ROTHENBERG, J.

Summer Jai Alai Partners ("Summer Partners") appeals from a final order of the Department of Business and Professional Regulation, Division of Pari-Mutuel Wagering ("Division"), denying Summer Partners' request to relocate its converted summer jai alai permit. Because the Division's interpretation of statutes relating to pari-mutuel wagering is entitled to great deference and its interpretation is not clearly erroneous, contrary to legislative intent, or in conflict with the plain and ordinary meaning of the relevant statutes, we affirm.

A pari-mutuel permit was issued to Miami Beach Kennel Club, Inc., to conduct greyhound racing, which took effect upon approval by a majority of the electors who participated in a ratification election. In March 1980, Summer Partners acquired the greyhound racing permit, and thereafter, on June 26, 1980, the Division granted Summer Partners' request to convert the greyhound racing permit to a summer jai alai permit pursuant to Chapter 80-88.1 Summer Partners then leased an existing jai alai facility at Miami Jai Alai, and Summer Partners has operated from that facility for almost thirty-five years.

Beginning in November 2011, Summer Partners began communicating with the Division regarding its intent, pursuant to section 550.0745(2) of the Florida Statutes, to relocate its summer jai alai permit from Miami Jai Alai to Magic City Casino in Miami-Dade County, while continuing to seasonally operate live jai alai performances at Miami Jai Alai. Section 550.0745(2) provides:

(Emphasis added).

The Division treated Summer Partners' notification as a request to amend its summer jai alai permit, and the Division denied the request. In denying the request, the Division explained that upon the conversion of a greyhound racing permit to a summer jai alai permit, section 550.0745(2) authorizes the permittee to operate from any jai alai plant the permittee leases or builds in the county without approval by the electorate. However, once the relocation of the summer jai alai permit has occurred and the permit and license has been issued for that location, the permitholder must comply with section 550.054, Florida Statutes (2012), if it seeks to relocate the converted summer jai alai permit to a subsequent location. Section 550.054 only allows for a change in location if the requested change is approved by the Division and the electorate. At Summer Partners' request, the Division entered a final order, and this appeal ensued.

Summer Partners asserts that, contrary to the Division's determination, which was based on the Division's interpretation of several pari-mutuel statutes, Summer Partners is not required to obtain the Division's authorization to relocate its summer jai alai permit, which was converted from a greyhound permit to a summer jai alai permit in 1980 pursuant to the predecessor of section 550.0745(1). In other words, Summer Partners disputes the Division's interpretation of the relevant pari-mutuel statutes. However, Summer Partners' argument fails to appreciate this Court's standard of review.

"[A]n agency's interpretation of a statute is entitled to considerable deference, and `[a] reviewing court properly defers on questions of statutory interpretation to the agency to which the Legislature has given the responsibility and authority to administer the statute, unless the interpretation is clearly erroneous.'" State Bd. of Admin. v. Huberty, 46 So.3d 1144, 1146 (Fla. 1st DCA 2010) (quoting Okeechobee Health Care v. Collins, 726 So.2d 775, 778 (Fla. 1st DCA 1998) (second alteration in original)). However, "a court need not defer to an agency's construction or application of a statute if special agency expertise is not required, or if the agency's interpretation conflicts with the plain and ordinary meaning of the statute." Fla. Hosp. v. Agency for Health Care Admin., 823 So.2d 844, 848 (Fla. 1st DCA 2002). Thus, because the Division is the state agency that is responsible for regulating pari-mutuel wagering in Florida, see § 550.0251, Fla. Stat. (2012) (providing that the Division of Pari-mutuel Wagering of the Department of Business and Professional Regulation "shall administer [Chapter 550] and regulate the pari-mutuel industry under this chapter and the rules adopted pursuant thereto"), the Division's interpretation of statutes relating to pari-mutuel wagering "is entitled to great deference and should not be overturned unless clearly erroneous or in conflict with the legislative intent of the statute," Donato v. Am. Tel. & Tel. Co., 767 So.2d 1146 (Fla.2000) (quoting Mayo Clinic Jacksonville v. Dep't of Prof'l Regulation, 625 So.2d 918, 919 (Fla. 1st DCA 1993)), or it "conflicts with the plain and ordinary meaning of the statute." Fla. Hosp., 823 So.2d at 848.

Pursuant to section 550.054, pari-mutuel wagering permits and licenses are generally fixed to a specific location. See § 550.054(2) (providing that upon approval of a pari-mutuel wagering application by the Division, "a permit shall be issued to the applicant setting forth ... the location of the pari-mutuel facility; however, a permit is ineffectual to authorize any pari-mutuel performances until approved by a majority of the electors participating in a ratification election in the county in which the applicant proposes to conduct pari-mutuel wagering activities."); § 550.054(9)(a) ("After a permit has been granted by the division and has been ratified and approved by the majority of the electors participating in the election in the county designated in the permit, the [D]ivision shall grant to the lawful permitholder, subject to the conditions of this chapter, a license to conduct pari-mutuel operations under this chapter, and ... the [D]ivision shall fix annually the time, place, and number of days during which pari-mutuel operations may be conducted by the permitholder at the location fixed in the permit and ratified in the election.") (emphasis added); see also § 550.0115, Fla. Stat. (2012) (providing that after the Division issues a pari-mutuel wagering permit and after the permit has been approved by the electorate, "the [D]ivision shall issue to the permitholder an annual license to conduct pari-mutuel operations at the location specified in the permit pursuant to the provisions of this chapter").

Summer Partners asserts that the Division erroneously relied on section 550.054 because that provision, which relates to pari-mutuel permits in general, is in conflict with section 550.0745, which relates specifically to summer jai alai permits. In support of its position, Summer Partners relies on subsection (2) of section 550.0745, which provides, in relevant part, as follows: "Such permittee is entitled to the issuance of a license for the operation of a jai alai fronton during the summer season.... Such license authorizes the permittee to operate at any jai alai permittee's plant it may lease or build within such county." (emphasis added).

The Division determined that section 550.0745(2) does not allow a summer jai alai permitholder to continuously relocate its permit. The Division's interpretation begins with its recognition of the general provisions regulating pari-mutuel permits. Generally, the location of a pari-mutuel permit is fixed once it has been approved by the Division, ratified and approved by the electorate, and issued by the Division. § 550.054. Section 550.0745, which pertains to the conversion of an underperforming pari-mutuel permit to a summer jai alai permit, provides an exception to this general rule. Specifically, subsection (1) authorizes the conversion of pari-mutuel permits to summer jai alai permits. Subsection (2) provides that the issuance of a license to operate at a jai alai fronton during the summer season "authorizes the permittee to operate at any jai alai permittee's plant it may lease or build within such county." The Division interprets this exception as applying to summer jai alai permits at the time of conversion, but not for subsequent attempts to relocate the operation of a summer jai alai pari-mutuel fronton. Thus, according to the Division's interpretation of the statutes, at the time of conversion, the permittee is free to choose the location of its operation, and subsection (2) does not authorize a summer jai alai permittee to continuously relocate its operation without approval.

The Division's interpretation is supported by the language set forth in subsection (1), which provides: "Such permittee... is bound by all of the rules and provisions of this chapter which apply to the operation of winter jai alai frontons." § 550.0745(1). Consequently, the Division concluded that section 550.054 also applies to the holder of a summer jai alai permit, and therefore, like a winter jai alai permit, the summer jai alai permit is tied to a specific location. As Summer Partners has already placed its converted summer jai alai permit at the Miami Jai Alai facility, the Division claims that Summer Partners' request to relocate the summer jai alai permit to the Magic City Casino location was properly denied.

Because we must give great deference to the Division's interpretation of the relevant statutes it is charged with administering, and we cannot say its interpretation is clearly erroneous, contrary to legislative intent, or in conflict with the plain and ordinary meaning of the statutes, we affirm the final order entered by the Division denying Summer Partners' request to relocate its summer jai alai permit.

Affirmed.