House Bill 3977
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Florida House of Representatives - 1998 HB 3977
By Representative Sublette
1 A bill to be entitled
2 An act relating to the Orlando Regional
3 Juvenile Detention Center; providing
4 definitions; prohibiting a state agency from
5 expanding the existing detention center;
6 prohibiting a state agency from building a new
7 detention center or other commitment facility
8 on property contiguous to the existing
9 detention center; prohibiting a state agency
10 from using property contiguous to the existing
11 detention center to operate a detention center
12 or other commitment facility; providing an
13 effective date.
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15 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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17 Section 1. As used in this act, the term:
18 (1) "Detention center or other commitment facility"
19 means a facility used for the intake, supervision, custody,
20 care, or treatment of children who are alleged to be or who
21 have been found to be delinquent. The term includes, but is
22 not limited to, facilities used for the commitment of
23 adjudicated delinquents, facilities used pending court
24 adjudication or disposition or execution of a court order for
25 the temporary care of children alleged or found to have
26 committed a violation of law, detention centers, halfway
27 houses, shelters, residential sex offender programs, substance
28 abuse residential programs, boot camps, START Centers,
29 training schools, and wilderness programs.
30 (2) "Orlando Regional Juvenile Detention Center" or
31 "center" means the property leased by the Board of Trustees of
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1 the Internal Improvement Trust Fund of the State of Florida to
2 the former Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services
3 under lease agreement number 2906 rendered December 10, 1976,
4 which is described in the lease agreement as follows:
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6 For a Point of Beginning commence at the South
7 1/4 corner of Section 6, township 23 South,
8 Range 30 East; Run thence S 89°39'04" W along
9 the south line of the SW 1/4 of said Section 6
10 a distance of 1055.00 feet; Run thence N
11 00°00'14" E a distance of 300 feet; Run thence
12 N 89°39'04" a distance of 405.00 feet; Run
13 thence N 00°00'14" E a distance of 75.00 feet;
14 Run thence N 89°39'04" E a distance of 300.00
15 feet; Run thence N 00°00'14" E a distance of
16 225.00 feet; Run thence N 89°39'04" E a
17 distance of 350.00 feet to the east line of
18 said SW 1/4; Run thence S 00°00'14" W along
19 said east line a distance of 600.00 feet to the
20 Point of Beginning; LESS the south 30 feet
21 thereof and less the east 30 feet thereof for
22 road right-of-way; All being and lying in
23 Orange County, Florida, and containing 9.074
24 acres, more or less.
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26 (3) "State agency" means any department or
27 departmental unit, as described in s. 20.04, Florida Statutes,
28 or any commission, board, authority, agency, or other unit of
29 state government and specifically includes the Department of
30 Juvenile Justice, the Department of Corrections, and the
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1 Department of Children and Family Services. The term does not
2 include any county or municipality.
3 Section 2. (1) No state agency may expand the
4 existing Orlando Regional Juvenile Detention Center to include
5 property contiguous to the existing center.
6 (2) No state agency may build a new detention center
7 or other commitment facility on property contiguous to the
8 existing center.
9 (3) No state agency may use property contiguous to the
10 existing center for the purpose of operating a detention
11 center or other commitment facility.
12 Section 3. This act shall take effect upon becoming a
13 law.
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16 HOUSE SUMMARY
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Prohibits a state agency from expanding the existing
18 Orlando Regional Juvenile Detention Center to include
property contiguous to the existing center, to build a
19 new detention center or other commitment facility on
property contiguous to the existing center or to use the
20 property for the purpose of operating a detention center
or other commitment facility. See bill for details.
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