CODING: Words stricken are deletions; words underlined are additions.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.
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9 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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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
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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
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