Florida/Georgia Personal Injury & Workers Compensation

...ng employees from the state retirement plan, and to create joint venture opportunities for the hospital. The Board’s trustees determined that while those actions would financially benefit the hospital, as a public entity the Board was precluded by section 122.061, Florida Statutes, and Article VII, section 10, of the Florida Constitution, from undertaking such actions....

...r., Associate Judge. Fourteen years after appellant, a private non-profit corporation, elected to bring its employees into the state retirement system under the erroneous impression that it then qualified as a hospital district within the meaning of Section 122.061, Florida Statutes (1965), 1 (during all of which time appellant and its employees contributed to the state retirement system), appellant discovered that it was not, in fact, eligible to participate in the state retirement system....

...justifiable expectations of those who have been and are employed by Waterman. The State of Florida also has a justifiable interest in the welfare of its citizens who depend on a retirement system which has covered Waterman employees all these years. Section 122.061, Florida Statutes (1965), was initially enacted by Chapter 57-47, Laws of Florida, as a direct legislative response to a declaratory decree of March 9, 1957, in a case entitled South Broward Hospital District and North Broward Hospital District v....

...Upon remand the court is directed to enter an appropriate order providing for joinder and protection of the interest of appellant’s employees. Reversed and remanded for further proceedings not inconsistent herewith. JOANOS and WIGGINTON, JJ., concur. . 122.061 Hospital districts and county hospital corporations; officers and employees included.— (1) Boards of hospital districts and county hospital corporations may elect to bring employees of such districts or corporations under the provisions of the retirement law....