Florida Statute 298.001 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XXI
DRAINAGE

Chapter 298
DRAINAGE AND WATER CONTROL

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298.001 Districts designated as “water control” districts.—A water management district or a drainage district heretofore or hereafter created pursuant to the method authorized in this chapter or a water management district created by special act to operate under the authority of this chapter shall be designated as a water control district.

History.—s. 1, ch. 78-153.

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Cases Citing Statute 298.001

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Florida Jai Alai, Inc. v. Lake Howell Water & R. Dist., 274 So. 2d 522 (Fla. 1973).

Cited 32 times | Published | Supreme Court of Florida

district. The statute is similar to Fla. Stat. § 298.01, F.S.A., which regulates the formation of a district

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Rabin v. Lake Worth Drainage Dist., 82 So. 2d 353 (Fla. 1955).

Cited 16 times | Published | Supreme Court of Florida

the expenses of maintaining the improvements, Section 298.01, Florida Statutes 1953, and F.S.A., and that

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Roach v. Loxahatchee Groves Water Control Dist., 417 So. 2d 814 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1982).

Cited 1 times | Published | District Court of Appeal of Florida | 1982 Fla. App. LEXIS 21194

...tricts were brought into existence: drainage, protection, and reclamation of swamps and low lying lands. Having determined that water control districts do not have general police powers but only those powers delegated by statute, we look to Sections 298.001 to 298.-78, Florida Statutes (1981)....

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Union Camp Corp. v. Petition of Seminole Forest Water Mgmt. Dist., 302 So. 2d 419 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1974).

Published | District Court of Appeal of Florida | 1974 Fla. App. LEXIS 8421

contention of appellees that the reference in Section 298.01 to “majority of owners” or “Owners of a majority

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Ago (Fla. Att'y Gen. 2000).

Published | Florida Attorney General Reports

Statutes, provides for water control and drainage. Section 298.01, Florida Statutes, provides: "It is the legislative

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Ago (Fla. Att'y Gen. 1983).

Published | Florida Attorney General Reports

125.01 or a special act of the Legislature.' Section 298.01, F.S. For such water control districts and

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Water Control Dist. of South Brevard v. Davidson, 638 So. 2d 521 (Fla. 2d DCA 1994).

Published | Florida 2nd District Court of Appeal | 1994 Fla. App. LEXIS 3906, 1994 WL 151312

statute remains today, essentially unchanged, in section 298.001-78, Florida Statutes. It authorizes the creation

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