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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      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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