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The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title VI
CIVIL PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE
Chapter 50
LEGAL AND OFFICIAL ADVERTISEMENTS
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F.S. 50.031
50.031 Newspapers in which legal notices and process may be published.If a governmental agency publishes a legal notice in a newspaper, no notice or publication required to be published in the nature of or in lieu of process of any kind, nature, character, or description provided for under any law of the state, whether heretofore or hereafter enacted, and whether pertaining to constructive service, or the initiating, assuming, reviewing, exercising, or enforcing jurisdiction or power, by any court in this state, or any notice of sale of property, real or personal, for taxes, state, county, or municipal, or sheriff’s, guardian’s, or administrator’s or any sale made pursuant to any judicial order, decree, or statute or any other publication or notice pertaining to any affairs of the state, or any county, municipality, or other political subdivision thereof, shall be deemed to have been published in accordance with the statutes providing for such publication, unless the same shall have been published for the prescribed period of time required for such publication, in a newspaper which at the time of such publication shall have been in existence for 2 years and meets the requirements set forth in s. 50.011, or in a newspaper which is a direct successor of a newspaper which has been so published; provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall apply where in any county there shall be no newspaper in existence which shall have been published for the length of time above prescribed. No legal publication of any kind, nature, or description, as herein defined, shall be valid or binding or held to be in compliance with the statutes providing for such publication unless the same shall have been published in accordance with this section or s. 50.0311. Proof of such publication shall be made by uniform affidavit.
History.ss. 1-3, ch. 14830, 1931; CGL 1936 Supp. 4274(1); s. 7, ch. 22858, 1945; s. 6, ch. 67-254; s. 1, ch. 74-221; s. 22, ch. 99-2; s. 4, ch. 2021-17; s. 4, ch. 2022-103.
Note.Former s. 49.03.

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Amendments to 50.031


Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

Cases Citing Statute 50.031

Total Results: 11

In Re Amendments to Fla. Rules Civ. Proc.

604 So. 2d 1110, 1992 WL 163953

Supreme Court of Florida | Filed: Jul 16, 1992 | Docket: 1686576

Cited 15 times | Published

qualified for legal advertising and notices under section 50.031, Florida Statutes. Such depositions may be

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Florida Attorney General Reports | Filed: Oct 11, 2002 | Docket: 3255934

Published

to the general public."2 (e.s.) In addition, section 50.031, Florida Statutes, requires, in part, that

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Florida Attorney General Reports | Filed: Jun 14, 1996 | Docket: 3255728

Published

or of value to the general public. Further, section 50.031, Florida Statutes, requires, in part, that

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Florida Attorney General Reports | Filed: Apr 2, 1996 | Docket: 3258736

Published

or of value to the general public. Further, section 50.031, Florida Statutes, requires, in part, that

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Florida Attorney General Reports | Filed: Mar 25, 1994 | Docket: 3255866

Published

question: Does the publication requirement of section 50.031, Florida Statutes, require that a newspaper

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Florida Attorney General Reports | Filed: Aug 17, 1990 | Docket: 3258475

Published

or of value to the general public. Further, section 50.031, F.S., requires, in part, that such newspapers

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Florida Attorney General Reports | Filed: May 24, 1990 | Docket: 3255205

Published

in the county where the sale is to be held. Section 50.031, F.S., prescribes those newspapers in which

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Florida Attorney General Reports | Filed: Aug 21, 1984 | Docket: 3257540

Published

interest or of value to the general public. Section 50.031, F.S., requires that such newspapers "at the

In re Florida Rules of Civil Procedure

403 So. 2d 926, 1981 Fla. LEXIS 2847

Supreme Court of Florida | Filed: Sep 10, 1981 | Docket: 64585090

Published

qualified for legal advertising and notices-under section- 50.031, Florida Statutes. — Exhibits shall be delivered

In re Florida Rules of Civil Procedure

368 So. 2d 1293, 1979 Fla. LEXIS 4589

Supreme Court of Florida | Filed: Mar 8, 1979 | Docket: 64569232

Published

qualified for legal advertising and notices under section 50.031, Florida Statutes. Such depositions may be

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Florida Attorney General Reports | Filed: Apr 18, 1974 | Docket: 3255790

Published

interest or of value to the general public." Section 50.031, F.S., requires that such newspapers also "shall