Florida Senate - 2016                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 1664
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  02/24/2016           .                                
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       The Committee on Fiscal Policy (Stargel) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Delete lines 28 - 39
    4  and insert:
    5  a county may not levy special assessments for the provision of
    6  fire protection services on lands classified as agricultural
    7  lands under s. 193.461 unless such property contains a
    8  residential dwelling or nonresidential farm building, with the
    9  exception of an agricultural pole barn, provided the
   10  nonresidential farm building exceeds a just value of $25,000.
   11  Such special assessments must be based solely on the special
   12  benefit accruing to that portion of the property consisting of
   13  the residential dwelling and curtilage, and qualifying
   14  nonresidential farm buildings. As used in this paragraph, the
   15  term “agricultural pole barn” means a nonresidential farm
   16  building in which 70 percent or more of the perimeter walls are
   17  permanently open and allow free ingress and egress.
   18         Section 2. Subsection (4) is added to section 170.01,
   19  Florida Statutes, to read:
   20         170.01 Authority for providing improvements and levying and
   21  collecting special assessments against property benefited.—
   22         (4) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a
   23  municipality may not levy special assessments for the provision
   24  of fire protection services on lands classified as agricultural
   25  lands under s. 193.461 unless such property contains a
   26  residential dwelling or nonresidential farm building, with the
   27  exception of an agricultural pole barn, provided the
   28  nonresidential farm building exceeds a just value of $25,000.
   29  Such special assessments must be based solely on the special
   30  benefit accruing to that portion of the property consisting of
   31  the residential dwelling and curtilage, and qualifying
   32  nonresidential farm buildings. As used in this subsection, the
   33  term “agricultural pole barn” means a nonresidential farm
   34  building in which 70 percent or more of the perimeter walls are
   35  permanently open and allow free ingress and egress.
   36         Section 3. This act shall take effect November 1, 2017.
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   38  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   39  And the title is amended as follows:
   40         Delete lines 5 - 7
   41  and insert:
   42         special assessments on certain agricultural lands for
   43         the provision of fire protection services; providing
   44         exceptions to the prohibition, subject to certain
   45         requirements; defining the term “agricultural pole
   46         barn”; providing an effective date.