The 2023 Florida Statutes (including Special Session C)
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. . . Section 20-71 established stormwater management services as a utility under section 403.0893, Florida . . . Section 403.0893(1) allows counties and municipalities to create one or more stormwater -utilities and . . . different subareas different per acreage fees based upon a reasonable relationship to benefits received. § 403.0893 . . . use the non-ad valorem method to levy, collect, and enforce the fees assessed, pursuant to section 403.0893 . . . The SMU fee was a user fee established under section 403.0893(1). See City of Gainesville v. . . .
. . . established a stormwater utility and utility fees, pursuant to the authority granted to the City by section 403.0893 . . .
. . . the City adopted an ordinance establishing a stormwater management utility in accordance with section 403.0893 . . . Under section 403.0893, Florida Statutes (1989-99), a local governmental entity may fund a stormwater . . . In this case, the City’s ordinance indicates that it acted under the authority of section 403.0893(1) . . .
. . . .” § 403.0893(1), Fla. Stat. (2002). . . . See generally § 403.0893, Fla. Stat. (2002). . . . Compare § 403.0893(1) (authorizing the creation of a stormwater utility and the imposition of stormwater . . . Although section 403.0893(3), Florida Statutes, authorizes special assessments, the City has not followed . . . Rather, the City has established a storm-water utility under section 403.0893(1) and has imposed utility . . .
. . . See § 403.0893(1), Fla.Stat. (2000). II. . . . utility fees sufficient to plan, construct, operate, and maintain stormwater management systems.” § 403.0893 . . . Section 403.0893, Florida Statutes (2000), provides as follows: In addition to any other funding mechanism . . .
. . . The ordinance was passed pursuant to section 403.0893(1), Florida Statutes (1997), which authorized the . . . Section 403.0893 contains three subsections. . . . may use the non-ad valorem levy, collection, and enforcement method as provided for in chapter 197. § 403.0893 . . . The use of the term “section” refers to section 403.0893 in its entirety, and not just to the paragraph . . . Section 403.0893 permits the City to use the non-ad valorem levy, collection, and enforcement method . . .
. . . . § 403.0893(1), Fla. Stat. (1989). . . . stormwater utility fees to “plan, construct, operate and maintain” stormwater management systems. § 403.0893 . . .
. . . . § 403.0893, Fla.Stat. (1987) (emphasis added). . . . this method of apportionment, the County has followed the statutory directives set forth in section 403.0893 . . . In 1989, section 403.0893 was amended to specifically provide that fees assessed for storm-water management . . .
. . . See generally § 403.0893, Pla.Stat. (1993). . . .