CopyCited 93 times | Published | Supreme Court of Florida | 1992 WL 4452
...pped of their voter registration by court order. §
744.3215(2)(b), Fla. Stat. (Supp. 1990). They may not register for a drivers' license, section
322.05(5), Florida Statutes (1989), and a court may confiscate any such license previously given them. §
322.2505, Fla....
CopyPublished | Florida 1st District Court of Appeal | 2009 Fla. App. LEXIS 10957, 2009 WL 2392973
...As a result of the criminal proceeding, the trial court found that the petitioner was incompetent to proceed with trial and placed him on conditional release. Additionally, the trial court found that the petitioner was "required to surrender his Florida Driver's License pursuant to [section] 322.2505 [Florida Statutes]." We grant the petition for writ of certiorari and quash the order of the trial court directing the petitioner to surrender his driver's license. Section 322.2505, Florida Statutes (2008), provides: Whenever a person is adjudicated mentally or physically incapacitated pursuant to s....
...efinite meaning, there is no reason for resorting to the rules of statutory interpretation and construction, and the statute must be given its plain and obvious meaning." Vreuls v. Progressive Employer Servs.,
881 So.2d 688, 690 (Fla. 1st DCA 2004). Section
322.2505, Florida Statutes (2008), plainly provides that the court shall require a person adjudicated incompetent pursuant to section
744.331 to surrender his or her driver's license....
...This ignores the fact that these adjudications for incompetency serve very different purposes. Even if identical standards were required for both statutes, it does not obviate the need to follow the statute. The writ is GRANTED and the Order Directing Defendant to Surrender Driver's License Pursuant to Florida Statute 322.2505 is QUASHED....
