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Article: Florida's 1996 Administrative Procedure Act.
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- Florida Bar Journal
- Article date:
- March 1, 1997
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What do a property owner whose application for a state permit to build a dock has been denied, a real estate salesman who has received an administrative complaint from the Florida Real Estate Commission, a nursing home administrator whose application for licensure has been denied, a doctor who has been accused by the Board of Medicine of committing malpractice, a business which has received an assessment for unpaid state sales tax, and a vendor who submitted the lowest bid to the state agency but was not awarded the contract have in common?
Florida's modern Administrative Procedure Act (APA) dates back to 1975, when the Division of Administrative Hearings (DOAH) ...