Florida Statute 712.06 | Lawyer Caselaw & Research

The 2024 Florida Statutes

Title XL
REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY

Chapter 712
MARKETABLE RECORD TITLES TO REAL PROPERTY

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F.S. 712.06

¹712.06 Contents of notice; recording and indexing.—

(1) To be effective, the notice referred to in s. 712.05, other than the summary notice and the amendment referred to in s. 712.05(2)(b), must contain:

(a) The name or description and mailing address of the claimant or the property owners’ association desiring to preserve any covenant or restriction.

(b) The name and mailing address of an owner, or the name and mailing address of the person in whose name the property is assessed on the last completed tax assessment roll of the county at the time of filing, who, for purpose of such notice, shall be deemed to be an owner; however, if a property owners’ association is filing the notice, the requirements of this paragraph may be satisfied by attaching to and recording with the notice an affidavit executed by the appropriate member of the board of directors of the property owners’ association affirming that the board of directors of the property owners’ association caused a statement in substantially the following form to be mailed or hand delivered to the members of that property owners’ association:

STATEMENT OF MARKETABLE TITLE ACTION

The (name of property owners’ association) (the “Association”) has taken action to ensure that the (name of declaration, covenant, or restriction) , recorded in Official Records Book , Page , of the public records of County, Florida, as may be amended from time to time, currently burdening the property of each and every member of the Association, retains its status with regard to the affected real property. To this end, the Association shall cause the notice required by chapter 712, Florida Statutes, to be recorded in the public records of County, Florida. Copies of this notice and its attachments are available through the Association pursuant to the Association’s governing documents regarding official records of the Association.

(c) A full and complete description of all land affected by such notice, which description shall be set forth in particular terms and not by general reference, but if said claim is founded upon a recorded instrument or a covenant or a restriction, the description in such notice may be the same as that contained in such recorded instrument or covenant or restriction, provided the same shall be sufficient to identify the property.

(d) A statement of the claim showing the nature, description, and extent of such claim or other right subject to extinguishment under this chapter or, in the case of a covenant or restriction, a copy of the covenant or restriction or a reference to the book and page or instrument number in which the same is recorded, except that it is not necessary to show the amount of any claim for money or the terms of payment.

(e) If such claim or other right subject to extinguishment under this chapter is based upon an instrument of record or a recorded covenant or restriction, such instrument of record or recorded covenant or restriction shall be deemed sufficiently described to identify the same if the notice includes a reference to the book and page in which the same is recorded.

(f) Such notice shall be acknowledged in the same manner as deeds are acknowledged for record.

(2) Such notice shall be filed with the clerk of the circuit court of the county or counties where the land described therein is situated, together with a true copy thereof. The clerk shall enter, record, and index said notice in the same manner that deeds are entered, recorded, and indexed, as though the claimant were the grantee in the deed and the purported owner were the grantor in a deed, and the clerk shall charge the same fees for recording thereof as are charged for recording deeds. In those counties where the circuit court clerk maintains a tract index, such notice shall also be indexed therein.

(3) The person providing the notice referred to in s. 712.05, other than a notice for preservation of a community covenant or restriction, shall:

(a) Cause the clerk of the circuit court to mail by registered or certified mail to the purported owner of said property, as stated in such notice, a copy thereof and shall enter on the original, before recording the same, a certificate showing such mailing. For preparing the certificate, the claimant shall pay to the clerk the service charge as prescribed in s. 28.24(9) and the necessary costs of mailing, in addition to the recording charges as prescribed in s. 28.24(13). If the notice names purported owners having more than one address, the person filing the same shall furnish a true copy for each of the several addresses stated, and the clerk shall send one such copy to the purported owners named at each respective address. Such certificate shall be sufficient if the same reads substantially as follows:

I hereby certify that I did on this , mail by registered (or certified) mail a copy of the foregoing notice to each of the following at the address stated:

(Clerk of the circuit court)
of County, Florida,
By (Deputy clerk)

The clerk of the circuit court is not required to mail to the purported owner of such property any such notice that pertains solely to the preserving of any covenant or restriction or any portion of a covenant or restriction; or

(b) Publish once a week, for 2 consecutive weeks, the notice referred to in s. 712.05, with the official record book and page number in which such notice was recorded, in a newspaper as defined in chapter 50 in the county in which the property is located.

(4) Failure of any purported owner to receive the mailed notice shall not affect the validity of the notice or vitiate the effect of the filing of such notice.

History.—s. 6, ch. 63-133; s. 5, ch. 77-354; s. 7, ch. 82-205; s. 57, ch. 95-211; s. 4, ch. 97-202; s. 2, ch. 2003-79; s. 110, ch. 2003-402; s. 3, ch. 2010-104; s. 4, ch. 2018-55; s. 25, ch. 2021-116.

¹Note.—Section 6, ch. 2022-171, provides that “[a] person with an interest in land which may potentially be extinguished by this act, and whose interest has not been extinguished before July 1, 2022, must file a notice pursuant to s. 712.06, Florida Statutes, by July 1, 2023, to preserve such interest. Any county as defined in s. 125.011(1), Florida Statutes, with an interest in land which may potentially be extinguished by this act, and whose interest has not been extinguished before July 1, 2022, must file a notice pursuant to s. 712.06, Florida Statutes, by July 1, 2025, to preserve such interest.”

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Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

Cases Citing Statute 712.06

Total Results: 14

Sand Lake Hills Homeowners Ass'n v. Busch

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2017-01-20T00:00:00-08:00

Citation: 210 So. 3d 706, 2017 Fla. App. LEXIS 568

Snippet: root of title, a written notice .,.. ” Section 712.06, Florida Statutes (2015), sets forth the contents

Sand Lake Hills v. Busch

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2017-01-15T23:53:00-08:00

Snippet: root of title, a written notice . . . .” Section 712.06, Florida Statutes (2015), sets forth the contents

Matissek v. Waller

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2011-01-14T00:00:00-08:00

Citation: 51 So. 3d 625, 2011 Fla. App. LEXIS 81, 2011 WL 116144

Snippet: proper notice under sections 712.03(2), 712.05, and 712.06, which was never done. Therefore, they contend …proper notice under sections 712.03(2), 712.05, and 712.06 to preserve the original 1971 restrictions, we

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Court: Fla. Att'y Gen. | Date Filed: 2010-04-22T00:53:00-07:00

Snippet: 2009. 5 Section 497.2765(2), Fla. Stat. 6 Section 712.06(2), Fla. Stat. 7 See s. 206.15, Fla. Stat., establishing

Chames v. DeMayo

Court: Fla. | Date Filed: 2007-12-20T00:00:00-08:00

Citation: 972 So. 2d 850

Snippet: homestead exemption); Cameron v. McDonald, 216 N.C. 712, 6 S.E.2d 497, 499 (1940) ("Having omitted to

DeMayo v. Chames

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2006-06-14T00:00:00-07:00

Citation: 934 So. 2d 548

Snippet: 690 (Utah 1946); Cameron v. McDonald, 216 N.C. 712, 6 S.E.2d 497, 499 (1940); Home Owners Loan Corp.

Blanton v. City of Pinellas Park

Court: Fla. | Date Filed: 2004-10-21T00:53:00-07:00

Citation: 887 So. 2d 1224

Snippet: that interest as prescribed by sections 712.05 and 712.06, Florida Statutes (2003), within the "30-year

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Court: Fla. Att'y Gen. | Date Filed: 1994-06-21T00:53:00-07:00

Snippet: 28.222(1), Fla. Stat. (1993). 7 See, ss. 712.05 and 712.06, Fla. Stat. (1993), respectively providing for

Holland v. Hattaway

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 1983-09-22T00:53:00-07:00

Citation: 438 So. 2d 456

Snippet: overall intent of MRTA we note sections 712.05 and 712.06 which provide a method of filing, during the operative…the county tax rolls or by a notice filed under 712.06 (excepted by 712.03(2)) or under 712.03(4) by title…same effect as either a notice filed under section 712.06 (an exception under 712.03(2)) or notice from a

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Court: Fla. Att'y Gen. | Date Filed: 1981-08-04T00:53:00-07:00

Snippet: clerk or judge.' See also s.712.06(2) and (3), F.S. In s. 712.06(2), F.S., the clerk is directed … as are charged for recording deeds.' In s. 712.06(3), F.S., the clerk is directed to perform certain

Mayo v. Owens

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 1979-02-01T00:00:00-08:00

Citation: 367 So. 2d 1054, 1979 Fla. App. LEXIS 14149

Snippet: filed no notice or other paper pursuant to Section 712.06, Florida Statutes, in the public records of Liberty…consistent with the provisions of Sections 712.03(1) and 712.06(l)(c) which require an accurate description of

Kittrell v. Clark

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 1978-09-25T00:53:00-07:00

Citation: 363 So. 2d 373

Snippet: consistent with the provisions of Sections 712.03(1) and 712.06(1)(c) which require an accurate description of

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Court: Fla. Att'y Gen. | Date Filed: 1975-09-09T00:53:00-07:00

Snippet: by s. 712.06(3), F.S., and the fees or charges for "recording" prescribed by s.712.06(2). Since…the service charge of 50 cents provided for in s. 712.06(3), F.S., when the clerk mails a notice of a claim…land? SUMMARY: The service charge required by s. 712.06(3), F.S., to be paid to a clerk of the circuit …imposed upon the claimant by the clerk. Section 712.06(3), F.S., states, in pertinent part: The clerk …Attorney General Opinion 073-119. Thus, since s.712.06(3), F.S., clearly provides that the clerk's

Post v. Bird

Court: Fla. | Date Filed: 1891-06-14T23:53:00-08:00

Citation: 28 Fla. 1

Snippet: court in the case of Dowling v. Bowden, 25 Fla., 712, 6 South. Rep., 765. In that case the sheriff attempted