The Florida Senate

¹88.171  State information agency.--

(1)  The Department of Revenue is hereby designated as the state information agency under this act, and it shall:

(a)  Compile a list of the courts and their addresses in this state having jurisdiction under this act and transmit it to the state information agency of every other state which has adopted this or a substantially similar act. Upon the adjournment of each session of the Legislature, the agency shall distribute copies of any amendments to the act and a statement of the effective dates thereof to all other state information agencies.

(b)  Maintain a register of lists of courts received from other states and transmit copies thereof promptly to every court in this state having jurisdiction under this act.

(c)  Forward to the court in this state which has jurisdiction over the respondent or the respondent's property motions, certificates, and copies of the acts it receives from courts or information agencies of other states.

(2)  If the state information agency does not know the location of the respondent or the respondent's property in the state and no state location service is available, it shall use all means at its disposal to obtain this information, including the examination of official records in the state and other sources, such as telephone directories, real property records, vital statistics records, police records, requests for the name and address from employers who are able or willing to cooperate, records of motor vehicle license offices, requests made to the tax offices, both state and federal, when such offices are able to cooperate, and requests made to the Social Security Administration as permitted by the Social Security Act as amended.

(3)  The depository established pursuant to s. 61.181 shall disburse collections made but not disbursed due to nonreceipt of a court order if the state information agency provides an affidavit to the depository certifying the payment destination.

History.--s. 17, ch. 29901, 1955; s. 1, ch. 65-208; ss. 11, 35, ch. 69-106; s. 18, ch. 79-383; s. 6, ch. 89-183; s. 11, ch. 94-124; s. 1377, ch. 95-147; s. 10, ch. 96-189.

¹Note.--Repealed July 1, 1997, by s. 10, ch. 96-189.