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The 2023 Florida Statutes (including Special Session C)

Title XLVI
CRIMES
Chapter 877
MISCELLANEOUS CRIMES
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F.S. 877.08
877.08 Coin-operated vending machines and parking meters; defined; prohibited acts, penalties.
(1) A “coin-operated vending machine” or “parking meter,” for the purposes of this act, is defined to be any machine, contrivance, or device that is adapted for use in such a way that, as the result of the insertion of any piece of money, coin, or other object, the machine, contrivance, parking meter, or device is caused to operate or may be operated and by reason of such operation the user may become entitled to receive any food, drink, telephone or telegraph service, insurance protection, parking privilege or any other personal property, service, protection, right or privilege of any kind or nature whatsoever.
(2) Whoever maliciously or mischievously molests, opens, breaks, injures, damages, or inserts any part of her or his body or any instrument into any coin-operated vending machine or parking meter of another, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor of the second degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083.
(3) Whoever molests, opens, breaks, injures, damages, or inserts any part of her or his body or any instrument into any coin-operated vending machine or parking meter of another with intent to commit larceny is guilty of a misdemeanor of the second degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083.
(4) Whoever violates subsection (3) a second or subsequent time commits a felony of the third degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084.
History.ss. 1, 2, 3, ch. 65-165; s. 1153, ch. 71-136; s. 1429, ch. 97-102; s. 16, ch. 2013-25.

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Amendments to 877.08


Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 877.08
Level: Degree
Misdemeanor/Felony: First/Second/Third

S877.08 2 - DAMAGE PROP-CRIM MISCH - MALICIOUSLY MOLEST COIN OPERATED MACHINE - M: S
S877.08 3 - LARC - MOLEST COIN OPR MACHINE WIT LARCENY 1ST OFF - M: S
S877.08 4 - LARC - RENUMBERED. SEE REC # 7561 - F: T
S877.08 4 - LARC - MOLEST COIN OPR MACHINE WIT LARCENY 2ND SUBSQ - F: T



Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

Cases from cite.case.law:

S. S. a v. STATE, 154 So. 3d 1217 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2015)

. . . The trial court relied on the disorderly conduct statute, section 877.08, Florida Statutes (2013), by . . .

L. GARCIA, v. STATE, 143 So. 3d 1105 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2014)

. . . on the element of intent to commit larceny in a prosecution for vending machine theft under section 877.08 . . .

C. N. v. STATE, 49 So. 3d 831 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2010)

. . . C.N., a juvenile, was charged with disorderly conduct, § 877.08, Fla. . . .

L. INGRAHAM, v. STATE, 32 So. 3d 761 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2010)

. . . section 843.021(2), Florida Statutes (2004), and felony vending machine theft, a violation of section 877.08 . . . On the other hand, the offense of vending machine theft under section 877.08(3) does require proof of . . . under section 877.08(3) to prove the felony offense. . . . the prerequisite for conviction under section 877.08(4). . . . (2) instead of the instruction for vending machine theft under section 877.08(3). . . .

POLITE, v. STATE, 973 So. 2d 1107 (Fla. 2007)

. . . second-degree misdemeanor tampering with coin-operated vending machines and parking meters under section 877.08 . . .

SEESE, III, v. STATE, 955 So. 2d 1145 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2007)

. . . (Crim.) 8.7 (§ 784.048, aggravated stalking); and 29.12 (§ 877.08(2), vending machine tampering or damaging . . .

J. EPSTEIN, v. TOYS- R- US DELAWARE, INC. a a a, 277 F. Supp. 2d 1266 (S.D. Fla. 2003)

. . . establishment and without a warrant, any person the officer has probable cause to believe violated s. 877.08 . . .

J. R. A v. STATE, 831 So. 2d 790 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2002)

. . . to section 806.13, Florida Statutes, and malicious damage to a vending machine pursuant to section 877.08 . . .

G. BREHM, v. STATE, 495 So. 2d 253 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1986)

. . . tampering with a parking meter, it was improper to sentence him as a second offender under Section 877.08 . . .

PHILLIPS, v. STATE, 438 So. 2d 886 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1983)

. . . State, 427 So.2d 825 (Fla. 3d DCA 1983) [information charging § 877.08 violation without alleging prior . . .

G. BREHM, v. STATE, 427 So. 2d 825 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1983)

. . . The defendant was charged and convicted of ten counts of violating Section 877.08, Florida Statutes ( . . . court adjudicated and sentenced him for the enhanced offense as a felon as provided for by Section 877.08 . . . The information charging the defendant with the violation of Section 877.08 failed to allege that the . . .

DESIN, v. STATE, 414 So. 2d 516 (Fla. 1982)

. . . We find that tampering with a coin-operated vending machine, as prohibited by section 877.08, constitutes . . . theft, obtaining or using the property of another with intent to deprive the other of the property); § 877.08 . . .

G. HIGH, v. STATE, 260 So. 2d 549 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1972)

. . . . § 877.08, F.S.A. or an attempt to do so, but this record does not disclose a violation of Fla.Stat. . . .