Florida Senate - 2025 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
Bill No. CS for CS for SB 784
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LEGISLATIVE ACTION
Senate . House
Comm: RCS .
04/08/2025 .
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The Committee on Rules (Ingoglia) recommended the following:
1 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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3 Delete lines 20 - 41
4 and insert:
5 Section 1. Section 177.071, Florida Statutes, is amended to
6 read:
7 177.071 Administrative approval of plats plat by designated
8 county or municipal official governing bodies.—
9 (1)(a) A plat or replat submitted under this part must be
10 administratively approved and no further action or approval by
11 the governing body of a county or municipality is required if
12 the plat or replat complies with the requirements of s. 177.091.
13 The governing body of the county or municipality shall
14 designate, by ordinance or resolution, an administrative
15 authority to receive, review, and process the plat or replat
16 submittal, including designating an administrative official
17 responsible for approving, approving with conditions, or denying
18 the proposed plat or replat.
19 (b) As used in this section, the term “administrative
20 authority” means a department, division, or other agency of the
21 county or municipality. For purposes of issuing a final
22 administrative approval of a plat or replat submittal, the term
23 also includes an administrative officer or employee designated
24 by the governing body of a county or municipality, including but
25 not limited to, a county administrator or manager, a city
26 manager, a deputy county administrator or manager, a deputy city
27 manager, an assistant county administrator or manager, an
28 assistant city manager, or other high-ranking county or city
29 department or division director with direct or indirect
30 oversight responsibility for the county’s or municipality’s land
31 development, housing, utilities, or public works programs.
32 (2) Within 7 business days after receipt of a plat or
33 replat submittal, the administrative authority shall provide
34 written notice to the applicant acknowledging receipt of the
35 plat or replat submittal and identifying any missing documents
36 or information necessary to process the plat or replat submittal
37 for compliance with s. 177.091. The written notice must also
38 provide information regarding the plat or replat approval
39 process, including requirements regarding the completeness of
40 the process and applicable timeframes for reviewing, approving,
41 and otherwise processing the plat or replat submittal.
42 (3) Unless the applicant requests an extension of time, the
43 administrative authority shall approve, approve with conditions,
44 or deny the plat or replat submittal within the timeframe
45 identified in the written notice provided to the applicant under
46 subsection (2). If the administrative authority does not approve
47 the plat or replat, it must notify the applicant in writing of
48 the reasons for declining to approve the submittal. The written
49 notice must identify all areas of noncompliance and include
50 specific citations to each requirement the plat or replat
51 submittal fails to meet. The administrative authority, or an
52 official, an employee, an agent, or a designee of the governing
53 body, may not request or require the applicant to file a written
54 extension of time.
55 (4)(1) Before a plat or replat is offered for recording, it
56 must be administratively approved as required by this section by
57 the appropriate governing body, and evidence of such approval
58 must be placed on the plat or replat. If not approved, the
59 governing body must return the plat or replat to the
60 professional surveyor and mapper or the legal entity offering
61 the plat or replat for recordation. For the purposes of this
62 part:
63 (a) When the plat or replat to be submitted for approval is
64 located wholly within the boundaries of a municipality, the
65 governing body of the municipality has exclusive jurisdiction to
66 approve the plat or replat.
67 (b) When a plat or replat lies wholly within the
68 unincorporated areas of a county, the governing body of the
69 county has exclusive jurisdiction to approve the plat or replat.
70 (c) When a plat or replat lies within the boundaries of
71 more than one county, municipality, or both governing body, two
72 plats or replats must be prepared and each county or
73 municipality governing body has exclusive jurisdiction to
74 approve the plat or replat within its boundaries, unless each
75 county or municipality with jurisdiction over the plat or replat
76 the governing bodies having said jurisdiction agree that one
77 plat is mutually acceptable.
78 (5)(2) Any provision in a county charter, or in an
79 ordinance of any charter county or consolidated government
80 chartered under s. 6(e), Art. VIII of the State Constitution,
81 which provision is inconsistent with anything contained in this
82 section shall prevail in such charter county or consolidated
83 government to the extent of any such inconsistency.
84 Section 2. Section 177.111, Florida Statutes, is amended to
85 read:
86 177.111 Instructions for filing plats plat.—After the
87 approval by the appropriate administrative authority governing
88 body required by s. 177.071, the plat or replat must shall be
89 recorded by the circuit court clerk or other recording officer
90 upon submission thereto of such approved plat or replat. The
91 circuit court clerk or other recording officer shall maintain in
92 his or her office a book of the proper size for such papers so
93 that they will shall not be folded, to be kept in the vault. A
94 print or photographic copy must be filed in a similar book and
95 kept in his or her office for the use of the public. The clerk
96 shall make available to the public a full size copy of the
97 record plat or replat at a reasonable fee.
98 ================= T I T L E A M E N D M E N T ================
99 And the title is amended as follows:
100 Delete lines 3 - 16
101 and insert:
102 F.S.; requiring that certain plat or replat submittals
103 be administratively approved with no further action by
104 certain entities under certain circumstances;
105 requiring the governing body of such county or
106 municipality to designate an administrative authority
107 to receive, review, and process plat or replat
108 submittals; providing requirements for such
109 designation; defining the term “administrative
110 authority”; requiring the administrative authority to
111 submit a certain notice to an applicant; providing
112 requirements for such notice; requiring the
113 administrative authority to approve, approve with
114 conditions, or deny a plat or replat submittal in
115 accordance with the timeframe in the initial written
116 notice to the applicant; requiring the administrative
117 authority to notify the applicant in writing if it
118 declines to approve a plat or replat submittal;
119 requiring that the written notification contain the
120 reasons for denial and other information; prohibiting
121 the administrative authority or other official,
122 employee, agent, or designee from requesting or
123 requiring that the applicant request an extension of
124 time; amending s. 177.111, F.S.; conforming provisions
125 to changes made by the act; providing an effective
126 date.