Florida Statutes Title XLVI Chapter 839 - Offenses By Public Officers And Employees

• 839.04 - County Officers Not To Speculate In County Warrants Or Certificates.
  Any county court judge, clerk of the circuit court, sheriff, tax collector, property appraiser or their deputies, county commissioner, school board members, superintendent of schools,...
• 839.05 - Municipal Officers Not To Speculate In Municipal Scrip.
  Any mayor, marshal, treasurer, clerk, tax collector or other officer of any incorporated city or town, or any deputy of such officer, who buys up...
• 839.06 - Collectors Not To Deal In Warrants, Etc.; Removal.
  No tax collector of any county shall, either directly or indirectly, purchase or receive in exchange any Chief Financial Officer’s or the former Comptroller’s warrants,...
• 839.11 - Extortion By Officers Of The State.
  Any officer of this state who willfully charges, receives, or collects any greater fees or services than the officer is entitled to charge, receive, or...
• 839.12 - Officer Failing To Keep Record Of Costs.
  If any clerk of a court, sheriff, or county court judge neglects or refuses to keep a record book of the costs which she or...
• 839.13 - Falsifying Records.
  (1) Except as provided in subsection (2), if any judge, justice, mayor, alderman, clerk, sheriff, coroner, or other public officer, or employee or agent of or...
• 839.14 - Officer Withholding Records From Successor.
  If any officer, after the expiration of the time for which she or he may have been appointed or elected, or in case of death,...
• 839.15 - Judicial Officer Withholding Records.
  Any justice of the Supreme Court or judge of the circuit court who, upon resignation or on being impeached, fails to file all papers and...
• 839.16 - Fraud Of Clerk In Drawing Jury.
  If the clerk of any court shall be guilty of any fraud, either by practicing on a jury box previous to a draft, or in...
• 839.17 - Misappropriation Of Moneys By Commissioners To Make Sales.
  Any commissioner or general or special magistrate, having received the purchase money or the securities resulting from any of the sales authorized by law, who...
• 839.18 - Penalty For Officer Assuming To Act Before Qualification.
  Whoever being elected, or appointed, to any office assumes to perform any of the duties thereof before qualification, according to law, shall be guilty of...
• 839.19 - Failure To Execute Process Generally.
  Any sheriff or other officer authorized to execute process, who willfully or corruptly refuses or neglects to execute and return, according to law, any process...
• 839.20 - Refusal To Execute Criminal Process.
  If any officer authorized to serve process, willfully and corruptly refuses to execute any lawful process to him or her directed and requiring him or...
• 839.21 - Refusal To Receive Prisoner.
  Any jailer or other officer, who willfully refuses to receive into the jail or into her or his custody a prisoner lawfully directed to be...
• 839.23 - Officer Taking Insufficient Bail.
  An official who takes bail which the official knows is not sufficient, accepts a surety she or he knows does not have the qualifications required...
• 839.24 - Penalty For Failure To Perform Duty Required Of Officer.
  A sheriff, county court judge, prosecuting officer, court reporter, stenographer, interpreter, or other officer required to perform any duty under the criminal procedure law who...
• 839.26 - Misuse Of Confidential Information.
  Any public servant who, in contemplation of official action by herself or himself or by a governmental unit with which the public servant is associated,...
• 839.27 - Restitution And Community Service.
  A person who is convicted of any offense in this chapter shall be ordered by the sentencing judge to make restitution to the victim of...

Last modified: September 23, 2016