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The 2023 Florida Statutes (including Special Session C)

Title XI
COUNTY ORGANIZATION AND INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS
Chapter 125
COUNTY GOVERNMENT
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F.S. 125.011
125.011 Definitions.As used in ss. 125.011-125.019:
(1) “County” means any county operating under a home rule charter adopted pursuant to ss. 10, 11, and 24, Art. VIII of the State Constitution of 1885, as preserved by Art. VIII, s. 6(e) of the State Constitution, which county, by resolution of its board of county commissioners, elects to exercise the powers herein conferred. Use of the word “county” within the above provisions shall include “board of county commissioners” of such county.
(2) “Project” includes any one or any combination of two or more of the following:
(a) Public mass transportation, harbor, port, shipping, and airport facilities of all kinds and includes, but is not limited to, harbors, channels, turning basins, anchorage areas, jetties, breakwaters, waterways, canals, locks, tidal basins, wharves, docks, piers, slips, bulkheads, public landings, warehouses, terminals, refrigerating and cold storage plants, railroads and motor terminals for passengers and freight, rolling stock, car ferries, boats, conveyors and appliances of all kinds for the handling, storage, inspection and transportation of freight and the handling of passenger traffic, airport facilities of all kinds for land and sea planes, including, but not limited to, landing fields, water areas for the landing and taking off of aircraft, hangars, shops, buses, trucks, and all other facilities for the landing, taking off, operating, servicing, repairing, and parking of aircraft, and the loading and unloading and handling of passengers, mail, express and freight;
(b) Administration buildings, toll highways, tunnels, causeways and bridges connected therewith or incident or auxiliary thereto, and may include all property, rights, easements, and franchises relating to any such project and deemed necessary or convenient for the acquisition, construction, purchase, or operation thereof; and
(c) Export trading companies, foreign sales corporations, consulting services corporations, cargo clearance centers, and customs clearance facilities as provided in s. 125.012(26).
(3) “Cost,” as applied to improvements, means the cost of constructing or acquiring improvements, as defined in subsection (2), and shall embrace the cost of all labor and materials, machinery and equipment, financing charges, engineering and legal expenses, plans, specifications, and such other expenses as may be necessary or incident to such construction or acquisition.
(4) “Cost,” as applied to a project acquired, constructed, extended, or enlarged, includes the purchase price of any project acquired; the cost of improvements; the cost of construction, extension or enlargement; the cost of all lands, properties, rights, easements and franchises acquired; the cost of all machinery and equipment, financing charges, interest during construction; and, if deemed advisable, for 1 year after completion of construction, cost of investigations, audits, and engineering and legal services; and all other expenses necessary or incident to determining the feasibility or practicability of such acquisition or construction, administrative expense and such other expenses as may be necessary or incident to the financing herein authorized and to the acquisition or construction of a project and the placing of the same in operation. Any obligation or expense incurred by the county prior to the issuance of revenue bonds under the provisions of s. 125.013 for engineering studies and for estimates of cost and of revenues, and for other technical, financial, or legal services in connection with the acquisition or construction of any project, may be regarded as a part of the cost of such project.
(5) “Board of county commissioners” includes all members of the board of county commissioners in a county whether their offices are created by the Constitution, the Legislature, or by any home rule charter.
History.s. 1, ch. 71-249; s. 1, ch. 79-291; s. 1, ch. 87-144; s. 22, ch. 91-45.

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Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 125.011
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Misdemeanor/Felony: First/Second/Third

Current data shows no reason an arrest or criminal charge should have occurred directly under Florida Statute 125.011.



Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

Cases from cite.case.law:

GRETNA RACING, LLC, v. FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL REGULATION,, 225 So. 3d 759 (Fla. 2017)

. . . the respective county; [2] any licensed pari-mutuel facility located within a county as defined in s. 125.011 . . . The second clause pertains' to facilities in counties “defined in s. 125.011”—that is, “any county operating . . . of its board of county commissioners, elects to exercise the powers” conferred on such counties. § 125.011 . . .

GRETNA RACING, LLC, v. DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL REGULATION,, 178 So. 3d 15 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2016)

. . . in the respective county; any licensed pari-mutuel facility located uñthin a county as defined in s. 125.011 . . .

BAY COUNTY, FLORIDA, v. UNITED STATES,, 123 Fed. Cl. 1369 (Fed. Cir. 2015)

. . . . § 125.011(1) (“Use of the word ‘county’ within the above provisions shall include ‘board of county . . .

BAY COUNTY, FLORIDA, v. UNITED STATES,, 796 F.3d 1369 (Fed. Cir. 2015)

. . . . § 125.011(1) (“Use of the word ‘county’ within the above provisions shall include ‘board of county . . .

ANGELO S AGGREGATE MATERIALS, LTD. a v. PASCO COUNTY, a M., 118 So. 3d 971 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2013)

. . . Const; § 125.011(1), Fla. Stat. (2011). . . .

FLORIDA GAMING CENTERS, INC. a a v. FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL REGULATION, LLC, a a v. LLC, a, 71 So. 3d 226 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2011)

. . . original statute but also: any licensed pari-mutuel facility located within a county as defined in s. 125.011 . . .

HOMESTEAD HOSPITAL, INC. a v. MIAMI- DADE COUNTY,, 829 So. 2d 259 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2002)

. . . Section 212.055(3)(g) allowed “[a]ny county as defined in s. 125.011(1)” to levy a 0.5% surcharge to . . . Section 125.011(1), Florida Statutes (1991), provides: "County” means any county operating under a home . . .

CITY OF MIAMI, v. McGRATH III,, 824 So. 2d 143 (Fla. 2002)

. . . Nugget Group, this Court considered whether a statute that allowed “ ‘[e]ach county, as defined in s. 125.011 . . .

ROWE, v. ST. JOHNS COUNTY,, 668 So. 2d 196 (Fla. 1996)

. . . that section 125.0104, Florida Statutes (1995) (the “Local Option Tourist Development Act”), sections 125.011 . . . Appellants’ arguments regarding sections 125.011 and 125.012 are not relevant to the instant case as . . .

AMERICAN V. I. P. LIMOUSINES, INC. d b a d b a v. DADE COUNTY BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS,, 757 F. Supp. 1382 (S.D. Fla. 1991)

. . . Board of County Commissioners various powers in relation to a “project”, which is defined in Section 125.011 . . .

PBP HOLDINGS, INC. v. DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE, 550 So. 2d 127 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1989)

. . . Pursuant to the provisions of s. 201.031, the governing authority in each county, as defined by s. 125.011 . . .

CITY OF DANIA, v. HERTZ CORPORATION, a, 518 So. 2d 1387 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1988)

. . . Section 125.011(2) defines a “project” as: [A]ny one or any combination of two or more of the following . . .

W. TAYLOR, v. LEE COUNTY,, 498 So. 2d 424 (Fla. 1986)

. . . Moreover, toll roads and bridges are “projects” within the meaning of subsection 125.011(2) for which . . .

A. THOMAS, v. DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE,, 466 So. 2d 1069 (Fla. 1985)

. . . sections 125.0167 and 201.031, Florida Statutes (1983), which permit “each county, as defined by s. 125.011 . . .

GOLDEN NUGGET GROUP, v. METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY,, 464 So. 2d 535 (Fla. 1985)

. . . chapter 83-354, Laws of Florida, enacted section 212.057, which empowers “[e]ach county, as defined in s. 125.011 . . . See § 125.011(1), Fla. Stat. (1983). . . . adoption; application of revenues; administration and collection.— (1) Each county, as defined in s. 125.011 . . .

A. THOMAS, E. v. STATE DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE, a, 453 So. 2d 192 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1984)

. . . The appellants contend that the act, which permits only those “countpes] as defined by s.125.011(1),” . . . that Chapter 83-354, Laws of Florida, which similarly authorizes those counties designated in Sec. 125.011 . . .

METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY, L. v. GOLDEN NUGGET GROUP, a d b a a d b a S M a d b a a a d b a N. V. d b a By a d b a a d b a a d b a a, 448 So. 2d 515 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1984)

. . . The Tax Act specifically applies only to counties as defined by Sec. 125.011(1) of the Florida Statutes . . .

CITY OF OPA- LOCKA, a v. DADE COUNTY, a, 384 So. 2d 937 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1980)

. . . The word ‘project’ is defined in Section 125.011(2), Florida Statutes, 1977, thus: ‘ “Project” includes . . .

INTERAIR SERVICES, INC. v. INSURANCE COMPANY OF NORTH AMERICA, 375 So. 2d 317 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1979)

. . . improve, extend, enlarge, reconstruct, equip, maintain, repair, and operate any project as defined in § 125.011 . . . “Project” is defined by § 125.011(2) to include: [A]irport facilities of all kinds . including, but not . . .

In AIRPORT CAR RENTAL ANTITRUST LITIGATION, 474 F. Supp. 1072 (N.D. Cal. 1979)

. . . . §§ 125.012(1), 125.012(8), 125.011(2). . . .

M. SPEER v. OLSON, 367 So. 2d 207 (Fla. 1978)

. . . county purposes and for the providing of municipal services within any municipal service taxing unit. 125.011 . . . improve, extend, enlarge, reconstruct, equip, maintain, repair, and operate any project as defined in s. 125.011 . . . Appellants in that case questioned the constitutionality of Sections 125.011(l)(q) and 125.01(l)(r), . . .