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Fla. Stat. § 165.021 (2025)
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165.021 Purpose.—The purpose of this act is to provide standards, direction, and procedures for the formation of municipalities in this state and the provision of municipal services so as to:
(1) Allow orderly patterns of urban growth and land use.
(2) Assure adequate quality and quantity of local public services.
(3) Ensure financial integrity of municipalities.
(4) Eliminate or reduce avoidable and undesirable differentials in fiscal capacity among neighboring local governmental jurisdictions.
(5) Promote equity in the financing of municipal services.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2
cases, 1974–1983 · leading case: City of Miami Beach v. Forte Towers, Inc., 305 So. 2d 764 (Fla. 1974).
City of Miami Beach v. Forte Towers, Inc., 305 So. 2d 764 (Fla. 1974). “The power to enact rent control ordinances in appropriate circumstances is contained in new F.S. § 165.021(1), and is not dependent upon the definitional provision of new F.”
City of Boca Raton v. Gidman, 440 So. 2d 1277 (Fla. 1983). “In addition, section 165.021, known as the Formation of Local Government Act, provides in part: 165.”
— 165.021(1) — 1 case
City of Miami Beach v. Forte Towers, Inc., 305 So. 2d 764 (Fla. 1974). “The power to enact rent control ordinances in appropriate circumstances is contained in new F.S. § 165.021(1), and is not dependent upon the definitional provision of new F.”
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