The 2023 Florida Statutes (including Special Session C)

Title XXXV
AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE, AND ANIMAL INDUSTRY

Chapter 601
FLORIDA CITRUS CODE

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F.S. 601.99

601.99 Unlawful to misbrand wrappers or packages containing citrus fruit.—It is unlawful for any person to misbrand any package or any wrapper containing citrus fruits or any container of the canned or concentrated products thereof, and all citrus fruits and the canned or concentrated products thereof shall be deemed misbranded if the package or the wrapper or the container thereof shall bear any statement, design, or device regarding the fruit therein contained which is false or misleading either as to the name, size, quality, or brand of such fruit or the canned or concentrated products thereof or as to the locality in which it was grown.

History.—s. 99, ch. 25149, 1949.

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Amendments to 601.99

Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 601.99

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

S601.99 - FOOD-MISBRANDED - MISBRAND PACKAGES CONTAINING CITRUS FRUIT - M: F

Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

Cases from cite.case.law:

FLORIDA CITRUS COMMISSION v. E. OWENS, 239 So. 2d 840 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1969)

. . . “Section 601.99 refers to false or misleading statements as to name, size, quality, or brand, which is . . .

NATIONAL ELEVATOR CO. v. CHICAGO, M. ST. P. RY. CO., 246 F. 588 (8th Cir. 1917)

. . . that the company extorted from plaintiff upon said shipments in excess of the proper rates the sum of $601.99 . . . plaintiff has demanded refund of said sum, which has been refused, and the plaintiff asks judgment for'$601.99 . . .