2 verbatim mandatory provisions from 14-12.
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. • GRAND JURY EMPANELMENT ___________________________________________________________________________________ WHEREAS, section 905.01(3), Florida Statutes, states: "The chief judge of each circuit court shall regularly order the convening of the grand jury for a term of 6 months," and rule 2.215, Florida Rules of Judicial Administration, authorizes the chief judge to enter administrative orders to further the administration of justice in the circuit; • IT IS ORDERED, Pursuant to section 905.01(3), Florida Statutes, there shall be a Grand Jury empaneled in each county of the Eighteenth Judicial Circuit every six months, serving for a term of six months as follows:
GRAND JURY EMPANELMENT ___________________________________________________________________________________ WHEREAS, section 905.01(3), Florida Statutes, states: "The chief judge of each circuit court shall regularly order the convening of the grand jury for a term of 6 months," and rule 2.215, Florida Rules of Judicial Administration, authorizes the chief judge to enter administrative orders to further the administration of justice in the circuit;
Reviewer note: Document sha256: 749c31e02a6f24780258ea1d81ef9bb0989321d6a7abefc451b57505655e7572 (63422 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.