Florida/Georgia Personal Injury & Workers Compensation

...ns." Sections in each chapter cross-reference the other. The Chapters have been amended in the same session laws. Viewed together, Chapters 318 and 322 comprise the legislative scheme for regulating the privilege to drive a motor vehicle in Florida. Section 322.263, Florida Statutes (1995), expressly declares the legislative intent underlying all of Chapter 322: It is declared to be the legislative intent to: (1) Provide maximum safety for all persons who travel or otherwise use the public highways of the state....

...01(10), unless adjudication *294 has been withheld pursuant to the procedures of section 318.14(10), for the three types of license suspensions enumerated in that section. This interpretation is consistent with the stated legislative intent found at section 322.263....

...ns." Sections in each chapter cross-reference the other. The Chapters have been amended in the same session laws. Viewed together, Chapters 318 and 322 comprise the legislative scheme for regulating the privilege to drive a motor vehicle in Florida. Section 322.263, Florida Statutes (1995), expressly declares the legislative intent underlying all of Chapter 322: It is declared to be the legislative intent to: (1) Provide maximum safety for all persons who travel or otherwise use the public highways of the state....

...322.01(10), unless adjudication has been withheld pursuant to the procedures of section 318.14(10), for the three types of license suspensions enumerated in that section. This interpretation is consistent with the stated legislative intent found at section 322.263....

...on public highways to persons who, by their conduct and record, have demonstrated their indifference for the safety and welfare of others and their disrespect for the laws of the state and the orders of the state courts and administrative agencies." § 322.263, Fla.Stat....

...Murphy, 658 N.E.2d at 350 (acknowledging license suspension is separate remedial proceeding from criminal prosecution). We disagree with the reasoning in these cases which does not affect our interpretation of the clear legislative intent enunciated in Section 322.263, and Florida's strong public policy in preventing motor vehicle crashes caused by alcohol impaired drivers.

...se, is made mandatory by statute, reinstatement is an administrative function over which the trial court has no discretion. Cf. Smith, 93 So.2d at 107; Vogt, 489 So.2d at 1170. The declared legislative intent of Chapter 322 is to protect the public. § 322.263, Fla....

...ignity of the state, its political subdivisions, and its municipalities and impose increased and added deprivation of the privilege of operating motor vehicles upon habitual offenders who have been convicted repeatedly of violations of traffic laws. § 322.263, Fla....

...tunity to obtain hardship licenses for drivers with four DUI convictions. Both these provisions, however, also serve the Legislature's stated purpose of protecting those traveling the highways by removing those who persist in endangering others. See § 322.263, Fla....

...As explained earlier, the Legislature has expressly stated the purpose behind chapter 322: "Provid[ing] maximum safety for all persons" on the highway and "deny[ing] the [driving] privilege" to those incapable of exercising that privilege without endangering the safety of others. § 322.263, Fla....

...Because he has been declared to be a habitual offender, he can be charged only under section 322.34(2)(a) which makes his violation punishable as a misdemeanor of the first degree on his first conviction after revocation. While it is true that the legislative intent as set forth in section 322.263(3), Florida Statutes (1995), was to discourage repetition of criminal action, it also ascribes as part of the legislative intent to "impose increased and added deprivation of the privilege of operating motor vehicles upon habitual offenders." § 322.263(3)....

indifference to the safety and welfare of others.” § 322.263(2). To enforce the revocation of- driver’s

...at make up the framework, as well as the language used by the Legislature and other considerations. See Bautista v. State, 863 So.2d 1180, 1186 (Fla. 2003). In the present case the intent we are seeking is specifically provided by the Legislature in section 322.263, Florida Statutes (2009)....

...the courts to direct the DHSMV “to withhold issuance of [a minor’s] driver license or driving privilege” under certain circumstances); § 322.091(1), Fla. Stat. (setting forth “eligibility requirements for driving privileges” for minors); § 322.263(2), Fla....

otherwise use the public highways of the state.” § 322.263(1), Fla. Stat. (1997). When the legislature announced

...the use of aspirin.” Id. Instead, the statute was to be “liberally construed to the end that the greatest force and effect may be given to its provisions for the promotion of public safety.” Id. (quoting § 322.42, Fla. Stat. (1997)); see also § 322.263(1), Fla....

...ffic offenses. § 322.264, Fla. Stat. (2012). A key purpose of this revocation provision is to "[d]eny the privilege of operating motor vehicles . . . to persons who . . . have demonstrated their indifference to the safety and welfare of others." § 322.263(2). To enforce the revocation of driver's licenses imposed on habitual traffic offenders, the legislature also added subsection (5) to section 322.34 in 1972....

...We note in closing that while it might appear that extending section 322.34(5) to driving without ever having had a license, as Carroll did, would better comport with the expressed legislative purpose to deter habitual traffic offenders, see § 322.263, one cannot say that interpreting the statute in accord with its plain language leads to absurd or unreasonable results....

...voked. Smith v. City of Gainesville, 93 So.2d 105 (Fla.1957). When that factor is considered together with the expressed legislative intent to “provide maximum safety for all persons who travel or otherwise use the public highways of the state,” Section 322.263(1), Florida Statutes (Supp.1982), the statutory scheme appears reasonable....

Indeed, the Legislative intent as set forth in § 322.263 is to deny the privilege of operating motor vehicles

...The revocation under the facts of this case furthers the legislative intent of keeping Florida drivers safe, denying the driving privilege to those who have demonstrated their indifference to the laws, and discouraging repetition of criminal action. See § 322.263, Fla....

...ivision of Driver Licenses had considered as convictions, be removed from petitioner’s driving record, without first determining whether a South Carolina bond estreature, if a conviction in South Carolina, would qualify as a conviction in Florida. Section 322.263, Florida Statutes (1977), expresses the legislative intent of the driver license laws: to provide maximum safety for all persons who travel or otherwise use Florida’s public highways; to deny the driving privilege to persons who, by...

...Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles 34 and Motor Vehicles, https://www.flhsmv.gov/about/department- history/ (last visited July 29, 2025); see also Shadler v. State, 761 So. 2d 279, 283 n.3 (Fla. 2000); § 322.263(1), (3), Fla....