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17 verbatim mandatory provisions from AO 2014-23 Clerk of Court Imposition of Mandatory Assessments, Costs, Fees, Fines, Service Charges, and Surcharges.
First Judicial Circuit. Check the order's own effective and rescission dates before relying on it. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
Verbatim from the order's own text layer, harvested 2026-07-24; whitespace normalised only. No OCR was used. Only sentences containing mandatory language (shall, must, may not, no later than, within N) are reproduced — the full document is in custody and is the controlling text. • CLERK OF COURT IMPOSITION OF MANDATORY ASSESSMENTS, COSTS, FEES, FINES, SERVICE CHARGES, AND SURCHARGES WHEREAS, section 28.2457, Florida Statutes, requires that any monetary assessment mandated by statute shall be imposed; and WHEREAS, section 28.2457, Florida Statutes, further states that all such mandated assessments shall be included in the judgment without regard to whether the assessment is announced in open court; and WHEREAS, various chapters of the Florida Statutes provide for the imposition of mandated costs, fees, fines, service charges, and surcharges in criminal cases; and WHEREAS, it is necessary for the efficient and proper administration of justice to ensure that all statutorily mandated assessments, costs, fees, fines, service charges, and surcharges are imposed and are accurately reflected in the written judgments and sentences; and WHEREAS, criminal defendants should have a clear, accurate understanding of all financial obligations arising from the resolution of any case as a result of sentencing, it is, therefore, ORDERED: 1. • Definitions. a) All references herein to the Clerk of the Circuit Court (hereinafter “Clerk”) -- 1 of 5 -- shall apply to every Clerk of Court within the First Judicial Circuit to include Escambia County Clerk of Court, Okaloosa County Clerk of Court, Santa Rosa County Clerk of Court, and Walton County Clerk of Court. b) Pursuant to section 28.2457(3), Florida Statutes, the term “monetary assessment” or “assessment” as imposed by any statute or lawfully approved county or city ordinance includes, but is not limited to, a fine or other monetary penalty, a fee, a service charge, and/or a cost. • As used in this order, an “assessment” shall also include any required surcharge. 2. • Regardless of whether any mandated assessments are orally pronounced by the presiding judge at sentencing, the Clerk is hereby directed to include all statutorily mandated assessments in all written judgments and sentences prior to submission to the judge for signing. • If the presiding judge inadvertently orally pronounces any mandated monetary assessment which is lower than that required, the Clerk present in the courtroom shall while in court immediately bring the discrepancy to the attention of the presiding judge, and the defendant shall be notified of the accurately imposed monetary assessments during sentencing. • The Clerk, in preparing the written judgment, must include the accurate amounts as mandated by statute. • In the rare instance in which the Clerk discovers an inaccuracy in any orally -- 2 of 5 -- imposed amount after Court proceedings have concluded and while preparing the written judgment, the Clerk shall notify the presiding judge that an inaccurate amount was orally imposed and that same has been corrected in the written judgment. 3. • Likewise, under no circumstances shall the difference between a lesser inaccurate amount pronounced by the presiding judge and the statutorily required amount be recorded and/or reported as “waived” without oral or written authority for the waiver from the judge presiding at sentencing. 4. • Regardless of whether mandatory fines and surcharges are orally pronounced at sentencing, the Clerk is hereby directed to include all statutorily mandated fines and surcharges in the written judgments and sentences prior to submission to the judge for signing. • If a higher -- 3 of 5 -- fine is imposed by the presiding judge, then the Clerk shall include the higher fine and surcharge in the judgment and sentence. • For drug trafficking charges, the Clerk shall include the mandatory fine and surcharge unless the presiding judge explicitly reduces or suspends a defendant’s fine pursuant to the state attorney’s motion for a finding of substantial assistance under section 893.135(4), Florida Statutes. • The Clerk shall include the mandatory fine and surcharge unless the mandatory fines are not imposed by the court in a case wherein a defendant is sentenced as a Youthful Offender pursuant to section 958.04, Florida Statutes. • If the presiding judge orally pronounces a fine which is lower than that required by statute, the Clerk present in the courtroom shall while in court immediately bring the discrepancy to the attention of the presiding judge, and the defendant shall be notified of the accurately imposed fine and surcharges during sentencing. • The Clerk, in preparing the written judgment, must include the accurate fine and surcharge as mandated by statute. • In the rare instance in which the Clerk discovers an inaccuracy in any orally imposed amount after Court proceedings have concluded and while preparing the written judgment, the Clerk shall notify the presiding judge that an inaccurate amount was orally imposed and that same has been corrected in the written judgment. 5. • Likewise, under no circumstances shall the difference -- 4 of 5 -- between a lesser, inaccurate amount pronounced by the presiding judge and the statutorily required amount be recorded and/or reported as “waived” without oral or written authority for the waiver from the presiding judge. 6. • Therefore, compliance by each Clerk and each Clerk’s personnel with this order is expected in full no later than June 1, 2014.
CLERK OF COURT IMPOSITION OF MANDATORY ASSESSMENTS, COSTS, FEES, FINES, SERVICE CHARGES, AND SURCHARGES WHEREAS, section 28.2457, Florida Statutes, requires that any monetary assessment mandated by statute shall be imposed; and WHEREAS, section 28.2457, Florida Statutes, further states that all such mandated assessments shall be included in the judgment without regard to whether the assessment is announced in open court; and WHEREAS, various chapters of the Florida Statutes provide for the imposition of mandated costs, fees, fines, service charges, and surcharges in criminal cases; and WHEREAS, it is necessary for the efficient and proper administration of justice to ensure that all statutorily mandated assessments, costs, fees, fines, service charges, and surcharges are imposed and are accurately reflected in the written judgments and sentences; and WHEREAS, criminal defendants should h
Reviewer note: Document sha256: 21afbe8263cb2aa769509a2e9f56269ed7de35a24e371dc2612c61c07af34e58 (70913 bytes). BenchPath harvested this circuit itself because no research corpus existed for it. Extraction is conservative: mandatory-language sentences only, so this rule is a faithful subset of the order, never a summary of it.
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