Florida Statute 180.02 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XII
MUNICIPALITIES

Chapter 180
MUNICIPAL PUBLIC WORKS

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180.02 Powers of municipalities.—

(1) For the accomplishment of the purposes of this chapter, any municipality may execute its corporate powers within its corporate limits.

(2) Any municipality may extend and execute all of its corporate powers applicable for the accomplishment of the purposes of this chapter outside of its corporate limits, as hereinafter provided and as may be desirable or necessary for the promotion of the public health, safety and welfare or for the accomplishment of the purposes of this chapter; provided, however, that said corporate powers shall not extend or apply within the corporate limits of another municipality.

(3) In the event any municipality desires to avail itself of the provisions or benefits of this chapter, it is lawful for such municipality to create a zone or area by ordinance and to prescribe reasonable regulations requiring all persons or corporations living or doing business within said area to connect, when available, with any sewerage system or alternative water supply system, including, but not limited to, reclaimed water, aquifer storage and recovery, and desalination systems, constructed, erected and operated under the provisions of this chapter; provided, however, in the creation of said zone the municipality shall not include any area within the limits of any other incorporated city or village, nor shall such area or zone extend for more than 5 miles from the corporate limits of said municipality.

History.—s. 1, ch. 17118, 1935; CGL 1936 Supp. 3100(6); s. 5, ch. 95-323.

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Bobby Auton, Etc. v. Dade City, Florida, a Mun. Corp., 783 F.2d 1009 (11th Cir. 1986).

Cited 15 times | Published | Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

...nticompetitive practices. To en *1011 gage in one of the authorized public works, a municipality may exercise its corporate powers within its corporate limits and extend outside its corporate limits up to another municipality’s boundary. Fla.Stat. § 180.02(1), (2) (1985)....

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Falls Chase Special Taxing Dist. Elba, Inc. Sunshine Land Dev., Inc. & E. Lamar Bailey Assocs. v. City of Tallahassee, 788 F.2d 711 (11th Cir. 1986).

Cited 7 times | Published | Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit | 1986 U.S. App. LEXIS 24878, 54 U.S.L.W. 2625

...quire anticompetitive practices. To engage in one of the authorized public works, a municipality may exercise its corporate powers within its corporate limits and extend outside its corporate limits up to another municipality’s boundary. Fla.Stat. § 180.02(1), (2) (1985)....

...“The city’s departure from state procedural requisites would have to be extreme to warrant the threat of antitrust liability. State authorization for antitrust purposes does not require administrative decisions that are free from ordinary errors.” Id. Here, the District argues that the City did not abide by Fla.Stat. § 180.02(3) (1985) because the City did not enact an ordinance creating a “zone or area” within which it would provide utility services....

...f 1980. Fla.Stat. § 542.20 (1985). See Auton v. Dade City, 783 F.2d 1009 , 1010 n. 1 (11th Cir.1986). 5 . Similarly, Fla.Stat. § 180.06(4) (1985) authorizes municipalities “[t]o provide for the collection and disposal of sewage.” 6 . Fla.Stat. § 180.02(3) provides: In the event any municipality desires to avail itself of the provisions or benefits of this chapter, it is lawful for such municipality to create a zone or area by ordinance and to prescribe reasonable regulations requiring all...

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Massey v. State, 348 So. 2d 1244 (Fla. 1st DCA 1977).

Cited 6 times | Published | Florida 1st District Court of Appeal

...or any burglary, ...' as used in § 777.04(4)(c), F.S. can have reference only to any burglary of of [sic] the second degree and that the attempted burglary of an unoccupied structure of conveyance is a first degree misdemeanor if the offense is otherwise compatible with the requirements set forth in § 180.02(3) [810.02(3)], F.S....

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Pinellas Cnty. v. State, 776 So. 2d 262 (Fla. 2001).

Cited 5 times | Published | Supreme Court of Florida | 2001 WL 23117

...(1997) (providing that counties may, upon construction of a sewage disposal system and the financing of such a system by the issuance of sewer revenue bonds, require that each lot or parcel of land within the county which abuts upon a street or other public way containing sanitary sewer connect to such sewer); § 180.02(3), Fla.Stat....

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City of Winter Park v. S. States Utils., Inc., 540 So. 2d 178 (Fla. 5th DCA 1989).

Cited 3 times | Published | Florida 5th District Court of Appeal | 14 Fla. L. Weekly 700, 1989 Fla. App. LEXIS 1384, 1989 WL 22556

...s, Inc. Terry C. Young and Matthew G. Brenner of Lowndes, Drosdick, Doster, Kantor & Reed, P.A., Orlando, for appellees Goldenrod Partners, Ltd., Mark E. Harris and James B. Taturn. COWART, Judge. Appellant, City of Winter Park, enacted, pursuant to section 180.02(3), Florida Statutes, an ordinance extending its corporate power over its municipal sewer service zone outside its corporate limits so as to require property owners outside the city but within such service zone to connect to the city's sewer system when it became available....

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Ago (Fla. Att'y Gen. 1992).

Published | Florida Attorney General Reports

systems, treatment and disposal works[.]"3 Section 180.02(2), F.S., provides that: Any municipality may

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City of Ocala v. Red Oak Farm, Inc., 636 So. 2d 81 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1994).

Published | District Court of Appeal of Florida | 1994 Fla. App. LEXIS 2705, 1994 WL 94192

HARRIS, C.J. and PETERSON, J., concur. . Section 180.02, Florida Statutes (1991), reads in part: (2)

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Ago (Fla. Att'y Gen. 2005).

Published | Florida Attorney General Reports

(Fla. 1978). 6 Section 180.06(3), Fla. Stat. 7 Section 180.02(3), Fla. Stat. 8 Section 180.191(1)(a), Fla

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City of Hallandale Beach v. Smith, 853 So. 2d 495 (Fla. 4th DCA 2003).

Published | Florida 4th District Court of Appeal | 2003 Fla. App. LEXIS 11702, 2003 WL 21749525

issues concerning a utility’s construction. Section 180.02, Florida Statutes, provides in relevant part:

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Lake Util. Servs., Inc. v. City of Clermont, 727 So. 2d 984 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1999).

Published | District Court of Appeal of Florida | 1999 Fla. App. LEXIS 500, 1999 WL 22430

vicinity of the municipality; and WHEREAS, Section 180.02(3), Florida Statutes (1989) authorizes municipalities

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City of Oak Hill v. City of Edgewater, 917 So. 2d 943 (Fla. 5th DCA 2005).

Published | Florida 5th District Court of Appeal | 2005 Fla. App. LEXIS 19955, 2005 WL 3439916

9, 2004). Further, as Edgewater points out, section 180.02(2), Florida Statutes, specifically states that

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City of Clearwater v. Allen's Creek Props., Inc., 658 So. 2d 539 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1995).

Published | District Court of Appeal of Florida | 1995 Fla. App. LEXIS 3445, 1995 WL 144470

1989). In Winter Park, the City, pursuant to section 180.02(3), Florida Statutes, enacted an ordinance

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