CopyCited 16 times | Published | Supreme Court of Florida | 93 P.U.R.3d 401
...consumers of such services? Under the provisions of Fla. Const. art. IV, § 4, F.S.A., the Attorney General is the "Chief State Legal Officer" and "shall exercise such duties as may be prescribed by law." Although the P.S.C. by virtue of Fla. Stat. § 366.01, F.S.A., exercises the police power of the State for the protection of the public welfare and by its statutorily authorized Rule 25-1.24, the Legal Department represents the general public interest in all rate cases, there is no statute whi...
CopyCited 14 times | Published | Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit | 118 P.U.R.4th 287, 1990 U.S. App. LEXIS 16430, 1990 WL 125506
...that scheme. I then consider the inconsistency of the district court's interpretation with this scheme. 316 In chapter 366, the state empowers, as "an exercise of the police power of the state," the FPSC to regulate public utilities. Fla.Stat. Sec. 366.01....
CopyCited 10 times | Published | Supreme Court of Florida | 1976 WL 352305
...[14] Appellees admit that one company may complain and invoke the jurisdiction of the Commission under the Act in order to secure a reduced fuel charge, while a non-complaining neighboring industrial user under an identical contract with the same supplier would continue to pay a different and higher price. [15] Section 366.01, Fla....
CopyCited 9 times | Published | Florida 2nd District Court of Appeal | 1979 WL 396265
...We think the trial court correctly found that under the statutory and decisional law *799 of this state the PSC has exclusive jurisdiction to determine the matters alleged in the consumers' complaint. [2] Therefore, we affirm. Chapter 366, Fla. Stat. (1977) embraces the statutory regulation of public utilities. In § 366.01 the legislature has mandated that the regulation of public utilities "is declared to be in the public interest and this chapter ......
CopyCited 8 times | Published | Florida 2nd District Court of Appeal
a health measure enacted under that part of Section 366.1 which is as follows: `* * * and such as shall
CopyCited 6 times | Published | Supreme Court of Florida | 1980 WL 579665
...Petitioners assert, however, that the public interest will not be served by the merger and that the Commission is obliged to consider that issue in connection with the financing application. This obligation, they say, arises from the legislative declaration contained in section 366.01, Florida Statutes (1977): Legislative declaration....
...And even if its "object" is lawful, the necessary inquiry is not ended, for, in addition, the object must be "compatible with the public interest."
411 U.S. at 756,
93 S.Ct. 1876 (emphasis in original). Petitioners maintain that the "public interest" language of section
366.01 as well as the direction that the chapter be "liberally *1035 construed" imposes upon the Commission in a financing application the same obligation as was imposed upon the Federal Power Commission under the "compatible with public interest" language of section 204 of the Federal Power Act....
...lding Company Act. They then assert that the public interest considerations which they espouse would be open to examination in Securities and Exchange Commission proceedings. The municipal utilities support this rather novel approach by reference to section 366.015, Florida Statutes (1977), [2] dealing with interagency liaison. We disagree that section 366.015 has so broad a reach or embodies such public policy. To assert that section 366.015 contemplates the use of a financing application proceeding as leverage to trigger federal review of a merger transaction, over which the Commission lacks jurisdiction, is sophistic....
...atutory authority to regulate the issuance and sale of securities is clearly erroneous. Accordingly, the petition for certiorari is denied. ADKINS, BOYD, OVERTON, ENGLAND, ALDERMAN and McDONALD, JJ., concur. NOTES [1] Ch. 25-8, Fla. Admin. Code. [2] Section 366.015, Florida Statutes (1977): Interagency liaison....
CopyCited 4 times | Published | Florida 3rd District Court of Appeal | 1964 WL 117711
...d reasonable rates and charges, gas and electricity through reasonably sufficient, adequate and efficient service, by and through the plant and facilities needed. This law is again an exercise by the state of its police power for the public welfare. § 366.01 Fla....
...e in the public interest and this Chapter shall be deemed to be in exercise of the police power of the state for the protection of the public welfare and all the provisions hereof shall be liberally construed for the accomplishment of that purpose." § 366.01, Fla....
CopyCited 3 times | Published | Florida 2nd District Court of Appeal | 1984 Fla. App. LEXIS 12370
agreement. See 51C C.J.S. Landlord and Tenant § 366(1)b (1968). The case of Fischer v. Collier, 143 So
CopyCited 3 times | Published | Supreme Court of Florida | 39 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 519, 2014 Fla. LEXIS 2581, 2014 WL 4257733
...4(1) and
366.06(1), which provide that the Commission has exclusive jurisdiction to fix fair,
just, and reasonable rates of electric utilities. Thus, although section
350.0611
does not contain an exhaustive list of the OPC’s specific powers and section
366.01, Florida Statutes (2012), provides that chapter 366 shall be liberally
construed for the accomplishment of protecting the public welfare, adoption of
OPC’s argument that its powers include the ability to preclude the Commission
f...
...Unfair and Unreasonable Rates are not in the Public Interest and the
Commission’s Approval of Them Exceeded the Limits of its Discretion
The determination of what is in the public interest rests exclusively with the
Commission. See § 366.01, Fla....
CopyCited 2 times | Published | Supreme Court of Florida
...and this chapter shall be
deemed to be an exercise of the police power of the state for the
protection of the public welfare and all the provisions hereof shall be
liberally construed for the accomplishment of that purpose.
§ 366.01, Fla....
...Based on the following,
however, we conclude that Sierra Club’s argument fails.
Chapter 366 does not define public interest. Thus this Court has stated that
the “determination of what is in the public interest rests exclusively with the
Commission.” Citizens I,
146 So. 3d at 1173 (citing §
366.01, Fla....
CopyPublished | Supreme Court of Florida
...service.” §
366.06(1), Fla. Stat. (2021); see also §
366.05(1)(a), Fla.
Stat. (2021) (“[T]he commission shall have power to prescribe fair
and reasonable rates and charges . . . .”). In doing so, the
Commission must act in the “public interest,” section
366.01,
Florida Statutes (2021), and ensure that no public utility gives “any
10....
CopyPublished | Supreme Court of Florida
...The regulation of public utilities is in the public interest and “an exercise of the police power of the state for the protection of the public welfare and all the provisions [of chapter 366] shall be liberally construed for the accomplishment of that purpose ” § 366.01, Fla....
CopyPublished | Supreme Court of Florida | 18 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 156, 1993 Fla. LEXIS 443, 1993 WL 74254
...Accordingly, those portions of the order under review approving the Sebring rider and SR-1 rate schedule are affirmed. No motion for rehearing shall be entertained. It is so ordered. BARKETT, C.J., and OVERTON, McDonald, SHAW, GRIMES and HARDING, JJ., concur. . See also section 366.01, Florida Statutes (1991), which provides for the liberal construction of all provisions of the chapter for the *687 accomplishment of the regulation of public utilities and the protection of the public welfare....
CopyPublished | Supreme Court of Florida | 1954 Fla. LEXIS 1396
...Light and Power Company and its successors a franchise to furnish electricity to the inhabitants. The following year the appellant became the successor of Miami Electric Light and Power Company. In 1951 the Legislature enacted Chapter 26545, F.S.A. § 366.01 et seq., which contained the provision, in Sec....
