Florida Statute 425.03 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

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Title XXX
SOCIAL WELFARE

Chapter 425
RURAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIVES

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425.03 Definitions.—In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:

(1) “Rural area” means any area not included within the boundaries of any incorporated or unincorporated city, town, village, or borough having a population in excess of 2,500 persons;

(2) “Person” includes any natural person, firm, association, corporation, business trust, partnership, federal agency, state or political subdivision or agency thereof, or any body politic; and

(3) “Member” means each incorporator of a cooperative and each person admitted to and retaining membership therein, and shall include a husband and wife admitted to joint membership.

History.—s. 29, ch. 19138, 1939; CGL 1940 Supp. 6494(44).

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Gainesville-alachua, Etc. v. Clay Elec. Co-op., 340 So. 2d 1159 (Fla. 1976).

Cited 3 times | Published | Supreme Court of Florida

...Conversely, the Copeland Settlement meets the statutory definition of `rural area' which under the Rural Electric Cooperative Law `means any area not included within the boundaries of any incorporated or unincorporated city, town, village or borough having a population in excess of twenty-five hundred persons.' Section 425.03(1), Florida Statutes....

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Gainesville-Alachua Cnty. Reg'l Elec., Water & Sewer Utils. Bd. v. Clay Elec. Coop., Inc., 340 So. 2d 1159 (Fla. 1976).

Published | Supreme Court of Florida | 1976 Fla. LEXIS 4617

...Conversely, the Copeland Settlement meets the statutory definition of ‘rural area’ which under the Rural Electric Cooperative Law ‘means any area not included within the boundaries of any incorporated or unincorporated city, town, village or borough having a population in excess of twenty-five hundred persons.’ Section 425.03(1), Florida Statutes....

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Choctawhatchee Elec. Coop., Inc. v. Art Graham, etc., 132 So. 3d 208 (Fla. 2014).

Published | Supreme Court of Florida | 39 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 1, 2014 WL 68138, 2014 Fla. LEXIS 36

...(II) Approved Stipulations; (III) Boundaries of the Area That is the Subject of This Territorial Dispute; (IV) Commission’s Jurisdiction to Enforce or Apply Provisions of Chapter 425, F.S.; (V) Is Freedom Walk Development a “Rural Area” as Defined in Section 425.03(1), F.S.; (VI) If the Freedom Walk Development Is Not Found to be “Rural” in Nature, Is CHELCO Prohibited From Serving the Freedom Walk Development; (VII) Nature of the Freedom Walk Development; (VIII) Existing and Planned Load to...

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