The text of Chapter 341, Section 061 of the 2023 Florida Transit Act, passed Wednesday by the Florida state Senate, mandates the Florida Department of Transportation “shall adopt by rule minimum safety standards for governmentally owned fixed-guideway transportation systems, and privately owned or operated fixed-guideway transportation systems operating in this state which are financed wholly or partly by state funds, and any governmentally or privately owned fixed-guideway transportation systems operating in this state which are located within an independent special district created by local act which have boundaries within two contiguous counties.”

Meaning all the owners and operators of privately owned or operated fixed-guideway transportation systems operating in the state which are financed wholly or partly by state funds, and any governmentally or privately owned fixed-guideway transportation systems operating in this state which are located within an independent special district created by local act which have boundaries within only one county don’t have to sweat this bill. Or the ones located within an independent special district created by local act which have boundaries within three or more contiguous counties. They’re also good if they’re located within an independent special district that wasn’t created by local act, even if that special district has boundaries within two contiguous counties.

In fact… and this is funny… There’s only one privately owned or operated fixed-guideway transportation system located within an independent special district created by local act which has boundaries within two contiguous counties. We guess the pluralizations can stay just in case someone else builds a fixed-guideway transportation system within an independent special district created by local act which has boundaries within two contiguous counties.