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The 2024 Florida Statutes

Title XLVI
CRIMES
Chapter 817
FRAUDULENT PRACTICES
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F.S. 817.17
817.17 Wrongful use of city, county, or other political subdivision name.
(1) A person or persons engaged in manufacturing in this state may not cause to be printed, stamped, marked, engraved or branded, upon any of the articles manufactured by them, or on any of the boxes, packages, or bands containing such manufactured articles, the name of any city, county, or other political subdivision of the state, other than that in which said articles are manufactured; provided, that this section does not prohibit any person from offering for sale any goods having marked thereon the name of any city, county, or other political subdivision of the state other than that in which said goods were manufactured, if there be no manufactory of similar goods in the city, county, or other political subdivision the name of which is used.
(2) A person violating this section commits a misdemeanor of the second degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.083.
History.s. 1, ch. 4145, 1893; GS 3327; RGS 5167; CGL 7270; s. 7, ch. 2015-166.

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Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 817.17
Level: Degree
Misdemeanor/Felony: First/Second/Third

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Cases Citing Statute 817.17

Total Results: 2

State v. Rubio

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 2005-12-30

Citation: 917 So. 2d 383, 2005 WL 3555898

Snippet: the accused. [8] These sections include sections 817.17 (Wrongful use of city name), 817.30 (Punishment

Livingston v. Malever

Court: Supreme Court of Florida | Date Filed: 1931-10-21

Citation: 137 So. 113, 103 Fla. 200

Snippet: substantial averments of both counts. And on pages 816-817, 17 R. C. L., it is said: "The doctrine of the