The 2023 Florida Statutes (including Special Session C)

Title XI
COUNTY ORGANIZATION AND INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS

Chapter 155
HOSPITALS

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F.S. 155.16

155.16 County hospitals; residents; nonresidents; fees; contagious diseases; etc.—Every hospital established under this law shall be for the benefit of the inhabitants of such county and of any person falling sick or being injured or maimed within its limits, but the board of hospital trustees may extend the privileges and use of such hospital to persons residing outside of such county upon terms and conditions as such board of trustees may from time to time, by its rules and regulations, prescribe. Every such inhabitant or person who is not a pauper shall pay to such board or such officer as it shall designate, a reasonable compensation for occupancy, nursing, care, medicine, and attendance, according to the rules and regulations prescribed by the said board. Such hospital always shall be subject to such rules and regulations as said board may adopt in order to render the use of said hospital of the greatest benefit to the greatest number; and said board may exclude from treatment and care any indigent or pay case having a communicable or contagious disease where such disease may be a detriment to the best interest of such hospital and a source of contagion or infection to the patient in its care, and all inhabitants and persons who shall willfully violate any rules and regulations of such hospital.

History.—s. 13, ch. 20905, 1941.

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Amendments to 155.16

Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 155.16

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

Current data shows no reason an arrest or criminal charge should have occurred directly under Florida Statute 155.16.

Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

Cases from cite.case.law:

IN RE REGAN, v. U. S., 590 B.R. 567 (Bankr. N.M. 2018)

. . . Her monthly expenses as reported on Schedule J exceed her monthly income by $155.16. Id. . . . TOTAL: $6,527 Taxes will be taken out of her employment income, and she will need to make up for the $155.16 . . .

In INGERSOLL, T. v. In NMN T. v. In P. DMD, T. v. In T. v., 238 B.R. 202 (D. Colo. 1999)

. . . .: In re Ingersoll The fee application asked for an allowance of $1,457.50 and costs of $155.16. . . . shall be the Order on Fee Application and the Applicant shall be awarded $1,201.50 of the fees and $155.16 . . .

SYLVIE M. b n f R. v. BOARD OF EDUCATION OF DRIPPING SPRINGS INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT,, 48 F. Supp. 2d 681 (W.D. Tex. 1999)

. . . The total cost of Sylvie’s placement was $113,-155.16. . . .

DADE COUNTY, v. AMERICAN HOSPITAL OF MIAMI, INC., 502 So. 2d 1230 (Fla. 1987)

. . . , 160 Fla. 892, 37 So.2d 248 (1948); (2) section 154.302, Florida Statutes (1981); and, (3) section 155.16 . . . Finally, considering the enactment of section 155.16, we conclude again that the legislature did not . . . With such a provision in the chapter, it would be totally unreasonable to find that section 155.16 expresses . . .

DADE COUNTY, a v. AMERICAN HOSPITAL OF MIAMI, INC. a, 463 So. 2d 232 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1984)

. . . See § 155.16, Fla. Stat. (1981). Affirmed. .The appealed partial summary judgment provides: 1. . . . Finally, section 155.16, Florida Statutes (1981) is part of Chapter 155, which does not deal with county . . .

H. v. H., 52 U.S. 461 (U.S. 1850)

. . . 38.75 To amount paid for rent of house occupied by defendant from 25 Dec., 1844, to 16 April, 1845, . . 155.16 . . .