Florida Statute 384.21 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XXIX
PUBLIC HEALTH

Chapter 384
SEXUALLY TRANSMISSIBLE DISEASES

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384.21 Short title.—This chapter may be cited as the “Control of Sexually Transmissible Disease Act.”

History.—s. 90, ch. 86-220.

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State v. D.C., 114 So. 3d 440 (Fla. 5th DCA 2013).

Cited 1 times | Published | Florida 5th District Court of Appeal | 2013 Fla. App. LEXIS 8595, 2013 WL 2359490

...In other words, criminal statutes are not to be so strictly construed as to emasculate the statute and defeat the obvious intention of the legislature. Section 384.24(2) falls within chapter 384, which is entitled the Control of Sexually Transmissible Disease Act. § 384.21, Fla....

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Gary G. Debaun v. State of Florida, 213 So. 3d 747 (Fla. 2017).

Cited 1 times | Published | Supreme Court of Florida | 42 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 322, 2017 Fla. LEXIS 583

...-9- result clearly contrary to legislative intent, we turn next to a discussion of the legislative intent behind the statute. Chapter 384 is known as the “Control of Sexually Transmissible Disease Act.” § 384.21, Fla....

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State v. Debaun, 129 So. 3d 1089 (Fla. 3d DCA 2013).

Published | Florida 3rd District Court of Appeal | 2013 WL 5814005, 2013 Fla. App. LEXIS 17224

...in order to arrive at a construction which avoids illogical results”). Chapter 384, of which section 384.24(2) is a part, is titled the “Control of Sexually Transmissible Disease Act” and addresses the threat to the public posed by sexually transmitted diseases. § 384.21, Fla....

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Ago (Fla. Att'y Gen. 1998).

Published | Florida Attorney General Reports

...Stat.; but see, subsection (2) of the statute providing that where a child in the custody of DCF has not been committed to DCF pursuant to s. 39.41, Fla. Stat., a court order or parental consent is required for medical treatment. 4 Section 39.407 (3) and (4), Fla. Stat. 5 Section 42 of Chapter 98-403, Laws of Florida. 6 Section 384.21 , Fla....