The 2023 Florida Statutes (including Special Session C)

Title XXXIV
ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES AND TOBACCO

Chapter 568
INTOXICATING LIQUORS IN COUNTIES WHERE PROHIBITED

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F.S. 568.04

568.04 Maintaining place of business for sale of liquors in counties where prohibited.—It is unlawful for anyone to keep or maintain a place where intoxicating liquors, wines, or beer are sold in any county that has voted against the sale of intoxicating liquors, wines or beer.

History.—s. 3, ch. 18016, 1937; CGL 1940 Supp. 7648(12).

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Amendments to 568.04

Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 568.04

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

Current data shows no reason an arrest or criminal charge should have occurred directly under Florida Statute 568.04.

Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

Cases from cite.case.law:

ASHLEY, v. STATE, 925 So. 2d 1117 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2006)

. . . evidence did not sufficiently establish that he did keep or maintain the kind of place condemned in Sec. 568.04 . . . beyond a reasonable doubt that he did ‘keep and maintain a place’ of the variety condemned by Sec. 568.04 . . .

LAMB, v. STATE, 151 So. 2d 884 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1963)

. . . “That is brought under Section 568.04 of the Florida Statutes which provides: ‘It is unlawful for anyone . . .

POLSTON, v. STATE, 137 So. 2d 602 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1962)

. . . evidence did not sufficiently establish that he did keep or maintain the kind of place condemned in Sec. 568.04 . . . beyond a reasonable doubt that he did “keep and maintain a place” of the variety condemned by Sec. 568.04 . . .