Florida Statute 180.07 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XII
MUNICIPALITIES

Chapter 180
MUNICIPAL PUBLIC WORKS

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180.07 Public utilities; combination of plants or systems; pledge of revenues.—

(1) All such reservoirs, sewerage systems, trunk sewers, intercepting sewers, pumping stations, wells, intakes, pipelines, distribution systems, purification works, collecting systems, treatment and disposal works, airports, hospitals, jails and golf courses, and gas plants and distribution systems, whether heretofore or hereafter constructed or operated, are considered a public utility within the meaning of any constitutional or statutory provision for the purpose of acquiring, purchasing, owning, operating, constructing, equipping and maintaining such works.

(2) Whenever any municipality shall decide to avail itself of the provisions of this chapter for the extension or improvement of any existing utility plant or system, any then-existing plant or system may be included as a part of a whole plant or system and any two or more utilities may be included in one project hereunder. The revenues of all or any part of any existing plants or systems or any plants or systems constructed hereunder may be pledged to secure moneys advanced for the construction or improvement of any utility plant or system or any part thereof or any combination thereof.

History.—s. 4, ch. 17118, 1935; s. 2, ch. 17119, 1935; CGL 1936 Supp. 3100(9).

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Contractors & Builders Ass'n v. City of Dunedin, 329 So. 2d 314 (Fla. 1976).

Cited 89 times | Published | Supreme Court of Florida | 1976 Fla. LEXIS 4301

...When a municipality sells debentures as a means of financing the extension or enlargement of a public utility, the indebtedness thus incurred is eventually made good with utility revenues; and anticipated revenues "may be pledged to secure moneys advanced for the ... improvement." Fla. Stat. § 180.07(2) (1973)....

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Devon-Aire Villas Home. v. Americable Assoc., 490 So. 2d 60 (Fla. 3d DCA 1985).

Cited 5 times | Published | Florida 3rd District Court of Appeal | 1985 WL 1083647

...al facilities; and establish dams. See generally 21 Fla.Jur.2d Eminent Domain § 35-53 (1980). [7] The term "public utility" is also found in a statute empowering municipalities to make expenditures for certain things considered as public utilities. Section 180.07, Florida Statutes (1985), provides: "Public Uitilities; combination of plants or systems; pledge of revenues....

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Ago (Fla. Att'y Gen. 2010).

Published | Florida Attorney General Reports

...cted for an express purpose, must be spent for that purpose. Thus, the City of Wildwood refuse collection impact fee may be spent only for that purpose and related purposes and may not be directed to another unrelated utility service. You have cited section 180.07 , Florida Statutes, which relates to public utilities and provides for the combination of plants or systems and the pledge of revenues raised pursuant to this chapter for the construction and operation of these plants and systems....

...es, to impose and collect an impact fee for refuse collection. Further, the city is not considering the extension or improvement of an existing utility plant, but is contracting with a private solid waste provider for services. The clear language of section 180.07 (2), Florida Statutes, states that it applies to projects undertaken pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 180. Thus, it does not appear that section 180.07 (2), Florida Statutes, provides authority for the City of Wildwood to use impact fees which were levied and collected for that purpose to support other utility services....

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City Gas Co. v. Miller Gas Co., 137 So. 2d 836 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1962).

Published | District Court of Appeal of Florida

...nincorporated areas in Dade County; that plaintiff is a private company having power to construct and operate gas plants and distribution systems as provided by Sections 180.05 and 180.06, Fla.Stat., F.S.A.; that plaintiff is a public utility within Section 180.07, Fla.Stat., F.S.A., and thereby subject to the rules and regulations of the Florida Rail *837 road and Public Utilities Commission; that plaintiff did construct a system to furnish natural gas within the “certain areas of subdivisions abutting S.W....