The 2023 Florida Statutes (including Special Session C)

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

Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 50.031

Level: Degree
Misdemeanor/Felony: First/Second/Third

Current data shows no reason an arrest or criminal charge should have occurred directly under Florida Statute 50.031.

Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

Cases from cite.case.law:

SARASOTA HERALD- TRIBUNE CO. v. SARASOTA COUNTY,, 632 So. 2d 606 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1993)

. . . Herald-Tribune) appeals a final declaratory judgment in which the trial court interpreted sections 50.011, 50.031 . . . Sections 50.011 and 50.031, require publication in a newspaper in existence for at least one year, printed . . . There is no language in sections 50.-011, 50.031, or 197.402, to indicate that the legislature intended . . . The purpose of sections 50.011 and 50.031, is to provide as effective notice as possible to local residents . . . Therefore, in this particular case, the purpose of sections 50.011 and 50.031, would not be frustrated . . .

In AMENDMENTS TO THE FLORIDA RULES OF CIVIL PROCEDURE, 604 So. 2d 1110 (Fla. 1992)

. . . days' notice by publication in a newspaper-qualified for legal advertising and notices-under-section 50.031 . . .

In FLORIDA RULES OF CIVIL PROCEDURE, 403 So. 2d 926 (Fla. 1981)

. . . be given by — publication-in a newspaper qualified for legal advertising and notices-under section- 50.031 . . .

In FLORIDA RULES OF CIVIL PROCEDURE, 368 So. 2d 1293 (Fla. 1979)

. . . may be given by publication in a newspaper qualified for legal advertising and notices under section 50.031 . . . may be given bv publication in a newspaper qualified for legal advertising and notices under section 50.031 . . .