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Fla. Stat. § 88.1041 — Florida Code / Title VI / Chapter 88 / Part I / Section 88.1041
88.1041 Application of act to resident of foreign country and foreign support proceeding.
Status: in_force

(1) A tribunal of this state shall apply parts I through VI of this chapter, and, as applicable, part VII of this chapter, to a support proceeding involving: (a) A foreign support order; (b) A foreign tribunal; or (c) An obligee, obligor, or child residing in a foreign country.

(2) A tribunal of this state that is requested to recognize and enforce a support order on the basis of comity may apply the procedural and substantive provisions of parts I through VI of this chapter.

(3) Part VII of this chapter applies only to a support proceeding under the convention. In such a proceeding, if a provision of part VII of this chapter is inconsistent with parts I through VI of this chapter, part VII of this chapter controls.

History: s. 4, ch. 2011-92.
Fla. Stat. § 627.643 — Florida Code / Title XXXVII / Chapter 627 / Part VI / Section 627.643
627.643 Uniform minimum standards.
Status: in_force

(1) The commission shall adopt rules which establish minimum standards for the general content of forms of individual and family health insurance policies. The rules must include terms of renewability, initial and subsequent conditions of eligibility, termination of insurance, probationary periods, exclusions, limitations, and reductions. The minimum standards are in addition to, and must comply with, the individual health insurance policy provisions provided in part II and in this part.

(2) The commission shall adopt rules which establish minimum standards of benefits and identification for each of the following categories of coverage in individual and family accident and health insurance policy forms, other than conversion policy forms: (a) Basic hospital expense insurance. (b) Basic medical expense insurance. (c) Basic surgical expense insurance. (d) Hospital confinement indemnity insurance. (e) Major medical expense insurance. (f) Disability income protection insurance. (g) Accident-only insurance. (h) Limited benefit insurance. (i) Supplemental insurance. (j) Home health care coverage. (k) Nonconventional coverage. This subsection does not preclude the issuance of a policy which combines two or more of the categories of coverage enumerated in paragraphs (a)-(e). This subsection does not preclude the issuance of a policy that does not meet the prescribed minimum standards for categories of coverage in paragraphs (a)-(g) if the office determines that the policy is either experimental in nature or is demonstrated to be a type of coverage that fulfills a reasonable need of the person or persons to be insured. Any policy not meeting the minimum standards that is approved by the office must be identified as to category only as prescribed by the office.

(3) The office may, within the time provided by law for the disapproval of an individual or family form of accident or health insurance, disapprove any form if it finds that the form does not comply with applicable law or it finds that the form is unjust, unfair, or inequitable to the policyholder, any insured, or any beneficiary. In acting upon any submission, the office shall consider whether the benefits afforded under the submitted policy or benefit form fulfill a reasonable need of a policyholder.

History: s. 1, ch. 74-281; s. 3, ch. 76-168; s. 1, ch. 77-174; s. 1, ch. 77-457; ss. 2, 3, ch. 81-318; ss. 492, 497, 809(2nd), ch. 82-243; s. 79, ch. 82-386; ss. 60, 114, ch. 92-318; s. 1152, ch. 2003-261.
Fla. Stat. § 607.507 — Florida Code / Title XXXVI / Chapter 607 / Part II / Section 607.507
607.507 Standard of conduct for directors.
Status: in_force

(1) In discharging their duties and in considering the best interests of the social purpose corporation, the directors: (a) Shall consider the effects of any action or inaction upon: 1. The shareholders of the social purpose corporation; and 2. The ability of the social purpose corporation to accomplish its public benefit or any specific public benefit purpose. (b) May consider the effects of any action or inaction upon any of the following: 1. The employees and work force of the social purpose corporation, its subsidiaries, and its suppliers. 2. The interests of customers and suppliers as beneficiaries of the public benefit or specific public benefits of the social purpose corporation. 3. Community and societal factors, including those of each community in which offices or facilities of the social purpose corporation, its subsidiaries, or its suppliers are located. 4. The local and global environment. 5. The short-term and long-term interests of the social purpose corporation, including benefits that may accrue to the social purpose corporation from its long-term plans and the possibility that these interests may be best served by the continued independence of the social purpose corporation. (c) May consider other pertinent factors or the interests of any other group that they deem appropriate. (d) Are not required to give priority to the interests of a particular person or group referred to in paragraph (a), paragraph (b), or paragraph (c) unless the social purpose corporation states in its articles of incorporation its intention to give such priority. (e) Are not required to give equal weight to the interests of any particular person or group referred to in paragraph (a), paragraph (b), or paragraph (c) unless the social purpose corporation has stated in its articles of incorporation its intention to give such equal weight.

(2) Except as provided in the articles of incorporation, a director is not personally liable for monetary damages to the corporation, or to any other person, for the failure of the social purpose corporation to pursue or create a public benefit or a specific public benefit. A director is subject to the duties specified in s. 607.0830.

(3) Except as provided in the articles of incorporation, a director does not have a duty to a person who is a beneficiary of the public benefit purpose or any one or more specific public benefit purposes of a social purpose corporation.

History: s. 13, ch. 2014-209.
Fla. Stat. § 403.8615 — Florida Code / Title XXIX / Chapter 403 / Part VI / Section 403.8615
403.8615 Determination of capability and capacity development.
Status: in_force

(1) The department shall require all new community water systems and new nontransient, noncommunity water systems seeking to commence operations after October 1, 1999, to demonstrate the technical, managerial, and financial capabilities to comply with national primary drinking water regulations as required by the federal Safe Drinking Water Act, as amended. The department shall establish by rule, consistent with any federal guidance on capacity development, the criteria for determining technical, managerial, and financial capabilities. At a minimum, such water systems must: (a) Employ or contract for the services of a certified operator, unless the department has waived this requirement pursuant to s. 403.854(5). (b) Demonstrate the capabilities to conduct required monitoring and reporting programs and maintain appropriate records of such monitoring. (c) Demonstrate financial soundness through the posting of a bond, creation of a reserve, documentation of an unreserved revenue source, or other appropriate means established by department rule.

(2) If the department determines that such a water system cannot demonstrate technical, managerial, or financial capability, a permit may not be issued for that system pursuant to s. 403.861(7) until the water system has been determined to have the required capabilities.

History: s. 4, ch. 97-236.
Fla. Stat. § 624.414 — Florida Code / Title XXXVII / Chapter 624 / Part III / Section 624.414
624.414 Issuance or refusal of authority.
Status: in_force

The fee for filing application for a certificate of authority shall not be subject to refund. The office shall issue to the applicant insurer a proper certificate of authority if it finds that the insurer has met the requirements of this code, exclusive of the requirements relative to the filing and approval of an insurer’s policy forms, riders, endorsements, applications, and rates. If it does not so find, the office shall issue its order refusing the certificate. The certificate, if issued, shall specify the kind or kinds and line or lines of insurance the insurer is authorized to transact in this state. The issuance of a certificate of authority does not signify that an insurer has met the requirements of this code relative to the filing and approval of an insurer’s policy forms, riders, endorsements, applications, and rates which may be required prior to an insurer actually writing any premiums.

History: s. 58, ch. 59-205; s. 1, ch. 65-242; ss. 13, 35, ch. 69-106; s. 3, ch. 76-168; s. 1, ch. 77-457; s. 21, ch. 78-95; ss. 2, 3, ch. 81-318; ss. 50, 64, 809(1st), ch. 82-243; s. 31, ch. 89-360; ss. 187, 188, ch. 91-108; s. 4, ch. 91-429; s. 794, ch. 2003-261.
Fla. Stat. § 1013.22 — Florida Code / Title XLVIII / Chapter 1013 / Part II / Section 1013.22
1013.22 Obscenity on educational buildings or vehicles.
Status: in_force

Whoever willfully cuts, paints, pastes, marks, or defaces by writing or in any other manner any educational building, furniture, apparatus, appliance, outbuilding, ground, fence, tree, post, vehicle, or other educational property with an obscene word, image, or device commits a misdemeanor of the second degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083. This section shall not apply to any student in grades K-12 subject to the discipline of a district school board.

History: s. 816, ch. 2002-387.
Fla. Stat. § 487.2051 — Florida Code / Title XXXII / Chapter 487 / Part II / Section 487.2051
487.2051 Availability of agricultural pesticide information to workers and medical personnel.
Status: in_force

(1) An agricultural employer shall make available agricultural pesticide information concerning any agricultural pesticide to a worker: (a) Who enters an agricultural-pesticide-treated area on an agricultural establishment where: 1. An agricultural pesticide has been applied within 30 days of that entry; or 2. A restricted-entry interval has been in effect; or (b) Who may be exposed to the agricultural pesticide during normal conditions of use or in a foreseeable emergency.

(2) The agricultural pesticide information provided pursuant to subsection (1) must be in the form of a fact sheet or safety data sheet. The agricultural employer shall provide a written copy of the information provided pursuant to subsection (1) within 2 working days after a request for the information by a worker or a designated representative. In the case of a pesticide-related medical emergency, the agricultural employer shall provide a written copy of the information promptly upon the request of the worker, the designated representative, or medical personnel treating the worker.

(3) Upon the initial purchase of a product and with the first purchase after the fact sheet or safety data sheet is updated, the distributor, manufacturer, or importer of agricultural pesticides shall obtain or develop and provide each direct purchaser of an agricultural pesticide with a fact sheet or safety data sheet. If the fact sheet or safety data sheet for the agricultural pesticide is not available when the agricultural pesticide is purchased, the agricultural employer shall take appropriate and timely steps to obtain the fact sheet or safety data sheet from the distributor, the manufacturer, the department, a federal agency, or another distribution source.

(4) The department shall produce and make available to a trainer a one-page general agricultural pesticide safety sheet. The pesticide safety sheet must be in a language understandable to the worker and must include, but need not be limited to, illustrated instructions on preventing agricultural pesticide exposure and toll-free telephone numbers to the Florida Poison Control Centers. The trainer shall provide the pesticide safety sheet to the worker pursuant to the United States Environmental Protection Agency Worker Protection Standard, 40 C.F.R. s. 170.130.

History: s. 51, ch. 2004-64; s. 28, ch. 2014-150.
Fla. Stat. § 190.008 — Florida Code / Title XIII / Chapter 190 / Section 190.008
190.008 Budget; reports and reviews.
Status: in_force

(1) The district shall provide financial reports in such form and such manner as prescribed pursuant to this chapter and chapter 218.

(2)(a) On or before each June 15, the district manager shall prepare a proposed budget for the ensuing fiscal year to be submitted to the board for board approval. The proposed budget shall include at the direction of the board an estimate of all necessary expenditures of the district for the ensuing fiscal year and an estimate of income to the district from the taxes, assessments, and other revenues provided in this act. The board shall consider the proposed budget item by item and may either approve the budget as proposed by the district manager or modify the same in part or in whole. The board shall indicate its approval of the budget by resolution, which resolution shall provide for a hearing on the budget as approved. Notice of the hearing on the budget shall be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the area of the district once a week for 2 consecutive weeks, except that the first publication shall be not fewer than 15 days prior to the date of the hearing. The notice shall further contain a designation of the day, time, and place of the public hearing. At the time and place designated in the notice, the board shall hear all objections to the budget as proposed and may make such changes as the board deems necessary. At the conclusion of the budget hearing, the board shall, by resolution, adopt the budget as finally approved by the board. The budget shall be adopted prior to October 1 of each year. (b) At least 60 days prior to adoption, the district board shall submit to the local governing authorities having jurisdiction over the area included in the district, for purposes of disclosure and information only, the proposed annual budget for the ensuing fiscal year and any proposed long-term financial plan or program of the district for future operations. (c) The local governing authorities may review the proposed annual budget and any long-term financial plan or program and may submit written comments to the board for its assistance and information in adopting its annual budget and long-term financial plan or program.

History: s. 2, ch. 80-407; s. 5, ch. 2007-160.
Fla. Stat. § 627.4556 — Florida Code / Title XXXVII / Chapter 627 / Part III / Section 627.4556
627.4556 Life insurance automatic policy loan provision.
Status: in_force

If an application for an individual life insurance policy provides an option to the applicant for an automatic policy loan against the cash value of the policy to pay the premium on the policy in the event of nonpayment of premium, such option shall be deemed to be elected by the applicant unless the applicant makes an affirmative election not to include this provision in the policy.

History: s. 2, ch. 95-142.
Fla. Stat. § 385.204 — Florida Code / Title XXIX / Chapter 385 / Section 385.204
385.204 Insulin; purchase, distribution; penalty for fraudulent application for and obtaining of insulin.
Status: in_force

(1) The Department of Health shall purchase and distribute insulin through its agents or other appropriate agent of the state or Federal Government in any county or municipality in the state to any bona fide resident of this state suffering from diabetes or a kindred disease requiring insulin in its treatment who makes application for insulin and furnishes proof of his or her financial inability to purchase in accordance with the rules promulgated by the department concerning the distribution of insulin.

(2) Any person who makes fraudulent application for and obtains insulin under the provisions of this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor of the second degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083.

History: s. 2, ch. 29834, 1955; ss. 19, 35, ch. 69-106; s. 330, ch. 71-136; s. 79, ch. 77-147; s. 98, ch. 86-220; s. 55, ch. 91-221; s. 685, ch. 95-148; s. 70, ch. 97-101.
Fla. Stat. § 626.742 — Florida Code / Title XXXVII / Chapter 626 / Part II / Section 626.742
626.742 Nonresident agents; service of process.
Status: in_force

(1) Each licensed nonresident agent shall appoint the Chief Financial Officer as his or her attorney to receive service of legal process issued against the agent in this state, upon causes of action arising within this state out of transactions under the agent’s license and appointment. Service upon the Chief Financial Officer as attorney shall constitute effective legal service upon the agent.

(2) The appointment of the Chief Financial Officer for service of process shall be irrevocable for as long as there could be any cause of action against the agent arising out of his or her insurance transactions in this state.

(3) Duplicate copies of such legal process against such agent shall be served upon the Chief Financial Officer by a person competent to serve a summons.

(4) Upon receiving such service, the Chief Financial Officer shall forthwith send one of the copies of the process, by registered mail with return receipt requested, to the defendant agent at his or her last address of record with the department.

(5) The Chief Financial Officer shall keep a record of the day and hour of service upon him or her of all such legal process.

History: s. 266, ch. 59-205; ss. 13, 35, ch. 69-106; s. 3, ch. 76-168; s. 1, ch. 77-457; s. 3, ch. 81-282; ss. 2, 3, ch. 81-318; ss. 230, 241, 807, 810, ch. 82-243; ss. 81, 206, 207, ch. 90-363; s. 4, ch. 91-429; s. 251, ch. 97-102; s. 957, ch. 2003-261.
Fla. Stat. § 61.1811 — Florida Code / Title VI / Chapter 61 / Part I / Section 61.1811
61.1811 Clerk of the Court Child Support Enforcement Collection System Trust Fund.
Status: in_force

There is hereby created the Clerk of the Court Child Support Enforcement Collection System Trust Fund to be used to deposit the department’s share of the fees generated in s. 61.181(2)(b)1.

History: s. 8, ch. 92-138; s. 8, ch. 2023-152.
Fla. Stat. § 202.231 — Florida Code / Title XIV / Chapter 202 / Section 202.231
202.231 Provision of information to local taxing jurisdictions.
Status: in_force

(1) The department shall provide a monthly report to each jurisdiction imposing the tax authorized by s. 202.19. Each report shall contain the following information for the jurisdiction which is receiving the report: the name and other information necessary to identify each dealer providing service in the jurisdiction, including each dealer’s federal employer identification number; the gross taxable sales reported by each dealer; the amount of the dealer’s collection allowance; and any adjustments specified on the return, including audit assessments or refunds, and interest or penalties, affecting the net tax from each dealer which is being remitted to the jurisdiction. The report shall total the net amount transferred to the jurisdiction, showing the net taxes remitted by dealers less the administrative fees deducted by the department.

(2) Monthly reports shall be transmitted by the department to each municipality and county through a secure electronic mail system or by other suitable written or electronic means.

(3) The gross taxable sales and the total net amount transferred to the jurisdiction, showing the net taxes remitted by dealers less the administrative fees deducted by the department contained in the monthly reports required by this section, shall be aggregated on a jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction basis, and the aggregate jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction information shall be made available by the department to the public through the department’s website for each fiscal year this chapter has been in effect.

History: s. 17, ch. 2001-140; s. 7, ch. 2012-70.
Fla. Stat. § 491.0147 — Florida Code / Title XXXII / Chapter 491 / Section 491.0147
491.0147 Confidentiality and privileged communications.
Status: in_force

Any communication between any person licensed or certified under this chapter and her or his patient or client is confidential.

(1) This privilege may be waived under the following conditions: (a) When the person licensed or certified under this chapter is a party defendant to a civil, criminal, or disciplinary action arising from a complaint filed by the patient or client, in which case the waiver shall be limited to that action. (b) When the patient or client agrees to the waiver, in writing, or, when more than one person in a family is receiving therapy, when each family member agrees to the waiver, in writing. (c) When a patient or client has communicated to the person licensed or certified under this chapter a specific threat to cause serious bodily injury or death to an identified or readily available person, and the person licensed or certified under this chapter makes a clinical judgment that the patient or client has the apparent intent and ability to imminently or immediately carry out such threat, and the person licensed or certified under this chapter communicates the information to the potential victim. A disclosure of confidential communications by a person licensed or certified under this chapter when communicating a threat pursuant to this subsection may not be the basis of any legal action or criminal or civil liability against such person.

(2) This privilege must be waived, and the person licensed or certified under this chapter shall disclose patient or client communications to the extent necessary to communicate the threat to a law enforcement agency, if a patient or client has communicated to such person a specific threat to cause serious bodily injury or death to an identified or readily available person, and the person licensed or certified under this chapter makes a clinical judgment that the patient or client has the apparent intent and ability to imminently or immediately carry out such threat. A law enforcement agency that receives notification of a specific threat under this subsection must take appropriate action to prevent the risk of harm, including, but not limited to, notifying the intended victim of such threat or initiating a risk protection order. A disclosure of confidential communications by a person licensed or certified under this chapter when communicating a threat pursuant to this subsection may not be the basis of any legal action or criminal or civil liability against such person.

History: ss. 15, 19, ch. 87-252; ss. 19, 20, ch. 90-263; s. 4, ch. 91-429; s. 515, ch. 97-103; s. 1, ch. 2009-103; s. 6, ch. 2019-134.
Fla. Stat. § 468.527 — Florida Code / Title XXXII / Chapter 468 / Part XI / Section 468.527
468.527 Licensure and license renewal.
Status: in_force

(1) The department shall license any applicant who the board certifies is qualified to practice employee leasing as an employee leasing company, employee leasing company group, or controlling person.

(2) Each license issued to an employee leasing company, employee leasing company group, or controlling person shall be renewed biennially. The department shall renew a license upon receipt of a renewal application and the applicable renewal fee.

History: ss. 9, 17, ch. 91-93; s. 4, ch. 91-429; s. 39, ch. 94-119.