(a) Application for benefit units. A municipal service benefit unit may be requested by property owners by submitting a petition that follows the policies and procedures as approved and adopted by the board of county commissioners. Such policies and procedures may be amended by the board. (b)...

(a) Projects. The board shall have the following authority and powers within the benefit units with respect to the acquisition and construction of projects: (1) To acquire, improve and construct projects; (2) To acquire in the name of the county, either by purchase or the exercise...

(a) General authority. The board may provide for the cost of an individual project or several projects through imposition of assessments upon benefitted property within the benefit unit at a rate of assessment based on the special benefit accruing to such property from such project. The...

(a) Responsibility for enforcement. It shall be the duty of the county and its agent, if any, to enforce the prompt collection of assessments by the means herein provided. The duties related to collection of assessments may be enforced at the suit of any holder of bonds secured by such...

(a) General authority. The county is authorized to borrow from any legally available funding mechanism such sums of money as are necessary to defray the entire cost of such improvements; provided, however, the only security for such a loan shall be the assignment of the special assessment lien...

It is the purpose of this article to require owners of improved property in the benefit area to fund their proportionate share of the fire program of the county through the payment of a non-ad valorem assessment to fund expenditures related to providing fire service in order to ensure the proper...

2.01 Benefit area or fire service municipal service benefit unit or benefit unit or MSBU means the unincorporated area of Brevard County, the Town of Grant-Valkaria, the Town of Melbourne Village, the Town of Palm Shores, and the City of West Melbourne. 2.02 Fire rescue means the fire department...

It is hereby ascertained and declared that the fire service non-ad valorem special assessment provides a special benefit to improved real property in the benefit area based upon the following legislative findings and determinations: 3.01 General. The board finds that any improved real property in...

4.01 The voters established the Fire Fighter Support Referendum in November 1998. The purpose of the referendum is to maintain a basic level of service for Brevard County. Those services are a minimum three persons on each fire engine; the purchase of four fire engines per year; the renovation or...

5.01 There is hereby created a Fire Service Municipal Services Benefit Unit for the unincorporated area of Brevard County, Florida and newly incorporated Town of Grant-Valkaria. The Board of County Commissioners shall serve as the governing body of the unit and may, in the performance of their...

6.01 The Fire Service Non-Ad Valorem Special Assessment rate methodology for residential properties incorporates the Building Area (the "Living Area" maintained in the Brevard County Property Appraiser's database) adjusted by the Base Rate Factor. The Fire Service Non-Ad Valorem Special Assessment...

7.01 The Fire Service Non-Ad Valorem Special Assessment shall be established, and amended as required, by resolution using a methodology that sets an assessment proportionate to benefits as established using the information and standards set forth in section 98-51 above. The special assessment...

The Fire Service Non-Ad Valorem Special Assessment shall be collected and enforced annually against owners in the manner provided for in F.S. § 197.3632, as amended.

9.01 On or before the 15th day of September, the director shall cause to be prepared the Fire Service Non-Ad Valorem Special Assessment rolls based on information provided by the property appraiser. Such rolls shall contain a summary description of each parcel of improved real property within the...

10.01 Unless otherwise prohibited by law, the property appraiser shall include on the notice mailed under F.S. § 200.069, and its successors, to each owner of improved real property included on the Fire Service Non-Ad Valorem Special Assessment roll and addendum, if any, the Fire Service Non-Ad...

11.01 No act of omission or commission on the part of the property appraiser, tax collector or board or their respective deputies or employees shall operate to defeat the payment of the Fire Service Non-Ad Valorem Special Assessment imposed under the provisions of this article. Provided, however,...

When it shall appear that any Fire Service Non-Ad Valorem Special Assessment might have been imposed under the provisions of this article against any unit, lot or parcel of improved real property, that such parcel of improved real property was omitted from the appropriate Fire Service Non-Ad...

ANNUAL FIRE SERVICES SPECIAL ASSESSMENT LISTING OF PROPERTY USE CODES WITH BASE RATE BENEFIT FACTOR, MULTI-FAMILY RESIDENTIAL, MANUFACTURED/MOBILE HOME PARK (MHP) OR HAZARD CODE ASSIGNMENT In the event that a new property use code is established by the property appraiser, and it is not included...

The Board of County Commissioners hereby ratifies and confirms, and Ordinance No. 06-045 is hereby amended to incorporate, the following resolutions: (1) Resolution 07-051, expressing the intent of the Board to include the Town of Melbourne Village, the Town of Palm Shores, and the City of West...

It is the purpose and intent of this Charter to establish a mobile home park recreation district in accordance with Chapter 83-204, Laws of Florida, for that subdivision of Brevard County known as Barefoot Bay. By the creation of the said district, the residents of Barefoot Bay shall be empowered...