The 2023 Florida Statutes (including Special Session C)

Title VI
CIVIL PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE

Chapter 50
LEGAL AND OFFICIAL ADVERTISEMENTS

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F.S. 50.011

50.011 Publication of legal notices.—Whenever by statute an official or legal advertisement or a publication or notice in a newspaper or on a governmental agency website has been or is directed or permitted in the nature of or in lieu of process, or for constructive service, or in initiating, assuming, reviewing, exercising, or enforcing jurisdiction or power, or for any purpose, including all legal notices and advertisements of sheriffs and tax collectors, such legislation, whether existing or repealed, means either of the following:

(1) A publication in a newspaper printed and published periodically at least once a week, containing at least 25 percent of its words in the English language, available to the public generally for the publication of official or other notices and customarily containing information of a public character or of interest or of value to the residents or owners of property in the county where published, or of interest or of value to the general public, which:

(a) Has an audience consisting of at least 10 percent of the households in the county or municipality, as determined by the most recent decennial census, where the legal or public notice is being published or posted, by calculating the combination of the total of the number of print copies reflecting the day of highest print circulation, of which at least 25 percent of such print copies must be delivered to individuals’ home or business addresses, as certified biennially by a certified independent third-party auditor, and the total number of online unique monthly visitors to the newspaper’s website from within the state, as measured by industry-accepted website analytics software. The newspaper must also be sold, or otherwise available to the public, at no less than 10 publicly accessible outlets. For legal and public notices published by nongovernmental entities, the newspaper’s audience in the county or municipality where the project, property, or other primary subject of the notice is located must meet the 10 percent threshold; or

(b) Is entered or qualified to be admitted and entered as periodical class mail at a post office in the county where published.

(2) A publication on a publicly accessible website under s. 50.0311.

History.—s. 2, ch. 3022, 1877; RS 1296; GS 1727; s. 1, ch. 5610, 1907; RGS 2942; s. 1, ch. 12104, 1927; CGL 4666, 4901; s. 1, ch. 63-387; s. 6, ch. 67-254; s. 21, ch. 99-2; s. 1, ch. 2021-17; s. 1, ch. 2022-103.

Note.—Former s. 49.01.

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Amendments to 50.011

Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 50.011

Level: Degree
Misdemeanor/Felony: First/Second/Third

Current data shows no reason an arrest or criminal charge should have occurred directly under Florida Statute 50.011.

Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

Cases from cite.case.law:

S. MILES, v. PARRISH,, 199 So. 3d 1046 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2016)

. . . of the date and fact of extension and certification in a periodical meeting the requirements of s. 50.011 . . . of the date and fact of extension and certification in a periodical meeting the requirements of s. 50.011 . . .

WAL- MART STORES, INC. v. M. DAY,, 742 So. 2d 408 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1999)

. . . of the date and fact of extension and certification in a periodical meeting the requirements of s. 50.011 . . .

COPELCO LEASING CORPORATION, v. L. EYERMAN, M. D. M. D., 855 F. Supp. 1049 (E.D. Mo. 1994)

. . . Chapter 19 CSR 60-50.011 defines the term “cost” as “[w]hen the acquisition is by way of lease, to the . . .

A. CHIHOCKY, v. Ed CRAPO,, 632 So. 2d 230 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1994)

. . . of the date and fact of extension and certification in a periodical meeting the requirements of s. 50.011 . . .

SARASOTA HERALD- TRIBUNE CO. v. SARASOTA COUNTY,, 632 So. 2d 606 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1993)

. . . (Herald-Tribune) appeals a final declaratory judgment in which the trial court interpreted sections 50.011 . . . Sections 50.011 and 50.031, require publication in a newspaper in existence for at least one year, printed . . . week was sufficient notice under section 49.01, Florida Statutes (1949), the predecessor to section 50.011 . . . The purpose of sections 50.011 and 50.031, is to provide as effective notice as possible to local residents . . . Therefore, in this particular case, the purpose of sections 50.011 and 50.031, would not be frustrated . . .

MARKHAM, v. W. MORIARTY,, 575 So. 2d 1307 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1991)

. . . of the date and fact of extension and certification in a periodical meeting the requirements of s. 50.011 . . .

CAMPUS COMMUNICATIONS, INC. a v. DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE, STATE OF FLORIDA,, 473 So. 2d 1290 (Fla. 1985)

. . . provides no definition of the word, the DOR calls our attention to two statutory references: section 50.011 . . . other publications given away primarily to distribute advertising, it is clear from reading sections 50.011 . . . of a broader class, then it would have been unnecessary to include the limiting language in sections 50.011 . . .

DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE v. SKOP M. d b a, 383 So. 2d 678 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1980)

. . . For example, Section 50.011, Florida Statutes, (1977) provides that legal publications can be placed . . .