Florida Statute 171.021 | Lawyer Caselaw & Research

The 2024 Florida Statutes

Title XII
MUNICIPALITIES

Chapter 171
LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOUNDARIES

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F.S. 171.021

171.021 Purpose.—The purposes of this act are to set forth procedures for adjusting the boundaries of municipalities through annexations or contractions of corporate limits and to set forth criteria for determining when annexations or contractions may take place so as to:

(1) Ensure sound urban development and accommodation to growth.

(2) Establish uniform legislative standards throughout the state for the adjustment of municipal boundaries.

(3) Ensure the efficient provision of urban services to areas that become urban in character.

(4) Ensure that areas are not annexed unless municipal services can be provided to those areas.

History.—s. 1, ch. 74-190.

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Cases Citing Statute 171.021

Total Results: 20

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Court: Florida Attorney General Reports | Date Filed: 2007-09-24

Snippet: BM/tals 1 Section 171.011, Fla. Stat. 2 Section 171.021, Fla. Stat. And see, SCA Services of Florida, Inc

Pinellas County v. City of Largo

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 2007-09-19

Citation: 964 So. 2d 847, 2007 WL 2713544

Snippet: municipal services can be provided to those areas. § 171.021; see also § 171.022 (stating that the purpose of

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Court: Florida Attorney General Reports | Date Filed: 2007-01-26

Snippet: General 1 Section 171.011, Fla. Stat. 2 Section 171.021, Fla. Stat. And see, SCA Services of Florida, Inc

County of Volusia v. City of Deltona

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 2006-01-20

Citation: 925 So. 2d 340, 2006 Fla. App. LEXIS 460, 2006 WL 140380

Snippet: applied the incorrect law when it held that section 171.021, Florida Statutes (2003), did not apply to voluntary

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Court: Florida Attorney General Reports | Date Filed: 2005-01-27

Snippet: providing the short title for the chapter. 2 Section 171.021, Fla. Stat. 3 See s. 171.022(2), Fla. Stat., stating

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Court: Florida Attorney General Reports | Date Filed: 2004-04-30

Snippet: City of Tallahassee4 the court construed sections 171.021 and171.022, Florida Statutes, in concluding that

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Court: Florida Attorney General Reports | Date Filed: 1998-12-10

Snippet: Stat., provides the title of the act. 2 Section 171.021, Fla. Stat. 3 See, s. 171.022, Fla. Stat., which

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Court: Florida Attorney General Reports | Date Filed: 1996-09-25

Snippet: Section 171.011, Fla. Stat. (1995). 2 Section 171.021, Fla. Stat. (1995). And see, SCA Services of Florida

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Court: Florida Attorney General Reports | Date Filed: 1996-01-05

Snippet: Butterworth Attorney General RAB/tjw 1 Section 171.021(2), Fla. Stat. 2 See, s. 171.022(2), Fla. Stat

STATE, DHRS v. Franklin

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 1994-01-14

Citation: 630 So. 2d 661, 1994 WL 7696

Snippet: Michigan URESA statute, Mich. Comp. Laws Ann. § 780.171(21) (West 1990), is identical except the title to

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Court: Florida Attorney General Reports | Date Filed: 1991-03-26

Snippet: designates the short title of the act. 4 Section 171.021, F.S. 5 See, s. 171.022, F.S., which provides that:

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Court: Florida Attorney General Reports | Date Filed: 1986-08-27

Snippet: 091, F.S. (hereafter the Act). Pursuant to s. 171.021, F.S., "[t]he purposes of this act [ch. 171] are

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Court: Florida Attorney General Reports | Date Filed: 1986-05-21

Snippet: providing for involuntary annexations. See also, ss. 171.021 and 171.022, F.S., stating respectively, in pertinent

May v. Lee County

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 1986-02-12

Citation: 483 So. 2d 481, 11 Fla. L. Weekly 417, 1986 Fla. App. LEXIS 6294

Snippet: sufficiently urban in character, as defined by section 171.021, Florida Statutes (1983). May then petitioned this

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Court: Florida Attorney General Reports | Date Filed: 1986-01-16

Snippet: services can be provided to such areas. Section 171.021, F.S. Any municipality may annex contiguous, compact

SCA SERVICES, ETC. v. City of Tallahassee

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 1982-08-23

Citation: 418 So. 2d 1148

Snippet: determining when annexations ... may take place... ." § 171.021, Fla. Stat. (Supp. 1974). Reading the purposes

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Court: Florida Attorney General Reports | Date Filed: 1981-03-12

Snippet: s. 171.022(1), F.S. (1974 Supp.); see also s. 171.021(2), F.S. (1974 Supp.). Subsection (2) of s. 171

SCA Services of Florida, Inc. v. City of Tallahassee

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 1981-01-16

Citation: 393 So. 2d 35, 1981 Fla. App. LEXIS 19405

Snippet: effecting annexation by municipality. Section 171.021, Fla.Stat. (1979); Section 171.0413(4), Fla.Stat

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Court: Florida Attorney General Reports | Date Filed: 1980-12-09

Snippet: (see s. 2(c), Art. VIII, State Const., and ss. 171.021(2), 171.022, and 171.0413(4), F. S.), nowhere expressly

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Court: Florida Attorney General Reports | Date Filed: 1977-12-20

Snippet: provided is to be uniform throughout the state. In s. 171.021(2) it is provided that one of the purposes of Ch