Duval County Clerk Office consists of the following 4 Departments: Finance & Accounting, Human Resources, Systems Management, Recording, and Tax Deeds. As the official recorder of all instruments the Clerk of the Circuit Court is required to record all instruments in one general series of books called the "Official Records." The Clerk must keep a register in which are entered the names of the parties to the instrument, the kind of instrument, the filing number of the instrument, and the date and time of filing.

The Clerk As recorder, the Clerk maintains a variety of instruments as official documents. Examples of these instruments are: deeds, leases, bills of sale, agreements, mortgages, judgments, claims of lien, satisfactions, certificates of discharge, from military service, and any other instrument required or authorized by law to be recorded. As a government of Chapter 197 of the Florida Statutes, The Clerk of the Circuit Court is responsible for conducting Tax Deed Sales and issuing a Tax Deed from the City of Jacksonville/County of Duval to the successful high bidder at a sale.