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The 2023 Florida Statutes (including Special Session C)

Title XLVII
CRIMINAL PROCEDURE AND CORRECTIONS
Chapter 903
BAIL
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F.S. 903.14
903.14 Contracts to indemnify sureties.
(1) A surety shall file with the bond an affidavit stating the amount and source of any security or consideration which the surety or anyone for his or her use has received or been promised for the bond. The affidavit may be filed in person or electronically.
(2) A surety may maintain an action against the indemnitor only on agreements set forth in the affidavit. In an action by the indemnitor to recover security or collateral, the surety shall have the right to retain only the security or collateral stated in the affidavit.
(3) A limited surety or licensed bond agent may file a statement in lieu of the affidavit required in subsection (1). Such statement must be filed within 30 days from the execution of the undertaking.
History.s. 57, ch. 19554, 1939; CGL 1940 Supp. 8663(57); s. 1, ch. 65-492; s. 1, ch. 69-151; s. 25, ch. 70-339; s. 1479, ch. 97-102; s. 6, ch. 2013-192.

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Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 903.14
Level: Degree
Misdemeanor/Felony: First/Second/Third

Current data shows no reason an arrest or criminal charge should have occurred directly under Florida Statute 903.14.



Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

Cases from cite.case.law:

ALLIED FIDELITY INSURANCE COMPANY, INC. v. V. GREEN,, 511 So. 2d 439 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1987)

. . . foreclosure count, finding appellant failed to include any pleading that an affidavit under section 903.14 . . . Florida, had been executed in Florida and was therefore subject to the laws of Florida, including section 903.14 . . . Under section 903.14, Florida Statutes, where a contract is entered into to indemnify a bail bond surety . . . The filing provisions of section 903.14 are merely a procedural aspect attaching to indemnification agreements . . . The trial court erred in dismissing the complaint because appellant had failed to comply with section 903.14 . . .

UNITED STATES, v. CITY OF FULTON, 9 Cl. Ct. 1422 (Fed. Cir. 1986)

. . . . § 903.14. . . .

UNITED STATES v. CITY OF FULTON, 475 U.S. 657 (U.S. 1986)

. . . . § 903.14. . . .

C. EWING, El a v. P. KAPLAN, D. a k a A- a d b a A- R. a a, 474 So. 2d 302 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1985)

. . . We agree with the conclusions below that the provision of section 903.14(3), Florida Statutes (1981) . . . The entire statute is as follows: 903.14 Contracts to indemnify sureties.— (1) A surety shall file with . . .

S. BOYD W. v. BRETT- MAJOR, 449 So. 2d 952 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1984)

. . . The bonding company failed to file an affidavit as required by Section 903.14, Florida Statutes (1983 . . . event, the attorney-filed an answer in the foreclosure action, .but failed to adequately plead Section 903.14 . . .

S. BOYD W. v. INTERNATIONAL FIDELITY INSURANCE COMPANY, a, 412 So. 2d 944 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1982)

. . . judgment was error because the bonding company failed to file the full statement required by section 903.14 . . . had been entered because appellants’ new counsel wished to raise the lack of compliance with section 903.14 . . . motion for rehearing by furnishing the court with the statement alleged to be violative of section 903.14 . . . Incomplete compliance with section 903.14 does not defeat the court’s jurisdiction; the defense of failure . . . Affirmed. . 903.14 Contracts to indemnify surities.— (1) A surety shall file with the bond an affidavit . . . In such cases, compliance with Section 903.14, Florida Statutes (1979) is a necessary prerequisite to . . . surety the ability to maintain an action against an indemnitor in a bail bond case, as found in Section 903.14 . . . to dismiss the complaint with leave to amend the complaint so as to allege compliance with Section 903.14 . . .

PUGH v. RAINWATER, 557 F.2d 1189 (5th Cir. 1977)

. . . . § 903.14. . . . .

BAILEY J. J. v. STATE, 282 So. 2d 32 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1973)

. . . from forfeiture since he did not disclose his interest as indemnitor in the bond as required by F.S. 903.14 . . .

UNITED BONDING INSURANCE COMPANY, v. J. TUGGLE, 216 So. 2d 80 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1968)

. . . The case involves the construction of Section 903.14, Florida Statutes, F.S.A., which reads in material . . . Three other states, Illinois, Indiana, and New York, have statutes similar to our § 903.14, but they . . . Section 903.14 begins by saying “Every surety for the release of any person on bail, shall file with . . . Section 903.14 is imperative, not discretionary. . . . There is a second and deeper reason for construing § 903.14 in a mandatory fashion. . . .