Waterman Memorial Hospital Ass'n v. Division of Retirement, Department of Administration

OWEN, WILLIAM C., Jr., Associate Judge.

Fourteen years after appellant, a private non-profit corporation, elected to bring its employees into the state retirement system under the erroneous impression that it then qualified as a hospital district within the meaning of Section 122.061, Florida Statutes (1965),1 (during all of which time appellant and its employees contributed to the state retirement system), appellant discovered that it was not, in fact, eligible to participate in the state retirement system. It thereupon filed this action seeking a declaratory judgment authorizing it to…