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: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 2018-06-04

Citation: 246 So. 3d 1279

Snippet: Protection under 18 U.S.C. § 2265(a) 1 and section 741.315(2), Florida Statutes (2016). 2 See also § 61.526(1)

Auguste v. State

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 2015-04-22

Snippet: sentence. See Fla. R. App. P. 9.315. 2

Presmy v. Smith

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 2011-09-16

Citation: 69 So. 3d 383, 2011 Fla. App. LEXIS 14655, 2011 WL 4104739

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

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Court: Florida Attorney General Reports | Date Filed: 2009-06-15

Snippet: 315.03, Fla. Stat. 10 A "unit" is defined in s. 315.02(4), Fla. Stat., to mean "any county, port district

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Court: Florida Attorney General Reports | Date Filed: 2008-01-31

Snippet: "1959 Port Facilities Financing Law." 9 Section 315.02(4), Fla. Stat. 10 Cf. Black's Law Dictionary Ordinance

Becker v. Johnson

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 2006-08-08

Citation: 937 So. 2d 1128, 2006 WL 2251848

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

MH v. Nassau County School Board

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 2005-10-18

Citation: 918 So. 2d 316, 206 Educ. L. Rep. 462, 2005 Fla. App. LEXIS 16463

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: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 2003-11-12

Citation: 858 So. 2d 1199, 2003 Fla. App. LEXIS 17076, 2003 WL 22658117

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

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Court: Florida Attorney General Reports | Date Filed: 2000-04-25

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: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 1996-03-13

Citation: 669 So. 2d 340, 1996 WL 106433

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

Emanuel v. Bankers Trust Co., NA

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 1995-06-07

Citation: 655 So. 2d 247, 1995 Fla. App. LEXIS 6132, 1995 WL 335707

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: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 1994-08-19

Citation: 642 So. 2d 1097, 1994 Fla. App. LEXIS 8248, 1994 WL 444886

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: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 1994-04-15

Citation: 636 So. 2d 539, 1994 Fla. App. LEXIS 3501, 1994 WL 135209

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

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Court: Florida Attorney General Reports | Date Filed: 1988-09-14

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

Garcia v. Duffy

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 1986-07-30

Citation: 492 So. 2d 435, 11 Fla. L. Weekly 1680

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