What this PDF is
A blank Florida Notice to Owner, letter size, ready to print. The words on it are the words of Fla. Stat. §713.06(2)(c): the three capitalized warning sentences, the NOTICE TO OWNER heading, the sentence that tells the owner what you are furnishing, the sentence that names the statute, the IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR YOUR PROTECTION block, the signature lines and the copies line. Where the statute prints a placeholder such as (Owner's name and address), the PDF prints a blank beside it.
PDF · the §713.06(2)(c) text as enacted · free, no email required
Florida prescribes the text, not the typography. The statute introduces the form with one sentence:
The notice may be in substantially the following form and must include the information and the warning contained in the following form:
So the layout of this PDF is ours and the language is the Legislature's. An automated test compares every fixed line of the file against the statute text pinned from leg.state.fl.us, so the download cannot drift from the section it comes from. The line-by-line page explains what each block of that text is for; this page is about using the form.
How to fill in each blank
Six blanks. The first three identify the owner, the work and the property; the last three identify you and the people who get copies.
| Blank | What to write | Where it comes from |
|---|---|---|
| To (Owner's name and address) | The owner's full name and mailing address, exactly as recorded. | The recorded Notice of Commencement; if none, the building permit application (§713.06(2)(e)). |
| (General description of services or materials) | What you are furnishing, in plain words: "drywall labor and materials", "HVAC equipment and installation". | Your contract or purchase order. |
| (property description) | A description sufficient to identify the property: the street address, and the legal description or parcel number when you have it. | The Notice of Commencement, the permit, or the county property record. |
| under an order given by | The party you contracted with: the contractor for a subcontractor, the subcontractor for a sub-subcontractor or a supplier to one. | Your contract. |
| (Lienor's Signature), (Lienor's Name), (Lienor's Address) | Your signature, your business name, your mailing address. | You. |
| Copies to | Everyone who gets a copy for your role: the contractor, sometimes the subcontractor, anyone the owner designated in the Notice of Commencement, the lender when there is one. | §713.06(2)(a), (2)(b) and (2)(d); the who-receives page lists them by role. |
The tense the statute uses is "has furnished or is furnishing," so the form can be completed and served before the first delivery. Nothing in the pinned text asks for a notary.
Then sign it, copy it, and serve it
- Print one copy per recipient and sign each, or sign one and copy it; the statute does not require original signatures on the copies.
- Address an envelope to each recipient at the address the Notice of Commencement shows, or the permit application when there is no Notice of Commencement.
- Mail each by a method §713.18 allows and keep the evidence: the certified mail number and the USPS date stamp, or the USPS tracking record with the date USPS received the piece.
- Keep the signed notice, the addresses used and the receipts together. If a piece comes back, keep that too; §713.18(3) treats certain returned mail as served on the date of mailing.
What the printable form cannot do for you
A blank form solves the easiest part of the job. The three parts it does not touch are the ones that decide whether the notice counts.
The clock
The notice must be served before commencing, or not later than 45 days after commencing, to furnish his or her labor, services, or materials, but, in any event, before the date of the owner's disbursement of the final payment after the contractor has furnished the affidavit under subparagraph (3)(d)1.
However, a lienor must strictly comply with the time requirements of paragraph (a).
Forty-five days from the first day you furnished, and earlier if the owner's final payment comes first. The form does not know your first-furnishing date; the free calculator computes day 45 and the day-40 mail-by date from it.
The method
By common carrier delivery service or by registered, Global Express Guaranteed, or certified mail to the person to be served, with postage or shipping paid by the sender and with evidence of delivery, which may be in an electronic format.
That is §713.18(1)(b). First-class mail with no evidence of delivery is not on the list. Certified mail is the everyday choice because it also unlocks the effective-on-mailing rule in §713.18(2), which requires among other things that:
The notice is mailed within 40 days after the date the lienor first furnishes labor, services, or materials.
The proof
The same subsection says what records the sender must keep for the mailing to count as service on the mailing date. Either:
The person who served the notice maintains a mail log that shows the registered or certified mail number issued by the United States Postal Service, the name and address of the person served, and the date stamp of the United States Postal Service confirming the date of mailing;
or:
The person who served the notice maintains tracking records approved or generated by the United States Postal Service containing the postal tracking number and verification of the date of receipt by the United States Postal Service.
A form printed at home has no tracking number attached to it. The proof is a separate thing you build at the post office and keep, possibly for years. The how-to-send page goes through §713.18 subsection by subsection.
Or let NoticeSent fill it, mail it and track it
The service is the same form with the three missing parts done. The wizard asks for the facts in the six blanks, prints the notice with the warning and the protection block exactly as enacted and the citations on the page, and certified-mails it to every recipient the statute names for your role, with no per-recipient charge. The tracking number for each piece is captured at submission and kept with the document and a timestamped record on a permanent archive page, which is the §713.18(2) tracking record in a form you can find later. One flat $39. It does not look up the owner for you and does not decide whether your position on the job requires a notice; you verify every name and address before paying.
Frequently asked
Is this the official State of Florida Notice to Owner form?
Florida does not issue a numbered state form for the Notice to Owner. Section 713.06(2)(c) prints the form inside the statute and says the notice may be in substantially the following form and must include the information and the warning contained in the following form. This PDF is that statutory text, laid out with blanks; the text is copied from the statute as published on leg.state.fl.us and checked against it by an automated test every time the site is built.
Is the Florida Notice to Owner PDF really free?
Yes. There is no email gate, no account and no watermark. It is a blank form; filling it in, identifying every recipient the statute names, mailing it by a method §713.18 allows and keeping the proof are your work when you use it on your own. NoticeSent's $39 service does those steps from your answers.
Can I send the printed form by certified mail myself?
Yes, and §713.18(1)(b) names certified mail as a permitted method. Send one to each recipient the statute requires for your role, keep the certified mail numbers with the USPS date stamp or the USPS tracking records, and mail within 40 days of first furnishing if you want service to be effective on the date of mailing under §713.18(2). Whether a particular recipient is required is a question of your role on the job; the who-receives page walks through each one.