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¹265.701  Cultural facilities; grants for acquisition, renovation, or construction; funding; approval; allocation.--

(1)  The Division of Cultural Affairs may accept and administer moneys appropriated to it for providing grants to counties, municipalities, and qualifying nonprofit corporations for the acquisition, renovation, or construction of cultural facilities.

(2)  A county, municipality, or qualified corporation may apply for a grant of state funds for the acquisition, renovation, or construction of a cultural facility. For the purposes of this section, a "qualified corporation" is a corporation which is designated a not-for-profit corporation pursuant to s. 501(c)(3) or (4) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, and which is described in, and allowed to receive contributions pursuant to the provisions of, s. 170 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, and which is a corporation not for profit incorporated pursuant to chapter 617. The state grant must be matched by a contribution from the county, municipality, or nonprofit corporation in an amount to be determined by the Department of State.

(3)  The Florida Arts Council shall review each application for a grant to acquire, renovate, or construct a cultural facility which is submitted pursuant to subsection (2) and shall submit annually to the Secretary of State for approval lists of all applications that are recommended by the council for the award of grants, arranged in order of priority. The division may allocate grants only for projects that are approved or for which funds are appropriated by the Legislature. Projects approved and recommended by the Secretary of State which are not funded by the Legislature shall be retained on the project list for the following grant cycle only. All projects that are retained shall be required to submit such information as may be required by the department as of the established deadline date of the latest grant cycle in order to adequately reflect the most current status of the project.

(4)  The Division of Cultural Affairs shall adopt rules prescribing the criteria to be applied by the Florida Arts Council in recommending applications for the award of grants and rules providing for the administration of the other provisions of this section.

History.--s. 7, ch. 88-137; ss. 11, 13, ch. 90-267; s. 5, ch. 91-429.

¹Note.--Section 57, ch. 2004-269, amended s. 11, ch. 2003-401, "[i]n order to implement Specific Appropriation 2871AU of the 2004-2005 General Appropriations Act," to read:

"Section 11.  A project that is ranked but not funded for the fiscal year 2003-2004 grant cycle under the Department of State's Historical Facilities Special Category Fixed Capital Outlay Grants Program, Cultural Facilities Fixed Capital Outlay Grants Program, or Regional Cultural Facilities Grants Program shall, if it continues to meet applicable criteria for the grant program for which it is ranked, maintain its relative ranking for the fiscal year 2004-2005 grant cycle and shall receive priority ranking over new projects applying for the fiscal year 2004-2005 grant cycle. A project that is ranked but not funded for the fiscal year 2003-2004 grant cycle under the Department of State's Library Construction Fixed Capital Outlay Grants Program shall, if it continues to meet applicable criteria for the grant program for which it is ranked, and notwithstanding the requirements of Chapter 1B-2, Florida Administrative Code, be carried forward as the 2003-2004 list of ranked projects recommended to the 2004 Legislature along with the 2004-2005 list of ranked projects submitted by the department. Each list may be considered separately for funding by the 2004 Legislature."