1998 Florida Code
TITLE XXXIII REGULATION OF TRADE, COMMERCE, INVESTMENTS, AND SOLICITATIONS
Chapter 506 Stamped Or Marked Containers And Baskets  
506.42   Penalties, generally; judgments and pleadings.

506.42  Penalties, generally; judgments and pleadings.--Any person or corporation which violates the provisions of this law, or of any of the amendments hereof or supplements hereto, shall be liable to a penalty of $5 for the first offense, for each bottle, box, tin, ice-cream container, package, cabinet, refrigerator, equipment or other receptacle or container so filled, sold, bought, given, taken, used, disposed of, trafficked in or possessed in violation of the provisions of this law; and a penalty of double that amount for the second and each subsequent offense; which penalty may be recovered by an action for the recovery of a debt, by the owner or proprietor of any such bottle, box, tin, ice-cream container, package, wrapper, cabinet, refrigerator, equipment or other receptacle or container, or his or her agent in any court of this state having cognizance thereof. The pleadings shall conform in all respects to the practice prevailing in the court in which any such action shall be instituted, but no pleading or process shall be set aside or invalidated by reason of any formal or technical defects therein if the same contains a statement of the nature of the alleged violation and of the section of this law alleged to have been violated, and upon the attention of the court being called to any such formal or technical defect the same shall be immediately corrected and the said pleading or process amended as a matter of course, and as to all other defects in pleadings or process the same may be amended in the discretion of the court, as in any other action or proceeding in said court.

History.--s. 14, ch. 21969, 1943; s. 667, ch. 97-103.