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5 verbatim mandatory provisions from S-2014-011.
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. • Prior to the issuance of the above-referenced Electronic Filing decision and therefore prior to the requirement of converting paper documents into searchable electronic documents, the Clerk reports that she converted in excess of 10 million paper court documents into optical images in Tagged Image File Format (TIFF). • Any TIFF images created prior to April 1, 2013 in the Civil, Probate, Small Claims, Family Law and the Appeals Divisions are part of the official court file (Rule 2.525(c)(2)(C)), subject to retention schedules associated with each document in accordance with Rule 2.430. • Any TIFF images created prior to October 1, 2013 in the Baker Act and Jimmy Ryce Act Divisions are part of the official court file (Rule 2.525(c)(2)(C)), subject to retention schedules associated with each document in accordance with Rule 2.430. • Any TIFF images created prior to Aprill4, 2014 in the Criminal and Juvenile Divisions are part of the official court file (Rule 2.525(c)(2)(C)), subject to retention schedules associated with each document in accordance with Rule 2.430. • Any TIFF images created prior to July 21, 2014 in the Traffic Division are part of the official court file (Rule 2.525(c)(2)(C)), subject to retention schedules associated with each document in accordance with Rule 2.430.
Prior to the issuance of the above-referenced Electronic Filing decision and therefore prior to the requirement of converting paper documents into searchable electronic documents, the Clerk reports that she converted in excess of 10 million paper court documents into optical images in Tagged Image File Format (TIFF).
Reviewer note: Document sha256: 829743da1ea7fbc501e698ace5979b886e732276a82d9aeb2c7ce04bb172b148 (157621 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 Eighteenth Judicial Circuit (Seminole and Brevard) requires cover letters in PDF format and proposed orders in .docx format using DJMCA formatting codes, submitted through the Florida Courts E-Filing Portal.
Florida attorneys must file court documents electronically through the statewide Florida Courts E-Filing Portal (myflcourtaccess.com). Self-represented litigants may e-file through the same portal. Local circuits layer their own formatting and routing quirks on top.
Effective June 15, 2026, every signer of a Florida court filing — attorney or self-represented — represents that "the legal authorities identified exist and are accurately cited," with express sanctions (reprimand, contempt, striking, dismissal, costs, fees) for violations. Companion order AOSC26-12 preempts ALL circuit- and judge-level AI disclosure/certification requirements.