CopyCited 20 times | Published | Florida 4th District Court of Appeal | 1996 WL 332346
...ocuments. See Arthur Young,
630 So.2d at 1202. *679 A statutory phrase should also be viewed not only in its internal context within the section, but in harmony with interlocking statutes. See C.S.,
671 So.2d at 268; Arthur Young,
630 So.2d at 1202. Section
28.231, Florida Statutes (1995), sets forth that the clerks of any state appellate or county or state trial court "shall receive as compensation for similar services the same charges as provided in this chapter for the clerk of the circuit court." Since the appellate court clerks do not handle any recorded court records, the appellate court clerk's current practice of charging $1.00 per page, derived from reading section
28.231 in pari materia with subsection
28.24(8)(a), would be without statutory authority....
CopyCited 2 times | Published | Florida 5th District Court of Appeal | 1996 WL 648293
...n. AFFIRMED in part; REVERSED in part; and REMANDED. W. SHARP and THOMPSON, JJ., concur. NOTES [1] While we agree with the lower court's interpretation of the statute, we could not say that the statute is either clear or unambiguous. [2] Since 1970, section 28.231, Florida Statutes, has provided that county and other state trial courts "shall receive as compensation for similar services the same charges as provided in this chapter for the clerk of the circuit court." [3] The term "microform" is...
CopyPublished | Supreme Court of Florida | 1971 Fla. LEXIS 3470
...70-134, Laws of Florida, reads as follows: “AN ACT relating to clerk of the circuit court and other courts; revising statutes providing fees and commissions for services; changing the word fee to charges; amending chapter 28, Florida Statutes, by adding sections
28.071 to provide for an official seal and
28.231; amending sections
28.101,
28.12, 28.19,
28.24,
28.241,
28.242, 28.25, 28.28, 33.04, 34.04,
34.041,
45.031(1), 95.33,
222.17 (5), 298.03(4), 298.07(4), 298.08(4), 298.09, 298.34(5), 298.67(2), 372.318, 382.25, 459.16, 460.15, 462.10, 463.13, 6...
...86) The only reference, direct or indirect, to the County Judge’s Court of Duval County or the Small Claims Court of Duval County may possibly be found in Section 39 and Section 40, which read as follows: “Section 39. Chapter 28, Florida Statutes, is amended by adding section 28.231 to -ead: “28.231 Service charges by clerks of courts....
...General and specific words which are capable of an analogous meaning, being associated together, take color from each other, so that the general words are restricted to a sense analogous to the less general. See Ex parte Amos,
93 Fla. 5 ,
112 So. 289 (1927). The title to the act states that Fla.Stat. §
28.231, F.S.A., is added. Section 39 of Ch. 70-134 quoted above adds §
28.231 to the Florida Statutes and makes Chapter 70-134 applicable to “any state appellate or county or state trial court.” The preamble, setting forth the intent of the Legislature recites that the fees for services collected by the “clerks of the circuit court” have been inadequate....
CopyAgo (Fla. Att'y Gen. 1976).
Published | Florida Attorney General Reports
...74.051 , F. S., and that the clerk's fee for depositing money in the registry of the court as required by the "quick taking" procedure of Ch. 74, F. S., could not be determined, and thus was not payable, until such funds were disbursed. AS TO QUESTION 5: Section 28.231 , F....
...S., provides that the clerk of the county court shall receive as compensation for similar services the same charge as provided for the clerk of the circuit court. However, s.
34.041 (1), F. S. (1974 Supp.), which was amended subsequent to the enactment of s.
28.231 , specifically prescribes the filing fees for civil actions in the county court and provides further that: "Except as provided herein, service charges for performing duties of the clerk relating to the county court shall be as provided in ss....
