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Florida Statute 310.001 - Full Text and Legal Analysis Florida Statute 310.001 | Lawyer Caselaw & Research
Fla. Stat. § 310.001 (2026) Copy Cite Official Site Syfertize CourtListener Amendments
310.001 Purpose.The Legislature recognizes that the waters, harbors, and ports of the state are important resources, and it is deemed necessary in the interest of public health, safety, and welfare to provide laws regulating the piloting of vessels utilizing the navigable waters of the state in order that such resources, the environment, life, and property may be protected to the fullest extent possible. To that end, it is the legislative intent to regulate pilots, piloting, and pilotage to the full extent of any congressional grant of authority, except as limited in this chapter.
History.s. 2, ch. 75-201; s. 3, ch. 76-168; s. 1, ch. 77-457; s. 16, ch. 78-140; s. 2, ch. 81-318; ss. 2, 3, ch. 84-185; ss. 10, 11, ch. 86-280; s. 2, ch. 89-262; s. 4, ch. 91-429.

Cases Citing F.S. 310.001

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·Fed. Trade Comm'r v. Universal Processing Servs. of Wisconsin, LLC, 877 F.3d 1234 (11th Cir. 2017).

Cited 5 times | Published | Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

The Telemarketing Sales Rule (TSR), 16 C.F.R. § 310.1 et seq., promulgated by the Federal Trade Commission
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Cited as authorityManseth (2023)
phrase: "rule_authority"
Cited as authority(citing case) (2023)
phrase: "rule_authority"
Cited as authority(citing case) (2021)
phrase: "rule_authority"
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·Rabren v. Bd. of Pilot Com'rs, 497 So. 2d 1245 (Fla. 1st DCA 1986).

Cited 2 times | Published | Florida 1st District Court of Appeal | 11 Fla. L. Weekly 1881

...trative Hearings denying their challenge to Florida Administrative Code Rule 21SS-8.10. We reverse. In 1975 the Legislature established the Board of Pilot Commissioners within the Division of Professions of the Department of Professional Regulation. Section 310.001, Florida Statutes, empowered the Board to perform such duties and exercise such powers to protect the waters, harbors and ports of the State as are conferred by Chapter 310, Florida Statutes....
...ners (the Board) that certain pilots in Tampa Bay were claiming that neither the State of Florida nor the Coast Guard had jurisdiction to regulate shifting activities in Tampa Bay (moving ships from one place to another). Acting pursuant to sections 310.001 and 310.141, Florida Statutes, the Board promulgated *1247 Rule 21SS-8.10, Florida Administrative Code, to deal with shifting activities in Tampa Bay....
...ls are required to take a state pilot. The phrase used "except vessels exempted by the laws of the United States" is a more accurate description of the vessels that may be required to take state pilots in bays, harbors, rivers, and ports of a state. Section 310.001, Florida Statutes (1983), provides it is the legislative intent to regulate pilots and pilotage on navigable waters of this state in order to protect the resources, environment, life, and property to the fullest extent possible....
...on the bay, does not constitute entering or leaving a state port within the meaning of section 310.141. It is elemental that we cannot substitute our judgment of the facts for that of the hearing officer. § 120.68(10), Fla. Stat. (1985). III. Since section 310.001 states that chapter 310 is intended to regulate piloting of vessels in "the waters, harbors, and ports of the state" to the "fullest extent possible," I find no legal or factual basis for concluding that rule 21SS-8.10 exceeds the statutory jurisdiction granted to the Board of Pilot Commissioners....
...tute. In contrast to the situation in Amos, in the instant case the explicit purpose of section 310.141 is to regulate pilotage in the waters of Florida "to the full extent of any congressional grant of authority, except as limited in this chapter." § 310.001, Fla....
...he navigable waters of this state incident to entering or leaving the ports of this state. I decline to hold that the rule is an invalid exercise of delegated legislative authority and would hold that the appealed order should be affirmed. NOTES [1] Section 310.001 states: PURPOSE....
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Cited as authorityIn Re Franzese (2008)
phrase: "rule_authority"
Cited as authorityRabren (1990)
phrase: "rule_authority"
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·Fed. Trade Comm'n v. Life Mgmt. Servs. of Orange Cnty., LLC, 350 F. Supp. 3d 1246 (M.D. Fla. 2018).

Cited 1 times | Published | District Court, M.D. Florida

the Telemarketing Sales Rule ("TSR"), 16 C.F.R. § 310.1 et seq.3 (See Tyndall Decl., PX 46, ¶¶ 1-2; Caplan
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Cited as authorityRoberson (2024)
phrase: "rule_authority"
Cited as authority(citing case) (2021)
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Cited as authorityTimothy Thomas McCallan (2021)
phrase: "rule_authority"
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·DaCosta v. Dibble, 40 Fla. 418 (Fla. 1898).

Cited 1 times | Published | Supreme Court of Florida

& Tyler’s Pl., p. 329; 1 Beach Modern Eq. Pr., § 310; 1 Daniel Chy. Pl. & Pr. *661; Jourolmon v. Massengill
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OverruledDaCosta (1903)
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Cited as authorityStadler (1963)
phrase: "rule_authority"
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Port Everglades Pilots Ass'n v. Florida-Caribbean Cruise Ass'n, 170 So. 3d 952 (Fla. 1st DCA 2015).

Published | Florida 1st District Court of Appeal | 2015 Fla. App. LEXIS 11894, 2015 WL 4731413

...been granted. Therefore, we grant the petition for writ of prohibition and quash the orders denying the motion. Background Chapter 310, Florida Statutes (2014), governs pilots, piloting, and pilotage in the waters, harbors, and ports of Florida. See § 310.001, Fla....

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