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The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XLVI
CRIMES
Chapter 817
FRAUDULENT PRACTICES
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F.S. 817.06
817.06 Misleading advertisements prohibited; penalty.
(1) No person, persons, association, copartnership, or institution shall, with intent to offer or sell or in anywise dispose of merchandise, securities, certificates, diplomas, documents, or other credentials purporting to reflect proficiency in any trade, skill, profession, credits for academic achievement, service or anything offered by such person, persons, association, copartnership, corporation, or institution directly or indirectly, to the public, for sale or distribution or issuance, or with intent to increase the consumption or use thereof, or with intent to induce the public in any manner to enter into any obligation relating thereto, or to acquire title thereto, or any interest therein, or ownership thereof, knowingly or intentionally make, publish, disseminate, circulate or place before the public, or cause, directly or indirectly, to be made, published, disseminated or circulated or placed before the public in this state in a newspaper or other publication or in the form of a book, notice, handbill, poster, bill, circular, pamphlet or letter or in any other way, an advertisement of any sort regarding such certificate, diploma, document, credential, academic credits, merchandise, security, service or anything so offered to the public, which advertisement contains any assertion, representation or statement which is untrue, deceptive, or misleading.
(2) Any person, persons, association, copartnership, corporation, or institution found guilty of a violation of subsection (1) shall be guilty of a misdemeanor of the second degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083.
History.ss. 1, 2, ch. 11827, 1927; CGL 7311, 7312; ss. 1, 2, ch. 57-410; s. 846, ch. 71-136.
Note.Former s. 817.07.

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Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 817.06
Level: Degree
Misdemeanor/Felony: First/Second/Third

S817.06 - FRAUD - MISLEADING UNTRUE DECEPTIVE ADVERTISEMENTS - M: S

Cases Citing Statute 817.06

Total Results: 3

Transamerica Corp. v. MONIKER ONLINE SERVICES, LLC

672 F. Supp. 2d 1353, 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 114973, 2009 WL 4715853

District Court, S.D. Florida | Filed: Dec 4, 2009 | Docket: 2155529

Cited 3 times | Published

Florida Statutory False Advertising, Fla. Stat. § 817.06 and §§ 817.40-47 by all Defendants. (See id.)

State v. Bubsey

427 So. 2d 358, 1983 Fla. App. LEXIS 19139

District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: Mar 2, 1983 | Docket: 64595302

Published

charged with this particular violation under Section 817.06 and Section 817.-41(1), Florida Statutes (1979)

Outten v. State

197 So. 2d 594, 1967 Fla. App. LEXIS 5136

District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: Mar 17, 1967 | Docket: 64500524

Published

not necessarily so. In 23 C.J.S. Criminal Law § 817(6) a, p. 180, it is stated: “As a general rule, in