Terms Used In Florida Statutes 509.404

  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Operator: means the owner, licensee, proprietor, lessee, manager, assistant manager, or appointed agent of a public lodging establishment or public food service establishment. See Florida Statutes 509.013
The action under s. 509.403 shall be brought in a court of appropriate jurisdiction in the county where the property is located. When property consists of separate articles, the value of any one of which is within the jurisdictional amount of a lower court but which, taken together, exceed that jurisdictional amount, the operator may not divide the property to give jurisdiction to the lower court so as to enable the operator to bring separate actions therefor.
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