Title XI, County Organization and Intergovernmental Relations

The same rates, fees and charges shall be fixed and collected from any county, school district or other political subdivision using the services and facilities of the water system or sewer system, or both, as are fixed and collected from other users of such facilities in the same…

Any contract entered into by any district shall be deemed to have been made for the benefit of any holders of bonds issued pursuant to this law to the extent necessary, and the terms of any such contract shall be enforceable by such bondholders in any appropriate legal proceeding…

Any municipality or political subdivision is authorized to sell, lease, grant or convey any real or personal property to any district and any such sale, grant, lease or conveyance may be made without formal consideration.History.—s. 36, ch. 59-466.

No sewage disposal plant or other facilities for the collection and treatment of sewage or any water treatment plant or other facilities for the supply and distribution of water, shall be constructed within any district unless the district board shall give its consent thereto and…

No district board shall have power to mortgage, pledge, encumber, sell or otherwise convey all or any part of any water system or sewer system, or both, except that the district board may dispose of any part of such system or systems as may be no longer necessary for the purposes…

(1) The provisions of this law shall be liberally construed to effect its purposes and shall be deemed cumulative, supplemental and alternative authority for the exercise of the powers provided herein. The exercise of the powers provided in this law and the issuance of bonds or o…

(1) The Legislature hereby finds and declares as follows:(a) That providing modern, efficient wastewater facilities is vital to the health and general welfare of the citizens of the state;(b) That the construction, rehabilitation, operation, and maintenance of wastewater faciliti…

As used in this act, the term:(1) “Wastewater facility privatization contract” means a written agreement, or one or more related written agreements, between a private firm and one or more public entities, which provides for the operation, maintenance, repair, management and admin…

Any public entity may enter into a wastewater facility privatization contract, and may join with one or more other public entities in such a contract pursuant to an interlocal agreement. A public entity entering into a wastewater facility privatization contract may make such conv…

Responsibility for the setting of user fees charged to members of the public purchasing or using a wastewater service of a wastewater facility subject to a wastewater facility privatization contract; collection of such fees; and enforcement of fee obligations, regulations, and ot…

Except as expressly provided in this act:(1) With respect to any wastewater facility privatization contract entered into under this act, a public entity is subject to s. 125.3401, s. 180.301, s. 189.054, or s. 190.0125 but is not subject to the requirements of chapter 287.(2) A w…

This act may be cited as the “Local Government Utilities Assistance Act.”History.—s. 1, ch. 2001-229.

As used in this act:(1) “Community standards” means, with respect to water and sewer utility rates, rates that are on a par with other rates in the county, or similar utility jurisdictions in surrounding counties, after accounting for relative household incomes or other measures …

The Local Government Utilities Assistance Program is established in the department. The department may award financial assistance to a local government in the form of a grant for the purpose of acquiring privately owned water-wastewater utilities. A local government may qualify f…

If the applicant for financial assistance demonstrates, based on documentation acceptable to the department, that acquisition of a privately owned water-wastewater utility qualifies under s. 153.954, the department may authorize financial assistance for such acquisition.History.—…