Senate Bill sb1350c2

    Florida Senate - 2003                    CS for CS for SB 1350

    By the Committees on Comprehensive Planning; Criminal Justice;
    and Senator Bennett




    316-2473-03

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to civil penalties; amending s.

  3         318.21, F.S.; requiring the use of civil

  4         penalties to fund local law enforcement

  5         automation under certain circumstances;

  6         providing applicability; providing an effective

  7         date.

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  9  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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11         Section 1.  Subsection (9) of section 318.21, Florida

12  Statutes, is amended to read:

13         318.21  Disposition of civil penalties by county

14  courts.--All civil penalties received by a county court

15  pursuant to the provisions of this chapter shall be

16  distributed and paid monthly as follows:

17         (9)  Twelve dollars and fifty cents from each moving

18  traffic violation must be used by the county to fund that

19  county's participation in an intergovernmental radio

20  communication program approved by the Department of Management

21  Services. If the county is not participating in such a

22  program, funds collected must be used to fund local law

23  enforcement automation or law enforcement communications and

24  must be distributed to the municipality or special improvement

25  district in which the violation occurred or to the county if

26  the violation occurred within the unincorporated area of the

27  county. If a municipality within the county maintains an

28  independent 800 megahertz radio communication program that can

29  achieve interoperable communication with the county's system,

30  funds collected from violations that occur within the

31  territorial jurisdiction of that municipality must be used to

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    Florida Senate - 2003                    CS for CS for SB 1350
    316-2473-03




 1  fund local law enforcement automation or law enforcement

 2  communications and must be distributed to that municipality.

 3         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2003,

 4  but shall not apply to any interlocal agreement between a

 5  municipality and a county concerning these funds which is in

 6  effect on March 4, 2003.

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 8          STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
                       COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
 9                            CS/SB 1350

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11  The committee substitute provides that a municipality
    maintaining an independent radio communication program that
12  can achieve interoperable communication with the county's
    system will receive certain civil traffic penalties to be used
13  for specific purposes.

14  This committee substitute provides the bill is not applicable
    to any interlocal agreement between a municipality and a
15  county concerning these funds which is in effect on March 4,
    2003.
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