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The Local Government Half-Cent Sales Tax proceeds collected within a county are distributed to the county and municipal governments by the State in accordance with the following formulas: County's share(Percentage of unincorporated 2/3 incorporated total Local Government Half- = area population + area population Cent Sales Tax receipts) total county + 2/3 incorporated population area population Municipality's share (percentage of total Local = municipality_population Government Half-Cent Sales total county + 2/3 incorporated Tax receipts) population area population Population is the latest officialstate estimate ofpopulationcertified prior to the beginning ofthe local government fiscal year. Because distribution of the Local Government Half-Cent Sales Tax is based on the population of unincorporated areas within the County relative to the population of incorporated municipalities within the County,the County's share ofthe Sales Tax would be reduced ifunincorporated areas ofthe County were to be annexed by an existing municipality within the County or ifunincorporated areas ofthe County were to become incorporated municipalities. Under Section 165.041,Florida Statutes,a charter for incorporation of a new municipality must be adopted by a special act ofthe Florida Legislature,after a determination that certain standards set forth in Section 165.041, Florida Statutes, have been met. As applied to any new municipality within the County,those standards include the following: (a) The new municipality must have a total population of at least 5,000 persons; (b) The new municipality must have an average population density of at least 1.5 persons per acre except under certain extraordinary conditions; and (c) Any part of the new municipality's proposed boundaries must be at least two miles from the boundaries of an existing municipality within the County contiguous and amicable to separate municipal government. Under Section 171.041(3), Florida Statutes, a municipality may annex contiguous, compact, unincorporated territory by adopting an annexation ordinance. Following adoption,such ordinance must be submitted to a separate vote of the registered electors of the annexing municipality and the registered electors ofthe area proposed to be annexed. Ifthere is a separate majority vote for annexation in both the annexing municipality and in the area proposed to be annexed, then the ordinance of annexation shall 15