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House Bill 0555e1

HB 555, First Engrossed 1 A bill to be entitled 2 An act relating to water and wastewater 3 systems; amending s. 367.171, F.S.; including 4 Collier, Flagler, and Hernando counties within 5 a list of counties excluded from the provisions 6 of the Water and Wastewater System Regulatory 7 Law; providing an effective date. 8 9 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 10 11 Section 1. Subsection (3) of section 367.171, Florida 12 Statutes, 1996 Supplement, is amended to read: 13 367.171 Effectiveness of this chapter.-- 14 (3) In consideration of the variance of powers, 15 duties, responsibilities, population, and size of 16 municipalities of the several counties and in consideration of 17 the fact that every county varies from every other county and 18 thereby affects the functions, duties, and responsibilities 19 required of its county officers and the scope of 20 responsibilities which each county may, at this time, 21 undertake, the Counties of Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Calhoun, 22 Charlotte, Collier, Dade, Dixie, Escambia, Flagler, Gadsden, 23 Gilchrist, Glades, Hamilton, Hardee, Hendry, Hernando, 24 Hillsborough, Holmes, Indian River, Jefferson, Lafayette, 25 Leon, Liberty, Madison, Manatee, Okaloosa, Okeechobee, Polk, 26 St. Lucie, Santa Rosa, Sarasota, Suwannee, Taylor, Union, 27 Wakulla, and Walton are excluded from the provisions of this 28 chapter until such time as the board of county commissioners 29 of any such county, acting pursuant to the provisions of 30 subsection (1), makes this chapter applicable to such county 31 1 CODING: Words stricken are deletions; words underlined are additions. HB 555, First Engrossed 1 or until the Legislature, by appropriate act, removes one or 2 more of such counties from this exclusion. 3 Section 2. This act shall take effect upon becoming a 4 law. 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 2