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                                                   HOUSE AMENDMENT

                                                   Bill No. HB 843

    Amendment No. 1 (for drafter's use only)

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11  The Committee on Business Regulation offered the following:

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13         Amendment (with title amendment) 

14         On page 2, between lines 25 and 26, of the bill

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16  insert a new Section 2:

17         Section 2.  Subsection (4) of section 45.031, Florida

18  Statutes, is amended to read:

19         45.031  Judicial sales procedure.--In any sale of real

20  or personal property under an order or judgment, the following

21  procedure may be followed as an alternative to any other sale

22  procedure if so ordered by the court:

23         (4)  OBJECTION TO THE SALE; CERTIFICATE OF TITLE.--The

24  clerk of court shall refuse to accept an objection to sale

25  unless the objection is verified and is filed by a party to

26  the suit or by a person who submitted a bid at the sale.  If

27  an objection to sale is filed, the clerk shall report the same

28  to the court and the court shall advance the cause on the

29  calendar.  If no verified objection objections to the sale is

30  are filed within 10 days after filing the certificate of sale,

31  the clerk shall file a certificate of title; if a verified

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  1  objection is so filed, the clerk shall issue and file the

  2  certificate of title upon entry of an order overruling the

  3  objection or otherwise authorizing the issuance thereof.  The

  4  certificate of title shall be in substantially the following

  5  form  and the clerk shall serve a copy of it on each party not

  6  in default in substantially the following form:

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  8  (Caption of Action)

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10                       CERTIFICATE OF TITLE

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12         The undersigned clerk of the court certifies that he or

13  she executed and filed a certificate of sale in this action on

14  ...., ...(year)..., for the property described herein and that

15  no verified objection objections to the sale has have been

16  filed within the time allowed for filing objections.

17         The following property in .... County, Florida:

18                          (description)

19  was sold to ..................................................

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21  WITNESS my hand and the seal of the court on ....,

22  ...(year)....

23                                ...(Clerk)...

24                                         By ...(Deputy Clerk)...

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29  And the title is amended as follows:

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  2         amending s. 45.031, F.S.; requiring that an

  3         objection to a foreclosure sale must be

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