Senate Bill sb0800c1

    Florida Senate - 2001                            CS for SB 800

    By the Committee on Finance and Taxation; and Senator Silver





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  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 there is a municipality within the county that

25  has been in a state of financial emergency pursuant to s.

26  218.503 during the preceding 5 years, has had a financial

27  emergencies board established, regardless of whether the board

28  is currently in existence, and maintains a radio-communication

29  program independent of the county, funds collected must be

30  used to fund local law enforcement automation and must be

31  distributed to that municipality. If the county is not

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    Florida Senate - 2001                            CS for SB 800
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  1  participating in such a program, funds collected must be used

  2  to fund local law enforcement automation and must be

  3  distributed to the municipality or the special improvement

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

  5  the violation occurred within the unincorporated area of the

  6  county.

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

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  9          STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
                       COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
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12  Clarifies that $12.50 of revenue collected from moving
    violations will be distributed to a municipality within the
13  county that has been in a state of financial emergency during
    the preceding 5 years, has had a financial emergencies board
14  established, and maintains a radio-communication program
    independent of the county, and not any municipality in the
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