Florida Statute 388.161 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XXIX
PUBLIC HEALTH

Chapter 388
MOSQUITO CONTROL

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F.S. 388.161

388.161 District boards of commissioners; powers and duties.—

(1) The board of commissioners may do any and all things necessary for the control and elimination of all species of mosquitoes and other arthropods of public health importance and the board of commissioners is specifically authorized to provide for the construction and maintenance of canals, ditches, drains, dikes, fills, and other necessary works and to install and maintain pumps, excavators, and other machinery and equipment, to use pesticides registered by the department but only in such quantities as may be necessary to control mosquito breeding and not be detrimental to fish life.

(2) The board of commissioners shall have all the powers of a body corporate, including the power to sue and be sued as a corporation in said name in any court; to contract, to adopt and use a common seal and alter same at pleasure, to purchase, hold, lease, and convey such real estate and personal property as said board may deem proper to carry out the purpose of this chapter; to acquire by gift real estate, personal property, and moneys and to employ a field director and such trained personnel, legal, clerical or otherwise, and laborers as may be required. The board of commissioners shall adopt such rules not inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter or with other legislation which in its judgment may be necessary for the proper enforcement of this chapter provided such rules are approved by the department.

History.—s. 2, ch. 59-195; ss. 19, 35, ch. 69-106; s. 158, ch. 77-147; s. 6, ch. 92-203; s. 5, ch. 2012-190.

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Cases Citing Statute 388.161

Total Results: 8

Florida Virtual School, etc. v. K12, Inc.

148 So. 3d 97, 39 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 569, 2014 WL 4638694, 2014 Fla. LEXIS 2823

Supreme Court of Florida | Filed: Sep 18, 2014 | Docket: 1272478

Cited 1 times | Published

name, and in any court having jurisdiction.”); § 388.161(2), Fla. Stat. (2013) *103 (the governing

Florida Virtualschool v. K12, Inc.

773 F.3d 233, 2014 WL 6436644

Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit | Filed: Nov 17, 2014 | Docket: 2603309

Published

court having juris *240 diction.”); § 388.161(2), Fla. Stat. (2013) (the governing body of a

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Florida Attorney General Reports | Filed: Nov 24, 2009 | Docket: 3258847

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inconsistent with the provisions of this act." Section 388.161(1), Florida Statutes, in setting forth the

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Florida Attorney General Reports | Filed: May 22, 2008 | Docket: 3258082

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District of St. Johns County set forth in section 388.161(2), Florida Statutes, is the authority to "employ

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Florida Attorney General Reports | Filed: Sep 22, 2005 | Docket: 3255940

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and duties for mosquito control districts. Section 388.161(2), Florida Statutes, provides that the board

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Florida Attorney General Reports | Filed: Dec 21, 1978 | Docket: 3258020

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a corporation in said name in any court.' Section 388.161(2), F. S. Section 388.131, F. S., requires

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Florida Attorney General Reports | Filed: Dec 23, 1974 | Docket: 3255818

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374.78(5) — Waterways Development Projects. Section 388.161(2) — Mosquito Control Districts. Section440

Holley v. Morris

206 So. 2d 669, 1968 Fla. App. LEXIS 6096

District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: Jan 23, 1968 | Docket: 64503921

Published

CARROLL, DONALD K., and RAWLS, JJ., concur. . F.S. § 388.161, F.S.A. . F.S. § 388.191, F.S.A. . 17A Am