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Fla. Stat. § 497.160 — Florida Code / Title XXXIII / Chapter 497 / Part I / Section 497.160
497.160 Receivership proceedings.
Status: in_force

(1) The department, with the approval of the board, may petition the circuit courts of this state for appointment of a receiver of any licensee or revoked or suspended licensee under this chapter, or person who has without license conducted activities requiring licensure under this chapter. The court shall appoint a receiver if the court shall determine that a receivership is necessary or advisable: (a) To ensure the orderly and proper conduct of a licensee’s professional business and affairs during or in the aftermath of the administrative proceeding to revoke or suspend the license. (b) For the protection of the public’s interest and rights in the business, premises, or activities of the person sought to be placed in receivership. (c) Upon a showing of actual or constructive abandonment of premises or business licensed or which was not but should have been licensed under this chapter. (d) Upon a showing of serious and repeated violations of this chapter demonstrating an inability or unwillingness of a licensee to comply with the requirements of this chapter. (e) To prevent loss, wasting, dissipation, theft, or conversion of assets that should be marshaled and held available for the honoring of obligations under this chapter. (f) Upon proof of other grounds which the court deems good and sufficient for instituting receivership action concerning the respondent sought to be placed in receivership.

(2) A receivership under this section may be temporary, or for the winding up and dissolution of the business, as the department may request and the court determines to be necessary or advisable in the circumstances. Venue of receivership proceedings may be, at the department’s election, in Leon County, or the county where the subject of the receivership is located. The appointed receiver shall be the department or such person as the department may nominate and the court shall approve. The provisions of part I of chapter 631 shall be applicable to receiverships under this section except to the extent the court shall determine the application of particular of such provisions to be impracticable or would produce unfair results in the circumstances. Expenditures by the department from its budgeted funds, the Preneed Funeral Contract Consumer Protection Trust Fund, and other regulatory trust funds derived from this chapter, for implementation and effectuation of such a receivership, shall be authorized; any such funds expended shall be a claim against the estate in the receivership proceedings.

History: ss. 12, 32, ch. 83-316; s. 16, ch. 88-139; ss. 106, 122, ch. 93-399; s. 30, ch. 2004-301; s. 92, ch. 2005-2; s. 7, ch. 2022-6.
Fla. Stat. § 450.27 — Florida Code / Title XXXI / Chapter 450 / Part III / Section 450.27
450.27 Short title.
Status: in_force

This part shall be known by the popular name the “Farm Labor Contractor Registration Law.”

History: s. 1, ch. 71-234; s. 1, ch. 77-25; s. 9, ch. 2004-64.
Fla. Stat. § 137.05 — Florida Code / Title XI / Chapter 137 / Section 137.05
137.05 Duty of boards of county commissioners.
Status: in_force

The board of county commissioners of each county shall at its regular meetings in January and June of each year examine carefully as to the sufficiency of bonds of the county officers, and if it has reason to believe that the sufficiency of any bond has become impaired, it must at once require the officer to execute and file with the proper officer a new bond for the same amount and under the same conditions as his or her former bond.

History: s. 2, ch. 4413, 1895; GS 825; RGS 1572; CGL 2420; s. 839, ch. 95-147; s. 24, ch. 98-34.
Fla. Stat. § 350.0611 — Florida Code / Title XXVII / Chapter 350 / Section 350.0611
350.0611 Public Counsel; duties and powers.
Status: in_force

It shall be the duty of the Public Counsel to provide legal representation for the people of the state in proceedings before the commission and in proceedings before counties pursuant to s. 367.171(8). The Public Counsel shall have such powers as are necessary to carry out the duties of his or her office, including, but not limited to, the following specific powers:

(1) To recommend to the commission or the counties, by petition, the commencement of any proceeding or action or to appear, in the name of the state or its citizens, in any proceeding or action before the commission or the counties and urge therein any position which he or she deems to be in the public interest, whether consistent or inconsistent with positions previously adopted by the commission or the counties, and utilize therein all forms of discovery available to attorneys in civil actions generally, subject to protective orders of the commission or the counties which shall be reviewable by summary procedure in the circuit courts of this state;

(2) To have access to and use of all files, records, and data of the commission or the counties available to any other attorney representing parties in a proceeding before the commission or the counties;

(3) In any proceeding in which he or she has participated as a party, to seek review of any determination, finding, or order of the commission or the counties, or of any hearing examiner designated by the commission or the counties, in the name of the state or its citizens;

(4) To prepare and issue reports, recommendations, and proposed orders to the commission, the Governor, and the Legislature on any matter or subject within the jurisdiction of the commission, and to make such recommendations as he or she deems appropriate for legislation relative to commission procedures, rules, jurisdiction, personnel, and functions; and

(5) To appear before other state agencies, federal agencies, and state and federal courts in connection with matters under the jurisdiction of the commission, in the name of the state or its citizens.

History: s. 1, ch. 74-195; s. 1, ch. 77-174; s. 2, ch. 81-318; s. 6, ch. 87-50; s. 536, ch. 95-148; s. 12, ch. 2000-350; s. 2, ch. 2001-145.
Fla. Stat. § 285.04 — Florida Code / Title XIX / Chapter 285 / Part I / Section 285.04
285.04 Board of Trustees of Internal Improvement Trust Fund authorized to exchange state lands for United States lands.
Status: in_force

To provide more adequately for the needs of the Seminole Indians in Florida, and for cooperating with the United States therein, the Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund may, in its discretion, exchange state lands with the United States for lands owned by the United States.

History: s. 1, ch. 17065, 1935; CGL 1936 Supp. 1995(2); s. 2, ch. 61-119; ss. 27, 35, ch. 69-106.
Fla. Stat. § 322.161 — Florida Code / Title XXIII / Chapter 322 / Section 322.161
322.161 High-risk drivers; restricted licenses.
Status: in_force

(1)(a) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the department shall restrict the driving privilege of any Class E licensee who is age 15 through 17 and who has accumulated six or more points pursuant to s. 318.14, excluding parking violations, within a 12-month period. (b) Upon determination that any person has accumulated six or more points, the department shall notify the licensee and issue the licensee a restricted license for business purposes only. The licensee must appear before the department within 10 days after notification to have this restriction applied. The period of restriction shall be for a period of no less than 1 year beginning on the date it is applied by the department. (c) The restriction shall be automatically withdrawn by the department after 1 year if the licensee does not accumulate any additional points. If the licensee accumulates any additional points, then the period of restriction shall be extended 90 days for each point. The restriction shall also be automatically withdrawn upon the licensee’s 18th birthday if no other grounds for restriction exist. The licensee must appear before the department to have the restriction removed and a duplicate license issued.

(2) Any action taken by the department pursuant to this section shall not be subject to any formal or informal administrative hearing or similar administrative procedure.

History: s. 28, ch. 96-413; s. 12, ch. 2001-196; s. 77, ch. 2005-164; s. 29, ch. 2013-18.
Fla. Stat. § 672.602 — Florida Code / Title XXXIX / Chapter 672 / Part VI / Section 672.602
672.602 Manner and effect of rightful rejection.
Status: in_force

(1) Rejection of goods must be within a reasonable time after their delivery or tender. It is ineffective unless the buyer seasonably notifies the seller.

(2) Subject to the provisions of the two following sections on rejected goods (ss. 672.603 and 672.604): (a) After rejection any exercise of ownership by the buyer with respect to any commercial unit is wrongful as against the seller; and (b) If the buyer has before rejection taken physical possession of goods in which he or she does not have a security interest under the provisions of this chapter (s. 672.711(3)), the buyer is under a duty after rejection to hold them with reasonable care at the seller’s disposition for a time sufficient to permit the seller to remove them; but (c) The buyer has no further obligations with regard to goods rightfully rejected.

(3) The seller’s rights with respect to goods wrongfully rejected are governed by the provisions of this chapter on seller’s remedies in general (s. 672.703).

History: s. 1, ch. 65-254; s. 587, ch. 97-102.
Fla. Stat. § 121.191 — Florida Code / Title X / Chapter 121 / Part I / Section 121.191
121.191 Special acts prohibited.
Status: in_force

After July 1, 1972, there shall not be enacted any special act or general law of local application which proposes to amend, alter, or contravene the provisions of any state-administered retirement system or any state-supported retirement system established by general law.

History: s. 1, ch. 72-388.
Fla. Stat. § 270.25 — Florida Code / Title XVIII / Chapter 270 / Section 270.25
270.25 Special assessments or levies shall remain liens subject to payment.
Status: in_force

Special assessments or special levies heretofore imposed by legislative authority, which are now a lien upon the lands, title to which is in the Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund, shall continue as a lien subject to payment as provided for in s. 270.24; provided, however, that the provisions of this section shall not operate to extinguish or impair any obligation heretofore imposed upon said lands to pay special assessments or special taxes heretofore levied.

History: s. 4, ch. 17272, 1935; CGL 1936 Supp. 1771(15); s. 2, ch. 61-119; ss. 27, 35, ch. 69-106.
Fla. Stat. § 469.011 — Florida Code / Title XXXII / Chapter 469 / Section 469.011
469.011 Authority to make rules.
Status: in_force

The department shall adopt rules pursuant to ss. 120.536(1) and 120.54 to implement the provisions of this chapter. In developing the rules, the department shall consider related Florida Statutes and the rules promulgated thereunder, the criteria established in the Environmental Protection Agency Guidelines, and AHERA, ASHARA, NESHAP, and OSHA regulations.

History: s. 53, ch. 94-119; s. 19, ch. 99-254.
Fla. Stat. § 125.421 — Florida Code / Title XI / Chapter 125 / Part I / Section 125.421
125.421 Telecommunications services.
Status: in_force

A telecommunications company that is a county or other entity of local government may obtain or hold a certificate required by chapter 364, and the obtaining or holding of said certificate serves a public purpose only if the county or other entity of local government:

(1) Separately accounts for the revenues, expenses, property, and source of investment dollars associated with the provision of such service;

(2) Is subject, without exemption, to all local requirements applicable to telecommunications companies; and

(3) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, pays, on its telecommunications facilities used to provide two-way telecommunication services to the public for hire and for which a certificate is required under chapter 364, ad valorem taxes, or fees in amounts equal thereto, to any taxing jurisdiction in which the county or other entity of local government operates. Any entity of local government may pay and impose such ad valorem taxes or fees. Any immunity of any county or other entity of local government from taxation of the property taxed by this section is hereby waived.

This section does not apply to the provision of telecommunications services for internal operational needs of a county or other entity of local government. This section does not apply to the provision of internal information services, including, but not limited to, tax records, engineering records, and property records, by a county or other entity of local government to the public for a fee.

History: s. 1, ch. 97-197.
Fla. Stat. § 468.533 — Florida Code / Title XXXII / Chapter 468 / Part XI / Section 468.533
468.533 Collected fees.
Status: in_force

All fees collected pursuant to this part shall be deposited into the Professional Regulation Trust Fund.

History: ss. 15, 17, ch. 91-93; s. 4, ch. 91-429; s. 46, ch. 94-119.
Fla. Stat. § 220.22 — Florida Code / Title XIV / Chapter 220 / Part III / Section 220.22
220.22 Returns; filing requirement.
Status: in_force

(1) A return with respect to the tax imposed by this code shall be made by every taxpayer for each taxable year in which such taxpayer either is liable for tax under this code or is required to make a federal income tax return, regardless of whether such taxpayer is liable for tax under this code.

(2) Every Florida partnership having any partner subject to tax under this code, shall make an information return setting forth: (a) All items of income, gain, loss, and deduction; (b) The names and addresses of all partners subject to tax hereunder who would be entitled to share in the net income of the partnership if distributed; (c) The amount and proportion of the distributive share of each partner-taxpayer; and (d) Such other pertinent information as the department may by form or regulation prescribe.

(3) Whenever a receiver, trustee in bankruptcy, or assignee, by order of law or otherwise, has possession of or holds title to all or substantially all of the property or business of a taxpayer, whether or not such property or business is being operated, such receiver, trustee, or assignee shall make the returns and notices required of such taxpayer.

(4) The department shall designate by rule certain not-for-profit entities and others that are not required to file a return under this code, including an initial information return, unless the entities have taxable income as defined in s. 220.13(2). These entities shall include subchapter S corporations, tax-exempt entities, and others that do not usually owe federal income tax.

History: s. 1, ch. 71-984; s. 3, ch. 98-100; s. 8, ch. 98-101; s. 43, ch. 2002-218.
Fla. Stat. § 561.027 — Florida Code / Title XXXIV / Chapter 561 / Section 561.027
561.027 Federal Law Enforcement Trust Fund.
Status: in_force

(1) The Federal Law Enforcement Trust Fund is created within the Department of Business and Professional Regulation. The department may deposit into the trust fund receipts and revenues received as a result of federal criminal, administrative, or civil forfeiture proceedings and receipts and revenues received from federal asset-sharing programs. The trust fund is exempt from the service charges imposed by s. 215.20.

(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of s. 216.301 and pursuant to s. 216.351, any balance in the trust fund at the end of any fiscal year shall remain in the trust fund at the end of the year and shall be available for carrying out the purposes of the trust fund.

History: s. 1, ch. 98-392; s. 2, ch. 2002-157.
Fla. Stat. § 948.20 — Florida Code / Title XLVII / Chapter 948 / Section 948.20
948.20 Drug offender probation.
Status: in_force

(1) If it appears to the court upon a hearing that the defendant is a chronic substance abuser whose criminal conduct is a violation of s. 893.13(2)(a) or (6)(a), or other nonviolent felony if such nonviolent felony is committed on or after July 1, 2009, and notwithstanding s. 921.0024 the defendant’s Criminal Punishment Code scoresheet total sentence points are 60 points or fewer, the court may either adjudge the defendant guilty or stay and withhold the adjudication of guilt. In either case, the court may also stay and withhold the imposition of sentence and place the defendant on drug offender probation or into a postadjudicatory treatment-based drug court program if the defendant otherwise qualifies. As used in this section, the term “nonviolent felony” means a third degree felony violation under chapter 810 or any other felony offense that is not a forcible felony as defined in s. 776.08.

(2) The Department of Corrections shall develop and administer a drug offender probation program which emphasizes a combination of treatment and intensive community supervision approaches and which includes provision for supervision of offenders in accordance with a specific treatment plan. The program may include the use of graduated sanctions consistent with the conditions imposed by the court. Drug offender probation status shall include surveillance and random drug testing, and may include those measures normally associated with community control, except that specific treatment conditions and other treatment approaches necessary to monitor this population may be ordered.

(3) Offenders placed on drug offender probation are subject to revocation of probation as provided in s. 948.06.

History: s. 14, ch. 91-225; s. 6, ch. 97-239; s. 4, ch. 2001-55; s. 10, ch. 2004-373; s. 7, ch. 2009-64; s. 5, ch. 2011-33; s. 137, ch. 2019-167.
Fla. Stat. § 715.108 — Florida Code / Title XL / Chapter 715 / Section 715.108
715.108 Release of personal property.
Status: in_force

(1) The personal property described in the notice shall be released by the landlord to the former tenant or, at the landlord’s option, to any person reasonably believed by the landlord to be its owner, if such tenant or other person pays the reasonable costs of storage and advertising and takes possession of the property not later than the date specified in the notice for taking possession.

(2) Where personal property is not released pursuant to subsection (1) and the notice has stated that the personal property will be sold at a public sale, the landlord shall release the personal property to the former tenant if she or he claims it prior to the time it is sold and pays the reasonable costs of storage, advertising, and sale incurred prior to the time the property is withdrawn from sale.

History: s. 11, ch. 83-151; s. 844, ch. 97-102.
Fla. Stat. § 922.051 — Florida Code / Title XLVII / Chapter 922 / Section 922.051
922.051 Imprisonment in county jail, term of 1 year or less.
Status: in_force

When a statute expressly directs that imprisonment be in a state prison, the court may impose a sentence of imprisonment in the county jail if the total of the prisoner’s cumulative sentences is not more than 1 year.

History: s. 1, ch. 59-72; s. 1, ch. 61-168; s. 1, ch. 67-241; s. 132, ch. 70-339.
Fla. Stat. § 320.261 — Florida Code / Title XXIII / Chapter 320 / Section 320.261
320.261 Attaching registration license plate not assigned unlawful; penalty.
Status: in_force

Any person who knowingly attaches to any motor vehicle or mobile home any registration license plate, or who knowingly attaches any validation sticker or mobile home sticker to a registration license plate, which plate or sticker was not issued and assigned or lawfully transferred to such vehicle, is guilty of a misdemeanor of the second degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083.

History: s. 1, ch. 59-478; s. 199, ch. 71-136; s. 7, ch. 72-79; s. 47, ch. 83-318.
Fla. Stat. § 843.02 — Florida Code / Title XLVI / Chapter 843 / Section 843.02
843.02 Resisting officer without violence to his or her person.
Status: in_force

Whoever shall resist, obstruct, or oppose any officer as defined in s. 943.10(1), (2), (3), (6), (7), (8), or (9); member of the Florida Commission on Offender Review or any administrative aide or supervisor employed by the commission; county probation officer; parole and probation supervisor; personnel or representative of the Department of Law Enforcement; or other person legally authorized to execute process in the execution of legal process or in the lawful execution of any legal duty, without offering or doing violence to the person of the officer, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083.

History: s. 2, ch. 3276, 1881; RS 2581; GS 3501; RGS 5386; CGL 7525; s. 1, ch. 63-433; s. 1, ch. 65-226; s. 3, ch. 67-2207; ss. 20, 33, 35, ch. 69-106; s. 1035, ch. 71-136; s. 1, ch. 77-174; s. 2, ch. 78-116; s. 21, ch. 79-3; s. 27, ch. 79-8; s. 6, ch. 85-87; s. 41, ch. 88-122; s. 2, ch. 88-373; s. 51, ch. 88-381; s. 43, ch. 89-526; s. 209, ch. 91-224; s. 19, ch. 2014-191.
Fla. Stat. § 196.091 — Florida Code / Title XIV / Chapter 196 / Section 196.091
196.091 Exemption for disabled veterans confined to wheelchairs.
Status: in_force

(1) Any real estate used and owned as a homestead by an ex-servicemember who has been honorably discharged with a service-connected total disability and who has a certificate from the United States Government or United States Department of Veterans Affairs or its predecessor, or its successors, certifying that the ex-servicemember is receiving or has received special pecuniary assistance due to disability requiring specially adapted housing and required to use a wheelchair for his or her transportation is exempt from taxation.

(2) The production by an ex-servicemember of a certificate of disability from the United States Government or the United States Department of Veterans Affairs or its predecessor before the property appraiser of the county wherein his or her property lies is prima facie evidence of the fact that he or she is entitled to such exemptions.

(3) In the event the homestead of the wheelchair veteran was or is held with the veteran’s spouse as an estate by the entirety, and in the event the veteran did or shall predecease his or her spouse, the exemption from taxation shall carry over to the benefit of the veteran’s spouse, provided the spouse continues to reside on such real estate and uses it as his or her domicile or until such time as he or she remarries or sells or otherwise disposes of the property.

(4) An applicant for the exemption under this section may apply for the exemption before receiving the necessary documentation from the United States Government or the United States Department of Veterans Affairs or its predecessor. Upon receipt of the documentation, the exemption shall be granted as of the date of the original application, and the excess taxes paid shall be refunded. Any refund of excess taxes paid shall be limited to those paid during the 4-year period of limitation set forth in s. 197.182(1)(e).

History: s. 1, ch. 57-761; s. 2, ch. 65-193; ss. 1, 2, ch. 69-55; s. 1, ch. 77-102; s. 6, ch. 81-219; s. 7, ch. 84-114; s. 12, ch. 86-177; s. 4, ch. 93-268; s. 993, ch. 95-147; s. 21, ch. 2012-193.