No. HB 323
Filed under Transportation.
Parking on Public Property; Defines "public property" & "publicly owned buildings or facilities"; requires local governments to refund owners of vehicles who pay fees to park on specified public property in certain circumstances; requires local governments to carry over any unused portion of time for benefit of next vehicle owner who pays fee to park on such public property in certain circumstances; prohibits certain vehicles from being towed or issued traffic citation for specified time period after being parked on specified public property; prohibits local governments from allowing private business entities or enterprises to use specified public property for private parking purposes for fee.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDLocal governments must refund vehicle owners any unused portion of a parking fee paid for public property, or, if a refund isn't possible, carry that unused time forward for the next driver who pays to park in the same spot.
A car parked in violation of a local parking law on a street, roadway, or highway cannot be towed for at least 12 hours after it was parked.
A driver who overstays a meter or timed limit in a public parking space, lot, or garage cannot be ticketed until at least 2 hours after the time expired.
Local governments can no longer let a private business run paid parking on public property for its own fee, though they may still set their own parking rules for that property.
AIA local government must refund a vehicle owner any portion of a parking fee the owner did not use, when the owner pays to park on public property covered by this section.
AIIf refunding the unused parking time is not possible, the local government must instead carry that unused time over for the benefit of the next vehicle owner who pays to park in the same spot, rather than keeping the value.
AIA vehicle parked in violation of a local parking law or ordinance on a street, roadway, or highway may not be towed until at least 12 hours have passed since it was parked.
AIA vehicle owner parked in a metered or timed public parking space, lot, or garage may not be issued a traffic citation until at least 2 hours have passed since the meter or allotted time expired.
AIA local government may not allow a private business entity or enterprise to use public property for private parking purposes in exchange for a fee, barring privatized paid-parking arrangements on government-owned property.
AIThe new section defines 'public property' to include any publicly owned space used by vehicles -- streets, roadways, highways, parking garages, and metered or timed spaces or lots -- and the list is expressly non-exhaustive, so it likely reaches other government-owned vehicle areas too.
AIThe definition of 'publicly owned buildings or facilities' expressly includes buildings and facilities owned by state universities and Florida College System institutions, pulling campus-owned parking into this section's refund, grace-period, and anti-privatization rules.
AIThis section does not stop a county or municipal governing body from regulating parking on public property under its own jurisdiction; only the specific refund, grace-period, and anti-privatization rules above are mandated statewide.