Florida Statute 180.22 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XII
MUNICIPALITIES

Chapter 180
MUNICIPAL PUBLIC WORKS

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180.22 Power of eminent domain.—

(1) Any municipality or private company or corporation authorized to carry into effect any or all of the purposes defined in this chapter may exercise the power of eminent domain over railroads, traction and streetcar lines, telephone and telegraph lines, all public and private streets and highways, drainage districts, bridge districts, school districts, and any other public or private lands or property whatsoever necessary to enable the accomplishment of the purposes of this chapter.

(2) Any municipality which exercises its power under this section outside of its corporate boundaries for the accomplishment of the purposes of this chapter may finance such extraterritorial project in any manner in which it is presently authorized by law to finance a like project within its corporate boundaries.

History.—s. 16, ch. 17118, 1935; CGL 1936 Supp. 3100(21); s. 1, ch. 78-198.

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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

...The Florida statutory scheme, however, contains additional provisions which strengthen the conclusion that the legislature contemplated municipalities would engage in anticompetitive conduct in the course of providing their citizens with a water supply. For example, Fla.Stat. § 180.22 (1985) grants municipalities the power of eminent domain in connection with the activities authorized by Chapter 180 while Fla.Stat....

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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

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City of Dania v. Cent. & So. Florida Flood Con. Dist., 134 So. 2d 848 (Fla. 2d DCA 1961).

Cited 6 times | Published | Florida 2nd District Court of Appeal

...provide for the collection and disposal of garbage; (6) and incidental to such purposes and to enable the accomplishment of the same, to construct reservoirs, sewerage systems, * * * collection systems, treatment and disposal works; * * *" Further, § 180.22, Florida Statutes, F.S.A., provides: "Any municipality or private company or corporation authorized to carry into effect any or all of the purposes defined in this chapter, may exercise the power of eminent domain over * * * drainage distri...

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City of Palm Bay v. Gen. Dev. Utils., Inc., 201 So. 2d 912 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1967).

Published | District Court of Appeal of Florida | 1967 Fla. App. LEXIS 4716

chapter * * (Emphasis added.) Florida Statutes § 180.22, F.S.A., provides : “Power of eminent domain Any

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