Senate Bill 1046c1

    Florida Senate - 1998                           CS for SB 1046

    By the Committee on Agriculture and Senator Bronson





    303-1704-98

  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, provided that the license applicant would

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

24  of 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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CODING: Words stricken are deletions; words underlined are additions.






    Florida Senate - 1998                           CS for SB 1046
    303-1704-98




  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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10          STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
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13  Clarifies, through the addition of the word "provided," that
    the Department of Citrus may make general references to
14  national or state requirements provided that the license
    applicant would be compelled to meet them regardless.
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