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The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XXX
SOCIAL WELFARE
Chapter 425
RURAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIVES
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425.045 Meetings of trustees; records.
(1) All meetings of any board of trustees of a cooperative organized pursuant to this chapter, or the board of any affiliated company or subsidiary thereof, at which official acts are to be taken, are declared to be meetings open to the membership of such cooperative at all times, and no formal action shall be considered binding except as taken or made at an open meeting. The minutes of a meeting of any such cooperative board or board of any affiliated company or subsidiary thereof shall be promptly recorded, and such records shall be open to inspection by any cooperative member. Reasonable notice of meetings shall be provided to the membership. The circuit courts of this state shall have jurisdiction to issue injunctions to enforce the purposes of this section upon application by any cooperative member.
(2) Every person who has custody of the records of a cooperative organized pursuant to this chapter, or any affiliated company or subsidiary thereof, shall permit the records to be inspected and examined by any member of such cooperative desiring to do so, at any reasonable time, under reasonable conditions, and under supervision by the custodian of the records or the custodian’s designee. The custodian shall furnish a copy of the records upon payment of the actual cost of duplication of the records. This section shall not apply to records which constitute proprietary confidential business information as defined in s. 366.093.
(3) If any provision of this act or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of the act which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end the provisions of this act are declared severable.
History.s. 17, ch. 89-292; s. 24, ch. 95-144; s. 91, ch. 97-103.

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Lee Cnty. Elec. Coop., Inc. v. Cook, 604 So. 2d 911 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1992).

Published | District Court of Appeal of Florida | 1992 Fla. App. LEXIS 9385, 1992 WL 213147

...For example, the requested documents included “records of income and expenses over the last three years,” and “pay records of any employee who earns in excess of $70,000.” The petition was dismissed on March 2, 1992, without prejudice to the plaintiffs to file an amended pleading seeking injunctive relief, because section 425.045 specifies enforcement by injunction rather than mandamus....
...Hackett, 438 So.2d 1074 (Fla.2d DCA 1983) (“discovery which amounts to obtaining ultimate relief sought in the action is not permitted until a right to that relief has been determined”). Although the plaintiffs are clearly entitled to obtain some records from the cooperative pursuant to section 425.045(1), (2), Florida Statutes (1991), the scope and extent of the available records is somewhat unclear on the face of the statute, and we have found no case law interpreting this new statute....
...In light of the scant record in this case, we will not speculate as to which records might be in existence and which of those records the legislature intended to be subject to inspection under the statute. Reversed and remanded. DANAHY, A.C.J., and BENTLEY, E. RANDOLPH, Associate Judge, concur. . Sections 425.045(1) and (2), Florida Statutes (1991), provide: 425.045 Meetings of trustees; records.— (1) All meetings of any board of trustees of a cooperative organized pursuant to this chapter, or the board of any affiliated company or subsidiary thereof, at which official acts are to be taken, are declare...

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