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1 A bill to be entitled
2 An act relating to the Florida Mobile Home
3 Relocation Trust Fund; creating s. 723.06115,
4 F.S.; creating the Florida Mobile Home
5 Relocation Trust Fund within the Department of
6 Business and Professional Regulation; providing
7 purposes; providing funding; providing for
8 legislative review and termination or
9 re-creation of the trust fund; creating s.
10 723.06116, F.S.; requiring that a mobile home
11 park owner make specified payments to the trust
12 fund upon a change in use of the mobile home
13 park which requires a mobile home owner to
14 move; providing exceptions; providing an
15 appropriation; providing a contingent effective
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18 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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20 Section 1. Section 723.06115, Florida Statutes, is
21 created to read:
22 723.06115 Florida Mobile Home Relocation Trust Fund.--
23 (1) There is established within the Department of
24 Business and Professional Regulation the Florida Mobile Home
25 Relocation Trust Fund, to be used by the department for the
26 purpose of funding the administration and operations of the
27 Florida Mobile Home Relocation Corporation. All interest
28 earned from the investment or deposit of moneys in the trust
29 fund shall be deposited in the trust fund. The trust fund
30 shall be funded from the moneys collected by the department
31 under s. 723.06116 from mobile home park owners who change the
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1 use of their mobile home parks and by other appropriated
2 funds.
3 (2) Moneys in the Florida Mobile Home Relocation Trust
4 Fund may be expended only:
5 (a) To pay the administration costs of the Florida
6 Mobile Home Relocation Corporation; and
7 (b) To carry out the purposes and objectives of the
8 Florida Mobile Home Relocation Corporation by making payments
9 to mobile home owners under the relocation program.
10 Section 2. In accordance with Section 19(f)(2),
11 Article III of the State Constitution, the Florida Mobile Home
12 Relocation Trust Fund shall, unless terminated sooner, be
13 terminated on July 1, 2005. Before its scheduled termination,
14 the trust fund shall be reviewed as provided in s. 215.3206(1)
15 and (2), Florida Statutes.
16 Section 3. Section 723.06116, Florida Statutes, is
17 created to read:
18 723.06116 Payments to the Florida Mobile Home
19 Relocation Trust Fund.--
20 (1) If a mobile home owner is required to move due to
21 a change in use of the land comprising a mobile home park as
22 set forth in s. 723.061(1)(d), the mobile home park owner
23 shall, upon such change in use, pay to the department for
24 deposit in the Florida Mobile Home Relocation Trust Fund
25 $2,000 for each single-section mobile home and $2,500 for each
26 multisection mobile home for which a mobile home owner has
27 made application for payment of moving expenses.
28 (2) A mobile home park owner is not required to make
29 the payment prescribed in subsection (1), nor is the mobile
30 home owner entitled to compensation under s. 723.0612, when:
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1 (a) The mobile home park owner moves a mobile home
2 owner to another space in the mobile home park or to another
3 mobile home park at the park owner's expense;
4 (b) A mobile home owner is vacating the premises and
5 has informed the mobile home park owner or manager before the
6 change in use notice has been given; or
7 (c) A mobile home owner abandons the mobile home as
8 set forth in s. 723.0612(8).
9 Section 4. There is hereby appropriated to the Florida
10 Mobile Home Relocation Trust Fund the sum of $500,000 of
11 nonrecurring revenues from the General Revenue Fund.
12 Section 5. This act shall take effect on the effective
13 date of Committee Substitute for Committee Substitute for
14 Senate Bill 442 or similar legislation, but it shall not take
15 effect unless it is enacted by a three-fifths vote of the
16 membership of each house of the Legislature.
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