Florida Statute 47.071 | Lawyer Caselaw & Research

The 2024 Florida Statutes (including 2025 Special Session C)

Title VI
CIVIL PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE

Chapter 47
VENUE

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F.S. 47.071

47.071 Jurisdiction over navigable waters.—When the territorial jurisdiction of a court extends to one bank of any navigable water, such court has jurisdiction across such navigable water from shore to shore. If the territorial jurisdiction of different courts, whether of the same county or not, extends to the opposite bank of any navigable water, such courts have concurrent jurisdiction across said navigable water from shore to shore.

History.—RS 1002; GS 1387; RGS 2583; CGL 4223; s. 3, ch. 67-254.

Note.—Former s. 46.06.

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