Florida Statutes

Fla. Stat. § 75.09 (2025)

Effect of final judgment.

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75.09 Effect of final judgment.If the judgment validates such bonds, certificates or other obligations, which may include the validation of the county, municipality, taxing district, political district, subdivision, agency, instrumentality or other public body itself and any taxes, assessments or revenues affected, and no appeal is taken within the time prescribed, or if taken and the judgment is affirmed, such judgment is forever conclusive as to all matters adjudicated against plaintiff and all parties affected thereby, including all property owners, taxpayers and citizens of the plaintiff, and all others having or claiming any right, title or interest in property to be affected by the issuance of said bonds, certificates or other obligations, or to be affected in any way thereby, and the validity of said bonds, certificates or other obligations or of any taxes, assessments or revenues pledged for the payment thereof, or of the proceedings authorizing the issuance thereof, including any remedies provided for their collection, shall never be called in question in any court by any person or party.
History.s. 4, ch. 6868, 1915; RGS 3299; s. 4, ch. 12003, 1927; CGL 5109, 5126; s. 1, ch. 29691, 1955; s. 9, ch. 57-1; s. 25, ch. 67-254.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 17 cases (1 in the last 5 years), 1948–2025 · leading case: KEY CITIZENS FOR GOV., INC. v. Florida Keys Aqueduct Auth., 795 So. 2d 940 (Fla. 2001).
KEY CITIZENS FOR GOV., INC. v. Florida Keys Aqueduct Auth., 795 So. 2d 940 (Fla. 2001). · cites it 6× “See § 75.09, Fla. Stat. (2000) (explaining effect of final judgment).”
City of Oldsmar v. State, 790 So. 2d 1042 (Fla. 2001). · cites it 2× “) Section 75.09, Florida Statutes (2000), provides that the final judgment in a bond validation proceeding is forever conclusive as to all matters adjudicated against plaintiff and all parties affected thereby, including all property owners, taxpayers and citizens of the *1048…”
Warner Cable Commc'ns, Inc. v. City of Niceville, 581 So. 2d 1352 (Fla. 1st DCA 1991). · cites it 6× “§ 75.09, Fla.Stat. (1989). However, in Warner I, the supreme court affirmed the final judgment only insofar as it pertained to the narrow issues appropriate to a bond-validation proceeding.”
City of Dunedin v. Bense, 90 So. 2d 300 (Fla. 1956). · cites it 9× “The petitioner City of Dunedin by petition originating in this court seeks certain *301 relief under Chapter 29691, Laws of Florida 1955, Section 75.09, Florida Statutes 1955, F.S.”
People Against Tax Rev. Mismanagement, Inc. v. Cnty. of Leon, 583 So. 2d 1373 (Fla. 1991). · cites it 2× “" § 75.09, Fla. Stat. (1989). In its next argument, PATRM contends that the only proper method of resolving the election dispute in this instance was the procedure established by section 102.”
State v. Florida State Tpk. Auth., 80 So. 2d 337 (Fla. 1955). “Section 75.09. Although the power to issue bonds for the construction of the `partpike' may not be divorced from the proceeding to validate the instruments, a subject we shall reach in considering some of the other questions, we do decide, in elaborating on the order, that the…”
City of Gainesville v. State, 366 So. 2d 1164 (Fla. 1979). · cites it 2× “" Referring to section 75.09, Florida Statutes (1977), [3] they assert that the questions of the legality of the surcharge, the segregation of revenues, and revenue transfer practices must be addressed in these proceedings or be forever foreclosed.”
Owen v. Cheney, 238 So. 2d 650 (Fla. 2d DCA 1970). “These bonds having been validated, appellants may now be barred from attacking the validity of the ordinance by the provisions of § 75.09, F.S.A., the purpose of which is to finalize, and render res judicata, all issues which may be raised in a bond validation proceeding.”
Stop Transit Over People, Inc. v. Bd. of Cnty. Commissioners of Dade Cnty., 347 So. 2d 842 (Fla. 3d DCA 1977). · cites it 5× “In support of this ruling, the court observed that Section 75.09, Florida Statutes, prohibits collateral review of bond issues where there has been a court determination upholding the validity of such an issue.”
Jackson Ex Rel. Jackson v. Waller Indep. Sch. Dist., 625 F. Supp. 2d 357 (S.D. Tex. 2008). “thereupon become and thereafter be forever binding and conclusive, as to all matters therein adjudicated or which at that time could have been adjudicated, against the agency and against all other person, and the judgment shall permanently enjoin the institution by any person of…”
Crowe v. City of Jacksonville Beach, 167 So. 2d 753 (Fla. 1st DCA 1964). · cites it 2× “F.S. § 75.09, F.S.A. . State v. Suwannee County Development Authority, (Fla.”
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