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The 2000 Florida Statutes

Title VI
CIVIL PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE
Chapter 48
Process And Service Of Process
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Section 48.121, Florida Statutes 2000

48.121  Service on the state.--When the state has consented to be sued, process against the state shall be served on the state attorney or an assistant state attorney for the judicial circuit within which the action is brought and by sending two copies of the process by registered or certified mail to the Attorney General. The state may serve motions or pleadings within 40 days after service is made.

History.--s. 2, ch. 29724, 1955; s. 4, ch. 67-254.

Note.--Former s. 69.18.