Florida Statute 876.13 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XLVI
CRIMES

Chapter 876
CRIMINAL ANARCHY, TREASON, AND OTHER CRIMES AGAINST PUBLIC ORDER

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876.13 Wearing mask, hood, or other device on public property.—No person or persons shall in this state, while wearing any mask, hood, or device whereby any portion of the face is so hidden, concealed, or covered as to conceal the identity of the wearer, enter upon, or be, or appear upon or within the public property of any municipality or county of the state.

History.—s. 3, ch. 26542, 1951.

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Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 876.13

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Cases Citing Statute 876.13

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United States v. David S. Taylor, 972 F.2d 1247 (11th Cir. 1992).

Cited 27 times | Published | Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit | 1992 U.S. App. LEXIS 22240, 1992 WL 210280

ambiguous letter cannot violate 18 U.S.C. § 876.” 13 In so holding, the trial court disregarded

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Robinson v. State, 393 So. 2d 1076 (Fla. 1980).

Cited 7 times | Published | Supreme Court of Florida

...This cause is before the Court on appeal from a judgment of the County Court, Escambia County, which passed upon the constitutionality of a state law. Appellant filed his notice of appeal on December 5, 1979. We have jurisdiction. Art. V, § 3(b)(1), Fla. Const. (1972). Appellant was charged with violating section 876.13, Florida Statutes (1977)....

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Nicol v. State, 939 So. 2d 231 (Fla. 5th DCA 2006).

Published | Florida 5th District Court of Appeal | 2006 Fla. App. LEXIS 17011, 2006 WL 2918751

...We note that by statute, wearing a mask has been made a misdemeanor of the second degree under certain circumstances. See generally §§ 876.12-20, Fla. Stat. (2001). For example, section 876.12 criminalizes wearing a mask or hood on a public way; section 876.13 criminalizes the wearing of a hood or mask on public property; and section 876.14 makes it illegal to wear a hood or mask on the *234 property of another....

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