Senate Bill sb0800

    Florida Senate - 2001                                   SB 800

    By Senator Silver





    38-479-01

  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; requiring that

  6         such funds be used to fund automation for law

  7         enforcement agencies in certain counties in

  8         which a municipality has been declared to be in

  9         a state of financial emergency; providing an

10         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.  Subsection (10) of section 318.21, Florida

15  Statutes, is amended to read:

16         318.21  Disposition of civil penalties by county

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

18  pursuant to the provisions of this chapter shall be

19  distributed and paid monthly as follows:

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

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

22  county's participation in an intergovernmental radio

23  communication program approved by the Department of Management

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

25  or if a municipality within the county has been declared to be

26  in a state of financial emergency pursuant to s. 218.503

27  during the preceding 5 years, has had a financial emergencies

28  board established, regardless of whether the board is

29  currently in existence, and maintains a radio-communication

30  program independent of the county, funds collected must be

31  used to fund local law enforcement automation and must be

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    Florida Senate - 2001                                   SB 800
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  1  distributed to the municipality or special improvement

  2  district in which the violation occurred or to the county if

  3  the violation occurred within the unincorporated area of the

  4  county.

  5         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2001.

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  8                          SENATE SUMMARY

  9    Requires that the funds collected from moving traffic
      violations within a county be used to fund local law
10    enforcement automation if a municipality within that
      county has been declared to be in a state of financial
11    emergency during the preceding 5 years, was subject to
      oversight by a financial emergencies board, and maintains
12    a radio-communication program independent of the county.

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