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21 verbatim mandatory provisions from 21-23-s.
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. • All jurisdictions enforcing codes and ordinances by Civil Citations shall utilize the uniformly produced civil citation form approved by the Clerk. • The issuing agency shall monitor citations and shall not file citations that fail to comply with the following: 1. • Civil Citations must be issued on Exhibit A to this Administrative Order. 2. • Civil Citations must include the correct code or ordinance numbers for the alleged violation. 3. • Civil Citations must be legible and printed using black or blue ink. 4. • Civil Citations must be signed by the issuing officer and the alleged violator if hand-delivered (or an indication that the alleged violator willfully refused to sign), or accompanied by a copy of a certified mail receipt (green card), affidavit of service, or other proof of service upon the alleged violator if the citation is not hand-delivered or is issued to and served upon a corporate entity. 5. • All required information must be completed on the civil citation, except that a driver’s license number is not required on a citation issued to a corporate entity, partnership, or individual violator when delivery of the citation to such individual is by means other than hand-delivery. -- 2 of 11 -- 3 III. • Section 162.21, Florida Statutes, requires that an alleged violator be given a warning notice prior to being cited with a citation and a reasonable amount of time to correct the violation not to exceed 30 days. • Civil Citations issued following a prior warning and opportunity to correct the violation must set forth the date of the warning notice and the reasonable time that was given to the alleged violator to correct the violation. c. • A Law Enforcement Officer or Code Enforcement Officer immediately issuing a citation without prior warning and opportunity to correct the violation shall indicate whether the violation presents a serious threat to (PUBLIC HEALTH/SAFETY/WELFARE) or is (IRREPARABLE/ IRREVERSIBLE) or is a (REPEAT VIOLATION). d. • The Clerk shall schedule contested citations for the County and each Municipality on the available Friday traffic infraction dockets or at the time animal control hearings are scheduled at least once a month. d. • Civil Citations must be submitted to the Clerk using the Florida Courts E-Filing Portal system or another means mutually agreed upon by electronic transmission. • The issuing Law Enforcement Officer, Code Enforcement Officer, or County or Municipal legal representative shall represent the County or Municipality issuing the citation. b. • The issuing Law Enforcement Officer, Code Enforcement Officer, or County or Municipal legal representative shall provide the Court with copies of the code or ordinance alleged to be violated. • Each civil citation must set forth the amount of the civil penalty in accordance with the applicable code or ordinance of the jurisdiction. b. • The Clerk shall prepare and provide the issuing agency a weekly status report detailing civil penalties paid, requests for court dates, and other information -- 4 of 11 -- 5 necessary to update the status of citations filed with the Clerk pursuant to this Order. e. • The Court shall issue a final judgment after a hearing on an alleged citation violation. • The issuing Law Enforcement Officer, Code Enforcement Officer or the County or Municipal legal representative, shall provide proposed final judgments for presentation to the Court at the hearing. f. • This Order shall govern the disposition of Code Enforcement Civil Citations issued pursuant to Chapter 162 Part II, Florida Statutes, Section 162.21 beginning immediately and thereafter. • You may contest the citation by appearing in person at one of the Clerk’s offices listed below within 30 days of the issuance of this citation and request a hearing. • The Clerk must receive proof of payment or your request for hearing to contest the citation within the time limits above.
All jurisdictions enforcing codes and ordinances by Civil Citations shall utilize the uniformly produced civil citation form approved by the Clerk.
Reviewer note: Document sha256: c190288d19d63a6024f816195dd2a04b4b09174fd75fa2c893b3eefc88fac661 (312588 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.
Judge Sherman requires TWO identical bound hard-copy sets of pre-marked exhibits for evidentiary hearings at least 7 days out — and anything over 50 pages must arrive as bound hard copies by mail.
Judge Hafele: exhibits in chambers three days before any evidentiary proceeding, courtesy copies two days out, all hearing materials three business days ahead, and interpreter requests seven days in advance.
Judge Mullinax wants physical copies of all documents and exhibits for in-person hearings/trials provided five days in advance; orders in Word (no macros/columns/tabs) within 48 hours, final judgments with a 3-inch top-right margin.