Florida Statutes Title XLVII Chapter 933 - Search And Inspection Warrants

• 933.01 - Persons Competent To Issue Search Warrant.
  A search warrant authorized by law may be issued by any judge, including the committing judge of the trial court having jurisdiction where the place,...
• 933.02 - Grounds For Issuance Of Search Warrant.
  Upon proper affidavits being made, a search warrant may be issued under the provisions of this chapter upon any of the following grounds:(1) When the property...
• 933.03 - Destruction Of Obscene Prints And Literature.
  All obscene prints and literature, or other things mentioned in s. 847.011 found by an officer in executing a search warrant, or produced or brought...
• 933.04 - Affidavits.
  The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects against unreasonable seizures and searches shall not be violated and...
• 933.05 - Issuance In Blank Prohibited.
  A search warrant cannot be issued except upon probable cause supported by affidavit or affidavits, naming or describing the person, place, or thing to be...
• 933.06 - Sworn Application Required Before Issuance.
  The judge must, before issuing the warrant, have the application of some person for said warrant duly sworn to and subscribed, and may receive further...
• 933.07 - Issuance Of Search Warrants.
  (1) The judge, upon examination of the application and proofs submitted, if satisfied that probable cause exists for the issuing of the search warrant, shall thereupon...
• 933.08 - Search Warrants To Be Served By Officers Mentioned Therein.
  The search warrant shall in all cases be served by any of the officers mentioned in its direction, but by no other person except in...
• 933.09 - Officer May Break Open Door, Etc., To Execute Warrant.
  The officer may break open any outer door, inner door or window of a house, or any part of a house or anything therein, to...
• 933.10 - Execution Of Search Warrant During Day Or Night.
  A search warrant issued under this chapter may, if expressly authorized in such warrant by the judge, be executed by being served either in the...
• 933.101 - Service On Sunday.
  A search warrant may be executed by being served on Sunday, if expressly authorized in such warrant by the judge.History.—s. 1, ch. 57-289; s. 39,...
• 933.11 - Duplicate To Be Delivered When Warrant Served.
  All search warrants shall be issued in duplicate. The duplicate shall be delivered to the officer with the original warrant, and when the officer serves...
• 933.12 - Return And Inventory.
  Upon the return of the warrant the officer shall attach thereto or thereon a true inventory of the property taken under the warrant, and at...
• 933.13 - Copy Of Inventory Shall Be Delivered Upon Request.
  The judge to whom the warrant is returned, upon the request of any claimant or any person from whom said property is taken, or the...
• 933.14 - Return Of Property Taken Under Search Warrant.
  (1) If it appears to the judge before whom the warrant is returned that the property or papers taken are not the same as that described...
• 933.15 - Obstruction Of Service Or Execution Of Search Warrant; Penalty.
  Whoever shall knowingly and willfully obstruct, resist, or oppose any officer or person aiding such officer, in serving or attempting to serve or execute any...
• 933.16 - Maliciously Procuring Search Warrant To Be Issued; Penalty.
  Any person who maliciously and without probable cause procures a search warrant to be issued and executed shall be guilty of a misdemeanor of the...
• 933.17 - Exceeding Authority In Executing Search Warrant; Penalty.
  Any officer who in executing a search warrant willfully exceeds his or her authority or exercises it with unnecessary severity, shall be guilty of a...
• 933.18 - When Warrant May Be Issued For Search Of Private Dwelling.
  No search warrant shall issue under this chapter or under any other law of this state to search any private dwelling occupied as such unless:(1) It...
• 933.19 - Searches And Seizures Of Vehicles Carrying Contraband Or Illegal Intoxicating Liquors Or Merchandise.
  (1) The provisions of the opinion rendered by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 2, 1925, in that certain cause wherein George Carroll...
• 933.20 - “inspection Warrant”; Definition.
  As used in ss. 933.20-933.30, “inspection warrant” means an order in writing, in the name of the people, signed by a person competent to issue...
• 933.21 - Requirements For Issuance Of Inspection Warrant.
  An inspection warrant shall be issued only upon cause, supported by affidavit, particularly describing the place, dwelling, structure, or premises to be inspected and the...
• 933.22 - When Cause Deemed To Exist.
  Cause shall be deemed to exist if reasonable legislative or administrative standards for conducting a routine or area inspection are satisfied with respect to the...
• 933.23 - Examination Of Applicant For Inspection Warrant.
  Before issuing an inspection warrant, the judge shall examine on oath the applicant and any other witness and shall satisfy himself or herself of the...
• 933.24 - Issuance Of Inspection Warrant; Contents.
  If the judge is satisfied that cause for the inspection exists, he or she may issue the warrant particularly describing the place, dwelling, structure, or...
• 933.25 - Duration Of Inspection Warrant.
  An inspection warrant shall be effective for the time specified therein, but not for a period of more than 14 days unless it is extended...
• 933.26 - Conduct Of Inspection; Notice.
  An inspection pursuant to a warrant shall not be made between 6 p.m. of any day and 8 a.m. of the succeeding day; on Saturday,...
• 933.27 - Refusal To Permit Authorized Inspection; Penalty.
  Any person who willfully refuses to permit an inspection authorized by a warrant issued pursuant to this act is guilty of a misdemeanor of the...
• 933.28 - Maliciously Causing Issuance Of Inspection Warrant; Penalty.
  Any person who maliciously, or with knowledge that cause to issue an inspection warrant does not exist, causes the issuance of an inspection warrant by...
• 933.29 - Powers Of State Agency Not Restricted.
  Nothing contained herein shall be construed to restrict the powers granted by general law to an agency of the state, or to a unit of...
• 933.30 - Inspector; Restrictions On Giving Information, Testifying, Etc.
  A person performing an inspection pursuant to the authority of this act shall not give information as a confidential informer, testify as a witness, or...
• 933.40 - Agriculture Warrants.
  (1) As used in this section:(a) “Agriculture warrant” means an order in writing, in the name of the people, signed by a person competent to issue search...

Last modified: September 23, 2016