SENATE AMENDMENT

    Bill No. HB 4439, 1st Eng.

    Amendment No.    

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11  Senator Clary moved the following amendment to amendment

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14         Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 

15         On page 106, between lines 9 and 10,

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18         Section 59.  Subsection (1) of section 205.0535,

19  Florida Statutes, is amended to read:

20         205.0535  Reclassification and rate structure

21  revisions.--

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

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

24  occupations and may establish new rate structures, if the

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

26  person who is engaged in the business of providing local

27  exchange telephone service or a pay telephone service in a

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

29  pays the occupational license tax under the category

30  designated for telephone companies or a pay telephone service

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

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                                                  SENATE AMENDMENT

    Bill No. HB 4439, 1st Eng.

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 1  but one place of business or business location in each

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

 3  assessed an occupational license tax on a per-instrument

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10  And the title is amended as follows:

11         On page 114, line 12, after the semicolon,

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14         amending s. 205.0535, F.S.; providing that

15         businesses providing local exchange telephone

16         service or pay telephone service may not be

17         assessed an occupational license tax on a

18         per-instrument basis;

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