Florida Senate - 2007                      COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
    Bill No. SB 2118
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11  The Committee on Judiciary (Joyner) recommended the following
12  amendment:
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14         Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 
15         On page 3, between lines 6 and 7,
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18         Section 2.  Section 702.035, Florida Statutes, is
19  amended to read:
20         702.035  Legal notice concerning foreclosure
21  proceedings.--Whenever a legal advertisement, publication, or
22  notice relating to a foreclosure proceeding is required to be
23  placed in a newspaper, it is the responsibility of the
24  petitioner or petitioner's attorney to place such
25  advertisement, publication, or notice. For counties with more
26  than 1 million total population as reflected in the 2000 most
27  recent Official Decennial Census of the United States Census
28  Bureau as shown on the official website of the United States
29  Census Bureau, any notice of publication required by this
30  section shall be deemed to have been published in accordance
31  with the law if the notice is published in a newspaper that
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Florida Senate - 2007 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT Bill No. SB 2118 Barcode 322496 1 has been entered as a periodical matter at a post office in 2 the county in which the newspaper is published, is published a 3 minimum of 5 days a week, exclusive of legal holidays, and has 4 been in existence and published a minimum of 5 days a week, 5 exclusive of legal holidays for 1 year or is a direct 6 successor to a newspaper that has been in existence for 1 year 7 that has been published a minimum of 5 days a week exclusive 8 of legal holidays. The advertisement, publication, or notice 9 shall be placed directly by the attorney for the petitioner, 10 by the petitioner if acting pro se, or by the clerk of the 11 court. Only the actual costs charged by the newspaper for the 12 advertisement, publication, or notice may be charged as costs 13 in the action. 14 15 (Redesignate subsequent sections.) 16 17 18 ================ T I T L E A M E N D M E N T =============== 19 And the title is amended as follows: 20 On page 1, line 6, after the first semicolon, 21 22 insert: 23 amending s. 702.035, F.S.; permitting 24 foreclosure notices to be published in certain 25 newspapers that publish at least 5 days a week 26 except during legal holidays; 27 28 29 30 31 2 1:52 PM 04/16/07 s2118.ju18.001