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  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to community redevelopment;

  3         amending s. 163.336; F.S.; extending the date

  4         for a pilot project; amending s. 163.340, F.S.;

  5         revising definitions; amending s. 163.355,

  6         F.S.; providing additional criteria for a

  7         finding of necessity for community

  8         redevelopment; amending s. 163.356, F.S.;

  9         allowing certain charter counties to create

10         multiple community redevelopment agencies

11         within the unincorporated county areas;

12         providing for the membership of the board of

13         commissioners of the community redevelopment

14         agency; amending s. 163.361, F.S.; requiring

15         the appropriate governing body to hold public

16         hearings and provide notice to taxing

17         authorities concerning modifications of

18         community redevelopment plans; amending s.

19         163.362, F.S.; providing a deadline for

20         completing projects in a community

21         redevelopment plan; amending s. 163.385, F.S.;

22         revising provisions relating to issuance and

23         maturation of refunding bonds; amending s.

24         163.387, F.S.; providing time limitations on

25         the annual appropriation made by each taxing

26         authority after the initial community

27         redevelopment plan has been approved; providing

28         that certain special districts are exempt from

29         providing tax increment dollars to the

30         community redevelopment trust fund; revising

31         provisions for exemption from funding of the


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  1         trust fund; amending s. 163.410, F.S.;

  2         providing that the governing body of a charter

  3         county must act on a delegation-of-powers

  4         request within a specific timeframe; providing

  5         for applicability; providing an effective date.

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

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  9         Section 1.  Subsection (3) of section 163.336, Florida

10  Statutes, is amended to read:

11         163.336  Coastal resort area redevelopment pilot

12  project.--

13         (3)  PILOT PROJECT EXPIRATION.--The authorization for

14  the pilot project and the provisions of this section expire

15  December 31, 2006 2002. The Legislature shall review these

16  requirements before their scheduled expiration.

17         Section 2.  Subsections (3), (7), and (8) of section

18  163.340, Florida Statutes, are amended to read:

19         163.340  Definitions.--The following terms, wherever

20  used or referred to in this part, have the following meanings:

21         (3)  "Governing body" means the council, commission, or

22  other legislative body charged with governing the county or

23  municipality.

24         (7)  "Slum area" means an area having physical or

25  economic conditions conducive to disease, infant mortality,

26  juvenile delinquency, poverty, or crime because in which there

27  is a predominance of buildings or improvements, whether

28  residential or nonresidential, which are impaired by reason of

29  dilapidation, deterioration, age, or obsolescence and

30  exhibiting one or more of the following factors:;

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  1         (a)  Inadequate provision for ventilation, light, air,

  2  sanitation, or open spaces;

  3         (b)  High density of population, compared to the

  4  population density of adjacent areas within the county or

  5  municipality; and overcrowding, as indicated by

  6  government-maintained statistics or other studies and the

  7  requirements of the florida Building Code; or

  8         (c)  The existence of conditions that which endanger

  9  life or property by fire or other causes; or any combination

10  of such factors is conducive to ill health, transmission of

11  disease, infant mortality, juvenile delinquency, or crime and

12  is detrimental to the public health, safety, morals, or

13  welfare.

14         (8)  "Blighted area" means an area in which there are

15  either:

16         (a)  An area in which there are a substantial number of

17  slum, deteriorated, or deteriorating structures, in which and

18  conditions, as indicated by government-maintained statistics

19  or other studies, are leading that lead to economic distress

20  or endanger life or property, and in which two or more of the

21  following factors are present by fire or other causes or one

22  or more of the following factors that substantially impairs or

23  arrests the sound growth of a county or municipality and is a

24  menace to the public health, safety, morals, or welfare in its

25  present condition and use:

26         (a)1.  Predominance of defective or inadequate street

27  layout, parking facilities, roadways, bridges, or public

28  transportation facilities;

29         (b)  Aggregate assessed values of real property in the

30  area for ad valorem tax purposes have failed to show any

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  1  appreciable increase over the 5 years prior to the finding of

  2  such conditions;

  3         (c)2.  Faulty lot layout in relation to size, adequacy,

  4  accessibility, or usefulness;

  5         (d)3.  Unsanitary or unsafe conditions;

  6         (e)4.  Deterioration of site or other improvements;

  7         (f)5.  Inadequate and outdated building density

  8  patterns;

  9         (g)  Falling lease rates per square foot of office,

10  commercial, or industrial space compared to the remainder of

11  the county or municipality;

12         (h)6.  Tax or special assessment delinquency exceeding

13  the fair value of the land;

14         (i)  Residential and commercial vacancy rates higher in

15  the area than in the remainder of the county or municipality;

16         (j)  Incidence of crime in the area higher than in the

17  remainder of the county or municipality;

18         (k)  Fire and emergency medical service calls to the

19  area proportionately higher than in the remainder of the

20  county or municipality;

21         (l)  A greater number of violations of the Florida

22  Building Code in the area than the number of violations

23  recorded in the remainder of the county or municipality;

24         7.  Inadequate transportation and parking facilities;

25  and

26         (m)8.  Diversity of ownership or defective or unusual

27  conditions of title which prevent the free alienability of

28  land within the deteriorated or hazardous area; or

29         (n)  Governmentally owned property with adverse

30  environmental conditions caused by a public or private entity.

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  1         (b)  An area in which there exists faulty or inadequate

  2  street layout; inadequate parking facilities; or roadways,

  3  bridges, or public transportation facilities incapable of

  4  handling the volume of traffic flow into or through the area,

  5  either at present or following proposed construction.

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  7  However, the term "blighted area" also means any area in which

  8  at least one of the factors identified in paragraphs (a)

  9  through (n) are present and all taxing authorities subject to

10  s. 163.387(2)(a) agree, either by interlocal agreement or

11  agreements with the agency or by resolution, that the area is

12  blighted. Such agreement or resolution shall only determine

13  that the area is blighted. For purposes of qualifying for the

14  tax credits authorized in chapter 220, "blighted area" means

15  an area as defined in this subsection described in paragraph

16  (a).

17         Section 3.  Section 163.355, Florida Statutes, is

18  amended to read:

19         163.355  Finding of necessity by county or

20  municipality.--No county or municipality shall exercise the

21  community redevelopment authority conferred by this part until

22  after the governing body has adopted a resolution, supported

23  by data and analysis, which makes a legislative finding that

24  the conditions in the area meet the criteria described in s.

25  163.340(7) or (8). The resolution must state finding that:

26         (1)  One or more slum or blighted areas, or one or more

27  areas in which there is a shortage of housing affordable to

28  residents of low or moderate income, including the elderly,

29  exist in such county or municipality; and,

30         (2)  The rehabilitation, conservation, or

31  redevelopment, or a combination thereof, of such area or


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  1  areas, including, if appropriate, the development of housing

  2  which residents of low or moderate income, including the

  3  elderly, can afford, is necessary in the interest of the

  4  public health, safety, morals, or welfare of the residents of

  5  such county or municipality.

  6         Section 4.  Subsections (1) and (2) of section 163.356,

  7  Florida Statutes, are amended to read:

  8         163.356  Creation of community redevelopment agency.--

  9         (1)  Upon a finding of necessity as set forth in s.

10  163.355, and upon a further finding that there is a need for a

11  community redevelopment agency to function in the county or

12  municipality to carry out the community redevelopment purposes

13  of this part, any county or municipality may create a public

14  body corporate and politic to be known as a "community

15  redevelopment agency." A charter county having a population

16  less than or equal to 1.6 million may create, by a vote of at

17  least a majority plus one of the entire governing body of the

18  charter county, more than one community redevelopment agency.

19  Each such agency shall be constituted as a public

20  instrumentality, and the exercise by a community redevelopment

21  agency of the powers conferred by this part shall be deemed

22  and held to be the performance of an essential public

23  function.  The Community redevelopment agencies agency of a

24  county have has the power to function within the corporate

25  limits of a municipality only as, if, and when the governing

26  body of the municipality has by resolution concurred in the

27  community redevelopment plan or plans proposed by the

28  governing body of the county.

29         (2)  When the governing body adopts a resolution

30  declaring the need for a community redevelopment agency, that

31  body shall, by ordinance, appoint a board of commissioners of


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  1  the community redevelopment agency, which shall consist of not

  2  fewer than five or more than nine seven commissioners.  The

  3  terms of office of the commissioners shall be for 4 years,

  4  except that three of the members first appointed shall be

  5  designated to serve terms of 1, 2, and 3 years, respectively,

  6  from the date of their appointments, and all other members

  7  shall be designated to serve for terms of 4 years from the

  8  date of their appointments.  A vacancy occurring during a term

  9  shall be filled for the unexpired term.

10         Section 5.  Section 163.361, Florida Statutes, is

11  amended to read:

12         163.361  Modification of community redevelopment

13  plans.--

14         (1)  If at any time after the approval of a community

15  redevelopment plan by the governing body it becomes necessary

16  or desirable to amend or modify such plan, the governing body

17  may amend such plan upon the recommendation of the agency. The

18  agency recommendation to amend or modify a redevelopment plan

19  may include a change in the boundaries of the redevelopment

20  area to add land to or exclude land from the redevelopment

21  area, or may include the development and implementation of

22  community policing innovations.

23         (2)  The governing body shall hold a public hearing on

24  a proposed modification of any a community redevelopment plan

25  after public notice thereof by publication in a newspaper

26  having a general circulation in the area of operation of the

27  agency.

28         (3)  In addition to the requirements of s. 163.346, and

29  prior to the adoption of any modification to a community

30  redevelopment plan that expands the boundaries of the

31  community redevelopment area or extends the time certain set


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  1  forth in the redevelopment plan as required by s. 163.362(10),

  2  the agency shall report such proposed modification to each

  3  taxing authority in writing or by an oral presentation, or

  4  both, regarding such proposed modification.

  5         (4)  A modification to a community redevelopment plan

  6  that includes a change in the boundaries of the redevelopment

  7  area to add land must be supported by a resolution as provided

  8  in s. 163.355.

  9         (5)(3)  If a community redevelopment plan is modified

10  by the county or municipality after the lease or sale of real

11  property in the community redevelopment area, such

12  modification may be conditioned upon such approval of the

13  owner, lessee, or successor in interest as the county or

14  municipality may deem advisable and, in any event, shall be

15  subject to such rights at law or in equity as a lessee or

16  purchaser, or his or her successor or successors in interest,

17  may be entitled to assert.

18         Section 6.  Subsection (10) of section 163.362, Florida

19  Statutes, is amended to read:

20         163.362  Contents of community redevelopment

21  plan.--Every community redevelopment plan shall:

22         (10)  Provide a time certain for completing all

23  redevelopment financed by increment revenues.  Such time

24  certain shall occur no later than 30 years after the fiscal

25  year in which the plan is approved, adopted, or amended

26  pursuant to s. 163.361(1). However, for any agency created

27  after July 1, 2002, the time certain for completing all

28  redevelopment financed by increment revenues must occur within

29  40 years after the fiscal year in which the plan is approved

30  or adopted.

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  1         Section 7.  Paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of section

  2  163.385, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:

  3         163.385  Issuance of revenue bonds.--

  4         (1)(a)  When authorized or approved by resolution or

  5  ordinance of the governing body, a county, municipality, or

  6  community redevelopment agency has power in its corporate

  7  capacity, in its discretion, to issue redevelopment revenue

  8  bonds from time to time to finance the undertaking of any

  9  community redevelopment under this part, including, without

10  limiting the generality thereof, the payment of principal and

11  interest upon any advances for surveys and plans or

12  preliminary loans, and has power to issue refunding bonds for

13  the payment or retirement of bonds or other obligations

14  previously issued. For any agency created before July 1, 2002,

15  any redevelopment revenue bonds or other obligations issued to

16  finance the undertaking of any community redevelopment under

17  this part shall mature within 60 years after the end of the

18  fiscal year in which the initial community redevelopment plan

19  was approved or adopted. For any agency created on or after

20  July 1, 2002, any redevelopment revenue bonds or other

21  obligations issued to finance the undertaking of any community

22  redevelopment under this part shall mature within 40 years

23  after the end of the fiscal year in which the initial

24  community redevelopment plan is approved or adopted. However,

25  in no event shall any redevelopment revenue bonds or other

26  obligations issued to finance the undertaking of any community

27  redevelopment under this part mature later than the expiration

28  of the plan in effect at the time such bonds or obligations

29  were issued. The security for such bonds may be based upon the

30  anticipated assessed valuation of the completed community

31  redevelopment and such other revenues as are legally


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  1  available. Any bond, note, or other form of indebtedness

  2  pledging increment revenues to the repayment thereof shall

  3  mature no later than the end of the 30th fiscal year after the

  4  fiscal year in which increment revenues are first deposited

  5  into the redevelopment trust fund or the fiscal year in which

  6  the plan is subsequently amended. However, for any agency

  7  created on or after July 1, 2002, any form of indebtedness

  8  pledging increment revenues to the repayment thereof shall

  9  mature by the 40th year after the fiscal year in which the

10  initial community redevelopment plan is approved or adopted.

11  However, any refunding bonds issued pursuant to this paragraph

12  may not mature later than the final maturity date of any bonds

13  or other obligations issued pursuant to this paragraph being

14  paid or retired with the proceeds of such refunding bonds.

15         Section 8.  Subsections (1), (2), and (6) of section

16  163.387, Florida Statutes, are amended to read:

17         163.387  Redevelopment trust fund.--

18         (1)  After approval of a community redevelopment plan,

19  there shall be established for each community redevelopment

20  agency created under s. 163.356 a redevelopment trust fund.

21  Funds allocated to and deposited into this fund shall be used

22  by the agency to finance or refinance any community

23  redevelopment it undertakes pursuant to the approved community

24  redevelopment plan. No community redevelopment agency may

25  receive or spend any increment revenues pursuant to this

26  section unless and until the governing body has, by ordinance,

27  provided for the funding of the redevelopment trust fund for

28  the duration of a community redevelopment plan. Such ordinance

29  may be adopted only after the governing body has approved a

30  community redevelopment plan. The annual funding of the

31  redevelopment trust fund shall be in an amount not less than


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  1  that increment in the income, proceeds, revenues, and funds of

  2  each taxing authority derived from or held in connection with

  3  the undertaking and carrying out of community redevelopment

  4  under this part. Such increment shall be determined annually

  5  and shall be that amount equal to 95 percent of the difference

  6  between:

  7         (a)  The amount of ad valorem taxes levied each year by

  8  each taxing authority, exclusive of any amount from any debt

  9  service millage, on taxable real property contained within the

10  geographic boundaries of a community redevelopment area; and

11         (b)  The amount of ad valorem taxes which would have

12  been produced by the rate upon which the tax is levied each

13  year by or for each taxing authority, exclusive of any debt

14  service millage, upon the total of the assessed value of the

15  taxable real property in the community redevelopment area as

16  shown upon the most recent assessment roll used in connection

17  with the taxation of such property by each taxing authority

18  prior to the effective date of the ordinance providing for the

19  funding of the trust fund.

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21  However, the governing body of any county as defined in s.

22  125.011(1) may, in the ordinance providing for the funding of

23  a trust fund established with respect to any community

24  redevelopment area created on or after July 1, 1994, determine

25  that the amount to be funded by each taxing authority annually

26  shall be less than 95 percent of the difference between

27  paragraphs (a) and (b), but in no event shall such amount be

28  less than 50 percent of such difference.

29         (2)(a)  Except for the purpose of funding the trust

30  fund pursuant to subsection (3), upon the adoption of an

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  1  fund as provided in this section, each taxing authority shall,

  2  by January 1 of each year, appropriate to the trust fund for

  3  so long as any indebtedness pledging increment revenues to the

  4  payment thereof is outstanding (but not to exceed 30 years) a

  5  sum that is no less than the increment as defined and

  6  determined in subsection (1) accruing to such taxing

  7  authority.  If the community redevelopment plan is amended or

  8  modified pursuant to s. 163.361(1), each such taxing authority

  9  shall make the annual appropriation for a period not to exceed

10  30 years after the date the governing body amends the plan.

11  However, for any agency created on or after July 1, 2002, each

12  taxing authority shall make the annual appropriation for a

13  period not to exceed 40 years after the fiscal year in which

14  the initial community redevelopment plan is approved or

15  adopted.

16         (b)  Any taxing authority that does not pay the

17  increment to the trust fund by January 1 shall pay to the

18  trust fund an amount equal to 5 percent of the amount of the

19  increment and shall pay interest on the amount of the

20  increment equal to 1 percent for each month the increment is

21  outstanding.

22         (c)  The following public bodies or taxing authorities

23  created prior to July 1, 1993, are exempt from paragraph (a):

24         1.  A special district that levies ad valorem taxes on

25  taxable real property in more than one county.

26         2.  A special district for which the sole available

27  source of revenue the district has the authority to levy of

28  which is ad valorem taxes at the time an ordinance is adopted

29  under this section.

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  1         3.  A library district, except a library district in a

  2  jurisdiction where the community redevelopment agency had

  3  validated bonds as of April 30, 1984.

  4         4.  A neighborhood improvement district created under

  5  the Safe Neighborhoods Act.

  6         5.  A metropolitan transportation authority.

  7         6.  A water management district created under s.

  8  373.069.

  9         (d)1.  A local governing body that creates a community

10  redevelopment agency under s. 163.356 may exempt from

11  paragraph (a) a special district that levies ad valorem taxes

12  within that community redevelopment area.  The local governing

13  body may grant the exemption either in its sole discretion or

14  in response to the request of the special district.  The local

15  governing body must establish procedures by which a special

16  district may submit a written request to be exempted from

17  paragraph (a) within 120 days after July 1, 1993.

18         2.  In deciding whether to deny or grant a special

19  district's request for exemption from paragraph (a), the local

20  governing body must consider:

21         a.  Any additional revenue sources of the community

22  redevelopment agency which could be used in lieu of the

23  special district's tax increment.

24         b.  The fiscal and operational impact on the community

25  redevelopment agency.

26         c.  The fiscal and operational impact on the special

27  district.

28         d.  The benefit to the specific purpose for which the

29  special district was created.  The benefit to the special

30  district must be based on specific projects contained in the

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  1  approved community redevelopment plan for the designated

  2  community redevelopment area.

  3         e.  The impact of the exemption on incurred debt and

  4  whether such exemption will impair any outstanding bonds that

  5  have pledged tax increment revenues to the repayment of the

  6  bonds.

  7         f.  The benefit of the activities of the special

  8  district to the approved community redevelopment plan.

  9         g.  The benefit of the activities of the special

10  district to the area of operation of the local governing body

11  that created the community redevelopment agency.

12         3.  The local governing body must hold a public hearing

13  on a special district's request for exemption after public

14  notice of the hearing is published in a newspaper having a

15  general circulation in the county or municipality that created

16  the community redevelopment area.  The notice must describe

17  the time, date, place, and purpose of the hearing and must

18  identify generally the community redevelopment area covered by

19  the plan and the impact of the plan on the special district

20  that requested the exemption.

21         4.  If a local governing body grants an exemption to a

22  special district under this paragraph, the local governing

23  body and the special district must enter into an interlocal

24  agreement that establishes the conditions of the exemption,

25  including, but not limited to, the period of time for which

26  the exemption is granted.

27         5.  If a local governing body denies a request for

28  exemption by a special district, the local governing body

29  shall provide the special district with a written analysis

30  specifying the rationale for such denial.  This written

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  1  analysis must include, but is not limited to, the following

  2  information:

  3         a.  A separate, detailed examination of each

  4  consideration listed in subparagraph 2.

  5         b.  Specific examples of how the approved community

  6  redevelopment plan will benefit, and has already benefited,

  7  the purpose for which the special district was created.

  8         6.  The decision to either deny or grant an exemption

  9  must be made by the local governing body within 120 days after

10  the date the written request was submitted to the local

11  governing body pursuant to the procedures established by such

12  local governing body.

13         (6)  Moneys in the redevelopment trust fund may be

14  expended from time to time for undertakings of a community

15  redevelopment agency which are the following purposes, when

16  directly related to financing or refinancing of redevelopment

17  in a community redevelopment area pursuant to an approved

18  community redevelopment plan for the following purposes,

19  including, but not limited to:

20         (a)  Administrative and overhead expenses necessary or

21  incidental to the implementation of a community redevelopment

22  plan adopted by the agency.

23         (b)  Expenses of redevelopment planning, surveys, and

24  financial analysis, including the reimbursement of the

25  governing body or the community redevelopment agency for such

26  expenses incurred before the redevelopment plan was approved

27  and adopted.

28         (c)  The acquisition of real property in the

29  redevelopment area.

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  1         (d)  The clearance and preparation of any redevelopment

  2  area for redevelopment and relocation of site occupants as

  3  provided in s. 163.370.

  4         (e)  The repayment of principal and interest or any

  5  redemption premium for loans, advances, bonds, bond

  6  anticipation notes, and any other form of indebtedness.

  7         (f)  All expenses incidental to or connected with the

  8  issuance, sale, redemption, retirement, or purchase of agency

  9  bonds, bond anticipation notes, or other form of indebtedness,

10  including funding of any reserve, redemption, or other fund or

11  account provided for in the ordinance or resolution

12  authorizing such bonds, notes, or other form of indebtedness.

13         (g)  The development of affordable housing within the

14  area.

15         (h)  The development of community policing innovations.

16         Section 9.  Section 163.410, Florida Statutes, is

17  amended to read:

18         163.410  Exercise of powers in counties with home rule

19  charters.--In any county which has adopted a home rule

20  charter, the powers conferred by this part shall be exercised

21  exclusively by the governing body of such county.  However,

22  the governing body of any such county which has adopted a home

23  rule charter may, in its discretion, by resolution delegate

24  the exercise of the powers conferred upon the county by this

25  part within the boundaries of a municipality to the governing

26  body of such a municipality.  Such a delegation to a

27  municipality shall confer only such powers upon a municipality

28  as shall be specifically enumerated in the delegating

29  resolution.  Any power not specifically delegated shall be

30  reserved exclusively to the governing body of the county.

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  1  agency created by a municipality prior to the adoption of a

  2  county home rule charter. Unless otherwise provided by an

  3  existing ordinance, resolution, or interlocal agreement

  4  between any such county and a municipality, the governing body

  5  of the county that has adopted a home rule charter shall act

  6  on any request from a municipality for a delegation of powers

  7  or a change in an existing delegation of powers within 120

  8  days after the receipt of all required documentation or such

  9  request shall be immediately sent to the governing body for

10  consideration.

11         Section 10.  (1)  Amendments to part III of chapter

12  163, Florida Statutes, as provided by this act, do not apply

13  to any ordinance or resolution authorizing the issuance of any

14  bond, note, or other form of indebtedness to which are pledged

15  increment revenues pursuant to a community development plan,

16  or amendment or modification thereto, as approved or adopted

17  before July 1, 2002.

18         (2)  Amendments to part III of chapter 163, Florida

19  Statutes, as provided by this act, shall not apply to any

20  ordinance, resolution, interlocal agreement, or written

21  agreement effective before July 1, 2002, that provides for the

22  delegation of community redevelopment powers.

23         (3)  Sections 1, 2, 4, and 5 of this act do not apply

24  to nor affect, directly or indirectly, any community

25  development agency created before July 1, 2002, unless the

26  community redevelopment area is expanded on or after July 1,

27  2002, in which case only sections 1 and 2 of this act shall

28  apply only to such expanded area.

29         (4)  Sections 1, 2, 4, and 5 of this act do not apply

30  to nor shall affect, directly or indirectly, any municipality

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  1  2002, or has adopted its finding of necessity on or before

  2  August 1, 2002, and has adopted its community redevelopment

  3  plan on or before December 31, 2002.

  4         (5)  Sections 1, 2, 4, and 5 of this act do not apply

  5  to nor shall affect, directly or indirectly, any municipality

  6  that has submitted before August 1, 2002 its finding of

  7  necessity, or application for approval of a community

  8  redevelopment plan, or an application to amend an existing

  9  community redevelopment plan to a county that has adopted a

10  home rule charter.

11         (6)  Sections 2, 5, 6, and 7 of this act do not apply

12  to nor shall affect, directly or indirectly, any county as

13  defined in section 125.011(1), Florida Statutes, or any

14  municipality located therein.

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