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Fla. Stat. § 337.175 — Florida Code / Title XXVI / Chapter 337 / Section 337.175
337.175 Retainage.
Status: in_force

The department may provide in its construction contracts for retaining a portion of the amount due a contractor for work that the contractor has completed, until completion and final acceptance of the project by the department. If the department allows, contractors may substitute securities as provided by s. 255.052, or substitute certificates of deposit or irrevocable letters of credit approved by the department comptroller in lieu of retainage.

History: s. 9, ch. 87-100; s. 48, ch. 90-136; s. 122, ch. 92-152; s. 497, ch. 95-148; s. 13, ch. 2000-266.
Fla. Stat. § 88.2031 — Florida Code / Title VI / Chapter 88 / Part II / Section 88.2031
88.2031 Initiating and responding tribunal of state.
Status: in_force

Under this act, a tribunal of this state may serve as an initiating tribunal to forward proceedings to a tribunal of another state and as a responding tribunal for proceedings initiated in another state or a foreign country.

History: s. 2, ch. 96-189; s. 15, ch. 97-170; s. 7, ch. 2011-92.
Fla. Stat. § 468.516 — Florida Code / Title XXXII / Chapter 468 / Part X / Section 468.516
468.516 Practice requirements.
Status: in_force

(1)(a) A licensee under this part shall not implement a dietary plan for a condition for which the patient is under the active care of a physician licensed under chapter 458 or chapter 459, without the oral or written dietary order of the referring physician. In the event the licensee is unable to obtain authorization or consultation after a good faith effort to obtain it from the physician, the licensee may use professional discretion in providing nutrition services until authorization or consultation is obtained from the physician. (b) The licensee shall refer a patient to a physician licensed under chapter 458 or chapter 459 upon the recognition of a condition within the scope of practice as authorized under chapter 458 or chapter 459, unless the patient has been referred by or is currently being treated by a physician licensed under chapter 458 or chapter 459.

(2)(a) A licensee under this part shall not implement a dietary plan for a chiropractic condition for which the patient is under the active care of a chiropractic physician licensed under chapter 460, without the oral or written dietary order of the referring chiropractic physician. In the event the licensee is unable to obtain authorization or consultation after a good faith effort to obtain it from the chiropractic physician, the licensee may use professional discretion in providing nutrition services until authorization or consultation is obtained from the chiropractic physician. (b) The licensee shall refer a patient to a chiropractic physician licensed under chapter 460 upon the recognition of a condition within the scope of practice as authorized under chapter 460, unless the patient has been referred or is currently being treated by a chiropractic physician licensed under chapter 460.

(3) This section does not preclude a licensed dietitian/nutritionist from independently ordering a therapeutic diet if otherwise authorized to order such a diet in this state.

History: ss. 16, 20, ch. 88-236; s. 4, ch. 91-429; s. 17, ch. 96-367; s. 4, ch. 2015-125.
Fla. Stat. § 516.19 — Florida Code / Title XXXIII / Chapter 516 / Section 516.19
516.19 Penalties.
Status: in_force

Any person who violates any of the provisions of s. 516.02, s. 516.031, s. 516.05(3), s. 516.05(6), or s. 516.07(1)(e) commits a misdemeanor of the first degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083.

History: s. 18, ch. 10177, 1925; CGL 7880; s. 487, ch. 71-136; s. 13, ch. 73-192; s. 2, ch. 81-318; ss. 9, 16, 17, ch. 88-342; s. 8, ch. 90-104; s. 4, ch. 91-429; s. 31, ch. 2006-213; s. 2, ch. 2013-124; s. 8, ch. 2024-276.
Fla. Stat. § 16.535 — Florida Code / Title IV / Chapter 16 / Section 16.535
16.535 Legal Services Trust Fund.
Status: in_force

(1) There is created in the State Treasury the Legal Services Trust Fund to be used by the Attorney General in providing legal services to agencies on a contractual basis.

(2) State agencies contracting for legal services with the Department of Legal Affairs are authorized to make advance payments on a quarterly basis.

History: s. 5, ch. 82-196; s. 2, ch. 85-123.
Fla. Stat. § 695.02 — Florida Code / Title XL / Chapter 695 / Section 695.02
695.02 Blank or master form of instruments may be recorded.
Status: in_force

(1) Any person may have a blank or master form of mortgage or other instrument conveying, transferring or reserving an interest in, or creating a lien on, real or personal property, filed, indexed and recorded in the office of the clerk of the circuit court.

(2) When any such blank or master form is filed with the clerk of the circuit court, she or he shall record and index the same in the manner provided by law for recording and indexing mortgages and such other instruments respectively, except that the name of the person whose name appears on such blank or master form shall be inserted in the indexes as grantor and also as grantee.

(3) When any instrument conveying, transferring or reserving an interest in, or creating a lien on, real or personal property, incorporates by reference the provisions, terms, covenants, conditions, obligations, powers and other contents, or any of them, set forth in any such recorded blank or master form, such incorporation by reference, for all purposes, shall be equivalent to setting forth in extenso in such instrument that which is incorporated by reference.

History: ss. 1, 2, 3, 4, ch. 17109, 1935; CGL 1936 Supp. 5698(1); s. 219, ch. 77-104; s. 762, ch. 97-102.
Fla. Stat. § 381.0012 — Florida Code / Title XXIX / Chapter 381 / Section 381.0012
381.0012 Enforcement authority.
Status: in_force

(1) The department may commence and maintain all proper and necessary actions and proceedings to enforce the rules adopted pursuant to this chapter and may defend all actions and proceedings involving the department’s powers and duties.

(2) The department may apply for an injunction to the proper circuit court, and the judge of that court upon hearing and for cause shown may grant a temporary or permanent injunction, or both, restraining any person from violating or continuing to violate any of the provisions of this chapter or from failing or refusing to comply with the requirements of this chapter. A permanent injunction may be issued without bond. However, a temporary injunction may not be issued without bond except after a hearing of which the respondent has been given not less than 7 days’ prior notice. A temporary injunction may not be issued without bond which limits or prevents operations of an industrial, manufacturing, or processing plant, unless at the hearing, it is shown by clear, certain, and convincing evidence that irreparable injury will result to the public from the failure to issue the temporary injunction. If a temporary injunction or restraining order is improperly or erroneously granted, the state is liable in damages and to the extent provided for in chapter 768.

(3) The department may commence and maintain all proper and necessary actions and proceedings to compel the performance of any act specifically required of any person, officer, or board by any law of this state relating to public health.

(4) The department may appear before any trial court judge empowered to issue warrants in criminal cases and request the issuance of a warrant. The trial court judge shall issue a warrant directed to any sheriff, deputy, or police officer to assist in any way to carry out the purpose and intent of this chapter.

(5) It shall be the duty of every state and county attorney, sheriff, police officer, and other appropriate city and county officials upon request to assist the department or any of its agents in enforcing the state health laws, rules, and orders adopted under this chapter.

History: s. 4, ch. 91-297; s. 9, ch. 2004-11; s. 1, ch. 2015-120.
Fla. Stat. § 218.125 — Florida Code / Title XIV / Chapter 218 / Part I / Section 218.125
218.125 Offset for tax loss associated with certain constitutional amendments affecting fiscally constrained counties.
Status: in_force

(1) Beginning in the 2010-2011 fiscal year, the Legislature shall appropriate moneys to offset the reductions in ad valorem tax revenue experienced by fiscally constrained counties, as defined in s. 218.67(1), which occur as a direct result of the implementation of revisions of ss. 3(f) and 4(b), Art. VII of the State Constitution which were approved in the general election held in November 2008. The moneys appropriated for this purpose shall be distributed in January of each fiscal year among the fiscally constrained counties based on each county’s proportion of the total reduction in ad valorem tax revenue resulting from the implementation of the revisions.

(2) On or before November 15 of each year, each fiscally constrained county shall apply to the Department of Revenue to participate in the distribution of the appropriation and provide documentation supporting the county’s estimated reduction in ad valorem tax revenue in the form and manner prescribed by the Department of Revenue. The documentation must include an estimate of the reduction in taxable value directly attributable to revisions of Art. VII of the State Constitution for all county taxing jurisdictions within the county and shall be prepared by the property appraiser in each fiscally constrained county. The documentation must also include the county millage rates applicable in all such jurisdictions for the current year and the prior year, rolled-back rates determined as provided in s. 200.065 for each county taxing jurisdiction, and maximum millage rates that could have been levied by majority vote pursuant to s. 200.065(5). For purposes of this section, each fiscally constrained county’s reduction in ad valorem tax revenue shall be calculated as 95 percent of the estimated reduction in taxable value multiplied by the lesser of the 2010 applicable millage rate or the applicable millage rate for each county taxing jurisdiction in the current year. If a fiscally constrained county fails to apply for the distribution, its share shall revert to the fund from which the appropriation was made.

History: s. 7, ch. 2009-157; s. 31, ch. 2012-193; s. 3, ch. 2017-35; s. 3, ch. 2022-219.
Fla. Stat. § 506.507 — Florida Code / Title XXXIII / Chapter 506 / Section 506.507
506.507 Bakery containers; designation of owners.
Status: in_force

Any person, firm, corporation, or association engaged in receiving, packing, handling, or selling bakery products in permanent containers may, in order to designate the ownership of such containers or distinguish such containers from other similar containers, adopt, own, and use any name or mark and permanently affix such name or mark on any bakery container it owns, except a cardboard, fiberboard, or corrugated container.

History: s. 4, ch. 87-80.
Fla. Stat. § 455.2178 — Florida Code / Title XXXII / Chapter 455 / Section 455.2178
455.2178 Continuing education providers.
Status: in_force

(1) Each continuing education provider shall provide to the department such information regarding the continuing education status of licensees as the department determines is necessary to carry out its duties under s. 455.2177, in an electronic format determined by the department. After a licensee’s completion of a course, the information must be submitted to the department electronically no later than 30 calendar days thereafter. However, the continuing education provider shall electronically report to the department completion of a licensee’s course within 10 business days beginning on the 30th day before the renewal deadline or prior to the renewal date, whichever occurs sooner. The foregoing applies only if the profession has not been granted a waiver from the monitoring requirements under s. 455.2177. Upon the request of a licensee, the provider must also furnish to the department information regarding courses completed by the licensee.

(2) Each continuing education provider shall retain all records relating to a licensee’s completion of continuing education courses for at least 4 years after completion of a course.

(3) A continuing education provider may not be approved, and the approval may not be renewed, unless the provider agrees in writing to provide such cooperation under this section and s. 455.2177 as the department deems necessary or appropriate.

(4) The department may fine, suspend, or revoke approval of any continuing education provider that fails to comply with its duties under this section. Such fine may not exceed $500 per violation. Investigations and prosecutions of a provider’s failure to comply with its duties under this section shall be conducted pursuant to s. 455.225.

(5) For the purpose of determining which persons or entities must meet the reporting, recordkeeping, and access provisions of this section, the board of any profession subject to this section, or the department if there is no board, shall, by rule, adopt a definition of the term “continuing education provider” applicable to the profession’s continuing education requirements. The intent of the rule shall be to ensure that all records and information necessary to carry out the requirements of this section and s. 455.2177 are maintained and transmitted accordingly and to minimize disputes as to what person or entity is responsible for maintaining and reporting such records and information.

(6) The department may adopt rules under ss. 120.536(1) and 120.54 to implement this section.

History: s. 158, ch. 99-251; s. 3, ch. 2004-292; s. 2, ch. 2007-86.
Fla. Stat. § 211.026 — Florida Code / Title XIV / Chapter 211 / Part I / Section 211.026
211.026 Sulfur production tax; basis and rate of tax.
Status: in_force

An excise tax is hereby levied upon every person who severs sulfur in this state for sale, transport, storage, profit, or commercial use. Except as otherwise provided in this part, such tax shall be levied on the basis of the entire production of sulfur in this state, including any royalty interest. Such tax shall accrue at the time of severance of the gas from which the sulfur is produced and shall be a lien on production regardless of the place of sale, to whom sold, or by whom used and regardless of the fact that delivery may be made outside the state.

(1) The amount of tax shall be determined by the long tons of sulfur produced or recovered by a producer during the month from the hydrogen sulfide gas contained in oil or gas production from a well, measured at the point where the sulfur is in its molten, elemental state, and is capable of being sold, delivered, transported, or stored, subject to the sulfur tax rate established in this section. For each fiscal year, the sulfur tax rate shall be the sulfur base rate times the sulfur base rate adjustment for the fiscal year, as calculated by the department under subsection (3).

(2) The sulfur base rate shall be $2.71 per long ton.

(3)(a) On or before May 15, 1987, and annually thereafter, the department shall determine the sulfur base rate adjustment and the resulting sulfur tax rate for the fiscal year beginning on the following July 1. (b) The sulfur base rate adjustment is a fraction, the numerator of which is the annual average of the sulfur producer price index, Commodity Code 06130272.99, as calculated and published by the United States Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, for the previous calendar year, and the denominator of which is 100.0. (c) The department shall provide the sulfur base rate adjustment and the sulfur tax rate for the fiscal year, as determined under this subsection, to affected producers by written notice mailed on or before June 1. (d) If the index used to determine the sulfur base rate adjustment is substantially revised, or if the base year for the index is changed, the department shall make appropriate adjustment to the method used to determine the sulfur base rate adjustment to ensure a result which is reasonably consistent with the result which would have been obtained had the index not been substantially revised or the base year changed. (e) If the sulfur producer price index is discontinued, a comparable index shall be selected by the department and adopted by rule.

(4) Sulfur production shall be measured and expressed in long tons.

(5) The tax imposed under this section shall be administered, collected, and enforced by the department.

History: s. 4, ch. 86-178; s. 22, ch. 2000-158; s. 8, ch. 2000-210.
Fla. Stat. § 328.80 — Florida Code / Title XXIV / Chapter 328 / Part II / Section 328.80
328.80 Transactions by electronic or telephonic means.
Status: in_force

The commission is authorized to accept any application provided for under this chapter by electronic or telephonic means.

History: s. 24, ch. 97-300; s. 36, ch. 99-245; s. 32, ch. 99-289.
Fla. Stat. § 455.245 — Florida Code / Title XXXII / Chapter 455 / Section 455.245
455.245 Veterinarians; immediate suspension of license.
Status: in_force

The department shall issue an emergency order suspending the license of any person licensed under chapter 474 who pleads guilty to, is convicted or found guilty of, or who enters a plea of nolo contendere to, regardless of adjudication, a felony under chapter 409 or chapter 893 or under 21 U.S.C. ss. 801-970 or under 42 U.S.C. ss. 1395-1396.

History: s. 1, ch. 86-91; s. 12, ch. 88-1; s. 16, ch. 89-124; s. 64, ch. 92-33; s. 36, ch. 92-149; s. 23, ch. 93-129; s. 93, ch. 94-218; s. 192, ch. 97-103; s. 32, ch. 97-261.
Fla. Stat. § 1009.973 — Florida Code / Title XLVIII / Chapter 1009 / Part IV / Section 1009.973
1009.973 Comprehensive investment plans.
Status: in_force

The Florida Prepaid College Board shall establish separate comprehensive investment plans for the prepaid program and for the savings program, each subject to the approval of the State Board of Administration. Each comprehensive investment plan shall specify the investment policies to be utilized by the board in its administration of each respective program. The board may place assets of each program in investment products pursuant to the comprehensive investment plan for each respective program and in such proportions as may be designated or approved under the plan for each respective program. Such products shall be underwritten and offered in compliance with the applicable federal and state laws, regulations, and rules by persons authorized by applicable federal and state authorities. A purchaser may not direct the investment of his or her contribution to the prepaid program. A benefactor or designated beneficiary may not direct the investment of any contributions to the savings program other than the specific fund options provided by the board, if any. Board members and employees of the board are not prohibited from purchasing advance payment contracts or entering into participation agreements by virtue of their fiduciary responsibilities as members of the board or official duties as employees of the board.

History: s. 484, ch. 2002-387.
Fla. Stat. § 283.58 — Florida Code / Title XIX / Chapter 283 / Section 283.58
283.58 Agency agreements with vendors for private publication of public information materials; free distribution to public.
Status: in_force

(1) An agency may enter into agreements to secure the private publication of public information brochures, pamphlets, audiotapes, videotapes, and related materials for distribution without charge to the public and, in furtherance thereof, is authorized to: (a) Enter into agreements with private vendors for the publication or production of such public information materials, by which the costs of publication or production will be borne in whole or in part by the vendor or the vendor agrees to provide additional compensation in return for the right of the vendor to select, sell, and place advertising that publicizes products or services related to and harmonious with the subject matter of the publication. (b) Retain the right, by agreement, to approve all elements of any advertising placed in such public information materials, including the form and content thereof.

(2) Any public information materials produced pursuant to this section and containing advertising of any kind must include a statement providing that the inclusion of advertising in such material does not constitute an endorsement by the state or the agency of the products or services so advertised.

History: s. 26, ch. 90-335.
Fla. Stat. § 607.1001 — Florida Code / Title XXXVI / Chapter 607 / Part I / Section 607.1001
607.1001 Authority to amend the articles of incorporation.
Status: in_force

(1) A corporation may amend its articles of incorporation at any time to add or change a provision that is required or permitted in the articles of incorporation or to delete a provision not required to be contained in the articles of incorporation. Whether a provision is required or permitted in the articles of incorporation is determined as of the effective date of the amendment.

(2) A shareholder of the corporation does not have a vested property right resulting from any provision in the articles of incorporation, including provisions relating to management, control, capital structure, dividend entitlement, or purpose or duration of the corporation.

History: s. 97, ch. 89-154; s. 118, ch. 2019-90.
Fla. Stat. § 330.411 — Florida Code / Title XXV / Chapter 330 / Section 330.411
330.411 Prohibited possession, alteration, or operation of unmanned aircraft or unmanned aircraft system.
Status: in_force

(1) As used in this section, the term: (a) “Unmanned aircraft” has the same meaning as the term “drone” in s. 934.50(2). (b) “Unmanned aircraft system” has the same meaning as in s. 330.41(2).

(2) A person may not knowingly or willfully possess or operate an unmanned aircraft or unmanned aircraft system with an attached weapon, firearm, explosive, destructive device, or ammunition as those terms are defined in s. 790.001.

(3)(a) For the purposes of violating s. 330.41(4)(a), a person may not knowingly or willfully: 1. Alter, manipulate, tamper with, or otherwise change an unmanned aircraft or unmanned aircraft system’s hardware or software to purposefully frustrate any tool, system, or technology intended to satisfy the remote identification requirements established by the Federal Aviation Administration as they relate to any unmanned aircraft or unmanned aircraft system; or 2. Possess or operate an unmanned aircraft or unmanned aircraft system that has been altered, manipulated, tampered with, or otherwise changed to purposefully frustrate any tool, system, or technology intended to satisfy the remote identification requirements established by the Federal Aviation Administration as they relate to any unmanned aircraft or unmanned aircraft system. (b) This subsection does not apply if a person is authorized by the administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration or the Secretary of Defense, or their respective designees, to alter, possess, or operate such an altered unmanned aircraft or unmanned aircraft system.

(4) A person who violates subsection (2) or subsection (3) commits a felony of the third degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084.

(5) A person who, without lawful authority, possesses or operates an unmanned aircraft or unmanned aircraft system carrying a weapon of mass destruction or a hoax weapon of mass destruction, as those terms are defined in s. 790.166(1)(a) and (b), respectively, commits a felony of the first degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084.

History: s. 9, ch. 2017-150; s. 2, ch. 2025-29.