Florida Statute 26.031 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title V
JUDICIAL BRANCH

Chapter 26
CIRCUIT COURTS

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26.031 Judicial circuits; number of judges.—The number of circuit judges in each circuit shall be as follows:

JUDICIAL CIRCUIT TOTAL

(1) First..........26

(2) Second..........17

(3) Third..........7

(4) Fourth..........37

(5) Fifth..........34

(6) Sixth..........45

(7) Seventh..........29

(8) Eighth..........14

(9) Ninth..........48

(10) Tenth..........30

(11) Eleventh..........83

(12) Twelfth..........24

(13) Thirteenth..........45

(14) Fourteenth..........14

(15) Fifteenth..........37

(16) Sixteenth..........4

(17) Seventeenth..........58

(18) Eighteenth..........26

(19) Nineteenth..........20

(20) Twentieth..........32

History.—ss. 1, 3, ch. 72-402; s. 1, ch. 73-329; s. 1, ch. 75-124; s. 1, ch. 76-175; s. 1, ch. 77-368; s. 1, ch. 78-168; s. 5, ch. 79-413; s. 2, ch. 80-164; s. 1, ch. 80-385; s. 2, ch. 81-220; ss. 2, 7, ch. 82-238; s. 6, ch. 84-303; s. 1, ch. 85-218; s. 1, ch. 86-279; s. 1, ch. 87-89; s. 2, ch. 88-167; s. 1, ch. 89-290; s. 1, ch. 90-206; s. 1, ch. 93-63; s. 3, ch. 94-137; s. 1, ch. 95-351; s. 1, ch. 96-271; s. 1, ch. 97-257; ss. 1, 2, ch. 99-151; s. 1, ch. 2001-284; s. 1, ch. 2002-388; ss. 1, 2, ch. 2005-150; s. 1, ch. 2005-356; s. 1, ch. 2006-166; s. 2, ch. 2019-95; s. 1, ch. 2020-112; s. 1, ch. 2021-45; s. 1, ch. 2024-194; s. 1, ch. 2025-202.

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Hannigan v. State, 307 So. 2d 850 (Fla. 1st DCA 1975).

Cited 10 times | Published | Florida 1st District Court of Appeal

...Even taking the assertion at face value, there is no excuse for there to have been such a delay. We take judicial notice of the fact that there are presently assigned to the Fourth Judicial Circuit twenty-one (21) Circuit Judges, most of whom are in Duval County. F.S.A. § 26.031(d)....

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Evans v. Handi-man Temp. Servs. & Riscorp, 710 So. 2d 132 (Fla. 1st DCA 1998).

Cited 3 times | Published | Florida 1st District Court of Appeal | 1998 Fla. App. LEXIS 4432, 1998 WL 176760

K. Larson, Larson's Workers' Compensation Law § 26.31, at 5-348 (1997). We have so held. Phillips v.

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In Re: Certification of Need for Additional Judges (Fla. 2020).

Published | Supreme Court of Florida

HB 5301, §§ 1-2 (2020) (enrolled) (amending section 26.031, Florida Statutes, to authorize the four circuit

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