Senate Bill 0206c1

    Florida Senate - 2000                            CS for SB 206

    By the Committee on Transportation and Senator Clary





    306-2208-00

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to toll facilities; amending s.

  3         338.155, F.S.; exempting certain vehicles on

  4         official business from the payment of tolls on

  5         toll facilities; providing an effective date.

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

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  9         Section 1.  Subsection (1) of section 338.155, Florida

10  Statutes, is amended to read:

11         338.155  Payment of toll on toll facilities required;

12  exemptions.--

13         (1)  No persons are permitted to use any toll facility

14  without payment of tolls, except employees of the agency

15  operating the toll project when using the toll facility on

16  official state business, state military personnel while on

17  official military business, handicapped persons as provided in

18  this section, persons exempt from toll payment by the

19  authorizing resolution for bonds issued to finance the

20  facility, and persons exempt on a temporary basis where use of

21  such toll facility is required as a detour route. Any law

22  enforcement officer Florida highway patrol officer, sheriff,

23  deputy sheriff, or municipal police officer operating a marked

24  official vehicle is exempt from toll payment when on official

25  law enforcement business. Any person operating a fire vehicle

26  when on official business or a rescue vehicle when on official

27  business is exempt from toll payment.  The secretary, or the

28  secretary's designee, may suspend the payment of tolls on a

29  toll facility when necessary to assist in emergency

30  evacuation. The failure to pay a prescribed toll constitutes a

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






    Florida Senate - 2000                            CS for SB 206
    306-2208-00




  1  noncriminal traffic infraction, punishable as a moving

  2  violation pursuant to s. 318.18.

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

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  5          STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
                       COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
  6                              SB 206

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  8  The CS removes unmarked law enforcement vehicles from the toll
    exemption provided in the CS.
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