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Title XLVI
CRIMES
Chapter 832
VIOLATIONS INVOLVING CHECKS AND DRAFTS
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F.S. 832.09
832.09 Suspension of driver license after warrant or capias is issued in worthless check case.
(1) Any person who is being prosecuted for passing a worthless check in violation of s. 832.05, who fails to appear before the court and against whom a warrant or capias for failure to appear is issued by the court shall have his or her driver’s license suspended or revoked pursuant to s. 322.251.
(2) Within 5 working days after the issuance of a warrant or capias for failure to appear, the clerk of the court in the county where the warrant or capias is issued shall notify the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles by the most efficient method available of the action of the court.
History.s. 1, ch. 98-223.