HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution No. 1981-07 • MICROFILMED 1-18-83
RESOLUTION NO. 81-7 .
. A RESOLUTION TO END DOUBLE TAXATION NAME YES NO
BY REQUIRING THAT ALL UNINCORPORATED ./
AREAS OF ALL COUNTIES BE ESTABLISHED BOYD `
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AS MUNICIPAL SERVICES TAXING DISTRICTS,
AND ANY MUNICIPAL SERVICES THEREIN BE LEE
FUNDED SOLELY FROM DISTRICT LEVIES; MURPHY
' PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE. RUTHERFOF ) 'V
WHEREAS , the use of county property tax funds to provide municipal
services in unincorporated areas is a perpetual source of friction and
inequity between such areas and incorporated municipalities; and
WHEREAS, this problem can most -effidiently :be solved by placing ' . .-
E unincorporated areas on an equal tax footing with municipalities, by
establishing all such areas as municipal services taxing districts, and
requiring that municipal services in such districts be funded solely
from district levies;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of
Cape Canaveral, Florida as follows :
SECTION 1. The Florida League of Cities is hereby urged to sponsor
legislation to require that all unincorporated areas of every county be
set up as Municipal Services Taxing. Districts, and that municipal services
in such districts be funded solely from district levies, not from general
county taxes or other county sources.
SECTION 2 . The Florida League of Cities is hereby urged to sponsor
legislation that counties be limited to providing from general county
funds only those serivces which can be provided equitably, county-wide
to all residents or all geographic areas . •
SECTION 3. The Florida League of Cities is hereby urged to harden
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and expand Section 210 . 7 of its Legislative Policy Statement to propose
that all unincorporated areas, without exception, be made Municipal
Services Taxing Districts.
SECTION 4 . The City Clerk is directed to transmit copies of this
Resolution to the Florida League of Cities and the Brevard League of
Municipalities. ,
SECTION 5. This Resolution shall take effect immediately upon its
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adoption.
,,g,ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of Cape Canaveral, Florida,
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