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12 verbatim mandatory provisions from S-2012-032.
Thirteenth 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. • Eligibility In addition to fulfilling the eligibility requirements in section 48.29, Flmida Statutes, a certified process server applicant must also: • Application Individuals seeking certified process server designation must submit an application to the AOC on a prescribed form and pay the required fee. • Proof of Liability Insurance Prior to an applicant's name being added to the approved certified process servers, the applicant must provide the AOC with proof of insurance, in the form of a certificate of insurance or policy in the amount of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000.00) coverage per person and three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000.00) per incident for the benefit of any person wrongfully damaged by malfeasance, neglect of duty or incompetence of the applicant in connection with duties as a certified process server. • The certified process servers, the chief judge, and "The Thirteenth Judicial Circuit" must be named as insureds or certificate holders under the insurance policy. • The insurance policy must contain a provision that the AOC will be given 30 days' notification of any cancellation, expiration, termination or change in policy. 5. • If the AOC representative determines that an applicant does not meet all of the statutory and administrative eligibility requirements, then the applicant will not be added to the approved certified process server list. • If an applicant wishes to challenge an unfavorable determination made solely by the AOC representative, an applicant may request in writing, within 30 days of notice of the unfavorable determination, that the application be reviewed by the Judicial Panel. 6. • If a Judicial Panel's unfavorable decision on an application is not unanimous, then the applicant may request reconsideration by the Judicial Panel in writing, within 30 days of notice of the Judicial Panel's initial decision. • Identification Card Certified process servers must, while serving process, carry the official certified process server identification card of the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit and display it to anyone who requests information on the process server's authority to serve process. 9. • Return of Service of Process The return of execution of process must be made by a certified process server on an Affidavit of Service form adopted by the AOC. • The complainant will be provided a copy of the certified process server's response and may, within 30 days of notice of the response, submit a reply. • If the Judicial Panel's decision to remove a certified process server's name from the approved list is not unanimous, the certified process server may, within 30 days from notice of the Panel's decision, submit information to the chief judge as to why the Panel's non-unanimous decision should not be followed.
Eligibility In addition to fulfilling the eligibility requirements in section 48.29, Flmida Statutes, a certified process server applicant must also:
Reviewer note: Document sha256: 1f763f6a7a0187db83c65291ba95c8e5d552ae6296fdcd49a2f2339708e791c4 (291943 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.
The 17th Circuit's circuit-wide AI disclosure/certification mandate (Jan 2026, twice amended) was VACATED in its entirety effective June 15, 2026 by Chief Judge Phillips's AO 2026-19-Gen, expressly citing the statewide framework (AOSC26-12; Rule 2.515(d)(2), SC2026-0673). Several division procedure pages still cite the vacated order.
Every circuit-civil case reviewed within 120 days of commencement and assigned a track (complex, streamlined, or general); case management orders required; firm continuance policy; sanctions for missed deadlines. Rescinds AO 21-09.
Circuit-civil hearing-availability standards: motion calendars ~2 weeks from request; 15-30 min special sets within 45-60 days; longer special sets scale.