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1 verbatim requirement on filing.
Eighth Judicial Circuit — DIVISION/CIRCUIT-WIDE - Criminal only. Practices change without notice; the court's own published text controls. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
• C. Exoneration 1. When a defendant is in custody, the surety may apply for exoneration from the court by filing a pleading that includes a statement of the facts and legal argument in support of exoneration. 2. When the surety seeks exoneration for reasons set forth in section 903.21(3), Florida Statutes, the surety must provide to the court a written commitment that the surety will pay the cost of transporting the defendant to the detention center for the county where the case in which the bond is posted is pending, together with any other relevant documentation in support of exoneration which the surety wishes the court to consider. The surety must provide a copy of the proposed order to go the Sheriff’s Office and include the Sheriff’s Office on the certificate of service on the proposed order. 3. If the surety surrenders the defendant under section 903.21(1) and (2), Florida Statutes, and seeks exoneration, then the surety must attach to the pleading: (a) a certificate acknowledging the defendant’s surrender from the official into whose custody the defendant would have been placed if committed, including the location and jurisdiction of the facility in which the defendant is incarcerated; (b) a copy of the bond from which exoneration is sought; and (c) a certification showing that notice was given to the state attorney at least three (3) days before the pleading and attachments were filed. D. Discharge 1. The surety may petition the court to discharge a forfeiture within sixty (60) days of the forfeiture only for the reasons enumerated in section 903.26(5), Florida Statutes. A petition to discharge a forfeiture does not toll the statutory 60-day time period before entry of a judgment. See County Bonding v. State , 724 So. 2d 131 (Fla. 3d DCA 1998) (forfeitures must be paid or a discharge order entered to prevent entry of judgment) and
AO 4.06 (v2) Page 3 Bail Bond Actions Effective: November 14, 2012 C. Exoneration 1. When a defendant is in custody, the surety may apply for exoneration from the court by filing a pleading that includes a statement of the facts and legal argument in support of exoneration. 2. When the surety seeks exoneration for reasons set forth in section 903.21(3), Florida Statutes, the surety must provide to the court a written commitment that the surety will pay the cost of transporting the defendant to the detention center for the county where the case in which the bond is posted is pending, together with any other relevant documentation in support of exoneration which the surety wishes the court to consider. The surety must provide a copy of the proposed order to go the Sheriff’s Office and include the Sheriff’s Office on the certificate of service on the proposed order. 3. If the surety surrend
Source sha256: 972c9d56db9ea484f318a16efb863049f7dbe5911b0b670ed763deae7aaabf88. Corpus categories: PROPOSED_ORDERS | FILING_OR_SERVICE. Operative status as recorded: CURRENT_DIRECTORY_CURRENT_VERSION. Published during the 2026-07-24 completeness pass. Text layer cleaned 2026-09-08 (Phase 3f): page headers/footers, ligatures and letter-spaced headings normalised; wording untouched. Verbatim from the published source, captured 2026-07-24; whitespace normalised only. No OCR was used. [moved from the text 2026-09-14]
A 2013 standing order requiring attorneys to e-file family-law and civil documents (no paper filings accepted) as the court began compliance with the Supreme Court's e-filing mandate; criminal filing unchanged.
A 2013 standing order requiring attorneys to e-file family-law and civil documents (no paper filings accepted) as the court began compliance with the Supreme Court's e-filing mandate; criminal filing unchanged.