Florida Statute 162.30 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XI
COUNTY ORGANIZATION AND INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS

Chapter 162
COUNTY OR MUNICIPAL CODE ENFORCEMENT

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F.S. 162.30

162.30 Civil actions to enforce county and municipal ordinances.—In addition to other provisions of law authorizing the enforcement of county and municipal codes and ordinances, a county or municipality may enforce any violation of a county or municipal code or ordinance by filing a civil action in the same manner as instituting a civil action. The action shall be brought in county or circuit court, whichever is appropriate depending upon the relief sought. Counties and municipalities are authorized and required to pay any counsel appointed by the court to represent a private party in such action if the provision of counsel at public expense is required by the Constitution of the United States or the Constitution of the State of Florida and if the party is indigent as established pursuant to s. 27.52. The county or municipality shall bear all court fees and costs of any such action, and may, if it prevails, recover the court fees and costs and expense of the court-appointed counsel as part of its judgment. The state shall bear no expense of actions brought under this section except those that it would bear in an ordinary civil action between private parties in county court.

History.—s. 87, ch. 2003-402.

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City of Ft. Lauderdale v. Crowder

983 So. 2d 37, 2008 WL 1883899

District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: Apr 30, 2008 | Docket: 1668123

Cited 5 times | Published

criminal prosecutions. See § 162.30, Fla. Stat. (2007). Even then, section 162.30 pointedly specifies: "municipalities