Florida Statute 8.051 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title II
STATE ORGANIZATION

Chapter 8
CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS

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8.051 Electronic maps to serve as the official maps of congressional districts; availability.—

(1) Geographical information systems maps and block equivalency files representing the boundaries of congressional districts described in this act shall serve as the official maps of the congressional districts of the state. In the event of any conflict between the descriptions of districts set forth in this act, geographical information systems maps, or block equivalency files, the descriptions in the block equivalency files shall prevail.

(2) Within 10 days after the effective date of this act, the geographical information systems maps and block equivalency files representing the boundaries of the congressional districts described in this act shall be made available to the public by the Office of Economic and Demographic Research.

History.—s. 5, ch. 2022-265.

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Byrd, The Florida Senate v. Black Voters Matter Capacity Bldg. Inst., Inc., Equal Ground Educ. Fund, Inc. (Fla. 1st DCA 2023).

Published | Florida 1st District Court of Appeal

...boundary descriptions used by the [U.S. Census] in compiling the” 2020 census numbers for the State. § 8.0001(1), Fla. Stat. (2022). 7 Official electronic maps provide to the public visual representations of these legally defined boundaries. See § 8.051, Fla....

...(2022). 8 The “blocks” are the component geographic parts that make up each congressional district. See § 8.0001(2)(b), Fla. Stat. (2022) (defining a “block equivalency file” as “a list of all blocks within the state and the congressional district number designated for each block”); cf. § 8.051, Fla....

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