The 2023 Florida Statutes (including Special Session C)

Title XLVI
CRIMES

Chapter 849
GAMBLING

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F.S. 849.12

849.12 Money and prizes to be forfeited.—All sums of money and every other valuable thing drawn and won as a prize, or as a share of a prize, or as a share, percentage or profit of the principal promoter or operator, in any lottery, and all money, currency or property of any kind to be disposed of, or offered to be disposed of, by chance or device in any scheme or under any pretext by any person, and all sums of money or other thing of value received by any person by reason of her or his being the owner or holder of any ticket or share of a ticket in a lottery, or pretended lottery, or of a share or right in any such schemes of chance or device and all sums of money and other thing of value used in the setting up, conducting or operation of a lottery, and all money or other thing of value at stake, or used or displayed in or in connection with any illegal gambling or any illegal gambling device contrary to the laws of this state, shall be forfeited, and may be recovered by civil proceedings, filed, or by action for money had and received, to be brought by the Department of Legal Affairs or any state attorney, or other prosecuting officer, in the circuit courts in the name and on behalf of the state; the same to be applied when collected as all other penal forfeitures are disposed of.

History.—s. 4, ch. 4373, 1895; GS 3585; RGS 5512; CGL 7670; s. 1, ch. 28088, 1953; ss. 11, 35, ch. 69-106; s. 1365, ch. 97-102.

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Amendments to 849.12

Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 849.12

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

Current data shows no reason an arrest or criminal charge should have occurred directly under Florida Statute 849.12.

Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

Cases from cite.case.law:

STATE By STATE ATTORNEY FOR TWELFTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, v. GENERAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, a, 448 So. 2d 1074 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1984)

. . . .-32; 210.12; 372.316; 523.14; 849.12; 932.704, Fla.Stat. (1981), (relating to state attorney's independent . . .

BAKER v. STATE, 343 So. 2d 622 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1977)

. . . This, of course, has been accomplished in Section 849.12 of the Florida Statutes (1975). . . .

STATE v. SIMMONS,, 85 So. 2d 879 (Fla. 1956)

. . . This is an appeal by the State from an adverse judgment in proceedings instituted by it under Section 849.12 . . .