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28 verbatim mandatory provisions from 18-21-b.
Eighteenth Judicial Circuit. Check the order's own effective and rescission dates before relying on it. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
• This schedule is for law enforcement officers setting bail prior to first appearance. • However, judges must be mindful that bail cannot be set at "None" for a new substantive offense unless it is punishable by death or life imprisonment and the proof of guilt is evident or the presumption great. • A separate and specific bail amount must be set for each offense charged. • Bail will have a condition on it in every case that the defendant will have no direct or indirect contact with the alleged victim; and that the defendant shall refrain from criminal activity of any kind. • NOTE TO INITIAL APPEARANCE JUDGES: "Unless charged with a capital offense or an offense punishable by life imprisonment and the proof of guilt is evident or the presumption is great, every person charged with a crime shall be entitled to pretrial release on reasonable conditions. • The Jessica Lunsford Act requires a judge to make a finding that a probationer or an offender in community control who is arrested for violating his/her probation or community control is not a “danger to public” prior to his/her release with or without bail where the probationer or offender in community control is: 1. • Bond for persons arrested on a violation of felony probation shall be set as provided for in the warrant itself, if and only if, the warrant provides that the probationer does not meet the qualifications for a “danger to public” hearing as defined in Florida Statute 948.06(4) (as amended by the “Jessica Lunsford Act”); otherwise, such person shall be held without bond pending the initial appearance proceedings before a judge. • Bond for persons arrested on a violation of misdemeanor probation warrant, a failure to appear warrant, or an arrest warrant shall be set as provided for in the warrant itself. • If the warrant is silent as to a bond amount, the bail shall be set as otherwise provided in this Administrative Order. • Past history of appearance at court proceedings." If a defendant is not released on a "Notice to Appear", pursuant to Rule 3.125, bond shall be set, pending first appearance, as follows: • DUI (Second Offense) 1,000 First Degree Misdemeanors/Criminal Traffic Offenses/DUI (First Offense) 500 Second Degree Misdemeanor 250 Violations of Conditions of Release Where the Underlying Offense is Not One of Domestic Violence 1,000 "As to all individuals arrested for the offense of DUI, any release must also comply with the criteria set forth in F.S.316.193(9)." VI. • All defendant releases of the Misdemeanor Warrant Notification Mailers shall be for non-violent misdemeanor crimes only. • No defendant shall be released under this process for warrants/capias that include any felony, crime of violence, failure to appear, pay or appears, violation of probation in which a cash or surety bond has been set, violation of probation where the defendant is a registered sexual offender or registered sexual predator, or violations of probation where the defendant is also on felony probation or community control. • The defendant will be required to respond to the Misdemeanor Warrant Notification Mailer within 20 days of United States Postal Service postmarking. • Persons Arrested for Sexual Offenses or Child Abuse Any person who is arrested for a sexual offense or for child abuse shall, as an additional condition of release, be prohibited from having direct or indirect contact with victim(s), victims(s)’ family, or residence(s) of the victim(s). 2. • Duty of Pretrial Release Officer Persons arrested who have committed a sexual offense or child abuse shall not be released until they have been instructed of these special conditions by the pretrial release officer and have signed a written notice approved by the court. 3. • Order of No Contact Any person who is arrested in Brevard County for an offense of domestic violence, repeat violence, sexual violence or dating violence shall be furnished an Order of No Contact (Attachment 1) stating the conditions of pretrial release. • Persons arrested for any of the above noted offenses shall not be released until they have been instructed on the special conditions set forth in the Order of No Contact and have signed a court approved written notice acknowledging instruction on the special conditions of pretrial release. • COMPLIANCE WITH THIS ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER Upon receipt of the person arrested by the Brevard County Sheriff, the booking officer shall review the 923.01 arrest form to ensure that the arresting officer has properly set the initial bond according to this administrative order. • The booking officer is authorized to make changes to the bond amount reflected on the 923.01 arrest form to properly comply with this order but in considering changes the booking officer shall consider any information in the 923.01 arrest form that the arresting officer believed called for a higher bond and shall defer to that judgment. • However, any bond set shall not exceed the amount of bail set forth in the bail schedule. • All Circuit and County Judges (Brevard County) Court Administration (Brevard and Seminole Counties) Clerk of Court (Brevard County) State Attorney (Brevard County) Public Defender (Brevard County) Sheriff (Brevard County) Bar Association (Brevard County) Law Library (Brevard County) All Brevard County Law Enforcement Agencies Brevard County Jail - Pre-Trial Release ATTACHMENT 1 Case/CR# _____________________________ ORDER OF NO CONTACT IN CASES OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, REPEAT VIOLENCE, SEXUAL VIOLENCE, AND DATING VIOLENCE Pursuant to Florida Statute 903.047, all persons arrested for domestic violence, repeat violence, sexual violence, or dating violence shall abide by the following conditions of pretrial release, unless specifically told otherwise by the judge during your initial appearance. • The accused shall initial each section in the space provided: _____ a. • You must not commit a crime of any kind, or be arrested, or engage in criminal activity of any kind. _____ b. • You shall not send messages through a third person that are in any way directed toward the victim, except through your attorney. _____ d. • You shall not go within 500 feet of the victim’s or other named person’s residence even if the victim or other named person lived with the arrestee at the time of arrest. • You shall not knowingly go within 100 feet of the victim’s or other named person’s vehicle, place of employment, or other specified location frequented regularly by such person. • If you are in a place and the person with whom you are prohibited to have contact enters, you must leave immediately.
This schedule is for law enforcement officers setting bail prior to first appearance.
Reviewer note: Document sha256: e0be897268028a8558fa67a8c307d112f5b98b920fd4251cf92ef0fcb9ed21f5 (146740 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. 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]
4 verbatim requirements on hearings.
2 verbatim requirements on hearing time in LAUREN N. PEFFER's division.