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The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title VII
EVIDENCE
Chapter 90
EVIDENCE CODE
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90.203 Compulsory judicial notice upon request.A court shall take judicial notice of any matter in s. 90.202 when a party requests it and:
(1) Gives each adverse party timely written notice of the request, proof of which is filed with the court, to enable the adverse party to prepare to meet the request.
(2) Furnishes the court with sufficient information to enable it to take judicial notice of the matter.
History.s. 1, ch. 76-237; s. 1, ch. 77-77; s. 22, ch. 78-361; s. 1, ch. 78-379.

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Ellsworth v. Ins. Co. of North Am., 508 So. 2d 395 (Fla. 1st DCA 1987).

Cited 30 times | Published | Florida 1st District Court of Appeal | 12 Fla. L. Weekly 1115, 1987 Fla. App. LEXIS 8025

...sting this court to take judicial notice of the excluded Staff Summary and Analysis. Matters which must be judicially noticed are set forth in section 90.201 of the Evidence Code, and matters which may be judicially noticed appear in section 90.202. Section 90.203, Florida Statutes (1985), provides that a court shall take judicial notice of any matter in section 90.202 — when a party requests it and: (1) Gives each adverse party timely written notice of the request, proof of which is filed with the court, to enable the adverse party to meet the request....
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Hillsborough, Etc. v. Pub. Emp. Rel. Com'n, 424 So. 2d 132 (Fla. 1st DCA 1982).

Cited 19 times | Published | Florida 1st District Court of Appeal

...District *134 Court of Appeal and the matters in the appendix are portions of the record before that court. Lastly, Pinellas County asserts that the disputed portion of the appendix is properly included in the appendix as "other authority". Because Section 90.203 states that a court shall take judicial notice of any matter in Section 90.202 when properly requested, we must determine whether Section 90.203 applies to appellate proceedings. Section 90.203, Florida Statutes (1981), is part of the Florida Evidence Code....
...See Tyson v. Aikman, 159 Fla. 273, 31 So.2d 272 (Fla. 1947); Seashole v. F & H of Jacksonville, Inc., 258 So.2d 316 (Fla. 1st DCA 1972). We therefore hold that The Florida Evidence Code does not apply to appellate proceedings, [1] and we are not bound by Section 90.203 to take judicial notice of those matters listed in Section 90.202....
...is not in the record on appeal in this case and any references to that part of the appendix in Pinellas County's brief are stricken. McCORD, MILLS and SHIVERS, JJ., concur. NOTES [1] We do not here decide whether the procedural portions of Sections 90.203 and 90.204 apply to the appellate courts....
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Suarez Ortega v. Pujals De Suarez, 465 So. 2d 607 (Fla. 3d DCA 1985).

Cited 7 times | Published | Florida 3rd District Court of Appeal | 10 Fla. L. Weekly 744

...NOTES [1] It is noted on the face of the order that a copy was furnished to Augusto Suarez Ortega. This was apparently done by mail in care of his last known address, his parent's home in Mexico City, Mexico. [2] This was done notwithstanding the fact that neither party has complied with Section 90.203, Florida Statutes (1983) to activate judicial notice of foreign law.
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Jacksonville Elec. Author. v. Dept. of Rev., 486 So. 2d 1350 (Fla. 1st DCA 1986).

Cited 5 times | Published | Florida 1st District Court of Appeal

...nticated, section 90.901, by a custodian, sections 90.902(4) and 90.955. Official actions of legislative departments of the state, such as those considered above, may be judicially noticed, but such notice should be consistent with the provisions of section 90.203, or when taken by the court on its own motion, consistent with section 90.204....
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Craig v. Craig, 982 So. 2d 724 (Fla. 1st DCA 2008).

Cited 5 times | Published | Florida 1st District Court of Appeal | 2008 WL 1774095

...Further, the Evidence Code contemplates that the request for judicial notice and the taking of notice by the trial court will occur before or at trial as part of the requesting party's case, after notice of the request has been served on the opposing party, enabling the adverse party to prepare to meet the request. See § 90.203, Fla....
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RA v. State, 400 So. 2d 1059 (Fla. 3d DCA 1981).

Cited 4 times | Published | Florida 3rd District Court of Appeal

...Even if, arguendo, this unproved fact was "capable of accurate and ready determination by resort to sources whose accuracy cannot be questioned," see § 90.202(12), Fla. Stat. (1979), and was, therefore, susceptible of being judicially noticed, a matter cannot be judicially noticed unless and until the procedures of Sections 90.203 or 90.204, Florida Statutes (1979), are observed....
...ion that even if we will not make that assumption, that we, as an appellate court, take judicial notice of this unproved fact. See United States v. Jones, 580 F.2d 219 (6th Cir.1978); United States v. Sorenson, 504 F.2d 406 (7th Cir.1974). NOTES [1] § 90.203, Fla....
...(1979), provides: "Determination of propriety of judicial notice and nature of matter noticed. — "(1) When a court determines upon its own motion that judicial notice of a matter should be taken or when a party requests such notice and shows good cause for not complying with s. 90.203(1), the court shall afford each party reasonable opportunity to present information relevant to the propriety of taking judicial notice and to the nature of the matter noticed....
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Life Mktg. of Fla, Inc. v. Aig Life Ins. Co., 588 So. 2d 663 (Fla. 5th DCA 1991).

Cited 3 times | Published | Florida 5th District Court of Appeal | 1991 Fla. App. LEXIS 11051, 1991 WL 227640

...v. McKinnie, 513 So.2d 748 (Fla. 4th DCA 1987). See also Employers Casualty Co. v. Stephens, 189 Okla. 517, 118 P.2d 232, 233 (Okl. 1941). In this regard, the lower court erred in refusing to take judicial notice of the Blankenship dissolution case. § 90.203, Fla....
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Graves v. State, 587 So. 2d 633 (Fla. 3d DCA 1991).

Cited 2 times | Published | Florida 3rd District Court of Appeal | 1991 WL 205832

...Affixed to it is the seal of a professional surveyor and attached to it is an affidavit from a coordinator in the Site Planning and Government Liaison Department for the Dade County School Board. Prior to trial, the state moved the court to take judicial notice of the map pursuant to sections 90.202(11), 90.202(12), and 90.203, Florida Statutes (1989)....
...(11) Facts that are not subject to dispute because they are generally known within the territorial jurisdiction of the court. (12) Facts that are not subject to dispute because they are capable of accurate and ready determination by resort to sources whose accuracy cannot be questioned. § 90.202(11) and (12) (1989). 90.203 Compulsory judicial notice upon request....
...90.202 when a party requests it and: (1) Gives each adverse party timely written notice of the request, proof of which is filed with the court, to enable the adverse party to prepare to meet the request. (2) Furnishes the court with sufficient information to enable it to take judicial notice of the matter. § 90.203 (1989)....
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Bennett v. Morales, 845 So. 2d 1002 (Fla. 5th DCA 2003).

Cited 2 times | Published | Florida 5th District Court of Appeal | 2003 WL 21203247

...Co., 800 So.2d 197 (Fla.2001); Gupton v. Village Key & Saw Shop, Inc., 656 So.2d 475 (Fla.1995). Furthermore, we note that section 90.202(2), Florida Statutes (2001) provides that Florida courts may take judicial notice of the laws of sister states, and section 90.203 provides that the court must take such notice where the adverse party has been given written notice, and sufficient *1005 information has been given to the court. Transportes Aereos Nacionales, S.A. v. De Brenes, 625 So.2d 4 (Fla. 3d DCA 1993). The record is insufficient to show that appellants met the requirements of section 90.203 in this case....
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Elmore v. Florida Power & Light Co., 895 So. 2d 475 (Fla. 4th DCA 2005).

Cited 2 times | Published | Florida 4th District Court of Appeal | 2005 WL 293019

...1st DCA 1979) (holding defendant had burden to prove that medical malpractice action was filed more than two years after it was discovered or should have been discovered in order to establish statute of limitations affirmative defense). Elmore and LS & F could have requested the court take judicial notice of the filing date. Section 90.203, Florida Statutes (1999), requires a court to take judicial notice of any matter in section 90.202 when the party requesting the notice complies with certain requirements....
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Gross v. Zimmerman, 197 So. 3d 1248 (Fla. 4th DCA 2016).

Cited 1 times | Published | Florida 4th District Court of Appeal | 2016 Fla. App. LEXIS 12070, 2016 WL 4205345

comply with the procedural requirements of section 90.203, Florida Statutes (2015). Despite that noncompliance
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Charles Reynolds v. Nationstar Loan Servs., LLC, 190 So. 3d 219 (Fla. 4th DCA 2016).

Cited 1 times | Published | Florida 4th District Court of Appeal | 2016 WL 1688571, 2016 Fla. App. LEXIS 6422

timely and otherwise sufficient request -under section 90.203, Florida Statutes (2013). Here, however, when
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Sanders v. Inversiones Varias, S.A., 436 So. 2d 1089 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1983).

Published | District Court of Appeal of Florida | 1983 Fla. App. LEXIS 22800

by following the procedure set out in either Section 90.203 or Section 90.204, Florida Statutes (1981)
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Rogers v. State, 413 So. 2d 1270 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1982).

Published | District Court of Appeal of Florida | 1982 Fla. App. LEXIS 20050

published in the Florida Administrative Code. Section 90.203 provides that a court shall take judicial notice
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Patrick Hannan v. Gail Doyle (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2022).

Published | District Court of Appeal of Florida

(providing for judicial notice of court records); § 90.203, Fla. Stat. (2020) (providing for compulsory
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Jacksonville Elec. Auth. v. Dep't of Revenue, 486 So. 2d 1350 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1986).

Published | District Court of Appeal of Florida | 11 Fla. L. Weekly 760, 1986 Fla. App. LEXIS 7057

should be consistent with the provisions of section 90.203, or when taken by the court on its own motion
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R. A. v. State, 400 So. 2d 1059 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1981).

Published | District Court of Appeal of Florida | 1981 Fla. App. LEXIS 20602

v. Sorenson, 504 F.2d 406 (7th Cir. 1974). . § 90.203, Fla.Stat. (1979), provides: “Compulsory judicial
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Dolan v. State, 187 So. 3d 262 (Fla. 2d DCA 2016).

Published | Florida 2nd District Court of Appeal | 2016 Fla. App. LEXIS 2183, 2016 WL 618901

clearly fail to comply with the procedures of section 90.203, which addresses the circumstances requiring
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Scripps Rsch. Inst., Inc. v. Scripps Rsch. Inst., 916 So. 2d 988 (Fla. 4th DCA 2005).

Published | Florida 4th District Court of Appeal | 2005 Fla. App. LEXIS 20275, 2005 WL 3533693

of matters which may be judicially noticed, section 90.203 provides: A court shall take judicial notice
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Hillsborough Cnty. Bd. of Cnty. Commissioners v. Pub. Employees Relations Comm'n, 424 So. 2d 132 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1982).

Published | District Court of Appeal of Florida | 1982 Fla. App. LEXIS 22055

the appendix as “other authority”. Because Section 90.203 states that a court shall take judicial notice

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