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  2         An act relating to municipal parking facility

  3         space surcharges; creating s. 166.271, F.S.;

  4         authorizing certain municipalities to impose

  5         and collect a surcharge on certain parking

  6         facility space sale, lease, or rental charges;

  7         requiring referendum approval; providing for a

  8         maximum surcharge rate; providing an exception;

  9         providing a limitation; specifying uses and

10         limits of surcharge proceeds; providing for

11         local administration of the surcharge;

12         providing an effective date.

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

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16         Section 1.  Section 166.271, Florida Statutes, is

17  created to read:

18         166.271  Surcharge on municipal facility parking

19  fees.--

20         (1)  The governing authority of any municipality with a

21  resident population of 200,000 or more, more than 20 percent

22  of the real property of which is exempt from ad valorem taxes,

23  and which is located in a county with a population of more

24  than 500,000 may impose and collect, subject to referendum

25  approval by voters in the municipality, a discretionary

26  per-vehicle surcharge of up to 15 percent of the amount

27  charged for the sale, lease, or rental of space at parking

28  facilities within the municipality which are open for use to

29  the general public and which are not airports, seaports,

30  county administration buildings, or other projects as defined

31  under ss. 125.011 and 125.015, provided that this surcharge


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 1  shall not take effect while any surcharge imposed pursuant to

 2  s. 218.503(5)(a), is in effect.

 3         (2)  A municipal governing authority that imposes the

 4  surcharge authorized by this subsection may use the proceeds

 5  of such surcharge for the following purposes only:

 6         (a)  No less than 60 percent and no more than 80

 7  percent of surcharge proceeds shall be used to reduce the

 8  municipality's ad valorem tax millage or to reduce or

 9  eliminate non-ad valorem assessments, unless the municipality

10  has previously used the proceeds from the surcharge levied

11  under s. 218.503(5)(b) to reduce the municipality's ad valorem

12  tax millage or to reduce non-ad valorem assessments.

13         (b)  Not more than 40 percent and not less than 20

14  percent of surcharge proceeds shall be used to improve

15  transportation, including, but not limited to, street,

16  sidewalk, roadway, landscape, transit, and streetscape

17  beautification improvements. These designated surcharge

18  proceeds shall be used in downtown or urban core areas.

19  Downtown or urban core areas shall be coterminous with any

20  downtown development district established pursuant to s.

21  166.0497 or chapter 65-1090, Laws of Florida. Alternatively,

22  any eligible local governmental entity may identify the

23  downtown or urban core area as any contiguous area consisting

24  of lands where the predominant acreage is designated as

25  commercial or its substantial equivalent pursuant to the local

26  government comprehensive plan or other implementing land

27  development regulations.

28         (3)  Any municipality imposing a surcharge authorized

29  by this section shall administer the surcharge locally and

30  should provide for brackets applicable to transactions subject

31  to the surcharge.


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