Florida Statute 817.031 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XLVI
CRIMES

Chapter 817
FRAUDULENT PRACTICES

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817.031 Making false statements; venue of prosecution.—Prosecutions under s. 817.03 may be begun in the county where the statement was written, or purports to have been written.

History.—s. 2, ch. 5134, 1903; GS 3323; RGS 5161; CGL 7264.

Note.—Former s. 817.04.

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Cases Citing Statute 817.031

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Perry v. Sec'y, Florida Dept. of Corr., 664 F.3d 1359 (11th Cir. 2011).

Cited 21 times | Published | Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit | 2011 WL 6412426

...Appellants argue that there are already several Florida statutes and FDOC rules that can prohibit pen pal scams without prohibiting the solicitation of pen pals because the rules and statutes set out how an inmate may correspond with a noninmate. See, e.g., FLA. STAT. § 817.031 (providing venue of prosecution under FLA....

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State v. Summerlot, 711 So. 2d 589 (Fla. 3d DCA 1998).

Cited 4 times | Published | Florida 3rd District Court of Appeal | 1998 WL 186898

...ithout a license, as he was a certified contractor as defined by section 489.105(8), Florida Statutes (1991). With respect to the organized fraud count, the court found: In light of the title of section 817.034 and the legislative intent embodied in section 817.031(1) of the statute, the State must prove that the defendant did "communicate" as part of a scheme to defraud, and that the victims' property was obtained by means of said scheme....

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Perry v. Sec'y, Florida Dep't of Corr., 664 F.3d 1359 (11th Cir. 2011).

Cited 1 times | Published | Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit | 2011 U.S. App. LEXIS 25561

...Appellants argue that there are already several Florida statutes and FDOC rules that can prohibit pen pal seams without prohibiting the solicitation of pen pals because the rules and statutes set out how an inmate may correspond with a noninmate. See, e.g., Fla Stat. § 817.031 (providing venue of prosecution under Fla....

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