((LATE FILED FOR: 4/30/2008 8:30:00 AM))Amendment
Bill No. CS/HB 7129
Amendment No. 987899
CHAMBER ACTION
Senate House
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1Representative Lopez-Cantera offered the following:
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3     Amendment (with title amendment)
4     Between lines 4633and 4634 insert:
5     Section 47.  Subsection (3) of section 170.01, Florida
6Statutes, is amended to read:
7     170.01  Authority for providing improvements and levying
8and collecting special assessments against property benefited.--
9     (3)(a)  Any municipality, subject to the approval of a
10majority of the affected property owners who actually vote in
11the required vote, may levy and collect special assessments
12against property benefited for the purpose of stabilizing and
13improving:
14     1.(a)  Retail business districts,
15     2.(b)  Wholesale business districts, or
16     3.(c)  Nationally recognized historic districts,
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18or any combination of such districts, through promotion,
19management, marketing, and other similar services in such
20districts of the municipality. This paragraph subsection does
21not authorize a municipality to use bond proceeds to fund
22ongoing operations of these districts.
23     (b)  Any municipality may determine in its resolution
24required to declare special assessments pursuant to s. 170.03
25that the vote of affected property owners shall be conducted
26either:
27     1.  By voting by tax folio numbers of affected properties;
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29     2.  By voting by total square footage of the affected
30properties.
31     Section 48.  If any provision of this act or the
32application thereof to any person or circumstance is held
33invalid, the invalidity shall not affect other provisions or
34applications of the act which can be given effect without the
35invalid provision or application, and to this end the provisions
36of this act are declared severable.
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T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T
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45requiring a report; amending s. 170.01, F.S.; revising
46provisions with respect to the authority of a municipality to
47levy and collect special assessments against certain property
48for the purpose of providing specified local municipal
49improvements; providing severability; repealing s. 420.9078,
50F.S., relating
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