The Florida Senate

331.316  Rates, fees, rentals, tolls, fares, and charges; procedure for adoption and modification; minimum revenue requirements.--

(1)  To recover the costs of the spaceport facility or system, the authority shall have the power to prescribe, fix, establish, and collect rates, fees, rentals, tolls, fares, or other charges (hereinafter referred to as "revenues"), and to revise the same from time to time, for the facilities and services furnished or to be furnished by the authority and the spaceport, including, but not limited to, launch pads, ranges, payload assembly and processing facilities, visitor and tourist facilities, transportation facilities, and parking and other related facilities, and shall have the power to provide for reasonable penalties against any user or property for any such rates, fees, rentals, tolls, fares, or other charges that are delinquent.

(2)  The board shall have the power to enter into contracts for the use of the projects of the authority and for the services and facilities furnished or to be furnished by the authority, including, but not limited to, launch services, payload assembly and processing, and other space-related services, for such consideration and on such other terms and conditions as the board may approve. Such contracts, and revenues or service charges received or to be received by the authority thereunder, may be pledged as security for any of the bonds of the authority.

History.--ss. 16, 61, ch. 89-300; ss. 7, 8, ch. 90-192.