Florida Statute 216.345 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

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Title XIV
TAXATION AND FINANCE

Chapter 216
PLANNING AND BUDGETING

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F.S. 216.345

216.345 Professional or other organization membership dues; payment.—

(1) A state department, agency, bureau, commission, or other component of state government, or the judicial branch, upon approval by the head or the designated agent thereof, may utilize state funds for the purpose of paying dues for membership in a professional or other organization only when such membership is essential to the statutory duties and responsibilities of the state agency.

(2) Upon certification by a professional or other organization that it does not accept institutional memberships, the agency or branch may authorize the use of state funds for the payment of individual membership dues when such membership is essential to the statutory duties and responsibilities of the state agency or judicial branch by which the individual is employed. However, approval shall not be granted to pay membership dues for maintenance of an individual’s professional or trade status in any association or organization, except in those instances where agency or branch membership is necessary and purchase of an individual membership is more economical.

(3) Each agency and the judicial branch shall promulgate specific criteria to be used to determine justification for payment of such membership dues.

(4) Payments for membership dues are exempt from the provisions of part I of chapter 287.

History.—s. 1, ch. 74-91; s. 1, ch. 77-39; s. 101, ch. 79-190; s. 5, ch. 88-384; s. 76, ch. 92-142; s. 1174, ch. 95-147; s. 19, ch. 95-196.

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Browning v. Florida Prosecuting Attorneys Ass'n

56 So. 3d 873, 2011 Fla. App. LEXIS 3210, 2011 WL 831139

District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: Mar 10, 2011 | Docket: 60298682

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proviso impermissibly amended existing law in section 216.345, Florida Statutes (2009), which authorized

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Florida Attorney General Reports | Filed: Aug 2, 2005 | Docket: 3257429

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professional or other organizational memberships, section 216.345, Florida Statutes, provides: "(1) A state department

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Florida Attorney General Reports | Filed: Mar 16, 1987 | Docket: 3257574

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predecessors in the office of Attorney General. Section 216.345 provides in pertinent part as follows:

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Florida Attorney General Reports | Filed: Jan 26, 1984 | Docket: 3258360

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THE SEVERAL STATE ATTORNEYS? QUESTION ONE Section 216.345(1), F.S., provides: A state department

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Florida Attorney General Reports | Filed: Dec 13, 1979 | Docket: 3256239

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to `professional and other organizations.' Section 216.345 limits such payments to instances in which

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Florida Attorney General Reports | Filed: Nov 2, 1977 | Docket: 3256139

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respective public defender circuits? SUMMARY: Section 216.345, F. S., as amended by Ch. 77-39, Laws of Florida