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    Florida Senate - 1998                           CS for SB 2578

    By the Committee on Regulated Industries and Senator Kurth





    315-2149-98

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to Barefoot Bay Recreation

  3         District, Brevard County; providing for the

  4         issuance of a special alcoholic beverage

  5         license to a mobile home park recreation

  6         district operating within Brevard County;

  7         providing restrictions; providing an effective

  8         date.

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10  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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12         Section 1.  The Division of Alcoholic Beverages and

13  Tobacco of the Department of Business and Professional

14  Regulation may issue a special alcoholic beverage license for

15  a mobile home park recreation district operating, within

16  Brevard County, a recreational facilities complex. The license

17  shall be valid only in and for a facility, within the complex,

18  which is owned and operated by the mobile home park recreation

19  district. The license shall allow the sale and service of

20  alcoholic beverages for consumption only on the licensed

21  premises of the designated facility. The complex must be

22  managed, controlled, and operated, including the use of areas

23  or facilities, pursuant to the authorization of a mobile home

24  park recreation district, by an entity located within the

25  following boundaries of the Barefoot Bay Recreation District,

26  Brevard County, or any portion thereof:

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28         That part of Section 10, Township 30 South,

29         Range 38 East, Brevard County Florida, more

30         particularly described as Tract C, Barefoot Bay

31         Unit 2, Part 11, according to the Plat thereof

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  1         as recorded in Plat Book 22, Pages 116-120, of

  2         the Public Records of Brevard County, Florida.

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  4  These boundaries encompass a contiguous area separated only by

  5  deeded or dedicated rights-of-way.

  6         Section 2.  For purposes of this act, the term "mobile

  7  home park recreation district" means an entity created in

  8  accordance with ss. 418.30-418.309, Florida Statutes,

  9  operating a recreational facilities complex, which may include

10  one or more restaurants, bars, clubhouses, recreation centers,

11  banquet facilities, special activity tents or similar

12  structures or meeting areas, or any combination thereof,

13  consisting of any real estate development located within the

14  property described in section 1, and located within an area

15  where a restaurant or lounge is permitted use as defined by

16  the Brevard County ordinances and conforming to the following

17  criteria:

18         (1)  The mobile home park recreation district shall

19  have no fewer than 3,000 residential lots subject to its

20  recreation district assessments.

21         (2)  The complex must provide meeting facilities for at

22  least 200 persons; must contain a restaurant or lounge; and

23  must contain kitchen/eating facilities equipped to serve 200

24  persons full-course meals at one time.

25         Section 3.  The license authorized by this act does not

26  entitle the licensee to maintain or construct any structure on

27  the premises which is prohibited by the ordinances or

28  regulations of Brevard County. This license does not exempt

29  the licensee from complying with the ordinances of Brevard

30  County which have not been preempted by general law. All other

31  provisions of the alcoholic beverage laws of this state not

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  1  inconsistent with this act shall apply to this license. Any

  2  license issued pursuant to this act shall be surrendered if

  3  the mobile home park recreation district owning the property

  4  described in section 1 is dissolved or ceases to exist.

  5         Section 4.  This act shall take effect upon becoming a

  6  law.

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  8          STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
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11  Clarifies that only one license will be granted for use in a
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