Florida Statute 617.301 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XXXVI
BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS

Chapter 617
CORPORATIONS NOT FOR PROFIT

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F.S. 617.0301

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, 2000 Bankr. LEXIS 1600, 37 Bankr. Ct. Dec. (CRR) 43, 2000 WL 1911402

United States Bankruptcy Court, M.D. Florida | Filed: Dec 14, 2000 | Docket: 218493

Cited 16 times | Published

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

Bendross v. Readon

89 So. 3d 258, 2012 WL 469832, 2012 Fla. App. LEXIS 2162

District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: Feb 15, 2012 | Docket: 60308741

Cited 1 times | Published

governed by the requirements of chapter 617. See § 617.0301, Fla. Stat. (2010). Unless provisions in the

Gainer v. Fiddlesticks Country Club, Inc.

710 So. 2d 76, 1998 Fla. App. LEXIS 3149, 1998 WL 145042

District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: Apr 1, 1998 | Docket: 1444687

Cited 1 times | Published

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

Gerecitano v. Barrwood Homeowners Ass'n

882 So. 2d 424, 2004 Fla. App. LEXIS 12100, 2004 WL 1837928

District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: Aug 18, 2004 | Docket: 64832531

Published

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