Fla. Stat. § 153.01
Short title
This part shall be known and may be cited as the “County Water System and Sanitary Sewer Financing Law.”
Florida Statutes Chapter 153 — WATER AND SEWER SYSTEMS
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Provisions
Fla. Stat. § 153.02
Definitions
As used in this part the following words and terms shall have the following meanings unless some other meaning is plainly indicated:(1) The word “county” shall mean any of the several counties of the state operating under the authority granted by this chapter.(2) The term “county commission” or the word “commission” sh…
Fla. Stat. § 153.03
General grant of power
Any of the several counties of the state which may hereafter come under the provisions of this chapter as hereinafter provided is hereby authorized and empowered:(1) To purchase and/or construct and to improve, extend, enlarge, and reconstruct a water supply system or systems or sewage disposal system or systems, or bo…
Fla. Stat. § 153.04
Construction of water supply systems, water system improvements, sewage disposal systems, and sewer improvements
Whenever the county commission of any of the several counties of the state by resolution chooses to exercise the powers granted by this chapter it shall make or cause to be made such surveys, investigations, studies, borings, maps, plans, drawings and estimates of costs and of revenues as it may deem necessary to prepa…
Fla. Stat. § 153.05
Water system improvements and sanitary sewers; special assessments
(1) Any county may provide for the construction or reconstruction of a facility and for the levying of special assessments upon benefited property under the provisions of this section. The initial proceeding hereunder shall be the passage at any lawful meeting of the commission of a resolution ordering the construction…
Fla. Stat. § 153.06
Issuance of bonds
(1) The county commission is hereby authorized to provide by resolution at one time or from time to time for the issuance of either water revenue bonds, sewer revenue bonds, or general obligation bonds of the county for the purpose of paying all or any part of the cost of any one or more of the following:(a) A water su…
Fla. Stat. § 153.07
General obligation bonds
(1) No general obligation bonds shall be issued by county unless the issuance of such bonds shall be approved by a majority of the votes that are cast in an election in which a majority of the freeholders who are qualified electors residing in the county shall participate. Such election shall be called, noticed and con…
Fla. Stat. § 153.08
Water and sewer district general obligation bonds
(1) The county commission is hereby authorized to establish within the county such water and sewer districts as it may deem necessary. For the purpose of providing for and financing the facilities provided for in this chapter, general obligation bonds may be issued covering the facilities located in such district and t…
Fla. Stat. § 153.09
Water revenue bonds and sewer revenue bonds
(1) Water revenue bonds may be used only in connection with the acquisition, construction or operation of water supply systems or water system improvements, and sewer revenue bonds may be used only in connection with the acquisition, construction and operation of sewage disposal systems and sewer improvements. Water re…
Fla. Stat. § 153.091
Combined systems; issuance of bonds
(1) Notwithstanding the provisions of s. 153.09, the county may issue water and sewer revenue bonds for the purpose of the construction, acquisition, or improvement of water supply systems or water system improvements and sewage disposal systems or sewer improvements, which have been combined by the county. Such water…
Fla. Stat. § 153.10
Call for bids
(1) As soon as practicable after the authorization of bonds under the provisions of this chapter or the appropriation of moneys for the construction of water system improvements or sewer improvements, the commission shall publish once, in a newspaper published in the county, and, if the estimated cost exceeds $10,000,…
Fla. Stat. § 153.11
Water service charges and sewer service charges; revenues
(1)(a) The county commission shall in the resolution providing for the issuance of either water revenue bonds or sewer revenue bonds, or both, fix the initial schedule of rates, fees and other charges for the use of and for the services furnished or to be furnished by the facilities, to be paid by the owner, tenant or…
Fla. Stat. § 153.12
Collection of charges
(1) Upon the construction of a sewage disposal system and the financing of such construction by the issuance of sewer revenue bonds under the provisions of this chapter, the owner, tenant or occupant of each lot or parcel of land within the county which abuts upon a street or other public way containing a sanitary sewe…
Fla. Stat. § 153.13
Application of revenues
(1) All revenues derived from any water supply system, water system improvement, sewage disposal system or sewer improvements for either of which a single issue of water revenue bonds or sewer revenue bonds shall be issued, except such part thereof as may be required to pay the cost of maintaining, repairing and operat…
Fla. Stat. § 153.14
Trust funds
All moneys received pursuant to the authority of this chapter shall be deemed to be trust funds, to be held and applied solely as provided in this chapter. The resolution authorizing the issuance of bonds shall provide that any officer to whom, or any bank, trust company or other fiscal agent to which such moneys shall…
Fla. Stat. § 153.15
Remedies
Any holder of bonds issued under the provisions of this chapter or any of the coupons appertaining thereto, except to the extent the rights herein given may be restricted by the resolution authorizing the issuance of such bonds, may, either at law or in equity, by suit, mandamus or other proceeding, protect and enforce…
Fla. Stat. § 153.16
Water revenue refunding bonds
The county commission is hereby authorized to provide by resolution for the issuance of water revenue refunding bonds of the county for the purpose of refunding any water revenue bonds then outstanding and issued under the provisions of this chapter. The county commission is further authorized to provide by resolution…
Fla. Stat. § 153.17
Sewer revenue refunding bonds
The county commission is hereby authorized to provide by resolution for the issuance of sewer revenue refunding bonds of the county for the purpose of refunding any sewer revenue bonds then outstanding and issued under the provisions of this chapter. The county commission is further authorized to provide by resolution…
Fla. Stat. § 153.18
Exemption of property from taxation
As proper facilities for the furnishing of water for human consumption and fire protection and proper facilities for the treatment, purification and disposal of sewage are essential for the health of the inhabitants of the county and for its industrial and commercial development, and as the exercise of the powers confe…
Fla. Stat. § 153.19
Private water supplies
No jurisdiction hereunder shall be exercised by the board of county commissioners over any privately owned industrial water supply system or the disposition of industrial or manufacturing wastes nor shall any rule or regulation be adopted or suit instituted or prosecuted hereunder designed or intended to control or reg…
Fla. Stat. § 153.20
Alternative method
(1) This chapter shall be deemed to provide an additional and alternative method for the doing of the things authorized hereby and shall be regarded as supplemental and additional to the powers conferred upon the commission by other laws, and shall not be regarded as in derogation of any powers now existing. This chapt…
Fla. Stat. § 153.50
Short title
This law may be known and cited as the “County Water and Sewer District Law.”
Fla. Stat. § 153.51
Legislative intent
It is declared as a matter of legislative determination that the extensive growth of population and attendant industry and commerce throughout the state has given rise to public health and water supply problems of statewide concern, in that many unincorporated areas of the counties of the state are not served by water…
Fla. Stat. § 153.52
Definitions
As used in this law, the following words and terms shall have the following meanings, unless some other meaning is plainly intended:(1) “District” shall mean any unincorporated contiguous area comprising part but not all of the area of any county created into and existing as a water and sewer district pursuant and subj…
Fla. Stat. § 153.53
Establishment of districts in unincorporated areas
(1) Subject to this law, the board of county commissioners of any county may establish one or more districts as it shall in its discretion determine to be necessary in the public interest. Any such district shall consist of only unincorporated contiguous areas of such county, comprising part but not all of the areas of…
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