Florida Statutes
Chapter 703 - Abstracts of Title
703.09 - Condemnation of Abstracts by County When Records Have Been Destroyed.

(1) The board shall determine, by an entry in its minutes, what abstracts, copies, minutes, extracts, maps, or plats so owned by any person or corporation it desires to acquire for the use of the public; and
(2) The board shall thereupon cause a petition in the name of such county to be presented to the judge of the circuit court of the circuit in which such county is situated, setting forth what abstracts, copies, minutes, extracts, maps, or plats, so made from such records, are required; giving the name of any person, persons, or corporation owning the same or in possession thereof; and praying that such abstracts, copies, minutes, extracts, maps, or plats, or copies thereof sworn to by the custodian thereof to be correct copies of the same, may be condemned and placed in the clerk’s office for the use of the public as part of the public records.
History.—s. 1, ch. 5414, 1905; RGS 3856; CGL 5763; s. 151, ch. 83-216.

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