Florida Statute 617.0301 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XXXVI
BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS

Chapter 617
CORPORATIONS NOT FOR PROFIT

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617.0301 Purposes and application.—Corporations may be organized under this act for any lawful purpose or purposes not for pecuniary profit and not specifically prohibited to corporations under other laws of this state. Such purposes include, without limitation, charitable, benevolent, eleemosynary, educational, historical, civic, patriotic, political, religious, social, fraternal, literary, cultural, athletic, scientific, agricultural, horticultural, animal husbandry, and professional, commercial, industrial, or trade association purposes. If special provisions are made, by law, for the organization of designated classes of corporations not for profit, such corporations shall be formed under such provisions and not under this act.

History.—s. 23, ch. 90-179.

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In Re Rivera, 256 B.R. 828 (Bankr. M.D. Fla. 2000).

Cited 16 times | Published | United States Bankruptcy Court, M.D. Florida | 2000 Bankr. LEXIS 1600, 37 Bankr. Ct. Dec. (CRR) 43, 2000 WL 1911402

Governing Documents (a statutorily defined term, See § 617.301(6), Fla. Stat. (1999)) for the Association which

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Bendross v. Readon, 89 So. 3d 258 (Fla. 3d DCA 2012).

Cited 1 times | Published | Florida 3rd District Court of Appeal | 2012 WL 469832, 2012 Fla. App. LEXIS 2162

...Instead, Appellants allege that Appellees, acting without authority, attempted to remove specific board members from the organization in derogation of the requirements of section 617.0808 (Fla.Stat.2010). Religious organizations, like any other not for profit organization, are governed by the requirements of chapter 617. See § 617.0301, Fla....

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Gainer v. Fiddlesticks Country Club, Inc., 710 So. 2d 76 (Fla. 2d DCA 1998).

Cited 1 times | Published | Florida 2nd District Court of Appeal | 1998 Fla. App. LEXIS 3149, 1998 WL 145042

owners to buy memberships in the country club. Cf. § 617.301(4), Fla. Stat. (1997) (defining "declaration of

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Gerecitano v. Barrwood Homeowners Ass'n, 882 So. 2d 424 (Fla. 4th DCA 2004).

Published | Florida 4th District Court of Appeal | 2004 Fla. App. LEXIS 12100, 2004 WL 1837928

homeowners’ association as defined by Florida Statute § 617.301(7)[now Florida Statute 720.301], Appellee, Frank

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