The 2023 Florida Statutes (including Special Session C)

Title XVIII
PUBLIC LANDS AND PROPERTY

Chapter 253
STATE LANDS

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F.S. 253.54

253.54 Competitive bidding.—On the date specified in the advertisement of sale, the Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund shall at a public meeting consider any and all bids submitted prior to such date for the leasing of the land or lands so advertised and, in the discretion of the board, award the lease to the highest and best bidder submitting a bid therefor; provided that if, in the judgment of the board, the bids submitted do not represent the fair value of such lease or leases, the execution of same is contrary to the public welfare, or the responsibility of the bidder offering the highest amount has not been established to its satisfaction, or for any other reason, it may in its discretion reject said bids, give notice and call for new or other bids, or withdraw said land from the market. If several distinct blocks, parcels, or tracts of land can be separately considered, then, and in that event, the board may so consider them, but if they cannot be so considered, then the rejection for any cause of the highest and best bid shall result in the rejection of all bids.

History.—s. 4, ch. 22824, 1945; ss. 27, 35, ch. 69-106; s. 5, ch. 69-369; s. 68, ch. 86-186.

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Amendments to 253.54

Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 253.54

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

Current data shows no reason an arrest or criminal charge should have occurred directly under Florida Statute 253.54.

Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

Cases from cite.case.law:

RETZ v. BIRMINGHAM, 98 F. Supp. 322 (N.D. Iowa 1951)

. . . refund for the calendar years of 1946, 1947 and 1948 in the respective sums of $192.19, $411.70 and $253.54 . . . , and the amount so erroneously and illegally collected by him for the year of 1948 was the sum of $253.54 . . . legally owed by them therefor and that the amount of the illegal and erroneous collection was the sum of $253.54 . . .

v., 10 T.C. 44 (T.C. 1948)

. . . Petitioner also received on August 12, 1943, the amount of $253.54 as a dividend pursuant to the terms . . . payments of $280.60 [sic] received by her in 1942, nor any part of the $850.80 annuity payments, nor the $253.54 . . . , predicated on her other contention urged herein, to the effect that no part of the “dividend” of $253.54 . . . annuity in the amount of $1,114.34 (the monthly payments amounting to $850.80 plus the “dividend” of $253.54 . . . , in effect, the question under the first issue would be whether the sum of $763.23 ($916.77 minus $253.54 . . .