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House Bill 0085




    Florida House of Representatives - 1997                  HB 85

        By Representative Saunders






  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to water and wastewater

  3         systems; amending s. 367.171, F.S.; revising

  4         language with respect to the exclusive

  5         jurisdiction of the Florida Public Service

  6         Commission over certain utility facilities;

  7         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 (7) of section 367.171, Florida

12  Statutes, 1996 Supplement, is amended to read:

13         367.171  Effectiveness of this chapter.--

14         (7)  Notwithstanding anything in this section to the

15  contrary, the commission shall have exclusive jurisdiction

16  over each all utility facility that delivers water to or

17  treats wastewater from its customers in one county and

18  delivers water to or treats wastewater from that utility's

19  customers in an adjacent county through at least one pipe that

20  crosses the county boundary which separates the adjacent

21  counties systems whose service transverses county boundaries,

22  whether the counties involved are jurisdictional or

23  nonjurisdictional, except for utility systems that are subject

24  to, and remain subject to, interlocal utility agreements in

25  effect as of January 1, 1991, that create a single

26  governmental authority to regulate the utility systems whose

27  service transverses county boundaries, provided that no such

28  interlocal agreement shall divest commission jurisdiction over

29  such systems, any portion of which provides service within a

30  county that is subject to commission jurisdiction under s.

31  367.171.

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    Florida House of Representatives - 1997                  HB 85

    550-134-97






  1         Section 2.  This act shall take effect upon becoming a

  2  law.

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  5                          HOUSE SUMMARY

  6    Provides, with respect to water and wastewater systems,
      that the exclusive jurisdiction of the Florida Public
  7    Service Commission applies to each water or wastewater
      utility facility which delivers water to or treats
  8    wastewater from its customers in an adjacent county
      through at least one pipe that crosses the county
  9    boundary which separates those adjacent counties.

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