| 1 | A bill to be entitled |
| 2 | An act relating to municipal annexation; amending s. |
| 3 | 171.044, F.S.; renaming voluntary annexation as expedited |
| 4 | annexation; revising a provision exempting municipalities |
| 5 | in certain charter counties from application of the |
| 6 | section; providing an effective date. |
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| 8 | Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: |
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| 10 | Section 1. Subsections (2), (4), and (5) of section |
| 11 | 171.044, Florida Statutes, are amended to read: |
| 12 | 171.044 Expedited Voluntary annexation.-- |
| 13 | (2) Upon determination by the governing body of the |
| 14 | municipality that the petition bears the signatures of all |
| 15 | owners of property in the area proposed to be annexed, the |
| 16 | governing body may, at any regular meeting, adopt a nonemergency |
| 17 | ordinance to annex said property on an expedited basis and |
| 18 | redefine the boundary lines of the municipality to include said |
| 19 | property. Said ordinance shall be passed after notice of the |
| 20 | annexation has been published at least once each week for 2 |
| 21 | consecutive weeks in some newspaper in such city or town or, if |
| 22 | no newspaper is published in said city or town, then in a |
| 23 | newspaper published in the same county; and if no newspaper is |
| 24 | published in said county, then at least three printed copies of |
| 25 | said notice shall be posted for 4 consecutive weeks at some |
| 26 | conspicuous place in said city or town. The notice shall give |
| 27 | the ordinance number and a brief, general description of the |
| 28 | area proposed to be annexed. The description shall include a map |
| 29 | clearly showing the area and a statement that the complete legal |
| 30 | description by metes and bounds and the ordinance can be |
| 31 | obtained from the office of the city clerk. |
| 32 | (4) The method of annexation provided by this section |
| 33 | shall be supplemental to any other procedure provided by general |
| 34 | or special law, except that this section shall not apply to |
| 35 | municipalities in counties with charters which set forth |
| 36 | verbatim provide for an exclusive method for expedited of |
| 37 | municipal annexation and identify by metes and bounds all areas |
| 38 | governed by such exclusive method. |
| 39 | (5) Land shall not be annexed through expedited voluntary |
| 40 | annexation when such annexation results in the creation of |
| 41 | enclaves. |
| 42 | Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2005. |