The 2023 Florida Statutes (including Special Session C)

Title XI
COUNTY ORGANIZATION AND INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS

Chapter 155
HOSPITALS

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F.S. 155.04

155.04 County hospitals; petition; election; establishment.—

(1) Whenever the board of county commissioners of any county in the state shall be presented with a petition signed by 5 percent of the resident freeholders of such county, asking that an annual tax may be levied for the establishment and maintenance of a public hospital at a place in the county named therein, and shall specify in said petition the maximum amount of money proposed to be expended in purchasing or building said hospital, such board of county commissioners shall submit the question to the qualified electors of the county who are freeholders at the next general election to be held in the county, or at a special election called for that purpose, first giving 30 days’ notice thereof in one or more newspapers published in the county, if any be published therein, or posting written or printed notices in each precinct of the county, which notice shall include the text of the petition and state the amount of the tax to be levied upon the assessed property of the said county which tax shall not exceed 5 mills on the dollar, and be for the issue of the county bonds, to provide funds for the purchase of the site, or sites, and the erection thereon of a public hospital and hospital buildings, and for the support of same, which bonds shall be payable within 30 years, which said election shall be held at the usual places in such county for voting upon county officers, and shall be canvassed in the same manner as the vote for the county officers is canvassed. The ballots to be used in any election at which such hospital question is submitted, shall be printed with a statement substantially as follows:

For a mill tax for a bond issue for a public hospital, and for maintenance of same:

YES

(2) If a majority of the freeholders who are qualified electors shall participate in said election and a majority of the votes cast at such election on the proposition so submitted shall be in favor of said tax for such bond issue, the board of county commissioners shall levy a tax so authorized, which shall be collected in the same manner as other taxes are collected, and credited to the hospital fund, and shall be paid out on the order of the hospital trustees for the purposes authorized by this law, and for no other purposes whatever.

History.—s. 1, ch. 20905, 1941; s. 1, ch. 26513, 1951.

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Amendments to 155.04

Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 155.04

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

Current data shows no reason an arrest or criminal charge should have occurred directly under Florida Statute 155.04.

Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

Cases from cite.case.law:

C. JANOSEK Co. v. CITY OF CLEVELAND A., 718 F.3d 578 (6th Cir. 2013)

. . . Section 155.04 further states that the Moral Commission may award payment for a claim, but that the payment . . . Cleveland, Ohio, Code § 155.04(a). Janosek brought his claim to the Commission to consider. . . . Cleveland, Ohio, Code § 155.04(a). . . .

M. McDERMOTT, v. MARCUS, ERRICO, EMMER BROOKS, P. C., 911 F. Supp. 2d 1 (D. Mass. 2012)

. . . on the October condominium fee and the October loan payback, charge, the December condominium fee ($155.04 . . . the amounts did not include the May 1, 2005 condominium fees for unit 105 ($176.75) and unit 104 ($155.04 . . . The condominium fees for each unit increased from $188.75 to $215.18 for unit 104 and from $155.04 to . . .

WHITE BUFFALO CONSTRUCTION, INC. v. UNITED STATES,, 101 Fed. Cl. 1 (Fed. Cl. 2011)

. . . Please read Section 155, 155.04 and 155.05 of FP 96 to understand the type of format we need including . . .

In BROWN v. T A, 237 B.R. 316 (Bankr. E.D. Va. 1999)

. . . The debtors agreed to pay $155.04 over 30 months for a total purchase price of $3,245.00 for the 1977 . . .

MARTIN, v. J. SULLIVAN,, 932 F.2d 1273 (9th Cir. 1990)

. . . children’s dependent’s benefits, totalling $51.11, into a single check, payable to plaintiff, total-ling $155.04 . . .

STATE v. OKALOOSA COUNTY,, 76 So. 2d 884 (Fla. 1955)

. . . . §§ 155.04 and 155.14, F.S.A. . . . Chapter 155, F.S.A., that the total amount of bonds and assessment provided by F.S. § 155.04, F.S.A., . . . sentence, the use of “and” and the comma and their control of what the legislature intended by F.S. § 155.04 . . .

STATE v. SEMINOLE COUNTY, 67 So. 2d 244 (Fla. 1953)

. . . County Commission and the provisions of the proposed bonds, which conflict to some extent with Section 155.04 . . .

GUSTAV HIRSCH v. THE UNITED STATES, 94 Ct. Cl. 602 (Ct. Cl. 1941)

. . . Judgment will be entered in favor of plaintiff for $37,-155.04. It is so ordered. . . .