Florida Senate - 2011                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 786
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  04/12/2011           .                                
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       The Committee on Criminal Justice (Margolis) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    4         Delete lines 10 - 17
    5  and insert:
    6         Section 1. Subsection (1) of section 810.08, Florida
    7  Statutes, is amended to read:
    8         810.08 Trespass in structure or conveyance.—
    9         (1)(a) Whoever, without being authorized, licensed, or
   10  invited, willfully enters or remains in any structure or
   11  conveyance, or, having been authorized, licensed, or invited, is
   12  warned by the owner or lessee of the premises, or by a person
   13  authorized by the owner or lessee, to depart and refuses to do
   14  so, commits the offense of trespass in a structure or
   15  conveyance.
   16         (b) A law enforcement officer in receipt of an affidavit
   17  from an owner or a mortgagee of the property may remove a person
   18  who is in violation of this section.
   19         Section 2. Paragraph (c) is added to subsection (1) of
   20  section 810.09, Florida Statutes, to read:
   21         810.09 Trespass on property other than structure or
   22  conveyance.—
   23         (1)
   24         (c) A law enforcement officer in receipt of an affidavit
   25  from an owner or a mortgagee of the property may remove a person
   26  who is in violation of this section.
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   29         And the title is amended as follows:
   30         Delete lines 2 - 5
   31  and insert:
   32         An act relating to landlord and tenant; amending ss.
   33         810.08 and 810.09, F.S.; allowing a law enforcement
   34         officer to remove persons who trespass in a structure
   35         or conveyance or on property if the law enforcement
   36         officer receives an affidavit from an owner or
   37         mortgagee of the property; providing an