Florida Senate - 2017                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. PCS (304644) for CS for SB 1118
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  05/01/2017           .                                
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       The Committee on Appropriations (Grimsley) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Between lines 389 and 390
    4  insert:
    5         Section 9. Paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of section
    6  337.401, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
    7         337.401 Use of right-of-way for utilities subject to
    8  regulation; permit; fees.—
    9         (1)(a) The department and local governmental entities,
   10  referred to in this section and in ss. 337.402, 337.403, and
   11  337.404 as the “authority,” that have jurisdiction and control
   12  of public roads or publicly owned rail corridors are authorized
   13  to prescribe and enforce reasonable rules or regulations with
   14  reference to the placing and maintaining across, on, or within
   15  the right-of-way limits of any road or publicly owned rail
   16  corridors under their respective jurisdictions any electric
   17  transmission, voice telephone, telegraph, data, or other
   18  communications services lines or wireless facilities; pole
   19  lines; poles; railways; ditches; sewers; water, heat, or gas
   20  mains; pipelines; fences; gasoline tanks and pumps; or other
   21  structures referred to in this section and in ss. 337.402,
   22  337.403, and 337.404 as the “utility.” The department may enter
   23  into a permit-delegation agreement with a governmental entity if
   24  issuance of a permit is based on requirements that the
   25  department finds will ensure the safety and integrity of
   26  facilities of the Department of Transportation; however, the
   27  permit-delegation agreement does not apply to facilities of
   28  electric utilities as defined in s. 366.02(2).
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   31  And the title is amended as follows:
   32         Delete line 83
   33  and insert:
   34         receiving competitive bids; amending s. 337.401, F.S.;
   35         authorizing the Department of Transportation and
   36         certain local governmental entities to prescribe and
   37         enforce reasonable rules or regulations with reference
   38         to the placing and maintaining across, on, or within
   39         the right-of-way limits of any road or publicly owned
   40         rail corridors under their respective jurisdictions
   41         any voice or data communications services lines or
   42         wireless facilities; amending s. 338.227, F.S.;