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The 2025 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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Bannon v. Port of Palm Beach District

246 So. 2d 737

Supreme Court of Florida | Filed: Mar 31, 1971 | Docket: 1329216

Cited 59 times | Published

the lease was a "port facility" as defined in § 315.02(6), Florida Statutes, F.S.A., that the Port District

State v. Manatee County Port Authority

171 So. 2d 169

Supreme Court of Florida | Filed: Jan 20, 1965 | Docket: 1237806

Cited 9 times | Published

constructed are those specifically defined by Section 315.02(6), Florida Statutes, F.S.A. Nowhere does it

Dept. of Revenue v. Canaveral Port Auth.

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

District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: Aug 19, 1994 | Docket: 549227

Cited 6 times | Published

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

Jackson-Shaw Co. v. Jacksonville Aviation Authority

510 F. Supp. 2d 691, 2007 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 844, 2007 WL 61059

District Court, M.D. Florida | Filed: Jan 8, 2007 | Docket: 2449910

Cited 2 times | Published

business used by the airport authority). [40] Section 315.02(5) defines "governing body" as "the board or

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Florida Attorney General Reports | Filed: Jan 31, 2008 | Docket: 3257795

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

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Florida Attorney General Reports | Filed: Apr 25, 2000 | Docket: 3257989

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