Florida Statute 20.03 | Lawyer Caselaw & Research

The 2024 Florida Statutes

Title IV
EXECUTIVE BRANCH

Chapter 20
ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE

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F.S. 20.03

20.03 Definitions.—To provide uniform nomenclature throughout the structure of the executive branch, the following definitions apply:

(1) “Agency,” as the context requires, means an official, officer, commission, authority, council, committee, department, division, bureau, board, section, or another unit or entity of government.

(2) “Board of trustees,” except with reference to the board created in chapter 253, means a board created by specific statutory enactment and appointed to function adjunctively to a department, the Governor, or the Executive Office of the Governor to administer public property or a public program.

(3) “Cabinet” means collectively the Attorney General, the Chief Financial Officer, and the Commissioner of Agriculture, as specified in s. 4, Art. IV of the State Constitution.

(4) “Commission,” unless otherwise required by the State Constitution, means a body created by specific statutory enactment within a department, the office of the Governor, or the Executive Office of the Governor and exercising limited quasi-legislative or quasi-judicial powers, or both, independently of the head of the department or the Governor.

(5) “Committee” or “task force” means an advisory body created without specific statutory enactment for a time not to exceed 1 year or created by specific statutory enactment for a time not to exceed 3 years and appointed to study a specific problem and recommend a solution or policy alternative with respect to that problem. Its existence terminates upon the completion of its assignment.

(6) “Coordinating council” means an interdepartmental advisory body created by law to coordinate programs and activities for which one department has primary responsibility but in which one or more other departments have an interest.

(7) “Council” or “advisory council” means an advisory body created by specific statutory enactment and appointed to function on a continuing basis for the study of the problems arising in a specified functional or program area of state government and to provide recommendations and policy alternatives.

(8) “Department” means the principal administrative unit within the executive branch of state government.

(9) “Examining and licensing board” means a board authorized to grant and revoke licenses to engage in regulated occupations.

(10) “Executive director” means the chief administrative employee or officer of a department headed by a board or by the Governor and the Cabinet.

(11) “Head of the department” means the individual under whom or the board under which direct administration of the department is placed by statute. Where direct administration of a department is placed under an officer or board appointed by and serving at the pleasure of the Governor, that officer or board remains subject to the Governor’s supervision and direction.

(12) “Secretary” means an individual who is appointed by the Governor to head a department and who is not otherwise named in the State Constitution.

(13) “To serve at the pleasure” means the appointee serves in the office until removed by the appointing authority. Consistent with the allotment of executive authority under ss. 1 and 6, Art. IV of the State Constitution, an appointee serving at the pleasure of the appointing authority generally remains subject to the direction and supervision of the appointing authority.

History.—s. 3, ch. 69-106; s. 2, ch. 82-46; s. 5, ch. 83-217; s. 2, ch. 94-235; s. 3, ch. 2000-258; s. 5, ch. 2012-116; s. 8, ch. 2023-8.

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Cases Citing Statute 20.03

Total Results: 20

Buyer's Choice Auto Sales, LLC v. Palm Beach Motors, LLC

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 2024-07-17

Snippet: landlord, in the manner prescribed by s. 83.20(3), with a written notice declaring the premises

In Re: Amendments to Rules Regulating The Florida Bar - Miscellaneous Petition

Court: Supreme Court of Florida | Date Filed: 2024-06-20

Snippet: Completion of Law School Program or Graduation), and 20-3.1 (Requirements for Registration). The Bar also

In Re: Amendments to Rules Regulating The Florida Bar - Miscellaneous Petition

Court: Supreme Court of Florida | Date Filed: 2024-05-09

Snippet: Completion of Law School Program or Graduation), and 20-3.1 (Requirements for Registration). The Bar also

DOMINGO SACRAMENTO v. CITIZENS PROPERTY INSURANCE CORPORATION

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 2022-06-22

Snippet: Suspension of Time Periods Set Forth In Admin. Order No. 20-03 in the Eleventh Jud. Cir. of Fla., No. AO20-05

JUAN HIDALGO AND ELIZABETH HIDALGO v. CITIZENS PROPERTY INSURANCE CORPORATION

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 2021-06-23

Snippet: (Fla. 3d DCA 2019) (citing Worley, 228 So. 3d at 20). 3 Worley therefore provides no basis for certiorari

In Re: Amendments to Rules Regulating The Florida Bar - Bylaws 2-8.1, 2-9.4, and 2-11.1

Court: Supreme Court of Florida | Date Filed: 2021-05-13

Snippet: the board of governors of a number no more than 20, 3-5 of which are nonlawyers representing the public

ROYAL CARIBBEAN CRUISES, LTD. v. LISA SPEARMAN

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 2021-04-28

Snippet: Cruises, Ltd. (“Royal Caribbean”) appeals from a $20.3 million final judgment entered in favor of Lisa

ROOSEVELT CURE, JR. v. STATE OF FLORIDA

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 2020-04-02

Snippet: DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA FOURTH DISTRICT ROOSEVELT CURE, JR., Appellant, v. STATE OF FLORIDA, Appellee. No. 4D20-3 [April 2, 2020] Appeal of order denying rule 3.800 motion from the Circuit Court for the Seventeenth Judicial

In Re: Amendments to Rule Regulating The Florida Bar 20-3.1 (Requirements For Registration)

Court: Supreme Court of Florida | Date Filed: 2019-09-19

Snippet: AMENDMENTS TO RULE REGULATING THE FLORIDA BAR 20-3.1 (REQUIREMENTS FOR REGISTRATION).

Amendments to the Rules Regulating The Florida Bar - Biennial Petition

Court: Supreme Court of Florida | Date Filed: 2019-04-11

Snippet: (Immunity and Confidentiality); 18-1.2 (Definitions); 20-3.1 (Requirements for Registration); 20-5.2 (Duty

In RE: AMENDMENTS TO the RULES REGULATING THE FLORIDA BAR-BIENNIAL PETITION.

Court: Supreme Court of Florida | Date Filed: 2019-01-04

Citation: 267 So. 3d 891

Snippet: (Immunity and Confidentiality); 18-1.2 (Definitions); 20-3.1 (Requirements for Registration); 20-5.2 (Duty

Christina Daly, in her official capacity as Secretary of the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice v. Polk County, Florida, and Seminole County, Florida, political subdivisions of the State of Florida

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 2018-11-27

Citation: 265 So. 3d 644

Snippet: Financial Officer, as permitted by Rule 69I-44.020(3)(b), Florida Administrative Code. Seminole County

Richard DeLisle v. Crane Co.

Court: Supreme Court of Florida | Date Filed: 2018-10-15

Citation: 258 So. 3d 1219

Snippet: & V: 22% • Brightwater: 20% -3- • Owens-Corning:

In Re: Amendments to the Rules Regulating The Florida Bar (Biennial Petition) – Corrected Opinion

Court: Supreme Court of Florida | Date Filed: 2018-01-25

Snippet: board of governors of a number of no more than 20, 3-5 of which are shall consist of 4 members of The

In Re: Amendments to the Rules Regulating The Florida Bar (Biennial Petition)

Court: Supreme Court of Florida | Date Filed: 2017-11-09

Snippet: board of governors of a number of no more than 20, 3-5 of which are shall consist of 4 members of The

Citizens of the State of Florida v. Art Graham, etc.

Court: Supreme Court of Florida | Date Filed: 2017-03-16

Citation: 213 So. 3d 703, 42 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 312, 2017 WL 1021849, 2017 Fla. LEXIS 585

Snippet: Comments on Proposed Administrative Procedure Act, p. 20 (3/9/74): “Three due process checks to prevent arbitrary

In Re STANDARD JURY INSTRUCTIONS IN CRIMINAL CASES-INSTRUCTIONS 7.8, 7.8(A), and 11.1-11.6(A)

Court: Supreme Court of Florida | Date Filed: 2016-04-14

Citation: 190 So. 3d 1055, 2016 WL 1460708

Snippet: instruction 22.16 and amend existing instructions 20.3 through 20.12. By order dated March 17, 2015, we

Joseph Peter Clarke v. United States

Court: Supreme Court of Florida | Date Filed: 2016-02-11

Citation: 184 So. 3d 1107, 41 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 41, 2016 Fla. LEXIS 277

Snippet: the proceedings were held.” 18 U.S.C. § 921(a)(20). 3 “[T]he ... appropriate source of applicable

In re Standard Jury Instructions in Criminal Cases—Report No. 2015-01

Court: Supreme Court of Florida | Date Filed: 2015-09-24

Citation: 175 So. 3d 782, 2015 WL 5601467

Snippet: Committee proposes amending existing instructions 20.3 — Welfare Fraud— Failure to Disclose a Material

In Re: Standard Jury Instructions in Criminal Cases - Report No. 2015-01

Court: Supreme Court of Florida | Date Filed: 2015-09-24

Snippet: Committee proposes amending existing instructions 20.3 – Welfare Fraud – Failure to Disclose a Material