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Title V
JUDICIAL BRANCH
Chapter 38
Judges: General Provisions
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Section 38.05, Florida Statutes 2000

38.05  Disqualification of judge on own motion.--Any judge may of his or her own motion disqualify himself or herself where, to the judge's own knowledge, any of the grounds for a suggestion of disqualification, as named in s. 38.02, exist. The failure of a judge to so disqualify himself or herself under this section shall not be assignable as error or subject to review.

History.--s. 6, ch. 16053, 1933; CGL 1936 Supp. 4155(5); s. 6, ch. 63-559; s. 209, ch. 95-147.