Florida Senate - 2018                                     SB 378
       
       
        
       By Senator Steube
       
       
       
       
       
       23-00531-18                                            2018378__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to parking garages; creating ss.
    3         125.01075 and 166.0441, F.S.; prohibiting a county,
    4         municipality, or other local governmental entity from
    5         adopting or maintaining in effect an ordinance or a
    6         rule which has the effect of prohibiting a driver
    7         from, or authorizing the issuance of a citation to a
    8         driver for, back-in parking a motor vehicle in a
    9         parking space located in a parking garage; providing
   10         that any such ordinance or rule in effect on a
   11         specified date is void; defining the term “back-in
   12         parking”; providing an effective date.
   13          
   14  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   16         Section 1. Section 125.01075, Florida Statutes, is created
   17  to read:
   18         125.01075 Ordinances and rules relating to parking
   19  garages.—
   20         (1) A county or other local governmental entity may not
   21  adopt or maintain in effect an ordinance or a rule which has the
   22  effect of prohibiting a driver from, or authorizing the issuance
   23  of a citation to a driver for, back-in parking a motor vehicle
   24  in a parking space located in a parking garage. Any such
   25  ordinance or rule in effect on July 1, 2018, is void.
   26         (2) For purposes of this section, the term “back-in
   27  parking” means a driver reverses a motor vehicle into a parking
   28  space or parks the vehicle in such a manner that the front of
   29  the vehicle is at the entrance of the parking space and the rear
   30  of the vehicle is at the end of the parking space.
   31         Section 2. Section 166.0441, Florida Statutes, is created
   32  to read:
   33         166.0441 Ordinances and rules relating to parking garages.—
   34         (1) A municipality or other local governmental entity may
   35  not adopt or maintain in effect an ordinance or a rule which has
   36  the effect of prohibiting a driver from, or authorizing the
   37  issuance of a citation to a driver for, back-in parking a motor
   38  vehicle in a parking space located in a parking garage. Any such
   39  ordinance or rule in effect on July 1, 2018, is void.
   40         (2) For purposes of this section, the term “back-in
   41  parking” has the same meaning as provided in s. 125.01075(2).
   42         Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2018.