Florida Senate - 2017                                    SB 1488
       
       
        
       By Senator Clemens
       
       
       
       
       
       31-01009A-17                                          20171488__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to annexation procedures for
    3         municipalities; amending s. 171.0413, F.S.; revising
    4         circumstances under which a municipality is prohibited
    5         from annexing certain lands in contiguous, compact, or
    6         unincorporated areas without getting consent from a
    7         specified percent of landowners in the area;
    8         specifying circumstances under which a vote of the
    9         electors in the area to be annexed is not required;
   10         providing an effective date.
   11  
   12  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   14         Section 1. Subsections (5) and (6) of section 171.0413,
   15  Florida Statutes, are amended to read:
   16         171.0413 Annexation procedures.—Any municipality may annex
   17  contiguous, compact, unincorporated territory in the following
   18  manner:
   19         (5) If more than 70 percent of the land in an area proposed
   20  to be annexed is owned by individuals, corporations, or legal
   21  entities which are not registered electors of such area, such
   22  area shall not be annexed unless the owners of more than 50
   23  percent of the land in such area consent to such annexation.
   24  Such consent shall be obtained by the parties proposing the
   25  annexation prior to the referendum to be held on the annexation.
   26         (6) Notwithstanding subsections (1) and (2), if the area
   27  proposed to be annexed does not have any registered electors
   28  that own property in the area to be annexed on the date the
   29  ordinance is finally adopted, a vote of electors of the area
   30  proposed to be annexed is not required. In addition to the
   31  requirements of subsection (5), the area may not be annexed
   32  unless the owners of more than 50 percent of the parcels of land
   33  in the area proposed to be annexed consent to the annexation. If
   34  the governing body of the annexing municipality does not choose
   35  to hold a referendum of the annexing municipality pursuant to
   36  subsection (2), then the consent of the property owners property
   37  owner consents required pursuant to subsection (5) shall be
   38  obtained by the parties proposing the annexation prior to the
   39  final adoption of the ordinance, and the annexation ordinance
   40  shall be effective upon becoming a law or as otherwise provided
   41  in the ordinance.
   42         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2017.