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The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title V
JUDICIAL BRANCH
Chapter 28
CLERKS OF THE CIRCUIT COURTS
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28.211 Clerk to keep docket.The clerk of the circuit court shall keep a progress docket in which he or she shall note the filing of each pleading, motion, or other paper and any step taken by him or her in connection with each action, appeal, or other proceeding before the court. The clerk may keep separate progress dockets for civil and criminal matters. The clerk shall keep an alphabetical index, direct and inverse, for the docket.
History.s. 1, ch. 71-4; s. 160, ch. 95-147.

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Cases Citing Statute 28.211

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Mattson v. Kolhage, 569 So. 2d 1358 (Fla. 3d DCA 1990).

Cited 3 times | Published | Florida 3rd District Court of Appeal | 1990 WL 175774

...(1989) (emphasis added). The clerk is required to "keep a progress docket in which he shall note the filing of each pleading, motion, or other paper and any step taken by him in connection with each action, appeal, or other proceeding before the court." Id. § 28.211....
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Tanner v. State, 744 So. 2d 1017 (Fla. 4th DCA 1997).

Cited 2 times | Published | Florida 4th District Court of Appeal | 1997 WL 330588

...Section 28.31, Florida Statutes (1995), provides that: "The clerk of the circuit court shall keep all papers filed in the clerk's office with the utmost care and security, arranged in appropriate files (endorsing upon each the time when the same was filed)...." Section 28.211 further provides that: "The clerk of the circuit court shall keep a progress docket in which he or she shall note the filing of each pleading, motion, or other paper and any step taken by him or her in connection with each action, appeal, or other proceeding before the court....
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Ago (Fla. Att'y Gen. 1974).

Published | Florida Attorney General Reports

index, direct and inverse, for the docket. Section 28.211, supra, obviously requires progress dockets
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Dade Fed. Sav. & Loan Ass'n v. Miami Title & Abstract Div. of Am. Title Ins., 217 So. 2d 873 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1969).

Published | District Court of Appeal of Florida | 1969 Fla. App. LEXIS 6405

...After full hearing, the lower court held that the words “the proper record” meant the Judgment Lien Books in those counties still utilizing such books under F.S. § 28.21 (11) F.S.A., and the Official Record Books in those counties, like Dade County, which were utilizing the permissive provisions of F.S. § 28.211 F.S.A....
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Meadows Dev. Co. v. Ihle, 345 So. 2d 769 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1977).

Published | District Court of Appeal of Florida | 1977 Fla. App. LEXIS 15844

...rtified copies but removed an essential ground of Dade Federal’s reasoning: although Sections 55.-10 and 28.29 were then amended to require that a “certified copy” of a judgment be recorded for lien purposes, even in the county where rendered, Section 28.211 then made clear that minute books were not for the recordation of judgments....
...only statutory references to minute books, the Attorney General differentiated between “county” records and “court” records, which necessarily must in-elude minutes, and advised a clerk to keep minutes in the progress docket required by new Section 28.211: “Pending the enactment of the clarifying legislation [anticipated in the 1972 Legislature], it is recommended that the circuit court clerks continue to keep the minutes of the court — whether recorded in the ‘progress docket’...

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