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The 2024 Florida Statutes (including 2025 Special Session C)

Title XVIII
PUBLIC LANDS AND PROPERTY
Chapter 255
PUBLIC PROPERTY AND PUBLICLY OWNED BUILDINGS
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F.S. 255.22
255.22 Reconveyance of lands not used for purpose specified.
(1) In the event any party owning adjoining land conveys real property, without receipt of valuable consideration, to any municipality or county for a specific purpose or use and if such county or municipality fails to use such property for such purpose for a period of 60 consecutive months or, with respect to property conveyed on or after October 1, 1984, fails to use such property for such purpose for a period of 60 consecutive months or identify during the 60-month period the proposed use of such property in a comprehensive plan or other public facilities plan, then, upon written demand of the grantor, or grantor’s successors in title owning such adjoining land, the municipality or county may execute and deliver a quitclaim deed to the party making such demand provided such party is the owner of land adjoining such property on at least one side. No such quitclaim deed shall be delivered hereunder unless the specific purpose or use to be made of the property was disclosed to the grantee at the time of delivery of the conveyance or appeared in the conveyance or in an official record of the county; provided, however, that as to any such conveyance after July 1, 1967, the specific purpose or use must appear of record.
(2) In the event the purpose for which the property was conveyed required physical improvement or construction on such property or the maintenance thereof, any such municipality or county that fails to construct, improve, or maintain such property for the period specified in subsection (1) shall be conclusively deemed to have abandoned the property for the purpose for which it was conveyed, unless, with respect to property conveyed on or after October 1, 1984, the proposed use of such property has been identified in a comprehensive plan or other public facilities plan of the municipality or county during the 60-month period specified in subsection (1).
History.ss. 1, 2, ch. 67-383; ss. 1, 2, 3, ch. 84-366; s. 42, ch. 93-164; s. 3, ch. 94-175; s. 3, ch. 95-297; s. 16, ch. 95-310.
Note.Consolidation of s. 255.22 and former s. 255.23.

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Amendments to 255.22


Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

Cases Citing Statute 255.22

Total Results: 4

JC Vereen & Sons, Inc. v. City of Miami

397 So. 2d 979, 1981 Fla. App. LEXIS 19293

District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: Apr 21, 1981 | Docket: 1706682

Cited 9 times | Published

(1975). Vereen is entitled to reconveyance under Section 255.22 only if he proves (a) he conveyed the land

State, Department of Transportation v. Boat Center, Inc.

726 So. 2d 404, 1999 Fla. App. LEXIS 2245, 1999 WL 104458

District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: Mar 3, 1999 | Docket: 64786254

Published

predecessor in title to Broward County under section 255.22, Florida Statutes (Supp.1994). While the trial

State Department of Transportation v. B & C Foods, Inc.

687 So. 2d 4, 1996 Fla. App. LEXIS 11637, 1996 WL 637655

District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: Nov 6, 1996 | Docket: 64770608

Published

issue to McDonald’s Corporation pursuant to section 255.22, Florida Statutes (Supp.1994). Even though

Feather v. Donaldson

481 So. 2d 937, 11 Fla. L. Weekly 33, 1985 Fla. App. LEXIS 16949

District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: Dec 19, 1985 | Docket: 64616778

Published

property interest subject to transfer by deed, section 255.22 did not contemplate the conveyance of an easement