The 2023 Florida Statutes (including Special Session C)

Title XXIX
PUBLIC HEALTH

Chapter 384
SEXUALLY TRANSMISSIBLE DISEASES

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F.S. 384.23

384.23 Definitions.—

(1) “Department” means the Department of Health.

(2) “County health department” means agencies and entities as designated in chapter 154.

(3) “Sexually transmissible disease” means a bacterial, viral, fungal, or parasitic disease determined by rule of the department to be sexually transmissible, to be a threat to the public health and welfare, and to be a disease for which a legitimate public interest will be served by providing for prevention, elimination, control, and treatment. The department must, by rule, determine which diseases are to be designated as sexually transmissible diseases and shall consider the recommendations and classifications of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other nationally recognized medical authorities in that determination. Not all diseases that are sexually transmissible need be designated for the purposes of this act.

History.—s. 90, ch. 86-220; s. 26, ch. 88-380; s. 66, ch. 97-101; s. 7, ch. 2016-230.

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Amendments to 384.23

Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 384.23

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

Current data shows no reason an arrest or criminal charge should have occurred directly under Florida Statute 384.23.

Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

Cases from cite.case.law:

STATE v. G. DEBAUN,, 129 So. 3d 1089 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2013)

. . . Section 384.23 defines a “sexually transmissible disease” as “a bacterial, viral, fungal, or parasitic . . . disease (PID)/acute salpingitis, syphilis, [and] human immune deficiency virus infection [HIV].” § 384.23 . . . See Ch. 86-220, § 90, at 1677, Laws of Fla.; § 384.23(3), Fla. Stat. (1986); § 384.24, Fla. . . . See Ch. 88-380, § 26, at 2016, Laws of Fla.; § 384.23(3), Fla. Stat. (1988); § 384.24, Fla. . . . See § 384.23, Fla. Stat. (1986). . . .

v., 14 Ct. Int'l Trade 29 (Ct. Int'l Trade 1990)

. . . , and other women’s, girls’, or infants’ wearing apparel, ornamented: Of man-made fibers: Not knit: 384.23 . . .

In ANDERSON,, 88 B.R. 877 (Bankr. N.D. Ind. 1988)

. . . affixed a value to the property as of March 15, 1988 as being $393,557.00 or $1,024.00 an acre for 384.23 . . .

In LOZITO, 43 F. Supp. 149 (E.D.N.Y. 1941)

. . . There was listed in the schedules as a creditor the claim of Henry Albert for a judgment in the sum of $384.23 . . .