2015 Florida Statutes
TITLE XLVI - CRIMES
Chapter 817 - FRAUDULENT PRACTICES
Part I - FALSE PRETENSES AND FRAUDS, GENERALLY (ss. 817.011-817.569)
817.14 - Procuring assignments of produce upon false representations.

817.14 Procuring assignments of produce upon false representations.—A person acting for himself or herself or another person, who shall procure any consignment of produce grown in this state, to himself or herself or such other, for sale on commission or for other compensation by any knowingly false representation as to the prevailing market price at such time for such produce at the point to which it is consigned, or as to the price which such person for whom he or she is acting is at said time paying to other consignors for like produce at said place, or as to the condition of the market for such produce at such time and place, and any such person acting for another who shall procure any consignment for sale as aforesaid by false representation of authority to him or her by such other to make a guaranteed price to the consignor, commits a misdemeanor of the first degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083.

History.—s. 1, ch. 5141, 1903; GS 3325; RGS 5163; CGL 7266; s. 849, ch. 71-136; s. 1248, ch. 97-102; s. 5, ch. 2015-166.