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13 verbatim mandatory provisions from 00-20.
Eighteenth 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. • Now, therefore, it is Ordered that the Eighteenth Judicial Circuit shall adopt, ratify, and direct all employees to comply with Opinion 2000-08 of the Florida Supreme Court Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee. • A judge may not accept gifts, favors, bequests or loans from lawyers or their firms if they have come or are likely to come before the judge. • Additionally a judge is prohibited from accepting gifts, favors, bequests or loans from clients of lawyers or their firms when the clients' interests have come or are likely to come before the judge. • While a judge is required to have staff, court officials, and others subject to the judge's direction and control observe the standards of fidelity and diligence that apply to the judge, the Code of Judicial Conduct does not directly preclude court employees from accepting money and redeemable gift certificates from lawyers, vendors, or other third parties. • See, Canon 3B(4) ("A judge shall be patient, dignified, and courteous to litigants, jurors, witnesses, lawyers, and others with whom the judge deals in an official capacity, and shall require similar conduct of lawyers, and of staff, court officials, and others subject to the judge's direction and control.")[emphasis added]; • Canon 3B(5) ("A judge shall not, in the performance of judicial duties, by words or conduct manifest bias or prejudice based upon race, sex, religion, national origin, disability, age, sexual orientation, or socioeconomic status, and shall not permit staff, court officials, and others subject to the judge's direction and control to do so.") [emphasis added]; • Canon 3B(9) ("A judge shall not, while a proceeding is pending or impending in any court, make any public comment that might reasonably be expected to affect its outcome or impair its fairness or make any nonpublic comment that might substantially interfere with a fair trial or hearing. • The judge shall require similar abstention on the part of court personnel subject to the judge's direction and control.") [emphasis added]; • Canon 2B ("A judge shall not lend the prestige of judicial office to advance the private interests of the judge or others; nor shall a judge convey or permit others to convey the impression that they are in a special position to influence the judge."). • When the text uses 'shall' or 'shall not,' it is intended to impose binding obligations the violation of which, if proven, can result in disciplinary action.") Canon 5 of the Code of Judicial Conduct provides, "A Judge Shall Regulate Extrajudicial Activities to Minimize the Risk of Conflict With Judicial Duties." Generally, a judge is not permitted to accept gifts. • See, Canon 5D (5) ("A judge shall not accept, and shall urge members of the judge's family residing in the judge's family residing in the judge's household not to accept, a gift, bequest, favor or loan from anyone except for...."). • If the circumstances are such that a judge may ethically accept such a donation, the judge must report it pursuant to the terms and conditions of Canon 6 of the Code of Judicial Conduct, if the value of the donation exceeds $100.00. • Canon 3C (2) provides, "A judge shall require staff, court officials, and others subject to the judge's direction and control to observe the standards of fidelity and diligence that apply to the judge...." This provision, however, does not directly preclude court employees from accepting the gifts referred to by the inquiring judge.
Now, therefore, it is Ordered that the Eighteenth Judicial Circuit shall adopt, ratify, and direct all employees to comply with Opinion 2000-08 of the Florida Supreme Court Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee.
Reviewer note: Document sha256: 1bc865cf3b8a5015b3e9e0a1476a0030bd9c844afe434e7a0f6cebcdd451f609 (195765 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. | Scope corrected 2026-08-03: the 18th numbers county-specific orders with -b (Brevard) and -s (Seminole); unsuffixed orders are circuit-wide. This rule was bulk-tagged to one county at harvest; the court's own numbering convention now controls.
2 verbatim requirements from 4th Circuit Administrative Order 1986-33A.
1 verbatim requirement from 4th Circuit Administrative Order 1987-09.