Florida Statute 180.7 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XII
MUNICIPALITIES

Chapter 180
MUNICIPAL PUBLIC WORKS

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F.S. 180.07

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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Cases Citing Statute 180.07

Total Results: 4

Contractors & Builders Ass'n v. City of Dunedin

329 So. 2d 314, 1976 Fla. LEXIS 4301

Supreme Court of Florida | Filed: Feb 25, 1976 | Docket: 1251225

Cited 89 times | Published

advanced for the ... improvement." Fla. Stat. § 180.07(2) (1973). When money for capital outlay is borrowed

Devon-Aire Villas Home. v. Americable Assoc.

490 So. 2d 60, 1985 WL 1083647

District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: Dec 17, 1985 | Docket: 1488795

Cited 5 times | Published

certain things considered as public utilities. Section 180.07, Florida Statutes (1985), provides: "Public

Ago

Florida Attorney General Reports | Filed: Nov 5, 2010 | Docket: 3256138

Published

another unrelated utility service. You have cited section 180.07, Florida Statutes, which relates to public

City Gas Co. v. Miller Gas Co.

137 So. 2d 836

District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: Feb 15, 1962 | Docket: 60201555

Published

; that plaintiff is a public utility within Section 180.07, Fla.Stat., F.S.A., and thereby subject to