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The 2023 Florida Statutes (including Special Session C)

Title VI
CIVIL PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE
Chapter 47
VENUE
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F.S. 47.025
47.025 Actions against contractors.Any venue provision in a contract for improvement to real property which requires legal action involving a resident contractor, subcontractor, sub-subcontractor, or materialman, as defined in 1part I of chapter 713, to be brought outside this state is void as a matter of public policy. To the extent that the venue provision in the contract is void under this section, any legal action arising out of that contract shall be brought only in this state in the county where the defendant resides, where the cause of action accrued, or where the property in litigation is located, unless, after the dispute arises, the parties stipulate to another venue.
History.s. 9, ch. 99-225; s. 1, ch. 99-386.
1Note.As created by s. 9, ch. 99-225. Section 47.025 was also created by s. 1, ch. 99-386, and that version cites to s. 713.01.

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Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 47.025
Level: Degree
Misdemeanor/Felony: First/Second/Third

Current data shows no reason an arrest or criminal charge should have occurred directly under Florida Statute 47.025.



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Cases from cite.case.law:

SACHSE CONSTRUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, a v. AFFIRMED DRYWALL, CORP. a a, 251 So. 3d 1005 (Fla. App. Ct. 2018)

. . . a contract dispute relating to the improvement of real property in Florida, in violation of section 47.025 . . . We reverse that order because if the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) applies, it preempts section 47.025 . . . Sachse argued to the trial court that the FAA preempts section 47.025. . . . The FAA and Preemption Section 47.025, entitled "Actions against contractors," provides as follows: Any . . . Bright, and LaSalle, support our determination that the FAA preempts section 47.025. . . .

PRESIDENTIAL HOSPITALITY, LLC, a a v. WYNDHAM HOTEL GROUP, LLC, a a a, 333 F. Supp. 3d 1179 (D.N.M. 2018)

. . . . § 47.025 ] apparently resulted from the lobbying of the contracting community increasingly opposed . . . Stat. § 47.025 (passed in 1999); 815 Ill. Comp. Stat. 665/10 (passed in 2002); Neb. Rev. . . .

SAI INSURANCE AGENCY, INC. a d b a v. APPLIED SYSTEMS, INC., 858 So. 2d 401 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2003)

. . . See § 47.025, Fla. Stat. (1999). . . .

KERR CONSTRUCTION, INC. v. PETERS CONTRACTING, INC., 767 So. 2d 610 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2000)

. . . Kerr argued that section 47.025, Florida Statutes (1999), which became effective on October 1, 1999, . . . The next issue we must resolve is whether section 47.025, Florida Statutes (1999) applies retrospectively . . . In applying the above rules of construction to section 47.025, we note that section 47.025 provides that . . . Having concluded that section 47.025 is procedural and that procedural statutes apply retroactively, . . . This is not a valid argument because section 47.025 does not apply to that provision in the subcontract . . .