FL S1934

Requires utility owners to initiate removal or relocation of utilities interfering with public roads or publicly owned rail corridors at their own expense, with 30 days' written notice from the authority.

Establishes exceptions where the authority (department) bears relocation costs: federal-aid interstate projects, joint agreements with cost overruns, utilities exclusively serving the authority, and electric facilities being relocated underground for safety.

Adds new exception requiring the authority to bear relocation costs if it acquires property where a utility is legally located prior to acquisition.

Adds specific exception for permits issued in 1972 on the Turnpike Homestead extension where utilities transferred their interest to the department without compensation, requiring the department to pay relocation expenses.

Takes effect July 1, 2011.