The 2023 Florida Statutes (including Special Session C)

Title XLVI
CRIMES

Chapter 817
FRAUDULENT PRACTICES

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F.S. 817.23

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.

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Amendments to 817.23

Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 817.23

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

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Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

Cases from cite.case.law:

STATE OF FLORIDA v. LONG, 50 Fla. Supp. 2d 144 (Okaloosa Cty. Ct. 1991)

. . . public officer; FS § 121.23(2)(b) knowingly false testimony to state retirement commission, and FS § 817.23 . . .

UNITED STATES v. G. PALADIN D., 539 F. Supp. 100 (C.C.W.D.N.Y. 1982)

. . . The question whether plaintiff’s other two liens (totalling $817.23) are also valid against Traina is . . .