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Fla. Stat. § 45.075 — Florida Code / Title VI / Chapter 45 / Section 45.075
45.075 Expedited trials.
Status: in_force

Upon the joint stipulation of the parties to any civil case, the court may conduct an expedited trial as provided in this section. Where two or more plaintiffs or defendants have a unity of interest, such as a husband and wife, they shall be considered one party for the purpose of this section. Unless otherwise ordered by the court or agreed to by the parties with approval of the court, an expedited trial shall be conducted as follows:

(1) All discovery shall be completed within 60 days after the court enters an order adopting the joint expedited trial stipulation.

(2) All interrogatories and requests for production must be served within 10 days after the court enters the order adopting the joint expedited trial stipulation, and all responses must be served within 20 days after receipt.

(3) The court shall determine the number of depositions required.

(4) The case may be tried to a jury.

(5) The case may be tried within 30 days after the 60-day discovery cutoff, if such schedule would not impose an undue burden on the court calendar.

(6) The trial must be limited to 1 day.

(7) The jury selection must be limited to 1 hour.

(8) The plaintiff will have no more than 3 hours to present its case, including the opening, all testimony and evidence, and the closing.

(9) The defendant will have no more than 3 hours to present its case, including the opening, all testimony and evidence, and the closing.

(10) The jury may be given “plain language” jury instructions at the beginning of the trial as well as a “plain language” jury verdict form. The parties must agree to the jury instructions and verdict form.

(11) The parties may introduce a verified written report of any expert and an affidavit of the expert’s curriculum vitae instead of calling the expert to testify at trial.

(12) At trial the parties may use excerpts from depositions, including video depositions, regardless of where the deponent lives or whether the deponent is available to testify.

(13) Except as otherwise provided in this section, the Florida Evidence Code and the Florida Rules of Civil Procedure apply.

(14) The court may refuse to grant continuances of the trial absent extraordinary circumstances.

History: s. 6, ch. 99-225.
Fla. Stat. § 397.481 — Florida Code / Title XXIX / Chapter 397 / Part II / Section 397.481
397.481 Applicability of Community Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Services Act.
Status: in_force

All service providers as defined in and governed by this chapter are also subject to part IV of chapter 394, the Community Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Services Act.

History: s. 3, ch. 93-39.
Fla. Stat. § 14.2019 — Florida Code / Title IV / Chapter 14 / Section 14.2019
14.2019 Statewide Office for Suicide Prevention.
Status: in_force

(1) The Statewide Office for Suicide Prevention is created within the Department of Children and Families.

(2) The statewide office shall, within available resources: (a) Develop a network of community-based programs to improve suicide prevention initiatives. The network shall identify and work to eliminate barriers to providing suicide prevention services to individuals who are at risk of suicide. The network shall consist of stakeholders advocating suicide prevention, including, but not limited to, not-for-profit suicide prevention organizations, faith-based suicide prevention organizations, law enforcement agencies, first responders to emergency calls, veterans, servicemembers, suicide prevention community coalitions, schools and universities, mental health agencies, substance abuse treatment agencies, health care providers, and school personnel. (b) Prepare and implement the statewide plan with the advice of the Suicide Prevention Coordinating Council. (c) Increase public awareness concerning topics relating to suicide prevention. (d) Coordinate education and training curricula in suicide prevention efforts for law enforcement personnel, first responders to emergency calls, veterans, servicemembers, health care providers, school employees, and other persons who may have contact with persons at risk of suicide. (e) Act as a clearinghouse for information and resources related to suicide prevention by: 1. Disseminating and sharing evidence-based best practices relating to suicide prevention. 2. Collecting and analyzing data on trends in suicide and suicide attempts annually by county, age, gender, profession, and other demographics as designated by the statewide office. (f) Advise the Department of Transportation on the implementation of evidence-based suicide deterrents in the design elements and features of infrastructure projects throughout the state.

(3) The Statewide Office for Suicide Prevention may seek and accept grants or funds from any federal, state, or local source to support the operation and defray the authorized expenses of the office and the Suicide Prevention Coordinating Council. Revenues from grants shall be deposited in the Grants and Donations Trust Fund within the Department of Children and Families. In accordance with s. 216.181(11), the Executive Office of the Governor may request changes to the approved operating budget to allow the expenditure of any additional grant funds collected pursuant to this subsection.

(4) Agencies under the control of the Governor or the Governor and Cabinet are directed, and all others are encouraged, to provide information and support to the Statewide Office for Suicide Prevention as requested.

History: s. 1, ch. 2007-46; s. 1, ch. 2011-51; s. 1, ch. 2014-19; s. 1, ch. 2020-39; s. 4, ch. 2023-8; s. 1, ch. 2024-3.
Fla. Stat. § 468.607 — Florida Code / Title XXXII / Chapter 468 / Part XII / Section 468.607
468.607 Certification of building code administration and inspection personnel.
Status: in_force

The board shall issue a certificate to any individual whom the board determines to be qualified, within such class and level as provided in this part and with such limitations as the board may place upon it. No person may be employed by a state agency or local governmental authority to perform the duties of a building code administrator, plans examiner, or building code inspector after October 1, 1993, without possessing the proper valid certificate issued in accordance with the provisions of this part. Any person who acts as an inspector and plans examiner under s. 1013.37 while conducting activities authorized by certification under that section is certified to continue to conduct inspections for a local enforcement agency until the person’s UBCI certification expires, after which time such person must possess the proper valid certificate issued in accordance with this part.

History: s. 24, ch. 93-166; s. 33, ch. 2000-141; s. 15, ch. 2000-372; s. 1015, ch. 2002-387.
Fla. Stat. § 607.0830 — Florida Code / Title XXXVI / Chapter 607 / Part I / Section 607.0830
607.0830 General standards for directors.
Status: in_force

(1) Each member of the board of directors, when discharging the duties of a director, including in discharging his or her duties as a member of a board committee, must act: (a) In good faith; and (b) In a manner he or she reasonably believes to be in the best interests of the corporation.

(2) The members of the board of directors or a board committee, when becoming informed in connection with a decisionmaking function or devoting attention to an oversight function, shall discharge their duties with the care that an ordinary prudent person in a like position would reasonably believe appropriate under similar circumstances.

(3) In discharging board or board committee duties, a director who does not have knowledge that makes reliance unwarranted is entitled to rely on the performance by any of the persons specified in paragraph (5)(a) or paragraph (5)(b) to whom the board may have delegated, formally or informally by course of conduct, the authority or duty to perform one or more of the board’s functions that are delegable under applicable law.

(4) In discharging board or board committee duties, a director who does not have knowledge that makes reliance unwarranted is entitled to rely on information, opinions, reports, or statements, including financial statements and other financial data, prepared or presented by any of the persons specified in subsection (5).

(5) A director is entitled to rely, in accordance with subsection (3) or subsection (4), on: (a) One or more officers or employees of the corporation whom the director reasonably believes to be reliable and competent in the functions performed or the information, opinions, reports, or statements provided; (b) Legal counsel, public accountants, or other persons retained by the corporation or by a committee of the board of the corporation as to matters involving skills or expertise the director reasonably believes are matters: 1. Within the particular person’s professional or expert competence; or 2. As to which the particular person merits confidence; or (c) A committee of the board of directors of which the director is not a member if the director reasonably believes the committee merits confidence.

(6) In discharging board or board committee duties, a director may consider such factors as the director deems relevant, including the long-term prospects and interests of the corporation and its shareholders, and the social, economic, legal, or other effects of any action on the employees, suppliers, customers of the corporation or its subsidiaries, the communities and society in which the corporation or its subsidiaries operate, and the economy of the state and the nation.

History: s. 84, ch. 89-154; s. 26, ch. 97-102; s. 99, ch. 2019-90.
Fla. Stat. § 377.2407 — Florida Code / Title XXVIII / Chapter 377 / Part I / Section 377.2407
377.2407 Natural gas storage facility permit application to inject gas into and recover gas from a natural gas storage reservoir.
Status: in_force

(1) Before drilling a well to inject gas into and recover gas from a natural gas storage reservoir, the person who desires to conduct such operation shall apply to the department in the manner described in this section using such form as the department may prescribe to obtain a natural gas storage facility permit. The department shall also require any applicant seeking to obtain such permit to pay a reasonable permit application fee. Such fee must be in an amount necessary to cover the costs associated with receiving, processing, issuing, and recertifying the permit application, and inspecting for compliance with the permit.

(2) Each application must contain: (a) A detailed, three-dimensional description of the natural gas storage reservoir, including geologic-based descriptions of the reservoir boundaries, and the horizontal and vertical dimensions. (b) A geographic description of the lateral storage reservoir boundary. (c) A general description and location of all injection, recovery, withdrawal-only, and observation wells. (d) A description of the reservoir protective area. (e) Information demonstrating that the proposed natural gas storage reservoir is suitable for the storage and recovery of gas. (f) Information identifying all reasonably known abandoned or active wells within the natural gas storage facility. (g) A field-monitoring plan that requires, at a minimum, monthly field inspections of all wells that are part of the natural gas storage facility. (h) A monitoring and testing plan for the well integrity. (i) A well inspection plan that requires, at a minimum, the inspection of all wells that are part of the natural gas storage facility and plugged wells within the natural gas storage facility boundary. (j) A spill prevention and response plan. (k) A well spacing plan. (l) An operating plan for the natural gas storage reservoir, which must include gas capacities, anticipated operating conditions, and maximum storage pressure. (m) A gas migration response plan. (n) A location plat and general facility map surveyed and prepared by a registered land surveyor licensed under chapter 472.

(3) The department may require the applicant to provide additional information that is deemed necessary to permit the development of the natural gas storage facility. Each well related to the natural gas storage facility shall be authorized and permitted individually upon the applicant’s satisfying applicable well construction and operation criteria under this part; however, notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, well spacing requirements do not apply.

History: s. 11, ch. 2013-205.
Fla. Stat. § 641.452 — Florida Code / Title XXXVII / Chapter 641 / Part II / Section 641.452
641.452 Administrative penalty in lieu of suspension or revocation of certificate of authority.
Status: in_force

The office may, in lieu of suspension or revocation of a certificate of authority, levy an administrative penalty in an amount not more than $10,000 for each violation by a prepaid health clinic. In levying such fine, the office shall consider the number of members and total revenues of the clinic and whether the violation was committed knowingly and willfully.

History: ss. 10, 11, ch. 84-313; s. 20, ch. 87-236; ss. 187, 188, ch. 91-108; s. 4, ch. 91-429; s. 1620, ch. 2003-261.
Fla. Stat. § 672.610 — Florida Code / Title XXXIX / Chapter 672 / Part VI / Section 672.610
672.610 Anticipatory repudiation.
Status: in_force

When either party repudiates the contract with respect to a performance not yet due the loss of which will substantially impair the value of the contract to the other, the aggrieved party may:

(1) For a commercially reasonable time await performance by the repudiating party; or

(2) Resort to any remedy for breach (s. 672.703 or s. 672.711), even though the aggrieved party has notified the repudiating party that she or he would await the latter’s performance and has urged retraction; and

(3) In either case suspend her or his own performance or proceed in accordance with the provisions of this chapter on the seller’s right to identify goods to the contract notwithstanding breach or to salvage unfinished goods (s. 672.704).

History: s. 1, ch. 65-254; s. 595, ch. 97-102.
Fla. Stat. § 270.11 — Florida Code / Title XVIII / Chapter 270 / Section 270.11
270.11 Contracts for sale of public lands to reserve certain mineral rights; prohibition on exercise of right of entry in certain cases.
Status: in_force

(1) Unless the applicable agency chooses not to reserve such interest and except as otherwise provided by law, in all contracts and deeds for the sale of land executed by the Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund or by any local government, water management district, or other agency of the state, there shall be reserved for such local government, water management district, other agency of the state, or the board of trustees and its successors an undivided three-fourths interest in, and title in and to an undivided three-fourths interest in, all the phosphate, minerals, and metals that are or may be in, on, or under the said land and an undivided one-half interest in all the petroleum that is or may be in, on, or under said land with the privilege to mine and develop the same.

(2)(a) The Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund may, in its discretion, sell or release any reserved interest or any portion thereof in or as to any particular parcel of land, and the State Board of Education may sell or release any such interest or any portion thereof which was reserved for said board pursuant to this section prior to September 1, 1967. Such sale or release shall be made on application of the owner of the title to the particular parcel of land with statement of reason justifying such sale or release. (b) A local government, a water management district, or an agency of the state may, at its discretion, sell or release reserved interest in any parcel of land, except that such sale or release shall be made upon petition of the owner of the parcel of land with a statement of reasons justifying such sale or release.

(3) The right of entry to any interest in phosphate, minerals, and metals or any interest in petroleum reserved in favor of the Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund, the State Board of Education, a local government, a water management district, or other agency of the state is released for any parcel of property that is, or ever has been, a contiguous tract of less than 20 acres in the aggregate under the same ownership.

(4) Any state agency, except a water management district, which receives royalties for parcels shall remit any such moneys into the General Revenue Fund, unless otherwise provided by law.

History: ss. 1, 2, ch. 6159, 1911; RGS 1226; CGL 1771; s. 1095, ch. 19355, 1939; CGL 1940 Supp. 892(414); s. 1, ch. 26849, 1951; s. 1, ch. 59-220; s. 2, ch. 61-119; ss. 27, 35, ch. 69-106; s. 76, ch. 71-355; s. 1, ch. 86-205; s. 1, ch. 86-257; s. 9, ch. 2001-256; s. 1, ch. 2019-85.
Fla. Stat. § 741.3165 — Florida Code / Title XLIII / Chapter 741 / Section 741.3165
741.3165 Certain information exempt from disclosure.
Status: in_force

(1)(a) Any information that is confidential or exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution and that is obtained by a domestic violence fatality review team conducting activities as described in s. 741.316 shall retain its confidential or exempt status when held by a domestic violence fatality review team. (b) Any information contained in a record created by a domestic violence fatality review team pursuant to s. 741.316 that reveals the identity of a victim of domestic violence or the identity of the children of the victim is confidential and exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution.

(2) Portions of meetings of any domestic violence fatality review team regarding domestic violence fatalities and their prevention, during which confidential or exempt information, the identity of the victim, or the identity of the children of the victim is discussed, are exempt from s. 286.011 and s. 24(b), Art. I of the State Constitution.

History: s. 1, ch. 2000-219; s. 1, ch. 2005-212; s. 160, ch. 2008-4; s. 1, ch. 2010-43.
Fla. Stat. § 624.486 — Florida Code / Title XXXVII / Chapter 624 / Part III / Section 624.486
624.486 Examination.
Status: in_force

Self-insurance funds licensed under ss. 624.460-624.488 are subject to periodic examination by the office in the same manner and subject to the same terms and conditions applicable to insurers under part II of this chapter.

History: s. 39, ch. 86-160; s. 188, ch. 91-108; s. 4, ch. 91-429; s. 90, ch. 93-415; s. 837, ch. 2003-261.
Fla. Stat. § 287.0931 — Florida Code / Title XIX / Chapter 287 / Part I / Section 287.0931
287.0931 Minority business enterprises; participation in bond underwriting.
Status: in_force

(1) Any state or local government agency, or political subdivision thereof, issuing bonds or other tax-exempt obligations through one or more underwriters is encouraged to offer not less than 20 percent participation to minority firms.

(2) To meet such participation requirement, the minority firm must have full-time employees located in this state, must have a permanent place of business located in this state, and must be a firm which is at least 51-percent-owned by minority persons as defined in s. 288.703. However, for the purpose of bond underwriting only, the requirement that the minority person be a permanent resident of this state does not apply.

History: s. 12, ch. 94-322; s. 126, ch. 2011-142.
Fla. Stat. § 104.24 — Florida Code / Title IX / Chapter 104 / Section 104.24
104.24 Penalty for assuming name.
Status: in_force

A person may not, in connection with any part of the election process, fraudulently call himself or herself, or fraudulently pass by, any other name than the name by which the person is registered or fraudulently use the name of another in voting. Any person who violates this section is guilty of a felony of the third degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084.

History: s. 57, ch. 6469, 1913; RGS 360, 5913; CGL 417, 8177; s. 4, ch. 22014, 1943; s. 1, ch. 25385, 1949; s. 8, ch. 26870, 1951; s. 13, ch. 65-379; s. 44, ch. 71-136; s. 35, ch. 77-175; s. 625, ch. 95-147; s. 31, ch. 98-129.
Fla. Stat. § 570.21 — Florida Code / Title XXXV / Chapter 570 / Part I / Section 570.21
570.21 Publication of department’s bulletins, publications, and reports.
Status: in_force

(1) The Divisions of Administration and Marketing and Development may publish bulletins or other publications and reports containing data and statistics and information relating to: (a) Agriculture, agricultural production, agricultural labor, and the agricultural conditions of the state, and their development and improvement to increase farm production and values. (b) The sources, supply, and prices of food; their storage and accumulation at different places; and the quantity and location of the available supply. (c) The market prices of foods. (d) Facilities afforded for transportation, marketing, and distribution of foods within the state. (e) Matters pertaining generally to the production of foods, food safety, the actual food value of articles used in food, and the sale and distribution to the consumer. (f) Investigations, hearings, and inquiries conducted as provided in this chapter; conclusions reached; and the orders and recommendations made. (g) Rules and orders of the department. (h) Any other matter of an agricultural nature which the department deems proper and that is not within the jurisdiction of the agricultural experiment station or the agricultural extension service.

(2) Such bulletins, publications, reports, rules, and orders and the information contained therein shall be published and distributed in the manner deemed best by the department for the dissemination of knowledge as to the agricultural interest of the state and the production, sale, purchase, storage, marketing, and distribution of food, and the economic and food value of articles used as food. The cost of publishing these materials shall be paid in the same manner as other expenses of the department. Copies of these materials may also be sold to the public at their estimated cost, in accordance with a schedule of charges adopted by the department.

History: s. 1, ch. 59-54; ss. 14, 17, 35, ch. 69-106; s. 1, ch. 73-283; s. 2, ch. 77-289; s. 14, ch. 93-169; s. 2, ch. 93-270; s. 35, ch. 2001-63.
Fla. Stat. § 383.015 — Florida Code / Title XXIX / Chapter 383 / Section 383.015
383.015 Breastfeeding.
Status: in_force

The breastfeeding of a baby is an important and basic act of nurture which must be encouraged in the interests of maternal and child health and family values, and in furtherance of this goal:

(1) A mother may breastfeed her baby in any location, public or private, where the mother is otherwise authorized to be, irrespective of whether the nipple of the mother’s breast is uncovered during or incidental to the breastfeeding.

(2) A facility lawfully providing maternity services or newborn infant care may use the designation “baby-friendly” if it establishes a breastfeeding policy in accordance with s. 383.016.

History: s. 1, ch. 93-4; s. 2, ch. 94-217.