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The 2024 Florida Statutes

Title XXXIV
ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES AND TOBACCO
Chapter 562
BEVERAGE LAW: ENFORCEMENT
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F.S. 562.50
562.50 Habitual drunkards; furnishing intoxicants to, after notice.Any person who shall sell, give away, dispose of, exchange, or barter any alcoholic beverage, or any essence, extract, bitters, preparation, compound, composition, or any article whatsoever under any name, label, or brand, which produces intoxication, to any person habitually addicted to the use of any or all such intoxicating liquors, after having been given written notice by wife, husband, father, mother, sister, brother, child, or nearest relative that said person so addicted is an habitual drunkard and that the use of intoxicating drink or drinks is working an injury to the person using said liquors, or to the person giving said written notice, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor of the second degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083.
History.s. 1, ch. 22633, 1945; s. 576, ch. 71-136; s. 2, ch. 72-230.

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Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 562.50
Level: Degree
Misdemeanor/Felony: First/Second/Third

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Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

Cases Citing Statute 562.50

Total Results: 20

Hayes Robertson Group v. Cherry

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2018-12-11T23:53:00-08:00

Snippet: section 562.50. An amendment removed the conviction requirement and direct link to section 562.50, and …follow the “habitual drunkard” statute, section 562.50. Liability for serving a “habitual drunkard” was…and the statute 5 This statute, section 562.50, Florida Statutes (2018), was originally enacted in …of a misdemeanor of the second degree . . . .” § 562.50. 11 …retained the written notice requirement of section 562.50, was quashed by the Supreme Court of Florida in

Bank of New York Mellon Trust Co. v. Fitzgerald

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2017-03-01T00:00:00-08:00

Citation: 215 So. 3d 116, 2017 WL 815352, 2017 Fla. App. LEXIS 2757

Snippet: fees, $2,728.45 in pre-judgment interest, and $3,562.50 for expert witness fees, for a total amount of

MONTAGE GROUP v. Athle-Tech Computer Sys.

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2004-12-15T00:00:00-08:00

Citation: 889 So. 2d 180, 2004 WL 2892394

Snippet: 971,586.25 Business damages $ 2,909,562.50 Unjust enrichment $ 8,900,000.00 …The jury's verdict awarded Athle-Tech $2,909,562.50 in business damages against the Defendants based…jury's award for business damages was $2,909,562.50, a substantially lesser amount. Although the parties… business damages award in the amount of $2,909,562.50 and the unjust enrichment award in the amount of… business damages award in the amount of $2,909,562.50. We also reverse the $8.9 million award for unjust

Temple v. Aujla

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 1996-10-25T00:53:00-07:00

Citation: 681 So. 2d 1198

Snippet: bartender claimed that such action violated section 562.50, Florida Statutes (1985), which states in relevant…punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083. § 562.50, Fla. Stat. (1985). The bartender urged the court

Persen v. Southland Corp.

Court: Fla. | Date Filed: 1995-05-11T00:00:00-07:00

Citation: 656 So. 2d 453, 20 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 218, 1995 Fla. LEXIS 732, 1995 WL 273932

Snippet: liability for injury caused by the drunkard. § 562.50, Fla.Stat. (1991). However, the language tying …whether written notice as required under section 562.50 was a requisite to proving that a vendor “knowingly…any alcoholic beverage to a habitual drunkard. § 562.50. Moreover, the petitioners cite to no decision

Roster v. Moulton

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 1992-07-08T00:53:00-07:00

Citation: 602 So. 2d 975

Snippet: which they asserted was required under section 562.50, Florida Statutes (1988).[1] The court granted …specific requirement for written notice under section 562.50, Florida Statutes. See Ellis v. N.G.N. of Tampa

United States v. McGurn

Court: Fla. | Date Filed: 1992-04-01T23:53:00-08:00

Citation: 596 So. 2d 1038

Snippet: was pending, the liquor license was sold for $23,562.50, and the proceeds placed in an interest-bearing

Decker v. National Financial Realty Trust

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 1991-12-18T00:00:00-08:00

Citation: 589 So. 2d 1045, 1991 Fla. App. LEXIS 12523, 1991 WL 269751

Snippet: and a habitual drunkard as required by section 562.50, Florida Statutes (1991). The trial court entered…required to establish the criminal offense in section 562.50 is not a requisite to proving knowingly as a predicate

Ellis v. NGN of Tampa, Inc.

Court: Fla. | Date Filed: 1991-09-19T00:53:00-07:00

Citation: 586 So. 2d 1042

Snippet: habitual drunkard's family as required by section 562.50, Florida Statutes (1987). The trial court granted…addiction had not been provided, as required by section 562.50. In reaching this conclusion, the district court…court of appeal determined that sections 562.50 and 768.125 must be read in pari materia because they deal…that the written notice requirement under section 562.50 is a prerequisite to recovery. I. To resolve this…sales to habitual drunkards is contained in section 562.50, Florida Statutes (1987), the pertinent part of

Ellis v. NGN of Tampa, Inc.

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 1990-04-18T00:53:00-07:00

Citation: 561 So. 2d 1209

Snippet: required as a predicate to liability in section 562.50, Florida Statutes (1987). The complaint was dismissed…our analysis of the relationship between section 562.50, found in the chapter titled "Beverage Law…Negligence."[1] The two sections read as follows: 562.50 Habitual drunkards; furnishing intoxicants to, …the intoxication of such minor or person. Section 562.50 is primarily a criminal statute since it specifies…that the written notice prerequisite of section 562.50 be maintained in the application of section 768.125

Ochab v. Morrison, Inc.

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 1987-12-29T23:53:00-08:00

Citation: 517 So. 2d 763

Snippet: legislative intent from the provisions of section 562.50, Florida Statutes (1985). We perceive no such clear

Pritchard v. Jax Liquors, Inc.

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 1986-12-23T23:53:00-08:00

Citation: 499 So. 2d 926

Snippet: received written notice as required by § 562.50. We agree. Section 562.50 is a criminal statute which provides…Hinnant was an habitual drunkard as required by § 562.50, Fla. Stat. The motion also asserted that § 768.125…granted Jax's motion to dismiss. It found that § 562.50, which requires written notice as a *928 prerequisite…Pritchard contends that it is not necessary that § 562.50 and § 768.125 be read and construed in pari materia… times for entirely different purposes. Section 562.50 was enacted in 1945 and subjects the provider of

Roberts v. Roman

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 1984-10-12T00:00:00-07:00

Citation: 457 So. 2d 578, 9 Fla. L. Weekly 2184, 1984 Fla. App. LEXIS 15328

Snippet: statute here, section 562.50, Florida Statutes (1979), were not met. Section 562.50 states in part: Any

Crosby v. Fleming & Sons, Inc.

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 1984-03-01T23:53:00-08:00

Citation: 447 So. 2d 347

Snippet: wages, $160,300.77 for future lost wages, and $150,562.50 for pain and suffering, the sum total being $364,654.63

Lonestar Florida, Inc. v. Cooper

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 1982-01-12T23:53:00-08:00

Citation: 408 So. 2d 758

Snippet: at the time in question were Sections 562.11 and 562.50, Florida Statutes (1979). These statutes prohibited

Jemco, Inc. v. United Parcel Service, Inc.

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 1981-06-02T00:00:00-07:00

Citation: 400 So. 2d 499

Snippet: trial court awarded UPS attorneys' fees of $71,562.50. This amount consisted of two awards: (1) $11,750.00

State v. Wadsworth

Court: Fla. | Date Filed: 1968-05-01T00:53:00-07:00

Citation: 210 So. 2d 4

Snippet: apparently considers it a matter of habit. See § 562.50, Fla. Stat., F.S.A. prohibiting the supplying of

Mass v. Gordon

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 1958-03-13T00:00:00-08:00

Citation: 101 So. 2d 836, 1958 Fla. App. LEXIS 2740

Snippet: to the plaintiff for the purchase price of $17,562.50, as shown by the statement rendered by the plaintiff…for the plaintiff for the price of the stock ($17,562.50) with interest, after deducting therefrom the market…should be deducted from the purchase price of $17,562.50, and that the interest which the jury had been …of reducing the amount of the judgment from $17,562.50 to $15,654.63. - . That order of the court on the

Kellogg-Citizens National Bank of Green Bay v. Felton

Court: Fla. | Date Filed: 1940-11-19T00:00:00-08:00

Citation: 199 So. 50, 145 Fla. 68, 1940 Fla. LEXIS 903

Snippet: of Green Bay, a corporation, for the sum of $1,562.50, besides costs, be and the same is hereby quashed

Clay v. Girdner

Court: Fla. | Date Filed: 1931-10-16T00:00:00-08:00

Citation: 138 So. 490, 103 Fla. 135

Snippet: made payable in 10 years, with interest notes of $562.50 each made payable every six months. The bill of… to pay the two first interest coupon notes of $562.50 each maturing September 1, 1929, and (2) Failure…payable, two certified checks each in the sum of $562.50 payable respectively to plaintiffs, with instructions