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Florida Statute 154.203 - Full Text and Legal Analysis Florida Statute 154.203 | Lawyer Caselaw & Research
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154.203 Findings and declaration of necessity.—It is declared that for the benefit of the people of this state, the increase of their commerce, welfare, and prosperity, and the improvement of their health and living conditions it is essential that the people of this state have access to adequate medical care and health facilities and that it is essential that health facilities within each county and municipality in the state be provided with appropriate additional means to assist in the development and maintenance of the public health. It is the purpose of this part to provide a measure of assistance and an alternate method to enable health facilities in each county and municipality of this state to provide the facilities and structures which are determined to be needed by the community to accomplish the purposes of this part. The necessity in the public interest of the provisions hereinafter enacted is hereby declared as a matter of legislative determination.
History.—s. 2, ch. 74-323.

Cases Citing F.S. 154.203

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Wald v. Sarasota Cty. Health Facilities, Etc., 360 So. 2d 763 (Fla. 1978).

Cited 19 times | Published | Supreme Court of Florida

...ed by Nohrr v. Brevard County Educational Facilities Authority, supra. An examination of Chapter 154, Florida Statutes (1975), and our decision in Nohrr, supra, effectively rebut this argument. By virtue of the legislative determination, embodied in Section 154.203, Florida Statutes (1975), that facilities governed by Chapter 154 are in the public interest, no independent judicial inquiry will be made into the public nature of facilities properly falling within this chapter....
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·Noble v. Martin Cnty. Health Facilities, 682 So. 2d 1089 (Fla. 1996).

Cited 3 times | Published | Supreme Court of Florida | 1996 WL 647530

...ommissioners pursuant to chapter 154, Florida Statutes (1995). Chapter 154 was enacted by the legislature in order to assist counties and municipalities in ensuring that their residents have access to adequate medical care and health facilities. See § 154.203, Fla....
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·Wald v. Sarasota Cnty. Health Facilities Auth., 360 So. 2d 763 (Fla. 1978).

Published | Supreme Court of Florida | 1978 Fla. LEXIS 4893

the legislative determination, embodied in Section 154.203, Florida Statutes (1975), that facilities governed
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