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Board of County Commissioners September 16, 2022 Page 2 advertisements and public notices in a newspaper. There does not appear to be any mandatory language compelling the counties to provide this serve. Thus, it can be argued that although a local government may have the option to post notices on a county website, the statute does not appear to require a county to do so. If the County chooses to do so, the County can charge to use the county website for the publishing of notices. Please note that per section 50.0311(4), Florida Statutes, a governmental agency with at least 75 percent of its population located within a county with a population of fewer than 160,000 may use a publicly accessible website to publish legally required advertisements and public notices only if the governing body of the governmental agency, at a public hearing that has been noticed in a newspaper as provided in Chapter 50, determines that the residents of the governmental agency have sufficient access to the Internet by broadband service, as defined in section 364.02, Florida Statutes, or by any other means, such that publishing advertisements and public notices on a publicly accessible website will not unreasonably restrict public access. Broadband service is defined as any service that consists of or includes the offering of the capability to transmit or receive information at a rate that is not less than 200 kilobits per second and either (a) is used to provide access to the Internet; or (b) provides computer processing, information storage, information content, or protocol conversion in combination with the service. The definition of broadband service does not include any intrastate telecommunications services that have been tariffed with the commission on or before January 1, 2005. Per section 50.0311(6), Florida Statutes, a governmental agency that uses a publicly accessible website to publish legally required advertisements and public notices shall provide notice at least once per year in a newspaper of general circulation or another publication that is mailed or delivered to all residents and property owners throughout the government's jurisdiction, indicating that property owners and residents may receive legally required advertisements and public notices from the governmental agency by first- class mail or e-mail upon registering their name and address or e-mail address with the governmental agency. The governmental agency shall maintain a registry of names, addresses, and e-mail addresses of property owners and residents who have requested in writing that they receive legally required advertisements and public notices from the governmental agency by first-class mail or e-mail. Links on a Publicly Accessible Websites Per section 50.0311(7), Florida Statutes, a link to advertisements and public notices published on a publicly accessible website shall be conspicuously placed: (a) on the website's homepage or on a page accessible through a direct link from the homepage; or (b) on the homepage of the website of each governmental agency publishing notices on the publicly accessible website or on a page accessible through a direct link from the homepage. Proof of Publication Per section 50.051, Florida Statutes, affidavits establishing proof of publication are required to be in a form substantially as follows: C.WserrlujcprodlApyGvtalLornllTemp�BCL Tech-IW,xk yPDF81@BCL@341Po31648CL@341Po316.d- 139