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The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XI
COUNTY ORGANIZATION AND INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS
Chapter 142
COUNTY FINE AND FORFEITURE FUND
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142.03 Disposition of fines, forfeitures, and civil penalties to municipalities.Fines, forfeitures, and civil penalties collected in cases involving violations of municipal ordinances, violations of chapter 316 committed within a municipality, or infractions under the provisions of chapter 318 committed within a municipality shall be paid in full each month to the appropriate municipality as provided in ss. 28.2402, 34.045, 316.660, and 318.21.
History.s. 2, ch. 4323, 1895; s. 1, ch. 5155, 1903; GS 963; RGS 1776; CGL 2827; s. 20, ch. 73-334; s. 2, ch. 76-31; s. 2, ch. 77-452; s. 7, ch. 88-381; s. 3, ch. 89-297; s. 2, ch. 90-111; s. 2, ch. 94-107; s. 32, ch. 97-271; s. 83, ch. 2003-402; s. 55, ch. 2004-265.

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Fitzpatrick v. City of Atlanta, 2 F.3d 1112 (11th Cir. 1993).

Cited 193 times | Published | Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit | 1993 WL 342799

3(g)(1)(i), (3)(i)(A), (3)(ii) (Commerce); 22 C.F.R. § 142.3(j)(1)(i), (2)(i)(A), (2)(ii) (State); 24 C.F.R
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United States v. Watches, Watch Parts, Calculators & Misc. Parts, 692 F. Supp. 1317 (S.D. Fla. 1988).

Cited 6 times | Published | District Court, S.D. Florida | 1988 WL 88084

"`Entry' means that documentation required by § 142.3 of this chapter to be filed with the appropriate
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Ago (Fla. Att'y Gen. 1999).

Published | Florida Attorney General Reports

...tion to be remitted to the municipality? In sum: Fines and forfeitures imposed by a county court for violations of state statutes occurring within a municipality's jurisdiction are remitted to the municipality only as provided in sections 34.191 and 142.03 , Florida Statutes....
...y, there are specific statutorily prescribed instances when they are. 3 The ability of a municipality to collect fines and forfeitures, including specified instances where a violation of state statute has occurred in a municipality, is recognized in section 142.03 , Florida Statutes, which, in pertinent part, provides: "[F]ines, forfeitures, and civil penalties collected in cases involving violations of municipal ordinances, violations of chapter 316 committed within a municipality, or infractions under the provisions of chapter 318 committed within a municipality ....
...to a municipality would govern the clerk's authority to disburse such funds. Accordingly, the clerk may disburse to a municipality fines and forfeitures for violations of state law committed within a municipality as authorized in sections 34.191 and 142.03 , Florida Statutes....
...78-138 (1978) (violation of a municipal ordinance adopting or incorporating the state's criminal laws requires citation to ordinance for municipality to receive fines imposed by the court; citation to state criminal laws results in county receiving the fines under s. 142.03 , Fla....
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Ago (Fla. Att'y Gen. 1978).

Published | Florida Attorney General Reports

...state criminal or penal laws by specific or general reference thereto. As to the receipt of fine and forfeiture moneys and civil penalties collected from the violation of such municipal ordinances, s. 20(c)(8), Art. V, State Const., and ss. 34.191 , 142.03 , 316.660 , and 318.21 , F....
...All fines and forfeitures received from violations of ordinances or misdemeanors committed within a county or municipal ordinances committed within a municipality within the territorial jurisdiction of the county court shall be paid monthly to the county or municipality respectively . . . . (Emphasis supplied.) Section 142.03 , F....
...ions of Chs. 316 and 318, F. S., occurring within the territorial jurisdiction of the municipality. As discussed in question 1, the municipality would be entitled to all fines and forfeitures and civil penalties collected pursuant to ss. 34.191 (1), 142.03 , 316.660 , and 318.21 , F....
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Ago (Fla. Att'y Gen. 1980).

Published | Florida Attorney General Reports

F. S., as a separate fund in each county. Section 142.03, F. S., in pertinent part requires the proceeds

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