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  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to Orange County; creating and

  3         establishing an independent special district in

  4         said county to be known as the West Orange

  5         Airport Authority; providing definitions;

  6         providing boundaries of said district;

  7         providing for the governmental body of said

  8         district and membership thereof, conferring

  9         upon said district the authority to acquire,

10         finance, and operate an airport or airports, an

11         industrial park and commercial park, and such

12         industry, commerce, and business necessary and

13         incidental thereto, within the boundaries of

14         said district; authorizing said district to

15         issue revenue bonds or other obligations to

16         finance the various projects that the district

17         is authorized to undertake; providing for the

18         payment of the expenses of the district out of

19         the revenues generated by the operations of

20         authority projects and such other revenues as

21         may be made available by law; authorizing said

22         district to contract with governmental

23         agencies; providing that the district shall

24         have power to enter into contracts, leases,

25         mortgages, and other agreements and to exercise

26         all incidental powers necessary to carry out

27         the purposes of this act, including the

28         creation of certain special districts;

29         providing for financial reports and budget

30         procedure; providing said district shall not be

31         required to pay taxes or assessments on its


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  1         property except as may be required by the

  2         Florida Constitution; authorizing the creation

  3         of such development districts as may be

  4         appropriate and authorized by law to support

  5         the commercial development of the airport and

  6         the service area to the authority; providing

  7         for severability; providing an effective date.

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

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11         Section 1.  The West Orange Airport Authority charter

12  is created to read:

13         Section 1.  Short title.--This act may be cited as the

14  "West Orange Airport Authority Act."

15         Section 2.  Definitions.--When used in this act, unless

16  a different meaning appears clearly from the context:

17         (1)  "Authority" means the West Orange Airport

18  Authority created as an independent special district by this

19  act.

20         (2)  "Project" means and includes:

21         (a)  An airport or airports, runways, taxiways, air

22  navigation facilities, maintenance and service facilities,

23  passenger terminals, buildings and structures, offices,

24  warehouses, storage facilities, training facilities,

25  conference facilities, lodging, food service facilities,

26  parking areas, and all appurtenant and related facilities

27  necessary or convenient for the complete management,

28  operation, and maintenance of such airport, airports, and

29  commerce, industrial, and business facilities incidental

30  thereto; and

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  1         (b)  Industrial and manufacturing plants, including

  2  water, sewage, pollution, waste control and appurtenant

  3  facilities, and such other capital projects as may otherwise

  4  be provided or authorized by the Florida Industrial

  5  Development Financing Act and other general law, all

  6  appurtenant to and located on and within the special district.

  7         (3)  "Cities" means the City of Apopka, the City of

  8  Ocoee, and the City of Winter Garden.

  9         (4)  "Cost of project" means the cost of construction,

10  the cost of all lands, properties, easements, licenses,

11  rights, and franchises acquired, the cost of machinery and

12  equipment, all improvements, financing, and refinancing

13  charges, interest prior to and during construction and for a

14  period of time after such construction, cost of engineering,

15  architectural, and legal expenses, and plans and

16  specifications and other expenses necessary or incident to

17  determining the feasibility or practicability of the project,

18  administrative expenses, and such other expenses as may be

19  necessary or incident to the financing herein authorized for

20  the construction of any project, the placing of same in

21  operation, and the leasing, renting, or sale thereof.

22         (5)  "District," unless the context indicates

23  otherwise, means the special district created by this act and

24  identified in section 3 to be known as the authority and the

25  territory included within the special district.

26         Section 3.  Authority; creation and purpose.--For the

27  purpose of performing such acts as shall be necessary for the

28  sound planning for and development and maintenance of an

29  airport for the area and the territory included within the

30  district, including industry, commerce, and business necessary

31  and incidental thereto, an independent special district is


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  1  hereby created and incorporated, to be known as the authority,

  2  in Orange County, which special district shall be a public

  3  body corporate and politic and shall embrace and include the

  4  territory described as:

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  6         Lots 1 through 40, inclusive, SHELL POND

  7         ESTATES, according to the plat thereof as

  8         recorded in Plat Book 22, Pages 86 through 90,

  9         Public Records of Orange County.

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11         Section 4.  Membership; appointment, terms of office.--

12         (1)  The governing board of the authority shall be

13  composed of nine (9) members, each of whom shall be a resident

14  and elector of the state. The authority members shall be

15  appointed as follows: three (3) by the Board of County

16  Commissioners of Orange County, one (1) by the City of Apopka,

17  one (1) by the City of Ocoee, one (1) by the City of Winter

18  Garden, and three (3) by the Governor.  Three (3) members

19  shall be appointed for an initial term of two (2) years, three

20  (3) members shall be appointed for an initial term of four (4)

21  years, and three (3) members shall be appointed for an initial

22  term of six (6) years. Thereafter, all successive appointments

23  shall be made for four (4) year terms. The cities' initial

24  appointments shall be for two (2) year terms; the Orange

25  County Board of County Commissioners' initial appointments

26  shall be for four (4) year terms, and the Governor's initial

27  appointments shall be for terms of six (6) years. All terms of

28  members shall be measured from the date this act becomes a

29  law. Any member of the authority may be removed by a majority

30  vote of the authority for misfeasance, malfeasance, or neglect

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  1  of duty. Each member shall serve until his or her successor is

  2  appointed and qualified.

  3         (2)  At least thirty (30) days prior to the date of

  4  expiration of the term of any member of the authority, or

  5  within thirty (30) days after the creation of any vacancy in

  6  the membership of the authority resulting from the death,

  7  resignation, change of residence, or removal of any such

  8  member or from any other cause, the successor of such member

  9  shall be appointed in the same manner as his or her

10  predecessor.

11         Section 5.  Chair, vice chair, executive director, and

12  airport manager.--The authority shall annually at its first

13  meeting in January elect its chair, a vice chair, secretary,

14  and such other officers as the authority shall deem advisable,

15  and, when deemed appropriate by the authority, shall hire an

16  executive director and an airport manager who shall serve for

17  such terms and for such remuneration as may be provided by the

18  authority.  The Secretary of the authority need not be a

19  member of the authority's governing board.

20         Section 6.  Compensation.--The members of the authority

21  shall serve without compensation; however, they shall be

22  reimbursed by the authority for their reasonable

23  out-of-pocket, travel, and per diem expenses incurred in

24  attending meetings of or on behalf of the authority, or

25  otherwise engaging in the business of the authority. The

26  secretary shall receive such salary as may be fixed by the

27  authority, or, in case such officer shall be a member of the

28  authority, shall receive such salary for the services rendered

29  by such officer as may be fixed by the authority.

30         Section 7.  Quorum; transaction of business.--A

31  majority of the members of the authority qualified and serving


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  1  shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of the business

  2  of the authority.

  3         Section 8.  Meetings; rules of procedure.--As soon as

  4  practicable after this act shall take effect, the authority

  5  shall meet and arrange a time for holding meetings of the

  6  authority. It may adopt such rules of organization and

  7  procedure as it may deem necessary and expedient.

  8         Section 9.  Duties.--It shall be the duty of the

  9  authority to make a study of the advantages, facilities,

10  resources, products, attractions, conditions, and all other

11  data concerning the district with relation to the airport and

12  air navigation needs, and for the development, construction,

13  operation, and maintenance of airports and related facilities,

14  including an industrial park and commercial park with

15  education and conference facilities, and for the encouragement

16  of commerce and industry located on the airport in the

17  district; to use such means and media as the authority deems

18  advisable to publicize and to make known such data and

19  material to such persons, firms, corporations, agencies, and

20  institutions which, in the discretion of the authority, would

21  reasonably result in encouraging commerce and industry to

22  locate on and use the airport; to cooperate with any and all

23  other governmental agencies in accomplishing this purpose and

24  to do all other things it deems advisable in its effort to

25  effectively maintain an airport and the location of commerce

26  and industry thereon. The encouragement of the above-mentioned

27  in the manner contemplated by this act is hereby declared to

28  be a valid district, authority, and public purpose.

29         Section 10.  Expenses; gifts.--The authority is hereby

30  authorized to borrow, expend, and appropriate funds for use to

31  pay the expenses of the authority and the special district,


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  1  including the cost of carrying out the purposes of this act.

  2  Such expenditures of funds by the authority are hereby deemed

  3  and determined to be for a public purpose for the benefit of

  4  the general welfare of the citizens of said area of Orange

  5  County. The authority shall be empowered and authorized to

  6  accept, receive, and expend, for carrying out the purposes of

  7  this act, such sums as may be offered as gifts, donations,

  8  grants, loans, or bequests, from any source whatever.

  9         Section 11.  Lease or sale of government property for

10  airport and industrial purposes.--The state or any political

11  subdivision of the state is hereby granted the power to lease

12  or sell to the authority any property which, in the reasonable

13  discretion of the cabinet or the governing body of the

14  political subdivision, is available for authority purposes.

15  The normal procedures for disposing of government or surplus

16  property may be suspended to facilitate the transfer to the

17  authority.

18         Section 12.  Powers.--The authority shall have all of

19  the powers which are necessary to carry out the purposes of

20  this act. Without limiting in any manner or restricting such

21  general powers, the authority shall have the following

22  specific powers:

23         (1)  To have a seal and alter the same at pleasure and

24  to sue and be sued.

25         (2)  To acquire, hold, and dispose of personal property

26  and real property for authority purposes.

27         (3)  To enter into contracts with any or all of the

28  cities and other governmental agencies and subdivisions of the

29  State of Florida and of the United States.

30         (4)  To acquire property, real and personal, for the

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  1  and operating airports, runways, navigational facilities,

  2  buildings, structures, industrial parks, commercial parks,

  3  passenger terminals, fuel storage facilities, roadways,

  4  taxiways, utility systems, conference facilities, lodging

  5  facilities, food service facilities, and all other facilities

  6  and improvements necessary or desirable for the servicing of

  7  aircraft, the comfort and accommodation of air travelers, and

  8  the operation of said airport facilities and facilities

  9  incidental thereto.

10         (5)  The authority may acquire by the power of eminent

11  domain land and the improvements thereon for public airport

12  purposes in the manner provided by applicable Florida Statutes

13  and other applicable laws. In addition to acquiring land for

14  airport purposes by eminent domain, the authority may also

15  acquire land and other property for airport purposes by grant,

16  donation, purchase, or lease in the manner otherwise provided

17  in this act.

18         (6)  The authority may establish such rates, charges,

19  rents, fees, and use fees for use of the airport and all

20  authority facilities incidental thereto, as the authority

21  deems necessary.

22         (7)  The authority may construct or provide for the

23  construction of special purpose facilities as are required for

24  the repair and servicing of aircraft and for the comfort and

25  convenience of the public, including, but not limited to,

26  fueling equipment and storage, concessions, restaurants, food

27  and beverage facilities, hotels and other lodging facilities,

28  parking lots, and similar facilities. The authority may lease

29  or sell such special purpose facilities to private operators

30  or concessionaires, or such facilities may be operated by the

31  authority in its discretion. The authority may also construct


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  1  and operate conference facilities, or the authority may

  2  participate in joint ventures to operate such facilities.

  3         (8)  The authority may appoint, fix the compensation

  4  of, and make provision for the discharge of an executive

  5  director who, under the supervision of the authority, shall be

  6  responsible for the operation, management, and promotion of

  7  all activities with which the authority is charged under this

  8  act, together with such other duties as may be prescribed by

  9  the authority. The executive director shall have such powers

10  as are incident to the performance of his or her duties and

11  such others as may be prescribed by the authority. The

12  authority may also employ such other officers, agents, and

13  employees under such terms and conditions as it shall consider

14  necessary and appropriate to effectuate its purposes under

15  this act.

16         (9)  In the operation of management of the airports,

17  the authority may employ such managers, supervisors,

18  technicians, and other personnel as may be necessary for the

19  economical and efficient management thereof, and shall have

20  the power to adopt rules and regulations with reference to all

21  projects and matters under its control. All rules and

22  regulations of the authority shall be a matter of public

23  record, and copies thereof shall be dispensed by the authority

24  at cost to all applicants therefor.

25         (10)  The authority may establish a plan for

26  retirement, disability, death, hospitalization, and other

27  appropriate fringe benefits for officers and employees of the

28  authority and may provide by resolution that such officers and

29  employees shall be covered under any plan of the authority or

30  the state available to them under the laws of the authority or

31  the state.


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  1         (11)  In acquiring property from any public or

  2  governmental body or agency for airport purposes or in the

  3  operation of any airport, the authority shall have full power

  4  to contract with the Federal Aviation Authority or any federal

  5  agency exercising any function with respect to aviation, air

  6  navigation, or air transportation, and the authority shall

  7  have full power to abide by all rules and regulations of such

  8  federal agencies, including the uses to which land may be put

  9  for the operation of airports, air navigation facilities, and

10  aircraft. The authority shall further have power to assume any

11  obligations, covenants, or agreements heretofore imposed by

12  any public or governmental body or agency by deed, deed

13  restriction, or contract on such public body or governmental

14  agency therein with respect to airports or aviation.

15         (12)  The authority, in the acquisition, financing, and

16  operation of airports and air navigation facilities, may

17  exercise the authority and powers, except taxation as provided

18  in section 332.07, Florida Statutes, provided for cities,

19  counties, villages, or towns of Florida by chapter 332,

20  Florida Statutes, known as the Airport Law of 1945.

21         (13)  The authority may advertise and publicize the use

22  of any airport constructed or operated by it and may expend

23  its funds for such purpose.

24         (14)  The authority shall have full power to finance or

25  refinance the acquisition or construction of airport projects

26  by issuing its revenue bonds or other debt obligations in the

27  manner provided by chapter 332, Florida Statutes, known as the

28  Airport Law of 1945, or as provided by any other applicable

29  general law.

30         (15)  The authority may make and enter into all

31  contracts and agreements necessary or incidental to the


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  1  performance of its duties and the execution of its powers

  2  under this act, and to employ consulting engineers,

  3  architects, superintendents, managers, aviation consultants,

  4  accountants, and attorneys, and such other consultants and

  5  advisors as may be necessary in its judgment to accomplish the

  6  purposes of this act, and to fix their compensation, provided

  7  that all such expenses shall be paid solely from the proceeds

  8  of revenue bonds issued under the provision of this act, or

  9  from revenues of projects of the authority, or from any other

10  funds legally available to the authority.

11         (16)  The authority may make contracts, and execute all

12  instruments necessary or convenient, including contracts for

13  construction, lease, rental, and sale of projects or contracts

14  with respect to the use of projects which it erects or

15  acquires.

16         (17)  The authority may borrow money for any authority

17  purpose and may execute notes, mortgages, deeds to secure

18  debt, trust deeds, trust agreements, and such other

19  instruments as may be necessary or convenient to evidence and

20  secure such borrowing.

21         (18)  The authority may construct, acquire, own,

22  maintain, extend, improve, equip, operate, and manage projects

23  located on property owned or leased by the authority, and may

24  pay the cost of any such project from the proceeds of revenue

25  bonds of or any other such funds as may be legally available

26  to the authority.

27         (19)  The authority may implement such districts as may

28  be authorized by state or local law in order to facilitate the

29  economic development and rehabilitation of the special

30  district.

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  1         (20)  The authority may initiate all applications

  2  associated with the filing of amendments to the Orange County

  3  Comprehensive Policy Plan and with the filing of applications

  4  for development approval (ADA) for a development of regional

  5  impact, rezoning applications, and all other types of

  6  development applications. Orange County shall be responsible

  7  for the review and consideration of all said applications and

  8  shall issue all local development orders.

  9         (21)  The authority may exercise each and every power

10  not inconsistent with the express provisions of this act which

11  any authority of this state may now or hereafter exercise with

12  respect to the operation, acquisition, construction, or

13  financing of airports or airport projects under the provisions

14  of the general laws of this state.

15         Section 13.  Financial reports; audits.--The authority

16  shall comply with laws of Florida in filing an annual audited

17  financial report each fiscal year. The authority shall also

18  approve a detailed budget for its operations in the succeeding

19  fiscal year at least thirty (3O) days prior to the beginning

20  of such fiscal year. The authority shall fix a date and time,

21  on or before sixty (60) days prior to the commencement of the

22  succeeding fiscal year, for a public hearing on the budget of

23  the authority, notice of which hearing shall be advertised one

24  (1) time in a newspaper of general circulation published in

25  Orange County. The authority shall meet upon the date fixed in

26  the advertisement and from day to day thereafter if deemed

27  necessary for the purposes of holding such public hearing and

28  making whatever revisions in the budget as are deemed

29  necessary.  Upon approval by the authority, the budget shall

30  become fixed and the total thereof only may be amended by

31  formal action of the authority. All expenses incurred for the


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  1  fiscal year for which the budget is made shall be vouchered

  2  and charged on the financial records against the budget of

  3  that year, and to carry out this provision the authority may

  4  hold its books open for thirty (30) days after the expiration

  5  of the fiscal year. It is unlawful for the authority to expend

  6  or contract expenditures in any fiscal year more than the

  7  amount budgeted for each item, and in no case shall the total

  8  appropriations be exceeded. It is unlawful for the authority

  9  to incur indebtedness against the authority in excess of the

10  expenditures provided in said budget, or to pay any illegal

11  charge against the authority, or to pay any claim against the

12  authority not authorized by law, and any member of the

13  authority concurring in any such act shall be guilty of

14  malfeasance in office, and subject to suspension and removal

15  from office.

16         Section 14.  Notice of meetings.--The authority shall

17  give notice of its proposed special meetings by publication in

18  a newspaper in Orange County of the place and time of such

19  meeting at least seven (7) days prior thereto; however,

20  failure to publish such notice shall not affect the validity

21  of any proceedings had at any such meeting, and, in case of

22  emergency meetings, such notice may be waived by a vote of

23  two-thirds (2/3) of the members of the authority. No published

24  notice need be given of regularly scheduled meetings.

25         Section 15.  Creation of state, municipal, or district

26  debts; prohibited.--The authority shall not be empowered or

27  authorized in any manner to create a debt as against the

28  state, county, or any or all of the cities, and may not pledge

29  the faith and credit of the state, county, or any of the

30  cities. All revenue bonds or debt obligations shall contain on

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  1  county, or any of the cities shall not be obligated to pay the

  2  same or the interest and that they are only payable from

  3  revenues of the project or the portion thereof for which they

  4  are issued and that neither the faith and credit nor the

  5  taxing power of the state or of any political subdivision

  6  thereof is pledge to the payment of the principal of or the

  7  interest on such bonds. The issuance of revenue bonds under

  8  the provisions of this act shall not directly or indirectly or

  9  contingently obligate the state, county, or any of the cities

10  to levy or to pledge any form of taxation whatever therefor or

11  to make any appropriation for their payment.

12         Section 16.  Liberal construction of act.--This act,

13  being for the purpose of developing and promoting the public

14  good and the welfare of the authority, the territory included

15  in the special district, and the citizens, inhabitants, and

16  taxpayers residing therein, shall be liberally construed to

17  effect the purposes of the act.

18         Section 17.  Powers.--The powers conferred by this act

19  shall be in addition and supplemental to existing powers and

20  statutes, and this act shall not be construed as repealing any

21  of the provisions of any other law, general or local, except

22  as herein provided, but to provide an alternative for the

23  exercise of the powers granted in this act.

24         Section 18.  Limitation of state authority.--The state

25  does hereby pledge to and agree with the holders of any debt

26  obligations issued under this act, and with those parties who

27  may enter into contracts with the authority pursuant to the

28  provision of this act, that the state will not limit or alter

29  the rights hereby vested in the authority until such

30  obligations, together with the interest thereon, are fully met

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  1  and discharged and such contracts are fully performed on the

  2  part of the authority.

  3         Section 19.  Authority and benefit of the people of the

  4  state.--The exercise of the powers granted by this act in all

  5  respects will be for the benefit of the people of this state

  6  and the area, for the increase of their industry and

  7  prosperity, for the improvement of their health and living

  8  conditions, and for the provision of gainful employment, and

  9  will constitute the performance of essential public functions,

10  and the local authority shall not be required to pay any taxes

11  on any project or any other property owned by the local

12  authority under the provisions of this act or upon the income

13  therefrom, and the bonds issued under the provisions of this

14  act, their transfer, and the income therefrom (including any

15  profit made on the sale thereof) shall at all times be free

16  from taxation by the state or any local unit or political

17  subdivision or other instrumentality of the state. However,

18  for all purposes of dealing with ad valorem taxation, the

19  authority is a body politic and corporate, and not a political

20  subdivision of the State.

21         Section 20.  Powers under Florida Industrial

22  Development Financing Act.--Subject to the limitations set

23  forth herein and specifically as set forth in section 15

24  hereof, the authority shall be endowed with and authorized to

25  exercise all the powers in connection with the authorization,

26  issuance, and sale of revenue bonds to finance the cost of

27  capital projects and conferred on counties, municipalities,

28  special districts, and other local governmental bodies by the

29  Florida Industrial Development Financing Act and all the

30  privileges, benefits, powers, and terms, including

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  1  definitions, of such act shall be fully applicable to the

  2  authority.

  3         Section 21.  Bond issue for purposes of financing

  4  projects authorized by this act.--In addition to any powers

  5  granted in this act, the authority is hereby authorized to

  6  issue revenue bonds and refunding bonds, and to issue and

  7  borrow against bond anticipation notes, for the purpose of

  8  financing any of the projects authorized by this act in the

  9  same manner and subject to the same restrictions as any of the

10  cities may be permitted by general or special law.

11         Section 22.  Execution of contracts, leases, and other

12  legal instruments.--Any and all contracts, leases,

13  obligations, agreements, or other legal instruments of the

14  authority shall be approved by resolution of the authority,

15  and shall be executed by those individuals designated in such

16  resolution and, in the absence of such designation, by the

17  chair or vice chair. Nothing in this provision shall prohibit

18  general resolutions authorizing the executive director or

19  other officers, agents, or employees to execute such

20  contracts, leases, or other legal documents as the authority

21  may prescribe.

22         Section 23.  Conflicts of interest prohibited.--No

23  member, officer, agent, or employee of the authority, either

24  for himself or herself, or as agent for anyone else, or as a

25  stockholder or owner in any other legal entity, shall

26  participate or benefit directly or indirectly in or from any

27  sale, purchase, lease, franchise, contract, or other

28  transaction entered into by the authority. If any such person

29  violates the provisions of this section, he or she shall be

30  guilty of a misdemeanor. The provisions of this section shall

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  1  time to time applicable to members, officers, agents, or

  2  employees of the authority, and which require the disclosure

  3  of, or prohibit, conflicts of interest.

  4         Section 24.  Termination of authority.--If for any

  5  reason, the authority or its successors shall terminate, be

  6  terminated, or cease operation or existence for any cause or

  7  reason, then upon such termination or cessation all property,

  8  real, personal, or mixed, tangible or intangible, of

  9  whatsoever kinds and wheresoever located, shall immediately

10  become the property of the state, which is hereby authorized

11  to exercise any or all powers herein granted the authority for

12  the purposes expressed herein, or for any other legal purpose.

13         Section 2.  In the event any section or provision of

14  this act is determined to be invalid or unenforceable, such

15  determination shall not affect the validity of or

16  enforceability of each other section and provision of this

17  act.

18         Section 3.  In the event of a conflict of the

19  provisions of this act with the provisions of any other act

20  the provisions of this act shall control to the extent of such

21  conflict.

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

23  law.

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