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Fla. Stat. § 683.3343 — Florida Code / Title XXXIX / Chapter 683 / Section 683.3343
683.3343 Fentanyl Awareness and Education Day.
Status: in_force

(1) The Legislature designates August 21 of each year as “Fentanyl Awareness and Education Day” to increase awareness of the dangers of fentanyl and potential overdoses.

(2) The Department of Health, the Department of Children and Families, local governments, public schools, and other agencies are encouraged to sponsor events to promote awareness of the dangers of fentanyl and potential overdoses, including, but not limited to, education on the prevention of fentanyl abuse and addiction; the availability of local school and community resources for drug prevention and any processes involved in accessing those resources; and health issues, including information about substance use and abuse, specifically youth substance use and abuse.

History: s. 1, ch. 2025-91.
Fla. Stat. § 430.5015 — Florida Code / Title XXX / Chapter 430 / Section 430.5015
430.5015 Dementia Director.
Status: in_force

(1) The position of Dementia Director is created within the Department of Elderly Affairs. The Secretary of Elderly Affairs shall appoint the director who shall serve at the pleasure of the secretary.

(2) The director may call upon appropriate agencies of state government for assistance as is needed pursuant to s. 430.04(13).

(3) The director shall: (a) Facilitate coordination and support of policies and programs in the Legislature and the executive branch, including agencies of the executive branch, which relate to Alzheimer’s disease and related forms of dementia. (b) Facilitate coordination and support for the Alzheimer’s Disease Advisory Committee and the implementation of and updates to the Alzheimer’s disease state plan pursuant to s. 430.501(3)(b)8. (c) Provide support to memory disorder clinics to help the clinics meet or exceed the minimum performance standards under s. 430.502(3). (d) Facilitate and support coordination of outreach programs and services between agencies, memory disorder clinics, area agencies on aging, and other interested groups for the purpose of fostering public awareness and education regarding Alzheimer’s disease and related forms of dementia. (e) Facilitate coordination of services and activities between groups interested in dementia research, programs, and services, including, but not limited to, area agencies on aging, service providers, advocacy groups, legal services, emergency personnel, law enforcement, and state colleges and universities. (f) Collect and monitor data related to the impact of Alzheimer’s disease in the state.

History: s. 2, ch. 2020-45.
Fla. Stat. § 112.26 — Florida Code / Title X / Chapter 112 / Part II / Section 112.26
112.26 Definitions.
Status: in_force

For the purposes of this part, the following words and phrases have the meanings ascribed to them in this section:

(1) “Receiving agency” means any department or agency of the Federal Government or a state government which receives an employee of another government under this part.

(2) “Sending agency” means any department or agency of the Federal Government or a state government which sends any employee thereof to another government agency under this part.

History: s. 2, ch. 65-524; s. 34, ch. 2023-8.
Fla. Stat. § 744.613 — Florida Code / Title XLIII / Chapter 744 / Part VIII / Section 744.613
744.613 Appointment of guardian for ward authorized.
Status: in_force

(1) Whenever, pursuant to any law of the United States or regulation of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, the secretary requires, prior to the payment of benefits, that a guardian be appointed for a ward, the appointment may be made in the manner hereinafter provided.

(2) When a petition is filed for the appointment of a guardian of a minor ward, a certificate of the secretary or the secretary’s authorized representative setting forth the age of such minor, as shown by the records of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, and a statement that the appointment of a guardian is a condition precedent to the payment of any moneys due to the minor by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs are prima facie evidence of the necessity for such appointment.

(3) When a petition is filed for the appointment of a guardian of a mentally incompetent ward, a certificate of the secretary or the secretary’s authorized representative, setting forth the fact that the person has been found incompetent and has been rated incompetent by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, on examination in accordance with the laws and regulations governing the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, and that the appointment of a guardian is a condition precedent to the payment of any moneys due to such person by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, is prima facie evidence of the necessity for such appointment.

History: ss. 2, 5, 6, ch. 14579, 1929; CGL 1936 Supp. 2146(3), (6), (7); s. 1, ch. 73-304; s. 5, ch. 84-62; s. 42, ch. 93-268; s. 1116, ch. 97-102.
Fla. Stat. § 195.099 — Florida Code / Title XIV / Chapter 195 / Section 195.099
195.099 Periodic review.
Status: in_force

(1)(a) The department may review the assessments of new, rebuilt, and expanded business reported according to s. 193.077(3), to ensure parity of level of assessment with other classifications of property. (b) This subsection shall expire on the date specified in s. 290.016 for the expiration of the Florida Enterprise Zone Act.

(2) The department may review the assessments of new and expanded businesses granted an exemption pursuant to s. 196.1995 to ensure parity of level of assessment with other classifications of property.

History: ss. 7, 10, ch. 80-248; s. 4, ch. 80-347; s. 3, ch. 82-208; ss. 29, 80, ch. 82-226; s. 57, ch. 83-217; s. 28, ch. 84-356; s. 25, ch. 85-80; s. 66, ch. 94-136; s. 1, ch. 2006-113; s. 16, ch. 2012-193.
Fla. Stat. § 617.0205 — Florida Code / Title XXXVI / Chapter 617 / Section 617.0205
617.0205 Organizational meeting of directors.
Status: in_force

(1) After incorporation: (a) If initial directors are named in the articles of incorporation, the initial directors shall hold an organizational meeting, at the call of a majority of the directors, to complete the organization of the corporation by appointing officers, adopting bylaws, and carrying on any other business brought before the meeting; (b) If initial directors are not named in the articles of incorporation, the incorporators shall hold an organizational meeting at the call of a majority of the incorporators: 1. To elect directors and complete the organization of the corporation; or 2. To elect a board of directors who shall complete the organization of the corporation.

(2) Action required or permitted by this act to be taken by incorporators or directors at an organizational meeting may be taken without a meeting if the action taken is evidenced by one or more written consents describing the action taken and signed by each incorporator or director.

(3) The directors or incorporators calling the organizational meeting shall give at least 3 days’ notice thereof to each director or incorporator so named, stating the time and place of the meeting.

(4) An organizational meeting may be held in or out of this state.

History: s. 20, ch. 90-179; s. 11, ch. 2009-205.
Fla. Stat. § 684.0009 — Florida Code / Title XXXIX / Chapter 684 / Section 684.0009
684.0009 Arbitration agreement and substantive claim before court.
Status: in_force

(1) A court before which an action is brought in a matter that is the subject of an arbitration agreement shall, if a party so requests not later than when submitting its first statement on the substance of the dispute, refer the parties to arbitration unless it finds that the agreement is null and void, inoperative, or incapable of being performed.

(2) If an action described in subsection (1) has been brought, arbitral proceedings may nevertheless be commenced or continued, and an award may be made, while the issue is pending before the court.

History: s. 10, ch. 2010-60.
Fla. Stat. § 713.05 — Florida Code / Title XL / Chapter 713 / Part I / Section 713.05
713.05 Liens of persons in privity.
Status: in_force

A materialman or laborer, either of whom is in privity with the owner, or a contractor who complies with the provisions of this part shall, subject to the limitations thereof, have a lien on the real property improved for any money that is owed to him or her for labor, services, materials, or other items required by, or furnished in accordance with, the direct contract and for unpaid finance charges due under the lienor’s contract. A materialman or laborer, in privity with the owner, or a contractor shall also have a lien on the owner’s real property for any money that is owed to him or her for labor, services, or materials furnished to improve public property if the improvements to the public property are a condition of the permit to improve the owner’s real property. No lien under this section shall be acquired until a claim of lien is recorded. A lienor who, as a subcontractor, sub-subcontractor, laborer, or materialman not in privity with the owner, commences to furnish labor, services, or material to an improvement and who thereafter becomes in privity with the owner shall have a lien for any money that is owed to him or her for the labor, services, or materials furnished after he or she becomes in privity with the owner. A lienor may record one claim of lien to cover both his or her work done in privity with the owner and not in privity with the owner. No lienor under this section shall be required to serve a notice to owner as provided in s. 713.06(2). A lienor, except a laborer or materialman, who is in privity with the owner and claims a lien under this section shall furnish the contractor’s affidavit required in s. 713.06(3)(d). A contractor may claim a lien for any labor, services, or materials furnished by another lienor for which he or she is obligated to pay the lienor, regardless of the right of the lienor to claim a lien; but, if the lienor claims a valid lien, the contractor shall not recover the amount of the lien recovered by the lienor, and the amount of the contractor’s claim of lien may be reduced accordingly by court order. No person shall have a lien under this section except those lienors specified in it, as their designations are defined in s. 713.01.

History: s. 1, ch. 63-135; s. 3, ch. 65-456; s. 2, ch. 67-210; s. 35, ch. 67-254; s. 4, ch. 77-353; s. 3, ch. 80-97; s. 1, ch. 96-383; s. 1763, ch. 97-102.
Fla. Stat. § 253.7824 — Florida Code / Title XVIII / Chapter 253 / Section 253.7824
253.7824 Sale of products; proceeds.
Status: in_force

The Department of Environmental Protection may authorize the removal and sale of products from the land where environmentally appropriate, the proceeds from which shall be deposited into the appropriate trust fund in accordance with the same disposition provided under s. 253.0341 applicable to the sale of land.

History: s. 52, ch. 93-213; s. 7, ch. 99-205; s. 17, ch. 2015-229; s. 34, ch. 2016-233.
Fla. Stat. § 626.726 — Florida Code / Title XXXVII / Chapter 626 / Part II / Section 626.726
626.726 Short title.
Status: in_force

This part may be referred to in any legal proceedings as the “General Lines Agents Law.”

History: s. 252, ch. 59-205; s. 3, ch. 76-168; s. 1, ch. 77-457; s. 3, ch. 81-282; ss. 2, 3, ch. 81-318; ss. 241, 807, 810, ch. 82-243; ss. 206, 207, ch. 90-363; s. 4, ch. 91-429.
Fla. Stat. § 380.0673 — Florida Code / Title XXVIII / Chapter 380 / Part I / Section 380.0673
380.0673 Exemption from taxes and eligibility as investment.
Status: in_force

(1) The property of the land authority and the transactions and operations thereof and the income therefrom shall be exempt from taxation by the state and its political subdivisions. The exemption granted by this subsection shall not apply to any tax imposed by chapter 220 on interest, income, or profits on debt obligations owned by corporations.

(2) All bonds of the land authority shall be and constitute legal investments without limitation for all public bodies of this state; for all banks, trust companies, savings banks, savings associations, savings and loan associations, and investment companies; for all administrators, executors, trustees, and other fiduciaries; for all insurance companies and associations and other persons carrying on an insurance business; and for all other persons whatsoever who are now or may hereafter be authorized to invest in bonds or other obligations of the state and shall be and constitute eligible securities to be deposited as collateral for the security of any state, county, municipal, or other public funds. This subsection shall be considered as additional and supplemental authority and shall not be limited without specific reference hereto.

History: s. 1, ch. 86-170; s. 54, ch. 89-356.
Fla. Stat. § 71.011 — Florida Code / Title VI / Chapter 71 / Section 71.011
71.011 Reestablishment of papers, records, and files.
Status: in_force

All papers, written or printed, of any kind whatsoever, and the records and files of any official, court or public office, may be reestablished in the manner hereinafter provided.

(1) WHO MAY REESTABLISH. — Any person interested in the paper, file or record to be reestablished may reestablish it.

(2) VENUE. — If reestablishment is sought of a record or file, venue is in the county where the record or file existed before its loss or destruction. If it is a private paper, venue is in the county where any person affected thereby lives or if such persons are nonresidents of the state, then in any county in which the person seeking the reestablishment desires.

(3) REMEDY CONCURRENT. — Nothing herein shall prevent the reestablishment of lost papers, records and files at common law or in equity in the usual manner.

(4) EFFECT. — (a) Any paper, record or file reestablished has the effect of the original. A private paper has such effect immediately on recording the judgment reestablishing it, but a reestablished record does not have that effect until recorded and a reestablished paper or file of any official, court or public officer does not have that effect until a certified copy is filed with the official or in the court or public office where the original belonged. A certified copy of any reestablished paper, the original of which is required or authorized by law to be recorded, may be recorded. (b) When any deed forming a link in a chain of title to land in this state has been placed on the proper record without having been acknowledged or proven for record and has thereafter been lost or destroyed, certified copies of the record of the deed as so recorded may be received as evidence to reestablish the deed if the deed has been so recorded for 20 years.

(5) COMPLAINT. — A person desiring to establish any paper, record or file, except when otherwise provided, shall file a complaint in chancery setting forth that the paper, record or file has been lost or destroyed and is not in the custody or control of the petitioner, the time and manner of loss or destruction, that a copy attached is a substantial copy of that lost or destroyed, that the persons named in the complaint are the only persons known to plaintiff who are interested for or against such reestablishment.

History: s. 5, Nov. 21, 1829; s. 12, ch. 1369, 1862; s. 2, ch. 3019, 1877; RS 1523-1527, 1533; s. 1, ch. 5162, 1903; GS 1978-1982, 1997; RGS 3246-3250, 3265; CGL 5054-5058, 5073; s. 7, ch. 22858, 1945; s. 24, ch. 67-254.
Fla. Stat. § 83.08 — Florida Code / Title VI / Chapter 83 / Part I / Section 83.08
83.08 Landlord’s lien for rent.
Status: in_force

Every person to whom rent may be due, the person’s heirs, executors, administrators or assigns, shall have a lien for such rent upon the property found upon or off the premises leased or rented, and in the possession of any person, as follows:

(1) Upon agricultural products raised on the land leased or rented for the current year. This lien shall be superior to all other liens, though of older date.

(2) Upon all other property of the lessee or his or her sublessee or assigns, usually kept on the premises. This lien shall be superior to any lien acquired subsequent to the bringing of the property on the premises leased.

(3) Upon all other property of the defendant. This lien shall date from the levy of the distress warrant hereinafter provided.

History: ss. 1, 9, 10, ch. 3131, 1879; RS 1761; GS 2237; RGS 3556; CGL 5420; s. 34, ch. 67-254; s. 429, ch. 95-147.
Fla. Stat. § 627.554 — Florida Code / Title XXXVII / Chapter 627 / Part V / Section 627.554
627.554 Labor union groups.
Status: in_force

Subject to all of the requirements of this section, the lives of a group of individual labor union members or labor union members and their dependents may be insured, for the benefit of persons other than the union or any of its officials, representatives, or agents, under a policy issued to the labor union or to the trustees of a fund established in this state by the labor union, which labor union or board of trustees is deemed to be the policyholder.

(1) The individuals eligible for insurance under the policy shall be all of the members of the union, or all of the members of any class or classes of union members determined by conditions pertaining to their employment or to membership in the union, or to both. A policy issued to the trustees of a fund established in this state by a labor union may provide that the trustees or their employees, or both, may be insured under the policy if their duties are principally connected with such trusteeship.

(2) The premium for the policy shall be paid by the policyholder either wholly from the policyholder’s funds or from funds contributed by the employer or employers of the insured persons or by the labor union, or by both, or partly from such funds and partly from funds contributed by the insured members specifically for their insurance. A policy on which no part of the premium is to be derived from funds contributed by the insured members specifically for their insurance must insure all eligible members, or all except any as to whom evidence of individual insurability is not satisfactory to the insurer or except as to those who reject the coverage in writing.

(3) The amounts of insurance under the policy must be based upon some plan precluding individual selection either by the members or by the union.

History: s. 527, ch. 59-205; s. 1, ch. 61-107; s. 2, ch. 63-187; s. 3, ch. 76-168; s. 1, ch. 77-457; ss. 2, 3, ch. 81-318; ss. 425, 448, 809(2nd), ch. 82-243; s. 79, ch. 82-386; ss. 48, 114, ch. 92-318.
Fla. Stat. § 11.12 — Florida Code / Title III / Chapter 11 / Section 11.12
11.12 Salary, subsistence, and mileage of members and employees; expenses authorized by resolution; appropriation; preaudit.
Status: in_force

(1) The Chief Financial Officer is authorized to pay the salary, subsistence, and mileage of the members of the Legislature as the same shall be authorized by law. The Chief Financial Officer may pay the compensation of employees of the Legislature, together with reimbursement for their authorized travel as provided in s. 112.061, and such expense of the Legislature as shall be authorized by law, a concurrent resolution, a resolution of either house, or rules adopted by the respective houses, provided the total amount appropriated to the legislative branch shall not be altered, upon receipt of such warrant therefor. The number, duties, and compensation of the employees of the respective houses and of their committees shall be determined as provided by the rules of the respective house or in this chapter. Each legislator may designate no more than two employees to attend sessions of the Legislature, and those employees who change their places of residence in order to attend the session shall be paid subsistence at a rate to be established by the President of the Senate for Senate employees and the Speaker of the House of Representatives for House employees. Such employees, in addition to subsistence, shall be paid transportation expenses in accordance with s. 112.061(7) and (8) for actual transportation between their homes and the seat of government in order to attend the legislative session and return home, as well as for two round trips during the course of any regular session of the Legislature.

(2) All vouchers covering legislative expenses shall be preaudited by the Chief Financial Officer, and, if found to be correct, state warrants shall be issued therefor.

History: ss. 1, 2, ch. 12077, 1927; CGL 103; ss. 1, 2, ch. 21933, 1943; s. 1, ch. 23638, 1947; s. 1, ch. 24157, 1947; s. 1, ch. 24997, 1949; s. 1, ch. 29627, 1955; s. 1, ch. 57-15; ss. 2, 3, ch. 67-371; s. 4, ch. 69-52; s. 1, ch. 79-2; s. 1, ch. 85-61; s. 1, ch. 88-6; s. 1, ch. 90-252; s. 1, ch. 91-34; s. 11, ch. 95-147; s. 2, ch. 98-136; s. 1, ch. 2003-261.
Fla. Stat. § 624.86 — Florida Code / Title XXXVII / Chapter 624 / Part VI / Section 624.86
624.86 Other laws; conflicts; meetings between the office and the supervisor.
Status: in_force

During the period of administrative supervision, the office may meet with a supervisor appointed under this part and with the attorney or other representative of the supervisor and such meetings are exempt from the provisions of s. 286.011.

History: ss. 71, 72, ch. 89-360; s. 4, ch. 91-429; s. 4, ch. 93-78; s. 367, ch. 96-406; s. 862, ch. 2003-261.
Fla. Stat. § 663.021 — Florida Code / Title XXXVIII / Chapter 663 / Part I / Section 663.021
663.021 Civil action subpoena enforcement.
Status: in_force

(1) Notwithstanding s. 655.059, an international representative office, international bank agency, international branch, or international administrative office established under this chapter is not required to produce a book or record pertaining to a deposit account, investment account, or loan of a customer of the international banking corporation’s offices that are located outside the United States or its territories in response to a subpoena if the book or record is maintained outside the United States or its territories and is not in the possession, custody, or control of the international banking corporation’s office, agency, or branch established in this state.

(2) This section applies only to a subpoena issued pursuant to the Florida Rules of Civil Procedure, the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, or other similar law or rule of civil procedure in another state. This section does not apply to a subpoena issued by or on behalf of a federal, state, or local government law enforcement agency, administrative or regulatory agency, legislative body, or grand jury and does not limit the power of the office to access all books and records in the exercise of the office’s regulatory and supervisory powers under the financial institutions codes.

History: s. 7, ch. 2015-64; s. 6, ch. 2017-83.