Florida Statute 257.04 | Lawyer Caselaw & Research

The 2024 Florida Statutes

Title XVIII
PUBLIC LANDS AND PROPERTY

Chapter 257
PUBLIC LIBRARIES AND STATE ARCHIVES

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F.S. 257.04

257.04 Publications, pictures, and other documents received to constitute part of State Library; powers and duties of Division of Library and Information Services.—

(1) All books, pictures, documents, publications, and manuscripts received through gifts, purchase, or exchange, or on deposit from any source for the use of the state, shall constitute a part of the State Library and shall be placed therein for the use of the public under the control of the division. The division may receive gifts of money, books, or other property which may be used or held for the purposes given; and it may purchase books, periodicals, furniture, and equipment as necessary to promote the efficient operation of the service it is expected to render to state officials, employees, and the public.

(2) The division may, upon request, give aid and assistance, financial, advisory, or otherwise, to all school, state institutional, academic, free, and public libraries, and to all communities in the state which may propose to establish libraries, as to the best means of establishing and administering libraries, selecting and cataloging books, and other facets of library management.

(3) The division shall maintain a library for state officials and employees, especially of informational material pertaining to their work.

(4) The division shall maintain and provide research and information services for state agencies.

(5) The division shall make all necessary arrangements to coordinate with the Division of Blind Services of the Department of Education to provide library services to the blind and physically handicapped persons of the state.

(6) The division may issue printed material and electronic information, and in the publication thereof may cooperate with state library commissions and libraries of other states in order to secure the more economical administration of the work for which it is formed. The division may conduct courses of library instruction and hold librarians’ institutes in various parts of the state.

(7) The division shall perform such other services and engage in any other activity, not contrary to law, appropriate in the development of library service to state government, to the libraries and library profession of the state, and to the citizens of the state.

History.—s. 4, ch. 10278, 1925; CGL 1690; s. 4, ch. 63-39; ss. 10, 35, ch. 69-106; s. 21, ch. 69-353; s. 3, ch. 74-228; s. 2, ch. 83-24; s. 16, ch. 86-163; s. 3, ch. 2015-117.

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Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

Cases Citing Statute 257.04

Total Results: 11

Robert Rauschenberg Foundation v. Grutman

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2016-01-06T00:00:00-08:00

Citation: 198 So. 3d 685, 2016 Fla. App. LEXIS 181, 2016 WL 56456

Snippet: .1991), superseded by statute, ch. 93-257, § 4, at 2503, Laws of Fla. In rejecting attorney’s

Bay Point Club, Inc. v. Bay County

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2004-10-25T00:00:00-07:00

Citation: 890 So. 2d 256

Snippet: Impact pursuant to chapter 380." See Ch. 75-257, § 4, at 799, Laws of Fla. In its creation of the vesting

Edgewater Beach Owners Ass'n, Inc. v. Walton County

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2002-12-18T23:53:00-08:00

Citation: 833 So. 2d 215

Snippet: Impact pursuant to chapter 380." See Ch. 75-257, § 4, at 799, Laws of Fla. In its creation of the vesting

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Court: Fla. Att'y Gen. | Date Filed: 1999-06-08T00:53:00-07:00

Snippet: 10 Section 616.257(1), Fla. Stat. 11 Section 616.257(4), Fla. Stat. And see, Art. VII, s. 11, Fla. Const

Thomas Jefferson University v. Romer

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 1998-03-31T23:53:00-08:00

Citation: 710 So. 2d 67

Snippet: Allerton, 635 So.2d at 40; Robinson, 74 F.3d at 257.[4] On the other hand, International Harvester concluded

Berger v. Brooks

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 1995-07-26T00:00:00-07:00

Citation: 657 So. 2d 1281, 1995 Fla. App. LEXIS 8036, 1995 WL 437385

Snippet: Statutes (1993), took effect October 1, 1993. Ch. 93-257, §§ 4, 18, at 2503-05, 2512, Laws of Fla. By its terms

State v. Pettis

Court: Fla. | Date Filed: 1988-01-21T00:00:00-08:00

Citation: 520 So. 2d 250

Snippet: So.2d 1215 (Fla. 1985). [3] See supra n. 1 at 257. [4] Robinson v. State, 132 So.2d 3 (Fla. 1961). The

Centrust Savings Bank v. City of Miami

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 1986-06-10T00:00:00-07:00

Citation: 491 So. 2d 576, 11 Fla. L. Weekly 1645, 1986 Fla. App. LEXIS 8406

Snippet: Miami Beach v. State ex rel. Epicure, 148 Fla. 255, 257, 4 So.2d 116, 117 (1941); State ex rel. Zuckerman-

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Court: Fla. Att'y Gen. | Date Filed: 1983-03-28T23:53:00-08:00

Snippet: fair on the Florida State Fairgrounds) and s 616.257(4), F.S., providing that all projects of the Authority

Tampa Coca-Cola Bottling Co. v. Walden

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 1969-12-19T00:00:00-08:00

Citation: 230 So. 2d 52, 1969 Fla. App. LEXIS 6442

Snippet: out of the registry of the Court the sum of $20,257.04 (the amount paid in by the Plaintiff less the Clerk

City of Coral Gables v. State Ex Rel. Worley

Court: Fla. | Date Filed: 1950-02-09T23:53:00-08:00

Citation: 44 So. 2d 298

Snippet: equitable proceeding. We in part said, text 148 Fla. 257, 4 So.2d 117: "The only question before us is