The Florida Senate

¹50.071  Publication costs; court docket fund.--

(1)  There is established in Broward, Dade, and Duval Counties a court docket fund for the purpose of paying the cost of the publication of the fact of the filing of any civil case in the circuit court in those counties by their counties by their style and of the calendar relating to such cases. A newspaper qualified under the terms of s. 50.011 shall be designated as the record newspaper for such publication by an order of a majority of the judges in the judicial circuit in which the subject county is located and such order shall be filed and recorded with the clerk of the circuit court for the subject county. The court docket fund shall be funded by a service charge of $1 added to the filing fee for all civil actions, suits, or proceedings filed in the circuit court of the subject county. The clerk of the circuit court shall maintain such funds separate and apart, and the aforesaid fee shall not be diverted to any other fund or for any purpose other than that established herein. The clerk of the circuit court shall dispense the fund to the designated record newspaper in the county on a quarterly basis. The designated record newspaper may be changed at the end of any fiscal year of the county by a majority vote of the judges of the judicial circuit of the county so ordering 30 days prior to the end of the fiscal year, notice of which order shall be given to the previously designated record newspaper.

(2)  The board of county commissioners or comparable or substituted authority of any county in which a court docket fund is not specifically established in subsection (1) may, by local ordinance, create such a court docket fund on the same terms and conditions as established in subsection (1).

(3)  The publishers of any designated record newspapers receiving the court docket fund established in subsection (1) shall, without charge, accept legal advertisement for the purpose of service of process by publication under s. 49.011(4), (10), and (11) when such publication is required of persons authorized to proceed as insolvent and poverty-stricken persons under s. 57.081

History.--s. 1, ch. 75-206; s. 153, ch. 2003-402.

¹Note.--Repealed July 1, 2004, by s. 153, ch. 2003-402.