Florida Statute 154.203 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2024 Florida Statutes (including 2025 Special Session C)

Title XI
COUNTY ORGANIZATION AND INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS

Chapter 154
PUBLIC HEALTH FACILITIES

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F.S. 154.203

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.

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Amendments to 154.203

Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 154.203

Level: Degree
Misdemeanor/Felony: First/Second/Third

Current data shows no reason an arrest or criminal charge should have occurred directly under Florida Statute 154.203.

Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

Cases Citing Statute 154.203

Total Results: 3

Wald v. SARASOTA CTY. HEALTH FACILITIES, ETC.

360 So. 2d 763

Supreme Court of Florida | Filed: Jun 15, 1978 | Docket: 1474189

Cited 19 times | Published

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

Noble v. Martin County Health Facilities

682 So. 2d 1089, 1996 WL 647530

Supreme Court of Florida | Filed: Nov 7, 1996 | Docket: 1680879

Cited 3 times | Published

adequate medical care and health facilities. See § 154.203, Fla. Stat. (1995). Section 154.207, Florida Statutes

Wald v. Sarasota County Health Facilities Authority

360 So. 2d 763, 1978 Fla. LEXIS 4893

Supreme Court of Florida | Filed: Jun 15, 1978 | Docket: 64565320

Published

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