Florida Statute 552.12 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

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Title XXXIII
REGULATION OF TRADE, COMMERCE, INVESTMENTS, AND SOLICITATIONS

Chapter 552
MANUFACTURE, DISTRIBUTION, AND USE OF EXPLOSIVES

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552.12 Transportation of explosives without license prohibited; exceptions.—No person shall transport any explosive into this state or within the boundaries of this state over the highways, on navigable waters or by air, unless such person is possessed of a license or permit; provided, there is excepted from the effects of this sentence common, contract and private carriers, as mentioned in the next succeeding sentence. Common carriers by air, highway, railroad, or water transporting explosives into this state, or within the boundaries of this state (including ocean-plying vessels loading or unloading explosives in Florida ports), and contract or private carriers by motor vehicle transporting explosives on highways into this state, or within the boundaries of this state, and which contract or private carriers are engaged in such business pursuant to certificate or permit by whatever name issued to them by any federal or state officer, agency, bureau, commission or department, shall be fully subject to the provisions of this chapter; provided, that in any instance where the Federal Government, acting through the ¹Interstate Commerce Commission or other federal officer, agency, bureau, commission or department, by virtue of federal laws or rules or regulations promulgated pursuant thereto, has preempted the field of regulation in relation to any activity of any such common, contract or private carrier sought to be regulated by this chapter, such activity of such a carrier is excepted from the provisions of this chapter.

History.—s. 5, ch. 29944, 1955; s. 7, ch. 59-83.

¹Note.—Abolished by s. 101, Pub. L. No. 104-88.

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Cases Citing Statute 552.12

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City of Miami v. Babey, 161 So. 2d 230 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1964).

Cited 1 times | Published | District Court of Appeal of Florida

...ty employee, to-wit: Donald W. Branch, then and there unlawfully transport in a motor vehicle explosives, to-wit: hand grenades, over the highways of Dade County, Florida, without a license or permit as required under the state law, Florida Statute, 552.12, such conduct constituting a violation of Rule XVI, Section 2, Subsections (d), (e) and (i) of the Civil Service Rules and Regulations....

...as entered on, May 29, 1963. It is from the latter, order that this appeal has been prosecuted. ( . The circuit court in its order quashing the judgment ■ of the city manager stated that it took judicial notice that the Florida Statute,' ‘ § ' '552.12, F.S.A., contained the words "“knowingly transport” and thus it was necessary that the appellants prove knowledge on the part of the appellee to sustain a conviction under the statute....

...hed the *232 evidence and applied the wrong rule of law as to the degree of proof requisite in a quasi judicial proceeding. We conclude that the appellant’s contentions are meritorious. Whether the statute cited in the charges against appellee — § 552.12 [impliedly or in combination with the provisions of § 552.14,] requires the proof of scienter was not, in our opinion, a question to be considered by the circuit court....

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Victer v. State, 160 So. 2d 727 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1964).

Published | District Court of Appeal of Florida

PER CURIAM. The appellant George Victer and another were charged in one count of an information with transportation of explosives on a public highway without a license contrary to § 552.12, Fla.Stat., F.S.A., and in a second count with possession of explosives without a license, condemned by § 552.101, Fla.Stat., F.S.A....

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Victer v. State, 174 So. 2d 544 (Fla. 1965).

Published | Supreme Court of Florida | 1965 Fla. LEXIS 3141

DREW, Chief Justice. Appellant, George Victer, and two others were arrested and an information was filed charging them in one count with transportation of explosives on a public highway without a license contrary to § 552.12, Fla.Stat, F.S.A., and in a second count with possession of explosives without a license in violation of § 552.101, Fla.Stat., F.S.A....

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