The 2023 Florida Statutes (including Special Session C)

Title XXXIII
REGULATION OF TRADE, COMMERCE, INVESTMENTS, AND SOLICITATIONS

Chapter 520
RETAIL INSTALLMENT SALES

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F.S. 520.91

520.91 Uttering a false completion certificate.—Any person who accepts or receives a completion certificate or other evidence that performance of a home improvement contract is complete or satisfactorily concluded, with knowledge that such document is false and that the performance is not completed, and who utters, offers, or uses such document in connection with making or accepting any assignment or negotiation of the right to receive any payment from the owner, under or in connection with a home improvement contract or for the purpose of obtaining or granting any credit or loan on the security of the right to receive any payment, is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083.

History.—s. 1, ch. 69-44; s. 494, ch. 71-136; s. 3, ch. 76-168; s. 1, ch. 77-457; s. 21, ch. 80-256; s. 2, ch. 81-318; ss. 35, 36, ch. 90-103; s. 4, ch. 91-429.

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Amendments to 520.91

Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 520.91

Level: Degree
Misdemeanor/Felony: First/Second/Third

S520.91 - FRAUD - UTTER FALSE HOME IMPROVEMENT COMPLETION CERTIF - M: F

Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

Cases from cite.case.law:

UNITED STATES v. BETHLEHEM STEEL CORPORATION BETHLEHEM SHIPBUILDING CORPORATION, v. UNITED STATES SHIPPING BOARD MERCHANT FLEET CORPORATION UNITED STATES SHIPPING BOARD MERCHANT FLEET CORPORATION v. BETHLEHEM SHIPBUILDING CORPORATION,, 113 F.2d 301 (3d Cir. 1940)

. . . $92,990,520.91 and Bethlehem has been paid under the contracts the actual base cost of the ships, $92,990,-520.91 . . .

PATENT BUTTON CO. v. CONSOLIDATED FASTENER CO., 84 F. 189 (C.C.D. Me. 1897)

. . . On a bill for infringement of the Plait patent, No. 520.91)9, for a, device for driving- and clinching . . .