Florida Statute 616.19 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XXXVI
BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS

Chapter 616
PUBLIC FAIRS AND EXPOSITIONS

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616.19 Designation of fairs.—Any fair association created pursuant to this chapter shall be designated by the name stated in the permit required or stated by its fair association and is recognized by the state as equal in dignity to the Florida State Fair and as fully recognized as the Florida State Fair.

History.—ss. 1, 2, ch. 61-513; s. 2, ch. 81-318; ss. 16, 25, 26, ch. 83-239; ss. 22, 44, ch. 93-168; s. 17, ch. 2012-204.

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South Florida Fair & Palm Beach Cnty. Expositions, Inc v. Widley Joseph, 256 So. 3d 875 (Fla. 4th DCA 2018).

Published | Florida 4th District Court of Appeal

...at 749. The legislature effectuated a limited waiver of that sovereign immunity in section 768.28, Florida Statutes (2007). And there is no dispute that the Florida State Fair is entitled to section 768.28’s limited sovereign immunity. So too is a fair association. Section 616.19, Florida Statutes, provides that a fair association and the Florida State Fair are equal in dignity: 3 Joseph also argued the South Florida Fair had $30 million in insurance coverage and that “it defies common sense for the South...

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Ago (Fla. Att'y Gen. 1995).

Published | Florida Attorney General Reports

constitute "essential governmental purposes." Section 616.19, Florida Statutes, provides that a public fair

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