The 2023 Florida Statutes (including Special Session C)

Title XXXII
REGULATION OF PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS

Chapter 455
BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL REGULATION: GENERAL PROVISIONS

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F.S. 455.11

455.11 Qualification of immigrants for examination to practice a licensed profession or occupation.—

(1) It is the declared purpose of this section to encourage the use of foreign-speaking Florida residents duly qualified to become actively qualified in their professions so that all Florida citizens may receive better services.

(2) Any person who has successfully completed, or is currently enrolled in, an approved course of study created pursuant to chapters 74-105 and 75-177, Laws of Florida, shall be deemed qualified for examination and reexaminations for a professional or occupational license which shall be administered in the English language unless 15 or more such applicants request that said reexamination be administered in their native language. In the event that such reexamination is administered in a foreign language, the full cost to the board of preparing and administering same shall be borne by said applicants.

(3) Each board within the department shall adopt and implement programs designed to qualify for examination all persons who were resident nationals of the Republic of Cuba and who, on July 1, 1977, were residents of this state.

History.—ss. 1, 3, ch. 77-255; s. 5, ch. 79-36; s. 194, ch. 79-400; s. 5, ch. 92-149; s. 61, ch. 94-218.

Note.—Former s. 455.016.

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Amendments to 455.11

Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 455.11

Level: Degree
Misdemeanor/Felony: First/Second/Third

Current data shows no reason an arrest or criminal charge should have occurred directly under Florida Statute 455.11.

Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

Cases from cite.case.law:

v., 31 T.C. 1130 (T.C. 1959)

. . . bought insurance on his own life at “wholesale cost”; that he did not earn commissions in the amount of $455.11 . . . disputed commissions which, accrued to him on the insurance policies on his own life, in the amount of $455.11 . . . However, he deducted $455.11, and included in his taxable income only the net amount of $42,741.20. . . . The commissions on these policies for 1954 were in the aggregate amount of $455.11 ($335.70 for insurance . . . petitioner is properly chargeable with having received income in the amount of the so-called commissions of $455.11 . . .

UNITED STATES, JOHNSON, v. MORLEY CONST. CO., 17 F. Supp. 378 (W.D.N.Y. 1936)

. . . Rupp, deceased, filed an intervening petition claiming $34,-455.11 as a materialman. . . .