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Florida Statute 320.57 - Full Text and Legal Analysis Florida Statute 320.57 | Lawyer Caselaw & Research
Fla. Stat. § 320.57 (2026) Copy Cite Official Site Syfertize CourtListener Amendments
320.57 Penalties for violations of this chapter.
(1) Any person convicted of violating any of the provisions of this chapter is, unless otherwise provided herein, guilty of a misdemeanor of the second degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083.
(2) The owner of a truck tractor and semitrailer combination or commercial truck and trailer combination, the actual gross vehicle weight of which exceeds the declared weight for registration purposes, is required to pay to the department the difference between the license tax amount paid and the required license tax due for the proper gross vehicle weight prescribed by s. 320.08(4), plus a civil penalty of $50.
History.s. 26, ch. 7275, 1917; RGS 5605; s. 14, ch. 8410, 1921; s. 7, ch. 10186, 1925; CGL 7792, 7793; s. 202, ch. 71-136; s. 54, ch. 83-318; s. 44, ch. 87-198.

Arrestable Offenses under F.S. 320.57

M = misdemeanor · F = felony · degree: F=1st S=2nd T=3rd
§320.57(1)NONMOVING TRAFFIC VIOLVIOL OF MOTOR VEH LIC REG NOT SPECIFIEDM · 2nd

Cases Citing F.S. 320.57

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·Orme v. Burr Burch v. Burr, 25 So. 2d 870 (Fla. 1946).

Cited 50 times | Published | Supreme Court of Florida | 157 Fla. 378, 1946 Fla. LEXIS 751

jail sentence not exceeding three months. (Section 320.57 F.S. 1941) The trial court mentioned this statute
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DistinguishedFoster (1967)
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Cited as authorityMoeckel (1992)
phrase: "rule_authority"
Cited with approvalAnderson (1968)
phrase: "cited with approval"
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·State v. Copher, 395 So. 2d 635 (Fla. 2d DCA 1981).

Cited 3 times | Published | Florida 2nd District Court of Appeal

...HOBSON, A.C.J., and DANAHY, J., concur. NOTES [1] Section 319.33(5) provides in pertinent part: "Any person who violates any provision of this section shall be guilty of a felony of the third degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084." [2] Section 320.57 provides: "Any person convicted of violating any of the provisions of this chapter shall, unless otherwise provided herein, be guilty of a misdemeanor of the second degree, punishable as provided in s....
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Cited as authorityMincieli (1994)
phrase: "rule_authority"
Review denied(citing case) (1991)
phrase: "review denied"
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·Riggins v. State, 67 So. 3d 244 (Fla. 2d DCA 2010).

Cited 1 times | Published | Florida 2nd District Court of Appeal | 2010 Fla. App. LEXIS 17177, 2010 WL 4484629

...inadmissible hearsay. I. Operating an Unregistered Vehicle Section 320.02(1), Florida Statutes (2008), requires that every owner or “person in charge of a motor vehicle that is operated or driven on the roads of this state” register the vehicle. Section 320.57(1) provides that any person convicted of violating any of the provisions of chapter 320 is guilty of a second-degree misdemeanor unless otherwise provided....
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Cited as authority(citing case) (2024)
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Cited as authorityJones (2013)
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·United States v. Reginald Graham (11th Cir. 2024).

Published | Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

Argued: Jan 19, 2023

...Brooks, 295 So. 3d 348, 350, 352–53 (Fla. 2d DCA 2020) (reversing the trial court’s suppression of a firearm because the officers seized it incident to a lawful arrest for driving an unregistered vehicle); Fla. Stat. § 320.57(1) (making a violation of § 320.02 a second-de- gree misdemeanor and referencing statutes setting the available punishments)....
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Cited as authority(citing case) (2026)
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Cited as authority(citing case) (2026)
phrase: "rule_authority"
Cited as authoritySaunders (2026)
phrase: "rule_authority"
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·Vaughn v. State, 176 So. 3d 354 (Fla. 1st DCA 2015).

Cited 1 times | Published | Florida 1st District Court of Appeal | 2015 Fla. App. LEXIS 13617, 2015 WL 5306180

...se by failing to maintain an up-to-date registration. See § 320.02(4), Fla. Stat.- (2014) (“The owner of any motor vehicle registered in the state shall notify the department in writing of any change of address within 20 days of such change.”); § 320.57(1), Fla....
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Ellis v. State, 935 So. 2d 29 (Fla. 2d DCA 2006).

Published | Florida 2nd District Court of Appeal | 2006 Fla. App. LEXIS 10622, 2006 WL 1752252

...NORTHCUTT, J., Concurs specially with opinion. . Violation of section 320.02(1), which requires owners or persons in charge of a motor vehicle operated or driven on the roads of this state to register the vehicle in the state, is a second-degree misdemeanor pursuant to section 320.57(1), Florida Statutes (1997)....
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Willis v. State, 762 So. 2d 1005 (Fla. 5th DCA 2000).

Published | Florida 5th District Court of Appeal | 2000 Fla. App. LEXIS 8527, 2000 WL 904907

...the registration on his person, and section 320.02, which requires an owner of a motor vehicle to have the vehicle registered in the state. Sections 316.605(1) and 320.0605(1) are noncriminal traffic offenses; section 320.02 is *1007 a misdemeanor. § 320.57(1),, Fla....
...State, 710 So.2d 651 (Fla. 4 th DCA 1998); Powell v. State, 649 So.2d 888 (Fla. 2d DCA 1995). The order denying the motion to suppress determined that Willis had been “properly arrested for violation of F.S. 320.605[sic], a misdemeanor of the second degree. F.S. 320.57(1).” The order concluded that because the arrest was for a criminal offense, the search was proper....
...Because violation of section 320.02 is a criminal offense, its violation justified the search and legitimized the subsequent discovery of contraband in Willis’s vehicle. 4 AFFIRMED. DAUKSCH and COBB, JJ„ concur. . § 893.13(6)(a), Fla. Stat. (1997). . §§ 320.02(1) and 320.57, Fla. Stat. (1997). . Section 320.57(1) provides that any person convicted of violating chapter 320 is guilty of a misdemeanor of the second degree, "unless otherwise provided herein " (emphasis added)....
...Section 320.0605 provides that a "violation of this section is a noncriminal traffic infraction, punishable as a nonmoving violation as provided in chapter 318.” In contrast, violation of § 320.02 does not contain a provision opting it out of the misdemeanor classification of section 320.57. Hence, it is a criminal misdemeanor. . .,§ 320.57, Fla....

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