Florida Statute 951.01 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XLVII
CRIMINAL PROCEDURE AND CORRECTIONS

Chapter 951
COUNTY AND MUNICIPAL PRISONERS

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951.01 County prisoners may be put to labor.—The board of county commissioners of each county may employ all persons in the jail of their respective counties under sentence upon conviction for crime at labor upon the roads, bridges, or other public works of the county where they are so imprisoned, or on other projects for which the governing body of the county could otherwise lawfully expend public funds and which it determines to be necessary for the health, safety, and welfare of the county.

History.—s. 1, ch. 2090, 1877; RS 3032; GS 4109; s. 1, ch. 5705, 1907; s. 1, ch. 5963, 1909; RGS 6217; s. 1, ch. 7323, 1917; s. 1, ch. 9203, 1923; CGL 8549; s. 44, ch. 57-121; s. 1, ch. 61-488; s. 18, ch. 61-530; ss. 19, 35, ch. 69-106; ss. 1, 2, ch. 70-441; s. 92, ch. 77-120; s. 111, ch. 79-3; s. 2, ch. 94-149; s. 28, ch. 96-312.

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United States v. Duran, 596 F.3d 1283 (11th Cir. 2010).

Cited 57 times | Published | Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit | 2010 WL 522694

inquiry is necessary. Id. at 744. To violate § 951, (1) a person must act; (2) the action must be taken

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Israel v. Motor Vessel Nili, 318 F. Supp. 1196 (S.D. Fla. 1968).

Published | District Court, S.D. Florida

to Change the Proviso of the 1954 Amendment to § 951. (1) The 19 5 U Amendment to § 951-a conditional grant

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