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The 2023 Florida Statutes (including Special Session C)

Title XLVI
CRIMES
Chapter 860
OFFENSES CONCERNING AIRCRAFT, MOTOR VEHICLES, VESSELS, AND RAILROADS
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F.S. 860.20
860.20 Outboard motors; identification numbers.
(1)(a) The Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles shall adopt rules specifying the locations and manner in which serial numbers for outboard motors shall be affixed. In adopting such rules, the department shall consider the adequacy of voluntary industry standards, the current state of technology, and the overall purpose of reducing vessel and motor thefts in the state.
(b) Any outboard motor manufactured after October 1, 1985, which is for sale in the state shall comply with the serial number rules promulgated by the department. Any person, firm, or corporation which sells or offers for sale any outboard boat motor manufactured after October 1, 1985, which does not comply with this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083.
(2)(a) It is unlawful for any person to possess any outboard boat motor with the knowledge that the serial number required by subsection (1) has been removed, erased, defaced, or otherwise altered to prevent identification.
(b) It is unlawful for any person to knowingly possess, manufacture, sell or exchange, offer to sell or exchange, supply in blank, or give away any counterfeit manufacturer’s outboard motor serial number plate or decal used for the purpose of identification of any outboard motor; to authorize, direct, aid in exchange, or give away such counterfeit manufacturer’s outboard motor serial number plate or decal; or to conspire to do any of the foregoing.
(c) Any person who violates any provision of this subsection is guilty of a felony of the third degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084.
(3) If any of the serial numbers required by this section to identify ownership of an outboard motor do not exist or have been removed, erased, defaced, or otherwise altered to prevent identification and its true identity cannot be determined, the outboard motor may be seized as contraband property by a law enforcement agency and shall be subject to forfeiture pursuant to ss. 932.701-932.704. Such outboard motor may not be sold or used to propel a vessel on the waters of the state unless the department is directed by written order of a court of competent jurisdiction to issue to the outboard motor a replacement identifying number which shall be affixed to the outboard motor and shall thereafter be used for identification purposes.
History.s. 3, ch. 83-102; s. 1, ch. 84-129; s. 2, ch. 86-73; s. 476, ch. 94-356; s. 125, ch. 2002-20.

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Amendments to 860.20


Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 860.20
Level: Degree
Misdemeanor/Felony: First/Second/Third

S860.20 - PROPERTY CRIMES - BOAT MOTOR FAIL TO COMPLY WITH RULES - M: F
S860.20 2a - POSSESS COUNTERFEITED - OUTBOARD MOTOR WITH SERIAL NUMBER REMOVED - F: T
S860.20 2b - COUNTERFEITING OF - MANUFACTURE OUTBOARD MOTOR SERIAL NUMBER - F: T
S860.20 2b - PASS COUNTERFEITED - SELL OUTBOARD MOTOR SERIAL NUMBER - F: T
S860.20 2b - POSSESS COUNTERFEITED - OUTBOARD MOTOR SERIAL NUMBER - F: T



Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

Cases from cite.case.law:

LABORERS INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICA, LOCAL v. BURROUGHS,, 541 So. 2d 1160 (Fla. 1989)

. . . Burroughs $30,-860.20 in lost wages from the date of her dismissal to the date of the final order and . . .

LATTIMORE, v. OMAN CONSTRUCTION,, 714 F. Supp. 1178 (N.D. Ala. 1988)

. . . 1,003.00 Melinda Denham 3,510.00 Phillip Garrison 212.50 Robert Childs 1,328.40 Richard Ebbinghouse 860.20 . . .

J. WOLF, v. J. I. CASE COMPANY, 617 F. Supp. 858 (E.D. Wis. 1985)

. . . . § 860.20, is not specific as to the extraterritorial reach of the ADEA. . . .

W. PFEIFFER, v. WM. WRIGLEY JR. COMPANY,, 755 F.2d 554 (7th Cir. 1985)

. . . . § 860.20 (1970). And to apply the Act extraterritorially could be more than a little awkward. . . .

N. ZAHOUREK, v. ARTHUR YOUNG AND COMPANY,, 750 F.2d 827 (10th Cir. 1984)

. . . . § 860.20. . . .

UNITED STATES, v. LONDON RECORDS, INC., 402 F.2d 1009 (C.C.P.A. 1968)

. . . .-10 or 860.20), valued not over $1 each, or marked, torn, perforated, or otherwise treated so that it . . .

v., 56 C.C.P.A. 14 (C.C.P.A. 1968)

. . . provided for in item 724.15)- 10% ad val. 860.30 Any sample (except samples covered by item 860.10 or 860.20 . . .

v., 59 Cust. Ct. 104 (Cust. Ct. 1967)

. . . provided for in item 724.15)_ 10% ad val. 860.30 Any sample (except samples covered by item 860.10 or 860.20 . . .

AMERICAN CAN COMPANY, v. HORLAMUS CORPORATION,, 341 F.2d 730 (5th Cir. 1965)

. . . The jury returned a verdict in favor of HORLAMUS in the amount of $11,-860.20, which was subsequently . . .

SPACE CONTROLS, INC. v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE,, 322 F.2d 144 (5th Cir. 1963)

. . . sufficiently complete to be in salable form” and were all in a “salable state * * * with a cost of $860.20 . . .