Florida

Florida Statutes — Title XLVI, Crimes

260 sections, each with the official text and a plain-English explanation of what it means for you.

• § 775.01 — Common law of England
• § 775.011 — Short title; applicability to antecedent offenses
• § 775.012 — General purposes
• § 775.02 — Punishment of common-law offenses
• § 775.021 — Rules of construction
• § 775.022 — Effect of reenactment or amendment of criminal statutes; references in criminal statutes
• § 775.027 — Insanity defense
• § 775.03 — Benefit of clergy
• § 775.04 — What penal acts or omissions not public offenses
• § 775.051 — Voluntary intoxication; not a defense; evidence not admissible for certain purposes; exception
• § 775.08 — Classes and definitions of offenses
• § 775.081 — Classifications of felonies and misdemeanors
• § 775.082 — Penalties; applicability of sentencing structures; mandatory minimum sentences for certain reoffenders previously released from prison
• § 775.0823 — Violent offenses committed against specified justice system personnel
• § 775.0824 — Dangerous unauthorized alien offender; legislative intent; definitions; mandatory minimum prison terms
• § 775.083 — Fines
• § 775.0835 — Fines; surcharges; Crimes Compensation Trust Fund
• § 775.0837 — Habitual misdemeanor offenders
• § 775.084 — Violent career criminals; habitual felony offenders and habitual violent felony offenders; three-time violent felony offenders; definitions; procedure; enhanced penalties or mandatory minimum prison terms
• § 775.0841 — Legislative findings and intent
• § 775.0842 — Persons subject to career criminal prosecution efforts
• § 775.0843 — Policies to be adopted for career criminal cases
• § 775.08435 — Prohibition on withholding adjudication in felony cases
• § 775.0844 — White Collar Crime Victim Protection Act
• § 775.0845 — Wearing mask while committing offense; reclassification
• § 775.0846 — Possession of bulletproof vest while committing certain offenses
• § 775.0847 — Possession or promotion of certain images of child pornography; reclassification
• § 775.0848 — Offenses committed by an unauthorized alien; reclassification
• § 775.0849 — Public service announcements; ch. 99-188
• § 775.085 — Evidencing prejudice while committing offense; reclassification
• § 775.0861 — Offenses against persons on the grounds of religious institutions; reclassification
• § 775.0862 — Sexual offenses against students by authority figures; reclassification
• § 775.0863 — Evidencing prejudice while committing offense against person with mental or physical disability; reclassification
• § 775.087 — Possession or use of weapon; aggravated battery; felony reclassification; minimum sentence
• § 775.0871 — Public service announcements
• § 775.0875 — Unlawful taking, possession, or use of law enforcement officer’s firearm; crime reclassification; penalties
• § 775.0877 — Criminal transmission of HIV; procedures; penalties
• § 775.089 — Restitution
• § 775.091 — Public service
• § 775.13 — Registration of convicted felons, exemptions; penalties
• § 775.14 — Limitation on withheld sentences
• § 775.15 — Time limitations; general time limitations; exceptions
• § 775.16 — Drug offenses; additional penalties
• § 775.21 — The Florida Sexual Predators Act
• § 775.215 — Residency restriction for persons convicted of certain sex offenses
• § 775.24 — Duty of the court to uphold laws governing sexual predators and sexual offenders
• § 775.25 — Prosecutions for acts or omissions
• § 775.26 — Registration of career offenders and public notification; legislative findings and intent
• § 775.261 — The Florida Career Offender Registration Act
• § 775.30 — Terrorism; defined; penalties
• § 775.31 — Facilitating or furthering terrorism; felony or misdemeanor reclassification
• § 775.32 — Use of military-type training provided by a designated foreign terrorist organization
• § 775.33 — Providing material support or resources for terrorism or to terrorist organizations
• § 775.34 — Membership in a designated foreign terrorist organization
• § 775.35 — Agroterrorism; penalties
• § 784.011 — Assault
• § 784.021 — Aggravated assault
• § 784.03 — Battery; felony battery
• § 784.031 — Battery by strangulation
• § 784.041 — Felony battery; domestic battery by strangulation
• § 784.045 — Aggravated battery
• § 784.046 — Action by victim of repeat violence, sexual violence, or dating violence for protective injunction; dating violence investigations, notice to victims, and reporting; pretrial release violations; public records exemption
• § 784.047 — Penalties for violating protective injunction against violators
• § 784.048 — Stalking; definitions; penalties
• § 784.0485 — Stalking; injunction; powers and duties of court and clerk; petition; notice and hearing; temporary injunction; issuance of injunction; statewide verification system; enforcement
• § 784.0487 — Violation of an injunction for protection against stalking or cyberstalking
• § 784.049 — Sexual cyberharassment
• § 784.0493 — Harassment or intimidation based on religious or ethnic heritage
• § 784.0495 — Mob intimidation
• § 784.05 — Culpable negligence
• § 784.062 — Misuse of laser lighting devices
• § 784.07 — Assault or battery of law enforcement officers and other specified personnel; reclassification of offenses; minimum sentences
• § 784.071 — Assault or battery on a law enforcement officer; missing while in line of duty; blue alert
• § 784.074 — Assault or battery on sexually violent predators detention or commitment facility staff; reclassification of offenses
• § 784.075 — Battery on detention or commitment facility staff or a juvenile probation officer
• § 784.076 — Battery on health services personnel
• § 784.078 — Battery of facility employee by throwing, tossing, or expelling certain fluids or materials
• § 784.08 — Assault or battery on persons 65 years of age or older; reclassification of offenses; minimum sentence
• § 784.081 — Assault or battery on specified officials or employees; reclassification of offenses
• § 784.082 — Assault or battery by a person who is being detained in a prison, jail, or other detention facility upon visitor or other detainee; reclassification of offenses
• § 784.083 — Assault or battery on code inspectors
• § 784.085 — Battery of child by throwing, tossing, projecting, or expelling certain fluids or materials
• § 784.086 — Reproductive battery
• § 790.001 — Definitions
• § 790.01 — Carrying of concealed weapons or concealed firearms
• § 790.013 — Carrying of concealed weapons or concealed firearms without a license
• § 790.015 — Nonresidents; reciprocity
• § 790.02 — Officer to arrest without warrant and upon probable cause
• § 790.051 — Exemption from licensing requirements; law enforcement officers
• § 790.052 — Carrying concealed firearms; off-duty law enforcement officers
• § 790.053 — Open carrying of weapons
• § 790.054 — Prohibited use of self-defense weapon or device against law enforcement officer; penalties
• § 790.06 — License to carry concealed weapon or concealed firearm
• § 790.0601 — Public records exemption for concealed weapons
• § 790.061 — Judges and justices; exceptions from licensure provisions
• § 790.062 — Members and veterans of United States Armed Forces; exceptions from licensure provisions
• § 790.0625 — Appointment of tax collectors to accept applications for a concealed weapon or firearm license; fees; penalties
• § 790.064 — Firearm possession and firearm ownership disability
• § 790.065 — Sale and delivery of firearms
• § 790.0655 — Purchase and delivery of firearms; mandatory waiting period; exceptions; penalties
• § 790.07 — Persons engaged in criminal offense, having weapons
• § 790.08 — Taking possession of weapons and arms; reports; disposition; custody
• § 790.09 — Manufacturing or selling metallic knuckles
• § 790.10 — Improper exhibition of dangerous weapons or firearms
• § 790.115 — Possessing or discharging weapons or firearms at a school-sponsored event or on school property prohibited; penalties; exceptions
• § 790.15 — Discharging firearm in public or on residential property
• § 790.151 — Using firearm while under the influence of alcoholic beverages, chemical substances, or controlled substances; penalties
• § 790.153 — Tests for impairment or intoxication; right to refuse
• § 790.155 — Blood test for impairment or intoxication in cases of death or serious bodily injury; right to use reasonable force
• § 790.157 — Presumption of impairment; testing methods
• § 790.16 — Discharging machine guns; penalty
• § 790.161 — Making, possessing, throwing, projecting, placing, or discharging any destructive device or attempt so to do, felony; penalties
• § 790.1612 — Authorization for governmental manufacture, possession, and use of destructive devices
• § 790.1615 — Unlawful throwing, projecting, placing, or discharging of destructive device or bomb that results in injury to another; penalty
• § 790.162 — Threat to throw, project, place, or discharge any destructive device, felony; penalty
• § 790.163 — False report concerning planting a bomb, an explosive, or a weapon of mass destruction, or concerning the use of firearms in a violent manner; penalty
• § 790.164 — False reports concerning planting a bomb, explosive, or weapon of mass destruction in, or committing arson against, state-owned property, or concerning the use of firearms in a violent manner; penalty; reward
• § 790.165 — Planting of “hoax bomb” prohibited; penalties
• § 790.166 — Manufacture, possession, sale, delivery, display, use, or attempted or threatened use of a weapon of mass destruction or hoax weapon of mass destruction prohibited; definitions; penalties
• § 790.169 — Juvenile offenders; release of names and addresses
• § 790.17 — Furnishing weapons to minors under 18 years of age or persons of unsound mind and furnishing firearms to minors under 18 years of age prohibited
• § 790.173 — Legislative findings and intent
• § 790.174 — Safe storage of firearms required
• § 790.175 — Transfer or sale of firearms; required warnings; penalties
• § 790.18 — Sale or transfer of arms to minors by dealers
• § 790.19 — Shooting into or throwing deadly missiles into dwellings, public or private buildings, occupied or not occupied; vessels, aircraft, buses, railroad cars, streetcars, or other vehicles
• § 790.22 — Use of BB guns, air or gas-operated guns, or electric weapons or devices by minor under 16; limitation; possession of firearms by minor under 18 prohibited; penalties
• § 790.221 — Possession of short-barreled rifle, short-barreled shotgun, or machine gun; penalty
• § 790.222 — Bump-fire stocks prohibited
• § 790.225 — Ballistic self-propelled knives; unlawful to manufacture, sell, or possess; forfeiture; penalty
• § 790.23 — Felons and delinquents; possession of firearms, ammunition, or electric weapons or devices unlawful
• § 790.233 — Possession of firearm or ammunition prohibited when person is subject to an injunction against committing acts of domestic violence, stalking, or cyberstalking; penalties
• § 790.235 — Possession of firearm or ammunition by violent career criminal unlawful; penalty
• § 790.24 — Report of medical treatment of certain wounds; penalty for failure to report
• § 790.25 — Lawful ownership, possession, and use of firearms and other weapons
• § 790.251 — Protection of the right to keep and bear arms in motor vehicles for self-defense and other lawful purposes; prohibited acts; duty of public and private employers; immunity from liability; enforcement
• § 790.256 — Public service announcements
• § 790.27 — Alteration or removal of firearm serial number or possession, sale, or delivery of firearm with serial number altered or removed prohibited; penalties
• § 790.29 — Paramilitary training; teaching or participation prohibited
• § 790.31 — Armor-piercing or exploding ammunition or dragon’s breath shotgun shells, bolo shells, or flechette shells prohibited
• § 790.33 — Field of regulation of firearms and ammunition preempted
• § 790.331 — Prohibition of civil actions against firearms or ammunition manufacturers, firearms trade associations, firearms or ammunition distributors, or firearms or ammunition dealers
• § 790.333 — Sport shooting and training range protection; liability; claims, expenses, and fees; penalties; preemption; construction
• § 790.335 — Prohibition of registration of firearms; electronic records
• § 790.336 — Lists, records, or registries to be destroyed
• § 790.338 — Medical privacy concerning firearms; prohibitions; penalties; exceptions
• § 790.401 — Risk protection orders
• § 806.01 — Arson
• § 806.031 — Arson resulting in injury to another; penalty
• § 806.10 — Preventing or obstructing extinguishment of fire
• § 806.101 — False alarms of fires
• § 806.111 — Fire bombs
• § 806.13 — Criminal mischief; penalties; penalty for minor
• § 806.135 — Destroying or demolishing a memorial or historic property
• § 806.14 — Art works in public buildings; willful damage; unauthorized removal; penalties
• § 810.011 — Definitions
• § 810.015 — Legislative findings and intent; burglary
• § 810.02 — Burglary
• § 810.06 — Possession of burglary tools
• § 810.061 — Impairing or impeding telephone or power to a dwelling; facilitating or furthering a burglary; penalty
• § 810.07 — Prima facie evidence of intent
• § 810.08 — Trespass in structure or conveyance
• § 810.09 — Trespass on property other than structure or conveyance
• § 810.095 — Trespass on school property with firearm or other weapon prohibited
• § 810.097 — Trespass upon grounds or facilities of a school; penalties; arrest
• § 810.0975 — School safety zones; definition; trespass prohibited; penalty
• § 810.098 — Trespass for the purpose of threatening or intimidating another person
• § 810.10 — Posted land; removing notices unlawful; penalty
• § 810.11 — Placing signs adjacent to highways; penalty
• § 810.115 — Breaking or injuring fences
• § 810.12 — Unauthorized entry on land; prima facie evidence of trespass
• § 810.125 — Injury to certain trespassers on agricultural land; recovery limited
• § 810.13 — Cave vandalism and related offenses
• § 810.14 — Voyeurism prohibited; penalties
• § 810.145 — Digital voyeurism
• § 810.15 — Residential picketing
• § 812.005 — Short title
• § 812.012 — Definitions
• § 812.014 — Theft
• § 812.0145 — Theft from persons 65 years of age or older; reclassification of offenses
• § 812.0147 — Unlawful possession or use of a fifth wheel
• § 812.015 — Retail and farm theft; transit fare evasion; mandatory fine; alternative punishment; detention and arrest; exemption from liability for false arrest; resisting arrest; penalties
• § 812.0151 — Retail fuel theft
• § 812.0155 — Driver license suspension as an alternative sentence for a person under 18 years of age
• § 812.016 — Possession of altered property
• § 812.017 — Use of a fraudulently obtained or false receipt
• § 812.019 — Dealing in stolen property
• § 812.0191 — Dealing in property paid for in whole or in part by the Medicaid program
• § 812.0195 — Dealing in stolen property by use of the Internet
• § 812.022 — Evidence of theft or dealing in stolen property
• § 812.025 — Charging theft and dealing in stolen property
• § 812.028 — Defenses precluded
• § 812.032 — Supplemental fine
• § 812.035 — Civil remedies; limitation on civil and criminal actions
• § 812.037 — Construction of ss. 812.012-812.037
• § 812.052 — Certain purchases prohibited
• § 812.055 — Physical inspection of junkyards, scrap metal processing plants, salvage yards, licensed motor vehicle or vessel dealers, repair shops, parking lots, public garages, towing and storage facilities
• § 812.061 — Larceny; return of property to owner; procedure
• § 812.062 — Notification to owner and law enforcement agency initiating stolen motor vehicle report upon recovery of stolen vehicle
• § 812.081 — Theft of or trafficking in trade secrets; definitions; penalties; providing to foreign entities; restitution