| 1 | Representative Sands offered the following: |
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| 3 | Amendment (with title amendment) |
| 4 | Between lines 950 and 951, insert: |
| 5 | Section 27. Subsection (3) of section 582.30, Florida |
| 6 | Statutes, is amended to read: |
| 7 | 582.30 Discontinuance of districts; referendum; |
| 8 | commissioner's authority.- |
| 9 | (3)(a) In the alternative, upon review and recommendation |
| 10 | of the Soil and Water Conservation Council regarding the |
| 11 | continued viability of a district, the Commissioner of |
| 12 | Agriculture may dissolve or discontinue a such district if, upon |
| 13 | the review and recommendation of the Soil and Water Conservation |
| 14 | Council regarding the continued viability of the district, the |
| 15 | commissioner certifies that the continued operation of the |
| 16 | district is not administratively practicable and feasible. The |
| 17 | commissioner may dissolve or discontinue a district without the |
| 18 | council's review or recommendation if the district fails to |
| 19 | comply with any audit or financial reporting requirement of |
| 20 | chapter 189 and, upon review, the department's inspector general |
| 21 | confirms that the district failed to comply with such |
| 22 | requirement. |
| 23 | (b) Notice of such proposed certification shall be |
| 24 | published once a week for 2 weeks in a newspaper of general |
| 25 | circulation within the county or counties wherein the district |
| 26 | is located, stating the name of the district and a general |
| 27 | description of the territory included in the district, and |
| 28 | requiring that any objections to the proposed dissolution or any |
| 29 | claims against the assets of the district must be filed with the |
| 30 | department clerk not later than 60 days following the date of |
| 31 | last publication. |
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| 34 | T I T L E A M E N D M E N T |
| 35 | Remove line 2 and insert: |
| 36 | An act relating to the |
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| 38 | Remove line 97 and insert: |
| 39 | reference to a local business tax receipt; amending s. |
| 40 | 582.30, F.S.; authorizing the Commissioner of Agriculture |
| 41 | to dissolve or discontinue a soil and water conservation |
| 42 | district without the review or recommendation of the Soil |
| 43 | and Water Conservation Council under certain |
| 44 | circumstances; amending ss. |