Rejection of grant applications; penalties for failure to meet application conditions.
F.S. 290.0475
in effectApplications are ineligible for funding if any of the following circumstances arise:
(1)
The application is not received by the department by the application deadline;
(2)
The proposed project does not meet one of the three national objectives as contained in federal and state legislation;
(3)
The proposed project is not an eligible activity as contained in the federal legislation;
(4)
The application is not consistent with the local government’s comprehensive plan adopted pursuant to s. 163.3184;
(5)
The applicant has an open community development block grant, except as provided in s. 290.046(2)(a)-(c) and department rules;
(6)
The local government is not in compliance with the citizen participation requirements prescribed in ss. 104(a)(1) and (2) and 106(d)(5)(c) of Title I of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, s. 290.046(4), and department rules; or
(7)
Any information provided in the application that affects eligibility or scoring is found to have been misrepresented, and the information is not a mathematical error which may be discovered and corrected by readily computing available numbers or formulas provided in the application.
Source: FL Statutes (Official Site)URL: https://www.flsenate.gov/Laws/Statutes/2025/Chapter290/AllFetched: 7/8/2026