STATE, DEPT. OF COM., ETC. v. MATTHEWS CORP.

No. EE-374.

358 So.2d 256 (1978)

STATE of Florida, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, DIVISION OF LABOR, Petitioner, v. MATTHEWS CORPORATION, a Florida Corporation, and State of Florida, Department of Administration, Division of Administrative Hearings, Respondents.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

May 9, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dan F. Turnbull, Jr., Tallahassee, for petitioner.

Thomas M. Gonzalez and William E. Sizemore of Shackleford, Farrior, Stallings & Evans, Tampa, Pamela L. Phillips and Kenneth G. Oertel, Tallahassee, for respondents.

Frank E. Hamilton, III, of Hamilton, Douglas & Bennett, Fort Lauderdale, for amicus curiae.


ERVIN, Judge.

Once again we are asked to decide whether certain procedures, informally adopted by an agency, are rules within the contemplation of the Administrative Procedure Act. Matthews Corporation, a general contractor and a disappointed bidder on a public works project,1 filed a petition for a Section 120.56 hearing to determine whether certain wage rate guidelines were rules, and, if so...

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