Florida Statute 165.21 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2024 Florida Statutes (including 2025 Special Session C)

Title XII
MUNICIPALITIES

Chapter 165
FORMATION OF LOCAL GOVERNMENTS

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F.S. 165.021

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.

History.—s. 1, ch. 74-192; s. 36, ch. 89-169.

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Cases Citing Statute 165.021

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City of Boca Raton v. Gidman

440 So. 2d 1277, 1983 Fla. LEXIS 2904

Supreme Court of Florida | Filed: Nov 10, 1983 | Docket: 1430093

Cited 54 times | Published

granted by the constitution. In addition, section 165.021, known as the Formation of Local Government

City of Miami Beach v. Forte Towers, Inc.

305 So. 2d 764

Supreme Court of Florida | Filed: Oct 9, 1974 | Docket: 457110

Cited 50 times | Published

appropriate circumstances is contained in new F.S. § 165.021(1), and is not dependent upon the definitional

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Florida Attorney General Reports | Filed: Jun 7, 2010 | Docket: 3258374

Published

amended pursuant to general or special law." 4 Section 165.021, Fla. Stat. 5 See s. 165.051(2), Fla. Stat

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Florida Attorney General Reports | Filed: Aug 12, 1994 | Docket: 3257596

Published

Section 165.011, Fla. Statutes (1993). [7] Section 165.021, Florida Statutes (1993). [8] Section 165.041(1)