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Fla. Stat. § 315.02 (2025)
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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.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 5
cases, 1965–2007 · leading case: Bannon v. Port of Palm Beach Dist., 246 So. 2d 737 (Fla. 1971).
Bannon v. Port of Palm Beach Dist., 246 So. 2d 737 (Fla. 1971). “Section 315.02(6), Florida Statutes, F.S.”
State v. Manatee Cnty. Port Auth., 171 So. 2d 169 (Fla. 1965). “It is clear that it is contemplated that the port facilities to be constructed are those specifically defined by Section 315.02(6), Florida Statutes, F.S.”
Anderson v. O'BRIEN, 524 P.2d 390 (Wash. 1974). “Section 315.02(6), Florida Statutes, F.S.”
Jackson-Shaw Co. v. Jacksonville Aviation Auth., 510 F. Supp. 2d 691 (M.D. Fla. 2007). “” Fla. Stat. § 315.02 (5). 41 . The Bannon case, cited by Jackson-Shaw, (Doc.”
Dept. of Revenue v. Canaveral Port Auth., 642 So. 2d 1097 (Fla. 5th DCA 1994). “§ 315.02(6), Fla. Stat. (1991). The legislature has defined the term "port facilities" broadly, but not, we think, so broadly as to embrace property on which commercial activity is being carried on by private lessees at the port facility.”
— 315.02(5) — 1 case
Jackson-Shaw Co. v. Jacksonville Aviation Auth., 510 F. Supp. 2d 691 (M.D. Fla. 2007). “” Fla. Stat. § 315.02 (5). 41 . The Bannon case, cited by Jackson-Shaw, (Doc.”
— 315.02(6) — 4 cases
Bannon v. Port of Palm Beach Dist., 246 So. 2d 737 (Fla. 1971). “Section 315.02(6), Florida Statutes, F.S.”
State v. Manatee Cnty. Port Auth., 171 So. 2d 169 (Fla. 1965). “It is clear that it is contemplated that the port facilities to be constructed are those specifically defined by Section 315.02(6), Florida Statutes, F.S.”
Anderson v. O'BRIEN, 524 P.2d 390 (Wash. 1974). “Section 315.02(6), Florida Statutes, F.S.”
Dept. of Revenue v. Canaveral Port Auth., 642 So. 2d 1097 (Fla. 5th DCA 1994). “§ 315.02(6), Fla. Stat. (1991). The legislature has defined the term "port facilities" broadly, but not, we think, so broadly as to embrace property on which commercial activity is being carried on by private lessees at the port facility.”
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