Florida Statutes

Fla. Stat. § 166.221 (2025)

Regulatory fees.

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166.221 Regulatory fees.—A municipality may levy reasonable business, professional, and occupational regulatory fees, commensurate with the cost of the regulatory activity, including consumer protection, on such classes of businesses, professions, and occupations, the regulation of which has not been preempted by the state or a county pursuant to a county charter.

History.—s. 1, ch. 73-129.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 5 cases, 1981–1996 · leading case: City of Key West v. Marrone, 555 So. 2d 439 (Fla. 3d DCA 1990).

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City of Key West v. Marrone, 555 So. 2d 439 (Fla. 3d DCA 1990). · cites it 2× “§ 166.221, Fla.Stat. (1987). The license authorized by the ordinance is therefore a business regulatory license and is not an occupational license.”

Lawyer's Title Ins. v. City of West Palm Beach, 402 So. 2d 544 (Fla. 4th DCA 1981). · cites it 3× “While municipalities are permitted to impose regulatory fees under Section 166.221, Florida Statutes (1979), the city concedes on appeal that a regulatory fee on insurers would not be permitted pursuant to this section in light of Section 624.”

Flores v. City of Miami, 681 So. 2d 803 (Fla. 1st DCA 1996). · cites it 3× “Finally, the vendors argue that the ordinance violates section 166.221, Florida Statutes, which provides A municipality may levy reasonable business, professional, and occupational regulatory fees, commensurate with the cost of the regulatory activity, including consumer…”

City of North Miami v. Williams, 555 So. 2d 399 (Fla. 3d DCA 1989). · cites it 2× “221, Florida Statutes (1987), because the City of North Miami has made no provision, by ordinance or otherwise, for the regulation of fortune tellers, and, in fact, has assessed the instant fee as an occupational license fee and nothing else.”

State v. Corwin, 17 Fla. Supp. 2d 4 (Fla. Pinellas Cty. Ct. 1985). “Petersburg Beach has enacted Section 11-4 is F. S. 166.221. F. S. *6 166.221 provides that a municipality may levy reasonable business professional and occupational regulatory fees.”

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