Senate Bill 1046

    Florida Senate - 1998                                  SB 1046

    By Senator Bronson





    18-990B-98

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to rulemaking authority with

  3         respect to the regulation of the citrus

  4         industry; creating s. 601.9918, F.S.;

  5         authorizing the Florida Citrus Commission to

  6         refer to national or state requirements in

  7         rules relating to issuance and use of symbols,

  8         certification marks, service marks, and

  9         trademarks; amending s. 601.10, F.S.;

10         authorizing the Department of Citrus to adopt a

11         rule listing forms to be used in conducting its

12         business; providing an effective date.

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

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16         Section 1.  Section 601.9918, Florida Statutes, is

17  created to read:

18         601.9918  Rules related to issuance and use of

19  symbols.--In rules related to the issuance and voluntary use

20  of symbols, certification marks, service marks, or trademarks,

21  the commission may make general references to national or

22  state requirements that the license applicant would be

23  compelled to meet regardless of the department's issuance of

24  the license applied for.

25         Section 2.  Subsection (15) is added to section 601.10,

26  Florida Statutes, to read:

27         601.10  Powers of the Department of Citrus.--The

28  Department of Citrus shall have and shall exercise such

29  general and specific powers as are delegated to it by this

30  chapter and other statutes of the state, which powers shall

31  include, but shall not be confined to, the following:

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    Florida Senate - 1998                                  SB 1046
    18-990B-98




  1         (15)  To provide by rule a list of forms used in

  2  conducting its business.  The adoption of such rule

  3  constitutes sufficient notice to the public of the existence

  4  of the forms and negates the need to place specific citation

  5  to such list throughout the related chapters of the Florida

  6  Administrative Code.

  7         Section 3.  This act shall take effect upon becoming a

  8  law.

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12    Authorizes the Florida Citrus Commission to make general
      reference to national or state requirements in its rules
13    relating to issuance and use of symbols, certification
      marks, service marks, and trademarks if a license
14    applicant would be required to comply with those
      requirements regardless of the Department of Citrus'
15    action with respect to issuance of the license applied
      for. Authorizes the Department of Citrus to adopt a rule
16    listing the forms used in conducting its business, which
      rule constitutes sufficient notice of the forms'
17    existence without further cross-reference in other rules.

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