Senate Bill 1590

    Florida Senate - 1999                                  SB 1590

    By Senator Campbell





    33-997-99                                               See HB

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to the turnpike system;

  3         amending s. 338.231, F.S.; directing the

  4         Department of Transportation to provide

  5         described fees to be paid for the use of the

  6         Florida Turnpike with respect to certain

  7         motorcycles; 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 (8) is added to section 338.231,

12  Florida Statutes, to read:

13         338.231  Turnpike tolls, fixing; pledge of tolls and

14  other revenues.--The department shall at all times fix,

15  adjust, charge, and collect such tolls for the use of the

16  turnpike system as are required in order to provide a fund

17  sufficient with other revenues of the turnpike system to pay

18  the cost of maintaining, improving, repairing, and operating

19  such turnpike system; to pay the principal of and interest on

20  all bonds issued to finance or refinance any portion of the

21  turnpike system as the same become due and payable; and to

22  create reserves for all such purposes.

23         (8)  In fixing, adjusting, and collecting tolls for the

24  use of the turnpike system, effective October 1, 1999, the

25  department shall provide that the fee for a motorcycle, a

26  motorcycle with a sidecar, a motorcycle towing a single-axle

27  trailer, and a trike-style motorcycle that has three wheels

28  and two axles shall be equal to one-half of the required toll

29  a passenger motor vehicle pays to use the Florida Turnpike.

30         Section 2.  This act shall take effect October 1, 1999.

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    Florida Senate - 1999                                  SB 1590
    33-997-99                                               See HB




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  2                       LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY

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      Directs the Department of Transportation to provide that
  4    motorcycles, motorcycles with a sidecar, motorcycles
      towing a single-axle trailer, and trike-style motorcycles
  5    shall be required to pay a toll equivalent to one-half of
      the toll charged for passenger motor vehicles to use the
  6    Florida Turnpike.

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