2016 Florida Statutes
TITLE VI - CIVIL PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE
Chapter 47 - VENUE
47.071 - Jurisdiction over navigable waters.

FL Stat § 47.071 (2016) What's This?

47.071 Jurisdiction over navigable waters.—When the territorial jurisdiction of a court extends to one bank of any navigable water, such court has jurisdiction across such navigable water from shore to shore. If the territorial jurisdiction of different courts, whether of the same county or not, extends to the opposite bank of any navigable water, such courts have concurrent jurisdiction across said navigable water from shore to shore.

History.—RS 1002; GS 1387; RGS 2583; CGL 4223; s. 3, ch. 67-254.

Note.—Former s. 46.06.

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