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  2         An act relating to the Lealman Special Fire

  3         Control District, Pinellas County; amending

  4         sections 3(2) and 11 of section 1 of chapter

  5         2000-426, Laws of Florida; providing authority

  6         of the district with respect to land that is

  7         annexed by a municipality or other fire control

  8         district; providing for collection and payment

  9         of fire services taxes or assessments by such

10         municipality or other district; providing for

11         future repeal of the amendments made by the

12         act; providing effective dates.

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

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16         Section 1.  Subsection (2) of section 3 of section 1 of

17  chapter 2000-426, Laws of Florida, is amended to read:

18         Section 3.  Formation; boundaries.--

19         (2)  Any lands within a municipality included in the

20  boundaries of the District, as described herein, shall be

21  excluded from the District and its jurisdiction.  If any area,

22  tract, or parcel of land within the boundaries of the District

23  shall hereafter become annexed to a municipality, such area,

24  tract, or parcel of land shall be excluded from the District

25  effective the next January 1 following such annexation by a

26  municipality; however, the District shall continue to provide

27  services to the annexed area pursuant to section 11.

28         Section 2.  Section 11 of section 1 of chapter

29  2000-426, Laws of Florida, is amended to read:

30         Section 11.  Annexation of territories by

31  municipalities or other fire control


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  1  districts.--Notwithstanding chapter 171, Florida Statutes, or

  2  any other applicable law or ordinance, if any municipality or

  3  other fire control district annexes land within the District,

  4  the District shall continue as the sole taxing, enforcing, and

  5  service-providing authority for District purposes in the

  6  annexed land. However, any municipality or other fire control

  7  district that annexes such land may collect the applicable

  8  assessment or tax for fire services and pay the District for

  9  such services at the District's annually adopted standard

10  rate. For the purposes and requirements of this Act, after the

11  annexation by a municipality of any unincorporated area within

12  the Lealman Special Fire Control District, the annexed area

13  shall be treated as lying within the corporate boundaries of

14  the annexing municipality, and shall not be subject to a levy

15  of the ad valorem tax which is authorized by this Act.

16         Section 3.  Effective January 1, 2008, subsection (2)

17  of section 3 of section 1 of chapter 2000-426, Laws of

18  Florida, as amended by this act, is amended to read:

19         Section 3.  Formation; boundaries.--

20         (2)  Any lands within a municipality included in the

21  boundaries of the District, as described herein, shall be

22  excluded from the District and its jurisdiction.  If any area,

23  tract, or parcel of land within the boundaries of the District

24  shall hereafter become annexed to a municipality, such area,

25  tract, or parcel of land shall be excluded from the District

26  effective the next January 1 following such annexation by a

27  municipality; however, the District shall continue to provide

28  services to the annexed area pursuant to section 11.

29         Section 4.  Effective January 1, 2008, section 11 of

30  section 1 of chapter 2000-426, Laws of Florida, as amended by

31  this act, is amended to read:


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  1         Section 11.  Annexation of territories by

  2  municipalities or other fire control districts.--For the

  3  purposes and requirements of this Act, after the annexation by

  4  a municipality of any unincorporated area within the Lealman

  5  Special Fire Control District, the annexed area shall be

  6  treated as lying within the corporate boundaries of the

  7  annexing municipality, and shall not be subject to a levy of

  8  the ad valorem tax which is authorized by this Act.

  9  Notwithstanding chapter 171, Florida Statutes, or any other

10  applicable law or ordinance, if any municipality or other fire

11  control district annexes land within the District, the

12  District shall continue as the sole taxing, enforcing, and

13  service-providing authority for District purposes in the

14  annexed land. However, any municipality or other fire control

15  district that annexes such land may collect the applicable

16  assessment or tax for fire services and pay the District for

17  such services at the District's annually adopted standard

18  rate.

19         Section 5.  Except as otherwise provide herein, this

20  act shall take effect January 1, 2003.

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