Bill > H0345

This bill modifies several Florida statutes related to transportation. It allows commercial motor vehicles or trailers designed to transport unprocessed logs or pulpwood to display amber lights, and it clarifies that the state may pay for utility work necessitated by projects on the State Highway System in rural areas of critical economic concern if the utility cannot afford it. The bill also authorizes the Department of Transportation (DOT) to sell accounts receivable from leases for wireless communication facilities on department property to fund capital expenditures for the transportation system, with these agreements structured as tax-exempt financings. Additionally, it revises provisions regarding signs along state roads, exempting certain signs placed on street furniture and public amenities from permit requirements and expanding the types of signs that are exempt or have specific placement rules, particularly for tourist-oriented businesses in rural areas. Finally, it refines the rules for tourist-oriented directional signs, limiting their use to rural and conventional roads and clarifying that permittees do not gain a property interest in sign locations.