Florida Statute 298.1 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2024 Florida Statutes (including 2025 Special Session C)

Title XXI
DRAINAGE

Chapter 298
DRAINAGE AND WATER CONTROL

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F.S. 298.001

298.001 Districts designated as “water control” districts.—A water management district or a drainage district heretofore or hereafter created pursuant to the method authorized in this chapter or a water management district created by special act to operate under the authority of this chapter shall be designated as a water control district.

History.—s. 1, ch. 78-153.

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Amendments to 298.001

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Cases Citing Statute 298.001

Total Results: 7

Florida Jai Alai, Inc. v. LAKE HOWELL WATER & R. DIST.

274 So. 2d 522

Supreme Court of Florida | Filed: Feb 28, 1973 | Docket: 1676451

Cited 32 times | Published

district. The statute is similar to Fla. Stat. § 298.01, F.S.A., which regulates the formation of a district

Rabin v. Lake Worth Drainage District

82 So. 2d 353

Supreme Court of Florida | Filed: Sep 16, 1955 | Docket: 1359661

Cited 16 times | Published

the expenses of maintaining the improvements, Section 298.01, Florida Statutes 1953, and F.S.A., and that

Roach v. Loxahatchee Groves Water Control District

417 So. 2d 814, 1982 Fla. App. LEXIS 21194

District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: Aug 4, 1982 | Docket: 64591540

Cited 1 times | Published

relies on certain language that was contained in Section 298.01(1), Florida Statutes (1979). That provision

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Florida Attorney General Reports | Filed: Aug 15, 2000 | Docket: 3255857

Published

Statutes, provides for water control and drainage. Section 298.01, Florida Statutes, provides: "It is the legislative

Water Control District of South Brevard v. Davidson

638 So. 2d 521, 1994 Fla. App. LEXIS 3906, 1994 WL 151312

District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: Apr 29, 1994 | Docket: 64749186

Published

statute remains today, essentially unchanged, in section 298.001-78, Florida Statutes. It authorizes the creation

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Florida Attorney General Reports | Filed: Apr 6, 1983 | Docket: 3258300

Published

125.01 or a special act of the Legislature.' Section 298.01, F.S. For such water control districts and

Union Camp Corp. v. Petition of Seminole Forest Water Management District

302 So. 2d 419, 1974 Fla. App. LEXIS 8421

District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: Oct 8, 1974 | Docket: 64542213

Published

contention of appellees that the reference in Section 298.01 to “majority of owners” or “Owners of a majority