The 2023 Florida Statutes (including Special Session C)

Title XXVII
RAILROADS AND OTHER REGULATED UTILITIES

Chapter 350
FLORIDA PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION

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F.S. 350.121

350.121 Commission inquiries; confidentiality of business material.—If the commission undertakes an inquiry, any records, documents, papers, maps, books, tapes, photographs, files, sound recordings, or other business material, regardless of form or characteristics, obtained by the commission incident to the inquiry are considered confidential and exempt from s. 119.07(1) while the inquiry is pending. If at the conclusion of an inquiry the commission undertakes a formal proceeding, any matter determined by the commission or by a judicial or administrative body, federal or state, to be trade secrets or proprietary confidential business information coming into its possession pursuant to such inquiry shall be considered confidential and exempt from s. 119.07(1). Such material may be used in any administrative or judicial proceeding so long as the confidential or proprietary nature of the material is maintained.

History.—ss. 3, 6, ch. 80-289; ss. 2, 3, ch. 81-318; s. 6, ch. 87-50.

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Amendments to 350.121

Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 350.121

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

Current data shows no reason an arrest or criminal charge should have occurred directly under Florida Statute 350.121.

Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

Cases from cite.case.law:

FLORIDA SOCIETY OF NEWSPAPER EDITORS, INC. v. FLORIDA PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION AT T GTE, 543 So. 2d 1262 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1989)

. . . Section 350.121 exempts from section 119.07(1) any material obtained by the Commission during an “inquiry . . . that the document contains "bona fide proprietary confidential business information" under sections 350.121 . . .

CITY OF TAMPA P. A. a v. TITAN SOUTHEAST CONSTRUCTION CORPORATION,, 535 F. Supp. 163 (M.D. Fla. 1982)

. . . . § 350.121 (1980). . . .

CITIZENS OF FLORIDA, v. T. MAYO, H. F., 357 So. 2d 731 (Fla. 1978)

. . . Law Implemented 350.121[350.12](1)(m), 364.20, 364.42, 366.05(1), 367.121(1)(f), 120.53,F.S. . . .