Florida Statutes Part V - Finance And Taxation (Ss. 373.470-373.591)

• 373.470 - Everglades Restoration.
  (1) SHORT TITLE.—This section may be cited as the “Everglades Restoration Investment Act.”(2) DEFINITIONS.—As used in this section, the term:(a) “Caloosahatchee River Watershed Protection Plan” means the plan...
• 373.472 - Save Our Everglades Trust Fund.
  (1) There is created within the Department of Environmental Protection the Save Our Everglades Trust Fund. Funds in the trust fund shall be expended to implement...
• 373.501 - Appropriation Of Funds To Water Management Districts.
  (1) The department may allocate to the water management districts, from funds appropriated to the department, such sums as may be deemed necessary to defray the...
• 373.503 - Manner Of Taxation.
  (1) It is the finding of the Legislature that the general regulatory and administrative functions of the districts herein authorized are of general benefit to the...
• 373.506 - Costs Of District.
  If it should appear necessary to procure funds with which to pay the expenses of a district, or to meet emergencies, before a sufficient sum...
• 373.5071 - Audit Report; Furnishing To Governing Board And Clerks Of Circuit Courts.
  The audit report required in s. 218.39 shall be furnished to the governing board of the district and the clerks of the circuit courts of...
• 373.535 - Preliminary District Budgets.
  (1) BUDGET DEVELOPMENT.—(a) By January 15 of each year, each water management district shall submit a preliminary budget for the next fiscal year for legislative review to...
• 373.536 - District Budget And Hearing Thereon.
  (1) FISCAL YEAR.—The fiscal year of districts created under the provisions of this chapter shall extend from October 1 of one year through September 30 of...
• 373.539 - Imposition Of Taxes.
  (1) Each year the governing board of the district shall certify to the property appraiser of the county in which the property is situate, timely for...
• 373.543 - Land Held By Board Of Trustees Of The Internal Improvement Trust Fund; Areas Not Taxed.
  (1) Land comprising part of the principal of the State School Trust Fund declared by the constitution to be “sacred and inviolate,” or other real estate,...
• 373.546 - Unit Areas.
  The governing board may, in its discretion, adopt and effectuate unit areas embracing separate or combined drainage basins, or parts thereof, or areas of related...
• 373.553 - Treasurer Of The Board; Payment Of Funds; Depositories.
  (1) The governing board shall designate a treasurer who shall be custodian of all funds belonging to the board and to the district, and such funds...
• 373.559 - May Borrow Money Temporarily.
  In order to provide for the works described by this chapter, the governing board is hereby authorized and empowered to borrow money temporarily, from time...
• 373.563 - Bonds.
  (1) The governing board is hereby authorized and empowered to borrow money on permanent loans and incur obligations from time to time on such terms and...
• 373.566 - Refunding Bonds.
  The governing board shall have authority to issue refunding bonds to take up any outstanding bonds of said district falling due and becoming payable, when,...
• 373.569 - Bond Election.
  When required by the State Constitution, the governing board shall call an election of the freeholders in said district, in which said election the matter...
• 373.573 - Bonds To Be Validated.
  Whenever the governing board shall have authorized the issuance of bonds under the provisions of this chapter, the said board may, if it shall so...
• 373.576 - Sale Of Bonds.
  All of said bonds shall be executed and delivered to the treasurer of said district, who shall sell the same in such quantities and at...
• 373.579 - Proceeds From Taxes For Bond Purposes.
  It shall be the duty of the treasurer as custodian of the funds belonging to the said board and to the district, out of the...
• 373.583 - Registration Of Bonds.
  (1) Whenever the owner of any coupon bond issued pursuant to the provisions of this chapter shall present such bond and all unpaid coupons thereof to...
• 373.584 - Revenue Bonds.
  (1) In addition to issuing general obligation bonds as provided in s. 373.563, districts may also, from time to time, issue revenue bonds to finance the...
• 373.586 - Unpaid Warrants To Draw Interest.
  If any warrant issued under this chapter is not paid when presented to the treasurer of the district because of lack of funds in the...
• 373.59 - Payment In Lieu Of Taxes For Lands Acquired For Water Management District Purposes.
  (1) Beginning July 1, 1999, funds shall be reserved annually by a governing board, during the development of its annual operating budget, for payments in lieu...
• 373.5905 - Reinstatement Of Payments In Lieu Of Taxes; Duration.
  If a water management district has made a payment in lieu of taxes to a governmental entity and subsequently suspended such payment, beginning July 1,...
• 373.591 - Management Review Teams.
  (1) To determine whether conservation, preservation, and recreation lands titled in the names of the water management districts are being managed for the purposes for which...

Last modified: September 23, 2016