Florida Statute 903.20 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XLVII
CRIMINAL PROCEDURE AND CORRECTIONS

Chapter 903
BAIL

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903.20 Surrender of defendant.—The defendant may surrender himself or herself or a surety may surrender the defendant any time before a breach of the bond.

History.—s. 63, ch. 19554, 1939; CGL 1940 Supp. 8663(63); s. 29, ch. 70-339; s. 1481, ch. 97-102.

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Resolute Ins. Co. v. State ex rel. Dade Cnty., 238 So. 2d 520 (Fla. 4th DCA 1970).

Published | Florida 4th District Court of Appeal | 1970 Fla. App. LEXIS 6020

protect himself by a surrender of the accused under § 903.20, Fla. Stat., F.S.A. Cf. Summit Fidelity & Surety

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Summit Fid. & Sur. Co. v. State ex rel. Duval Cnty., 166 So. 2d 757 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1964).

Published | District Court of Appeal of Florida

...the principal on said bond, and that in other particulars he negligently failed to perform ministerial duties of his office, it does not appear that appellant was in any manner prejudiced thereby. The appellant was not deprived of its option, under Section 903.20, Florida Statutes, F.S.A., to surrender the defendant-principal on the bond to the official to whose custody the defendant was committed at the time bail was taken, or to the official into whose custody the defendant would have been given had he been committed....

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