Florida Statute 315.02 | Lawyer Caselaw & Research

The 2024 Florida Statutes

Title XXII
PORTS AND HARBORS

Chapter 315
PORT FACILITIES FINANCING

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F.S. 315.02

315.02 Definitions.—As used in this law, the following words and terms shall have the following meanings:

(1) The term “port district” or the word “district” shall mean any district created by or pursuant to the provisions of any general or special law and authorized to own or operate any port facilities.

(2) The term “port authority” or the word “authority” shall mean any port authority in Florida created by or pursuant to the provisions of any general or special law or any district or board of county commissioners acting as a port authority under or pursuant to the provisions of any general or special law.

(3) The word “county” shall mean any county and the word “municipality” shall mean any municipality in Florida.

(4) The word “unit” shall mean any county, port district, port authority, or municipality or any governmental unit created pursuant to s. 163.01(7)(d) that includes at least one deepwater port as listed in s. 403.021(9)(b).

(5) The term “governing body” shall mean the board or body in which the general legislative powers of a unit shall be vested.

(6) The term “port facilities” shall mean and shall include harbor, shipping, and port facilities, and improvements of every kind, nature, and description, including, but without limitation, channels, turning basins, jetties, breakwaters, public landings, wharves, docks, markets, parks, recreational facilities, structures, buildings, piers, storage facilities, including facilities that may be used for warehouse, storage, and distribution of cargo transported or to be transported through an airport or port facility, security measures identified pursuant to s. 311.12, public buildings and plazas, anchorages, utilities, bridges, tunnels, roads, causeways, and any and all property and facilities necessary or useful in connection with the foregoing, and any one or more or any combination thereof and any extension, addition, betterment, or improvement of any thereof.

(7) The word “cost” as applied to any port facilities shall mean and shall include the cost of acquisition or construction, the cost of all labor, materials, machinery and equipment, the cost of all lands, property, rights, easements and franchises acquired, financing charges, interest prior to and during construction and for 1 year after completion of construction, cost of plans and specifications, surveys and estimates of cost and of revenues, cost of engineering and legal services, all other expenses necessary or incident to determining the feasibility or practicability of such construction, the cost of acquiring or improving, enlarging and extending existing port facilities and preparing the same for sale or lease to provide funds for financing port facilities under the provisions of this law if, in the determination of the governing body, such acquisition, such improvement, enlargement and extension or such preparation for sale or lease are necessary to such financing, administrative expenses and such other expenses as may be necessary or incident to any financing herein authorized. Any obligation or expense heretofore or hereafter incurred by a unit in connection with any of the foregoing items of cost may be regarded as a part of such cost and reimbursed to the unit out of the proceeds of port facilities bonds issued under the provisions of this law.

History.—s. 2, ch. 59-411; s. 1, ch. 67-317; s. 70, ch. 99-251; s. 65, ch. 2002-20.

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Cases Citing Statute 315.02

Total Results: 20

Betty Caitlin Nicole Smith v. Zachary Taylor Daniel

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2018-06-04T00:53:00-07:00

Snippet: Protection under 18 U.S.C. § 2265(a) 1 and section 741.315(2), Florida Statutes (2016). 2 See also § 61.526(1…challenged the order in any way. 2 Section 741.315(2), Fla. Stat., states: Pursuant to 18

Auguste v. State

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2015-04-22T00:53:00-07:00

Snippet: sentence. See Fla. R. App. P. 9.315. 2 14-0786 District

Presmy v. Smith

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2011-09-16T00:00:00-07:00

Citation: 69 So. 3d 383

Snippet: Stat. (2008) ]. (emphasis added). Section 1012.315(2)(a) (2008) provides: A person is ineligible for

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Court: Fla. Att'y Gen. | Date Filed: 2009-06-15T00:53:00-07:00

Snippet: Fla. Stat. 10 A "unit" is defined in s. 315.02(4), Fla. Stat., to mean "any county, port

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Court: Fla. Att'y Gen. | Date Filed: 2008-01-30T23:53:00-08:00

Snippet: Port Facilities Financing Law." 9 Section 315.02(4), Fla. Stat. 10 Cf. Black's Law Dictionary

Becker v. Johnson

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2006-08-08T00:00:00-07:00

Citation: 937 So. 2d 1128

Snippet: quot; 18 U.S.C. § 2265(a) (2005); see also § 741.315(2), Fla. Stat. (2005) (providing in part, "[p

MH v. Nassau County School Board

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2005-10-18T00:53:00-07:00

Citation: 918 So. 2d 316

Snippet: disorder of written expression, a DSM-IV diagnosis, 315.2." [8] Apparently Ms. H. did not actually execute

Caldwell v. Board of Trustees Broward Community College

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2003-11-11T23:53:00-08:00

Citation: 858 So. 2d 1199

Snippet: district boards of trustees as provided in s. 240.315[2] and that no department, bureau, division, agency

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Court: Fla. Att'y Gen. | Date Filed: 2000-04-25T00:53:00-07:00

Snippet: in the nature of a seaport. Pursuant to section 315.02(6), Florida Statutes, under which this port operates

Jimenez v. DEPT. OF HEALTH AND REHAB.

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 1996-03-12T23:53:00-08:00

Citation: 669 So. 2d 340

Snippet: affirmed under Florida Rule of Appellate Procedure 9.315.[2] In this case we have treated Jimenez' counsel

Emanuel v. Bankers Trust Co., NA

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 1995-06-07T00:53:00-07:00

Citation: 655 So. 2d 247

Snippet: judgment is entirely consistent with *249 section 45.0315.[2] That section, which became effective October 1

Dept. of Revenue v. Canaveral Port Auth.

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 1994-08-19T00:53:00-07:00

Citation: 642 So. 2d 1097

Snippet: addition, betterment or improvement of any thereof. § 315.02(6), Fla. Stat. (1991). The legislature has defined

Graf v. Liberty Mut. Ins. Co.

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 1994-04-15T00:53:00-07:00

Citation: 636 So. 2d 539

Snippet: implied warranties of fitness under section 672.315(2) must be conspicuous when contained in a writing

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Court: Fla. Att'y Gen. | Date Filed: 1988-09-14T00:53:00-07:00

Snippet: roperty used at a port authority, as defined in s.315.02(2), exclusively for the purpose of oceangoing vessels

Garcia v. Duffy

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 1986-07-30T00:00:00-07:00

Citation: 492 So. 2d 435

Snippet: .Y.S. 989 (1917), cited in Mallory at 69 So.2d 315. [2] Restatement (Second) of Torts, section 317, provides

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Court: Fla. Att'y Gen. | Date Filed: 1985-08-28T00:53:00-07:00

Snippet: manner hereinafter prescribed"; and s. 163.315(2), F.S., providing that "after [Part II] becomes…this act to be effective therein," and s. 163.315(2), supra. Accordingly, based upon the foregoing,

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Court: Fla. Att'y Gen. | Date Filed: 1984-11-01T23:53:00-08:00

Snippet: port facilities . . . ." Subsection (6) of s 315.02 defines "port facilities" to include,

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Court: Fla. Att'y Gen. | Date Filed: 1984-05-14T00:53:00-07:00

Snippet: the provisions of this act."). Cf., s 163.315(2), F.S., which provides: Any municipal or county…administered pursuant to its provisions, citing to s 163.315[2], F.S.). Accordingly, an analysis of the provisions…in order to comply with the requirement of s 163.315(2), F.S., that all ordinances be administered under

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Court: Fla. Att'y Gen. | Date Filed: 1983-03-13T23:53:00-08:00

Snippet: hereinafter prescribed. (e.s.) Similarly, s 163.315(2) provides: Any municipal or county ordinance

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Court: Fla. Att'y Gen. | Date Filed: 1979-04-23T23:53:00-08:00

Snippet: by part II, Ch. 163. See s. 163.160. Section 163.315(2), F. S., provides that `after [Part II of Ch. 163… manner hereinafter prescribed.' And s. 163.315(2), on the effect of part II, Ch. 163, on existing