Case Name: COLONIAL PONTIAC, INC., Appellant, v. GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION/PONTIAC MOTORS DIVISION, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1993-03-08
Citations: 614 So. 2d 1204
Docket Number: No. 92-535
Parties: COLONIAL PONTIAC, INC., Appellant, v. GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION/PONTIAC MOTORS DIVISION, Appellee.
Judges: MINER and WOLF, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 614
Pages: 1204–1205

Head Matter:
COLONIAL PONTIAC, INC., Appellant, v. GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION/PONTIAC MOTORS DIVISION, Appellee.
No. 92-535.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.
March 8, 1993.
James D. Adams, of Adams & Quinton, P.A., Boca Raton, for appellant.
James J. Williams, Office of General Counsel, General Motors Corp., Detroit, and Vasilis C. Katsafanas, of Cabaniss, Burke & Wagner, Orlando, for appellee.

Opinion:
WIGGINTON, Judge.
We affirm the final order of the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to the extent it adopts the findings of fact and conclusions of law in the hearing officer's recommended order approving ap-pellees' application to establish a new Pontiac dealership in Dade County. However, because it was not relevant to the proceedings below, conducted pursuant to section 320.642, Florida Statutes, we are not con cerned with the remaining language in the final order holding that the proposed dealer be granted a franchise license upon compliance with all applicable requirements of section 320.27, and all applicable department rules. Such language is clearly gratuitous and cannot be read as granting an entitlement to a license absent further action on the department's part pursuant to section 320.27.
AFFIRMED.
MINER and WOLF, JJ., concur.