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Fla. Stat. § 501.973 — Florida Code / Title XXXIII / Chapter 501 / Part VI / Section 501.973
501.973 Chambers of commerce.
Status: in_force

(1) For the purposes of this section: (a) “Business entity” means any corporation, partnership, limited partnership, proprietorship, firm, enterprise, franchise, association, self-employed individual, or trust, whether fictitiously named or not, doing business in this state. (b) “Chamber of commerce” means a voluntary membership, dues-paying organization of business and professional persons dedicated, as stated in the articles of incorporation or bylaws of the organization, to improving the economic climate and business development of the community, area, or region in which the organization is located and which: 1. Operates as an approved not-for-profit corporation under chapter 617 and as a corporation or association qualified for tax-exempt status under s. 501(c)(3) or s. 501(c)(6) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended. 2. Files any required corporation annual reports with the Secretary of State and, if applicable, required annual information returns with the United States Internal Revenue Service. 3. Is governed by a volunteer board of directors of at least seven members who are elected from among the membership of the organization and who serve without compensation.

(2) A business entity, other than a chamber of commerce, shall not use the term “chamber of commerce” in its name or to describe itself, except for binational chambers of commerce recognized by the Office of International Affairs of the Department of State or chambers of commerce in existence on or before October 1, 1992. Any business entity which violates this subsection commits a misdemeanor of the first degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083.

(3) This section imposes no requirement for oversight or regulation of a business entity name, trademark, trade name, or other requirement for filing or registration under any provision of law.

(4) Subject to the provisions of s. 495.151, a chamber of commerce may sue any business entity that is not a chamber of commerce as defined in this section to enjoin such entity from using the term “chamber of commerce” in its name or to describe itself as a chamber of commerce in any business or commerce.

History: s. 5, ch. 2007-232.
Fla. Stat. § 272.08 — Florida Code / Title XVIII / Chapter 272 / Section 272.08
272.08 Duty of repair, maintenance, and supervision.
Status: in_force

Except when otherwise directed by the Department of Management Services, the official or officials now having the duty of repair, care, maintenance, and supervision of any of said buildings shall continue to exercise such authority.

History: s. 8, ch. 25032, 1949; ss. 22, 35, ch. 69-106; s. 2, ch. 75-70; s. 48, ch. 85-349; s. 204, ch. 92-279; s. 55, ch. 92-326; s. 49, ch. 98-279.
Fla. Stat. § 627.751 — Florida Code / Title XXXVII / Chapter 627 / Part XII / Section 627.751
627.751 Surety on required bonds; release.
Status: in_force

(1) Subject to other provisions of this part, any authorized surety insurer may be accepted as surety on the bond of any person required by the laws of this state to give bond and may be the only surety necessary to render the bond valid; but other surety may, in the discretion of the official authorized to approve the bond, be required.

(2) A surety insurer may be released from its liability on the same terms and conditions as are by law prescribed for the release of individuals and shall be subject to all the rights and liabilities of natural persons.

History: s. 611, ch. 59-205; s. 3, ch. 76-168; s. 1, ch. 77-457; ss. 2, 3, ch. 81-318; ss. 564, 573, 809(2nd), ch. 82-243; s. 79, ch. 82-386; s. 114, ch. 92-318.
Fla. Stat. § 15.043 — Florida Code / Title IV / Chapter 15 / Section 15.043
15.043 Official state pageant.
Status: in_force

The pageant “Indian River,” a Florida historical pageant presented annually by the citizens of Brevard County, is hereby designated an official state pageant of Florida.

History: s. 1, ch. 79-196.
Fla. Stat. § 408.301 — Florida Code / Title XXIX / Chapter 408 / Part I / Section 408.301
408.301 Legislative findings.
Status: in_force

The Legislature has found that access to quality, affordable, health care for all Floridians is an important goal for the state. The Legislature recognizes that there are Floridians with special health care and social needs which require particular attention. The people served by the Department of Children and Families, the Agency for Persons with Disabilities, the Department of Health, and the Department of Elderly Affairs are examples of citizens with special needs. The Legislature further recognizes that the Medicaid program is an intricate part of the service delivery system for the special needs citizens. However, the Agency for Health Care Administration is not a service provider and does not develop or direct programs for the special needs citizens. Therefore, it is the intent of the Legislature that the Agency for Health Care Administration work closely with the Department of Children and Families, the Agency for Persons with Disabilities, the Department of Health, and the Department of Elderly Affairs in developing plans for assuring access to all Floridians in order to assure that the needs of special needs citizens are met.

History: s. 18, ch. 93-129; s. 179, ch. 99-8; s. 13, ch. 2000-209; s. 83, ch. 2004-267; s. 164, ch. 2014-19; s. 51, ch. 2016-10.
Fla. Stat. § 420.55 — Florida Code / Title XXX / Chapter 420 / Part V / Section 420.55
420.55 Housing; response to disasters.
Status: in_force

The Florida Housing Finance Corporation is authorized to provide funds to eligible entities for affordable housing recovery in those areas of the state which sustained housing damage due to hurricanes during 2004 and 2005. The Florida Housing Finance Corporation shall utilize data provided by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to assist in its allocation of funds to local jurisdictions. To administer these programs, the Florida Housing Finance Corporation shall be guided by the “Hurricane Housing Work Group Recommendations to Assist in Florida’s Long Term Housing Recovery Efforts” report dated February 16, 2005, and may adopt emergency rules pursuant to s. 120.54. The Legislature finds that emergency rules adopted pursuant to this section meet the health, safety, and welfare requirement of s. 120.54(4). The Legislature finds that such emergency rulemaking power is necessary for the preservation of the rights and welfare of the people in order to provide additional funds to assist those areas of the state that sustained housing damage due to hurricanes during 2004 and 2005. Therefore, in adopting such emergency rules, the corporation need not make the findings required by s. 120.54(4)(a). Emergency rules adopted under this section are exempt from s. 120.54(4)(c). The sum of $75.9 million is appropriated from the Local Government Housing Trust Fund to the Florida Housing Finance Corporation for the Rental Recovery Loan Program. The sum of $15 million is appropriated from the State Housing Trust Fund to the Florida Housing Finance Corporation for the Farmworker Housing Recovery Program and the Special Housing Assistance and Development Program, and the sum of $17 million is appropriated from the State Housing Trust Fund to the Florida Housing Finance Corporation for the Rental Recovery Program. The sum of $100,000 is appropriated from the State Housing Trust Fund to the Florida Housing Finance Corporation for technical and training assistance.

History: ss. 48, 53, ch. 2006-26; s. 31, ch. 2006-69.
Fla. Stat. § 709.2301 — Florida Code / Title XL / Chapter 709 / Part II / Section 709.2301
709.2301 Principles of law and equity.
Status: in_force

The common law of agency and principles of equity supplement this part, except as modified by this part or other state law.

History: s. 27, ch. 2011-210.
Fla. Stat. § 713.17 — Florida Code / Title XL / Chapter 713 / Part I / Section 713.17
713.17 Materials not attachable for debts of purchaser.
Status: in_force

Whenever materials have been furnished to improve real property and payment therefor has not been made or waived, such materials shall not be subject to attachment, execution, or other legal process to enforce any debt due by the purchaser of such materials, except a debt due for the purchase price thereof, so long as in good faith the same are about to be applied to improve the real property; but if the owner has made payment for materials furnished and the materialman has not received payment therefor, such materials shall not be subject to attachment, execution, or other legal process to enforce the debt due for the purchase price.

History: s. 1, ch. 63-135; s. 35, ch. 67-254.
Fla. Stat. § 626.9701 — Florida Code / Title XXXVII / Chapter 626 / Part IX / Section 626.9701
626.9701 Rate increases and premium surcharges; consideration of certain noncriminal violations for excessive speed prohibited.
Status: in_force

Noncriminal violations solely for excessive speed less than 70 miles per hour on highways which are outside business and residential districts and which have at least four lanes divided by a median strip at least 20 feet wide and on highways which comprise a part of the national system of interstate and defense highways shall not be considered by insurance companies in rate increases for individuals or surcharges for insurance premiums.

History: s. 5, ch. 76-218; s. 807, ch. 82-243; ss. 206, 207, ch. 90-363; s. 4, ch. 91-429.
Fla. Stat. § 938.13 — Florida Code / Title XLVII / Chapter 938 / Part II / Section 938.13
938.13 Misdemeanor convictions involving drugs or alcohol.
Status: in_force

(1)(a) When any person, on or after October 1, 1988, is found guilty of any misdemeanor under the laws of this state in which the unlawful use of drugs or alcohol is involved, there shall be imposed an additional cost in the case, in addition to any other cost required to be imposed by law, in the sum of $15. Under no condition shall a political subdivision be held liable for the payment of such sum. (b) The clerk of the court shall collect the $15 and forward $14 thereof to the jurisdictional county of collection as described in s. 893.165(2) to be deposited to the credit of the County Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Trust Fund for allocation to local substance abuse programs under s. 893.165. The clerk shall retain the remaining $1 of each $15 collected as a service charge of the clerk’s office.

(2) The costs imposed by this section apply only in each county in which the board of county commissioners has adopted an ordinance which requires the collection of such costs.

History: s. 47, ch. 88-337; s. 42, ch. 93-39; s. 1, ch. 97-208; s. 12, ch. 97-271.
Fla. Stat. § 790.053 — Florida Code / Title XLVI / Chapter 790 / Section 790.053
790.053 Open carrying of weapons.
Status: in_force

(1) Except as otherwise provided by law and in subsection (2), it is unlawful for any person to openly carry on or about his or her person any firearm or electric weapon or device. It is not a violation of this section for a person who carries a concealed firearm as authorized in s. 790.01(1) to briefly and openly display the firearm to the ordinary sight of another person, unless the firearm is intentionally displayed in an angry or threatening manner, not in necessary self-defense.

(2) A person may openly carry, for purposes of lawful self-defense: (a) A self-defense chemical spray. (b) A nonlethal stun gun or dart-firing stun gun or other nonlethal electric weapon or device that is designed solely for defensive purposes.

(3) Any person violating this section commits a misdemeanor of the second degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083.

History: s. 1, ch. 87-537; s. 173, ch. 91-224; s. 3, ch. 97-72; s. 1205, ch. 97-102; s. 3, ch. 2006-298; s. 1, ch. 2011-145; s. 9, ch. 2023-18.
Fla. Stat. § 425.10 — Florida Code / Title XXX / Chapter 425 / Section 425.10
425.10 Board of trustees.
Status: in_force

(1) The business and affairs of a cooperative shall be managed by a board of not less than five trustees, each of whom shall be a member of the cooperative or of another cooperative which shall be a member thereof. The bylaws shall prescribe the number of trustees, their qualifications, other than those provided for in this chapter, the manner of holding meetings of the board of trustees and of the election of successors to trustees who shall resign, die, or otherwise be incapable of acting. The bylaws may also provide for the removal of trustees from office and for the election of their successors. Without approval of the members, trustees shall not receive any salaries for their services as trustees and, except in emergencies, shall not be employed by the cooperative in any capacity involving compensation. The bylaws may, however, provide that a fixed fee and expenses of attendance, if any, may be allowed to each trustee for attendance at each meeting of the board of trustees and that such may be allowed for the performance of other cooperative business, provided it has prior approval of the board of trustees.

(2) The trustees of a cooperative named in any articles of incorporation, consolidation, merger or conversion, as the case may be, shall hold office until the next following annual meeting of the members or until their successors shall have been elected and qualified. At each annual meeting or, in case of failure to hold the annual meeting as specified in the bylaws, at a special meeting called for that purpose, the members shall elect trustees to hold office until the next following annual meeting of the members, except as hereinafter otherwise provided. Each trustee shall hold office for the term for which he or she is elected or until a successor shall have been elected and qualified.

(3) The bylaws may provide that, in lieu of electing the whole number of trustees annually, the trustees may be divided into three classes at the first or any subsequent annual meeting, each class to be as nearly equal in number as possible, with the term of office of the trustees of the first class to expire at the next succeeding annual meeting and the term of the second class to expire at the second succeeding annual meeting and the term of the third class to expire at the third succeeding annual meeting. At each annual meeting after such classification a number of trustees equal to the number of the class whose term expires at the time of such meeting shall be elected to hold office until the third succeeding annual meeting.

(4) A majority of the board of trustees shall constitute a quorum.

(5) If a husband and wife hold a joint membership in a cooperative, either one, but not both, may be elected a trustee.

(6) The board of trustees may exercise all of the powers of a cooperative except such as are conferred upon the members by this chapter, or its articles of incorporation or bylaws.

History: s. 9, ch. 19138, 1939; CGL 1940 Supp. 6494(52); s. 1, ch. 28053, 1953; s. 1, ch. 74-33; s. 93, ch. 97-103.
Fla. Stat. § 688.009 — Florida Code / Title XXXIX / Chapter 688 / Section 688.009
688.009 Uniformity of application and construction.
Status: in_force

Sections 688.001-688.009 shall be applied and construed to effectuate its general purpose to make uniform the law with respect to the subject of this act among states enacting it.

History: s. 9, ch. 88-254.
Fla. Stat. § 925.09 — Florida Code / Title XLVII / Chapter 925 / Section 925.09
925.09 Authority of state attorney to order autopsies.
Status: in_force

The state attorney may have an autopsy performed, before or after interment, on a dead body found in the county when she or he decides it is necessary in determining whether or not death was the result of a crime. Physicians performing the autopsy shall be paid reasonable fees by the county upon the approval of the county commission and the state attorney ordering the autopsy.

History: s. 1, ch. 28019, 1953; s. 1, ch. 57-311; s. 174, ch. 70-339; s. 42, ch. 73-334; s. 1562, ch. 97-102; s. 83, ch. 2004-265.
Fla. Stat. § 55.602 — Florida Code / Title VI / Chapter 55 / Section 55.602
55.602 Definitions.
Status: in_force

As used in this act, the term:

(1) “Foreign state” means any governmental unit other than the United States, or any state, district, commonwealth, territory, insular possession thereof, or the Panama Canal Zone, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, or the Ryukyu Islands.

(2) “Out-of-country foreign judgment” means any judgment of a foreign state granting or denying recovery of a sum of money, other than a judgment for taxes, a fine, or other penalty.

History: s. 2, ch. 94-239; s. 5, ch. 2005-241.
Fla. Stat. § 679.526 — Florida Code / Title XXXIX / Chapter 679 / Part V / Section 679.526
679.526 Filing-office rules.
Status: in_force

The Department of State may adopt and publish rules to administer this chapter. The filing-office rules must be:

(1) Consistent with this chapter.

(2) Adopted and published in accordance with the Administrative Procedure Act.

History: s. 6, ch. 2001-198.
Fla. Stat. § 101.002 — Florida Code / Title IX / Chapter 101 / Section 101.002
101.002 Use of system by municipalities.
Status: in_force

(1) The board of county commissioners, with the concurrence of the supervisor of elections, may arrange the boundaries of the precincts in each municipality within the county to conform to the boundaries of the municipality, subject to the concurrence of the governing body of the municipality. All binders, files, and other equipment or materials necessary for the permanent registration system shall be furnished by the board of county commissioners.

(2) The supervisor of elections shall deliver the records required for a municipal election to the municipal elections boards or other appropriate elections officials before the election and collect them after the election. The municipality shall reimburse the county for the actual costs incurred.

(3) Any person who is a duly registered elector pursuant to this code and who resides within the boundaries of a municipality is qualified to participate in all municipal elections, the provisions of special acts or local charters notwithstanding. Electors who are not registered under the permanent registration system shall not be permitted to vote.

History: s. 4, ch. 25391, 1949; s. 2, ch. 26870, 1951; s. 10, ch. 27991, 1953; s. 2, ch. 29761, 1955; s. 1, ch. 57-136; s. 1, ch. 63-268; s. 6, ch. 65-134; s. 2, ch. 73-155; s. 5, ch. 77-175; s. 31, ch. 94-224.
Fla. Stat. § 7.30 — Florida Code / Title II / Chapter 7 / Section 7.30
7.30 Holmes County.
Status: in_force

The boundary lines of Holmes County are as follows: Beginning on the Alabama state line where it is intersected by the line dividing centrally range eighteen, west: thence south on the section lines to the line dividing townships two and three, north, in range eighteen, west; thence east on said township line to the thread of the Choctawhatchee River; thence up the thread of said river to a point where said river is intersected by the township line between townships four and five north; thence east on said township line to the northwest corner of section four, township four north, range fifteen west; thence south one mile on section line to the southwest corner of section four, township four north, range fifteen west; thence east one mile to the southeast corner of section four, township four north, range fifteen west; thence south on section lines two miles to the southwest corner of section fifteen, township four north, range fifteen west; thence east on section lines to the thread of Holmes Creek; thence northward up the thread of Holmes Creek to a point where said creek crosses the Alabama line; thence west on said state line to the place of beginning.

History: s. 1, ch. 176, 1848; RS 14; GS 12; s. 2, ch. 6935, 1915; RGS 13; CGL 15.
Fla. Stat. § 589.31 — Florida Code / Title XXXV / Chapter 589 / Section 589.31
589.31 Cooperative agreement.
Status: in_force

Before any assistance is provided under this law, the county or municipality and the Florida Forest Service, through their duly constituted representatives, shall enter into a mutually satisfactory cooperative agreement covering the specific duties, and set up a budget for any fiscal period beginning July 1 and ending June 30, and the county’s or municipality’s share of the budget provided shall be turned over to the Florida Forest Service, one-half on or before July 1, and the remainder on or before January 1, and placed in the Incidental Trust Fund of the Florida Forest Service.

History: s. 4, ch. 20899, 1941; s. 2, ch. 61-119; ss. 14, 35, ch. 69-106; s. 4, ch. 71-183; s. 52, ch. 2012-7.
Fla. Stat. § 766.2021 — Florida Code / Title XLV / Chapter 766 / Section 766.2021
766.2021 Limitation on damages against insurers, prepaid limited health service organizations, health maintenance organizations, or prepaid health clinics.
Status: in_force

An entity licensed or certified under chapter 624, chapter 636, or chapter 641 shall not be liable for the medical negligence of a health care provider with whom the licensed or certified entity has entered into a contract in any amount greater than the amount of damages that may be imposed by law directly upon the health care provider, and any suits against such entity shall be subject to all provisions and requirements of evidence in this chapter and other requirements imposed by law in connection with suits against health care providers for medical negligence.

History: s. 59, ch. 2003-416.
Fla. Stat. § 55.607 — Florida Code / Title VI / Chapter 55 / Section 55.607
55.607 Stay in case of appeal.
Status: in_force

If the defendant satisfies the court that an appeal is pending, or that he or she intends to appeal, and that he or she has obtained a stay of judgment from the foreign court, the court may stay the proceedings until the appeal has been determined or until the expiration of a period of time sufficient to enable the defendant to prosecute the appeal.

History: s. 7, ch. 94-239; s. 1361, ch. 95-147.
Fla. Stat. § 631.071 — Florida Code / Title XXXVII / Chapter 631 / Part I / Section 631.071
631.071 Grounds for conservation; foreign insurers.
Status: in_force

The department may apply to the court for an order appointing it as receiver or ancillary receiver, and directing it to conserve the assets within this state, of a foreign insurer upon any of the following grounds:

(1) Upon any of the grounds specified in s. 631.051 or s. 631.061, or

(2) Upon the ground that its property has been sequestrated in its domiciliary sovereignty or in any other sovereignty.

History: s. 723, ch. 59-205; ss. 13, 35, ch. 69-106; s. 809(1st), ch. 82-243; ss. 184, 187, 188, ch. 91-108; s. 4, ch. 91-429.