Florida Statute 901.10 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XLVII
CRIMINAL PROCEDURE AND CORRECTIONS

Chapter 901
ARRESTS AND TEMPORARY DETENTIONS

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901.10 How summons served.—A summons shall be served in the same manner as a summons in a civil action.

History.—s. 10, ch. 19554, 1939; CGL 1940 Supp. 8663(10); s. 6, ch. 70-339.

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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

...furnished with an order authorizing service or execution by the judge or magistrate of any incorporated town 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. Section 901.10, Florida Statutes provides: How summons served....

...An arrest may be made on any day and at any time of the day or night. It is apparent that a summons and a warrant are two different items. 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....

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