Florida/Georgia Personal Injury & Workers Compensation

...ion or injunction... ." That statute was explicitly repealed by a clause of the 1974 Act which, being simply a repealer, was not published among the permanent and general laws in Chapter 120, Florida Statutes (Supp. 1974). Chapter 74-310, Section 4; Section 11.242, Florida Statutes (1973)....

...court. Furthermore, in any civil medical malpractice action, the trial on the merits shall be conducted without any reference to insurance, insurance coverage or joinder in the suit of the insurer as a co-defendant." However, apparently pursuant to Section 11.242(5), the Statutory Revision Division transferred this Section to Section 768.134, Florida Statutes....

...This observation does not establish that the statute is a fraud measure. The arrangement and classification of laws for purposes of codification in the Florida Statutes is an administrative function of the Joint Legislative Management Committee of the Florida Legislature. § 11.242, Fla....

...Further, to attach legal significance to the placement of 80-37 in the Negligence chapter, instead of its placement in the chapter on Beverage Law Enforcement as directed by the legislature which enacted 80-37, would in effect allow the Joint Legislative Management Committee, authorized by section 11.242(5)(e) to transfer acts, to alter the substance of a statute....

...Until that time, Section 57.091, Florida Statutes (Supp. 1976), the statutory revisions division's publication, constitutes only prima facie evidence of the law. The enrolled act, Section 3, Chapter 76-287, stands as the official, primary evidence of the law as enacted by the legislature. See Section 11.242(5)(c), Florida Statutes (1975); McCulley Ford, Inc....

...where such titles (or labels as the majority pejoratively dismisses them) might be inserted by someone other than the enacting legislature. But that is not true in Florida, where the Legislature itself is responsible for Chapter and Statute titles. § 11.242(5)(c), Fla....

...ts and are providing adequate representation in the community or territory for such licensee. The burden of proof in showing inadequate representation shall be on the licensee." The Legislature, in adopting Florida Statutes, 1971, enacted into law F.S. 11.2422, which provides that: "Every statute of a general and permanent nature enacted by the state or by the territory of Florida at or prior to the regular 1969 legislative session, and every part of such statute, not included in Florida Statutes, 1971, as adopted by § 11.2421, as amended, or recognized and continued in force by reference therein or in §§ 11.2423 and 11.2424, as amended, is repealed." But, it did not repeal any laws enacted at the 1970 regular and special sessions of the Legislature, including Chap. 70-424. F.S. *193 11.2424, Florida Statutes 1971, specifically provides that: "Laws enacted at the 1970 regular and special sessions of the legislature and laws enacted at the 1971 regular and special sessions of the legislature are not repealed by the adoption and enactment of the Florida Statutes, 1971, by § 11.2421, as amended, but shall have full effect as if enacted after its said adoption and enactment." (Emphasis added) Thus, Chap. 70-424, portions of which are quoted above, remained the law at least until the effective date of F.S. 11.2421 and F.S. 11.2422, Florida Statutes 1973....

...(Florida Statutes 1973, was not published until after the Petition for Writ of Certiorari was filed sub judice. We do not now express any opinion as to whether the holdings here announced would be applicable to licensing procedures after the effective date of Florida Statutes 1973, as provided in F.S. 11.2421, Florida Statutes 1973.) The statutory revision services, apparently relying upon Chapter 70-439, Laws of Florida, as authority, made substantial and material changes in Chap....

...actments of sessions occurring subsequent to publication of the preceding regular edition of the Statutes (including sections published in the intervening even-year Supplement) are made prima facie evidence of the law in all courts of the state. See § 11.242(6)(d). During the period a provision is characterized as prima facie evidence of the law, the enrolled act stands as the official, primary evidence of the law as enacted." (Emphasis added) Section 11.242(6)(d), Florida Statutes 1971, states that: "(6) In carrying on the work of the statutory revision service and in preparing the Florida Statutes for publication: "(d) All laws of a general and permanent nature which are of general appli...

...on the department. Chapter 73-70, Laws of Florida 1973, does contain statutory provisions which state that all 1970 Session Laws not included in Florida Statutes 1973, will be repealed effective on the publication of the 1973 Florida Statutes (Sec. 11.2422)....

...rs. Although we recognize that the provision is currently codified in a chapter entitled "Computer-Related Crimes," the original codifier's broader view of the statute is more in keeping with the breadth of the rationale the statute articulates. See § 11.242(5)(e), Fla. Stat. (2002) ("Any section... may be transferred from one location to another.") and § 11.242(5)(h), Fla....

...Annotated Chapter 129, § 3-304). Under the Illinois law the sentence in question, referring to sales between members of an affiliated group, is limited to financial organizations in the same manner as the original Florida legislative enactment. [2] Florida Statutes of 1973, § 11.242(5)(c): "All laws of a general and permanent nature which are of general application throughout the state enacted by any current session of the Legislature shall be compiled ......

...n law chapter and section number. The matter included under the authority of this subsection shall be incorporated as enacted in any current session and shall be prima facie evidence of such law in all courts of the state." Florida Statutes of 1973, § 11.2421: "The accompanying revision, consolidation and compilation of the public statutes of 1971 ......

...State v. Bussey, 463 So.2d 1141, 1143 (Fla.1985): The arrangement and classification of laws for purposes of codification in the Florida Statutes is an administrative function of the Joint Legislative Management Committee of the Florida Legislature. § 11.242, Fla....

...The reference by the supreme court in Bradford and Bussey to the "arrangement and classification of laws for purposes of codification in the Florida Statutes" is inapplicable in this case. The Division of Statutory Revision does establish certain chapter and section headings as part of the continuous revision system. § 11.242, Fla....

...We here consider, after oral argument and consideration of briefs, a certified question of law (F.A.R. 4.6), 32 F.S.A. from the Felony Court of Record of Alachua County, reading as follows: "Can the Florida Legislature through the General Reenactment Statute, Florida Statute 11.2421, constitutionally modify Florida Statute 404.01(3) so as to include those drugs added to the Drug Abuse Laws of the United States between the date of the initial enactment of Florida Statute 404.01(3) in July 1967 and the effective date of Florida Statute 11.2421 of 24 June 1971?" Scott Camil is charged in two separate two-count informations with violating F.S....

...substance neither chemically nor physically distinguishable from them, and any and all derivatives of same and any other drug to which the drug abuse laws of the United States apply, and rivea corymbosa (ololiuqui) when used as a hallucinogen." F.S. Section 11.2421, F.S.A. (Section 1, Chapter 71-251, in adopting the 1971 Florida Statutes employed the following language: "11.2421 Florida Statutes, 1971 adopted "The accompanying revision, consolidation and compilation of the public statutes of 1969 of a general and permanent nature, excepting tables, rules, indexes and other related matter contained therein, prepared by the statutory revision service of the legislative service bureau under the provisions of § 11.242, together with corrections, changes and amendments to and repeals of provisions of Florida Statutes, 1969, enacted in additional reviser's bill or bills by the 1971 legislature, is adopted and enacted as the official statute law if the stat...

...3 the language of Section 8, Chapter 79-312, to that contained in Sections 23 and 25 of the act, describing the conditions under which the act was to take effect. The revision, under those circumstances, was carried out pursuant to the provisions of Section 11.242(1), Florida Statutes (1979), for the purpose of "removing inconsistencies, redundancies and unnecessary repetitions ......

...slative business that may be transacted at a special legislative session. Chapter 82-226 was saved from repeal by section 1, chapter 83-61, Laws of Florida, but, more importantly, pursuant to, and under the authority of, the legislative direction in section 11.242, Florida Statutes, the Joint Legislative Management Committee ( see § 11.147, Fla....

...nent nature entitled, "Florida Statutes, 1983" which compilation was adopted and enacted at the general session of the 1985 legislature, by section 1, chapter 85-59, Laws of Florida, effective July 30, 1985, as the official statute law of the state. § 11.2421, Fla....

...It appears the consolidation was done by the Statutory Revision and Indexing Division of the Joint Legislative Management Committee, a legislatively created committee empowered at the time to “transfer” any “section, chapter or law . . . from one location to another.” See § 11.242(5)(e), Fla....

...valid. See § 100.371, Fla. Stat. *261 (Supp.1998). When the 1999 Florida Statutes were published without language regarding paid petition gatherers in section 100.371, the 1997 legislative amendment in question was effectively repealed pursuant to section 11.2422, Florida Statutes (1999) which provides: Every statute of a general and permanent nature enacted by the State or by the Territory of Florida at or prior to the regular 1997 legislative session, and every part of such statute, not included in Florida Statutes 1999, as adopted by s. 11.2421, as amended, or recognized and continued in force by reference therein or in ss. 11.2423 and 11.2424, as amended, is repealed. Section 11.2421 is part of Florida's continuing statutory revision process....

...as effectively repealed. Appellant argues that the provision requiring the name and address of petition circulators survives because of its presence in the footnote that accompanies section 100.371. Footnotes, however, do not comprise statutory law. Section 11.242(4) clearly distinguishes footnotes from substantive law: The published edition of the Florida Statutes shall contain the following: (a) The Florida Statutes, as adopted and enacted, together with the laws of a general nature enacted at...

...ision of the Office of Legislative Services for reference, convenience, or interpretation. (emphasis added). In addition, the Director of the Division of Statutory Revision, in the preface to the Florida Statutes, states: Miscellaneous materials. — Section 11.242(4) provides that, in addition to the general laws, the State Constitution, and complete indexes, the Florida Statutes may include "such other matters, notes, data, and other material as may be deemed necessary or admissible by the Divi...

...statute rather than the 1999 statute which was in effect at the time of the injury and complaint, 4 we have to examine the text of the 2011 statute as well as related session laws reflecting its enactment. See § 11.242(5)(a), Fla....

...underlying felony of unlawful distribution of opium into its own section was not the result of any legislative enactment. Apparently, this revision was an “editorial” revision undertaken by the Statutory Revision Division under the authority of section 11.242, Florida Statutes....

...in Menuto . 2 *1255 Additionally, the establishment and maintenance of the section headings are not within the sole control of the Florida Legislature and are subject to creation and modification by the Division of Statutory Revisions 3 pursuant to section 11.242, Florida Statutes....

...laintiff in its complaint, which are not adjudicated by this partial summary judgment. 6. The declaration of rights, status and relations herein made is applicable only to the parties herein under the circumstances presented in this case. . Although section 11.2422, Florida Statutes (1981), repeals all statutes not included in Florida Statutes 1981, it expressly does not repeal statutes "recognized and continued in force by reference therein.” Florida Statutes 1981 includes the constitution, see § 11.242(4)(b), Fla....