The 2022 Florida Statutes (including 2022 Special Session A and 2023 Special Session B)
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"The provision in § 932.62, F.S.A. that the appearance date for arraignment to the court to which the case is transferred `shall be within 45 days from the transfer' is not followed by any prohibition of arraignment after 45 days nor any provision for dismissal for failure to arraign within such time. The general rule of statutory construction of provisions concerning the time a thing is to be done where no provision prohibiting the doing of it later is included is that such provisions are merely directory. 30 Fla.Jur., Statutes, § 6, p. 98. Such construction of § 932.61 F.S.A. is fortified by examination in the following section of the same legislative act ( 932.63 F.S.A.) requiring the prosecuting attorney to file charges within 30 days after receipt of the petition and providing that if he fails to take action within 30 days the cause shall be dismissed by the clerk. It seems reasonable to conclude that if it was the legislative intent that failure to arraign within 45 days would require dismissal of the action a similar provision for dismissal for failure to arraign within such time would have been included in § 732.62 [ 932.62] F.S.A."
. . . profits ($15,-191.93), added to the amount deducted from charter hire for time spent at Mobile ($120,-932.62 . . .
. . . Dec. 27, 1982) ($932.62 tax refund); In re Kee, Case No. 382-00030 (Bkrtcy.M.D.Tenn. . . .
. . . that the relator had not been arraigned within 45 days from the date of transfer as stated in Section 932.62 . . . The question here to be determined is whether the time element of 45 days in Section 932.62, F.S. is . . . “The provision in § 932.62, F.S.A. that the appearance date for arraignment to the court to which the . . . provision for dismissal for failure to arraign within such time would have been included in § 732.62 [932.62 . . .