§ 24-796. Findings of fact and purpose.  


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  • There is hereby found by the board of county commissioners of Hernando County, Florida, that road improvements are an essential service for the benefit of the health, safety and welfare of the public. It is further the finding of the board of county commissioners that the legislature has in section 125.01(1)(q), Florida Statutes, provided for the creation of municipal service benefit units as a taxing vehicle to grant to all counties that taxing flexibility to levy special service charges within the limits fixed for municipal purposes for the furnishing of municipal services within those areas receiving the benefit of such municipal services in order to solve the controversy of double taxation between residents of the incorporated and unincorporated areas. It is the purpose of this division to create a county municipal service benefit unit for the purpose of constructing certain road improvements within the boundaries of such unit, described in Exhibit "A", attached hereto and made a part hereof.

(Ord. No. 96-28, § 1, 11-19-96)