What Is in This Section
Every other page on this site makes legal claims. This section is where you check them.
E-Bike and Injury Law Glossary
Every term this site uses, defined — with its subsection where the term is statutory, and marked as common law where it is not.
Statute Index
Every statute and regulation the site relies on, in one place. Generated from the built pages so it cannot drift.
Deadline Reference
Every period that can apply, cited by subsection — and an honest account of the one thing nobody can compute for you.
The statute index is the one worth knowing about. It lists every statutory and regulatory citation the site relies on, grouped by chapter, with a short description of what each provides and how many pages depend on it. It is generated from the built pages rather than maintained by hand, so it cannot fall out of step with what the site actually says.
Why Everything Here Carries a Subsection
A citation to a chapter is not checkable. A citation to a subsection is. That is the whole of the reasoning, and it has practical consequences.
“Fla. Stat. § 95.11” tells a reader nothing about whether a claim is right. § 95.11(5)(a) tells them exactly where to look and lets them confirm we read it correctly — or catch us if we did not. On a site whose entire value is accuracy about Florida law, that difference is the product.
It also catches real errors. The negligence limitations period moved from a four-year subsection to § 95.11(5)(a) in 2023, and the old subsection still exists — it now concerns the determination of paternity. Material citing it for a crash deadline is not merely out of date; it is pointing at a provision about parentage. Only subsection-level citation makes that visible.
The same rule governs numbers. Every figure on this site is fixed in a statute or a regulation and cited to it: 3 feet, 20 feet, 500 and 600 feet, 25 feet, 750 watts, $200,000, $300,000, 50 percent, two years. There are no crash statistics, no injury rates, and no settlement averages anywhere on this site — not because they would be unhelpful, but because they could not be sourced to a named dataset and year.
David I. Shiner, Esq.
Founder, Shiner Law Group · AV Preeminent® rated · Florida Bar member since 2002
David I. Shiner founded Shiner Law Group and has been a member of The Florida Bar since 2002. He is a graduate of Nova Southeastern University’s law school and holds an AV Preeminent® rating from Martindale-Hubbell. The firm represents injured people across Florida from offices in Boca Raton, West Palm Beach, Fort Lauderdale, Fort Pierce, Orlando, Wellington, and Belle Glade, and handles these cases on a contingency basis with free consultations and no attorney’s fee unless there is a recovery.
How to Check Any Claim on This Site
This is not a rhetorical invitation. The site is built so it can be done.
- Find the citation. Every legal statement carries one, in the sentence that makes the claim.
- Look it up in the statute index to see what it provides and which other pages rely on it.
- Read the current statute text at the Florida Senate or Florida House statute sites. Both publish the official text by section.
- Check the review date in the byline at the top of every page. Statutes are amended, and a page reviewed a year ago may no longer be right.
- Watch for session laws. Some things a reader expects to find in a statute are not there — the March 24, 2023 changeover date comes from the applicability clause of ch. 2023-15, not from § 768.81 or § 95.11.
If you find something wrong, tell us. A correction that holds up gets made and the page’s review date is restamped. See about this site.
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Errors We Found in Published Florida Material
Building this site meant checking a great deal of what is published about Florida e-bike law. Four errors recur often enough to be worth naming.
| What Gets Published | What the Source Actually Says |
|---|---|
| “Four years to sue, under § 95.11(3)(a)” | Wrong twice. Negligence is two years under § 95.11(5)(a) for causes of action accruing on or after March 24, 2023, and § 95.11(3)(a) now concerns paternity. |
| “Florida’s new e-bike law takes effect July 1, 2026” | CS/SB 382 (2026) passed unanimously but was vetoed on June 25, 2026. It never became law. The controlling text is s. 316.20655 as amended by ch. 2025-149. |
| “Florida is a pure comparative negligence state” | Not since section 9 of ch. 2023-15. Under § 768.81(6) a party more than 50 percent at fault recovers nothing. |
| “Adult children cannot recover in a wrongful death claim” | The limit in § 768.21(8) applies to medical negligence claims under s. 766.106(1). It does not apply to a crash claim. |
| “UL certification is federally required” | Not today. The CPSC published a proposed rule on June 24, 2026 (docket CPSC-2025-0012). It is a proposal and states no effective date. |
Each of those is recorded on the page it belongs to, with the citation, so a reader can confirm it rather than take our word for it.
Every Number on This Site, and Where It Comes From
There are not many, and that is deliberate. Each of these is a figure fixed in a statute or a regulation, cited to the subsection that fixes it. If a number is not on this list, it is not on this site.
| Figure | Source |
|---|---|
| 3 feet | Minimum passing clearance when a driver overtakes an electric bicycle — Fla. Stat. § 316.083(2), (3). |
| 20 feet | How far from a junction a bicycle must be before an overtaking driver may turn right — § 316.151(1)(a)2. |
| 500 and 600 feet | Front lamp, and rear lamp and reflector, visibility between sunset and sunrise — § 316.2065(7). |
| 25 feet from 10 mph | Braking performance required of a bicycle — § 316.2065(13). |
| 15 feet (4.57 m) | Federal handbrake stopping distance from the test speed — 16 C.F.R. § 1512.5(b)(1). |
| 750 watts | Motor ceiling for an electric bicycle — § 316.003(23). |
| 20 and 28 mph | Assistance cut-offs for Classes 1 and 2, and Class 3 — § 316.003(23)(a)–(c). |
| Under 16 | Age requiring a helmet — § 316.2065(3)(d). |
| Under 4 or 40 pounds | Threshold requiring a designed child seat or carrier — § 316.2065(3)(b). |
| Under 25 | What “minor children” means in the Wrongful Death Act — § 768.18(2). |
| Two abreast | The maximum on a roadway or bicycle lane — § 316.2065(6)(a). |
| 50 percent | Fault above which recovery is barred entirely — § 768.81(6). |
| 2, 3 and 4 years | Negligence and wrongful death; government presentment; government suit — §§ 95.11(5)(a), 95.11(5)(e), 768.28(6)(a), 768.28(14). |
| 60 days | Crash report confidentiality, and civil remedy notice — §§ 316.066(2)(a), 624.155(3)(a). |
| $10,000 / $5,000 | PIP medical and disability, and death benefits — § 627.736(1). |
| $200,000 / $300,000 | Caps on a claim against a government body — § 768.28(5). |
| $500,000 / $2 million | Punitive damages caps — § 768.73(1)(a), (b). |
What is not here is as important. No crash counts. No injury incidence or recovery rates. No average settlement values. No claim about how much any safety measure reduces any risk. Those figures exist in the world, but we could not tie them to a named dataset and year — and an uncited number on a law firm’s website is worth less than no number at all, because a reader cannot check it.