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The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title VI
CIVIL PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE
Chapter 48
PROCESS AND SERVICE OF PROCESS
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48.20 Service of process on Sunday.Service or execution on Sunday of any writ, process, warrant, order, or judgment is void and the person serving or executing, or causing it to be served or executed, is liable to the party aggrieved for damages for so doing as if he or she had done it without any process, writ, warrant, order, or judgment. If affidavit is made by the person requesting service or execution that he or she has good reason to believe that any person liable to have any such writ, process, warrant, order, or judgment served on him or her intends to escape from this state under protection of Sunday, any officer furnished with an order authorizing service or execution by the trial court judge may serve or execute such writ, process, warrant, order, or judgment on Sunday, and it is as valid as if it had been done on any other day.
History.s. 44, Nov. 23, 1828; RS 1025; GS 1413; RGS 2611; CGL 4275; s. 4, ch. 67-254; s. 12, ch. 73-334; s. 283, ch. 95-147; s. 5, ch. 2004-11.
Note.Former s. 47.46.

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Cases Citing Statute 48.20

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Comisky v. Rosen Mgmt. Serv., 630 So. 2d 628 (Fla. 4th DCA 1994).

Cited 6 times | Published | Florida 4th District Court of Appeal | 1994 WL 1514

...Finally, the argument advanced by prior cases contends that the rule merely relates to timeliness which does not affect the reach of the court, see Cole v. Posada, 555 So.2d 367 (Fla. 3d DCA 1989). However, even before the adoption of rule 1.070(i), timeliness could be an issue affecting the validity of service. Section 48.20, Florida Statutes (1991) provides that service of process on a Sunday is void, and a motion to quash service on Sunday has been reviewed by interlocutory appeal....
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City of Hialeah v. Weber, 491 So. 2d 1204 (Fla. 1st DCA 1986).

Cited 4 times | Published | Florida 1st District Court of Appeal | 11 Fla. L. Weekly 1566

...employer for purposes of workers' compensation coverage, the evidence in this case establishes unequivocally that claimant was performing his job as a police officer for the City at the time of his injuries. See Larson's, Workmen's Compensation Law, § 48.20, et seq.; and City of Manchester v....
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City of Atlanta v. Brinderson Corp., 799 F.2d 1541 (11th Cir. 1986).

Cited 1 times | Published | Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit | 55 U.S.L.W. 2214, 1986 U.S. App. LEXIS 31205

...Annot. 20 A.L.R.3d 569 , 572 (1968); 5 Am.Jur.2d, Arbitration & Award § 68, pp. 569-571 (1962). Such a power is incident to its capacity to contract or make settlements, and its powers to sue and be sued. See generally McQuillin, 17 Mun.Corp. § 48.20 (3d ed.); City of Hartford v....
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Florida Bd. of Bar Examiners, 420 So. 2d 870 (Fla. 1982).

Published | Supreme Court of Florida | 1982 Fla. LEXIS 2553

shall be accompanied by a fee of .$6=00 10.00 Section 48 20. Each request from an applicant for a copy of
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Comisky v. Rosen Mgmt. Serv., Inc., 630 So. 2d 628 (Fla. 3d DCA 1994).

Published | Florida 3rd District Court of Appeal | 1994 Fla. App. LEXIS 8

an issue affecting the validity of service. Section 48.20, Florida Statutes (1991) provides that service
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Laramore v. State, 342 So. 2d 90 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1977).

Published | District Court of Appeal of Florida | 1977 Fla. App. LEXIS 15217

...e on appellant and by search and seizure begun shortly after midnight on Sunday morning. The warrant authorized execution on Sunday. The underlying affidavit did not, however, recite a reason purporting to justify execution of the warrant on Sunday. Section 48.20, Florida Statutes (1975) provides: “Service or execution on Sunday of any writ, process, warrant, order or judgment is void ....
...order or judgment on Sunday, and it is as valid as if it had been done on any other day.” We conceive that execution of the warrant early Sunday morning was justified by its explicit language, notwithstanding the absence of an affidavit satisfying Section 48.20....
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Miller v. Johnson, 466 So. 2d 340 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1985).

Published | District Court of Appeal of Florida | 10 Fla. L. Weekly 514, 1985 Fla. App. LEXIS 12719

...This matter is before us on a petition for writ of certiorari to review the decision of the circuit court of Brevard County which, in its appellate capacity, affirmed a decision of the county court. The issue is whether a criminal summons may be legally served on a Sunday. Section 48.20, Florida Statutes provides: Service of process on Sunday....
...According to section 901.09 a magistrate sometimes issues a summons instead of a warrant when a criminal complaint is made. According to section 901.10 a summons in a criminal action shall be served in the same manner as one in a civil action. Lastly, section 48.20 says civil process cannot be served on a Sunday....

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