Title: Enterprise Zones

Summary: Authorizes Citrus County to apply to Department of Economic Opportunity for designation of enterprise zone; provides application deadline & requirements; authorizes department to designate enterprise zone in Citrus County; requires department to establish effective date of enterprise zone.

Full Text:
An act relating to enterprise zones; creating s. 290.00729, F.S.; authorizing Citrus County to apply to the Department of Economic Opportunity for designation of an enterprise zone; providing an application deadline and requirements; authorizing the department to designate an enterprise zone in Citrus County; requiring the department to establish the effective date of the enterprise zone; providing an effective date. 12 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 14 Section 1. Section 290.00729, Florida Statutes, is created to read: 290.00729 Enterprise zone designation for Citrus County.-Citrus County may apply to the department for designation of one enterprise zone for an area within Citrus County. The application must have been submitted by December 31, 2012, and must comply with the requirements of s. 290.0055. Notwithstanding s. 290.0065 limiting the total number of enterprise zones designated and the number of enterprise zones within a population category, the department may designate one enterprise zone under this section. The department shall establish the initial effective date of the enterprise zone designated under this section. Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2012.