Florida Statute 458.321 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XXXII
REGULATION OF PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS

Chapter 458
MEDICAL PRACTICE

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458.321 Inactive status.—

(1) A license that has become inactive may be reactivated under s. 458.319 upon application to the department. The board shall prescribe by rule continuing education requirements as a condition of reactivating a license. The continuing education requirements for reactivating a license must not be fewer than 20 classroom hours for each year the license was inactive.

(2) The board shall adopt rules relating to licenses that have become inactive and for the reactivation of inactive licenses, including criteria an applicant must meet in order to activate an inactive license.

History.—ss. 1, 8, ch. 79-302; s. 295, ch. 81-259; ss. 2, 3, ch. 81-318; s. 96, ch. 83-329; ss. 14, 25, 26, ch. 86-245; s. 24, ch. 89-162; s. 4, ch. 91-429; s. 164, ch. 94-119.

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Church v. Hanft (In Re Hanft), 274 B.R. 917 (Bankr. S.D. Fla. 2002).

Cited 4 times | Published | United States Bankruptcy Court, S.D. Florida. | 15 Fla. L. Weekly Fed. B 128, 2002 Bankr. LEXIS 237, 39 Bankr. Ct. Dec. (CRR) 74

...On December 31, 1970, Donald Hanft was licensed to practice medicine in the State of Florida. Dr. Hanft renewed his license in 1973, 1975, and 1977. Due to his failure to renew his license in December, 1979, Dr. Hanft's medical license expired and became inactive pursuant to F.S. § 458.321....

...Hanft's wife, who is also a physician, renewed her medical license within the required time frames. Her license remained active. At some time during that ten-year period, Dr. Hanft's license terminated by operation of law. During the inactive period, F.S. § 458.321 changed the time period for an inactive license to automatically terminate....

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Boedy v. Dep't of Prof'l Reg., 428 So. 2d 758 (Fla. 1st DCA 1983).

Published | Florida 1st District Court of Appeal | 1983 Fla. App. LEXIS 18939

...See Department of Professional Regulation v. Hall, 398 So.2d 978 (Fla. 1st DCA 1981). Boedy questions the Board’s power to act at all in the premises, urging that he, having previously requested that his medical license be placed in an inactive status, § 458.321, is beyond the disciplinary powers of the Board....

...timate interest in assuring that nonpracticing physicians are able to ‘practice with reasonable care and safety.’ ” The hearing officer’s order of February 8, 1983, purports to deny Boedy’s motion to dismiss, saying: When Sections 458.301, 458.321 and 458.331, Florida Statutes (1981) are read, in pari materia, it is concluded that the voluntary deactivation of a medical license does not bar the petitioner from prosecuting the licensee for alleged violations of Chapter 458....

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