Ordinance 80-086 AN ORDINANCE OF COLLIER COUNTY, FLORIDA, CRE'
ATING A ROAD AND BRIDGE UNINCORPORATED
._NIC~AL SERVICE TAXING UNIT FOR THE PURPOSE
_~_ .i~,.I;~OVIDING SUBDIVISION AND LOCAL ROAD AND
-"~I~T IMPROVE~IENTS IN THE ENTIRE UNINCORPO-
~RATEI~ AREA OF COLLIER COUNTY. GRANTING TNE
-BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS POWER AND AU-
--~,RITY AS THE COVERNIND BODY OF THE UNIT;
:__~I~. ING THE POWER AND AUTHORITY TO DETERMINE
_~.-~L/~EVY SERVICE CHARGES, SPECIAL ASSESSHENTS
~OR ~O VALOREM TAXES IN THE UNIT TO PAY FOR
THE~DESCRIBED SERVICES FURNISHED BY TI~ COUN-
TY IN THE UNIT; GRANTING THE POWER AND AU-
T}[ORITY TO DETERMINE Tim. AMOUNT OF AD VALOREH
TAXES WHICH MUST BE LEVIED AND COLLECTED IN
THE UNIT TO PAY FOR .SERVICES AND PROJECTS
PROVIDED OR FURNISHED BY Tim. COUNTY IN
UNIT; DECLARING AN EMERGENCY TO EXIST AND
PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COIgIISSIONERS OF COLLIER
COUNTY FLORIDA AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. The Unincorporated County Area Municipal Service Taxin8
Unit - Road and Bridge (the "Unit") is hereby created and established
consisting of all of the unincorporated areas of Collier County, Florida,
less and except all property laying within the incorporated areas and
limits of each of the municipalities located in Collier County, Florida.
Section 2. The Board of County Commissioners of Collier County,
Florida, hereinafter referred to as the "Board" shall serve as the
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governing body of the Unit, and shall exercise those powers, prescribed
for such units by §125.01(q), Florida Statutes.
Section 3. The Board shall have the power and the authority to
cause to be provided or furnished within said Unit subdivision and local
street and road improvements for those local roads and subdivision
streets the construction, reconstruction, maintenance and repair of
which, along with related administrative costs which are dete~mined by
the Board of County Commissioners to be of no real and substantial ben-
efit to the residents or property of the incorporated areas. Such ser-
vices shall be paid for by funds derived from service charges, special
assessments or ad valorem taxes obtained by the County within the Unit.
The Board may, in its discretion, establish additional Municipal Service
Taxing Units for all or part of the unincorporated area to provide any
of the foregoing either as an alternate to providin~ said service
through the Unit established hereby, or to provide supplemental services
in such additionsl units.
Section 1. The Board shall have the power and authority to make an
annual determination as to the extent to which the above-identified
services are to be furnished by the County within th~ Unit during.the
next fiscal year of the County and determine the amount which will be
expended therefore by the County. In ~akin~ said ~nnu~l detemination,
the Board shall provide within the Unit only, those.sszvices ~hich are of
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no real or substantial benefit to the residents and property within the
'municipalities of this County, smd no services which ars of county-wide
benefit shall be included.
Section 5. The Board shall have the power smd authority to make
annual appropriations of monies for the ~peration of the Unit and for
the providins or furnishing o£ the services or'projects.by the County
mentioned in Section 3 and 4 hereof and the power and authority to
determine and levy service charges, special assessments or ad valorem
taxes, to the extent authorized by law, solely within the Unit for the
purpose of providing and paying for said services or projects.
Section 6. Ail service charges, special assessments or taxes
apportioned to, levied or collected with(n and expended for the benefit
of the Unit, shall be maintained and accounted for in separate accounts
or funds for the Unit, with proper accounting records maintained to
identify all receipts, expenditures and cash balances for the Unit.
Section ?. This Ordinance is being adopted to settle the current
disFttte between the County and the municipalities therein over "double
taxation." In order to effectuate this settlement for l~f 1980-81, the
~mmediate enactment of this Ordinance is necessary, and the Board there-
fore, by affirmative vote of 4/5 of its entire membership, declares that
an emergency exists necessitating the immediate enactment of this Ordi-
nance. Accordingly, this Ordinance shall take effect as provided in
§125.66, Florida Statutes for the enactment of emersency ordinances.
PASSED AND DULY ADOPTED, By the Board of County Commissioners of
Collier County, Florida, this the~day of September, 1980.
ATTEST:
WILLIAM J. REAGAN, CleAk.-~
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BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
COLLIER COUNTY, FLORIDA
Approved ss to form and legal
sufficiency:
Collier' County Attorney
Thf$ ordinance ffled ~tth the Secretary of State's Office the 9th day
of September, 1980 and acknowledgement of that filing received this
12th day of September, 1980.
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County Attorney's Office
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STATE OF FLORIDA )
COUNTY OF COLLIER
I, WILLI/~t ~. REAGAN, Clerk o~' Courts ~n and ~'or the Twentieth
~udtctal Circuit, Collier County, Florida, do hereby certtt'y that'the
foregoing ts a true original of:
ORDINANCE NO. 80-86
Which was adopted by the Board of County Commissioners during Regular
Session, via emergency procedures, September 2, [980.
WITNESS m~ hand and the official seal of the Board of County
Com~tssioners of Collier County, Florida, this 2nd day of September,
1980.
WILLIAH ~. REAGAN
Clerk of Courts and Clerk
Ex-officio to Board of
County Commissioners
Vi rgt n~);~ltagrt, Oeputy~-~Cl erk