Dependency Law Finder

Florida's dependency statutes, court rules and DCF operating procedures, with the appellate opinions that apply them

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§ 39.003 Former number


Each citation is matched to today's text through the statutes the opinion applied (1997 on), so renumbered subsections land in the right place; those show "Cited as".

§ 39.003 isn't in the 2026 Florida Statutes. No current section names it as a former number; many pre-1998 numbers were delinquency provisions, which moved to Chapter 985 in 1997. The opinions below cite it by this number.

1 opinion cite § 39.003

  1. State ex rel. Register v. Safer 368 So. 2d 620 · 1DMM-374 · 1st DCA 1979

    This opinion cites § 39.003 1 time, the section generally

    · cited by 19 in all courts

    …is stated: It is the intent of the legislature that this chapter be liberally interpreted and construed in conformity with its declared purposes. Section 39.003 expresses part of the declared purposes: To assure that the prosecution and disposition of a child charged and found to have committed a violation of…

0 admin code rules cite § 39.003

DCF's rules in Chapter 65C, Florida Administrative Code, that cite it or name it as the law they implement.

No admin code rule cites § 39.003.

0 CFOPs cite § 39.003

How DCF carries it out. A page opens in the CFOP reader with the citation highlighted.

No CFOP cites § 39.003.