S-2012-051 — Hillsborough County, FL · BenchPath

Thirteenth Cir. — S-2012-051

High confidence· verified September 9, 2026Administrative OrdersThirteenth Judicial Circuit, S-2012-051 — harvested live and sha256-hashed 2026-07-24

Summary

2 verbatim mandatory provisions from S-2012-051.

Applies to

Thirteenth Judicial Circuit. Check the order's own effective and rescission dates before relying on it. Procedural information only; not legal advice.

Requirement

• This statutory provision provides that if the clerk has not made a determination of indigent status at the time a person requests appointment of a public defender, the court shall make a preliminary determination of indigent status, pending further review by the clerk, and may appoint the public defender on an interim basis. • Refusal or Inability to Complete Application for Indigent Status or Insufficient Application When any person seeking the services of a public defender first appears in a court proceeding without representation by legal counsel and such person refuses or is unable to complete the application for indigent status or the completed application does not contain sufficient information for the clerk to make a determination of indigent status and the public defender application fee under section 27 .52, Florida Statutes, has not been assessed, the presiding judge shall decide whether or not to direct the public defender to represent such person. 2.

Source of truth

This statutory provision provides that if the clerk has not made a determination of indigent status at the time a person requests appointment of a public defender, the court shall make a preliminary determination of indigent status, pending further review by the clerk, and may appoint the public defender on an interim basis.

Official source: 13th Cir. — Hearing Officers directory
Source health: Healthy · checked October 24, 2026
Effective date: —
Last verified: September 9, 2026benchpath-reverify-2026-09-08 (custody hash match) | prior: benchpath-live-harvest-2026-07-24

Reviewer note: Document sha256: 9f727cb7c5ddacbd689b0b3c84fc67656301e1b13503198e83aca0cf2ce2c4f3 (115018 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. Text layer cleaned 2026-09-08 (Phase 3a): page markers removed; wording untouched. 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. [moved from the text 2026-09-14]

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