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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">It occurs to me that the local government’s “public records” should shed some light on any attempt to “slice and dice” as you describe it; otherwise, it may be hard to prove.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [RPPTL-constructionlaw] 713.10 lien for private leasehold on public land<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Yes, I know about Glens Falls. (I love that case). I have a dec action pending with a Prime Contract that well exceeds the threshold, but where
the individual projects thereunder were less than $200K each (after they deducted the DPO’s-change orders). Hence the “slice and dice” question.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> constructionlaw-bounces@lists.flabarrpptl.org [mailto:constructionlaw-bounces@lists.flabarrpptl.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>fred.dudley@hklaw.com<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, February 06, 2012 4:07 PM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [RPPTL-constructionlaw] 713.10 lien for private leasehold on public land<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="color:#1F497D">The case I was referring to is
<i>Warren, Governor for Use and Benefit of Hughes Supply Co., Inc. vs. Glens Falls Indemnity Co.</i>, 66 So. 2d 54 (Fla. 1953) and 74 So. 2d 888 (Fla. 1954), in which liability was found against the statutory surety bonds of school board members who had failed
to require a s. 255 bond. I used this case in Lee County to effect a $50,000 settlement against five (5) county commissioners each of who had posted the then required statutory $10,000 surety bonds (maybe since repealed?).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="color:#1F497D">P. S. I was a mere child when Warren was Governor and this case was decided! A really old lawyer told me about it!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:black">Frederick Dudley</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:black"> |
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> constructionlaw-bounces@lists.flabarrpptl.org [mailto:constructionlaw-bounces@lists.flabarrpptl.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>kim.ashby@akerman.com<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, February 06, 2012 3:43 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> constructionlaw@lists.flabarrpptl.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [RPPTL-constructionlaw] 713.10 lien for private leasehold on public land<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><span style="color:#1F497D">Fred, if you look closely at that case, it was the Commissioner's E&O carrier (for operational activities) that was the liable party because the Commissioners were protected by the same
sovereign immunity. See </span><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Palm Beach County v. Trinity Industries, Inc.</span></i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">, 661 So. 2d 942 (Fla. 4th DCA
1995).<i> <o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Since that opinion was published, the legislature made the following changes to section 255.05, specifically in adding section 255.05(9):<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> (9) On any public works project for which the public authority requires a performance and payment bond, suits
at law and in equity may be brought and maintained by and against the public authority on any contract claim arising from a breach of an express provision or an implied covenant of a written agreement or a written directive issued by the public authority pursuant
to the written agreement. in any such suit, the public authority and the contractor shall have all of the same rights and obligations as a private person under a like contract except that no liability may be based on an oral modification of either the written
contract or written directive. <i>Nothing herein shall be construed to waive the sovereign immunity of the state and its political subdivisions from equitable claims and equitable remedies.
</i> The provisions of this section shall apply only to contracts entered into on or after July 1, 1999.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">See also<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">St. Augustine v. Brooks,</span></i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> 55 So. 2d 96 (Fla. 1951) (mechanic's
lien will not attach to property held and used by a municipality for public purposes).
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Just saying.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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[mailto:constructionlaw-bounces@lists.flabarrpptl.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>fred.dudley@hklaw.com<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, February 06, 2012 3:04 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> constructionlaw@lists.flabarrpptl.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [RPPTL-constructionlaw] 713.10 lien for private leasehold onpublic land<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><span style="color:#1F497D;background:white">There’s also an old case out of north Florida holding county commissioners PERSONALLY liable for failing to require a 255 bond!
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<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:black;background:white">Frederick Dudley</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:black;background:white"> |
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[mailto:constructionlaw-bounces@lists.flabarrpptl.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Joseph G. Thresher<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, February 06, 2012 2:44 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'RPPTL constructionlaw'<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [RPPTL-constructionlaw] 713.10 lien for private leasehold onpublic land<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><span style="color:#1F497D;background:white">Why not enforce your bond remedy?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><span style="color:#1F497D;background:white">Note the first sentence of 255.05(1)(a); the recent amendments creating existing language requires private party to obtain bond(s) for work that private party contracts
for as improvement to public property or a Public Work . To understand better the meaning of the amendment, do research on use of “public work”; that wording is not limited to “ public property” or there would be no disjunctive “or”. A very early case used
“public work” as private property of a railroad that would serve the public; that case did not deal with lien or bond, but it illustrates how general “public work” means in current version of statute. A more interesting issue is defining the remedy for
non-compliance against the public body or the private party that failed to obtain bonds. In some past cases the commissioners or council members were liable to person or entity that by law had right to rely upon existence of the required bonds. Who was advising
the public body; the private party. Does the license or lease have an indemnity clause in favor of public entity? Have fun.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><span style="color:#1F497D;background:white"> JG Thresher<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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[mailto:constructionlaw-bounces@lists.flabarrpptl.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>fred.dudley@hklaw.com<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, February 03, 2012 2:25 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> constructionlaw@lists.flabarrpptl.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [RPPTL-constructionlaw] 713.10 lien for private leasehold onpublic land<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><span style="color:#1F497D;background:white">Can you send a copy of the Order on your motion for SJ?</span><span style="color:black;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Bryan L. Capps<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, February 02, 2012 4:34 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> RPPTL constructionlaw<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [RPPTL-constructionlaw] 713.10 lien for private leasehold onpublic land</span><span style="color:black;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:2.0in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white">Steve Pickert and I had such a case many years ago, wherein the City of Coral Springs entered into a renewable "Concession
Agreement" (i.e., a lease) for a private party to build an ice-skating rink on City property. Under the Concession Agreement, the concessionaire/lessee actually owned the improvements subject to the City's reversionary interest at the conclusion of the lease.
The concessionaire/lessee didn't pay the contractor and, in fact, sold its interest during construction. The contractor, our client, recorded a lien against the property, and both the concessionaire/lessee and the purchaser said the property was not lienable.
We moved for and were granted summary judgment in our favor on that issue. Attached is the motion/brief, which is a matter of public record and may be helpful. Presumably much of the law has changed/evolved over the past 14 or so years.</span><span style="color:black;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a href="mailto:constructionlaw-bounces@lists.flabarrpptl.org">constructionlaw-bounces@lists.flabarrpptl.org</a> on behalf of Larry Leiby<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thu 2/2/2012 3:44 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> RPPTL constructionlaw<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [RPPTL-constructionlaw] 713.10 lien for private leasehold onpublic land</span><span style="color:black;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:2.0in"><span style="color:#1F497D;background:white">The answer is in the definitions in 713.01 (and if you are referring to 8:3 of my book, it is set out there). The statutory reason that you can’t lien publicly owned
property is because a governmental owner is not within the definition of owner in 713.01. The definition of real property also excludes governmentally owned property. This is intended to keep governmentally owned property out of the lien law because a government
must usually go through an election to subject public owned property to liens, e.g., financing bond issues.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:2.0in"><span style="color:#1F497D;background:white">An owner is also defined as one having an interest in the property and who enters into a contract for the improvement of the real property. Thus there is no reason
that you cannot have a lien on a private leasehold interest that sits on public property. You want to be careful when you prepare the lien to only seek it against the leasehold. Also a lien on a leasehold is typically only as valuable as the tenant is collectable.
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Rafael Perez<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, February 02, 2012 2:56 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:constructionlaw@lists.flabarrpptl.org">constructionlaw@lists.flabarrpptl.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [RPPTL-construction</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;background:white">
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black;background:white">law] 713.10 lien for private leasehold on public land</span><span style="color:black;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:2.0in"><span style="color:black;background:white">Does anyone have any authority for a construction lien on a leasehold where the lessee is a private party but the lessor is a municipality (i.e. on public land)? The
lessee contracted for the improvements which were required by the lease agreement. The only authority I have found is Section 8.3 of the Fla. Prac. Construction Law Manual which states in the first paragraph, in part: “However, there may be private leasehold
interests on governmental property that are lienable.” I have found no other authority.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:2.0in"><span style="color:#1F497D;background:white">Rafael A. Perez</span><span style="color:black;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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