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Title X
PUBLIC OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AND RECORDS

Chapter 120
ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE ACT

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F.S. 120.525

120.525 Meetings, hearings, and workshops.—

(1) Except in the case of emergency meetings, each agency shall give notice of public meetings, hearings, and workshops by publication in the Florida Administrative Register and on the agency’s website not less than 7 days before the event. The notice shall include a statement of the general subject matter to be considered.

(2) An agenda shall be prepared by the agency in time to ensure that a copy of the agenda may be received at least 7 days before the event by any person in the state who requests a copy and who pays the reasonable cost of the copy. The agenda, along with any meeting materials available in electronic form excluding confidential and exempt information, shall be published on the agency’s website. The agenda shall contain the items to be considered in order of presentation. After the agenda has been made available, a change shall be made only for good cause, as determined by the person designated to preside, and stated in the record. Notification of such change shall be at the earliest practicable time.

(3) If an agency finds that an immediate danger to the public health, safety, or welfare requires immediate action, the agency may hold an emergency public meeting and give notice of such meeting by any procedure that is fair under the circumstances and necessary to protect the public interest, if:

(a) The procedure provides at least the procedural protection given by other statutes, the State Constitution, or the United States Constitution.

(b) The agency takes only that action necessary to protect the public interest under the emergency procedure.

(c) The agency publishes in writing at the time of, or prior to, its action the specific facts and reasons for finding an immediate danger to the public health, safety, or welfare and its reasons for concluding that the procedure used is fair under the circumstances. The agency findings of immediate danger, necessity, and procedural fairness shall be judicially reviewable.

(4) For purposes of establishing a quorum at meetings of regional planning councils that cover three or more counties, a voting member who appears via telephone, real-time videoconferencing, or similar real-time electronic or video communication that is broadcast publicly at the meeting location may be counted toward the quorum requirement if at least one-third of the voting members of the regional planning council are physically present at the meeting location. A member must provide oral, written, or electronic notice of his or her intent to appear via telephone, real-time videoconferencing, or similar real-time electronic or video communication to the regional planning council at least 24 hours before the scheduled meeting.

History.—s. 4, ch. 96-159; s. 3, ch. 2009-187; s. 3, ch. 2013-14; s. 1, ch. 2020-122.

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Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 120.525

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Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

Cases Citing Statute 120.525

Total Results: 8

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Court: Florida Attorney General Reports | Date Filed: 2010-09-16

Snippet: 24(b), Art. I of the State Constitution, and s. 120.525. (c) The exemptions apply until the complaint

Survivors Charter v. Sch. Bd. of Palm Beach

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 2007-07-11

Citation: 968 So. 2d 39, 2007 Fla. App. LEXIS 10702

Snippet: determines substantial interests. Under section *44 120.525, an agency is required to "give notice of public

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Court: Florida Attorney General Reports | Date Filed: 2006-10-17

Snippet: of the probable cause panel are exempt from s. 120.525." (e.s.) A review of the statutes discussed above

Verleni v. Department of Health

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 2003-07-17

Citation: 853 So. 2d 481, 2003 Fla. App. LEXIS 10851, 2003 WL 21663701

Snippet: *484meetings subject to notice requirements. See §§ 120.525(1), 286.011(1), Fla. Stat. (2000); see also Lyon

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Court: Florida Attorney General Reports | Date Filed: 2002-01-17

Snippet: substantially the following questions: 1. Under section 120.525(2), Florida Statutes, is the chair of the school

Lee County v. S. Florida Water Mgmt. Dist.

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 2001-10-12

Citation: 805 So. 2d 893, 2001 WL 1200910

Snippet: meeting held on hastened notice pursuant to section 120.525(3), Florida Statutes (1999), on April 25 the district's

Lee County v. SO. FLA. WATER MGMT. DIST.

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 2000-08-16

Citation: 766 So. 2d 1103, 2000 WL 1153294

Snippet: passed after an emergency public hearing. See § 120.525, Fla. Stat. (1999)(providing that an agency may

Agency for Health Care v. Fl. Coalition

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 1998-09-04

Citation: 718 So. 2d 869

Snippet: transferred by the 1996 amendments to section 120.525(2). Nothing in the record shows that members of