The 2023 Florida Statutes (including Special Session C)

Title XL
REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY

Chapter 705
LOST OR ABANDONED PROPERTY

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F.S. 705.102

705.102 Reporting lost or abandoned property.—

(1) Whenever any person finds any lost or abandoned property, such person shall report the description and location of the property to a law enforcement officer.

(2) The law enforcement officer taking the report shall ascertain whether the person reporting the property wishes to make a claim to it if the rightful owner cannot be identified or located. If the person does wish to make such claim, he or she shall deposit with the law enforcement agency a reasonable sum sufficient to cover the agency’s cost for transportation, storage, and publication of notice. This sum shall be reimbursed to the finder by the rightful owner should he or she identify and reclaim the property.

(3) It is unlawful for any person who finds any lost or abandoned property to appropriate the same to his or her own use or to refuse to deliver the same when required.

(4) Any person who unlawfully appropriates such lost or abandoned property to his or her own use or refuses to deliver such property when required commits theft as defined in s. 812.014, punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084.

History.—s. 2, ch. 87-82; s. 4, ch. 92-79; s. 790, ch. 97-102; s. 105, ch. 2019-167.

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Amendments to 705.102

Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 705.102

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

S705.102 4 - LARC - APPRP REFUSE DEL LOST ABAN PROP 100K DOLS MORE - F: F

S705.102 4 - LARC - APPR REFUS DEL LST ABN PROP 20K LESS 100K DOLS - F: S

S705.102 4 - LARC - APPRO REFUS DEL LST ABN PROP 300 LESS 20K DOLS - F: T

S705.102 4 - LARC - APPRO REFUS DEL LST ABN PROP 100 LESS 300 DOLS - M: F

S705.102 4 - LARC - APPROP REFUS DEL LOST ABAND PROP LESS 100 DOLS - M: S

S705.102 4 - LARC - REF DEL LOST ABND PRP LESS 300 DOLS 2ND OFF - F: T

Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

Cases from cite.case.law:

IN RE STANDARD JURY INSTRUCTIONS IN CRIMINAL CASES- REPORT, 256 So. 3d 1316 (Fla. 2018)

. . . law enforcement officer, or unlawfully appropriated the lost or abandoned property, citing section 705.102 . . . According to § 705.102, Fla. . . .

L. JACKSON, v. L. CAPRAUN,, 534 F. App'x 854 (11th Cir. 2013)

. . . . § 705.102(3). .Although the district court found that Jackson did not allege a Fourteenth Amendment . . .

UNITED STATES v. FIVE HUNDRED FORTY- THREE THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED NINETY DOLLARS IN UNITED STATES CURRENCY,, 535 F. Supp. 2d 1238 (M.D. Ala. 2008)

. . . . § 705.102(1). . . . Ann. §§ 705.102(3) & (4). . . . Ann. §§ 705.102(1) & (2); 705.103 & 705.104. . . .

STATE v. DAWSON,, 681 So. 2d 1206 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1996)

. . . Florida law governing lost or abandoned property provides, in part: 705.102 Reporting lost or abandoned . . .

CRUZ, v. STATE, 554 So. 2d 586 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1989)

. . . . § 705.102, Fla.Stat. (1987), there is utterly no evidence in this record upon which the 'defendant . . .

STATE v. TARBOX,, 541 So. 2d 1350 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1989)

. . . probable cause to seize the property from the defendant as lost or abandoned property under Section 705.102 . . .