Senate Bill sb0878e2

    SB 878                                        Second Engrossed



  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to the advertisement of real or

  3         personal property with delinquent taxes;

  4         amending s. 197.402, F.S.; creating a pilot

  5         program for certain counties to study the

  6         effectiveness of current legislation that

  7         governs the advertisement of real or personal

  8         property with delinquent taxes; providing

  9         requirements for the pilot program; requiring

10         the tax collector of each county to report to

11         the Legislature on the results of the pilot

12         program; 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.  Subsection (5) is added to section 197.402,

17  Florida Statutes, to read:

18         197.402  Advertisement of real or personal property

19  with delinquent taxes.--

20         (5)  Notwithstanding the provisions of this section,

21  the counties of Lake, Marion, Seminole, and Sumter shall enter

22  into a pilot program for the next two full property tax

23  cycles. During this time the tax collector in each county

24  shall, in lieu of the advertisement required in subsection

25  (3), advertise once at least 21 days prior to a sale under

26  that subsection. At the end of this 2-year pilot program, the

27  tax collector in each of the counties named in this subsection

28  shall submit a report to the President of the Senate and the

29  Speaker of the House of Representatives, on or before October

30  1, 2007, which compares the effectiveness of single

31  publication versus the effectiveness of triple publication by


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    SB 878                                        Second Engrossed



 1  listing the number and percentage of properties on which

 2  delinquent taxes were paid after the single publication in

 3  comparison to the number and percentage of properties on which

 4  delinquent taxes were paid after three publications.

 5         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2005.

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