The 2023 Florida Statutes (including Special Session C)

Title XI
COUNTY ORGANIZATION AND INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS

Chapter 138
COUNTY SEATS

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F.S. 138.09

138.09 Canvass of votes of second election; establishing county seat.—The county commissioners shall, within 5 days after the election provided for in s. 138.07 is held, meet and publicly canvass the same; and the place receiving the majority of all the votes cast shall be the county seat for the next 10 years. The county commissioners shall erect a courthouse as soon as possible and provide suitable offices for all the county officers who are required by law to keep their offices at the courthouse at the place so selected as the county seat.

History.—s. 9, ch. 6239, 1911; RGS 1586; CGL 2434; s. 1, ch. 82-43.

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Amendments to 138.09

Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 138.09

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

Current data shows no reason an arrest or criminal charge should have occurred directly under Florida Statute 138.09.

Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

Cases from cite.case.law:

WILLIAMS, v. CASHCALL, INC., 92 F. Supp. 3d 847 (E.D. Wis. 2015)

. . . . § 138.09) by charging interest rates above 18 percent without first obtaining a license from the Wisconsin . . .

PAYDAY LOAN STORE OF WISCONSIN, INC. d b a s v. CITY OF MADISON,, 333 F. Supp. 2d 800 (W.D. Wis. 2004)

. . . . § 138.09(3)(e)1e that such businesses may be run out of the same building. . . .

JONES, v. FLEETWOOD MOTOR HOMES, RV,, 127 F. Supp. 2d 958 (N.D. Ill. 2000)

. . . Plaintiff also concedes that Crystal Valley paid $138.09 as its share of court reporting costs. . . .

COUNTY OF VOLUSIA, a v. STATE, 417 So. 2d 968 (Fla. 1982)

. . . outside the county seat would violate article VIII, section l(k), Florida Constitution and section 138.09 . . . offices and permanent records of all county officers shall be located at the county seat, and section 138.09 . . . principal offices and permanent records of all county officers be located at the county seat and section 138.09 . . . instrument shall be deemed recorded in the county until filed at the county seat according to law. .Section 138.09 . . . of its county seat without violating article VIII, section l(k), Florida Constitution, and section 138.09 . . .

FOSTER, v. IRWIN, d b a, 258 F. Supp. 709 (E.D. La. 1966)

. . . The evidence shows that he was actually paid a total of $2,656.91, resulting in an underpayment of $138.09 . . . in the sum of $273.83; (3) Samson Foster in the sum of $137.49; and (4) Sidney DeJean in the sum of $138.09 . . .

BROWN v. ALLEBACH, 182 F. 264 (C.C.E.D. Pa. 1910)

. . . Ashton, against whom a judgment was entered on the 3d day of January, 1908, for the sum of $138.09, with . . . The term of court at which the judgment for $138.09, with costs, was entered against Mr. . . . nothing until the 25th day of May, 1910, when he presented this petition, asking that the judgment of $138.09 . . .