Senate Bill 1236

    Florida Senate - 2000                                  SB 1236

    By Senator Silver





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  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to the disposition of traffic

  3         fines; amending s. 318.21, F.S.; revising

  4         requirements for the use of funds collected

  5         from moving traffic violations; deleting

  6         certain mandatory requirements for the use of

  7         funds collected within a county that does not

  8         participate in an intergovernmental

  9         radio-communication program or within a county

10         in which a municipality maintains an

11         independent radio-communication program;

12         providing an effective date.

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14  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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16         Section 1.  Subsection (10) of section 318.21, Florida

17  Statutes, is amended to read:

18         318.21  Disposition of civil penalties by county

19  courts.--All civil penalties received by a county court

20  pursuant to the provisions of this chapter shall be

21  distributed and paid monthly as follows:

22         (10)  Twelve dollars and fifty cents from each moving

23  traffic violation must be used by the county to fund that

24  county's participation in an intergovernmental radio

25  communication program approved by the Department of Management

26  Services. If the county is not participating in such a program

27  or if a municipality within the county maintains a

28  radio-communication program independent of the county, funds

29  collected may must be used to fund local law enforcement

30  automation and must be distributed to the municipality or

31  special improvement district in which the violation occurred

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  1  or to the county if the violation occurred within the

  2  unincorporated area of the county.

  3         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2000.

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  6                          SENATE SUMMARY

  7    Revises requirements for the use of funds collected from
      moving traffic violations within counties that do not
  8    participate in an intergovernmental radio-communication
      program and within counties in which a municipality
  9    maintains an independent radio-communication program.

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