Bill Text: FL S2372 | 2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Animal Control or Cruelty Ordinances [EPSC]

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-04-30 - Died on Calendar [S2372 Detail]

Download: Florida-2010-S2372-Introduced.html

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Florida Senate - 2010                                    SB 2372 
 
By Senator Rich 
34-00524A-10                                          20102372__ 
1                        A bill to be entitled 
2         An act relating to animal control or cruelty 
3         ordinances; amending s. 828.27, F.S.; requiring a 
4         county or municipality enacting an ordinance relating 
5         to animal control or cruelty to impose a specified 
6         surcharge on the civil penalty for violations of the 
7         ordinance; specifying use of the proceeds of the 
8         surcharge; providing construction; providing an 
9         effective date. 
10 
11  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 
12 
13         Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subsection (4) of section 
14  828.27, Florida Statutes, is amended to read: 
15         828.27 Local animal control or cruelty ordinances; 
16  penalty.— 
17         (4) 
18         (b) The governing body of a county or municipality enacting 
19  an ordinance relating to animal control or cruelty shall may 
20  impose and collect a surcharge of $15 up to $5 upon each civil 
21  penalty imposed for each violation of the an ordinance relating 
22  to animal control or cruelty. One dollar of the surcharge may be 
23  retained by the clerk of the court, $5 of the surcharge proceeds 
24  from such surcharges shall be used to pay the costs of training 
25  for animal control officers, and the remainder of the surcharge 
26  shall be used to subsidize the costs of spaying or neutering of 
27  dogs and cats whose owners voluntarily submit their animals for 
28  sterilization. Owners of such animals may not be charged more 
29  for the spaying or neutering than the cost of sterilization less 
30  the subsidy paid from the surcharge. This paragraph does not 
31  require the governing body of a county or municipality to enact 
32  such an ordinance. 
33         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2010.