Florida Statute 30.555 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title V
JUDICIAL BRANCH

Chapter 30
SHERIFFS

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30.555 Liability insurance.—The sheriff may obtain insurance to cover liability for damages arising out of claims for false arrests, false imprisonment, false or improper service of process, or other claims arising out of the performance of his or her duties or the duties of his or her deputies or employees and may pay the premiums for such insurance from funds appropriated for the necessary and regular expenses of office without specific appropriation or specification of expenses with respect thereto.

History.—s. 1, ch. 88-103; s. 192, ch. 95-147.

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Abusaid v. Hillsborough Cnty. Bd. of Cnty. Commissioners, 405 F.3d 1298 (11th Cir. 2005).

Cited 60 times | Published | Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit | 2005 U.S. App. LEXIS 6341, 2005 WL 858296

...remiums for such insurance from funds appropriated for the necessary and regular expenses of office without 29 specific appropriation or specification of expenses with respect thereto.” Fla. Stat. § 30.555....

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Doris Freyre v. Chad Cronister, 910 F.3d 1371 (11th Cir. 2018).

Cited 15 times | Published | Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

...§ 39.3065(3)(c); the statute makes no reference to judgments. Second, Florida law authorizes sheriffs to purchase liability insurance to cover “claims arising out of the performance of his or her duties or the duties of his or her deputies or employees.” Id. § 30.555....

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Jenne v. Maranto, 825 So. 2d 409 (Fla. 4th DCA 2002).

Cited 14 times | Published | Florida 4th District Court of Appeal | 2002 WL 891777

...(2000) ("Sheriffs, in their respective counties, in person or by deputy, shall: (a) Execute all process of the Supreme Court, circuit courts, county courts, and boards of county commissioners of this state, to be executed in their counties."). [10] See § 30.49, Fla. Stat. (2000). [11] See § 30.555, Fla....

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