Florida Statute 30.71 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title V
JUDICIAL BRANCH

Chapter 30
SHERIFFS

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F.S. 30.071

30.071 Applicability and scope of act.—

(1) This act applies to all deputy sheriffs, with the following exceptions:

(a) Deputy sheriffs in a county that, by special act of the Legislature, local charter, ordinance, or otherwise, has established rights and procedures for deputy sheriffs which are equivalent to or greater than those prescribed by this act.

(b) Deputy sheriffs in a county that, by special act of the Legislature, local charter, ordinance, or otherwise, has established a civil or career service system which grants collective bargaining rights for deputy sheriffs, including, but not limited to, deputy sheriffs in the following counties: Broward, Miami-Dade, Duval, Escambia, and Volusia.

(d) Members of a sheriff’s posse or reserve unit.

(e) Part-time deputy sheriffs.

(2) This act does not grant to deputy sheriffs the right of collective bargaining.

(3) This act does not change the alter ego relationship which exists between a deputy sheriff and the appointing sheriff.

History.—s. 2, ch. 94-143; s. 10, ch. 2008-4.

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Cases Citing Statute 30.071

Total Results: 3

Coastal Florida Police Benev. Ass'n, Inc. v. Williams

838 So. 2d 543, 2003 WL 193464

Supreme Court of Florida | Filed: Jan 30, 2003 | Docket: 461398

Cited 15 times | Published

collective bargaining to deputy sheriffs.[2] First, section 30.071(1) states that chapter 30, Florida Statutes

McDougall v. Van House

801 So. 2d 118, 2001 WL 1334303

District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: Oct 31, 2001 | Docket: 1495381

Cited 2 times | Published

that is, chapter 30, Florida Statutes (1997). Section 30.071(1)(a), Florida Statutes (1997), provides that

York v. Mascara

125 So. 3d 219, 34 I.E.R. Cas. (BNA) 1734, 2013 WL 440099, 2013 Fla. App. LEXIS 1845

District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: Feb 6, 2013 | Docket: 60235788

Published

or greater than those pi'escribed by this act.” § 30.071(l)(a), Fla. Stat. (emphasis added). The Career