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The 2024 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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Amendments to 817.06

Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 817.06

Level: Degree
Misdemeanor/Felony: First/Second/Third

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Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

Cases Citing Statute 817.06

Total Results: 11

Rollins, Inc. v. Butland

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2006-12-15T00:00:00-08:00

Citation: 951 So. 2d 860

Snippet: that violate Florida Statutes, sections 772.104, 817.06, and 817.41."[2] The circuit court certified…violation of section 817.41(1). See §§ 772.104, 817.06. The circuit court certified the class on both …misleading advertisements in violation of sections 817.06 and 817.41, Florida Statutes (2001), forging consumers

Rollins, Inc. v. Butland

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2006-06-30T00:53:00-07:00

Citation: 932 So. 2d 1172

Rollins, Inc. v. Butland

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2003-08-06T00:53:00-07:00

Citation: 852 So. 2d 895

Snippet: that violate Florida Statutes, sections 772.104, 817.06, and 817.41." The trial court issued a twelve-page

McKee v. State

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2003-05-16T00:53:00-07:00

Citation: 844 So. 2d 816

Snippet: Because the court imposed concurrent sentences *817 of six years, and his "aggregate sentence was below

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Court: Fla. Att'y Gen. | Date Filed: 1997-07-15T00:53:00-07:00

Snippet: Management Subcommittee, meeting of 3/7/96 on HB 817. 6 See, s. 372.561(4), Fla. Stat. (1995).

Gibson v. Courtois

Court: Fla. | Date Filed: 1989-03-01T23:53:00-08:00

Citation: 539 So. 2d 459

Snippet: .'" Etheredge v. Barkley, 25 Fla. 814, 817, 6 So. 861, 862 (1889) (quoting 1 Story, Contracts

Leitman v. Boone

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 1983-10-18T00:53:00-07:00

Citation: 439 So. 2d 318

Snippet: #x27;" Etheredge v. Barkley, 25 Fla. 814, 817, 6 So. 861, 862 (1889) (quoting Story, J., 1 Story

State v. Bubsey

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 1983-03-02T00:00:00-08:00

Citation: 427 So. 2d 358

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

Department of Legal Affairs v. Rogers

Court: Fla. | Date Filed: 1976-02-24T23:53:00-08:00

Citation: 329 So. 2d 257

Snippet: , 216 So.2d 209, 213 (Fla. 1968). [5] Sections 817.06, 817.41, 817.55, 817.71, and 817.77, Fla. Stat.

Outten v. State

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 1967-03-17T00:00:00-08:00

Citation: 197 So. 2d 594

Snippet: not necessarily so. In 23 C.J.S. Criminal Law § 817(6) a, p. 180, it is stated: “As a general rule, in… modification. Thus in 23 C.J.S. Criminal Law § 817(6) a, p. 184, it is said: “However, the illegality

Kent v. McIntosh

Court: Fla. | Date Filed: 1933-11-16T00:00:00-08:00

Citation: 151 So. 698, 112 Fla. 745

Snippet: See Wheeler v. Sullivan, 106 Fla. 109, 142 So.2d 817; 6 C. J. 368-640. Affirmed. WHITFIELD, P. J., and