Florida Senate - 2009                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 1468
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  04/15/2009           .                                
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       The Committee on Finance and Tax (Bennett) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Between lines 272 and 273
    4  insert:
    5         Section 4. Subsection (1) of section 195.073, Florida
    6  Statutes, is amended to read:
    7         195.073 Classification of property.—All items required by
    8  law to be on the assessment rolls must receive a classification
    9  based upon the use of the property. The department shall
   10  promulgate uniform definitions for all classifications. The
   11  department may designate other subclassifications of property.
   12  No assessment roll may be approved by the department which does
   13  not show proper classifications.
   14         (1) Real property must be classified according to the
   15  assessment basis of the land into the following classes:
   16         (a) Residential, subclassified into categories, one
   17  category for homestead property and one for nonhomestead
   18  property:
   19         1. Single family.
   20         2. Mobile homes.
   21         3. Multifamily.
   22         4. Condominiums.
   23         5. Cooperatives.
   24         6. Retirement homes.
   25         (b) Commercial and industrial.
   26         (c) Agricultural.
   27         (d) Nonagricultural acreage.
   28         (e) High-water recharge.
   29         (f) Historic property used for commercial or certain
   30  nonprofit purposes.
   31         (g) Exempt, wholly or partially.
   32         (h) Centrally assessed.
   33         (i) Leasehold interests.
   34         (j) Time-share property.
   35         (k) Working waterfront property.
   36         (l) Other.
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   38  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   39         And the title is amended as follows:
   40         Delete line 40
   41  and insert:
   42  
   43  certification requirements; amending s. 195.073, F.S.; providing
   44  for the classification of land as working waterfront property on
   45  an assessment roll; amending s. 259.105, F.S.;