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The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XXXIII
REGULATION OF TRADE, COMMERCE, INVESTMENTS, AND SOLICITATIONS
Chapter 559
REGULATION OF TRADE, COMMERCE, AND INVESTMENTS, GENERALLY
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559.555 Registration of consumer collection agencies; procedure.—
(1) A person who acts as a consumer collection agency must be registered in accordance with this section.
(2) In order to apply for a consumer collection agency registration, an applicant must:
(a) Submit a completed application form as prescribed by rule of the commission.
(b) Submit a nonrefundable application fee of $200. Application fees may not be prorated for partial years of registration.
(c) Submit fingerprints for each of the applicant’s control persons in accordance with rules adopted by the commission.
1. The fingerprints may be submitted through a third-party vendor authorized by the Department of Law Enforcement to provide live-scan fingerprinting.
2. A state criminal history background check must be conducted through the Department of Law Enforcement, and a national criminal history background check must be conducted through the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
3. All fingerprints submitted to the Department of Law Enforcement must be submitted electronically and entered into the statewide automated biometric identification system established in s. 943.05(2)(b) and available for use in accordance with s. 943.05(2)(g) and (h). The office shall pay an annual fee to the Department of Law Enforcement to participate in the system and inform the Department of Law Enforcement of any person whose fingerprints are no longer required to be retained.
4. The costs of fingerprint processing, including the cost of retaining the fingerprints, shall be borne by the person subject to the background check.
5. The office is responsible for reviewing the results of the state and national criminal history background checks and determining whether the applicant meets registration requirements.
(3) The office shall issue a consumer collection agency registration to each person who is not otherwise ineligible and who meets the requirements of this section. However, it is a ground for denial of registration if the applicant or one of the applicant’s control persons has committed any violation specified in this part, or is the subject of a pending felony criminal prosecution or a prosecution or an administrative enforcement action, in any jurisdiction, which involves fraud, dishonesty, breach of trust, money laundering, or any other act of moral turpitude.
(4) A registration issued under this part is not transferable or assignable.
(5) A consumer collection agency shall report, on a form prescribed by rule of the commission, any change in the information contained in an initial application form, or an amendment thereto, within 30 days after the change is effective.
(6) Renewal of registration shall be made between October 1 and December 31 of each year. There shall be no proration of the fee for any registration. In order to renew a consumer collection agency registration, a registrant must submit a nonrefundable renewal fee equal to the registration fee and a nonrefundable fee to cover the costs of further fingerprint processing and retention as set forth by commission rule.
History.—ss. 5, 13, ch. 93-275; s. 679, ch. 2003-261; s. 5, ch. 2014-116; s. 69, ch. 2016-10.

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LeBlanc v. Unifund CCR Partners, 601 F.3d 1185 (11th Cir. 2010).

Cited 116 times | Published | Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit | 2010 U.S. App. LEXIS 6501, 2010 WL 1200691

...Household Bank, Ltd., 969 So.2d 509 (Fla. Dist.Ct. App. 1st Dist. 2007). Under the FCCPA, “no person shall engage in business in this state as a consumer collection agency . . . without first registering in accordance with this part [Sections 559.553 and 559.555] ....
...exempt” any person or entity subject to its provisions from complying with the 10 In order to register as a consumer collection agency under the FCCPA, the debt collector must pay a registration fee and provide certain information to the state. See FLA . STAT . §559.555(1) and (2). The registration must be renewed annually. Id. §559.555(3)....
...registration held by the registrant, by any principal of the registrant, or by any business entity in which any principal of the registrant was the owner of 10 percent or more of such business, was the subject of any suspension or revocation. FLA . STAT . §559.555. 10 laws of any State with respect to debt collection practices, except to the extent that those laws are inconsistent with the FDCPA.11 See 15 U.S.C....
...provisions of both of the various states or the FDCPA. Finally, we attribute significant weight to Florida’s chosen means of enforcement. The Florida legislature’s determination that a debt collector’s failure to register under FLA . STAT . §559.555 and subsequent pursuit of unavailable....
...23 implicates the underlying Florida state statute allegedly violated by Unifund. See FLA . STAT . §559.553. The FCCPA requires consumer collection agencies to register as such in accordance with §559.555 before engaging in debt collection activity within the state....
...The term “unconscionable” means “having no conscience”; “unscrupulous”; “showing no regard for conscience”; “affronting the sense of justice, decency, or reasonableness.” BLACK’S LAW DICTIONARY 1526 (7th ed. 1999). Unifund suggests that failure to register under §559.555 of the FCCPA cannot sustain the cause of action since it does not constitute a “means” for purposes of LeBlanc’s §1692f claim....
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Trent v. Mortg. Elec. Reg. Sys., Inc., 618 F. Supp. 2d 1356 (M.D. Fla. 2007).

Cited 13 times | Published | District Court, M.D. Florida | 2007 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 52826, 2007 WL 2120262

...ge lending services; (4) failing to register with the State of Florida as a debt collector pursuant to Fla. Stat. § 559.553; and (5) failing to pay the appropriate statutory registration fee required of consumer collection agencies under Fla. Stat. § 559.555....
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Welch v. Florida West Coast, Inc., 816 So. 2d 711 (Fla. 2d DCA 2002).

Cited 4 times | Published | Florida 2nd District Court of Appeal | 2002 WL 662272

...first registering in accordance with this part, and thereafter maintaining a valid registration. (2) Each consumer collection agency doing business in this state shall register with the department and renew such registration annually as set forth in s. 559.555....
...r upon the subsequent written request of the department. In the event that an attempted registration is rejected by the department the prospective registrant shall be informed of the basis for rejection. The procedure for registering is set forth in section 559.555, which provides: Any person required to register as a consumer collection agency shall furnish to the department the registration fee and information as follows: (1) The registrant shall pay to the department a registration fee in the amount of $200....
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Conner v. BCC Fin. Mgmt. Servs., Inc., 489 F. Supp. 2d 1358 (S.D. Fla. 2007).

Cited 3 times | Published | District Court, S.D. Florida | 2007 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 44464, 2007 WL 1687523

...ency. ( See Am. Compl. ¶ 8; Ans. ¶ 8; Fla. Stat. § 559.553(1)). Conner alleges that in its application for registration as a consumer collection agency, BCC omitted its mailing address, and that this omission constituted a violation of Fla. Stat. § 559.555(2), which sets forth the procedure for registration of consumer collection agencies....
...ered its registration void, Conner does not have a valid cause of action under Fla. Stat. § 559.72(9). Under Fla. Stat. § 559.553, consumer collection agencies must register with the state. The procedure for registration is set forth in Fla. Stat. § 559.555, which requires, inter alia, that the registrant provide its current mailing address to the state....
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Townsend v. Quantum3 Grp., LLC, 535 B.R. 415 (M.D. Fla. 2015).

Cited 2 times | Published | District Court, M.D. Florida | 2015 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 99556, 2015 WL 4603410

...r § 1692e(ll) and 1692g(a) are due to be dismissed. B. Plaintiffs “Failure-to-Register Claims.” Plaintiff also claims that Defendant violated the FDCPA because Defendant failed to register as a Florida consumer collection agency, as required by § 559.555, Florida Statutes....
...his state as a consumer collection agency or continue to do business in this state as a consumer collection agency without first registering in accordance with this part, and thereafter maintaining a valid registration.” Fla. Stat. § 559.553 (1). Section 559.555, Florida Statutes, similarly states that “[a] person who acts as a consumer collection agency must be registered in accordance with this section.” Fla. Stat. § 559.555 (1)....
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Collins v. Erin Capital Mgmt., LLC, 991 F. Supp. 2d 1195 (S.D. Fla. 2013).

Cited 1 times | Published | District Court, S.D. Florida | 2013 WL 6981174, 2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 183302

...registering in accordance with this part, and thereafter maintaining a valid registration. (2) Each consumer collection agency doing business in this state shall register with the office and renew such registration annually as set forth in [section] 559.555....
...In LeBlanc , the court considered whether the defendant in that case was required to register under the FCCPA. The court began its analysis by broadly declaring, “[t]he FCCPA requires consumer collection agencies to register as such in accordance with [section] 559.555 before engaging in debt collection activity within the state.” Id....

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