SENATE AMENDMENT

    Bill No. CS for SB 2084

    Amendment No.    

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11  Senator Gutman moved the following amendment:

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13         Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 

14         On page 18, between lines 12 and 13,

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17         Section 13.  Subsection (9) is added to section

18  489.537, Florida Statutes, to read:

19         489.537  Application of this part.--

20         (9)  Persons licensed under this part are subject to

21  ss. 205.0535(1) and 205.065, as applicable.

22         Section 14.  Subsection (1) of section 205.0535,

23  Florida Statutes, is amended to read:

24         205.0535  Reclassification and rate structure

25  revisions.--

26         (1)  By October 1, 1995, any municipality or county

27  may, by ordinance, reclassify businesses, professions, and

28  occupations and may establish new rate structures, if the

29  conditions specified in subsections (2) and (3) are met.  A

30  person who is engaged in the business of providing local

31  exchange telephone service or a pay telephone service in a

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                                                  SENATE AMENDMENT

    Bill No. CS for SB 2084

    Amendment No.    





 1  municipality or in the unincorporated area of a county and who

 2  pays the occupational license tax under the category

 3  designated for telephone companies or a pay telephone service

 4  provider certified pursuant to s. 364.3375 is deemed to have

 5  but one place of business or business location in each

 6  municipality or unincorporated area of a county and may not be

 7  assessed an occupational license tax on a per-instrument

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10  (Redesignate subsequent sections.)

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14  And the title is amended as follows:

15         On page 2, line 6, after the semicolon

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18         amending ss. 489.537, 205.0535, F.S.; revising

19         occupational license taxes for certain

20         telephone companies and pay telephone service

21         providers;

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