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The 2024 Florida Statutes

Title IV
EXECUTIVE BRANCH

Chapter 20
ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE

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F.S. 20.02

20.02 Declaration of policy.—

(1) The State Constitution contemplates the separation of powers within state government among the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of the government. The legislative branch has the broad purpose of determining policies and programs and reviewing program performance. The executive branch has the purpose of executing the programs and policies adopted by the Legislature and of making policy recommendations to the Legislature. The judicial branch has the purpose of determining the constitutional propriety of the policies and programs and of adjudicating any conflicts arising from the interpretation or application of the laws.

(2) Within constitutional limitations, the agencies that compose the executive branch must be consolidated into no more than 25 departments, exclusive of those specifically provided for or authorized in the State Constitution, consistent with executive capacity to administer effectively at all levels. The agencies in the executive branch should be integrated into one of the departments of the executive branch to achieve maximum efficiency and effectiveness as intended by s. 6, Art. IV of the State Constitution.

(3) The administration of any executive branch department or entity placed under the direct supervision of an officer or board appointed by and serving at the pleasure of the Governor shall remain at all times under the constitutional executive authority of the Governor, in accordance with ss. 1(a) and 6, Art. IV of the State Constitution, and such officer or board generally remains subject to oversight, direction, and supervision by the Governor.

(4) Structural reorganization must be a continuing process through careful executive and legislative appraisal of the placement of proposed new programs and the coordination of existing programs in response to public needs.

(5) The responsibility within the executive branch of government for the implementation of programs and policies must be clearly fixed and ascertainable.

(6) Departments must be organized along functional or program lines.

(7) The management and coordination of state services must be improved and overlapping activities eliminated.

(8) When a reorganization of state government abolishes positions, the individuals affected, when otherwise qualified, must be given priority consideration for any new positions created by reorganization or for other vacant positions in state government.

History.—s. 2, ch. 69-106; s. 1, ch. 94-235; s. 4, ch. 2012-116.

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Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 20.02

Level: Degree
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Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

Cases Citing Statute 20.02

Total Results: 20

KYLE KENNETH KLICK v. STATE OF FLORIDA

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2024-08-30T00:00:00-07:00

Snippet: sentence for a defendant with fewer than twenty-two sentencing points is “a nonstate prison

Neil Joseph Gillespie v. State of Florida

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2024-08-02T00:00:00-07:00

Snippet: he has a hard time projecting his voice. Twenty-two days later, on January 25, 2023, Gillespie appeared

BHANDARI, JAMUNA PETROLEUM, INC. v. CONKLIN

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2024-07-17T00:00:00-07:00

Snippet: judgment. Mr. Bhandari filed his motion to set aside twenty-two days after rendition of the default final judgment

D.W. v. Department of Children and Families

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2024-07-08T00:00:00-07:00

Snippet: petition to terminate D.W.’s parental rights. In the twenty-two months between the children’s shelter and the

Lawnwood Medical Center, Inc., d/b/a Lawnwood Healthcare Specialists, LLC v. Gwendolyn Rouse, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Marleana Rouse

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2024-07-03T00:00:00-07:00

Snippet: and Lawnwood’s counsel set a mediation. Twenty-two days after being served with the arbitrator’s

Brendan Hurley, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Harry G. Veon v. Shirley Ann Veon

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2024-06-28T00:00:00-07:00

Snippet: set aside the MSA or enforce its Paragraph 20. A two-day bench trial was held. Former Wife presented

ISLAAM v. STATE OF FLORIDA

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2024-06-14T00:00:00-07:00

Snippet: that the relevant criminal statute, section 893.20(2), Florida Statutes (2020), mandated imposition of…Sentence. The State argued that section 893.20(2) requires a $500,000 fine to be imposed on every…$500,000 fine is discretionary under section 893.20(2) and that the trial court erred by concluding …Islaam's original sentence because section 893.20(2) mandated that his sentence include a $500,000 fine…heart of this appeal. The State reads section 893.20(2) as mandating that a $500,000 fine be imposed on

Everret Green v. June Green

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2024-06-12T00:00:00-07:00

Snippet: the corrective deed was fraudulently produced. Twenty-two (22) months later, Defendants filed a motion… when they filed their counterclaim; that is, twenty-two (22) months before they filed the motion to

Monique Haughton Worrell v. Ron D. DeSantis, Governor

Court: Fla. | Date Filed: 2024-06-06T00:00:00-07:00

Snippet: the Needs of Their Circuits Approximately twenty-two million people live in Florida. Our state is

5051 NW 37 Avenue Corp. v. IES Sales and Service, LLC

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2024-05-15T00:00:00-07:00

Snippet: thousand three hundred five dollars and twenty-two cents ($21,305.22) into the court registry

DUHAMEL v. DUHAMEL

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2024-04-26T00:00:00-07:00

Snippet: and directing that on remand, because more than twenty-two months had passed since the final hearing, the

FREDERICK JOHNSON v. WAL-MART STORES EAST, LP, A FOREIGN LIMITED PARTNERSHIP

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2024-04-12T00:00:00-07:00

Snippet: at 159. The appellate court, deciding the case twenty-two years prior to the supreme court’s decision in

University of Florida Board of Trustees, and The Florida Board of Governors v. Browning, Boisse

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2024-04-03T00:00:00-07:00

Snippet: all other persons similarly situated, filed a twenty- two-count Third Amended Class Action Complaint against

FLORIDA PACE FUNDING AGENCY v. PINELLAS COUNTY

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2024-03-27T00:00:00-07:00

Snippet: closed, FPFA financed improvements on at least twenty-two residential properties in Pinellas County between

Cristian Pozos v. State of Florida

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2024-02-14T00:00:00-08:00

Snippet: under section 921.0024 were four, thus fewer than twenty-two points. The state acknowledged that under

Leon Davis, Jr. v. State of Florida & Leon Davis, Jr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, etc.

Court: Fla. | Date Filed: 2024-02-01T00:00:00-08:00

Snippet: 3.851 motion for postconviction relief raising twenty-two claims.1 In August 2021, the circuit court

Leon Davis, Jr. v. State of Florida & Leon Davis, Jr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, etc.

Court: Fla. | Date Filed: 2024-02-01T00:00:00-08:00

Snippet: until between 9 and 9:30 p.m. Davis’s home was a twenty-two to twenty-three minute drive from the BP. …initial motion for postconviction relief raising twenty-two claims and several subclaims.4 On August 23-24

Byrd, The Florida Senate v. Black Voters Matter Capacity Building Institute, Inc., Equal Ground Education Fund, Inc.

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2023-12-01T00:00:00-08:00

Snippet: 20 2 The plaintiffs zero in on

City of Tallahassee, Florida v. Florida Police Benevolent Association, Inc.

Court: Fla. | Date Filed: 2023-11-30T00:00:00-08:00

Snippet: Stat. (preventing from public disclosure—in twenty-two instances—the names and locations of agency personnel

Thomas Bevel v. State of Florida

Court: Fla. | Date Filed: 2023-10-26T00:00:00-07:00

Snippet: appeal as follows: Thomas Bevel, who was twenty-two years old at the time of the crime[s], resided…emotional disturbance 1 and that Bevel’s age of twenty-two at the time of the offenses was not mitigating