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Florida Statutes, Title IV

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Title IV, Executive Branch

9 chapters · 294 sections in this title.

All chapters in Title IV294 Ch 20, Organizational Structure62 Ch 17, Chief Financial Officer59 Ch 15, Secretary of State56 Ch 16, Attorney General34 Ch 14, Governor30 Ch 24, State Lotteries28 Ch 22, Emergency Continuity of Government11 Ch 23, Miscellaneous Executive Functions9 Ch 19, Commissioner of Agriculture5

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Fla. Stat. § 16.557 Crime stoppers organizations; disclosure of privileged communications or protected information; civil immunity; use
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(1) As used in this section, the term:(a) “Crime stoppers organization” means a private not-for-profit organization that collects and expends donations for rewards to persons who report to the organization information concerning criminal activity, and forwards that information to…
Fla. Stat. § 16.56 Office of Statewide Prosecution
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(1) There is created in the Department of Legal Affairs an Office of Statewide Prosecution. The office shall be a separate “budget entity” as that term is defined in chapter 216. The office may:(a) Investigate and prosecute the offenses of:1. Bribery, burglary, criminal usury, ex…
Fla. Stat. § 16.57 Office of Civil Rights
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There is created in the Department of Legal Affairs an Office of Civil Rights. The office may investigate and initiate actions authorized by chapter 760. In investigating violations of constitutional and statutory rights under chapter 760, the Attorney General may administer oath…
Fla. Stat. § 16.59 Medicaid fraud control
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The Medicaid Fraud Control Unit is created in the Department of Legal Affairs to investigate all violations of s. 409.920 and any criminal violations discovered during the course of those investigations. The Medicaid Fraud Control Unit may refer any criminal violation so uncovere…

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Fla. Stat. § 16.60 Public records mediation program within the Office of the Attorney General; creation; duties

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(1) As used in this section, “mediation” means a process whereby a neutral third person, called the mediator, acts to encourage and facilitate the resolution of a dispute between two or more parties. It is a formal, nonadversarial process that has the objective of helping the dis…

Fla. Stat. § 16.617 Statewide Council on Human Trafficking; creation; membership; duties

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(1) CREATION.—There is created the Statewide Council on Human Trafficking within the Department of Legal Affairs. The council is created for the purpose of enhancing the development and coordination of state and local law enforcement and social services responses to fight commerc…

Fla. Stat. § 16.618 Direct-support organization

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(1) The Department of Legal Affairs shall establish a direct-support organization to provide assistance, funding, and support to the Statewide Council on Human Trafficking and to assist in the fulfillment of the council’s purposes. The direct-support organization must be:(a) A Fl…

Fla. Stat. § 16.62 Recognition and awards

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In addition to expenditures separately authorized by law, the Department of Legal Affairs may expend no more than $20,000 annually to support costs associated with the Law Enforcement Officer of the Year Recognition and Awards Program and the Victims Services Recognition and Awar…

Fla. Stat. § 16.63 Dozier School for Boys and Okeechobee School Victim Compensation Program

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1(1) The Dozier School for Boys and Okeechobee School Victim Compensation Program is established within the Department of Legal Affairs. The purpose of the program is to compensate living persons who were confined to the Dozier School for Boys or the Okeechobee School at any time…

Fla. Stat. § 16.64 Applications for compensation through the Dozier School for Boys and Okeechobee School Victim Compensation Program; public records exemption

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(1) Any names, dates of birth, driver license numbers, home addresses, mailing addresses, telephone numbers, or electronic mail addresses in an application submitted to the Department of Legal Affairs by a person seeking compensation through the Dozier School for Boys and Okeecho…

Fla. Stat. § 16.71 Florida Gaming Control Commission; creation; meetings; membership

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(1) CREATION; MEETINGS.—(a) There is created within the Department of Legal Affairs, Office of the Attorney General, the Florida Gaming Control Commission, hereinafter referred to as the commission. The commission shall be a separate budget entity, and the commissioners shall ser…

Fla. Stat. § 16.711 Division of Gaming Enforcement; creation; duties

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(1) There is created within the Florida Gaming Control Commission a Division of Gaming Enforcement. The Division of Gaming Enforcement shall be considered a criminal justice agency as defined in s. 943.045.(2) The commissioners shall appoint a director of the Division of Gaming E…

Fla. Stat. § 16.712 Florida Gaming Control Commission authorizations, duties, and responsibilities

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(1) The commission shall do all of the following:(a) Exercise all of the regulatory and executive powers of the state with respect to gambling, including, without limitation thereto, pari-mutuel wagering, cardrooms, slot machine facilities, oversight of gaming compacts executed b…

Fla. Stat. § 16.713 Florida Gaming Control Commission; appointment and employment restrictions

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(1) PERSONS INELIGIBLE FOR APPOINTMENT TO THE COMMISSION.—The following persons are ineligible for appointment to the commission:(a) A person who holds any office in a political party.(b) A person who within the previous 10 years has been convicted of or found guilty of or has pl…

Fla. Stat. § 16.714 Florida Gaming Control Commission background screening requirements; investigations by the Division of Gaming Enforcement

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(1) LEVEL 2 BACKGROUND SCREENINGS.—The Department of Law Enforcement shall, at the request of the Division of Gaming Enforcement, perform a level 2 background screening pursuant to chapter 435 on an employee of the division and on any other employee of the commission for which th…

Fla. Stat. § 16.715 Florida Gaming Control Commission standards of conduct; ex parte communications

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(1) STANDARDS OF CONDUCT.—(a) In addition to the provisions of part III of chapter 112, which are applicable to commissioners on and employees with the Florida Gaming Control Commission by virtue of their being public officers and public employees, the conduct of commissioners an…

Fla. Stat. § 16.716 Florida Gaming Control Commission public records and public meetings exemptions

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(1) Any information obtained by the Florida Gaming Control Commission which is exempt or confidential and exempt from s. 119.07(1) or s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution shall retain its exempt or confidential and exempt status. The information may be released by the commi…

Fla. Stat. § 16.717 Federal Law Enforcement Trust Fund

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(1) The Federal Law Enforcement Trust Fund is created within the Florida Gaming Control Commission. The commission may deposit into the trust fund receipts and revenues received as a result of federal criminal, administrative, or civil forfeiture proceedings and receipts and reve…

Fla. Stat. § 16.7175 Florida Gaming Control Commission; penalties for false oath or affirmation of applicants for licensure; licensees

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The commission may deny the application of, or suspend or revoke the license of, any person who submits an application for licensure upon which application the person has falsely sworn, in a signed oath or affirmation, to a material statement, including, but not limited to, the c…

Fla. Stat. § 16.718 Florida Gaming Control Commission; notification of applicants’ or licensees’ addresses and places of employment; service

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(1) Each applicant for a license with the commission and each licensee of the commission is responsible for notifying the commission in writing of the applicant’s or licensee’s current mailing address, e-mail address, and place of employment. An applicant’s failure to notify the …

Fla. Stat. § 17.001 Chief Financial Officer

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As provided in s. 4(c), Art. IV of the State Constitution, the Chief Financial Officer is the chief fiscal officer of the state and is responsible for settling and approving accounts against the state and keeping all state funds and securities.History.—s. 12, ch. 2003-261.

Fla. Stat. § 17.002 Definition

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For the purposes of this chapter, the term “department” means the Department of Financial Services.History.—s. 13, ch. 2003-261.

Fla. Stat. § 17.011 Assistant Chief Financial Officer

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The Chief Financial Officer of the state may appoint an assistant Chief Financial Officer to hold office during the pleasure of the Chief Financial Officer.History.—s. 2, ch. 67-424; s. 14, ch. 2003-261.

Fla. Stat. § 17.02 Place of residence and office

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The Chief Financial Officer shall reside at the seat of government of this state and shall hold office in a room in the capitol.History.—s. 2, ch. 8, 1845; ch. 1845, 1871; RS 94; GS 98; RGS 111; CGL 141; s. 53, ch. 95-147; s. 15, ch. 2003-261.

Fla. Stat. § 17.03 To audit claims against the state

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(1) The Chief Financial Officer of this state, using generally accepted auditing procedures for testing or sampling, shall examine, audit, and settle all accounts, claims, and demands, whatsoever, against the state, arising under any law or resolution of the Legislature, and issu…

Fla. Stat. § 17.031 Security of Chief Financial Officer’s office

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The Chief Financial Officer may engage the full-time services of two law enforcement officers, with power of arrest, to prevent all acts of a criminal nature directed at the property in the custody or control of the Chief Financial Officer. While so assigned, such officers shall …

Fla. Stat. § 17.04 To audit and adjust accounts of officers and those indebted to the state

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The Chief Financial Officer, using generally accepted auditing procedures for testing or sampling, shall examine, audit, adjust, and settle the accounts of all the officers of this state, and any other person in anywise entrusted with, or who may have received any property, funds…

Fla. Stat. § 17.0401 Confidentiality of information relating to financial investigations

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Except as otherwise provided by this section, information relative to an investigation conducted by the Chief Financial Officer pursuant to s. 17.04, including any consumer complaint, is confidential and exempt from the provisions of s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State…

Fla. Stat. § 17.041 County and district accounts and claims

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(1) It shall be the duty of the Chief Financial Officer to adjust and settle, or cause to be adjusted and settled, all accounts and claims heretofore or hereafter reported to it by the Auditor General, the appropriate county or district official, or any person against all county …

Fla. Stat. § 17.0415 Transfer and assignment of claims

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In order to facilitate their collection from third parties, the Chief Financial Officer may authorize the assignment of claims among the state, its agencies, and its subdivisions, whether arising from criminal, civil, or other judgments in state or federal court. The state, its a…

Fla. Stat. § 17.0416 Authority to provide services on a fee basis

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The Chief Financial Officer, through the Department of Financial Services, may provide accounting and payroll services on a fee basis under contractual agreement with eligible entities, including, but not limited to, state universities, community colleges, units of local governme…

Fla. Stat. § 17.05 Subpoenas; sworn statements; enforcement proceedings

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(1) The Chief Financial Officer may demand and require full answers on oath from any and every person, party or privy to any account, claim, or demand against or by the state, such as it may be the Chief Financial Officer’s official duty to examine into, and which answers the Chi…

Fla. Stat. § 17.075 Form of state warrants and other payment orders; rules

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(1) The Chief Financial Officer is authorized to establish the form or forms of state warrants which are to be drawn by him or her and of other orders for payment or disbursement of moneys out of the State Treasury and to change the form thereof from time to time as the Chief Fin…

Fla. Stat. § 17.076 Direct deposit of funds

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(1) As used in this section, the term “beneficiary” means any person who is drawing salary or retirement benefits from the state or who is the recipient of any lawful payment from state funds.(2) The Chief Financial Officer shall establish a program for the direct deposit of fund…

Fla. Stat. § 17.08 Accounts, etc., on which warrants drawn, to be filed

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All accounts, vouchers, and evidence, upon which warrants have heretofore been, or shall hereafter be, drawn upon the treasury by the Chief Financial Officer shall be filed and deposited in the office of Chief Financial Officer or the office of the Chief Financial Officer’s desig…

Fla. Stat. § 17.09 Application for warrants for salaries

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All public officers who are entitled to salaries in this state, shall make their application for warrants in writing, stating for what terms and the amount they claim, which written application shall be filed by the Chief Financial Officer as vouchers for the warrants issued ther…

Fla. Stat. § 17.10 Record of warrants and of state funds and securities

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The Chief Financial Officer shall cause to be entered in the warrant register a record of the warrants issued during the previous month, and shall make such entry in the record so required to be kept as shall show the number of each warrant issued, in whose favor drawn, and the d…

Fla. Stat. § 17.11 To report disbursements made

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(1) The Chief Financial Officer shall make in all his or her future annual reports an exhibit stated from the record of disbursements made during the fiscal year, and the several heads of expenditures under which such disbursements were made.(2) The Chief Financial Officer shall …

Fla. Stat. § 17.12 Authorized to issue warrants to tax collector or sheriff for payment

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Whenever it shall appear to the satisfaction of the Chief Financial Officer from examination of the books of his or her office that the tax collector or the sheriff for any county in this state has paid into the State Treasury, through mistake or otherwise, a larger or greater su…

Fla. Stat. § 17.13 To replace warrants lost or destroyed

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(1) The Chief Financial Officer is required to replace any Chief Financial Officer’s warrants that may have been lost or destroyed, or may hereafter be lost or destroyed, upon the owner thereof or the owner’s agent or attorney presenting the Chief Financial Officer the statement,…

Fla. Stat. § 17.14 To prescribe forms

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The Chief Financial Officer may prescribe the forms of all papers, vouchers, reports and returns and the manner of keeping the accounts and papers to be used by the officers of this state or other persons having accounts, claims, or demands against the state or entrusted with the…

Fla. Stat. § 17.16 Seal

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The office of the Chief Financial Officer shall have an official seal by which its proceedings are authenticated.History.—s. 7, ch. 8, 1845; RS 108; GS 112; RGS 124; CGL 154; s. 32, ch. 2003-261; s. 2, ch. 2004-390.

Fla. Stat. § 17.17 Examination by Governor and report

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The office of Chief Financial Officer, and the books, files, documents, records, and papers shall always be subject to the examination of the Governor of this state, or any person the Governor may authorize to examine the same; and on the first day of January of each and every ye…

Fla. Stat. § 17.20 Assignment of claims for collection

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(1) The Chief Financial Officer shall charge the state attorneys with the collection of all claims that are placed in their hands for collection of money or property for the state or any county or special district, or that it otherwise requires them to collect. The charges are ev…

Fla. Stat. § 17.21 Not to allow any claim of state attorney against state until report made

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The Chief Financial Officer shall not audit or allow any claim which any state attorney may have against the state for services who shall fail to make any report which by law the state attorney is required to make to the Chief Financial Officer of claims of the state which it is …

Fla. Stat. § 17.22 Notice to Department of Legal Affairs

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Whenever the Chief Financial Officer forwards any bond or account or claim for suit to any state attorney, he or she shall advise the Department of Legal Affairs of the fact, giving it the amount of the claim and other necessary particulars for its full information upon the subje…

Fla. Stat. § 17.25 May certify copies

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The Chief Financial Officer may certify, under his or her seal of office, copies of any record, paper, or document, by law placed in the Chief Financial Officer’s custody, keeping, and care; and such certified copy shall have the same force and effect as evidence as the original …

Fla. Stat. § 17.26 Cancellation of state warrants not presented within 1 year

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(1) If any state warrant issued by the Chief Financial Officer or Comptroller against any fund in the State Treasury is not presented for payment within 1 year after the last day of the month in which it was originally issued, the Chief Financial Officer may cancel the warrant an…

Fla. Stat. § 17.27 Microfilming and destroying records and correspondence

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(1) The Department of Financial Services may destroy general correspondence files and also any other records which the department may deem no longer necessary to preserve in accordance with retention schedules and destruction notices established under rules of the Division of Lib…

Fla. Stat. § 17.28 Chief Financial Officer may authorize biweekly salary payments

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The Chief Financial Officer may permit biweekly salary payments to personnel upon written request by a specific state agency.History.—s. 1, ch. 67-425; s. 40, ch. 2003-261; s. 1, ch. 2013-18.