Florida Statutes
Part I - Public Lodging and Public Food Service Establishments (Ss. 509.013-509.417)
509.214 - Notification of automatic gratuity charge.


History.—s. 1, ch. 86-24; s. 1, ch. 88-16; ss. 21, 52, ch. 90-339; s. 4, ch. 91-429.

Structure Florida Statutes

Florida Statutes

Title XXXIII - Regulation of Trade, Commerce, Investments, and Solicitations

Chapter 509 - Lodging and Food Service Establishments; Membership Campgrounds

Part I - Public Lodging and Public Food Service Establishments (Ss. 509.013-509.417)

509.013 - Definitions.

509.032 - Duties.

509.034 - Application.

509.035 - Immediate closure due to severe public health threat.

509.036 - Public food service inspector standardization.

509.039 - Food service manager certification.

509.049 - Food service employee training.

509.072 - Hotel and Restaurant Trust Fund; collection and disposition of moneys received.

509.091 - Notices; form and service.

509.092 - Public lodging establishments and public food service establishments; rights as private enterprises.

509.095 - Accommodations at public lodging establishments for individuals with a valid military identification card.

509.096 - Human trafficking awareness training and policies for employees of public lodging establishments; enforcement.

509.098 - Prohibition of hourly rates.

509.101 - Establishment rules; posting of notice; food service inspection report; maintenance of guest register; mobile food dispensing vehicle registry.

509.102 - Mobile food dispensing vehicles; preemption.

509.111 - Liability for property of guests.

509.141 - Refusal of admission and ejection of undesirable guests; notice; procedure; penalties for refusal to leave.

509.142 - Conduct on premises; refusal of service.

509.143 - Disorderly conduct on the premises of an establishment; detention; arrest; immunity from liability.

509.144 - Prohibited handbill distribution in a public lodging establishment; penalties.

509.151 - Obtaining food or lodging with intent to defraud; penalty.

509.161 - Rules of evidence in prosecutions.

509.162 - Theft of personal property; detaining and arrest of violator; theft by employee.

509.191 - Unclaimed property.

509.2015 - Telephone surcharges by public lodging establishments.

509.211 - Safety regulations.

509.2112 - Public lodging establishments three stories or more in height; inspection rules.

509.213 - Emergency first aid to choking victims.

509.214 - Notification of automatic gratuity charge.

509.215 - Firesafety.

509.2151 - Dining facility firesafety requirement limitation.

509.221 - Sanitary regulations.

509.232 - School carnivals and fairs; exemption from certain food service regulations.

509.233 - Public food service establishment requirements; local exemption for dogs in designated outdoor portions.

509.241 - Licenses required; exceptions.

509.242 - Public lodging establishments; classifications.

509.251 - License fees.

509.261 - Revocation or suspension of licenses; fines; procedure.

509.271 - Prerequisite for issuance of municipal or county occupational license.

509.281 - Prosecution for violation; duty of state attorney; penalties.

509.285 - Enforcement; city and county officers to assist.

509.291 - Advisory council.

509.292 - Misrepresenting food or food product; penalty.

509.302 - Hospitality Education Program.

509.4005 - Applicability of ss. 509.401-509.417.

509.401 - Operator’s right to lockout.

509.402 - Operator’s right to recover premises.

509.403 - Operator’s writ of distress.

509.404 - Writ of distress; venue and jurisdiction.

509.405 - Complaint; requirements.

509.406 - Prejudgment writ of distress.

509.407 - Writ of distress; levy of writ.

509.408 - Prejudgment writ; form; return.

509.409 - Writ; inventory.

509.411 - Exemptions from writ of distress.

509.412 - Writ; claims by third persons.

509.413 - Judgment for plaintiff when goods not delivered to defendant.

509.414 - Judgment for plaintiff when goods retained by or redelivered to defendant.

509.415 - Judgment for defendant when goods are retained by or redelivered to the defendant.

509.416 - Judgment for defendant when goods are not retained by or redelivered to the defendant.

509.417 - Writ; sale of property distrained.