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The 2023 Florida Statutes (including Special Session C)

Title XXXV
AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE, AND ANIMAL INDUSTRY
Chapter 590
FOREST PROTECTION
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F.S. 590.28
590.28 Intentional or reckless burning of lands.
(1) Whoever intentionally burns, sets fire to, or causes to be burned or causes any fire to be set to, any wild land or vegetative land clearing debris not owned by, or in the lawful possession of, the person setting such fire or burning such lands or causing such fire to be set or lands to be burned without complying with s. 590.125, commits a felony of the third degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084.
(2) Whoever recklessly burns, sets fire to, or causes to be burned any wild lands not owned by, or in the lawful possession of, the person setting the fire or burning the lands or causing the fire to be set or lands to be burned, commits a misdemeanor of the second degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083.
History.s. 1, ch. 29919, 1955; s. 15, ch. 99-292; s. 33, ch. 2000-308.

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F.S. 590.28 on Casetext

Amendments to 590.28


Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 590.28
Level: Degree
Misdemeanor/Felony: First/Second/Third

S590.28 1 - CONSERVATION-ENVIRONMENT - MALICIOUS LAND BURNING - F: T
S590.28 2 - CONSERVATION-ENVIRONMENT - RECKLESS LAND BURNING - M: S



Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

Cases from cite.case.law:

WRIGHT v. TOWER LOAN OF MISSISSIPPI, INC. d b a, 679 F.2d 436 (5th Cir. 1982)

. . . Using the same approach, he calculated Shavers’s actual finance charge to be $590.28. . . .

HORNSBY, v. STATE, 352 So. 2d 954 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1977)

. . . State, 90 So.2d 449 (Fla.1956), the Supreme Court addressed this issue, viz: “Section 590.28, Florida . . .

J. B. HARRIS, v. STATE, 93 So. 2d 725 (Fla. 1957)

. . . Harris, was' charged with violation of Sec. 590.28(1), Florida Statutes 1955, F.S.A. under an information . . . Sec. 590.28(1), Florida Statutes 1955, F.S.A. reads as follows: “Whoever wilfully, maliciously or intentionally . . . In that case we held, on page 452, that “Section 590.28, Florida Statutes 1955, F.S.A., by its terms . . . In the case before us the intent specified in Sec. 590.28(2), F.S.1955, F.S.A. was neither alleged in . . . The State, in the brief of the Attorney General,-contends that the information was drafted under Sec. 590.28 . . .

SHEFFIELD, v. STATE, 90 So. 2d 449 (Fla. 1956)

. . . Section 590.28, Florida Statutes 1955, F.S.A., reads as follows: “590.28 Willful, malicious or intentional . . . The penalty for a violation of Section 590.28, Florida Statutes, F.S.A., is imprisonment in the state . . . It is the position of the State that Section 590.28, supra, which was enacted as Chapter 29919, Laws . . . However, we cannot agree that Section 590.28, Florida Statutes, was intended by the Legislature as a . . . As an alternative to its contention that Section 590.28, Florida Statutes 1955, F.S.A., governs the case . . .