Florida Senate - 2017                             CS for SB 1488
       
       
        
       By the Committee on Community Affairs; and Senator Clemens
       
       
       
       
       
       578-03391-17                                          20171488c1
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to annexation procedures for
    3         municipalities; amending s. 171.0413, F.S.; specifying
    4         circumstances under which a vote of the electors in
    5         the area to be annexed is not required; providing an
    6         effective date.
    7  
    8  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   10         Section 1. Subsection (6) of section 171.0413, Florida
   11  Statutes, is amended to read:
   12         171.0413 Annexation procedures.—Any municipality may annex
   13  contiguous, compact, unincorporated territory in the following
   14  manner:
   15         (6) Notwithstanding subsections (1) and (2), if the area
   16  proposed to be annexed does not have any registered electors on
   17  the date the ordinance is finally adopted, or has fewer than
   18  five registered electors and such electors do not own property
   19  in the area to be annexed on the date that the ordinance is
   20  adopted, a vote of the electors of the area proposed to be
   21  annexed is not required. In addition to the requirements of
   22  subsection (5), the area may not be annexed unless the owners of
   23  more than 50 percent of the parcels of land in the area proposed
   24  to be annexed consent to the annexation. If the governing body
   25  of the annexing municipality does not choose to hold a
   26  referendum of the annexing municipality pursuant to subsection
   27  (2), then the consent of the property owners property owner
   28  consents required pursuant to subsection (5) shall be obtained
   29  by the parties proposing the annexation prior to the final
   30  adoption of the ordinance, and the annexation ordinance shall be
   31  effective upon becoming a law or as otherwise provided in the
   32  ordinance.
   33         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2017.