Florida Statutes

Fla. Stat. § 447.11 (2025)

Actions and suits; labor organizations as parties.

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447.11 Actions and suits; labor organizations as parties.—Any labor organization may maintain any action or suit in its commonly used name and shall be subject to any suit or action in its commonly used name in the same manner and to the same extent as any corporation authorized to do business in this state. All process, pleadings and other papers in such action may be served on the president or other officer, business agent, manager or person in charge of the business of such labor organization. Judgment in such action may be enforced against the common property only of such labor organization.

History.—s. 11, ch. 21968, 1943.

Note.—Former s. 481.11.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 7 cases, 1963–1984 · leading case: LOCAL NO. 666 v. Dennis, 453 So. 2d 1138 (Fla. 4th DCA 1984).

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LOCAL NO. 666 v. Dennis, 453 So. 2d 1138 (Fla. 4th DCA 1984). · cites it 2× “See also § 447.11, Fla. Stat. (1983). Semble: Hauser v.”

CANNERY, C., D., W. & A. EMP. v. Winter Haven Hosp., Inc., 279 So. 2d 23 (Fla. 1973). · cites it 2× “We are thus concerned only with a general grant of "capacity to sue", conferred by Section 447.11, Florida Statutes, 1971, F.”

Diluzio v. United Elec., Radio & Mach. Wkrs. of Am., 435 N.E.2d 1027 (Mass. 1982). “10, § 3904 (1974); Fla. Stat. § 447.11 (1979); Ga. Code Ann.”

Am. Fed'n of Musicians, Local 806 v. City of West Palm Beach, 179 So. 2d 134 (Fla. 2d DCA 1965). · cites it 4× “*135 By its complaint, Local 806 alleges that the action was brought in its name under and by virtue of section 447.11, Florida Statutes Annotated, and that plaintiff is composed of musicians, either active or inactive, who meet at regular times for discussion of their personal…”

DiLuzio v. United Elec., Radio & Mach. Workers of Am., 435 N.E.2d 1027 (Mass. 1982). “10, § 3904 (1974); Fla. Stat. § 447.11 (1979); Ga. Code Ann.”

Delgadillo v. Yera, 206 So. 2d 455 (Fla. 3d DCA 1968). · cites it 2× “This is an interlocutory appeal from an order entered, upon rehearing, that quashed the service of process theretofore made, pursuant to § 447.11, Fla.Stat., F.S.A., on Rose Mary Coppola as business agent, manager, or person in charge of the business of the defendant,…”

Hescom, Inc. v. Stalvey, 155 So. 2d 3 (Fla. 1st DCA 1963). “Section 447.11, F.S.A. . Local Union No. 519 of United Ass’n of Journeymen and Apprentices of Plumbing and Pipefitting Industry of United States and Canada v.”

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