Florida Statute 717.139 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XL
REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY

Chapter 717
DISPOSITION OF UNCLAIMED PROPERTY

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F.S. 717.139

717.139 Uniformity of application and construction.—

(1) It is the public policy of the state to protect the interests of owners of unclaimed property. It is declared to be in the best interests of owners of unclaimed property that such owners receive the full amount of any unclaimed property without any fee.

(2) This chapter shall be applied and construed as to effectuate its general purpose of protecting the interest of missing owners of property, while providing that the benefit of all unclaimed and abandoned property shall go to all the people of the state, and to make uniform the law with respect to the subject of this chapter among states enacting it.

History.—s. 40, ch. 87-105; s. 10, ch. 2016-90.

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Agnes Bartsch v. John Costello

170 So. 3d 83, 2015 Fla. App. LEXIS 9266, 2015 WL 3759702

District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: Jun 17, 2015 | Docket: 2679272

Cited 15 times | Published

the interests of the state. See § 717.139, Fla. Stat. (2013); see also State v.