The 2023 Florida Statutes (including Special Session C)

Title XXXIII
REGULATION OF TRADE, COMMERCE, INVESTMENTS, AND SOLICITATIONS

Chapter 516
CONSUMER FINANCE

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F.S. 516.32

516.32 Consumer credit counseling.—The office shall be responsible for promoting a consumer credit counseling service for the purpose of promoting and helping establish consumer credit counseling services for individuals in areas where a need has been established. The purposes of the consumer credit counseling service shall be to:

(1) Assist and educate individual consumers as to money management.

(2) Assist individual consumers in consolidating obligations when a situation exists in which the individual consumer is in need of such assistance.

(3) Work with consumer credit grantors in an effort to establish better relations with the individual consumer and with state and federal regulatory agencies.

History.—s. 12, ch. 73-192; s. 2, ch. 81-318; ss. 16, 17, ch. 88-342; s. 4, ch. 91-429; s. 580, ch. 2003-261.

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Amendments to 516.32

Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 516.32

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

Current data shows no reason an arrest or criminal charge should have occurred directly under Florida Statute 516.32.

Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

Cases from cite.case.law:

UNITED STATES, v. M. SANCHEZ,, 54 M.J. 874 (A. Ct. Crim. App. 2001)

. . . Appellant pleaded guilty to six separate specifications of larceny of $516.32. . . .

ENTERPRISE PRESS, INC. v. FRESH FIELDS MARKETS, INC., 13 F. Supp. 2d 413 (S.D.N.Y. 1998)

. . . the invoices submitted by MIS to defendant between April 18, 1994 and August 1, 1994, totaling $275, 516.32 . . .

UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE, v. NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LETTER CARRIERS, AFL- CIO,, 789 F.2d 18 (D.C. Cir. 1986)

. . . Employee and Labor Relations Manual § 516.32, App. at 30. . . .

ATLANTA GAS LIGHT COMPANY, v. U. S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY, B. ENTEX, INC. v. U. S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY, ECONOMIC REGULATORY ADMINISTRATION, LACLEDE GAS COMPANY, v. U. S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY, B. AMERICAN GAS ASSOCIATION, v. U. S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY, B., 666 F.2d 1359 (11th Cir. 1982)

. . . . § 516.32 (1981). There is thus no element of coercion involved in the delegation. . . .

FERGUSON v. GEORGIA, 365 U.S. 570 (U.S. 1961)

. . . . § 516.32. N. J. Rev. Stat., 1951, §2A:81-8. N. M. Stat. Ann., 1953, § 41-12-19. N. Y. Code Crim. . . .

ELROD SLUG CASTING MACH. CO. v. O MALLEY,, 57 F. Supp. 915 (D. Neb. 1944)

. . . referred to is as follows: “In consideration of the Commissioner agreeing to deficiencies in tax of $516.32 . . . settlement, we note the following : “The petitioner’s proposal contemplates stipulating deficiencies of $516.32 . . .