Florida Senate - 2019                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 1400
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                   Comm: WD            .                                
                  04/03/2019           .                                
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       The Committee on Community Affairs (Farmer) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment to Amendment (694068) (with title
    2  amendment)
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    4         Delete lines 75 - 93
    5  and insert:
    6         (1) From March 1 through June 1 of the calendar year, a
    7  local government may not enforce an ordinance or regulation
    8  governing the pruning or trimming of specimen, heritage, or
    9  patriarch trees, as defined by local ordinances or regulations,
   10  or the pruning, trimming, or removal of other trees on
   11  residential property which requires a permit, an application,
   12  the provision of notice, a fee, or a fine if the property owner
   13  has obtained documentation from an arborist certified by the
   14  International Society of Arboriculture or a Florida licensed
   15  landscape architect that the tree is a danger to persons or
   16  property and the tree is not a listed endangered species.
   17         (2) A local government may enforce ordinances or
   18  regulations pertaining to the replanting of trees that have been
   19  removed in accordance with this section.
   20         (3) This section does not apply to the exercise of
   21  specifically delegated authority for mangrove protection
   22  pursuant to ss. 403.9321-403.9333.
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   25  And the title is amended as follows:
   26         Delete lines 110 - 113
   27  and insert:
   28         authorizing a local government to enforce ordinances
   29         or regulations pertaining to the replanting of trees
   30         under certain circumstances; providing applicability;
   31         providing