| 1 | A bill to be entitled |
| 2 | An act relating to the Holley-Navarre Fire District, Santa |
| 3 | Rosa County; amending chapter 2004-463, Laws of Florida; |
| 4 | providing for impact fees; providing legislative intent; |
| 5 | providing application; requiring fee proceeds to be kept |
| 6 | separate from other funds; providing a definition; |
| 7 | providing that fees shall not be used for the acquisition, |
| 8 | purchase, or construction of facilities which must be |
| 9 | obtained in any event; providing an effective date. |
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| 11 | Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: |
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| 13 | Section 1. Section 17 is added to section 3 of chapter |
| 14 | 2004-463, Laws of Florida, to read: |
| 15 | Section 17. Impact fees.-- |
| 16 | (1) Pursuant to section 191.009(4), Florida Statutes, it |
| 17 | is hereby declared that the cost of new facilities upon fire |
| 18 | protection and emergency service should be borne by new users of |
| 19 | the district's services to the extent new construction requires |
| 20 | new facilities, but only to that extent. It is the legislative |
| 21 | intent of this section to transfer to the new users of the |
| 22 | district's fire protection and emergency services a fair share |
| 23 | of the costs that new users impose on the district for new |
| 24 | facilities. This section shall only apply in the event that the |
| 25 | general purpose local government in which the district is |
| 26 | located has not adopted an impact fee for fire services which is |
| 27 | distributed to the district for construction within its |
| 28 | jurisdictional boundaries. |
| 29 | (2) The impact fees collected by the district pursuant to |
| 30 | this section shall be kept as a separate fund from other |
| 31 | revenues of the district and shall be used exclusively for the |
| 32 | acquisition, purchase, or construction of new facilities or |
| 33 | portions thereof required to provide fire protection and |
| 34 | emergency service to new construction. "New facilities" means |
| 35 | land, buildings, and capital equipment, including, but not |
| 36 | limited to, fire and emergency vehicles and radio telemetry |
| 37 | equipment. The fees shall not be used for the acquisition, |
| 38 | purchase, or construction of facilities which must be obtained |
| 39 | in any event, regardless of growth within the district. The |
| 40 | board of fire commissioners shall maintain adequate records to |
| 41 | ensure that impact fees are expended only for permissible new |
| 42 | facilities. |
| 43 | Section 2. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law. |