House Bill 1765
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Florida House of Representatives - 2000 HB 1765
By Representative Wasserman Schultz
1 A bill to be entitled
2 An act relating to Broward County and the City
3 of Cooper City; extending and enlarging the
4 corporate limits of the City of Cooper City to
5 include specified unincorporated lands within
6 the same corporate limits; providing an
7 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 present corporate limits of the City of
12 Cooper City, Broward County, Florida, are hereby extended and
13 enlarged so as to include in addition to the territory
14 presently within its corporate limits certain unincorporated
15 areas of Broward County, being more particularly described as
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18 Tract 'A' of "Flamingo Road Baptist Church" as
19 recorded in plat book 112, page 34 of the
20 public records of Broward County, Florida,
21 together with portions of adjacent
22 rights-of-way, all lying in section 35,
23 township 50 south, range 40 east, Broward
24 County, Florida and being more particularly
25 described as follows:
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27 Begin at the northwest corner of said tract
28 'A'; thence southerly along the west line of
29 said tract 'A' and its southerly extension to
30 the south line of said section 35, also being
31 the north line of section 2, township 51 south,
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1 range 40 east; thence easterly along said line,
2 being the municipal limits of Cooper City,
3 Florida as established by ordinance number
4 86-12-2, to the southeast corner of said
5 section 35 and an angle point in said municipal
6 limits; thence northerly along the east line of
7 said section 35 and the east line of said tract
8 'A' and the municipal limits of Cooper City
9 Florida as established by ordinance number
10 99-2-3, to the northeast corner of said tract
11 'A', being an angle point in the municipal
12 limits of Cooper City as established by
13 ordinance number 87-10-1; thence westerly along
14 the north line of said tract 'A' and the
15 municipal limits of Cooper City, also being the
16 south line of tract 54 in said section 35 of
17 "Florida Fruit Lands Company's Subdivision No.
18 1" as recorded in plat book 2, page 17 of the
19 public records of Dade County, Florida, to an
20 intersection with the east line of the west 949
21 feet of said tract 54, being an angle point in
22 the municipal limits of Cooper City as
23 established by ordinance number 87-10-1; thence
24 departing said municipal limits, continue
25 westerly along the north line of said parcel
26 'A' and the south line of said tract 54 to the
27 northwest corner of said parcel 'A' and the
28 point of beginning.
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30 Section 2. All public roads and the public
31 rights-of-way associated therewith lying within the limits of
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1 the lands subject to annexation herein as described in section
2 1 are transferred from Broward County jurisdiction to the
3 jurisdiction of the annexing municipality.
4 Section 3. On the effective date of this act the City
5 of Cooper City shall be responsible for and embodied with all
6 municipal powers granted in chapter 166, Florida Statutes,
7 over territory hereby annexed.
8 Section 4. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed
9 to affect or abrogate the rights of parties to any contracts
10 where the same be between Broward County and a third party or
11 between nongovernmental entities which contracts are in effect
12 prior to the effective date of this annexation.
13 Section 5. This act shall specifically supersede and
14 take precedence over chapter 97-371, Laws of Florida.
15 Section 6. This act shall take effect September 15,
16 2000.
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