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Fla. Stat. § 180.07 (2025)

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

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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).

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 4 cases, 1943–1985 · leading case: Contractors & Builders Ass'n v. City of Dunedin, 329 So. 2d 314 (Fla. 1976).

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Contractors & Builders Ass'n v. City of Dunedin, 329 So. 2d 314 (Fla. 1976). · cites it 2× “" Fla. Stat. § 180.07 (2) (1973). When money for capital outlay is borrowed, water and sewer rates are set with a view towards raising the money necessary to repay the loan.”

Davies Warehouse Co. v. Brown, 137 F.2d 201 (Emer. Ct. App. 1943). · cites it 14× “1941, § 180.07, F.S.A. § 180.07; distribution systems Fla.”

Devon-Aire Villas Home. v. Americable Assoc., 490 So. 2d 60 (Fla. 3d DCA 1985). · cites it 2× “Section 180.07, Florida Statutes (1985), provides: "Public Uitilities; combination of plants or systems; pledge of revenues.”

City Gas Co. v. Miller Gas Co., 137 So. 2d 836 (Fla. 3d DCA 1962). “; 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…”

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