Terms Used In Florida Statutes 283.43

  • Agency: means any official, officer, department, board, commission, division, bureau, section, district, office, authority, committee, or council, or any other unit of organization, however designated, of the executive branch of state government, and the Public Service Commission. See Florida Statutes 283.30
  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Public: means those entities and persons other than subordinate and functionally related or connected federal, state, or local governmental agencies. See Florida Statutes 283.30
Any agency the authorized functions of which include public information programs is authorized to purchase, pursuant to this chapter and subject to its appropriation and any other limitations imposed by law, typesetting, printing, and media distribution services, when the purchase of such services would be less costly than the performance of the same services directly by the agency or when such services are beyond the production limitations established by agency guidelines.