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§47.091 FS | CHANGE OF VENUE; POWER TO GRANT

All courts have power and it is their duty to grant changes of venue as hereinafter provided. The order of transfer shall require the movant or, if the action was initially filed in the improper venue, the initially filing party to pay the filing fee required to file a new action in the court to which the action is moved. The payment of such filing fee shall be considered a transfer fee.
(History.—s. 1, ch. 373, 1851; RS 1077; GS 1469; RGS 2668; CGL 4335; s. 3, ch. 67-254; s. 1, ch. 89-84.) (Note.—Former s. 53.01.)