The Florida Senate

544.04  Duty of state attorney.--The state attorneys shall institute and prosecute all proper suits in their respective circuits in the name of the state to enforce this chapter. Any citizen of this state also may institute and prosecute suit in her or his own name to enforce this chapter. In case decree shall be rendered in the circuit court in favor of the plaintiff, whether the state or an individual, the court may decree that the defendant or defendants pay a reasonable fee in the cause for the state attorney or plaintiff's solicitor therein. Nothing herein contained shall operate or be construed to deprive any person of any right to any damages, or of any remedy to recover damages which such person would have without this chapter in or about matter mentioned or included in this chapter.

History.--s. 4, ch. 4534, 1897; GS 3163; RGS 4889; CGL 7078; s. 757, ch. 97-103.