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The 2025 Florida Statutes
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F.S. 320.61320.61 Licenses required of motor vehicle manufacturers, distributors, importers, etc.—(1) No manufacturer, factory branch, distributor, or importer (all sometimes referred to hereinafter as “licensee”) shall engage in business in this state without a license therefor as provided in ss. 320.60-320.70. No motor vehicle, foreign or domestic, may be sold, leased, or offered for sale or lease in this state unless the manufacturer, importer, or distributor of such motor vehicle, which issues an agreement to a motor vehicle dealer in this state, is licensed under ss. 320.60-320.70. (2) The department may prescribe an abbreviated application for renewal of a license if the licensee had previously filed an initial application pursuant to s. 320.63. The application for renewal shall include any information necessary to bring current the information required in the initial application. (3) All licenses shall be granted or refused within 30 days after application. (4) When a complaint of unfair or prohibited cancellation or nonrenewal of a dealer agreement is made by a motor vehicle dealer against a licensee and such complaint is pending pursuant to ss. 320.60-320.70, no replacement application for such agreement shall be granted and no license shall be issued by the department under s. 320.27 to any replacement dealer until a final decision is rendered on the complaint of unfair cancellation, so long as the dealer agreement of the complaining dealer is in effect as provided under s. 320.641(7). (5) Any manufacturer, distributor, or importer, who obtains a license under this section, is engaged in business in this state and is subject to the jurisdiction of the courts of this state pursuant to chapter 48. Any manufacturer not licensed under this section, who is a manufacturer of motor vehicles of a recognized line-make which are sold or leased in this state pursuant to a plan, system, or channel of distribution established, approved, authorized or known to the manufacturer, shall be subject to the jurisdiction of the courts of this state in any action seeking relief under or to enforce any of the remedies or penalties provided in ss. 320.60-320.70. History.—s. 2, ch. 20236, 1941; s. 5, ch. 70-424; s. 1, ch. 70-439; s. 3, ch. 76-168; s. 1, ch. 77-457; s. 20, ch. 78-95; ss. 4, 16, 17, ch. 80-217; ss. 2, 3, ch. 81-318; s. 2, ch. 84-69; ss. 5, 20, 21, ch. 88-395; s. 4, ch. 91-429; s. 20, ch. 2001-196; s. 3, ch. 2017-187.
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Annotations, Discussions, Cases:
Cases Citing Statute 320.61
Total Results: 8
748 So. 2d 993, 1999 WL 820573
Supreme Court of Florida | Filed: Oct 14, 1999 | Docket: 2517638
Cited 33 times | Published
person required to be licensed under section 320.61); § 320.61(1), Fla. Stat. (1993) (requiring manufacturers
290 So. 2d 576
District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: Feb 14, 1974 | Docket: 450882
Cited 4 times | Published
because "licensees" are only those licensed under Section 320.61 and dealers, as such, are not licensed under
102 So. 3d 739, 2012 Fla. App. LEXIS 21517
District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: Dec 14, 2012 | Docket: 60226774
Cited 1 times | Published
license tag, a second-degree misdemeanor. See § 320.061, Fla. Stat. (2009). Incident to arrest, they searched
897 F. Supp. 2d 1241, 2012 WL 4841734, 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 136660
District Court, N.D. Florida | Filed: Sep 20, 2012 | Docket: 65985495
Cited 1 times | Published
*1247Members must secure a license. See Fla. Stat. § 320.61, Fla. Stat. To maintain the license, the Members
898 F. Supp. 858, 1995 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 13358, 1995 WL 544743
District Court, M.D. Florida | Filed: Sep 8, 1995 | Docket: 65999262
Cited 1 times | Published
manufacturer and a licensee under § 320.61 of the Florida Statutes. Fla.Stat. § 320.61 (1993). A franchise agreement
677 So. 2d 974, 1996 Fla. App. LEXIS 8221, 1996 WL 441695
District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: Aug 7, 1996 | Docket: 64766497
Published
license plates (count III), in violation of section 320.061, Florida Statutes (1993), and false proof of
537 So. 2d 655, 14 Fla. L. Weekly 174, 1989 Fla. App. LEXIS 93, 1989 WL 1037
District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: Jan 12, 1989 | Docket: 64640044
Published
constitutional validity of a traffic stop based on section 320.061, Florida Statutes (1987), which proscribes
419 So. 2d 385, 1982 Fla. App. LEXIS 21166
District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: Sep 14, 1982 | Docket: 64592075
Published
about April 3, 1978, CHRYSLER, a licensee under Section 320.61, Florida Statutes, notified its franchise dealer
