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The 2023 Florida Statutes (including Special Session C)

Title XLVI
CRIMES
Chapter 843
OBSTRUCTING JUSTICE
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F.S. 843.18
843.18 Boats; fleeing or attempting to elude a law enforcement officer.
(1) It is unlawful for the operator of any boat plying the waters of the state, having knowledge that she or he has been directed to stop such vessel by a duly authorized law enforcement officer, willfully to refuse or fail to stop in compliance with such directive or, having stopped in knowing compliance with such a directive, willfully to flee in an attempt to elude such officer. Any person violating this section is guilty of a felony of the third degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084.
(2) Any violation of this section with respect to any vessel shall constitute such vessel as contraband which may be seized by a law enforcement agency and which shall be subject to forfeiture pursuant to ss. 932.701-932.704.
History.s. 1, ch. 80-160; s. 1, ch. 82-210; s. 29, ch. 87-243; s. 11, ch. 87-392; s. 1347, ch. 97-102.

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Amendments to 843.18


Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 843.18
Level: Degree
Misdemeanor/Felony: First/Second/Third

S843.18 - FLEE/ELUDE POLICE - IN BOAT - F: T



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UNITED STATES v. PILOTO,, 562 F. App'x 907 (11th Cir. 2014)

. . . . § 843.18(1), as a “violent felony” for the purposes of the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA). . . . Stat. § 843.18(1). . . .

NICOR INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION a k a v. EL PASO CORPORATION f k a El, 318 F. Supp. 2d 1160 (S.D. Fla. 2004)

. . . (publishing name and address of police officer); § 843.18, Fla. Stat. . . .

MASON MACHINE WORKS CO., 3 B.T.A. 745 (B.T.A. 1926)

. . . within the taxable year 1918, within the meaning of that subdivision, and made up of the item of $162,-843.18 . . .

DOYLE DRY GOODS CO. v. LEWIS. In WELCH, 5 F.2d 918 (8th Cir. 1925)

. . . inventory prices, the prices at which it was bought, of dry goods, $2,211.81; shoes, $1,671.75; groceries, $843.18 . . .

UNITED STATES FIDELITY GUARANTY CO. v. HAGGART, 163 F. 801 (8th Cir. 1908)

. . . informing it that the amounts which the examiner had disallowed of the accounts against Hurst were $843.18 . . .