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Fla. Stat. § 159.14 (2025)
Alternative method.
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159.14 Alternative method.—This part shall be deemed to provide an additional and alternative method for the doing of the things authorized hereby and shall be regarded as supplemental and additional to powers conferred by other laws, and shall not be regarded as in derogation of any powers now existing. This part, being necessary for the welfare of the inhabitants of the counties and municipalities of the state, shall be liberally construed to effect the purposes thereof.
History.—s. 14, ch. 28045, 1953.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 3
cases, 1978–1992 · leading case: City of Boca Raton v. State, 595 So. 2d 25 (Fla. 1992).
City of Boca Raton v. State, 595 So. 2d 25 (Fla. 1992). “The Court noted that section 159.14, Florida Statutes, by its express terms, provided supplemental and additional authority to that conferred by other laws.”
Taylor v. Lee Cnty., 498 So. 2d 424 (Fla. 1986). “[*] Additionally, section 159.14 states that sections 159.01 through 159.”
State v. City of Daytona Beach, 360 So. 2d 777 (Fla. 1978). “Section 159.14 expressly provides that Part I of Chapter 159 is an additional and alternative method for doing the things thereby authorized and is to be regarded as additional and supplemental to powers conferred by other laws not in derogation of any of those powers.”
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