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2013 Florida Statutes
TITLE XLVI - CRIMES
Chapter 836 - DEFAMATION; LIBEL; THREATENING LETTERS AND SIMILAR OFFENSES
836.07 - Notice condition precedent to prosecution for libel.


FL Stat § 836.07 (2013) What's This?

836.07 Notice condition precedent to prosecution for libel.—Before any criminal action is brought for publication, in a newspaper periodical, of a libel, the prosecutor shall at least 5 days before instituting such action serve notice in writing on defendant, specifying the article and the statements therein which he or she alleges to be false and defamatory.

History.—s. 1, ch. 16070, 1933; CGL 1936 Supp. 7064(1); s. 1308, ch. 97-102.

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