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| 3 | 3 | | HB 1083 2022 |
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| 7 | 7 | | CODING: Words stricken are deletions; words underlined are additions. |
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| 10 | 10 | | F L O R I D A H O U S E O F R E P R E S E N T A T I V E S |
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| 14 | 14 | | A bill to be entitled 1 |
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| 15 | 15 | | An act relating to citizen arrests; creating s. 2 |
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| 16 | 16 | | 901.001, F.S.; abrogating the common law and 3 |
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| 17 | 17 | | prohibiting citizen arrests; providing an exception 4 |
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| 18 | 18 | | for law enforcement officers acting outside of their 5 |
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| 19 | 19 | | jurisdictions; providing an effective date. 6 |
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| 21 | 21 | | Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 8 |
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| 23 | 23 | | Section 1. Section 901.001, Florida Statutes, is created 10 |
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| 24 | 24 | | to read: 11 |
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| 25 | 25 | | 901.001 Citizen's arrest. — 12 |
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| 26 | 26 | | (1) It is the intent of the Legislature to abrogate any 13 |
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| 27 | 27 | | common law remedy of citizen's arrest. A private person who is 14 |
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| 28 | 28 | | not a law enforcement officer, as defined in s. 943.10(1), may 15 |
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| 29 | 29 | | not arrest another person for a violation of the laws of the 16 |
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| 30 | 30 | | state. 17 |
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| 31 | 31 | | (2) This section does not apply to a person who is a law 18 |
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| 32 | 32 | | enforcement officer, as defined in s. 943.10(1), who is acting 19 |
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| 33 | 33 | | outside of his or her jurisdiction. Such an officer may arrest a 20 |
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| 34 | 34 | | person who commits a felony in his or her presence or arrest a 21 |
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| 35 | 35 | | person when a felony has been committed and when the arresting 22 |
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| 36 | 36 | | officer has probable cause to believe, and does believe, that 23 |
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| 37 | 37 | | the person arrested committed the felony. 24 |
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| 38 | 38 | | Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2022. 25 |
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