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The 2024 Florida Statutes (including 2025 Special Session C)

Title XXXVI
BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS

Chapter 609
COMMON-LAW DECLARATIONS OF TRUST

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F.S. 609.01

609.01 Common-law declaration of trust.—Two or more persons, whether residents of this state or not, may organize and associate themselves together for the purpose of transacting business in this state under what is commonly designated or known as a “declaration of trust”; provided, however, no such association shall ever be permitted or authorized to transact a banking or security business, of any kind, in this state.

History.—s. 1, ch. 9125, 1923; s. 1, ch. 11995, 1927; CGL 7091.

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