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Fla. Stat. § 316.2025 (2025)

Following fire apparatus prohibited.

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316.2025 Following fire apparatus prohibited.—No driver of any vehicle other than an authorized emergency vehicle on official business shall follow any fire apparatus traveling in response to a fire alarm closer than 500 feet or drive into or park such vehicle within the block where fire apparatus has stopped in answer to a fire alarm. A violation of this section is a noncriminal traffic infraction, punishable pursuant to chapter 318 as a moving violation for following too close to a fire apparatus or as a nonmoving violation for parking near a fire apparatus.
History.—s. 1, ch. 71-135; s. 1, ch. 76-31; s. 155, ch. 99-248.
Note.—Former s. 316.095.

Civil Citations under F.S. 316.2025

Driver's license points · R = revocation · S = suspension
§316.2025Following FIRE apparatus WITHIN 500 feet3 pts
§316.2025Parking WITHIN ONE BLOCK of FIRE apparatus—

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