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The 2022 Florida Statutes (including 2022 Special Session A and 2023 Special Session B)

Title XLVI
CRIMES
Chapter 876
CRIMINAL ANARCHY, TREASON, AND OTHER CRIMES AGAINST PUBLIC ORDER
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F.S. 876.14
876.14 Wearing mask, hood, or other device on property of another.No person or persons over 16 years of age shall, while wearing a mask, hood, or device whereby any portion of the face is so hidden, concealed, or covered as to conceal the identity of the wearer, demand entrance or admission or enter or come upon or into the premises, enclosure, or house of any other person in any municipality or county of this state.
History.s. 4, ch. 26542, 1951.

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Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 876.14
Level: Degree
Misdemeanor/Felony: First/Second/Third

S876.14 - PUBLIC ORDER CRIMES - WEAR HOOD OR MASK ON PROPERTY OF ANOTHER - M: S



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  1. Nicol v. State

    939 So. 2d 231 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2006)
    We note that by statute, wearing a mask has been made a misdemeanor of the second degree under certain circumstances. See generally §§ 876.12—.20, Fla. Stat. (2001). For example, section 876.12 criminalizes wearing a mask or hood on a public way; section 876.13 criminalizes the wearing of a hood or mask on public property; and section 876.14 makes it illegal to wear a hood or mask on the property of another. These statutes, which were first passed in the 1950's, were apparently aimed at the Ku Klux Klan. The Florida Supreme Court found one of these statutes (all of which are virtually identical) unconstitutional in Robinson v. State, 393 So.2D 1076 (Fla. 1980) (holding that statute criminalizing wearing hood of mask on public property was overbroad, and exceptions provided by section 876.16 were not sufficient to cure this fatal overbreadth, nor were the statutory words susceptible of any limiting construction). The legislature apparently attempted to cure these problems in 1981, by the passage of section 876.155m Florida Statutes, which limits the application of these statutes.
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    Cases from cite.case.law:

    IN RE NORRIS,, 568 B.R. 363 (Bankr. W.D. Wash. 2017)

    . . . Claim number 13 was filed for $876.14. . . .

    NICOL, Jr. v. STATE, 939 So. 2d 231 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2006)

    . . . public way; section 876.13 criminalizes the wearing of a hood or mask on public property; and section 876.14 . . .