Lewis v. Jacksonville Building & Loan Ass'n

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that a statute directing a loan officer to dispose of applications within 45 days was not mandatory, despite the use of the word “shall”
• concluding that a statute directing a loan officer to dispose of applications within 45 days was not mandatory, despite the use of the word \shall\
• holding timing requirement of administrative rule was merely directory because rule contained no restrictions on subsequent actions or consequences for failure to act within specified time
• interpreting administrative rule containing “shall” to be merely directory, not mandatory
• “Valid rules and regulations promulgated by an administrative agency acting within its statutory authority have the force and effect of legislation.”
• “If the provision directed doing of a thing in a certain time without any negative words restraining it afterwards, the provision as to time is usually directory.“

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).