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Fla. Stat. § 817.23 (2025)

Making false affidavit to defraud insurer.

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817.23 Making false affidavit to defraud insurer.—If a master, other officer, or mariner of a ship or vessel, makes or causes to be made, or swears to any false affidavit or protest, or if an owner or other person concerned in such ship or vessel or in the goods and property laden on board the same, procures any such false affidavits or protest to be made, or exhibits the same, with intent to injure, deceive or defraud an insurer of such ship or vessel, or of any goods or property laden on board the same, he or she shall be guilty of a felony of the third degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084.
History.—s. 73, ch. 1637, 1868; RS 2472; GS 3333; RGS 5173; CGL 7276; s. 856, ch. 71-136; s. 1251, ch. 97-102.

Arrestable Offenses under F.S. 817.23

M = misdemeanor · F = felony · degree: F=1st S=2nd T=3rd
§817.23FRAUD-FALSE STATEMENTMAKE FALSE STMT AFFADAVIT WIT DEFRAUD INSURERF · 3rd
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 1 case, 1991–1991 · leading case: State v. Long, 50 Fla. Supp. 2d 144 (Fla. Okaloosa Cty. Ct. 1991).
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State v. Long, 50 Fla. Supp. 2d 144 (Fla. Okaloosa Cty. Ct. 1991). “23(2)(b) knowingly false testimony to state retirement commission, and FS § 817.23 false affidavit with intent to defraud insurer.”
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