Florida Statute 903.16 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XLVII
CRIMINAL PROCEDURE AND CORRECTIONS

Chapter 903
BAIL

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903.16 Deposit of money or bonds as bail.—

(1) A defendant who has been admitted to bail, or another person in the defendant’s behalf, may deposit with the official authorized to take bail money or nonregistered bonds of the United States, the state, or a city, town, or county in the state, equal in market value to the amount set in the order and the personal bond of the defendant and an undertaking by the depositor if the money or bonds are deposited by another. The sheriff or other officials may remit money or bonds received to the clerk to be held by the clerk pending court action or return to the defendant or depositor. The clerk shall accept money or bonds remitted by the sheriff.

(2) Consent is conclusively presumed for the clerk of the circuit court to sell bonds deposited as bail after forfeiture of the bond.

History.—s. 59, ch. 19554, 1939; CGL 1940 Supp. 8663(59); s. 1, ch. 59-353; s. 26, ch. 70-339; s. 4, ch. 91-306; s. 1480, ch. 97-102.

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Cases Citing Statute 903.16

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Ferlita v. State, 380 So. 2d 1118 (Fla. 2d DCA 1980).

Cited 18 times | Published | Florida 2nd District Court of Appeal

...s opinion. SCHEB, Acting C.J., and RYDER, J., concur. NOTES [1] Section 903.27 reads in pertinent part as follows: (1) If the forfeiture is not paid or discharged within thirty days and the bond is secured other than by money and bonds authorized in § 903.16 ......

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Resolute Ins. Co. v. State, Dade Cnty., 289 So. 2d 456 (Fla. 3d DCA 1974).

Cited 5 times | Published | Florida 3rd District Court of Appeal

...December 22, 1972 The circuit court denied a motion to vacate final judgment and discharge surety. Section 903.27 presently reads as follows: "903.27 Forfeiture to judgment. "(1) If the forfeiture is not paid or discharged within thirty days and the bond is secured other than by money and bonds authorized in § 903.16, the state attorney shall file a certified copy of the order of forfeiture with the clerk of the circuit court for the county where the order was made....

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Polakoff & Aabbott Bail Bonds v. State, 111 So. 3d 253 (Fla. 5th DCA 2013).

Published | Florida 5th District Court of Appeal | 2013 WL 1482778, 2013 Fla. App. LEXIS 5904

...Since none of these circumstances is present in the instant case, we will discuss them no further. Third, the surety may elect not to pay the forfeiture within the sixty-day period. If the surety follows this course and the bond is secured other than by money and bonds authorized in section 903.16, the clerk of the circuit court shall enter a judgment against the surety....

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