Florida Senate - 2011                       CS for CS for SB 786
       
       
       
       By the Committees on Criminal Justice; and Judiciary; and
       Senators Diaz de la Portilla and Lynn
       
       
       
       591-04439-11                                           2011786c2
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to landlord and tenant; amending ss.
    3         810.08 and 810.09, F.S.; allowing a law enforcement
    4         officer to remove persons who trespass in a structure
    5         or conveyance or on property if the law enforcement
    6         officer receives an affidavit from an owner or
    7         mortgagee of the property; providing an effective
    8         date.
    9  
   10  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   12         Section 1. Subsection (1) of section 810.08, Florida
   13  Statutes, is amended to read:
   14         810.08 Trespass in structure or conveyance.—
   15         (1)(a) Whoever, without being authorized, licensed, or
   16  invited, willfully enters or remains in any structure or
   17  conveyance, or, having been authorized, licensed, or invited, is
   18  warned by the owner or lessee of the premises, or by a person
   19  authorized by the owner or lessee, to depart and refuses to do
   20  so, commits the offense of trespass in a structure or
   21  conveyance.
   22         (b) A law enforcement officer in receipt of an affidavit
   23  from an owner or a mortgagee of the property may remove a person
   24  who is in violation of this section.
   25         Section 2. Paragraph (c) is added to subsection (1) of
   26  section 810.09, Florida Statutes, to read:
   27         810.09 Trespass on property other than structure or
   28  conveyance.—
   29         (1)
   30         (c) A law enforcement officer in receipt of an affidavit
   31  from an owner or a mortgagee of the property may remove a person
   32  who is in violation of this section.
   33         Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2011.