Florida Statute 48.121 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title VI
CIVIL PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE

Chapter 48
PROCESS AND SERVICE OF PROCESS

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48.121 Service on the state.—When the state has consented to be sued, process against the state shall be served on the state attorney or an assistant state attorney for the judicial circuit within which the action is brought and by sending two copies of the process by registered or certified mail to the Attorney General. The state may serve motions or pleadings within 40 days after service is made. This section is not intended to authorize the joinder of the Attorney General or a state attorney as a party in such suit or prosecution.

History.—s. 2, ch. 29724, 1955; s. 4, ch. 67-254; s. 7, ch. 2001-266.

Note.—Former s. 69.18.

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In Re Amendments to Fla. Rules Civ. Proc., 604 So. 2d 1110 (Fla. 1992).

Cited 15 times | Published | Supreme Court of Florida | 1992 WL 163953

...ctions 48.061 (service on partnership), § 48.071 (service on agents of nonresidents doing business in the state), § 48.081 (service on corporation), § 48.101 (service on dissolved corporations), § 48.111 (service on public agencies or officers), § 48.121 (service on the state), § 48.131 (service on alien property custodian), § 48.141 (service on labor unions), § 48.151 (service on statutory agents for certain purposes), Florida Statutes, and all statutes providing for substituted service on the Ssecretary of Sstate....

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In Re Amendments to Rules of Civ. Proc., 536 So. 2d 974 (Fla. 1988).

Cited 9 times | Published | Supreme Court of Florida

...tes § 48.061 (service on partnership), § 48.071 (service on agents of nonresidents doing business in the state), § 48.081 (service on corporation), § 48.101 (service on dissolved corporations), § 48.111 (service on public agencies or officers), § 48.121 (service on the state), § 48.131 (service on alien property custodian), § 48.141 (service on labor unions), § 48.151 (service on statutory agents for certain purposes), and all statutes providing for substituted service on the Secretary of State....

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Ramle Int'l Corp. v. Miami-dade Cnty., Florida (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2023).

Published | District Court of Appeal of Florida

constitutionality of a state statute”). Pursuant to section 48.121, Florida Statutes, “process against the state