Florida Statute 127.02 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XI
COUNTY ORGANIZATION AND INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS

Chapter 127
RIGHT OF EMINENT DOMAIN TO COUNTIES

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127.02 County commissioners may authorize acquirement of property by eminent domain.—The board of county commissioners may not exercise its power of eminent domain unless the board adopts a resolution authorizing the acquisition of a property, real or personal, by eminent domain for any county use or purpose designated in such resolution, subject to the limitations set forth in ss. 73.013 and 73.014.

History.—s. 2, ch. 7338, 1917; RGS 1504; CGL 2282; s. 5, ch. 2006-11.

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Dade Cnty. v. Paxson, 270 So. 2d 455 (Fla. 3d DCA 1972).

Cited 6 times | Published | Florida 3rd District Court of Appeal

...1972, 265 So.2d 681. However, we cannot agree that such a strict construction is demanded in the case sub judice. There are obvious examples where demanding the pleading and proof of a survey would render certain statutes nugatory if strictly construed. For example, § 127.02, Fla....

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