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The 2024 Florida Statutes

Title XVII
MILITARY AFFAIRS AND RELATED MATTERS

Chapter 250
MILITARY AFFAIRS

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F.S. 250.52

250.52 Unlawful to persuade citizens not to enlist; penalty.—Whenever the United States is at war, or our foreign relations tend to indicate an impending war or state of war, a person may not solicit or persuade a citizen of the United States not to enlist or serve in the Army, Air Force, Space Force, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, or Navy, or in any reserve component thereof, or in the Florida National Guard, or publicly attempt to dissuade any such citizen from enlisting. This section does not apply to the soliciting or persuading done by any person related by affinity or consanguinity to the person solicited or persuaded or whose advice is requested by the person solicited or persuaded. Any person who violates this section commits a misdemeanor of the first degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083.

History.—ss. 1, 2, ch. 7392, 1917; RGS 1422, 1423; CGL 2076, 2077; s. 1, ch. 25112, 1949; s. 1, ch. 67-332; s. 150, ch. 71-136; s. 49, ch. 2003-68; s. 9, ch. 2022-183.

Note.—Former s. 250.73.

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Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 250.52

Level: Degree
Misdemeanor/Felony: First/Second/Third

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Cases Citing Statute 250.52

Total Results: 5

Reynaldo Figueroa-Sanabria v. State of Florida

Court: Supreme Court of Florida | Date Filed: 2023-06-29

Snippet: opinion in Davis v. United States, 564 U.S. 229, 250-52 (2011) (Sotomayor, J., concurring), the Carpenter

STATE OF FLORIDA v. DANNY MARTIN

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 2019-11-27

Snippet: remained unsettled at the time of a search. Id. at 250-52 (Sotomayor, J., concurring in judgment). Florida

Alvin Davis v. State of Florida

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 2019-04-25

Citation: 268 So. 3d 958

Snippet: sentence with a mandatory minimum. 150 So. 3d at 250–52. We noted that the court’s comments were in the

EUGENE SCARCINCI and BEATRIZ SCARINCI v. CHRISTIANA TRUST, A DIVISION OF WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUN SOCIETY

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 2018-05-16

Citation: 247 So. 3d 528

Snippet: escrow, but the loan payment history indicates $64,250.52 was owed.

Leibell v. Miami-Dade County

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 2012-03-07

Citation: 84 So. 3d 1078, 2012 WL 716155, 2012 Fla. App. LEXIS 3602

Snippet: B. Newberg, Newberg on Class Actions, § 3:6, at 250-52 (4th ed. 2002). . We pause to note the trial