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Fla. Stat. § 1009.771 — Florida Code / Title XLVIII / Chapter 1009 / Part III / Section 1009.771
1009.771 Workforce education partnership programs.
Status: in_force

(1) A state university may establish a workforce education partnership program to provide assistance to a student who is enrolled at the state university and is employed by a private employer participating in the program. The Board of Governors shall create a template for a state university to establish such workforce education partnership program. The Board of Governors shall consult with state and local workforce and economic development agencies to develop the template. The template must include all of the following: (a) The process for a private employer to participate in the program. (b) Student eligibility criteria, including that a student be enrolled in a degree-granting program at a state university on at least a half-time basis and be a paid employee of a private employer participating in the program. (c) The process for an eligible student to enroll in the program. (d) Guidance and requirements for the state university and the private employer to: 1. Each designate a mentor to assist participating students. 2. Create a process to make a housing stipend available to participating students. 3. Create a process to provide life management and professional skills training to participating students. (e) The requirement that the private employer establish an educational assistance program pursuant to s. 127 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and provide tuition assistance for a student enrolled at the state university while the student works for the private employer, up to the maximum amount that the employer may exclude from the employer’s gross income under that section. (f) The requirement that the state university work with participating students to ensure that they have applied for and are receiving the maximum amount of financial aid in the form of scholarships and grants. (g) The requirement that the state university and the private employer seek out additional sources of funding to pay for remaining costs for participating students.

(2) The Board of Governors shall evaluate the effectiveness of workforce education partnership programs established pursuant to this section to determine whether additional training and employment programs may use the template created pursuant to subsection (1) to establish a workforce education partnership program.

(3) The Board of Governors shall adopt regulations to administer this section.

History: s. 33, ch. 2023-81.
Fla. Stat. § 343.56 — Florida Code / Title XXVI / Chapter 343 / Part I / Section 343.56
343.56 Bonds not debts or pledges of credit of state.
Status: in_force

Revenue bonds issued under the provisions of this part are not debts of the state or pledges of the faith and credit of the state. Such bonds are payable exclusively from revenues pledged for their payment. All such bonds shall contain a statement on their face that the state is not obligated to pay the same or the interest thereon, except from the revenues pledged for their payment, and that the faith and credit of the state is not pledged to the payment of the principal or interest of such bonds. The issuance of revenue bonds under the provisions of this part does not directly, indirectly, or contingently obligate the state to levy or to pledge any form of taxation whatsoever, or to make any appropriation for their payment. No state funds shall be used or pledged to pay the principal or interest of any bonds issued to finance or refinance any portion of the South Florida Regional Transportation Authority transit system, and all such bonds shall contain a statement on their face to this effect.

History: s. 1, ch. 89-351; s. 21, ch. 2000-266; s. 6, ch. 2003-159; s. 65, ch. 2012-174.
Fla. Stat. § 180.18 — Florida Code / Title XII / Chapter 180 / Section 180.18
180.18 Use by municipality of privately owned utility.
Status: in_force

Whenever a private company or corporation shall construct or operate any of the works authorized by this chapter, the municipality wherein the same shall be constructed or operated shall not use the said works in any manner except by and with the consent of the private company or corporation in the manner and upon the terms and conditions which are mutually agreeable to the private company or corporation and the municipality, except as hereinbefore provided.

History: s. 12, ch. 17118, 1935; CGL 1936 Supp. 3100(17).
Fla. Stat. § 459.018 — Florida Code / Title XXXII / Chapter 459 / Section 459.018
459.018 Search warrants for certain violations.
Status: in_force

When the department has reason to believe that violations of s. 459.015(1)(t) or (u) have occurred or are occurring, its agents or other duly authorized persons may search an osteopathic physician’s place of practice for purposes of securing such evidence as may be needed for prosecution. Such evidence shall not include any medical records of patients unless pursuant to the patient’s written consent. Notwithstanding the consent of the patient, such records maintained by the department are confidential and exempt from s. 119.07(1). This section shall not limit the psychotherapist-patient privileges of s. 90.503. Prior to a search, the department shall secure a search warrant from any judge authorized by law to issue search warrants. The search warrant shall be issued upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation particularly describing the things to be seized. The application for the warrant shall be sworn to and subscribed, and the judge may require further testimony from witnesses, supporting affidavits, or depositions in writing to support the application. The application and supporting information, if required, must set forth the facts tending to establish the grounds of the application or probable cause that they exist. If the judge is satisfied that probable cause exists, he or she shall issue a search warrant signed by him or her with the judge’s name of office to any agent or other person duly authorized by the department to execute process, commanding the agent or person to search the place described in the warrant for the property specified. The search warrant shall be served only by the agent or person mentioned in it and by no other person except an aide of the agent or person when such agent or person is present and acting in its execution.

History: ss. 1, 6, ch. 79-230; ss. 2, 3, ch. 81-318; ss. 20, 27, 29, ch. 86-290; s. 15, ch. 91-140; s. 4, ch. 91-429; s. 316, ch. 96-406; s. 1100, ch. 97-103; s. 118, ch. 2000-153.
Fla. Stat. § 285.20 — Florida Code / Title XIX / Chapter 285 / Part I / Section 285.20
285.20 Tribal Secured Transactions Filing Offices.
Status: in_force

(1) If the governing body of the Seminole Tribe of Florida or the governing body of the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians adopts or enacts a law or ordinance governing secured transactions arising within or relating to the reservation of such tribe in this state, and if such tribal law or ordinance authorizes financing statements and other records relating to secured transactions to be filed: (a) With the Department of State or such other central filing office as may be established from time to time under the Uniform Commercial Code of this state, then the Department of State or other central filing office, including any private secured transaction registry that may be designated as such in this state, shall accept and process such filings made under the tribal secured transactions law in accordance with this section and the provisions of chapter 679; or (b) With the office of the clerk of circuit court in any county of this state in which the tribal secured transactions law requires a local filing, then such county filing office shall accept and process such filings made under such tribal law in accordance with this section and the provisions of chapter 28.

(2) The filing office shall not be required to accept any financing statements or other records communicated for filing under a tribal secured transactions law unless they satisfy the same filing requirements then applicable to financing statements and other records communicated to that filing office under the Uniform Commercial Code of this state, including the payment of the same filing, processing, or recording charges or fees then charged by that filing office for filing or recording comparable financing statements and other records under the Uniform Commercial Code of this state.

(3) The filing office shall maintain and index its records of all financing statements or other records filing with that filing office under the tribal secured transactions law together with and in the same manner as its records of financing statements and other records filed under the Uniform Commercial Code of this state. The filing office shall not be required to record or index separately, or otherwise segregate in any manner, any such filings made under the tribal secured transactions law from other filings made under the Uniform Commercial Code of this state. In all respects, the filing office shall have the same duties and responsibilities with respect to filings made under the tribal secured transactions law as with respect to filings made under the Uniform Commercial Code of this state.

History: s. 29, ch. 2001-198.
Fla. Stat. § 678.4051 — Florida Code / Title XXXIX / Chapter 678 / Part IV / Section 678.4051
678.4051 Replacement of lost, destroyed, or wrongfully taken security certificate.
Status: in_force

(1) If an owner of a certificated security, whether in registered or bearer form, claims that the certificate has been lost, destroyed, or wrongfully taken, the issuer shall issue a new certificate if the owner: (a) So requests before the issuer has notice that the certificate has been acquired by a protected purchaser. (b) Files with the issuer a sufficient indemnity bond. (c) Satisfies other reasonable requirements imposed by the issuer.

(2) If, after the issue of a new security certificate, a protected purchaser of the original certificate presents it for registration of transfer, the issuer shall register the transfer unless an overissue would result. In that case, the issuer’s liability is governed by s. 678.2101. In addition to any rights on the indemnity bond, an issuer may recover the new certificate from a person to whom it was issued or any person taking under that person, except a protected purchaser.

History: s. 4, ch. 98-11.
Fla. Stat. § 607.1332 — Florida Code / Title XXXVI / Chapter 607 / Part I / Section 607.1332
607.1332 Disposition of acquired shares.
Status: in_force

Shares acquired by a corporation pursuant to payment of the agreed value thereof or pursuant to payment of the judgment entered therefor, as provided in this chapter, may be held and disposed of by such corporation as authorized but unissued shares of the corporation, except that, in the case of a merger or share exchange, they may be held and disposed of as the plan of merger or share exchange otherwise provides. The shares of the survivor into which the shares of such shareholders demanding appraisal rights would have been converted had they assented to the merger shall have the status of authorized but unissued shares of the survivor.

History: s. 31, ch. 2003-283; s. 172, ch. 2019-90.
Fla. Stat. § 671.104 — Florida Code / Title XXXIX / Chapter 671 / Part I / Section 671.104
671.104 Construction against implicit repeal.
Status: in_force

This code being a general act intended as a unified coverage of its subject matter, no part of it shall be deemed to be impliedly repealed by subsequent legislation if such construction can reasonably be avoided.

History: s. 1, ch. 65-254.
Fla. Stat. § 252.358 — Florida Code / Title XVII / Chapter 252 / Part I / Section 252.358
252.358 Emergency-preparedness prescription medication refills.
Status: in_force

All health insurers, managed care organizations, and other entities that are licensed by the Office of Insurance Regulation and provide prescription medication coverage as part of a policy or contract shall waive time restrictions on prescription medication refills, which include suspension of electronic “refill too soon” edits to pharmacies, to enable insureds or subscribers to refill prescriptions in advance, if there are authorized refills remaining, and shall authorize payment to pharmacies for at least a 30-day supply of any prescription medication, regardless of the date upon which the prescription had most recently been filled by a pharmacist, when the following conditions occur:

(1) The person seeking the prescription medication refill resides in a county that: (a) Is under a hurricane warning issued by the National Weather Service; (b) Is declared to be under a state of emergency in an executive order issued by the Governor; or (c) Has activated its emergency operations center and its emergency management plan.

(2) The prescription medication refill is requested within 30 days after the origination date of the conditions stated in this section or until such conditions are terminated by the issuing authority or no longer exist. The time period for the waiver of prescription medication refills may be extended in 15- or 30-day increments by emergency orders issued by the Office of Insurance Regulation.

This section does not excuse or exempt an insured or subscriber from compliance with all other terms of the policy or contract providing prescription medication coverage.

History: s. 29, ch. 2006-71; s. 20, ch. 2018-110.
Fla. Stat. § 218.05 — Florida Code / Title XIV / Chapter 218 / Part I / Section 218.05
218.05 Certain bonds sold to Federal Government, etc., validated.
Status: in_force

(1) All bonds heretofore issued for the purpose of financing or aiding in financing any work, undertaking or project by any public body to which any loan or grant has heretofore been made or agreed to be made by the United States through the Federal Emergency Administrator of Public Works for the purpose of financing or aiding in financing of such work, undertaking or project, including all proceedings for the authorization and issuance of such bonds and the sale, execution and delivery thereof, are validated, ratified, approved and confirmed, notwithstanding any lack of power of such public body or the governing board, council or commission or officers thereof, to authorize and issue such bonds, or to sell, execute or deliver the same, and notwithstanding any defects or irregularities in such proceedings, or in such sale, execution or delivery; and such bonds are and shall be binding, legal, valid and enforceable obligations of such public body.

(2) The term “bonds” includes bonds, notes, warrants, debentures, certificates of indebtedness, revenue certificates and all instruments or obligations evidencing or representing indebtedness, or evidencing or representing the borrowing of money or evidencing or representing a charge, lien, or encumbrance on specific revenues, income or property of a public body, including all instruments or obligations payable from a special fund.

History: ss. 1, 4, ch. 17750, 1937; CGL 1940 Supp. 1365(43),(45).
Fla. Stat. § 196.19781 — Florida Code / Title XIV / Chapter 196 / Section 196.19781
196.19781 Affordable housing exemption for properties owned by this state.
Status: in_force

(1) Portions of property used to provide more than 70 units of affordable housing to natural persons or families meeting the extremely-low-income, very-low-income, low-income, or moderate-income limits specified in s. 420.0004 are considered property owned by an exempt entity and used for a charitable purpose and are exempt from ad valorem tax if: (a) The land upon which improvements have been made is owned by this state; (b) The property is subject to a lease or restrictive use agreement recorded in the official records of the county in which the property is located which requires the property to be used to provide affordable housing for at least 60 years; and (c) The owner or operator of the property applies to receive the exemption each year by March 1.

(2) The property appraiser shall apply the exemption to the proportionate share of the residential common areas, including the land, fairly attributable to the portion of the property providing affordable housing under this section.

(3) Property that does not provide at least 70 units of affordable housing to natural persons or families meeting the income limits specified in subsection (1) on January 1 of any year is no longer eligible for this exemption.

(4) The property appraiser shall determine whether the applicant meets all of the requirements of this section and is entitled to an exemption. A property appraiser may request and review additional information necessary to make such determination.

(5) If the property appraiser determines that for any year during the immediately previous 10 years a property that was not entitled to an exemption under this section was granted such an exemption, the property appraiser must serve upon the operator a notice of intent to record in the public records of the county a notice of tax lien against any property owned by that operator in the county, and that property must be identified in the notice of tax lien. Any property owned by the operator and situated in this state is subject to the taxes exempted by the improper exemption, plus a penalty of 50 percent of the unpaid taxes for each year and interest at a rate of 15 percent per annum. If an exemption is improperly granted as a result of a clerical mistake or an omission by the property appraiser, the property improperly receiving the exemption may not be assessed a penalty or interest.

History: s. 18, ch. 2025-208.
Fla. Stat. § 492.104 — Florida Code / Title XXXII / Chapter 492 / Section 492.104
492.104 Rulemaking authority.
Status: in_force

The Board of Professional Geologists has authority to adopt rules pursuant to ss. 120.536(1) and 120.54 to implement this chapter. Every licensee shall be governed and controlled by this chapter and the rules adopted by the board. The board is authorized to set, by rule, fees for application, examination, late renewal, initial licensure, and license renewal. These fees may not exceed the cost of implementing the application, examination, initial licensure, and license renewal or other administrative process and shall be established as follows:

(1) The application fee shall not exceed $150 and shall be nonrefundable.

(2) The examination fee shall not exceed $250, and the fee may be apportioned to each part of a multipart examination. The examination fee shall be refundable in whole or part if the applicant is found to be ineligible to take any portion of the licensure examination.

(3) The initial license fee shall not exceed $100.

(4) The biennial renewal fee shall not exceed $150.

(5) The fee for reactivation of an inactive license may not exceed $50.

(6) The fee for a provisional license may not exceed $400.

(7) The fee for application, examination, and licensure for a license by endorsement is as provided in this section for licenses in general.

History: ss. 4, 19, ch. 87-403; s. 64, ch. 89-162; s. 49, ch. 91-137; s. 4, ch. 91-429; s. 164, ch. 98-200; s. 57, ch. 2000-356; s. 1, ch. 2014-73; s. 70, ch. 2020-160.
Fla. Stat. § 316.1577 — Florida Code / Title XXIII / Chapter 316 / Section 316.1577
316.1577 Employer responsibility for violations pertaining to railroad-highway grade crossings.
Status: in_force

(1) An employer may not knowingly allow, require, permit, or authorize a driver to operate a commercial motor vehicle in violation of a federal, state, or local law or rule pertaining to railroad-highway grade crossings.

(2) A person who violates subsection (1) is subject to a civil penalty of not more than $10,000.

History: s. 31, ch. 2005-164.
Fla. Stat. § 506.5131 — Florida Code / Title XXXIII / Chapter 506 / Section 506.5131
506.5131 Return of shopping carts; assessment of fees, fines, and costs.
Status: in_force

(1) The rightful owner of any shopping cart with a registered name or mark found on public property shall be immediately notified of its recovery.

(2) Notwithstanding any other provision of law or local ordinance, no fee, fine, or costs may be assessed against the owner of a shopping cart unless the shopping cart was found on public property and was removed from the premises or parking area of a retail establishment by the owner of the shopping cart, or an employee acting on the owner’s behalf, and the fee, fine, or cost has been approved by the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. This subsection shall not apply to any ordinance adopted after January 31, 2002, and prior to June 30, 2002, that requires a business establishment to install a retention system to retain shopping carts within the real property boundaries of a business location.

History: s. 12, ch. 98-396; s. 6, ch. 2006-165.
Fla. Stat. § 641.386 — Florida Code / Title XXXVII / Chapter 641 / Part I / Section 641.386
641.386 Agent licensing and appointment required; exceptions.
Status: in_force

(1) With respect to a health maintenance contract, no person shall, unless licensed and appointed as a health insurance agent in accordance with the applicable provisions of the Florida Insurance Code: (a) Solicit contracts or procure applications; or (b) Engage or hold himself or herself out as engaging in the business of analyzing or abstracting health maintenance contracts or of counseling or advising or giving opinions to persons relative to such contracts other than as a consulting actuary advising a health maintenance organization or as a salaried bona fide full-time employee so counseling and advising his or her employer relative to coverage for the employer and his or her employees.

(2) All qualifications, disciplinary provisions, licensing and appointment procedures, fees, and related matters contained in the Florida Insurance Code which apply to the licensing and appointment of health insurance agents by insurers shall apply to health maintenance organizations and to persons licensed or appointed by the health maintenance organization as their agents.

(3) An examination, license, or appointment is not required of any regular salaried officer or employee of a health maintenance organization who devotes substantially all of his or her services to activities other than the solicitation of health maintenance organization contracts from the public and who receives no commission or other compensation directly dependent upon the solicitation of such contracts. This exemption does not apply to the solicitation of Medicaid eligible subscribers.

(4) All agents and health maintenance organizations shall comply with and be subject to the applicable provisions of ss. 641.309 and 409.912(3), and all companies and entities appointing agents shall comply with s. 626.451, when marketing for any health maintenance organization licensed pursuant to this part, including those organizations under contract with the Agency for Health Care Administration to provide health care services to Medicaid recipients or any private entity providing health care services to Medicaid recipients pursuant to a prepaid health plan contract with the Agency for Health Care Administration.

History: ss. 77, 80, ch. 89-360; ss. 176, 187, 188, ch. 91-108; s. 4, ch. 91-429; s. 27, ch. 96-199; s. 1753, ch. 97-102; s. 18, ch. 2002-223; s. 136, ch. 2004-5; s. 28, ch. 2004-344; s. 27, ch. 2011-135; s. 32, ch. 2015-3; s. 19, ch. 2017-4.
Fla. Stat. § 468.501 — Florida Code / Title XXXII / Chapter 468 / Part X / Section 468.501
468.501 Short title.
Status: in_force

This part may be cited as the “Dietetics and Nutrition Practice Act.”

History: ss. 1, 20, ch. 88-236; s. 4, ch. 91-429; s. 1, ch. 96-367.