Senate Bill 1230c1

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    By the Committee on Comprehensive Planning, Local and Military
    Affairs; and Senator Silver




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  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to eminent domain; amending s.

  3         166.411, F.S.; authorizing municipalities to

  4         exercise the power of eminent domain for public

  5         school purposes; providing for repeal;

  6         providing an effective date.

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

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10         Section 1.  Section 166.411, Florida Statutes, is

11  amended to read:

12         166.411  Eminent domain; uses or

13  purposes.--Municipalities are authorized to exercise the power

14  of eminent domain for the following uses or purposes:

15         (1)  For the proper and efficient carrying into effect

16  of any proposed scheme or plan of drainage, ditching, grading,

17  filling, or other public improvement deemed necessary or

18  expedient for the preservation of the public health, or for

19  other good reason connected in anywise with the public welfare

20  or the interests of the municipality and the people thereof;

21         (2)  Over railroads, traction and streetcar lines,

22  telephone and telegraph lines, all public and private streets

23  and highways, drainage districts, bridge districts, school

24  districts, or any other public or private lands whatsoever

25  necessary to enable the accomplishment of purposes listed in

26  s. 180.06;

27         (3)  For streets, lanes, alleys, and ways;

28         (4)  For public parks, squares, and grounds;

29         (5)  For drainage, for raising or filling in land in

30  order to promote sanitation and healthfulness, and for the

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  1  taking of easements for the drainage of the land of one person

  2  over and through the land of another;

  3         (6)  For reclaiming and filling when lands are low and

  4  wet, or overflowed altogether or at times, or entirely or

  5  partly;

  6         (7)  For the abatement of any nuisance;

  7         (8)  For the use of water pipes and for sewerage and

  8  drainage purposes;

  9         (9)  For laying wires and conduits underground; and

10         (10)  For city buildings, waterworks, ponds, and other

11  municipal purposes which shall be coextensive with the powers

12  of the municipality exercising the right of eminent domain;

13  and.

14         (11)  For obtaining lands to be conveyed by the

15  municipality to the school board of the school district for

16  the county within which the municipality is located, if the

17  school board requests in writing that the municipality obtain

18  such lands for conveyance to the school board and promises to

19  use the land to establish a public school thereon. Fulfilling

20  the purpose of this subsection is recognized as constituting a

21  valid municipal public purpose.

22         Section 2.  Section 166.411(11), Florida Statutes, is

23  repealed January 1, 2003. Any eminent domain action that was

24  filed pursuant to section 166.411(11), Florida Statutes,

25  before January 1, 2003, shall not be affected by the repeal of

26  section 166.411(11), Florida Statutes.

27         Section 3.  This act shall take effect upon becoming a

28  law.

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  1          STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
                       COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
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  4  l. Requires the school board to "promise," rather than "use
    its best efforts" to use land it requests a municipality to
  5  condemn to establish a public school.

  6  2. Provides that the eminent domain authority granted by the
    bill is repealed on January 1, 2003.
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