FL H0793

Amends section 190.046 of Florida Statutes to allow community development districts with no outstanding financial obligations and no operating or maintenance responsibilities to be dissolved by majority vote of district landowners, in addition to existing dissolution methods by petition or local ordinance.

A landowners' meeting to vote on dissolution may be called either by board resolution or by written petition signed by landowners representing a majority of district acreage (calculated per section 190.006(2)(b)) or 25 percent of total landowners.

Notice of the landowners' meeting must be published once weekly for 2 consecutive weeks in a local newspaper, with the last publication between 14-28 days before the election; notice must include meeting date, time, location, dissolution purpose, and a sample proxy.

District dissolution becomes effective immediately upon adjournment of the landowners' meeting if a majority approves; the meeting chair must provide written notice of dissolution to the creating authority within 5 days, including documentation of the vote and all records.

The creating authority must publish notice of dissolution within 10 days (if county/municipality) or in the Florida Administrative Register (if Florida Land and Water Adjudicatory Commission); for commission-created districts, rules are automatically repealed upon publication notice.

Effective July 1, 2014.