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    Florida House of Representatives - 2000                 HB 361

        By Representative Tullis






  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to regulation of recovered

  3         materials; amending s. 403.7046, F.S.; revising

  4         the local government registration fee for

  5         recovered materials dealers; revising local

  6         government authority with respect to certain

  7         contracts between recovered materials dealers

  8         and local commercial establishments that

  9         generate source-separated materials; providing

10         an effective date.

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

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14         Section 1.  Paragraphs (b) and (d) of subsection (3) of

15  section 403.7046, Florida Statutes, are amended to read:

16         403.7046  Regulation of recovered materials.--

17         (3)  Except as otherwise provided in this section or

18  pursuant to a special act in effect on or before January 1,

19  1993, a local government may not require a commercial

20  establishment that generates source-separated recovered

21  materials to sell or otherwise convey its recovered materials

22  to the local government or to a facility designated by the

23  local government, nor may the local government restrict such a

24  generator's right to sell or otherwise convey such recovered

25  materials to any properly certified recovered materials dealer

26  who has satisfied the requirements of this section.  A local

27  government may not enact any ordinance that prevents such a

28  dealer from entering into a contract with a commercial

29  establishment to purchase, collect, transport, process, or

30  receive source-separated recovered materials.

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  1         (b)  Prior to engaging in business within the

  2  jurisdiction of the local government, a recovered materials

  3  dealer must provide the local government with a copy of the

  4  certification provided for in this section.  In addition, the

  5  local government may establish a registration process whereby

  6  a recovered materials dealer must register with the local

  7  government prior to engaging in business within the

  8  jurisdiction of the local government.  Such registration

  9  process is limited to requiring the dealer to register its

10  name, including the owner or operator of the dealer, and, if

11  the dealer is a business entity, its general or limited

12  partners, its corporate officers and directors, its permanent

13  place of business, evidence of its certification under this

14  section, and a certification that the recovered materials will

15  be processed at a recovered materials processing facility

16  satisfying the requirements of this section. All counties, and

17  municipalities whose population exceeds 35,000 according to

18  the population estimates determined pursuant to s. 186.901,

19  may establish a reporting process which shall be limited to

20  the regulations, reporting format, and reporting frequency

21  established by the department pursuant to this section, which

22  shall, at a minimum, include requiring the dealer to identify

23  the types and approximate amount of recovered materials

24  collected, recycled, or reused during the reporting period;

25  the approximate percentage of recovered materials reused,

26  stored, or delivered to a recovered materials processing

27  facility or disposed of in a solid waste disposal facility;

28  and the locations where any recovered materials were disposed

29  of as solid waste.  Information reported under this subsection

30  which, if disclosed, would reveal a trade secret, as defined

31  in s. 812.081(1)(c), is confidential and exempt from the

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  1  provisions of s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution and

  2  s. 119.07(1). The local government may charge the dealer a

  3  registration fee commensurate with and no greater than the

  4  cost incurred by the local government in operating its

  5  registration program. Such fee may not exceed the amount of

  6  the registration fee authorized in subsection (1). Any

  7  reporting or registration process established by a local

  8  government with regard to recovered materials shall be

  9  governed by the provisions of this section and department

10  rules promulgated pursuant thereto.

11         (d)  In addition to any other authority provided by

12  law, a local government is hereby expressly authorized to

13  prohibit a person or entity not certified under this section

14  from doing business within the jurisdiction of the local

15  government; to enter into a nonexclusive franchise or to

16  otherwise provide for the collection, transportation, and

17  processing of recovered materials at commercial

18  establishments, provided that a local government may not

19  require a certified recovered materials dealer to enter into

20  such franchise agreement in order to enter into a contract

21  with any commercial establishment located within the local

22  government's jurisdiction such franchise or provision does not

23  prohibit a certified recovered materials dealer from entering

24  into a contract with a commercial establishment to purchase,

25  collect, transport, process, or receive source-separated

26  recovered materials; and to enter into an exclusive franchise

27  or to otherwise provide for the exclusive collection,

28  transportation, and processing of recovered materials at

29  single-family or multifamily residential properties.

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

31  law.

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  2                          HOUSE SUMMARY

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      Limits the local government registration fee for a
  4    recovered materials dealer to the amount of the
      Department of Environmental Protection's authorized
  5    registration fee, rather than an amount commensurate with
      the costs of the local government's registration program.
  6    Prohibits local governments from requiring such a dealer
      to enter into a nonexclusive franchise agreement in order
  7    to enter into a contract with a local commercial
      establishment that generates source-separated materials.
  8    Removes current law which provides that such contracts
      are not prohibited by a local government franchise
  9    agreement with a commercial establishment.

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