Florida Statute 720.403 | Lawyer Caselaw & Research

The 2024 Florida Statutes

Title XL
REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY

Chapter 720
HOMEOWNERS' ASSOCIATIONS

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F.S. 720.403

720.403 Preservation of communities; revival of declaration of covenants.—

(1) Consistent with required and optional elements of local comprehensive plans and other applicable provisions of the Community Planning Act, property owners are encouraged to preserve existing residential and other communities, promote available and affordable housing, protect structural and aesthetic elements of their community, and, as applicable, maintain roads and streets, easements, water and sewer systems, utilities, drainage improvements, conservation and open areas, recreational amenities, and other infrastructure and common areas that serve and support the community by the revival of a previous declaration of covenants and other governing documents that may have ceased to govern some or all parcels in the community.

(2) In order to preserve a community and the associated infrastructure and common areas for the purposes described in this section, the parcel owners in a community that was previously subject to a declaration of covenants that has ceased to govern one or more parcels in the community may revive the declaration and the association for the community upon approval by the parcel owners to be governed thereby as provided in this act, and upon approval of the declaration and the other governing documents for the association by the Department of Commerce in a manner consistent with this act.

(3) This part is intended to provide mechanisms for the revitalization of covenants or restrictions for all types of communities and property associations and is not limited to residential communities.

History.—s. 11, ch. 2004-345; s. 7, ch. 2004-353; s. 68, ch. 2011-139; s. 437, ch. 2011-142; s. 12, ch. 2018-55; s. 234, ch. 2024-6.

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Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 720.403

Level: Degree
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Cases Citing Statute 720.403

Total Results: 2

SCOTT LYDAY & TAMMY LYDAY v. MYAKKA VALLEY RANCHES IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION, INC. & VIVIAN ZABIK

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2019-03-15T00:53:00-07:00

Snippet: extinguished, in 2004 the legislature enacted section 720.403, Florida Statutes, to provide a process for communities

EASTWOOD SHORES PROPERTY OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC. v. FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2019-01-24T23:53:00-08:00

Snippet: pursuant to the covenant revitalization statutes, §§ 720.403-.407, Fla. Stat. (2016), because it is not a &… -3- pursuant to sections 720.403-.407. The issue presented is one of statutory …may use the procedures set forth in [sections] 720.403-720.407 to revive covenants that have lapsed under…all parcels in the community. § 720.403(1). Because the Department erroneously…#39; association" entitled to use sections 720.403-.407 to revive its lapsed declaration of covenants