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The 2024 Florida Statutes (including 2025 Special Session C)

Title XXXVI
BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS
Chapter 622
FOREIGN UNINCORPORATED ASSOCIATIONS
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CHAPTER 622
CHAPTER 622
FOREIGN UNINCORPORATED ASSOCIATIONS
622.01 Qualification permissive.
622.02 Definitions.
622.03 Qualification.
622.04 Process.
622.05 Annual reports.
622.06 Name.
622.07 Powers.
622.01 Qualification permissive.—Qualification in compliance with this chapter is not and shall not be mandatory, and is and shall be optional, as a permissive alternative to compliance with any other law or laws with respect to the trade, business, or fictitious name or style, and the recording, registration, or publication thereof, under which business may be transacted by an unincorporated association, company, or group of persons; but no foreign association, as defined hereinafter, shall enjoy or exercise the powers conferred by this chapter unless it shall have qualified in compliance herewith.
History.—s. 1, ch. 23897, 1947.
622.02 Definitions.—
(1) The term “foreign association” as used in this chapter shall mean and include any unincorporated joint stock association for profit, created and existing under the laws of any state other than this state, or of the District of Columbia, or of any territory or possession of the United States, engaged in any business or businesses other than the banking, trust, or insurance business, and having written articles of association, capital stock divided into shares, and a name including the word “company” or “association” or “society”; but shall not mean nor include any unincorporated association, company or group of persons engaged in the banking, trust, or insurance business.
(2) The term “association” as used in this chapter shall mean and include any foreign association that shall have qualified, in the manner permitted by this chapter, to transact business and acquire, hold, and dispose of property, and sue and be sued in this state.
History.—s. 2, ch. 23897, 1947.
622.03 Qualification.—Any foreign association may qualify to transact business and acquire, hold, and dispose of property, and sue and be sued in this state, by complying with all requirements of law, including but not limited to the paying of all fees, taxes, and other charges, now or hereafter prescribed for qualification by foreign corporations for profit to transact business in this state, and all laws heretofore or hereafter enacted prescribing requirements to be observed by foreign corporations for profit in so qualifying shall apply to and govern and control such qualification by foreign associations, except that in lieu of filing an authenticated copy of any charter, or certificate of incorporation, or articles of incorporation, the foreign association shall file a duly authenticated copy of its written articles of association.
History.—s. 3, ch. 23897, 1947.
622.04 Process.—Every association shall comply with all requirements of law, including but not limited to the paying of all fees and charges, now or hereafter prescribed for the designation and maintenance of an office for the service of process, the appointment of a resident agent upon whom process may be served, and the acceptance of such appointment, by foreign corporations for profit qualified to transact business in this state, and all laws heretofore or hereafter enacted with respect to such offices and agents shall apply to and govern and control all associations.
History.—s. 4, ch. 23897, 1947; s. 11, ch. 25035, 1949.
622.05 Annual reports.—Every association shall comply with all requirements of law, including but not limited to the paying of all fees, taxes, and other charges, now or hereafter prescribed for the filing of annual reports by foreign corporations for profit qualified to transact business in this state, except railroad, pullman, telephone, telegraph, and insurance companies, and all laws heretofore or hereafter enacted with respect to such reports shall apply to and govern and control all associations.
History.—s. 5, ch. 23897, 1947.
622.06 Name.—Every association may transact business in this state in its name, without including as a part thereof, or displaying or publishing in connection or conjunction therewith, the words “not incorporated,” or any similar words, and without making any other showing or display of the fact that it is unincorporated, and without recording, registering, or publishing its name as a trade, business, or fictitious name. Any other law or laws heretofore or hereafter enacted with respect to an unincorporated association, company, or group of persons doing business under any trade, business, or fictitious name or style including the word “company” or “association” or “society,” or with respect to the recording, registration, or publication of any trade, business, or fictitious name or style, shall not apply to nor govern nor control an association, and every association is and shall be exempted from the provisions and requirements thereof.
History.—s. 6, ch. 23897, 1947.
622.07 Powers.—Every association shall have power and authority to transact business and acquire, hold, and dispose of property and sue and be sued in this state; provided that such association shall file with the Department of State a sworn statement setting forth the name under which such association is authorized to transact business and acquire, hold, and dispose of property, and the style by which it is prescribed that such association shall sue and be sued, under the law or laws under which it shall have been created and shall be existing.
History.—s. 7, ch. 23897, 1947; ss. 10, 35, ch. 69-106.

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S316.622 (1) FARM LABOR VEHICLES - Failure to conform to vehicle safety standards - Points on Drivers License: 0
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Cases Citing Statute 622

Total Results: 20

Christopher Van Hatcher v. the State of Florida

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 2025-02-26

Snippet: proceeding); see also Culver v. State, 163 So. 3d 622, 623 (Fla. 4th DCA 2015) (same); Leach v. State,

Lakasia Portee-Jones v. Ruby Portee

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 2025-02-26

Snippet: improper. See Battles v. State, 919 So. 2d 621, 622 (Fla. 1st DCA 2006). Because the trial court

Clark v. State of Florida

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 2025-02-12

Snippet: committing the crime.” See Staten v. State, 519 So. 2d 622, 624 (Fla. 1988) (citations omitted). First-degree

William Hefley and Aimee J. Hefley v. Christopher Holmquist

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 2025-02-06

Snippet: Pest Control, Inc. v. Westford Asset Mgmt., Inc., 622 So. 2d 546, 549 (Fla. 5th DCA 1993) (noting under

Matthew Lee Caylor v. State of Florida

Court: Supreme Court of Florida | Date Filed: 2025-01-30

Snippet: it. See generally United States v. Ruiz, 536 U.S. 622, 629 (2002) (“[T]he law ordinarily considers a waiver

Kiki De Jager v. Gerhard Austen De Jager

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 2025-01-29

Snippet: injunction.1 Wife relies on Kennedy v. Kennedy, 622 So. 2d 1033 (Fla. 5th DCA 1993). However, we find

Abercrombie v. Nenneman

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 2025-01-22

Snippet: (Fla. 5th DCA 2021); Venn v. Fowlkes, 257 So. 3d 622, 624 (Fla. 1st DCA 2018). We also note that

State of Florida v. Mc Reynolds

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 2025-01-22

Snippet: used as substantive evidence. See Ellis v. State, 622 So. 2d 991, 996-97 (Fla. 1993) (holding that a prior

Wayne C. Doty v. State of Florida

Court: Supreme Court of Florida | Date Filed: 2025-01-16

Snippet: This appeal followed. 5. Huff v. State, 622 So. 2d 982 (Fla. 1993).

Michael Crist v. State of Florida

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 2025-01-10

Snippet: (quoting Turner Broad. Sys., Inc. v. FCC, 512 U.S. 622, 641–42 (1994)) (other citations omitted). Thus,

Colony Insurance Company v. Titan Restoration Construction, Inc.

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 2025-01-08

Snippet: Prudential Prop. & Cas. Ins. Co. v. Swindal, 622 So. 2d 467, 470 (Fla. 1993). “Ambiguities are interpreted

Robert Craft v. State of Florida

Court: Supreme Court of Florida | Date Filed: 2024-12-19

Snippet: the Huff v. State, 622 So. 2d 982 (Fla. 1993), hearing. 4. Huff v. State, 622 So. 2d 982 (Fla. 1993)

Diane Scott v. Erica Stewart

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 2024-12-18

Snippet: Pest Control, Inc. v. Westford Asset Mgmt., Inc., 622 So. 2d 546, 547 (Fla. 5th DCA 1993))); Zarate v.

Florida Department of Corrections v. McMillan C. Gould

Court: Supreme Court of Florida | Date Filed: 2024-11-14

Snippet: controlling facts.’ ” Kartsonis v. State, 319 So. 3d 622, 623 (Fla. 2021) (quoting Nielsen v. City of Sarasota

All Purpose Title, LLC V.Edyta Knobloch

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 2024-11-13

Snippet: trust.” Watkins v. NCNB Nat’l Bank of Fla., N.A., 622 So. 2d 1063, 1064 (Fla. 3d DCA 1993). “Since the

William J. Osborne and Amanda L. Osborne v. Drees Homes of Florida, Inc.

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 2024-10-25

Snippet: ” (citing Fla. E. Coast Ry. Co. v. Eno, 128 So. 622 (Fla. 1930))). Under the Limited Warranty’s

Evans, Evans v. Gulf Landings Association, Inc.

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 2024-10-25

Snippet: easement. See Easement, Black's Law Dictionary 622 (Deluxe 10th ed. 2014) (defining "easement"

Leo L. Boatman v. State of Florida

Court: Supreme Court of Florida | Date Filed: 2024-10-17

Snippet: circumstances.” United States v. Ruiz, 536 U.S. 622, 629 (2002) (emphasis omitted); see Figueroa-Sanabria

Advanced Design & Construction Co. v. Claude Zein

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 2024-10-16

Snippet: order de novo. Martin v. Martin, 344 So. 3d 621, 622–23 (Fla. 1st DCA 2022) (“We review the trial court's

Jean-Philippe Schneider v. Christian Tirikian

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 2024-09-25

Snippet: Bermuda Atl. Line Ltd. v. Florida E. Coast Ry. Co., 622 So. 2d 489, 490 (Fla. 1st DCA 1993); Clearvalle,