Florida Statute 17.17 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title IV
EXECUTIVE BRANCH

Chapter 17
CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

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17.17 Examination by Governor and report.—The office of Chief Financial Officer, and the books, files, documents, records, and papers shall always be subject to the examination of the Governor of this state, or any person the Governor may authorize to examine the same; and on the first day of January of each and every year, or oftener if called for by the Governor, the Chief Financial Officer shall make a full report of all his or her official acts and proceedings for the last fiscal year to the Governor, to be laid before the Legislature with the Governor’s message, and shall make such further report as the constitution may require.

History.—s. 8, ch. 8, 1845; RS 109; GS 113; ch. 7342, 1917; RGS 125; CGL 155; s. 60, ch. 95-147; s. 33, ch. 2003-261.

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Cases Citing Statute 17.17

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Hitt v. Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., 399 F. Supp. 838 (S.D. Fla. 1975).

Cited 32 times | Published | District Court, S.D. Florida | 1975 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 11356

1975). [16] See, e. g., Ill.Rev.Stat. Ch. 110 § 17. [17] Nissan-Japan cites cases to distinguish the

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Alabama Educ. Ass'n v. Bentley, 803 F.3d 1298 (11th Cir. 2015).

Cited 25 times | Published | Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit | 92 Fed. R. Serv. 3d 1501, 2015 U.S. App. LEXIS 17863

Alabama Act No. 2010-761 (codified at Ala.Code § 17-17-5) (Act 761). Act 761 “prohibits] a state or local

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Orlando Reg. Med. Ctr., Inc. v. Est. of Heron, 596 So. 2d 1078 (Fla. 5th DCA 1992).

Cited 4 times | Published | Florida 5th District Court of Appeal | 1992 WL 35363

Orange County Code, Chapter 17, Article II, Section 17-17. ORMC urges that the words "any and all causes

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Alabama Educ. Ass'n v. State Superintendent of Educ., 746 F.3d 1135 (11th Cir. 2014).

Cited 2 times | Published | Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

interprets “political activity” as that term is used in § 17-17-5, Ala.Code 1975, as not being limited to electioneering

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Alabama Educ. Ass'n v. State Superintendent of Educ., Eta L, 665 F.3d 1234 (11th Cir. 2011).

Cited 1 times | Published | Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

tension between this statute and Alabama Code § 17-17-5 which prohibits public employees from using government

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In re: Robert Bentley (11th Cir. 2015).

Published | Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

Alabama Act No. 2010-761 (codified at Ala. Code § 17-17-5) (Act 761). Act 761 “prohibit[s] a state or

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Alabama Educ. Ass'n v. State Superintendent of Educ. (11th Cir. 2014).

Published | Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

“political activity,” as used and defined in Ala. Code § 17-17-5(b)(1), “embraces more than electioneering”)

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Peters v. Zoda (In re Zoda), 2 B.R. 377 (Bankr. M.D. Fla. 1980).

Published | United States Bankruptcy Court, M.D. Florida | 22 Collier Bankr. Cas. 2d 614, 1980 Bankr. LEXIS 5593

...In order to sustain a claim of non-dis-chargeability under either of these Sections, the Plaintiff must not only establish with the requisite degree of proof that the bankrupt, in fact, converted or injured the property of the Plaintiff but that the Bankrupt did it both willfully and maliciously. 1A Collier on Bankruptcy, § 17.17 (14th ed....

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Treva Thompson v. Sec'y of State for the State of Alabama (11th Cir. 2023).

Published | Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

Argued: Nov 16, 2021

1 ALA. CODE § 17-17-19. 2 ALA. CODE § 17-17-24(a). 3 ALA. CODE § 17-17-27.

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Knight v. Edwards, 276 So. 2d 499 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1973).

Published | District Court of Appeal of Florida | 1973 Fla. App. LEXIS 6934

generally Florida Civil Practice After Trial, § 17.17, et seq. Dismissed. REED, C. J., and WALDEN and

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