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The 2023 Florida Statutes (including Special Session C)

Title XIX
PUBLIC BUSINESS
Chapter 285
INDIAN RESERVATIONS AND AFFAIRS
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F.S. 285.16
285.16 Civil and criminal jurisdiction; Indian reservation.
(1) The State of Florida hereby assumes jurisdiction over criminal offenses committed by or against Indians or other persons within Indian reservations and over civil causes of actions between Indians or other persons or to which Indians or other persons are parties rising within Indian reservations.
(2) The civil and criminal laws of Florida shall obtain on all Indian reservations in this state and shall be enforced in the same manner as elsewhere throughout the state.
History.ss. 1, 2, ch. 61-252.

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Amendments to 285.16


Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 285.16
Level: Degree
Misdemeanor/Felony: First/Second/Third

Current data shows no reason an arrest or criminal charge should have occurred directly under Florida Statute 285.16.



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Cases from cite.case.law:

V. FURRY, H. v. MICCOSUKEE TRIBE OF INDIANS OF FLORIDA, d. b. a., 685 F.3d 1224 (11th Cir. 2012)

. . . . § 285.16(2), which provides: "The civil and criminal laws of Florida shall obtain on all Indian reservations . . .

FLORIDA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, v. J. CRIST, Jr., 999 So. 2d 601 (Fla. 2008)

. . . (codified at § 285.16, Fla. Stat. (2007)); see also § 285.16(2), Fla. . . .

FLORIDA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, v. J. CRIST, Jr., 990 So. 2d 1035 (Fla. 2008)

. . . (codified at § 285.16, Fla. Stat. (2007)); see also § 285.16(2), Fla. . . .

HALL, v. STATE, 762 So. 2d 936 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2000)

. . . Under the authority’of the above-mentioned statute, in 1961, the state of Florida enacted section 285.16 . . . other persons or to which Indians or other persons are parties rising within Indian reservations.” § 285.16 . . .

FLORIDA, v. SEMINOLE TRIBE OF FLORIDA, E., 181 F.3d 1237 (11th Cir. 1999)

. . . Stat. ch. 285.16 (1997), see generally Seminole Tribe v. . . .

FLORIDA, v. SEMINOLE TRIBE OF FLORIDA, E., 181 F.3d 1237 (11th Cir. 1999)

. . . Stat. ch. 285.16 (1997), see generally Seminole Tribe v. . . .

HOUGHTALING, v. SEMINOLE TRIBE OF FLORIDA,, 611 So. 2d 1235 (Fla. 1993)

. . . The district court certified the following question as being of great public importance: DOES SECTION 285.16 . . . In accordance with this authority, the Florida Legislature enacted section 285.16, Florida Statutes ( . . . other persons or to which Indians or other persons are parties rising within Indian reservations. § 285.16 . . . Houghtaling contends that Florida courts have subject matter jurisdiction under section 285.16, Florida . . . Houghtaling argues that section 285.16 was enacted pursuant to Congress’s express waiver of sovereign . . .

SEMINOLE TRIBE OF FLORIDA, v. HOUGHTALING,, 589 So. 2d 1030 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1991)

. . . . § 285.16, Fla.Stat. (1989). . . . We are persuaded that the Tribe’s analysis that Public Law 280 and section 285.16, Florida Statutes ( . . . public importance and so certify to the Florida Supreme Court the following question: DOES SECTION 285.16 . . .

SERIAN, v. STATE, 588 So. 2d 251 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1991)

. . . the Indian reservations and over civil causes of actions arising within the reservation under section 285.16 . . .

RUSIN v. STATE OF FLORIDA, 49 Fla. Supp. 2d 33 (Fla. Cir. Ct. 1991)

. . . lack of jurisdiction on the grounds that the State of Florida assumed jurisdiction pursuant to F.S. 285.16 . . . F.S. 285.16 requires the civil and criminal laws of Florida to be enforced on Indian Reservations, “as . . . At first blush, F.S. 285.16 seems to encompass the entire realm of civil and criminal legislation. . . . F.S. 285.16 provides in pertinent part that: “The State of Florida . . . assumes jurisdiction . . . over . . . F.S. 285.16 provides for civil and criminal jurisdiction on an Indian Reservation. . . .

STATE v. E. BILLIE,, 497 So. 2d 889 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1986)

. . . Florida assumed this jurisdiction by enacting section 285.16, Florida Statutes (1961). . . . Subsection 285.16 provides that: (1) The State of Florida hereby assumes jurisdiction over criminal offenses . . .

SEMINOLE POLICE DEPARTMENT D. B. v. CASADELLA,, 478 So. 2d 470 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1985)

. . . however, that petitioners waived their right to sovereign immunity by accepting the benefits of sections 285.16 . . .

STATE v. BILLIE, 17 Fla. Supp. 2d 68 (Fla. Cir. Ct. 1985)

. . . S. 285.16). . . . S. 285.16 and to bring all Indians and their reservations within the authority and control of the criminal . . . S. 285.16 was adopted in 1961 pursuant to the authority of Act of August 15, 1953, Sec. 1 et seq., especially . . .

UNITED STATES v. DAYE, III,, 696 F.2d 1305 (11th Cir. 1983)

. . . Section 285.16 (1961). . . .

SEMINOLE TRIBE OF FLORIDA, v. BUTTERWORTH,, 658 F.2d 310 (5th Cir. 1981)

. . . . § 285.16. . . .

SEMINOLE TRIBE OF FLORIDA, v. BUTTERWORTH,, 491 F. Supp. 1015 (S.D. Fla. 1980)

. . . . § 285.16, Florida could assume no more jurisdiction than was ceded to it by Public Law 280. . . .

MUNGER, v. UNITED STATES MUNGER, Jr. v. UNITED STATES, 154 F. Supp. 417 (M.D. Ala. 1957)

. . . she was assessed a deficiency on her gift tax and interest in the respective amounts of $2,025 and $285.16 . . .

NEW YORK MAIL AND NEWSPAPER TRANSPORTATION COMPANY v. UNITED STATES, 154 F. Supp. 271 (Ct. Cl. 1957)

. . . Plaintiff's variable expenses for 1953, which would have been recouped in full in 1954 were some $12,-285.16 . . .