Florida Statute 860.07 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XLVI
CRIMES

Chapter 860
OFFENSES CONCERNING AIRCRAFT, MOTOR VEHICLES, VESSELS, AND RAILROADS

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860.07 Unauthorized persons giving signals to railroad trains or engines.—Any person who wrongfully, recklessly, or wantonly and without authority, signals any train or engine in this state with a red light or with a red flag, or gives any signal calculated to affect the movement or operation of any train, engine, or cars on any railroad in this state shall be guilty of a misdemeanor of the second degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083. This section shall not apply to any person giving signals to stop a train for the purpose of preventing an accident to such train, or at a regular station or flag station when the train is flagged for the purpose of taking passage on said train.

History.—s. 1, ch. 4708, 1899; GS 3656; RGS 5593; CGL 7779; s. 1091, ch. 71-136.

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prod.liab.rep. (Cch) P 14,260 Lora Lohr, Michael Lohr, Her Husband v. Medtronic, Inc., a Foreign Corp., 56 F.3d 1335 (11th Cir. 1995).

Cited 34 times | Published | Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

See 21 U.S.C.A. § 360c(a); 21 C.F.R. § 860.7. As we have previously noted, a “requirement” is

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Baker v. Danek Med., 35 F. Supp. 2d 865 (N.D. Fla. 1998).

Cited 3 times | Published | District Court, N.D. Florida | 1998 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 13262, 1998 WL 672696

effective for its conditions of use." 21 C.F.R. § 860.7(c)(1). Third, pre-market approval is not required

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Lohr v. Medtronic, Inc. (11th Cir. 1995).

Published | Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

See 21 U.S.C.A. § 360c(a); 21 C.F.R. § 860.7. As we have previously noted, a "requirement"

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