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The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XI
COUNTY ORGANIZATION AND INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS
Chapter 125
COUNTY GOVERNMENT
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125.39 Nonapplicability to county lands acquired for specific purposes.The provisions of this law shall not be construed to cover the sale or disposition of any land conveyed to any county for a specific purpose and containing a reversionary clause whereby said land shall revert to the grantor or grantors upon failure to use said real property for such purpose.
History.s. 5, ch. 23829, 1947; s. 1, ch. 73-260; s. 29, ch. 73-332.

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Cases Citing Statute 125.39

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Rolling Oaks Homeowner's Ass'n v. Dade Cnty., 492 So. 2d 686 (Fla. 3d DCA 1986).

Cited 13 times | Published | Florida 3rd District Court of Appeal | 11 Fla. L. Weekly 1478

...nts (C. 77-475, amendment effective 7/12/77), the competitive bidding requirements remain part of section 125.35, which governs both sales and leases of county real property. Even so, appellees claim that the transaction is exempt from bidding under section 125.39, Florida Statutes, which excludes conveyances for a specific purpose which contain a reversionary clause....
...al effect. Thus, at least as to the twenty-two acres, there was no provision for reversion if the property were not put to the designated use. With no provision for a reverter, the exemption provision of the statutory bidding procedures contained in section 125.39, Florida Statutes, was inapplicable and, appellants claim, the lease was invalid as to that portion of the property since the tract was not necessarily leased to the highest and best bidder. Appellee Dade County also makes the argument that since section 125.39, Florida Statutes, exempts from its competitive bidding requirements conveyances of county lands acquired for a specific purpose and containing a reverter clause, it logically follows that the exemption should also apply where to requi...
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Matheson v. Miami-Dade Cnty., 258 So. 3d 516 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2018).

Published | District Court of Appeal of Florida

“transaction [was] exempt from bidding under section 125.39, Florida Statutes, which excludes conveyances
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Ago (Fla. Att'y Gen. 2011).

Published | Florida Attorney General Reports

competitive bidding and best interest requirements.13 Section 125.39, Florida Statutes, further creates an exception

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