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13 verbatim mandatory provisions from 25-27-b.
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. • If six (6) years has elapsed since the filing of certain municipal ordinance, county ordinance, criminal traffic, or misdemeanor sworn complaints, the efficiency of the clerk of court would greatly increase by the clerk disposing of the pending case; and WHEREAS, law enforcement is required to submit to the clerk of court civil traffic citations within five (5) days from offense per F.S. 316.650(3)(a). • When the clerk receives a death certificate or notification from BCSO, BVS, FLHSMV, or SAO that a person who was issued a civil traffic citation or a non-criminal infraction has died and the charge is pending, the clerk shall administratively dismiss the citation. 2. • When the clerk receives a death certificate or notification from BCSO, BVS, or FLHSMV that a person with a pending municipal ordinance, county ordinance, criminal traffic, misdemeanor, or felony criminal charge has died, the clerk shall notify the state attorney for disposition action. 3. • When the clerk receives a death certificate or notification from BCSO, BVS, FLHSMV, or SAO that a person with an outstanding warrant (violation of probation warrant, violation of community control warrant, failure to appear warrant, contempt warrant, non-compliance warrant, violation -- 2 of 4 -- 3 of pretrial release warrant, or violation of community supervision warrant), has died, the clerk shall recall the warrant and administratively dismiss the charge if applicable. 4. • If a charge is administratively dismissed due to the person being deceased, all monetary obligations for that charge shall be suspended from the case. 5. • If seven (7) years have elapsed since the submission of a suspension notification (D6) to FLHSMV and the suspension remains unsatisfied, the clerk shall dismiss all pending civil traffic or criminal traffic charges. • On felony cases where a civil traffic charge(s) was attached and where, after seven (7) years, no action has been taken on the civil traffic charge(s), the clerk shall dismiss the pending civil traffic charge(s). • If law enforcement submits to the clerk a civil traffic infraction and more than one hundred-eighty (180) days have elapsed since the offense date, the clerk shall dismiss the civil traffic infraction. • If law enforcement fails to indicate that the violator received the citation and the statute of limitations of one hundred-eighty (180) day has elapsed since the offense date, the clerk shall dismiss the civil traffic infraction. 8. • If six (6) years have elapsed since the filing of a municipal ordinance, county ordinance, criminal traffic, or misdemeanor sworn complaint and the summons is either still active or has been returned unserved, and no further action has been attempted by the state, the clerk shall administratively dismiss the case. 9. • If seven (7) years have elapsed from the issuance of a capias and the named defendant has not been served, the clerk shall recall the capias and dismiss the originating charge(s). • If seven (7) years has elapsed from the issuance of a bench warrant (failure to appear warrant, contempt warrant, noncompliance warrant, violation of pretrial release warrant, or violation of community supervision warrant), and the named defendant has not been served, the clerk shall recall the bench warrant and dismiss all pending charges. • If a Notice of No Information or Notice of Nolle Prosequi is filed by the State Attorney’s Office and the case has a pending failure to appear or contempt charge and/or an active bench warrant (failure to appear warrant, contempt warrant, noncompliance warrant, violation of pretrial release warrant, or violation of community supervision warrant), the clerk shall recall the warrant and -- 3 of 4 -- 4 dismiss the failure to appear or contempt charge that caused the warrant to be issued, unless otherwise directed by the court.
If six (6) years has elapsed since the filing of certain municipal ordinance, county ordinance, criminal traffic, or misdemeanor sworn complaints, the efficiency of the clerk of court would greatly increase by the clerk disposing of the pending case; and WHEREAS, law enforcement is required to submit to the clerk of court civil traffic citations within five (5) days from offense per F.S. 316.650(3)(a).
Reviewer note: Document sha256: 0bfdc9477f455191cd4259e4ae36216928c26681dcdf1b307714f734dfe248b0 (121410 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.
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