- Archives general correspondence
Use this service for general correspondence to the City of Tampa Archives, your research center for the history and development of the municipal government of the City of Tampa.
- Cemetery Inquiries general correspondence
Use this service to contact the Cemetery clerk with questions or corrections about City owned cemeteries.
- City Archives
The City Archivist, working with USF, has made early city records available online. Included are several of the original hand written, official minutes books of the City of Tampa, West Tampa, and Fort Brooke. Contained within these documents are discussions that led to the construction of the earliest governments of Tampa.
- City Charter and Ordinances (Municipal Code Corp)
Tampa's municipal codes are published by the Municipal Code Corporation.
- City Clerk
The City Clerk's Office is responsible for recording City Council meetings; preparing City Council agendas; indexing local laws, ordinances, resolutions, agreements, and deeds; updating and distributing supplements to the City Code; and maintaining current appointments to City boards and committees, City and State financial disclosure statements and executive orders recording of official documents with appropriate agencies, and indexing of City cemetery burials.
- City Clerk general correspondence
Use this service for general correspondence to the City Clerk.
The proceedings of every City Council meeting are recorded by the Documentation of City Records Division of the City Clerk's Office. This Division is also responsible for preparing City Council agendas; indexing local laws, ordinances, resolutions, agreements, and deeds; updating and distributing supplements to the City Code; and maintaining current appointments to City boards and committees, City and State financial disclosure statements and executive orders. The publication of legal notices, recording of official documents with appropriate agencies, and indexing of City cemetery burials is also the responsibility of this division.
- Criminal History and Background Checks (Florida Dept of Law Enforcement)
Obtain Criminal History Information
through the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.
- Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles Public Records (State of Florida)
Information from the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles databases is electronically available.
- Marriage Licenses (Hillsborough County Clerk of the Circuit Court)
The Hillsborough County Clerk of the Circuit Court acts as an agent for the State of Florida for issuing licenses per Florida Statute 741.
- Ordinances, Official Agendas and Meeting Minutes, other current city records
Use this service to request copies of Ordinances, Meeting Minutes, or other current city records from the City Clerk's office.
Historical records should be requested from the Archivist.
- Other Public Records (The Records Project)
A reference resource to various state and county maintained records, including court records, birth, death, marriage, divorce and genealogy records.
- Public Records Search (Hillsborough County Clerk of the Circuit Court)
The Clerk of the Circuit Court of Hillsborough County provides an Index of the Official Records of Hillsborough County, Florida. The Index is a guide to the information contained within the records referenced in an underlying public document.
- Statewide Official Records (State of Florida)
Official Records search and document ordering function is a service of Florida's Clerks of Court.
Official Records are defined (s. 28.001, F.S.) as those instruments (documents) required or authorized to be recorded in one general series called "Official Records" at the county level.
Searches may be made by specific county, judicial circuit, region or statewide.
- Vital Records - Birth, Death, Divorce, Marriage (State of Florida Dept of Health)
Vital Statistics consists of official records of birth, death, marriage, and dissolution of marriage. These records are essential for just administration of our law and for the protection of individual rights. In addition, the statistical data from these records are of great value to public health and other agencies.
