The 2023 Florida Statutes (including Special Session C)

Title XV
HOMESTEAD AND EXEMPTIONS

Chapter 222
METHOD OF SETTING APART HOMESTEAD AND EXEMPTIONS

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F.S. 222.15

222.15 Wages or reemployment assistance or unemployment compensation payments due deceased employee may be paid spouse or certain relatives.—

(1) It is lawful for any employer, in case of the death of an employee, to pay to the wife or husband, and in case there is no wife or husband, then to the child or children, provided the child or children are over the age of 18 years, and in case there is no child or children, then to the father or mother, any wages or travel expenses that may be due such employee at the time of his or her death.

(2) It is also lawful for the Department of Economic Opportunity, in case of death of any unemployed individual, to pay to those persons referred to in subsection (1) any reemployment assistance or unemployment compensation payments that may be due to the individual at the time of his or her death.

History.—s. 1, ch. 7366, 1917; RGS 4979; CGL 7068; s. 1, ch. 20407, 1941; s. 1, ch. 63-165; ss. 17, 35, ch. 69-106; s. 1, ch. 73-283; s. 10, ch. 79-7; s. 5, ch. 83-174; s. 1203, ch. 95-147; s. 7, ch. 2003-36; s. 96, ch. 2011-142; s. 52, ch. 2012-30.

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Amendments to 222.15

Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 222.15

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

Current data shows no reason an arrest or criminal charge should have occurred directly under Florida Statute 222.15.

Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

Cases from cite.case.law:

A. MAZZELLA, M. D. v. P. BOINIS,, 617 So. 2d 1156 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1993)

. . . X, Sec. 4(c), Florida Constitution; and (2) section 222.15 authorizing payment of wages due a deceased . . .

B. J. LUCAS, v. W. E. DEVILLE, 385 So. 2d 804 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1979)

. . . “Coon” Deville and Market Insurance Company, insólido, in the full sum of $335,-222.15, together with . . .

SHERWOOD BLOCK CO. a v. UNITED STATES, 332 F. Supp. 271 (S.D.W. Va. 1971)

. . . For calendar year 1961, plaintiff reported $222.15 in taxes payable. . . .

PLYMOUTH CORDAGE COMPANY, a d b a v. R. WARD, d b a a, 202 So. 2d 600 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1967)

. . . Appellant argues that Section 222.15, Florida Statutes, F.S.A., exempts from garnishment the cash surrender . . .