HOUSE AMENDMENT
Bill No. HB 1491
Amendment No. 01 (for drafter's use only)
CHAMBER ACTION
Senate House
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11 Representative(s) Attkisson offered the following:
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13 Amendment to Amendment (400573) (with title amendment)
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17 Section 2. Subsection (8) of section 367.171, Florida
18 Statutes, is amended to read:
19 367.171 Effectiveness of this chapter.--
20 (8) Each county which is excluded from the provisions
21 of this chapter or adopts a resolution pursuant to subsection
22 (1) shall regulate the rates of all utilities in that county
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24 commission pursuant to s. 367.081(1), (2), (3), and (6). The
25 county shall not regulate the rates or charges of any system
26 or facility which would otherwise be exempt from commission
27 regulation pursuant to s. 367.022(2). No county, or authority
28 or district within such county, shall exercise the power of
29 eminent domain over any water or wastewater utility system or
30 facility regulated by such county pursuant to this chapter, or
31 which has been regulated by such county within the preceding 5
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HOUSE AMENDMENT
Bill No. HB 1491
Amendment No. 01 (for drafter's use only)
1 years, unless the county demonstrates that the utility system
2 or facility to be condemned constitutes a present danger to
3 the public health or has been abandoned. For this purpose the
4 county or its agency shall proceed as though the county or
5 agency is the commission. In all proceedings conducted by a
6 county or its agency under the authority of this chapter, the
7 provisions of ss. 120.569 and 120.57 shall apply.
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11 And the title is amended as follows:
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15 relating to local government regulation of
16 water or wastewater utilities; amending s.
17 367.171, F.S.; providing for regulation of
18 certain utilities by certain counties;
19 prohibiting exercise of eminent domain by
20 certain governmental entities under certain
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