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Fla. Stat. § 75.02 (2025)
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75.02 Plaintiff.—Any county, municipality, taxing district or other political district or subdivision of this state, including the governing body of any drainage, conservation or reclamation district, and including also state agencies, commissions and departments authorized by law to issue bonds, may determine its authority to incur bonded debt or issue certificates of debt and the legality of all proceedings in connection therewith, including assessment of taxes levied or to be levied, the lien thereof and proceedings or other remedies for their collection. For this purpose a complaint shall be filed in the circuit court in the county or in the county where the municipality or district, or any part thereof, is located against the state and the taxpayers, property owners, and citizens of the county, municipality or district, including nonresidents owning property or subject to taxation therein. In actions to validate bonds or certificates of debt issued by state agencies, commissions or departments, the complaint shall be filed in the circuit court of the county where the proceeds of the bond issue are to be expended, or where the seat of state government is situated, and shall be brought against the state and the taxpayers, property owners and citizens thereof, including nonresidents owning property or subject to taxation therein.
History.—s. 1, ch. 6868, 1915; RGS 3296; s. 1, ch. 10036, 1925; s. 1, ch. 12003, 1927; CGL 5106, 5113, 5123; s. 1, ch. 25263, 1949; s. 25, ch. 67-254.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 16
cases, 1954–2015 · leading case: City of Oldsmar v. State, 790 So. 2d 1042 (Fla. 2001).
City of Oldsmar v. State, 790 So. 2d 1042 (Fla. 2001). “" Section 75.02, Florida Statutes (2000), entitled "Plaintiff," lists who may bring the cause of action and provides in pertinent part: Any county [or] municipality .”
Nohrr v. Brevard Cnty. Educ. Fac. Auth., 247 So. 2d 304 (Fla. 1971). “The Educational Facilities Law contains no reference to validation proceedings and Defendant says that the Authority was not within the classification of Plaintiffs set forth in Fla. Stat. § 75.02 , F.S.A., so as to be authorized to bring validation proceedings.”
KEY CITIZENS FOR GOV., INC. v. Florida Keys Aqueduct Auth., 795 So. 2d 940 (Fla. 2001). “Section 75.02, Florida Statutes (2000), provides that the party seeking bond validation can file a complaint in circuit court "against the state and the taxpayers, property owners, and citizens" of the area affected by the bonds.”
People Against Tax Rev. Mismanagement, Inc. v. Cnty. of Leon, 583 So. 2d 1373 (Fla. 1991). “" § 75.02, Fla. Stat. (1989) (emphasis added).”
State v. Sch. Bd. of Sarasota Cnty., 561 So. 2d 549 (Fla. 1990). “[5] Section 75.02, Florida Statutes (1989), provides: Plaintiff.”
State v. Miami Beach Redevelopment Agency, 392 So. 2d 875 (Fla. 1980). “The state attorney argues that the Miami Beach Redevelopment Agency is not one of the kinds of entities authorized under chapter 75, Florida Statutes (1979) to institute an action for the validation of *884 bonds.”
North Shore Bank v. Town of Surfside, 72 So. 2d 659 (Fla. 1954). “" Section 75.02, Florida Statutes 1953, F.S.”
Donovan v. Okaloosa Cnty., 82 So. 3d 801 (Fla. 2012). “” § 75.02, Fla. Stat. Accordingly, the circuit court had jurisdiction to hear the bond validation proceeding.”
State v. Inland Prot. Fin. Corp., 699 So. 2d 1352 (Fla. 1997). “In its answer, the State Attorney for the Second Judicial Circuit challenged the sufficiency of the complaint as violative of section 75.02, Florida Statutes (1995), and article VII of the Florida Constitution.”
Rinker Materials Corp. v. Town of Lake Park, 494 So. 2d 1123 (Fla. 1986). “The Council then filed this action pursuant to section 75.02, Florida Statutes (1985), to have the bonds validated.”
Bruns v. Archer, 352 So. 2d 121 (Fla. 2d DCA 1977). “Appellant became a defendant in this proceeding pursuant to Section 75.02, Florida Statutes (1975) since he was a resident of Collier County.”
Florida Bankers Ass'n v. Florida Dev. Fin. Corp., 176 So. 3d 1258 (Fla. 2015). “We disagree that this case was not ripe for bond validation or that the court lacked jurisdiction. Section 75.01, Florida Statutes (2014), confers jurisdiction on the circuit courts to determine the validity of bonds and certificates of indebtedness.”
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