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The 2024 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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Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 388.161
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Cases Citing Statute 388.161

Total Results: 10

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

Court: Supreme Court of Florida | Date Filed: 2014-09-18

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

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

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Court: Florida Attorney General Reports | Date Filed: 2009-11-24

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

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Court: Florida Attorney General Reports | Date Filed: 2008-05-22

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

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Court: Florida Attorney General Reports | Date Filed: 2005-09-22

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

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Court: Florida Attorney General Reports | Date Filed: 2002-04-19

Snippet: "www.collier-mosquito.org". 3 See, ss. 388.101, 388.161 — 191, Fla. Stat. 4 Section 112.061, Fla. Stat

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Court: Florida Attorney General Reports | Date Filed: 1985-05-31

Snippet: employment of director of mosquito control program); 388.161(1), F.S. (district board of commissioners may use

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Court: Florida Attorney General Reports | Date Filed: 1978-12-21

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

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Court: Florida Attorney General Reports | Date Filed: 1975-02-11

Snippet: deemed to be a "public quasi-corporation." See s. 388.161, and cf. Forbes Pioneer Boat Line v. Board of Com'rs

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Court: Florida Attorney General Reports | Date Filed: 1974-12-23

Snippet: 78(5) — Waterways Development Projects. Section 388.161(2) — Mosquito Control Districts. Section440.44(4)(a)

Holley v. Morris

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 1968-01-23

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

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