Florida Statutes 680.406 – Procedure on excused performance
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(1) If the lessee receives notification of a material or indefinite delay or an allocation justified under s. 680.405, the lessee may by written notification to the lessor as to any goods involved, and with respect to all of the goods if under an installment lease contract the value of the whole lease contract is substantially impaired (s. 680.51):
(a) Terminate the lease contract (s. 680.505(2)); or
Terms Used In Florida Statutes 680.406
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Finance lease: means a lease with respect to which:1. See Florida Statutes 680.1031
- Goods: means all things that are movable at the time of identification to the lease contract, or are fixtures (s. See Florida Statutes 680.1031
- Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
- Lease: means a transfer of the right to possession and use of goods for a term in return for consideration, but a sale, including a sale on approval or a sale or return, or retention or creation of a security interest is not a lease. See Florida Statutes 680.1031
- Lease agreement: means the bargain, with respect to the lease, of the lessor and the lessee in fact as found in their language or by implication from other circumstances including course of dealing or usage of trade or course of performance as provided in this chapter. See Florida Statutes 680.1031
- Lease contract: means the total legal obligation that results from the lease agreement as affected by this chapter and any other applicable rules of law. See Florida Statutes 680.1031
- Lessee: means a person who acquires the right to possession and use of goods under a lease. See Florida Statutes 680.1031
- Lessor: means a person who transfers the right to possession and use of goods under a lease. See Florida Statutes 680.1031
(b) Except in a finance lease, modify the lease contract by accepting the available quota in substitution, with due allowance from the rent payable for the balance of the lease term for the deficiency but without further right against the lessor.
(2) If, after receipt of a notification from the lessor under s. 680.405, the lessee fails so to modify the lease agreement within a reasonable time not exceeding 30 days, the lease contract lapses with respect to any deliveries affected.