Florida Statute 616.251 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XXXVI
BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS

Chapter 616
PUBLIC FAIRS AND EXPOSITIONS

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616.251 Florida State Fair Authority; creation; responsibility for staging annual state fair.—

(1) There is created and constituted the “Florida State Fair Authority,” a public body corporate and politic, for the purposes and with the powers set forth in this part. Such instrumentality, hereinafter referred to as “the authority,” shall have perpetual succession. For the purposes of implementing the intent of this part, the authority shall be considered an instrumentality of the state, subject to the jurisdiction of the state. Any conflict with respect to that jurisdiction will be resolved by the authority and respective state agencies.

(2) The authority shall operate under the supervision of the Commissioner of Agriculture, which supervision may include, but is not limited to, assisting, advising, and making recommendations regarding the financing and operation of the authority. In assisting and advising the authority, the Commissioner of Agriculture may make appropriate staff of the department available to the authority.

(3) The authority is charged with the responsibility of staging an annual fair to serve the entire state. Cash premiums or awards may be given to exhibitors.

(4) The principal offices of the authority shall be in such place or places in or near the City of Tampa as the authority may from time to time designate.

History.—ss. 1, 5, ch. 74-322; s. 4, ch. 78-323; ss. 1, 5, 6, ch. 81-81; s. 2, ch. 81-318; s. 1, ch. 82-46; ss. 20, 24, 25, 26, ch. 83-239; s. 8, ch. 85-62; ss. 26, 45, ch. 93-168; s. 26, ch. 96-231.

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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

...includes three parts: “Part I. General Provisions,” “Part II. Trade and Safety Standards,” and “Part III. Florida State Fair Authority.” In Part III, the legislature created the Florida State Fair, “a public body corporate and politic.” § 616.251(1), Fla. Stat. (2007). 2 The Florida State Fair “shall be considered an instrumentality of the state, subject to the jurisdiction of the state.” Id. It “is charged with the responsibility of staging an annual fair to serve the entire state.” § 616.251(3), Fla....

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Ago (Fla. Att'y Gen. 1983).

Published | Florida Attorney General Reports

fair which `shall serve the entire state.' Section 616.251, F.S. See also, s 616.255(2) and (3), F.S.

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Ago (Fla. Att'y Gen. 1999).

Published | Florida Attorney General Reports

...by contract; an employment does not authorize the exercise in one's own right of any sovereign power or any prescribed independent authority of a governmental nature). See also, State ex rel. Clyatt v. Hocker , 22 So. 721 (Fla. 1897). 4 Id . 5 See, s. 616.251 (1) and (3), Fla. Stat. 6 Section 616.251 (2), Fla....

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Turner v. Florida State Fair Auth., 974 So. 2d 470 (Fla. 2d DCA 2008).

Published | Florida 2nd District Court of Appeal | 2008 WL 199866

...tion for the years in question. The Facts and Procedural Background The Florida legislature created the Authority in 1974. See ch. 74-322, §§ 1-17, at 991-97, Laws of Fla. The Authority is organized and established under the provisions of sections 616.251 through 616.265, Florida Statutes (2003 & 2004). The Authority is a public body corporate and politic, and it operates under the supervision of the Commissioner of Agriculture. § 616.251(1), (2). For the purposes of implementing the legislation that established it, the Authority is considered to be "an instrumentality of the state, subject to the jurisdiction of the state." § 616.251(1). The Authority "is charged with the responsibility of staging an annual fair to serve the entire state." § 616.251(3)....

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