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The 2023 Florida Statutes (including Special Session C)

Title XLV
TORTS
Chapter 769
HAZARDOUS OCCUPATIONS
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F.S. 769.01
769.01 Employers affected by fellow servant act.This chapter shall apply to persons engaged in the following hazardous occupations in this state; namely, railroading, operating street railways, generating and selling electricity, telegraph and telephone business, express business, blasting and dynamiting, operating automobiles for public use, boating, when boat is propelled by steam, gas or electricity.
History.s. 1, ch. 6521, 1913; RGS 4971; CGL 7058.

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Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 769.01
Level: Degree
Misdemeanor/Felony: First/Second/Third

Current data shows no reason an arrest or criminal charge should have occurred directly under Florida Statute 769.01.



Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

Cases from cite.case.law:

I. GESSA, v. MANOR CARE OF FLORIDA, INC., 86 So. 3d 484 (Fla. 2011)

. . . contrivance or device whatever, having the effect to relieve or exempt the persons mentioned in s. 769.01 . . .

ALTERRA HEALTHCARE CORPORATION M. v. ESTATE OF LINTON GRAHAM f k a, 953 So. 2d 574 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2007)

. . . contrivance or device whatever, having the effect to relieve or exempt the persons mentioned in s. 769.01 . . .

I. SCOFI, S. v. McKEON CONSTRUCTION COMPANY,, 666 F.2d 170 (5th Cir. 1982)

. . . . § 769.01, F.S.A. . . .

CROSBY, v. REGIONAL UTILITY BOARD, CITY OF GAINESVILLE,, 400 So. 2d 1024 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1981)

. . . injured through the latter’s negligence, in the following language: “769.02 The persons mentioned in s. 769.01 . . . contrivance or device whatever, having the effect to relieve or exempt the persons mentioned in s. 769.01 . . .

ORR, v. UNITED STATES, 486 F.2d 270 (5th Cir. 1973)

. . . . §§ 769.01-769.05, the court ordered the Government to pay Orr damages representing 30 percent of the . . . Fla.Stat.Ann. § 769.01. . . . Florida’s Hazardous Occupations Statute provides that “[t]he persons mentioned in § 769.01 shall be liable . . . defendant is engaged in selling electricity and is one of the class of persons referred to in F.S. § 769.01 . . .

RAILWAY EXPRESS AGENCY, INC. a v. V. FULMER,, 227 So. 2d 870 (Fla. 1969)

. . . language of Florida Statute § 769.03, F.S.A., which provides as follows: “The persons mentioned in § 769.01 . . . If the employees or agents injured, or killed, and the persons mentioned in § 769.01, or their agents . . .

RAILWAY EXPRESS AGENCY, INC. a v. WYNN, Jr., 204 So. 2d 912 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1967)

. . . Strong, 130 Fla. 755, 179 So. 289; §§ 769.01, 769.02, 769.03, 769.04, Fla.Stat., F.S.A. . . .

MAULE INDUSTRIES, INC. a v. WATSON, E. E., 201 So. 2d 631 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1967)

. . . Observing that Florida Power and Light Company, the defendant, came within the provisions of § 769.01 . . .

FLORIDA POWER AND LIGHT CO. a v. W. PRICE,, 170 So. 2d 293 (Fla. 1964)

. . . . § 769.01, F.S.A., but this alone does not render it liable for injuries to an employee of its independent . . .

W. PRICE, v. FLORIDA POWER AND LIGHT CO. a, 159 So. 2d 654 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1963)

. . . . § 769.01, Florida Statutes, F.S.A. . . .

KEENAN PIPE SUPPLY COMPANY, a v. B. E. SHIELDS, T., 241 F.2d 486 (9th Cir. 1956)

. . . The court found that Inman paid to Keenan $6,185.64 in two payments of $5,416.63 and $769.01 within four . . . This is erroneous as to the check for $769.01, because ttyat check never entered the estate of Inman. . . . As to the check for $769.01, it was paid directly from Deeter to Keenan. . . .

J. MACARAGES, v. RAYMOND CONCRETE PILE COMPANY, HERRING, v. RAYMOND CONCRETE PILE COMPANY,, 220 F.2d 891 (5th Cir. 1955)

. . . , contrivance or device whatever, having the effect to relieve or exempt the persons mentioned in § 769.01 . . . * * having the effect to relieve * * * (employers in hazardous occupations) from (the provisions of 769.01 . . . exclusive measure of the rights of the parties would be inconsistent with the statutory prohibition in § 769.01 . . .

FORREST H. AKE MITTIE AKE, FORREST H. AKE, v. FLORENCE BIRNBAUM,, 156 Fla. 735 (Fla. 1945)

. . . , now 768.01 and 768.02 F.S. 1941, the death by wrongful act statutes, aided as to proof by section 769.01 . . .

JACKSONVILLE PAPER COMPANY, a v. FRED. E. THURMAN, 153 Fla. 906 (Fla. 1944)

. . . Hardy, 139 Fla. 142, 190 So. 478, however there the hazardous occupation statute (Sec. 769.01, Fla. . . .

IN RE ESTATE OF GREEN MITCHELL MOORE,, 153 Fla. 480 (Fla. 1943)

. . . for damages occasioned others by the negligent killing of intestate, Sections 7047 C.G.L. 1927 Sec. 769.01 . . .