Home
Menu
Call attorney Graham Syfert at 904-383-7448
Personal Injury Lawyer
Florida Statute 153.54 | Lawyer Caselaw & Research
F.S. 153.54 Case Law from Google Scholar
Statute is currently reporting as:
Link to State of Florida Official Statute Google Search for Amendments to 153.54

The 2023 Florida Statutes (including Special Session C)

Title XI
COUNTY ORGANIZATION AND INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS
Chapter 153
WATER AND SEWER SYSTEMS
View Entire Chapter
F.S. 153.54
153.54 Preliminary report by county commissioners with respect to creation of proposed district.Upon receipt of a petition duly signed by not less than 25 qualified electors who are also freeholders residing within an area proposed to be incorporated into a water and sewer district pursuant to this law and describing in general terms the proposed boundaries of such proposed district, the board of county commissioners if it shall deem it necessary and advisable to create and establish such proposed district for the purpose of constructing, establishing or acquiring a water system or a sewer system or both in and for such district (herein called “improvements”), shall first cause a preliminary report to be made which such report together with any other relevant or pertinent matters, shall include at least the following:
(1) A general description of the proposed improvements to be made in such district.
(2) A general estimate of the cost of the proposed improvements.
(3) The present condition of water and sewer facilities in the area comprising such proposed district.
(4) Findings with respect to the necessity or reasonableness of the inclusion of lands proposed to be included within the district with reference to the benefits to be derived or able to be derived by such included lands from such proposed improvements, and the necessity or reasonableness of the exclusion of lands adjacent to or within such proposed district with reference to such benefits.
(5) For the construction of a new proposed central sewerage system or the extension of an existing sewerage system that was not previously approved, the report shall include a study that includes the available information from the Department of Environmental Protection on the history of onsite sewage treatment and disposal systems currently in use in the area and a comparison of the projected costs to the owner of a typical lot or parcel of connecting to and using the proposed sewerage system versus installing, operating, and properly maintaining an onsite sewage treatment and disposal system that is approved by the Department of Environmental Protection and that provides for the comparable level of environmental and health protection as the proposed central sewerage system; consideration of the local authority’s obligations or reasonably anticipated obligations for water body cleanup and protection under state or federal programs, including requirements for water bodies listed under s. 303(d) of the Clean Water Act, Pub. L. No. 92-500, 33 U.S.C. ss. 1251 et seq.; and other factors deemed relevant by the local authority.

Such report shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the circuit court and shall be open for the inspection of any taxpayer, property owner, qualified elector or any other interested or affected person.

History.s. 5, ch. 59-466; s. 1, ch. 2006-252; s. 26, ch. 2020-150.

F.S. 153.54 on Google Scholar

F.S. 153.54 on Casetext

Amendments to 153.54


Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 153.54
Level: Degree
Misdemeanor/Felony: First/Second/Third

Current data shows no reason an arrest or criminal charge should have occurred directly under Florida Statute 153.54.



Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

Cases from cite.case.law:

UNITED STATES v. SLATTEN,, 865 F.3d 767 (D.C. Cir. 2017)

. . . relief for a sentence of 50 years to life under California’s "three strikes law” for the theft of $153.54 . . .

IN RE L. HECKMAN, L. v., 560 B.R. 657 (Bankr. E.D. Pa. 2016)

. . . Exhibit D-3, Tab P-8: $141.83, $352.24, $310.13, $600.00, $316.92, $500.00, $170.33, $306.59, $418.83, $153.54 . . . Exhibit R-2, they are accounting entries used to classify two payments in the amount of $170.33 and $153.54 . . .

STEWART, v. M. DIAZ,, 579 F. App'x 611 (9th Cir. 2014)

. . . clearly established federal law by affirming two consecutive twenty-five-year sentences for stealing $153.54 . . .

CROSBY, v. T. SCHWARTZ,, 678 F.3d 784 (9th Cir. 2012)

. . . Court upheld a California Three Strikes 25 to life sentence for petty theft convictions for theft of $153.54 . . .

TOLDEN, v. E. TILTON,, 449 F. App'x 579 (9th Cir. 2011)

. . . twenty-five years to life for a “third strike” conviction where the defendant stole nine videotapes worth $153.54 . . .

MOSSER CONSTRUCTION, INC. v. TRAVELERS INDEMNITY COMPANY,, 665 F. Supp. 2d 875 (N.D. Ohio 2009)

. . . . § 153.54(J). Weybrecht therefore has been statutorily overruled. . . . R.C. § 153.54(J) adopts the definitions in Ohio's mechanic's lien statute, R.C. § 1311.25, which provides . . .

GONZALEZ, v. W. A. DUNCAN,, 551 F.3d 875 (9th Cir. 2008)

. . . sentence of 25 years to life imprisonment for two petty theft convictions arising from the theft of $153.54 . . .

EDWARDS, v. L. OLLISON,, 621 F. Supp. 2d 863 (C.D. Cal. 2008)

. . . See Andrade, 538 U.S. at 66, 123 S.Ct. 1166 (petty theft of $153.54 worth of videotapes from retail store . . .

DELGADO, v. A. YATES,, 622 F. Supp. 2d 854 (N.D. Cal. 2008)

. . . There, the defendant stole $153.54 worth of videotapes from two stores on separate occasions. . . .

ROBERTS, v. MAHONING COUNTY, v., 495 F. Supp. 2d 719 (N.D. Ohio 2007)

. . . (A)(1) or 153.54(A)(2) of the Ohio Revised Code, accompanying the bid, shall be scaled in the bid envelope . . . An original bond, in accordance with Division (A)(1) of 153.54 of the Ohio Revised Code, for the full . . . amount of the bid conditioned, as provided in Division (B) of 153.54 of the Ohio Revised Code. . . . A certified check or cashier’s check, in accordance with Division (A)(2) of 153.54 of the Ohio Revised . . . Code, equal to five percent (5%) of the bid conditioned, as provided in Division (C) of 153.54 of the . . .

TAYLOR, v. LEWIS,, 460 F.3d 1093 (9th Cir. 2006)

. . . And in Andrade, the petitioner committed a petty theft of $153.54 worth of videotapes from a retail store . . . But it is not obvious to us that Andrade’s depriving a K-Mart of $153.54 worth of videotapes is graver . . .

DURAN, v. CASTRO,, 227 F. Supp. 2d 1121 (E.D. Cal. 2002)

. . . e.g., Andrade, 270 F.3d 743 (petitioner sentenced to life in prison for theft of videotapes worth $153.54 . . .

BROWN, v. D. A. MAYLE Jr. v. E., 283 F.3d 1019 (9th Cir. 2002)

. . . convicted of two separate counts of petty theft for shoplifting a total of nine videotapes valued at $153.54 . . .

ANDRADE, v. ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA B., 270 F.3d 743 (9th Cir. 2001)

. . . As a result, Andrade, a non-violent recidivist who twice shoplifted merchandise worth a total of $153.54 . . . sentence of 50 years to life for two shoplifting offenses involving nine videotapes worth a total of $153.54 . . . petty theft with a prior for shoplifting videotapes on two different occasions with a total value of $153.54 . . . inference of gross disproportionality when compared to his two petty thefts of nine videotapes worth $153.54 . . . It should be emphasized that Andrade’s sentence is not one fifty-year sentence for thefts totaling $153.54 . . .

SAEWITZ v. N. EPSTEIN, 6 F. Supp. 2d 151 (N.D.N.Y. 1998)

. . . remaining claims, defendants have sufficiently established that they paid $653.74 to Central Hudson, $153.54 . . .

In BOWNIC INSULATION CONTRACTORS, INC. RIESER, v. LANDIS GYR POWERS, INC., 134 B.R. 261 (Bankr. S.D. Ohio 1991)

. . . Osterfeld provided payment and performance bonds on the Project in conformance with Ohio Revised Code § 153.54 . . .

STATE OF OHIO, STAR SUPPLY, DIVISION OF STAR INDUSTRIES, INC. v. CITY OF GREENFIELD, OHIO,, 528 F. Supp. 955 (S.D. Ohio 1981)

. . . . § 153.54 (1978) (amended, Aug. 8, 1980) — to assure that subcontractors, laborers and materialmen were . . .

PASCO TERMINALS, INC. v. UNITED STATES, 416 F. Supp. 1242 (Cust. Ct. 1976)

. . . the publication of Notice of Withholding, Azufrera could itself post the bond required by 19 CFR § 153.54 . . .

v., 76 Cust. Ct. 204 (Cust. Ct. 1976)

. . . the publication of Notice of Withholding, Azufrera could itself post the bond required by 19 CFR § 153.54 . . .

KECO INDUSTRIES, INC. v. THE UNITED STATES, 176 Ct. Cl. 983 (Ct. Cl. 1966)

. . . involved in the production of these units, and will accept a reduction in the unit price of Item 3 of $153.54 . . .

WESTERN CASUALTY AND SURETY COMPANY, a v. S. BROOKS, In BRUNS COAL COMPANY, a d b a, 362 F.2d 486 (4th Cir. 1966)

. . . Ohio Revised Code, § 153.54, provides in part that a public contractor shall be required to execute: . . .

v., 9 Ohio Misc. 61 (4th Cir. 1966)

. . . Section 153.54, Revised Code, provides in part that a public contractor shall be required to execute: . . .

v., 41 T.C. 181 (T.C. 1963)

. . . Upon the evidence before us, the weekly rate of payments was $153.54 (the year’s salary of $7,984.27 . . . to determine the excludable portion thereof, is one having a numerator of $100 and a denominator of $153.54 . . .