HB 0237 2003
1	A bill to be entitled
2	An act relating to municipal parking facility space
3	surcharges; creating s. 212.035, F.S.; authorizing certain
4	municipalities to impose and collect a surcharge on
5	certain parking facility space sale, lease, or rental
6	charges; requiring referendum approval; providing for a
7	maximum surcharge rate; specifying uses and limits of
8	surcharge proceeds; providing an effective date.
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10	Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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12	Section 1. Section 212.035, Florida Statutes, is created
13	to read:
14	212.035 Surcharge on municipal facility parking fees.--
15	(1) The governing authority of any municipality with a
16	resident population of 200,000 or more, more than 20 percent of
17	the real property of which is exempt from ad valorem taxes, and
18	which is located in a county with a population of more than
19	500,000 may impose and collect, subject to referendum approval
20	by voters in the municipality, a discretionary per-vehicle
21	surcharge of up to 20 percent of the amount charged for the
22	sale, lease, or rental of space at parking facilities within the
23	municipality that are open for use to the general public.
24	(2) A municipal governing authority that imposes the
25	surcharge authorized by this subsection may use the proceeds of
26	such surcharge for the following purposes only:
27	(a) No less than 60 percent and no more than 80 percent of
28	surcharge proceeds shall be used to reduce the municipality’s ad
29	valorem tax millage or to reduce or eliminate non-ad valorem
30	assessments.
31	(b) Not more than 40 percent and not less than 20 percent
32	of surcharge proceeds shall be used to improve transportation
33	including, but not limited to, street, sidewalk, roadway,
34	landscape, transit, and streetscape beautification improvements.
35	Section 2. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law.
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