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1997 Florida Code
TITLE XII MUNICIPALITIES
Chapter 177 Land Boundaries  
PART I PLATTING (ss. 177.011-177.151)
177.041   Title certification.

177.041  Title certification.--Every plat of a subdivision submitted to the approving agency of the local governing body must be accompanied by a title opinion of an attorney at law licensed in Florida or a certification by an abstractor or a title company showing that record title to the land as described and shown on the plat is in the name of the person, persons, corporation, or entity executing the dedication, if any, as it is shown on the plat and, if the plat does not contain a dedication, that the developer has record title to the land. The title opinion or certification shall also show all mortgages not satisfied or released of record nor otherwise terminated by law.

History.--s. 1, ch. 71-339; s. 1, ch. 72-77; s. 1, ch. 88-48.

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