

(1) Has violated any of the provisions of this chapter or any rule adopted by the Chief Financial Officer pursuant to this chapter.

(2) Has submitted reports containing inaccurate or incomplete information regarding public deposits or collateral for such deposits, tangible equity capital, or the calculation of required collateral.

(3) Has failed to maintain required collateral.

(4) Has grossly misstated the market value of the securities pledged as collateral.

(5) Has failed to pay any administrative penalty.

(6) Has failed to furnish the Chief Financial Officer with prompt and accurate information, or failed to allow inspection and verification of any information, dealing with public deposits or dealing with the exact status of its tangible equity capital, or other financial information that the Chief Financial Officer determines necessary to verify compliance with this chapter or any rule adopted pursuant to this chapter.

(7) Has failed to furnish the Chief Financial Officer, when the Chief Financial Officer requested, with a power of attorney or bond power or other bond assignment form required by the bond agent, bond trustee, or other transferor for each issue of registered certificated securities pledged.

(8) Has failed to furnish any agreement, report, form, or other information required to be filed pursuant to s. 280.16, or when requested by the Chief Financial Officer.

(9) Has submitted reports signed by an unauthorized individual.

(10) Has submitted reports without a certified or verified signature, or both, if required by law.

(11) Has released a security without notice or approval.

(12) Has failed to execute or have the custodian execute a collateral control agreement before using a custodian.

(13) Has failed to give notification as required by s. 280.10.

(14) Has failed to file the attestation required under s. 280.025.

(15) No longer meets the definition of a qualified public depository under s. 280.02.

History: s. 6, ch. 87-409; s. 6, ch. 88-185; s. 13, ch. 91-244; s. 8, ch. 96-216; s. 5, ch. 2001-230; s. 290, ch. 2003-261; s. 5, ch. 2014-145; s. 17, ch. 2023-28; s. 95, ch. 2024-140; s. 19, ch. 2025-6.
Fla. Stat. § 61.530 — Florida Code / Title VI / Chapter 61 / Part II / Section 61.530
61.530 Simultaneous proceedings.
Status: in_force

If a proceeding for enforcement under ss. 61.524-61.540 is commenced in a court of this state and the court determines that a proceeding to modify the determination is pending in a court of another state having jurisdiction to modify the determination under ss. 61.514-61.523, the enforcing court shall immediately communicate with the modifying court. The proceeding for enforcement continues unless the enforcing court, after consultation with the modifying court, stays or dismisses the proceeding.

History: s. 5, ch. 2002-65.
Fla. Stat. § 610.116 — Florida Code / Title XXXVI / Chapter 610 / Section 610.116
610.116 Compliance.
Status: in_force

If a certificateholder is found by a court of competent jurisdiction not to be in compliance with the requirements of this chapter, the certificateholder shall have a reasonable period of time, as specified by the court, to cure such noncompliance.

History: s. 7, ch. 2007-29.
Fla. Stat. § 589.101 — Florida Code / Title XXXV / Chapter 589 / Section 589.101
589.101 Blackwater River State Forest; lease of board’s interest in gas, oil, and other minerals.
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding the provisions of ss. 253.51-253.61, the Florida Forest Service is hereby expressly granted the authority to lease its 25-percent interest in oil, gas, and other minerals within the boundaries of the Blackwater River State Forest; provided, however, that grants shall be made only to the lessee or lessees holding the 75-percent interest in said minerals retained by the United States in its conveyance to this state. The concurrence of the Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund required by s. 589.10 shall not be necessary under the provisions of this section.

History: s. 1, ch. 59-184; s. 2, ch. 61-119; ss. 14, 27, 35, ch. 69-106; s. 75, ch. 2000-154; s. 34, ch. 2012-7.
Fla. Stat. § 395.403 — Florida Code / Title XXIX / Chapter 395 / Part II / Section 395.403
395.403 Reimbursement of trauma centers.
Status: in_force

(1) All verified trauma centers shall be considered eligible to receive state funding when state funds are specifically appropriated for state-sponsored trauma centers in the General Appropriations Act. Effective July 1, 2010, the department shall make payments from the Emergency Medical Services Trust Fund under s. 20.435 to the trauma centers. Payments shall be in equal amounts for the trauma centers approved by the department as of July 1 of the fiscal year in which funding is appropriated. In the event a trauma center does not maintain its status as a trauma center for any state fiscal year in which such funding is appropriated, the trauma center shall repay the state for the portion of the year during which it was not a trauma center.

(2) Trauma centers eligible to receive distributions from the Emergency Medical Services Trust Fund under s. 20.435 in accordance with subsection (1) may request that such funds be used as intergovernmental transfer funds in the Medicaid program.

(3) In order to receive state funding, a hospital must be a verified trauma center and shall: (a) Agree to conform to all departmental requirements as provided by rule to assure high-quality trauma services. (b) Agree to report trauma data to the National Trauma Data Bank. (c) Agree to accept all trauma patients, regardless of ability to pay, on a functional space-available basis.

(4) A trauma center that fails to comply with any of the conditions listed in subsection (3) or the applicable rules of the department may not receive payments under this section for the period in which it was not in compliance.

History: ss. 7, 15, ch. 90-284; s. 79, ch. 91-282; s. 92, ch. 92-33; ss. 39, 98, ch. 92-289; s. 19, ch. 98-89; s. 8, ch. 2004-259; s. 10, ch. 2010-161; s. 7, ch. 2018-66.
Fla. Stat. § 711.507 — Florida Code / Title XL / Chapter 711 / Section 711.507
711.507 Ownership on death of owner.
Status: in_force

On death of a sole owner or the last to die of all multiple owners, ownership of securities registered in beneficiary form passes to the beneficiary or beneficiaries who survive all owners. On proof of death of all owners and compliance with any applicable requirements of the registering entity, a security registered in beneficiary form may be reregistered in the name of the beneficiary or beneficiaries who survived the death of all owners. Until division of the security after the death of all owners, multiple beneficiaries surviving the death of all owners hold their interests as tenants in common. If no beneficiary survives the death of all owners, the security belongs to the estate of the deceased sole owner or the estate of the last to die of all multiple owners.

History: s. 3, ch. 94-216.
Fla. Stat. § 155.25 — Florida Code / Title XI / Chapter 155 / Section 155.25
155.25 Levy authorized for county hospital purposes.
Status: in_force

(1) Whenever any board of county commissioners shall deem it necessary to erect, equip, or repair a public hospital in the county or erect and equip an addition or additions to any public hospital, they shall give notice at least once each week for 2 consecutive weeks in some newspaper published in said county, or in some newspaper published in the judicial circuit, if there be none published in the county, that at the next regular meeting of the board after the publication of said notice, such question or questions will be acted upon by said board. If, at said meeting, a majority of said board shall determine that it is necessary to erect, equip, repair, or build an addition or additions to such public hospital, they may levy a hospital building, repair, and equipment tax not exceeding 5 mills per annum, for not more than 15 consecutive years. The tax shall be assessed and collected at the same time and in the same manner as other state and county taxes are levied and collected.

(2) The tax, levied, assessed, and collected as aforesaid, shall be accumulated from year to year until utilized and expended for the public hospital purposes aforesaid.

(3) The provisions hereof shall be cumulative and in addition to all the other provisions of this chapter, and nothing herein contained shall be held to repeal, alter, or amend any of the provisions of this chapter nor repeal, alter, or amend any of the provisions of any special or local law.

(4) The provisions of this section shall not apply to Okaloosa County nor shall the provisions hereof confer the authority hereinabove provided for upon or to the county commissioners of said county.

History: ss. 1, 2, 3, 4, ch. 57-393; s. 6, ch. 90-279.
Fla. Stat. § 101.049 — Florida Code / Title IX / Chapter 101 / Section 101.049
101.049 Provisional ballots; special circumstances.
Status: in_force

(1) Any person who votes in an election after the regular poll-closing time pursuant to a court or other order extending the statutory polling hours must vote a provisional ballot. Once voted, the provisional ballot shall be placed in a secrecy envelope and thereafter sealed in a provisional ballot envelope. The election official witnessing the voter’s subscription and affirmation on the Provisional Ballot Voter’s Certificate shall indicate whether or not the voter met all requirements to vote a regular ballot at the polls. All such provisional ballots shall remain sealed in their envelopes and be transmitted to the supervisor of elections.

(2) Separate and apart from all other ballots, the county canvassing board shall count all late-voted provisional ballots that the canvassing board determines to be valid.

(3) The supervisor shall ensure that late-voted provisional ballots are not commingled with other ballots during the canvassing process or at any other time they are statutorily required to be in the supervisor’s possession.

(4) This section shall not apply to voters in line at the poll-closing time provided in s. 100.011 who cast their ballots subsequent to that time.

(5) As an alternative, provisional ballots cast pursuant to this section may, and for persons with disabilities shall, be cast in accordance with the provisions of s. 101.048(4).

History: s. 16, ch. 2003-415; s. 3, ch. 2004-5; s. 25, ch. 2005-277.
Fla. Stat. § 946.501 — Florida Code / Title XLVII / Chapter 946 / Part II / Section 946.501
946.501 Findings of fact.
Status: in_force

(1) It is the finding of the Legislature that correctional work programs of the Department of Corrections are uniquely different from other programs operated or conducted by other departments in that it is essential to the state that the work programs provide inmates with useful activities that can lead to meaningful employment after release in order to assist in reducing the return of inmates to the system.

(2) It is further the finding of the Legislature that the mission of a correctional work program is, in order of priority: (a) To provide a joint effort between the department, the correctional work programs, and other vocational training programs to reinforce relevant education, training, and postrelease job placement and help reduce recommitment. (b) To serve the security goals of the state through the reduction of idleness of inmates and the provision of an incentive for good behavior in prison. (c) To reduce the cost of state government by operating enterprises primarily with inmate labor, which enterprises do not seek to unreasonably compete with private enterprise. (d) To serve the rehabilitative goals of the state by duplicating, as nearly as possible, the operating activities of a free-enterprise type of profitmaking enterprise.

(3) It is further the finding of the Legislature that a program which duplicates as closely as possible free-world production and service operations in order to aid inmates in adjustment after release and to prepare inmates for gainful employment is in the best interests of the state, inmates, and the general public.

History: s. 1, ch. 83-209; s. 4, ch. 87-286; s. 26, ch. 89-526.
Fla. Stat. § 255.0705 — Florida Code / Title XVIII / Chapter 255 / Section 255.0705
255.0705 Popular name.
Status: in_force

Sections 255.0705-255.078 may be cited as the “Florida Prompt Payment Act.”

History: s. 4, ch. 2005-230.
Fla. Stat. § 316.300 — Florida Code / Title XXIII / Chapter 316 / Section 316.300
316.300 Certain vehicles to carry flares or other devices.
Status: in_force

(1) No person shall operate any truck, bus, truck tractor, trailer, semitrailer, pole trailer, or motor vehicle towing a house trailer, when such vehicle is 80 inches or more in overall width or 30 feet or more in overall length, upon any highway outside an urban district or upon any divided highway at any time between sunset and sunrise unless there is carried in such vehicle the following equipment, except as provided in subsection (2): (a) At least three flares, three red electric lanterns, or three portable red emergency reflectors, each of which shall be capable of being seen and distinguished at a distance of not less than 600 feet under normal atmospheric conditions at nighttime. No flare, fusee, electric lantern, or warning flag shall be used for the purpose of compliance with the requirements of this section unless such equipment is of a type which has been submitted to the department and approved by it. No portable reflector unit shall be used for the purpose of compliance with the requirements of this section unless it is so designed and constructed as to be capable of reflecting red light clearly visible from all distances within 600 feet to 100 feet under normal atmospheric conditions at night when directly in front of lawful lower beams of headlamps and unless it is of a type which has been submitted to the department and approved by it. (b) At least three red-burning fusees, unless red electric lanterns or red portable emergency reflectors are carried.

(2) No person shall operate at the time and under conditions stated in subsection (1) any motor vehicle used for the transportation of explosives or any cargo tank truck used for the transportation of flammable liquids or compressed gases unless there is carried in such vehicle three red electric lanterns or three portable red emergency reflectors meeting the requirements of subsection (1), and there shall not be carried in any such vehicle any flares, fusees, or signal produced by flame.

(3) No person shall operate any vehicle described in subsection (1) or subsection (2) upon any highway outside an urban district or upon a divided highway at any time when lighted lamps are not required by s. 316.217 unless there is carried in such vehicle at least two red flags, not less than 12 inches square, with standards to support such flags, or two red portable emergency reflectors of the type described in subsection (1).

(4) A violation of this section is a noncriminal traffic infraction, punishable as a nonmoving violation as provided in chapter 318.

History: s. 1, ch. 71-135; s. 1, ch. 76-31; s. 1, ch. 81-49; s. 213, ch. 99-248.
Fla. Stat. § 491.004 — Florida Code / Title XXXII / Chapter 491 / Section 491.004
491.004 Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy, and Mental Health Counseling.
Status: in_force

(1) There is created within the department the Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy, and Mental Health Counseling composed of nine members appointed by the Governor and confirmed by the Senate.

(2)(a) Six members of the board shall be persons licensed under this chapter as follows: 1. Two members shall be licensed practicing clinical social workers. 2. Two members shall be licensed practicing marriage and family therapists. 3. Two members shall be licensed practicing mental health counselors. (b) Three members shall be citizens of the state who are not and have never been licensed in a mental health-related profession and who are in no way connected with the practice of any such profession.

(3) No later than January 1, 1988, the Governor shall appoint nine members of the board as follows: (a) Three members for terms of 2 years each. (b) Three members for terms of 3 years each. (c) Three members for terms of 4 years each.

(4) As the terms of the initial members expire, the Governor shall appoint successors for terms of 4 years; and those members shall serve until their successors are appointed.

(5) The board shall adopt rules pursuant to ss. 120.536(1) and 120.54 to implement and enforce the provisions of this chapter.

(6) All applicable provisions of chapter 456 relating to activities of regulatory boards shall apply to the board.

(7) The board shall maintain its official headquarters in the City of Tallahassee.

(8) The board shall appoint an individual to serve as the state’s delegate on the Counseling Compact Commission, as required under s. 491.017.

History: ss. 15, 19, ch. 87-252; ss. 19, 20, ch. 90-263; s. 4, ch. 91-429; s. 193, ch. 94-218; s. 152, ch. 98-166; s. 163, ch. 98-200; s. 212, ch. 2000-160; s. 6, ch. 2022-63.
Fla. Stat. § 520.40 — Florida Code / Title XXXIII / Chapter 520 / Part III / Section 520.40
520.40 Waiver.
Status: in_force

Any waiver by the retail buyer of any provisions of this act or of any remedies granted to the buyer by this act shall be unenforceable and void.

History: s. 11, ch. 59-414; s. 3, ch. 76-168; s. 1, ch. 77-457; s. 21, ch. 80-256; s. 2, ch. 81-318; ss. 35, 36, ch. 90-103; s. 4, ch. 91-429.
Fla. Stat. § 736.0603 — Florida Code / Title XLII / Chapter 736 / Part VI / Section 736.0603
736.0603 Settlor’s powers; powers of withdrawal.
Status: in_force

(1) While a trust is revocable, the duties of the trustee are owed exclusively to the settlor.

(2) During the period the power may be exercised, the holder of a power of withdrawal has the rights of a settlor of a revocable trust under this section to the extent of the property subject to the power.

(3) Subject to ss. 736.0403(2) and 736.0602(3)(a), the trustee may follow a direction of the settlor that is contrary to the terms of the trust while a trust is revocable.

History: s. 6, ch. 2006-217; s. 6, ch. 2021-183.
Fla. Stat. § 288.993 — Florida Code / Title XIX / Chapter 288 / Part XI / Section 288.993
288.993 Short title.
Status: in_force

This part may be cited as the “Florida Microfinance Act.”

History: s. 48, ch. 2014-218.
Fla. Stat. § 14.03 — Florida Code / Title IV / Chapter 14 / Section 14.03
14.03 Governor’s private secretary.
Status: in_force

The Governor of this state may appoint and commission a fit and proper person to hold office during the pleasure of the Governor, as private secretary of the Governor, and as clerk for the executive department, and who shall attend daily, during office hours, at the capitol, and perform such duties in the office of the Governor as she or he may be directed by the Governor to perform.

History: s. 3, ch. 3, 1845; RS 71; GS 72; RGS 86; CGL 107; s. 35, ch. 95-147.