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The 2023 Florida Statutes (including Special Session C)

Title XIV
TAXATION AND FINANCE
Chapter 216
PLANNING AND BUDGETING
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F.S. 216.311
216.311 Unauthorized contracts in excess of appropriations; penalty.
(1) No agency or branch of state government shall contract to spend, or enter into any agreement to spend, any moneys in excess of the amount appropriated to such agency or branch unless specifically authorized by law, and any contract or agreement in violation of this chapter shall be null and void.
(2) Any person who willfully contracts to spend, or enters into an agreement to spend, any money in excess of the amount appropriated to the agency or branch for whom the contract or agreement is executed is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083.
History.ss. 15, 31, 35, ch. 69-106; s. 19, ch. 71-354; s. 66, ch. 73-333; s. 20, ch. 77-352; s. 100, ch. 79-190; s. 106, ch. 79-222; s. 26, ch. 91-224; s. 74, ch. 92-142.

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Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 216.311
Level: Degree
Misdemeanor/Felony: First/Second/Third

S216.311 - EMBEZZLE - CONTRACT IN EXCESS OF APPROPRIATION - M: F



Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

Cases from cite.case.law:

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, v. CSX TRANSPORTATION, INC., 128 So. 3d 209 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2013)

. . . . § 216.311(1), Fla. Stat. (2002). . . . Id.; see also § 216.311(1); Am. Home Assur. Co. v. Nat’l R.R. . . .

ELLINGHAM, v. FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES,, 896 So. 2d 926 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2005)

. . . .; § 216.311(1), Fla.Stat. (2002). . . .

PHYSICIANS HEALTH CARE PLANS, INC. v. M. COOK,, 714 So. 2d 566 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1998)

. . . As a corollary to that provision, section 216.311, Florida Statutes, provides that no agency may contract . . .

STATE v. FAMILY BANK OF HALLANDALE,, 623 So. 2d 474 (Fla. 1993)

. . . .-43, 216.311(1), 216.331, 216.351, Fla.Stat. (1989). . . .

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND REHABILITATIVE SERVICES, v. STATE, 593 So. 2d 328 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1992)

. . . In addition, section 216.311, Florida Statutes (1991) forbids any state agency from willfully contracting . . .

STATE v. FAMILY BANK OF HALLANDALE, 593 So. 2d 581 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1992)

. . . 18.02, 215.31, 215.35, 215.43, Florida Statutes (1965), with sections 18.02(1), 215.31, 215.35, 215.43, 216.311 . . .

STATE Of DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND REHABILITATIVE SERVICES, v. BROOKE In In In W. C. J. a k a W. C. J. a J. S. B. a P. H. a A. G. a R. H. a J. R. a O. W. a J. R. a O. W. a, 573 So. 2d 363 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1991)

. . . amount of the legislature’s appropriations for such placements, the Department was prohibited by section 216.311 . . . than that which was actually needed, and pointing out that the Department was prohibited by section 216.311 . . . Moreover, section 216.311 makes it unlawful for any agency within the state government to contract to . . . Section 216.311(1) provides: No agency of the state government shall contract to spend, or enter into . . .

SPALDING, v. L. DUGGER,, 526 So. 2d 71 (Fla. 1988)

. . . services directly related to the nine cases under active death warrants, without violating section 216.311 . . .

FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH REHABILITATIVE SERVICES, v. SOUTHERN ENERGY, LTD. a, 493 So. 2d 1082 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1986)

. . . As a corollary to that provision, section 216.311, Florida Statutes, provides that no agency may contract . . . A comparable provision of general law is that in section 216.311, Florida Statutes, to the effect that . . .

G. CARTEE, H. Jr. J. Jr. E. M. T. d b a a v. FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND REHABILITATIVE SERVICES,, 354 So. 2d 81 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1977)

. . . Appellees in their petition for rehearing rely upon Section 216.311, Florida Statutes (1975), prohibiting . . . U.S. 287, 48 S.Ct. 306, 72 L.Ed. 575 (1928), which construed a statute of Congress similar to Section 216.311 . . .

STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, a v. L. HOWARD, 279 So. 2d 15 (Fla. 1973)

. . . Section 216.311, F. S.A., as applied to this case. . . . Section 216.311 prohibits a state agency from spending any state funds in excess of its appropriation . . . Section 216.311, F.S.A., as applied to the facts of this case and I think an implied construction of . . .