Senate Bill 1236c1

    Florida Senate - 2000                           CS for SB 1236

    By the Committee on Comprehensive Planning, Local and Military
    Affairs; and Senator Silver




    316-1955-00

  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; providing an

  6         effective date.

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

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

11  Statutes, is amended to read:

12         318.21  Disposition of civil penalties by county

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

14  pursuant to the provisions of this chapter shall be

15  distributed and paid monthly as follows:

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

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

18  county's participation in an intergovernmental radio

19  communication program approved by the Department of Management

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

21  or if a municipality within the county has pursuant to s.

22  218.503, in the preceding 5 years, been declared in a state of

23  financial emergency and has had a financial emergencies board

24  established, regardless of whether the board is currently in

25  existence, and maintains a radio-communication program

26  independent of the county, funds collected must be used to

27  fund local law enforcement automation and must be distributed

28  to the municipality or special improvement district in which

29  the violation occurred or to the county if the violation

30  occurred within the unincorporated area of the county.

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

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CODING: Words stricken are deletions; words underlined are additions.






    Florida Senate - 2000                           CS for SB 1236
    316-1955-00




  1          STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
                       COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
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  4  Conditions the eligibility of a municipality to use certain
    traffic fine revenue to fund local law enforcement automation
  5  on the requirement that the municipality has, in the
    preceeding five years, been declared in a state of emergency
  6  and subject to oversight by a financial emergencies board.

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