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Fla. Stat. § 366.01 (2025)
Legislative declaration.
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366.01 Legislative declaration.—The regulation of public utilities as defined herein is declared to be in the public interest and this chapter shall be deemed to be an exercise of the police power of the state for the protection of the public welfare and all the provisions hereof shall be liberally construed for the accomplishment of that purpose.
History.—s. 1, ch. 26545, 1951; s. 3, ch. 76-168; s. 1, ch. 77-457; s. 16, ch. 80-35; s. 2, ch. 81-318; ss. 20, 22, ch. 89-292; s. 4, ch. 91-429.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 15
cases (1 in the last 5 years), 1954–2023 · leading case: Citizens of the State of Florida v. Art Graham, etc., 191 So. 3d 897 (Fla. 2016).
Citizens of the State of Florida v. Art Graham, etc., 191 So. 3d 897 (Fla. 2016). “]” § 366.01, Fla. Stat. (2014). And “[t]his Court has consistently recognized the broad legislative grant of authority which these statutes confer and the considerable license the Commission enjoys as a result of this delegation.”
Sierra Club v. Julie Imanuel Brown, etc., 243 So. 3d 903 (Fla. 2018). “§ 366.01, Fla. Stat. (2017) (maintaining the original statute's language verbatim); see ch.”
Citizens of the State of Florida, etc. v. Florida Pub. Serv. Comm'n, 146 So. 3d 1143 (Fla. 2014). “See § 366.01, Fla. Stat. (2012) (declaring the regulation of public utilities to be in the public interest, and deeming Chapter 366 “to be an exercise of the police power of the state for the protection of the public welfare and all the provisions [thereof] shall be liberally…”
Ft. Pierce, Etc. v. Florida Pub. Serv. Com'n, 388 So. 2d 1031 (Fla. 1980). “This obligation, they say, arises from the legislative declaration contained in section 366.01, Florida Statutes (1977): Legislative declaration.”
Pub. Serv. Co. of Oklahoma v. State ex rel. Corp. Comm'n, 842 P.2d 750 (Okla. 1992). “The agreement was approved by the Florida Public Service Commission (PSC) pursuant to Fla. Stat. § 366.01 et seq., Florida’s equivalent to Oklahoma’s Certified Territory Act.”
State Ex Rel. Shevin v. Yarborough, 257 So. 2d 891 (Fla. 1972). “by virtue of Fla. Stat. § 366.01 , F.S.A., exercises the police power of the State for the protection of the public welfare and by its statutorily authorized Rule 25-1.”
Consol. Gas Co. of Florida, Inc. v. City Gas Co. of Florida, a Florida Corp., 912 F.2d 1262 (11th Cir. 1990). “Fla.Stat. § 366.01. Section 366.03 addresses the general duties of public utilities: “Each public utility shall furnish to each person applying therefore reasonably sufficient, adequate, and efficient service upon terms as required by the commission.”
Richter v. Florida Power Corp., 366 So. 2d 798 (Fla. 2d DCA 1979). “In § 366.01 the legislature has mandated that the regulation of public utilities "is declared to be in the public interest and this chapter .”
United Gas Pipe Line Co. v. Bevis, 336 So. 2d 560 (Fla. 1976). “[15] Section 366.01, Fla. Stat. (1973), declares the regulation of public utilities to be "an exercise of the police power of the state for the protection of the public welfare".”
Action Grp. v. Deason, 615 So. 2d 683 (Fla. 1993). “See also section 366.01, Florida Statutes (1991), which provides for the liberal construction of all provisions of the chapter for the *687 accomplishment of the regulation of public utilities and the protection of the public welfare.”
Peoples Gas Sys., Inc. v. City Gas Co., 167 So. 2d 577 (Fla. 3d DCA 1964). “§ 366.01 Fla. Stat., F.S.A. Thus, Chapters 542 and 366 are basically designed, through the exercise of the police power, to protect the public, but each in a different manner.”
Florida Power & Light Co. v. City of Miami, 72 So. 2d 270 (Fla. 1954). “In 1951 the Legislature enacted Chapter 26545, F.S.A. § 366.01 et seq., which contained the provision, in Sec.”
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