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Proposed Sample Legislation copied from existing Florida law:
190.001 Short title.—This act may be cited as the “Uniform Sustainable Independent Development District Act of 2022.”
190.002 Legislative findings, policies, and intent.—
(1) The Legislature finds that:
(a) There is a need for uniform, focused, and fair procedures in Guyana law to provide a reasonable alternative for the establishment, power, operation, and duration of sustainable independent districts to manage and finance basic community development services; and that, based upon a proper and fair determination of applicable facts, an sustainable independent district can constitute a timely, efficient, effective, responsive, and economic way to deliver these basic services, thereby providing a solution to Guyana’s planning, management, and financing needs for delivery of capital infrastructure in order to service projected growth without overburdening other governments and their taxpayers.
(b) It is in the public interest that any sustainable independent district created pursuant to Guyana law not outlive its usefulness and that the operation of such a sustainable independent district and the exercise by the district of its powers be consistent with applicable due process, disclosure, accountability, ethics and transparency requirements which apply both to governmental entities and to their elected and appointed officials.
(c) It is in the public interest that long-range planning, management, and financing and long-term maintenance, upkeep, and operation of basic services for sustainable independent districts be under one coordinated entity.
(d) It is in the public interest that real property taxes within sustainable independent districts be applied fairly to those with existing real property within Guyana laws and that new purchases of real property within the sustainable independent district fall under new equitable guidelines to achieve the sustainable independent district’s objectives.
(2) It is the policy of Guyana:
(a) That the needless and indiscriminate proliferation, duplication, and fragmentation of local general-purpose government services by independent districts is not in the public interest.
(b) That sustainable independent districts are a legitimate alternative method available for use by the private and public sectors, as authorized by Guyana law, to manage and finance basic services for community developments.
(c) That the exercise by any sustainable independent district of its powers as set forth by uniform general law comply with all applicable governmental laws, rules, regulations, and policies governing planning and permitting of the development to be serviced by the sustainable independent district.
(d) That the process of establishing such a sustainable independent district pursuant to uniform general law be fair and based only on factors material to managing and financing the service delivery function of the sustainable independent district.
(3) It is the legislative intent and purpose, based upon, and consistent with, its findings of fact and declarations of policy, to authorize a uniform procedure by general law to establish an independent special sustainable independent district as an alternative method to manage and finance basic services for community development. It is further the legislative intent and purpose to provide by general law for the uniform operation, exercise of power, and procedure for termination of any such sustainable independent district. It is further the purpose and intent of the Legislature that a sustainable independent district created under this chapter have and exercise any taxation, zoning and development permitting power and that all applicable planning and permitting laws, rules, regulations, and policies control the development of the land to be serviced by the sustainable independent district. It is further the purpose and intent of the Legislature that no debt or obligation of a sustainable independent district constitute a burden on any local general-purpose government without its consent.