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Florida Statute 717.113 - Full Text and Legal Analysis
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The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XL
REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY
Chapter 717
DISPOSITION OF UNCLAIMED PROPERTY
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717.113 Property held by courts and public agencies.All intangible property held for the owner by any court, government or governmental subdivision or agency, public corporation, or public authority that has not been claimed by the owner for more than 1 year after it became payable or distributable is presumed unclaimed. Except as provided in s. 45.032(3)(c), money held in the court registry and for which no court order has been issued to determine an owner does not become payable or distributable and is not subject to reporting under this chapter. Notwithstanding the provisions of this section, funds deposited in the Minerals Trust Fund pursuant to s. 377.247 are presumed unclaimed only if the funds have not been claimed by the owner for more than 5 years after the date of first production from the well.
History.s. 14, ch. 87-105; s. 4, ch. 94-193; s. 71, ch. 96-321; s. 14, ch. 2001-36; s. 8, ch. 2018-71.

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Cases Citing Statute 717.113

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T.G. United, Inc., & Mental Toughness Training Ctr., LLC Vs Aadd Props., LLC (Fla. 5th DCA 2023).

Published | Florida 5th District Court of Appeal

....111, Fla. 6 Stat. (2023) (noting that when a post-judgment deposit is made “into the registry of the court,” it will prompt “the clerk’s certificate that the compensation has been paid into the court”); § 717.113, Fla....
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Ago (Fla. Att'y Gen. 1999).

Published | Florida Attorney General Reports

...to remit unclaimed overpayments for fines, where an automated government service center did not dispense change, to the county fine and forfeiture fund. 3 There are instances where the return of funds is controlled by specific statutes. For example, section 717.113 , Florida Statutes, provides that all intangible property held for the owner by any court, government, governmental subdivision or agency, public corporation, or public authority that remains unclaimed by the owner for more than one y...
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Crescenzo v. Atwater, 136 So. 3d 1248 (Fla. 2d DCA 2014).

Published | Florida 2nd District Court of Appeal | 2014 WL 1613401, 2014 Fla. App. LEXIS 5866

...Similar to funds deposited under section 43.19, the funds deposited under chapter 717 often end up in the State School Fund. See § 717.123. The fact that the funds end up in the same account, however, does not mean that they must only be removed from that fund using the same procedures. Section 717.113 provides that property held by courts is typically “presumed unclaimed” after one year even though it is not transferred under section 43.19 for five years....

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