Florida Senate - 2010                                    SB 2372
       
       
       
       By Senator Rich
       
       
       
       
       34-00524A-10                                          20102372__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to animal control or cruelty
    3         ordinances; amending s. 828.27, F.S.; requiring a
    4         county or municipality enacting an ordinance relating
    5         to animal control or cruelty to impose a specified
    6         surcharge on the civil penalty for violations of the
    7         ordinance; specifying use of the proceeds of the
    8         surcharge; providing construction; providing an
    9         effective date.
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   11  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   13         Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subsection (4) of section
   14  828.27, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
   15         828.27 Local animal control or cruelty ordinances;
   16  penalty.—
   17         (4)
   18         (b) The governing body of a county or municipality enacting
   19  an ordinance relating to animal control or cruelty shall may
   20  impose and collect a surcharge of $15 up to $5 upon each civil
   21  penalty imposed for each violation of the an ordinance relating
   22  to animal control or cruelty. One dollar of the surcharge may be
   23  retained by the clerk of the court, $5 of the surcharge proceeds
   24  from such surcharges shall be used to pay the costs of training
   25  for animal control officers, and the remainder of the surcharge
   26  shall be used to subsidize the costs of spaying or neutering of
   27  dogs and cats whose owners voluntarily submit their animals for
   28  sterilization. Owners of such animals may not be charged more
   29  for the spaying or neutering than the cost of sterilization less
   30  the subsidy paid from the surcharge. This paragraph does not
   31  require the governing body of a county or municipality to enact
   32  such an ordinance.
   33         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2010.