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The 2024 Florida Statutes

Title IV
EXECUTIVE BRANCH
Chapter 20
ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE
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F.S. 20.04
20.04 Structure of executive branch.The executive branch of state government is structured as follows:
(1) The department is the principal administrative unit of the executive branch. Each department must bear a title beginning with the words “State of Florida” and continuing with “Department of  .”
(2) For field operations, departments may establish district or area offices that combine division, bureau, section, and subsection functions.
(3) For their internal structure, all departments, except for the Department of Financial Services, the Department of Commerce, the Department of Children and Families, the Department of Corrections, the Department of Management Services, the Department of Revenue, and the Department of Transportation, must adhere to the following standard terms:
(a) The principal unit of the department is the “division.” Each division is headed by a “director.”
(b) The principal unit of the division is the “bureau.” Each bureau is headed by a “chief.”
(c) The principal unit of the bureau is the “section.” Each section is headed by an “administrator.”
(d) If further subdivision is necessary, sections may be divided into “subsections,” which are headed by “supervisors.”
(4) Within the Department of Children and Families there are organizational units called “circuits” and “regions.” Each circuit is aligned geographically with each judicial circuit, and each region comprises multiple circuits which are in geographical proximity to each other.
(5) Within the Department of Corrections the principal policy and program development unit of the department is the “office.” Each “office” is headed by a director.
(6) Within the Department of Transportation the principal policy and program development unit of the department is the “office.” Each “office” is headed by a director.
(7)(a) Unless specifically authorized by law, the head of a department may not reallocate duties and functions specifically assigned by law to a specific unit of the department. Those functions or agencies assigned generally to the department without specific designation to a unit of the department may be allocated and reallocated to a unit of the department at the discretion of the head of the department.
(b) Within the limitations of this subsection, the head of the department may recommend the establishment of additional divisions, bureaus, sections, and subsections of the department to promote efficient and effective operation of the department. However, additional divisions, or offices in the Department of Children and Families, the Department of Corrections, the Department of Commerce, and the Department of Transportation, may be established only by specific statutory enactment. New bureaus, sections, and subsections of departments may be initiated by a department and established as recommended by the Department of Management Services and approved by the Executive Office of the Governor, or may be established by specific statutory enactment.
(c) For the purposes of such recommendations and approvals, the Department of Management Services and the Executive Office of the Governor, respectively, must adopt and apply specific criteria for assessing the appropriateness of all reorganization requests from agencies. The criteria must be applied to future agency requests for reorganization and must be used to review the appropriateness of bureaus currently in existence. Any current bureau that does not meet the criteria for a bureau must be reorganized into a section or other appropriate unit.
(8) The Executive Office of the Governor must maintain a current organizational chart of each agency of the executive branch, which must identify all divisions, bureaus, units, and subunits of the agency. Agencies must submit such organizational charts in accordance with guidelines established by the Executive Office of the Governor.
History.s. 4, ch. 69-106; s. 1, ch. 70-384; s. 1, ch. 75-48; s. 5, ch. 75-49; s. 1, ch. 75-275; s. 2, ch. 77-147; s. 2, ch. 78-95; s. 1, ch. 79-3; ss. 28, 61, ch. 79-190; s. 1, ch. 83-230; s. 11, ch. 85-318; s. 1, ch. 88-215; s. 1, ch. 88-235; s. 1, ch. 88-290; s. 2, ch. 91-158; s. 7, ch. 92-279; s. 55, ch. 92-326; s. 3, ch. 94-235; ss. 1, 15, ch. 95-272; ss. 2, 3, ch. 96-403; s. 1, ch. 97-287; s. 2, ch. 97-296; s. 3, ch. 99-155; s. 1, ch. 2000-139; s. 1, ch. 2002-404; s. 67, ch. 2003-261; s. 1, ch. 2012-84; ss. 7, 8, 56, ch. 2012-119; s. 18, ch. 2021-25; s. 7, ch. 2024-6.

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Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 20.04
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Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

Cases Citing Statute 20.04

Total Results: 20

Jonathan T. Dwight v. Mary L. Dwight

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2024-10-18T00:00:00-07:00

Snippet: alimony payments. Additionally, after a twenty-four (24) month period beginning November 1,

People's Trust Insurance Company v. Clara Hernandez

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2024-10-16T00:00:00-07:00

Snippet: So. 3d 709, 712 (Fla. 3d DCA 2021) (quoting Twenty-Four Collection, Inc. v. M. Weinbaum Constr., Inc

Deon Jones v. State of Florida

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2024-08-16T00:00:00-07:00

Snippet: sentence (as reflected on the scoresheet) of twenty-four years in prison. On appeal, Jones argues…release at around age 30) was transformed into a twenty-four-year sentence (with release at around age 50)

Bing v. Alachua County

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

Snippet: high crime area and that, by remaining open twenty- four hours a day, the station created a foreseeable

Boca View Condominium Association, Inc. v. Eleanor Lepselter and Edward Lepselter

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2024-07-31T00:00:00-07:00

Snippet: the employee’s permanent and total disability twenty-four hours prior to the hearing, and the court allowed

Cheveon Alonzo Ford v. State of Florida

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2024-06-19T00:00:00-07:00

Snippet: series of phone calls made to G.F. within a twenty-four-hour period. The trial court sentenced Ford as… Correctional Facility. That month, within a twenty-four- hour period, G.F. received several calls from

Palm Beach County School District v. Josaphat

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

Snippet: work accident after the 120- day period in § 440.20(4), particularly where, as here, it has accepted the

Daniel Murphy v. Polk County Board of County Commissioners, and Commercial Risk Management

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2024-06-05T00:00:00-07:00

Snippet: 351 (Fla. 1st DCA 2006) (en banc) (“[S]ection 440.20(4) does not preclude the E/C from challenging the

Elsawaf v. Elsawaf

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2024-05-10T00:00:00-07:00

Snippet: representation on the morning of trial with less than twenty-four hours’ notice, thus placing Former Husband in

GLEN LORENZO LAWRENCE v. STATE OF FLORIDA

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

Snippet: months and twenty-nine days in jail followed by twenty-four months of drug offender probation with the special

KEITH R.E. JOHNSON AND KREJ LEASING, INC. v. AKEEFE GARRETT

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

Snippet: operate adult entertainment on the premises for twenty-four consecutive hours excluding legal holidays. The

David A. Casey and Joan Quinn Casey v. Mistral Condominium Association, Inc.: Dolphin Developers, LLC Panhandle Getaways

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2024-03-06T00:00:00-08:00

Snippet: Seacrest Beach. The condominium consists of twenty-four units, with eight units on each of three floors

Kenneth Wayne Kolb v. Florida Commission on Offender Review

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2024-02-28T00:00:00-08:00

Snippet: s Presumptive Parole Release Date (PPRD) for twenty-four months, based on “good cause in exceptional circumstances

Bashar M. Yatak and 52 SW 5th Ct., WHSE, LLC v. La Placita Grocery of Fort Pierce Corp. and Dilson S. Urribarri

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

Snippet: documents. At the hearing, La Placita proffered twenty-four exhibits from the Dropbox documents, and Yatak

DEANGELO GEORGE ROBINSON v. STATE OF FLORIDA

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

Snippet: and firearms charges. He was sentenced to serve 20.4 months in prison. Two days before the end of that

CAROL ANN KULZER v. SARAH MARIE WAY AND GREENLEAF TRUST

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

Snippet: wreck, and notifying police was approximately twenty-four minutes. Based on these facts, the trial 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: about three years. At the time, Luciano was twenty-four weeks pregnant. Upon entering the business, Davis…it was. Luciano also told Bailey that she was twenty-four weeks pregnant. Bailey estimated that eighty

BRENDAN SIGISMONDI v. STATE OF FLORIDA

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2024-01-12T00:00:00-08:00

Snippet: head, Sigismondi explained that they were taken twenty-four hours after Blow hit him, so the redness and

Kevin D. Harvey v. The Circuit Court of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2024-01-10T00:00:00-08:00

Snippet: Harvey’s actions have caused this Court 1 In twenty-four of the twenty-six appellate proceedings enumerated

BRITTANY BUDLOVE v. WILLIAM JOHNSON

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2023-12-29T00:00:00-08:00

Snippet: from online or from any posting sites within twenty-four (24) hours of service of [the] order."