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S.D. Fla. Attorney Admission & Discipline Rule 11 — Incapacity — the district court's own Local Rule, verbatim from the 2025 Local Rules book (effective December 1, 2025), official PDF, sha-custodied. Court-level requirement: applies in every S.D. Fla. courtroom alongside any judge-specific preferences.
When it comes to the attention of the Court that an attorney has been judicially declared incompetent, involuntarily committed to a mental hospital, placed on inactive status or resigned, 127 or has been suspended by another jurisdiction due to such mental incompetence or incapacity or on the basis of physical infirmity or illness, the Court, upon proper proof of the fact, shall enter an order immediately placing the attorney on the Court’s inactive list until further order of the Court. If the Court becomes aware that an attorney is incapacitated by reason of mental infirmity or illness or because of the use of drugs or intoxicants, it shall also refer the matter to the Committee to investigate the matter in accordance with the procedures herein. Effective December 1, 1994. Amended effective April 15, 2002; April 15, 2007; April 15, 2010; December 1, 2015; December 1, 2017.
When it comes to the attention of the Court that an attorney has been judicially declared incompetent, involuntarily committed to a mental hospital, placed on inactive status or resigned, 127 or has been suspended by another jurisdiction due to such mental incompetence or inc
Establishes a Traffic Violations Bureau within the Clerk of the County Court under Fla. R. Traf. Ct. 6.100(a) (Burnstein, C.J., Nov. 1, 1988).
Approves the National Highway Safety Council Defensive Driving course as a school to which traffic courts may require attendance (Fla. R. Traf. Ct. 6.110(a)).
Designates the D.W.I. Counterattack School (Broward County Commission on Alcoholism) as an approved school for court-ordered attendance (Fla. R. Traf. Ct. 6.110(a)).