CopyCited 40 times | Published | Supreme Court of Florida | 13 Fla. L. Weekly 435, 1988 Fla. LEXIS 831, 1988 WL 97201
...s, section
458.311(1)(c), Florida Statutes (1987), must prove that they are of good moral character before they can be licensed to practice in Florida. [3] No showing of good moral character need be made by one applying to sell insurance in Florida. §
626.731, Fla....
CopyCited 4 times | Published | District Court, N.D. Florida | 2003 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 17919, 2003 WL 22405861
..., Section 2 Privileges and Immunities Clause, but under unspecified "rights protected by the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution." Id. at 60,
60 S.Ct. 758. [6] A person who resides in Florida may be licensed as a "resident general lines agent." §
626.731(1)(b), Fla....
CopyCited 3 times | Published | Florida 2nd District Court of Appeal | 12 Fla. L. Weekly 1321
...In describing the requirements for licensing a general lines insurance agent, the legislature requires the agent to state in his application that he will maintain a place of business, the location of which is identifiable by and accessible to the public. § 626.731, Fla....
CopyPublished | Florida 4th District Court of Appeal | 1983 Fla. App. LEXIS 24458
...nes agent upon his arrival in Florida — so it was agreed before the trial court —Scott’s application for licensing was denied because, as a newcomer, he did not meet the durational residency prerequisite for licensing as a general lines agent. Section 626.731(2) required that “the applicant has been a bona fide resident of this state for at least 1 year last past, and will actually reside in this state at least 6 months out of each year .......
...After the circuit court entered its judgment, and while Scott’s appeal was pending, two things happened that the Department contends moot the case and require its dismissal. In June 1982 Scott completed a year’s residency in Florida and so met the durational residency requirement of section 626.731(2). And the 1982 legislature, by an act effective October 1, 1982, amended the statute to allow departmental waiver of the residency prerequisite in certain circumstances, which were in fact Scott's circumstances. Ch. 82-243, § 220, Laws of Fla.; § 626.731(l)(b), Fla.Stat....
...ties secured by the Constitution are not those of nonAlaskans, or nonCarolinians, or nonFloridians, but of American citizens, whether resident or nonresident of a particular state. By these standards the one-year dura-tional residency requirement of section 626.731(2), Florida Statutes (1981), must be held to violate the privileges and immunities clause of the United States Constitution....
...da residents of more than one year could be shown more stable and reliable than newcomers, “[tjhere are numerous less discriminatory means by which [the Department] can protect the state’s valid interest_” Stalland, supra,
530 F.Supp. at 160 . Section
626.731(3), Florida Statutes (1981), already required any general lines agent to “maintain a place of business accessible to the public” within this state, and this requirement could be strengthened....
