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Fla. Stat. § 409.441 — Florida Code / Title XXX / Chapter 409 / Part I / Section 409.441
409.441 Runaway youth programs and centers.
Status: in_force

(1) LEGISLATIVE INTENT. — The purpose of this act is to assist runaway youths and their families through a program of prevention, early intervention, community outreach, short-term residential care, aftercare, and counseling. The Legislature intends that a continuum of services be required so that runaway youths and their families are assured the least restrictive alternatives suitable to their needs and so that the family unit is strengthened through the development, expansion, and coordination of various community-based services. The development of innovative approaches specifically designed for runaway youths, which approaches have an impact on cost-avoidance, cost-effectiveness, and program efficiency, shall be encouraged.

(2) DEFINITIONS. — (a) “Department” means the Department of Children and Families. (b) “Runaway youth centers” means those community-based programs providing a range of services to troubled youths and runaway youths and their families, including prevention, community outreach, early intervention and crisis intervention, temporary residential shelter, counseling services, and aftercare followup.

(3) CRITERIA FOR LICENSING OF CENTERS; STANDARD SERVICES. — The department shall establish standard services for runaway youth centers which can be monitored and evaluated, and the establishment of these services shall be a prerequisite to receiving state funds. Such services shall include, but are not limited to: (a) Programs for outreach and prevention for troubled youths and runaway youths and their families. (b) Early intervention counseling services for troubled youths and runaway youths and their families, with 24-hour access geared toward crisis or time-of-need intervention. (c) Temporary or short-term shelter, food, and clothing. (d) Uniform and confidential intake and records systems. (e) Provision for aftercare including individual and family counseling services. (f) Programs for advocacy for client population and community support. (g) Provisions for case management and referral from service to service.

(4) RECORDS CONFIDENTIAL. — All information about clients which is part of a center’s intake and client records system is confidential and exempt from the provisions of s. 119.07(1).

History: ss. 2, 3, 5, 6, ch. 83-162; s. 8, ch. 91-71; s. 258, ch. 96-406; s. 199, ch. 97-101; s. 125, ch. 2010-102; s. 58, ch. 2013-18; s. 195, ch. 2014-19.
Fla. Stat. § 687.0304 — Florida Code / Title XXXIX / Chapter 687 / Section 687.0304
687.0304 Credit agreements.
Status: in_force

(1) DEFINITIONS. — For the purposes of this section: (a) “Credit agreement” means an agreement to lend or forbear repayment of money, goods, or things in action, to otherwise extend credit, or to make any other financial accommodation. (b) “Creditor” means a person who extends credit under a credit agreement with a debtor. (c) “Debtor” means a person who obtains credit or seeks a credit agreement with a creditor or who owes money to a creditor.

(2) CREDIT AGREEMENTS TO BE IN WRITING. — A debtor may not maintain an action on a credit agreement unless the agreement is in writing, expresses consideration, sets forth the relevant terms and conditions, and is signed by the creditor and the debtor.

(3) ACTIONS NOT CONSIDERED AGREEMENTS. — (a) The following actions do not give rise to a claim that a new credit agreement is created, unless the agreement satisfies the requirements of subsection (2): 1. The rendering of financial advice by a creditor to a debtor; 2. The consultation by a creditor with a debtor; or 3. The agreement by a creditor to take certain actions, such as entering into a new credit agreement, forbearing from exercising remedies under prior credit agreements, or extending installments due under prior credit agreements. (b) A credit agreement may not be implied from the relationship, fiduciary, or otherwise, of the creditor and the debtor.

History: s. 1, ch. 89-130.
Fla. Stat. § 190.013 — Florida Code / Title XIII / Chapter 190 / Section 190.013
190.013 Water management and control plan.
Status: in_force

In the event that the board assumes the responsibility for providing water management and control for the district as provided in s. 190.012(1)(a) which is to be financed by benefit special assessments, the board shall proceed to adopt water management and control plans, assess for benefits, and apportion and levy special assessments, as follows:

(1) The board shall cause to be made by the district’s engineer, or such other engineer or engineers as the board may employ for that purpose, complete and comprehensive water management and control plans for the lands located within the district that will be improved in any part or in whole by any system of facilities that may be outlined and adopted, and the engineer shall make a report in writing to the board with maps and profiles of said surveys and an estimate of the cost of carrying out and completing the plans.

(2) Upon the completion of such plans, the board shall hold a hearing thereon to hear objections thereto, shall give notice of the time and place fixed for such hearing by publication once each week for 2 consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the general area of the district, and shall permit the inspection of the plan at the office of the district by all persons interested. All objections to the plan shall be filed at or before the time fixed in the notice for the hearing and shall be in writing.

(3) After the hearing, the board shall consider the proposed plan and any objections thereto and may modify, reject, or adopt the plan or continue the hearing to a day certain for further consideration of the proposed plan or modifications thereof.

(4) When the board approves a plan, a resolution shall be adopted and a certified copy thereof shall be filed in the office of the secretary and incorporated by him or her into the records of the district.

(5) The water management and control plan may be altered in detail from time to time until the appraisal record herein provided is filed, but not in such manner as to affect materially the conditions of its adoption. After the appraisal record has been filed, no alteration of the plan shall be made, except as provided by this act.

(6) Within 20 days after the final adoption of the plan by the board, the board shall proceed pursuant to s. 298.301.

History: s. 2, ch. 80-407; s. 5, ch. 91-308; s. 964, ch. 95-147; s. 26, ch. 97-40.
Fla. Stat. § 623.09 — Florida Code / Title XXXVI / Chapter 623 / Section 623.09
623.09 Taxation exemption.
Status: in_force

The property of any private school corporation incorporated under the provisions of this act shall be exempt from taxation as provided by law.

History: s. 9, ch. 59-113.
Fla. Stat. § 607.613 — Florida Code / Title XXXVI / Chapter 607 / Part III / Section 607.613
607.613 Availability of annual benefit report.
Status: in_force

(1) Each benefit corporation shall send its annual benefit report to each shareholder: (a) Within 120 days after the end of the fiscal year of the benefit corporation; or (b) At the same time that the benefit corporation delivers any other annual report to its shareholders.

(2) A benefit corporation shall post each annual benefit report on the public portion of its website, if any, and it shall remain posted for at least 3 years.

(3) If a benefit corporation does not have a website, the benefit corporation shall provide a copy of its most recent annual benefit report, without charge, to any person who requests a copy.

(4) If a benefit corporation does not comply with the annual benefit report delivery requirement, the circuit court in the county in which the principal office of the benefit corporation is located or, if no office is located in this state, the county in which its registered office is located, may, after a shareholder of the benefit corporation requests a copy, summarily order the corporation to furnish the report. If the court orders the report to be furnished, the court may also order the benefit corporation to pay the shareholder’s costs, including reasonable attorney fees, which were incurred in obtaining the order and otherwise enforce his or her rights under this section.

History: s. 33, ch. 2014-209.
Fla. Stat. § 1011.22 — Florida Code / Title XLVIII / Chapter 1011 / Part I / Section 1011.22
1011.22 Interest and sinking funds may be invested in certain bonds, warrants, and notes.
Status: in_force

Each district school board shall have the power at all times to invest the interest and sinking funds collected for the retirement of any bonds of the school district in any investment as authorized in s. 1010.53(2). The district school board shall have authority at any time to use the interest and sinking fund of any district for purchasing, for the purpose of canceling and retiring, bonds outstanding against the interest and sinking fund of said district at any price which will result in a net saving to the taxpayers of the district; provided, always, that the district school board shall have the right to keep the interest and sinking fund on deposit earning the rate of interest agreed upon until such time as within its judgment it may be able to invest it in bonds, warrants, or notes to better advantage as provided herein.

History: s. 625, ch. 2002-387.
Fla. Stat. § 632.614 — Florida Code / Title XXXVII / Chapter 632 / Section 632.614
632.614 Reinsurance.
Status: in_force

(1) A domestic society may, by a reinsurance agreement, cede any individual risk or risks in whole or in part to an insurer, other than another fraternal benefit society, having the power to make such reinsurance and authorized to do business in this state, or if not so authorized, to an insurer which is approved by the office. However, no domestic society may reinsure 75 percent or more of its insurance in force without the written permission of the office. The domestic society may take credit for the reserves on such ceded risks to the extent reinsured, but no credit shall be allowed as an admitted asset or as a deduction from liability, to a ceding society for reinsurance made, ceded, renewed, or otherwise becoming effective after the effective date of this act, unless the reinsurance is payable by the assuming insurer on the basis of the liability of the ceding society under the contract or contracts reinsured without diminution because of the insolvency of the ceding society.

(2) Notwithstanding the limitation in subsection (1), a society may reinsure the risks of another society in a consolidation or merger approved by the office under s. 632.615.

History: ss. 4, 6, ch. 86-140; s. 6, ch. 91-110; s. 4, ch. 91-429; s. 1379, ch. 2003-261.
Fla. Stat. § 668.610 — Florida Code / Title XXXIX / Chapter 668 / Part III / Section 668.610
668.610 Cumulative remedies.
Status: in_force

The remedies and criminal penalties of this part are in addition to remedies and criminal penalties otherwise available for the same conduct under federal or state law.

History: s. 1, ch. 2004-233; s. 3, ch. 2006-232.
Fla. Stat. § 667.013 — Florida Code / Title XXXVIII / Chapter 667 / Section 667.013
667.013 Foreign savings banks.
Status: in_force

(1) DEFINED. — For the purposes of this section, the term “foreign savings bank” includes any domestic joint venture, business trust, syndicate, firm, company, savings bank, fiduciary, partnership, or corporation, and all other groups or combinations, by whatever name called, actually engaged in the business of a savings bank, the principal business office of which is located outside the territorial limits of this state.

(2) ACTION BY OFFICE. — The office is authorized, empowered, and directed to obtain an injunction or to take any other action necessary to prevent any foreign savings bank from unlawfully doing any business of a savings bank in this state.

(3) ACTIVITIES NOT CONSIDERED “DOING BUSINESS.” — For the purposes of this section and any other law of this state prohibiting, limiting, or regulating the doing of business in this state by foreign savings banks or foreign corporations of any type, any federal savings bank, the principal office of which is located outside this state, and any foreign savings bank which is subject to state or federal supervision, or both, which by law are subject to periodic examination by such supervisory authority and to a requirement of periodic audit, shall not be considered to be doing business in this state by reason of engaging in any of the following activities: (a) The purchase, acquisition, holding, sale, assignment, transfer, collecting, and enforcement of obligations or any interest therein secured by real estate mortgages or other instruments in the nature of a mortgage, covering real property located in this state, or the foreclosure of such instruments, or the acquisition of title to such property by foreclosure, or otherwise, as a result of default under such instruments, or the holding, protection, rental, maintenance, and operation of the property so acquired, or the disposition thereof, provided such savings banks shall not hold, own, or operate such property for a period exceeding 5 years without securing the approval of the office. (b) The advertising or solicitation of savings accounts or the making of any representation with respect thereto in this state through the medium of mail, radio, television, magazines, or newspapers or any other medium which is published or circulated within this state, provided that such advertising, solicitation, or the making of such representations is accurately descriptive of the facts.

History: s. 15, ch. 97-30; s. 1871, ch. 2003-261.
Fla. Stat. § 401.321 — Florida Code / Title XXIX / Chapter 401 / Part III / Section 401.321
401.321 Transferability of license; effect of sale, transfer, assignment, or lease of service.
Status: in_force

(1) Each license is valid only for the licensee to whom it is issued and is not subject to sale, assignment, or other transfer, voluntary or involuntary. A license or permit is valid only for the service location for which it was originally issued.

(2) A license will automatically expire when a licensee changes his or her service location or service name as registered with the department. The expired license must be surrendered by the licensee, and the department shall issue a new license for the balance of the term under the expired license upon receipt of a completed application and a fee of $30.

(3) An application for a new license is required when: (a) A majority of the ownership or a controlling interest of a service is transferred or assigned; and (b) A lessee agrees to undertake or provide services to the extent that legal liability for the service rests with the lessee. The application for a new license showing such change must be submitted so as to be received by the department at least 60 days prior to the date of the sale, transfer, assignment, or lease.

History: s. 13, ch. 84-317; s. 1, ch. 85-65; s. 49, ch. 85-81; ss. 14, 36, ch. 92-78; s. 797, ch. 95-148.
Fla. Stat. § 671.101 — Florida Code / Title XXXIX / Chapter 671 / Part I / Section 671.101
671.101 Short title; scope of chapter.
Status: in_force

(1) Chapters 669-680 may be cited as the “Uniform Commercial Code” or “code.”

(2) This chapter applies to a transaction to the extent that it is governed by another chapter of this code and may be cited as the “Uniform Commercial Code—General Provisions.”

History: s. 1, ch. 65-254; s. 2, ch. 90-278; s. 2, ch. 91-70; s. 4, ch. 2007-134; s. 33, ch. 2025-92.
Fla. Stat. § 265.27 — Florida Code / Title XVIII / Chapter 265 / Section 265.27
265.27 Loan of objects of art and artifacts.
Status: in_force

The Board of Trustees of the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art is hereby given authority to make temporary loans of paintings and other objects of art or artifacts belonging to the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art for the purpose of public exhibition in art museums, other museums, or institutions of higher learning wherever located, including such museums or institutions in other states or countries. Temporary loans may also be made to the executive mansion in Tallahassee, chapters and affiliates of the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, and, for educational purposes, to schools, public libraries, or other institutions in the state, where such exhibition will benefit the general public as in the judgment of the board of trustees is deemed wise and for the best interest of the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, and under policies established by the board of trustees and approved by the Department of State for the protection of the paintings and other objects of art and artifacts. In making temporary loans, the board of trustees shall give first preference to art museums, other museums, and institutions of higher learning.

History: s. 1, ch. 59-61; ss. 10, 35, ch. 69-106; s. 1, ch. 77-15; s. 1, ch. 78-254; s. 4, ch. 78-323; ss. 2, 3, ch. 81-8; ss. 1, 4, ch. 82-46; s. 2, ch. 83-265; ss. 3, 4, ch. 90-114; s. 5, ch. 91-429; s. 3, ch. 94-157.
Fla. Stat. § 739.402 — Florida Code / Title XLII / Chapter 739 / Section 739.402
739.402 When disclaimer is barred or limited.
Status: in_force

(1) A disclaimer is barred by a written waiver of the right to disclaim.

(2) A disclaimer of an interest in property is barred if any of the following events occur before the disclaimer becomes effective: (a) The disclaimant accepts the interest sought to be disclaimed; (b) The disclaimant voluntarily assigns, conveys, encumbers, pledges, or transfers the interest sought to be disclaimed or contracts to do so; (c) The interest sought to be disclaimed is sold pursuant to a judicial sale; or (d) The disclaimant is insolvent when the disclaimer becomes irrevocable.

(3) A disclaimer, in whole or in part, of the future exercise of a power held in a fiduciary capacity is not barred by its previous exercise.

(4) A disclaimer, in whole or in part, of the future exercise of a power not held in a fiduciary capacity is not barred by its previous exercise unless the power is exercisable in favor of the disclaimant.

(5) A disclaimer of an interest in, or a power over, property which is barred by this section is ineffective.

History: s. 1, ch. 2005-108; s. 17, ch. 2009-115.
Fla. Stat. § 604.001 — Florida Code / Title XXXV / Chapter 604 / Section 604.001
604.001 Public policy with respect to agricultural production.
Status: in_force

The Legislature declares that:

(1) It is the public policy of this state and the purpose of this act to achieve and maintain the production of agricultural commodities for food and fiber as an essential element for the survival of mankind.

(2) The production of agricultural commodities in this state is a large and basic industry that is important to the health and welfare of the people and to the economy of the state.

(3) A sound agricultural industry in this state requires the efficient and profitable use of water and energy and many other natural, commercial, and industrial resources.

(4) The efficient and profitable use of energy and water resources in agricultural production in this state is often difficult to achieve because of problems that are not well known or fully understood by the people, such as weather, climatic changes, and market conditions.

(5) It is important to the health and welfare of the people of this state and to the economy of the state that additional problems are not created for growers and ranchers engaged in the Florida agricultural industry by laws and regulations that cause, or tend to cause, agricultural production to become inefficient or unprofitable.

(6) The laws and regulations that have caused problems for agricultural production in this state have been due primarily to a lack of adequate and informed consideration of the adverse impact such laws and regulations would have on efficient and profitable agricultural production in this state.

History: s. 12, ch. 83-310.
Fla. Stat. § 718.707 — Florida Code / Title XL / Chapter 718 / Part VII / Section 718.707
718.707 Time limitation for classification as bulk assignee or bulk buyer.
Status: in_force

A person acquiring condominium parcels may not be classified as a bulk assignee or bulk buyer unless the condominium parcels were acquired on or after July 1, 2010. The date of such acquisition shall be determined by the date of recording a deed or other instrument of conveyance for such parcels in the public records of the county in which the condominium is located, or by the date of issuing a certificate of title in a foreclosure proceeding with respect to such condominium parcels.

History: s. 18, ch. 2010-174; s. 13, ch. 2011-196; s. 36, ch. 2012-61; s. 5, ch. 2014-74; s. 13, ch. 2014-133; s. 11, ch. 2015-97; s. 8, ch. 2018-96.
Fla. Stat. § 329.40 — Florida Code / Title XXV / Chapter 329 / Section 329.40
329.40 Airport facilities; lien for landing and other fees.
Status: in_force

(1) The governing body of a publicly owned and operated airport has a lien upon all aircraft landing upon any airport owned and operated by it for all fees and charges for the use of the facilities of such airport by any aircraft when payment of such charges and fees is not made immediately upon demand to the operator or owner of the aircraft by an authorized employee of the airport. The lien for the full amount of the charges and fees due attaches to any aircraft, at the airport, which is owned or operated by the person owing such charges and fees. Such lien may be enforced as provided by law for the enforcement of warehousemen’s liens.

(2) A person may not remove or attempt to remove from the airport any aircraft owned or operated by the person owing such charges or fees after service of notice of the lien upon the owner or operator or after the posting of such notice upon the aircraft. Any person who unlawfully removes or attempts to remove from the airport any aircraft owned or operated by a person owing such charges or fees after service or posting of the notice of lien and before payment of the amount due to the airport is guilty of a misdemeanor of the second degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083.

History: s. 1, ch. 83-272; s. 1, ch. 87-324.
Fla. Stat. § 626.7354 — Florida Code / Title XXXVII / Chapter 626 / Part II / Section 626.7354
626.7354 Customer representative’s powers; agent’s or agency’s responsibility.
Status: in_force

(1) A customer representative’s license shall not cover life insurance or any kind of insurance for which the agent or agency by which he or she is appointed is not then licensed.

(2) A customer representative may engage in transacting insurance with customers who have been solicited by any agent or customer representative in the same agency, and may engage in transacting insurance with customers who have not been so solicited to the extent and under conditions that are otherwise consistent with this part and with the insurer’s contract with the agent appointing him or her.

(3) A customer representative shall be a salaried employee of the agent or agency. His or her compensation shall not be primarily based on commissions or the production of applications, insurance, or premiums.

(4) A customer representative shall not engage in transacting insurance outside of the office of his or her agent or agency.

(5) All business transacted by a customer representative under his or her license shall be in the name of the agent or agency by which he or she is appointed, and the agent or agency shall be responsible and accountable for all acts of the customer representative within the scope of such appointment.

History: ss. 74, 207, ch. 90-363; s. 4, ch. 91-429; s. 246, ch. 97-102; s. 83, ch. 2003-1; s. 46, ch. 2003-267; s. 39, ch. 2003-281; s. 9, ch. 2015-180.