| 1 | The Growth Management Committee recommends the following: |
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| 3 | Council/Committee Substitute |
| 4 | Remove the entire bill and insert: |
| 5 | A bill to be entitled |
| 6 | An act relating to municipal annexation; amending s. |
| 7 | 171.044, F.S.; renaming voluntary annexation as expedited |
| 8 | annexation; revising a provision exempting municipalities |
| 9 | in certain charter counties from application of the |
| 10 | section; providing an effective date. |
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| 12 | Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: |
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| 14 | Section 1. Subsections (2), (4), and (5) of section |
| 15 | 171.044, Florida Statutes, are amended to read: |
| 16 | 171.044 Expedited Voluntary annexation.-- |
| 17 | (2) Upon determination by the governing body of the |
| 18 | municipality that the petition bears the signatures of all |
| 19 | owners of property in the area proposed to be annexed, the |
| 20 | governing body may, at any regular meeting, adopt a nonemergency |
| 21 | ordinance to annex said property on an expedited basis and |
| 22 | redefine the boundary lines of the municipality to include said |
| 23 | property. Said ordinance shall be passed after notice of the |
| 24 | annexation has been published at least once each week for 2 |
| 25 | consecutive weeks in some newspaper in such city or town or, if |
| 26 | no newspaper is published in said city or town, then in a |
| 27 | newspaper published in the same county; and if no newspaper is |
| 28 | published in said county, then at least three printed copies of |
| 29 | said notice shall be posted for 4 consecutive weeks at some |
| 30 | conspicuous place in said city or town. The notice shall give |
| 31 | the ordinance number and a brief, general description of the |
| 32 | area proposed to be annexed. The description shall include a map |
| 33 | clearly showing the area and a statement that the complete legal |
| 34 | description by metes and bounds and the ordinance can be |
| 35 | obtained from the office of the city clerk. |
| 36 | (4) The method of annexation provided by this section |
| 37 | shall be supplemental to any other procedure provided by general |
| 38 | or special law, except that this section shall not apply to |
| 39 | municipalities in counties with charters which set forth |
| 40 | verbatim provide for an exclusive method for expedited of |
| 41 | municipal annexation or to municipalities in counties where |
| 42 | expedited annexation procedures in the county charter were |
| 43 | officially approved by a countywide planning council which |
| 44 | represents local governments within the county prior to a |
| 45 | referendum vote amending the charter to permit expedited |
| 46 | annexation procedures to be established by county ordinance. |
| 47 | (5) Land shall not be annexed through expedited voluntary |
| 48 | annexation when such annexation results in the creation of |
| 49 | enclaves. |
| 50 | Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2005. |