Florida Statute 545.02 | Lawyer Caselaw & Research

The 2024 Florida Statutes

Title XXXIII
REGULATION OF TRADE, COMMERCE, INVESTMENTS, AND SOLICITATIONS

Chapter 545
COMBINATIONS RESTRICTING FINANCING OF MOTOR VEHICLES

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F.S. 545.02

545.02 Contracts designating finance company through which sale of motor vehicle to be financed declared void.—It is unlawful for any manufacturer or wholesale distributor of motor vehicles to sell or contract for the sale of motor vehicles to any motor vehicle dealer on the condition, or with the agreement or understanding, expressed or implied, that such dealer shall in any manner finance the purchase or sale of any one or number of motor vehicles only through a designated finance company or shall sell and assign the conditional sales contracts or chattel mortgages or other paper arising from the sale of motor vehicles or any one or number thereof only to a designated finance company, when the effect of the condition, agreement or understanding so entered into may be to lessen or eliminate competition, or create or tend to create a monopoly in the finance company who is designated, by virtue of such condition, agreement or understanding to finance the purchase or sale of motor vehicles, or to purchase such conditional sales contract, chattel mortgages or other paper, and any such condition, agreement, or understanding is declared to be void and against the public policy of this state.

History.—s. 1, ch. 18031, 1937; CGL 1940 Supp. 4151(460).

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Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

Cases Citing Statute 545.02

Total Results: 11

In Re: Standard Jury Instructions in Criminal Cases-Report 2016-09

Court: Fla. | Date Filed: 2017-04-27T00:00:00-07:00

Citation: 216 So. 3d 497

Snippet: into Florida] a certain substance. *545 2. The substance was [oxycodone] [a mixture containing

In Re: Standard Jury Instructions in Criminal Cases – Report No. 2013-06

Court: Fla. | Date Filed: 2014-11-25T23:53:00-08:00

Snippet: MORTGAGE FRAUD § 817.545(2) & (5), Fla. Stat. In order to prove…lending process exceeded $100,000. § 817.545(2)(a) & (b), Fla. Stat. Omissions on a loan

In Re STANDARD JURY INSTRUCTIONS IN CRIMINAL CASES— REPORT NO. 2013-06

Court: Fla. | Date Filed: 2014-08-28T00:00:00-07:00

Citation: 148 So. 3d 1204

Snippet: adopted in 2014. 20.20 MORTGAGE FRAUD § 817.545(2) & (5), Fla. Stat. In order to prove the

Adam Smith Enterprises, Inc. v. STATE, DEPT. OF ENV. REG.

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 1989-11-21T23:53:00-08:00

Citation: 553 So. 2d 1260

Snippet: subsequent conduct of the rulemaking proceeding. § 120.545(2), Fla. Stat. An objection to the proposed rule,

Caswell v. Nethery

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 1972-02-10T00:00:00-08:00

Citation: 258 So. 2d 49

Snippet: appeal dismissed. See Edenfield v. Crisp, 186 So.2d 545 (2 Fla. DCA 1966). SPECTOR, C. J., and RAWLS and JOHNSON

North West Trailer Sales v. McCann

Court: Fla. | Date Filed: 1968-12-16T00:00:00-08:00

Citation: 217 So. 2d 310

Snippet: Fla.1957), cert. denied, 355 U.S. 959, 78 S.Ct. 545, 2 L.Ed. 2d 534. Hammersla v. Price, 190 So.2d 765

Variety Children's Hospital v. Magee

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 1960-02-08T00:00:00-08:00

Citation: 117 So. 2d 753

Snippet: re Washington’s Estate, Fla.1952, 56 So.2d 545. Those two propositions mark the principal divergent contentions

In Re Yost's Estate

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 1960-02-07T23:53:00-08:00

Citation: 117 So. 2d 753

Snippet: Washington's Estate, Fla. 1952, 56 So.2d 545. Those two propositions mark the principal divergent contentions

Martin v. Wilson

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 1959-11-04T23:53:00-08:00

Citation: 115 So. 2d 573

Snippet: 312; Walker v. Landress, 111 Fla. 356, 149 So. 545. [2] Walker v. Landress, see note 1. [3] Section

Ex parte Beville

Court: Fla. | Date Filed: 1909-06-15T00:00:00-08:00

Citation: 58 Fla. 170

Snippet: State v. Woodrow, 58 W. Va. 527, 52 S. E. Rep. 545, 2 L. R. A. (N. S.) 862, and notes, 6 Am. & Eng

Keigans v. State

Court: Fla. | Date Filed: 1906-06-15T00:00:00-08:00

Citation: 52 Fla. 57

Snippet: text 784; Baker v. Chatfield, 23 Fla. 540, text 545, 2 South. Rep. 822; Parrish v. Pensacola & A.