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The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XII
MUNICIPALITIES
Chapter 185
MUNICIPAL POLICE PENSIONS
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185.01 Legislative declaration.
(1) It is hereby found and declared by the Legislature that police officers as hereinafter defined perform both state and municipal functions; that they make arrests for violations of state traffic laws on public highways; that they keep the public peace; that they conserve both life and property; and that their activities are vital to public welfare of this state. Therefore the Legislature declares that it is a proper and legitimate state purpose to provide a uniform retirement system for the benefit of police officers as hereinafter defined and intends, in implementing the provisions of s. 14, Art. X of the State Constitution as they relate to municipal police officers’ retirement trust fund systems and plans, that such retirement systems or plans be managed, administered, operated, and funded in such manner as to maximize the protection of police officers’ retirement trust funds. Therefore, the Legislature hereby determines and declares that the provisions of this act fulfill an important state interest.
(2) This chapter hereby establishes, for all municipal pension plans provided for under this chapter, including chapter plans and local law plans, minimum benefits and minimum standards for the operation and funding of such plans, hereinafter referred to as municipal police officers’ retirement trust funds, which must be met as conditions precedent to the plan or plan sponsor’s receiving a distribution of insurance premium tax revenues under s. 185.10. Minimum benefits and minimum standards for each plan may not be diminished by local ordinance or by special act of the Legislature and may not be reduced or offset by any other local, state, or federal plan that includes police officers in its operation, except as provided under s. 112.65.
History.s. 1, ch. 28230, 1953; s. 1, ch. 86-42; s. 41, ch. 99-1; s. 8, ch. 2015-39.

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Int'l Ass'n of MacHinists & Aerospace Workers, Local Lodge No. 1688 v. Allied Prods. Corp., 786 F.2d 1561 (11th Cir. 1986).

Cited 27 times | Published | Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit | 122 L.R.R.M. (BNA) 2264, 1986 U.S. App. LEXIS 24519

Relations Act of 1947, as amended 29 U.S.C. § 185 1 seeking to compel arbitration. The
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Florida League of Cities, Inc. v. Dep't of Ins. & Treasurer, 540 So. 2d 850 (Fla. 1st DCA 1989).

Cited 11 times | Published | Florida 1st District Court of Appeal | 1989 WL 15937

...e protection of the firefighters' pension trust funds. This chapter hereby establishes minimum standards for the operation and funding of municipal firefighters' pension trust systems and plans. Similar language was added by section 1, ch. 86-42, to section 185.01 regarding police officers' trust funds....
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In Re Wheat, 149 B.R. 1003 (Bankr. S.D. Fla. 1992).

Cited 7 times | Published | United States Bankruptcy Court, S.D. Florida. | 6 Fla. L. Weekly Fed. B 345, 1992 Bankr. LEXIS 2104

...X of the State Constitution as they relate to municipal police officers' retirement trust fund systems and plans, that such retirement systems or plans be managed, administered, operated, and funded in such manner as to maximize the protection of police officers' retirement trust funds. Fla.Stat. § 185.01 ("Legislative declaration") (emphasis added)....
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City of St. Petersburg v. Remia, 41 So. 3d 322 (Fla. 2d DCA 2010).

Cited 5 times | Published | Florida 2nd District Court of Appeal | 2010 Fla. App. LEXIS 10448, 2010 WL 2788287

...The City contends that the former police officers are bound by the terms of their employment contracts which included a pension provision, apparently set by ordinance, that their contributions were forfeited absent vesting. Any such agreement, however, seems contrary to the legislative intent and public policy of section 185.01 [2] and may be void....
...hall not after January 1, 1977, provide any increase in the benefits to the members or beneficiaries of such system unless such unit has made or concurrently makes provision for the funding of the increase in benefits on a sound actuarial basis. [2] 185.01....
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Int'l Jai-Alai Players Ass'n v. Aragon Grp., Inc., 981 F. Supp. 1463 (S.D. Fla. 1997).

Published | District Court, S.D. Florida | 157 L.R.R.M. (BNA) 2787, 1997 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 19151, 1997 WL 661833

Management Relations Act of 1947 (LMRA), 29 U.S.C. § 185.1 On December 27, 1995 (D.E.# 6), Plaintiff filed
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Ago (Fla. Att'y Gen. 1991).

Published | Florida Attorney General Reports

...11 If the plan is in compliance with s. 185.35 , F.S., however, any amendment to its terms or conditions must contain an actuarial impact statement of the proposed amendment and must be approved by the municipality. 12 Sincerely, Robert A. Butterworth Attorney General RAB/tls 1 Section 185.01 , F.S....
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City of Hollywood v. Hollywood Lodge 21, 329 So. 2d 366 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1976).

Published | District Court of Appeal of Florida | 1976 Fla. App. LEXIS 14051

...The circuit court apparently based the judgment under review upon a finding that the appellant city was using the funds it *368 received pursuant to the tax levied on authority of § 185.08 F.S. “in violation of the legislative mandate as expressed in Section 185.01, Florida Statutes, and as interpreted by the Florida Supreme Court in the case of City of Miami v....
...ce the contribution it must make to any general pension system for all city employees. Therefore, the trial court’s conclusion that the appellant city is using the Chapter 185 tax receipts “in violation of the legislative mandate as expressed in Section 185.01, Florida Statutes, and as interpreted by the Florida Supreme Court [in the Carter case]” is clearly erroneous, as is the injunction prohibiting the appellants “from using any of the funds received pursuant to Chapter 185, Florida S...
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Headley v. Sharpe, 138 So. 2d 536 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1962).

Published | District Court of Appeal of Florida | 1962 Fla. App. LEXIS 3434

...There is no question that these services rendered by the appellees can be classified a police function in that they keep the public peace; that they conserve both life and property, and that their activities are vital to public welfare of this State, pursuant to § 185.01, Fla.Stat., F.S.A....

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