Florida Statutes chapter 720 (homeowners' associations) sections

At a glance

Publisher

The Florida Legislature (Online Sunshine)

Jurisdiction

US-FL / Florida

Publisher updates

Annual statutes edition, plus updates after each legislative session

SourceFinch checks

Daily by default

Records per run

36 in the latest run

Record key

section

Acquired from

Publisher's public API: https://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&URL=0700-0799/0720/0720.html

Recipe

v1.0.0, approved October 3, 2026

Verified since

October 3, 2026

Last green run

October 3, 2026

What the data contains

Chapter 720 of the Florida Statutes governs homeowners' associations: definitions, association powers, budgets and reserves, official records, elections and board meetings, assessments and liens, fines and suspensions, dispute resolution and covenant revitalization. The Florida Legislature publishes the current statutes on Online Sunshine (leg.state.fl.us). Each run reads the chapter's single-page edition and returns one record per section: section number, catchline (the section's title) and the history note listing every session law that created or amended it. Because the history note grows with each amendment, a monitor reports sections added, repealed, retitled or amended when the Legislature's annual edition (and mid-year updates) is published. Section text is not copied into the records; each record identifies the section so the full text can be read at the source.

Fields and types

Every record has these fields. The key field section identifies a record across runs, so changes are reported field by field.

Sample output

The first 5 of 36 records from SourceFinch's own run on October 3, 2026, exactly as delivered.

[
  {
    "history": "s. 33, ch. 92-49; s. 52, ch. 95-274; s. 4, ch. 99-382; s. 44, ch. 2000-258; s. 16, ch. 2004-345; s. 13, ch. 2004-353; s. 62, ch. 2008-240; s. 16, ch. 2011-196; s. 15, ch. 2015-97; s. 19, ch. 2021-99.",
    "section": "720.301",
    "catchline": "Definitions."
  },
  {
    "history": "s. 16, ch. 2015-97.",
    "section": "720.3015",
    "catchline": "Short title."
  },
  {
    "history": "s. 34, ch. 92-49; s. 53, ch. 95-274; s. 45, ch. 2000-258; s. 11, ch. 2003-14; s. 17, ch. 2004-345; s. 14, ch. 2004-353; s. 8, ch. 2007-173; s. 71, ch. 2014-209.",
    "section": "720.302",
    "catchline": "Purposes, scope, and application."
  },
  {
    "history": "s. 35, ch. 92-49; s. 54, ch. 95-274; s. 1, ch. 97-311; s. 1, ch. 98-261; s. 46, ch. 2000-258; s. 12, ch. 2003-14; s. 3, ch. 2003-79; ss. 2, 18, ch. 2004-345; s. 15, ch. 2004-353; s. 135, ch. 2005-2; s. 16, ch. 2007-80; ss. 9, 10, ch. 2007-173; s. 22, ch. 2010-174; s. 17, ch. 2011-196; s. 15, ch. 2013-188; s. 2, ch. 2013-218; s. 17, ch. 2014-133; s. 7, ch. 2015-97; s. 10, ch. 2017-4; s. 3, ch. 2017-161; s. 7, ch. 2018-55; s. 13, ch. 2018-96; s. 6, ch. 2021-91; s. 20, ch. 2021-99; s. 20, ch. 2022-269; s. 2, ch. 2023-228; s. 1, ch. 2024-202; s. 3, ch. 2024-221; s. 84, ch. 2025-6; s. 47, ch. 2026-14.",
    "section": "720.303",
    "catchline": "Association powers and duties; meetings of board; official records; budgets; financial reporting; association funds; recalls."
  },
  {
    "history": "s. 8, ch. 2018-55.",
    "section": "720.3032",
    "catchline": "Notice of association information; preservation from Marketable Record Title Act."
  }
]

Evidence behind every value

• Each run keeps the publisher's exact response, hashed with SHA-256. This sample came from a response with hash 2c958f58173909cec097e5c9be84c9335d2cd848269149c1e79a5e7c2c72b555.
• Every value records where it came from in that response: a CSS path into the retained capture.
• Each run gets a signed manifest (Ed25519) timestamped by an RFC 3161 authority: this run's manifest hash is 208f6e576dcc87127ae2f39afec6c620ec5c4ae7be091cb075ec655cd12bd788, timestamped October 3, 2026.
• The compliance state at capture is recorded with the evidence: robots.txt hash and verdict, AI-preference signals, crawler identity and the usage rights below.
• Download any run as an evidence bundle (WACZ) and check it offline, without trusting SourceFinch: sourcefinch verify-bundle run.wacz.

Terms posture and usage rights

Online Sunshine publishes the Florida Statutes for public reading without registration and states no terms of use beyond its privacy statement; robots.txt allows all agents except named crawlers it blocks and the /employees/ path. The Florida Statutes are adopted by the Legislature as the official statute law of the state (s. 11.2421, F.S.); enacted law is not subject to copyright under the government edicts doctrine (Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). Records contain only section numbers, catchlines and history notes.

Usage rights travel with every record SourceFinch delivers (API, exports, webhooks and evidence bundles). They are our documented understanding of the publisher's stated terms, not legal advice.

Reliability

Runs, last 30 days

0

Green

—

Failed

0

Median run time

—

Latest run

success, October 3, 2026

Measured on runs of this recipe version across SourceFinch, anonymized. This recipe is newly Verified; the numbers fill in as it runs daily.

Use it

Every surface creates the same monitor from this Verified recipe. Monitors keep record history, report field-level changes and deliver by webhook, export or email. You confirm you have the right to collect the source (rights: true).

{
  "name": "Florida Statutes chapter 720 (homeowners' associations) sections",
  "url": "https://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&URL=0700-0799/0720/0720.html",
  "recipe": {
    "mode": "http",
    "format": "html",
    "items": "div.Section",
    "fields": {
      "history": ".HistoryText",
      "section": ".SectionNumber",
      "catchline": ".CatchlineText"
    },
    "required": [
      "section",
      "catchline"
    ]
  },
  "key_field": "section",
  "schedule": "daily",
  "rights": true
}

# the Verified entry (fields, recipe, sample, terms) as JSON
curl https://sourcefinch.com/v1/catalog/florida-statutes-chapter-720-hoa -H "Authorization: Bearer $SOURCEFINCH_API_KEY"

# create the monitor from source.json (below)
curl -X POST https://sourcefinch.com/v1/sources \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SOURCEFINCH_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: $(uuidgen)" \
  -d @source.json

# then run it now (later runs follow the schedule)
curl -X POST https://sourcefinch.com/v1/sources/$SOURCE_ID/runs \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SOURCEFINCH_API_KEY" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: $(uuidgen)"

sourcefinch login
sourcefinch catalog get florida-statutes-chapter-720-hoa --source-json > source.json
sourcefinch sources create --file source.json
sourcefinch runs create $SOURCE_ID --wait
sourcefinch records $SOURCE_ID

import { SourceFinch } from "@tsg/sourcefinch";

const sf = new SourceFinch({ apiKey: process.env.SOURCEFINCH_API_KEY });
const entry = await sf.catalog.get("florida-statutes-chapter-720-hoa");
const source = await sf.sources.create({
  name: entry.name.slice(0, 100),
  url: entry.acquisition_path.endpoint,
  recipe: entry.recipe.definition,
  key_field: entry.recipe.key_field,
  schedule: entry.recipe.schedule,
  rights: true, // you confirm you have the right to collect this source
});
const run = await sf.runs.wait((await sf.runs.create(source.id)).id);
console.log(run.status);

claude mcp add --transport http sourcefinch https://sourcefinch.com/mcp

# then ask your agent:
"Use SourceFinch to monitor Florida Statutes chapter 720 (homeowners' associations) sections: get_catalog_source florida-statutes-chapter-720-hoa,
then create_source with its create_source_args (dry run first), then run_source."

Pricing

Each check is one run, whatever the number of records, and failed runs are free. On its default daily schedule this source uses about 30 runs a month, which fits the Free plan's 300 runs. It uses HTTP acquisition, so no browser runs are needed. See plans.

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