The Florida Senate

200.132  Municipal Financial Assistance Trust Fund; administration of grant program.--

(1)  The Department of Revenue shall administer a program of grants to municipalities within the amount appropriated each fiscal year for this purpose to the Municipal Financial Assistance Trust Fund. Each municipality which has qualified under the provisions of s. 218.23(1)(c) shall receive a pro rata distribution from the Municipal Financial Assistance Trust Fund created under s. 210.20(2)(a), to be distributed to the municipality in such proportion as the population of the municipality is to the total population of the other municipalities in the county qualified to receive distributions under this section. Counties which, under the constitution, exercise powers conferred by general law upon municipalities shall receive a share of that county's revenue in a ratio of the population of the unincorporated area of that county to the entire population of the county. Amounts distributed hereunder shall be considered general revenues of the municipality and shall be subject to expenditure for any public purpose. Payment shall be made monthly during each fiscal year. For the purposes of this section, "population" means the latest official state estimate of population certified pursuant to s. 186.901. If there is no such annual certification of population for any urban service district, the population of such district shall be estimated by using the most current available data.

(2)  Amounts deposited in the Municipal Financial Assistance Trust Fund are hereby appropriated exclusively for grants to municipalities as provided in subsection (1). No deduction from these amounts shall be made for the service charges provided in s. 215.20.

History.--ss. 3, 4, ch. 71-364; s. 60, ch. 73-333; s. 1, ch. 74-629; s. 1, ch. 77-174; s. 2, ch. 77-409; s. 39, ch. 79-164; s. 42, ch. 87-224; s. 78, ch. 90-132; s. 107, ch. 91-112.