Bill Text: FL S0502 | 2010 | Regular Session | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Special Investigators [SPSC]

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2010-05-27 - Approved by Governor; Chapter No. 2010-119 [S0502 Detail]

Download: Florida-2010-S0502-Enrolled.html

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ENROLLED 
2010 Legislature                           SB 502, 1st Engrossed 
2010502er 
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2         An act relating to special investigators; amending s. 
3         27.251, F.S.; deleting a requirement that 
4         investigators be employed on a full-time basis; 
5         specifying matters that may be investigated by special 
6         investigators; providing an effective date. 
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8  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 
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10         Section 1. Section 27.251, Florida Statutes, is amended to 
11  read: 
12         27.251 Special organized crime investigators.—The state 
13  attorney of each judicial circuit is authorized to employ any 
14  municipal or county police officer or sheriff’s deputy on a 
15  full-time basis as an investigator for the state attorney’s 
16  office with full powers of arrest throughout the judicial 
17  circuit provided such investigator serves on a special task 
18  force to investigate matters involving criminal activity the 
19  detection of which might benefit from a special task force 
20  organized crime, and, provided further, that the salary of such 
21  municipal or county police officer or sheriff’s deputy shall be 
22  paid by the city, county, or sheriff by which the investigator 
23  is principally employed, and with the consent of the county, 
24  sheriff, or municipality. The arrest powers granted in this 
25  section may herein shall be exercised only in the furtherance of 
26  the conduct of the business of the special task force to which 
27  such municipal or county police officer or sheriff’s deputy is 
28  assigned by the said state attorney. 
29         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2010.