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Florida Statute 255.21 - Full Text and Legal Analysis
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The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XVIII
PUBLIC LANDS AND PROPERTY
Chapter 255
PUBLIC PROPERTY AND PUBLICLY OWNED BUILDINGS
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255.21 Special facilities for physically disabled.Any building or facility intended for use by the general public which, in whole or in part, is constructed or altered or operated as a lessee, by or on behalf of the state or any political subdivision, municipality, or special district thereof or any public administrative board or authority of the state shall, with respect to the altered or newly constructed or leased portion of such building or facility, comply with standards and specifications established by part II of chapter 553.
History.s. 1, ch. 65-493; s. 1, ch. 72-281; s. 1, ch. 73-255; s. 82, ch. 77-104; s. 1, ch. 78-166; s. 7, ch. 89-97; s. 177, ch. 92-279; s. 55, ch. 92-326; s. 16, ch. 97-296; s. 135, ch. 2000-141; s. 37, ch. 2001-186; s. 6, ch. 2001-372; s. 26, ch. 2012-5.

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Cases Citing Statute 255.21

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James Evans v. Richard L. Dugger, Laura A. Parada, David E. Taubel, Bealer T. Rogers, Hamilton D. Mathis, Thomas L. Barton, Canh T. Nguyen, 908 F.2d 801 (11th Cir. 1990).

Cited 10 times | Published | Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit | 1990 U.S. App. LEXIS 13551, 1990 WL 102850

...As support for the applicability of his requested charges 16 and 12A, the appellant relies upon certain Florida statutes requiring newly constructed or renovated public buildings intended for use by the general public to meet the needs of the physically handicapped. See §§ 553.46-553.49, Fla.Stat. (1985); and § 255.21, Fla....
...determined that the statutes at issue and the standards promulgated thereunder did not encompass buildings and portions of buildings used solely for the purpose of housing inmates. In so concluding, the court reasoned that the language contained in section 255.21(1), which called for its applicability to “[a]ny building or facility intended for use by the general public,” when read in pari materia with the language employed in section 553.-48(2), which provided for its applicability to “[a]ll new buildings as defined in this part ......
...e West Unit were required to comply with the handicapped accessibility laws." Id. The record indeed reflects that Department of Corrections employees undertook some renovation of Dorm 6 of the West Unit at UCI after the threshold date established in § 255.21....
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United States v. Kahn, 304 F. Supp. 2d 1353 (M.D. Fla. 2004).

Cited 1 times | Published | District Court, M.D. Florida | 93 A.F.T.R.2d (RIA) 1045, 2004 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 2575, 2004 WL 324498

Congress enacted 40 U.S.C. § 3112(b), previously § 255,[21] to create "a definite method of acceptance of
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Ago (Fla. Att'y Gen. 1978).

Published | Florida Attorney General Reports

lease is to be categorized as a new lease. Section 255.21(1), F. S., 1977, provides in pertinent part:

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