Florida Statute 171.071 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XII
MUNICIPALITIES

Chapter 171
LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOUNDARIES

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171.071 Effect in Miami-Dade County.—Municipalities within the boundaries of Miami-Dade County shall adopt annexation or contraction ordinances pursuant to methods established by the home rule charter established pursuant to s. 6(e), Art. VIII of the State Constitution.

History.—s. 1, ch. 74-190; s. 31, ch. 2008-4.

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Pinellas Cnty. v. City of Largo, 964 So. 2d 847 (Fla. 2d DCA 2007).

Cited 2 times | Published | Florida 2nd District Court of Appeal | 2007 WL 2713544

...Thus, charter counties must act uniformly in the sense that they advance the Act's purposes. The Cities also argue that section 171.044(4) was intended to apply only to Dade County, the only constitutionally-recognized charter county in Florida. See art. VIII, § 6(e), (f), Fla. Const. We are unpersuaded. Section 171.071 provides that Municipalities within the boundaries of Dade County shall adopt annexation or contraction ordinances pursuant to methods established by the home rule charter established pursuant to s. 6(e), Art. VIII of the State Constitution. Section 171.044(4) speaks in terms of "counties with charters." The use of the plural does not support the limitation urged by the Cities. Moreover, on its face, section 171.071 limits municipalities within Dade County....

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