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    Florida House of Representatives - 2001                 HB 845

        By Representative Ritter






  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to the West Lauderdale Water

  3         Control District; repealing section 9.02 of

  4         chapter 96-472, Laws of Florida; providing for

  5         the dissolution of the West Lauderdale Water

  6         Control District on a specified date; providing

  7         for the assumption of its assets and

  8         liabilities by the Bonaventure Development

  9         District; providing for continuance of certain

10         contracts; providing for limitations and

11         restrictions on the use of the assets and

12         revenues of the West Lauderdale Water Control

13         District; providing an 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.  Section 9.02 of the City of Weston Charter,

18  as created by chapter 96-472, Laws of Florida, is repealed.

19         Section 2.  The West Lauderdale Water Control District,

20  created as an independent water control district, pursuant to

21  chapter 298, Florida Statutes, by Circuit Court Decree, 17th

22  Judicial Circuit, dated May 17, 1969, is dissolved as of 12

23  a.m. on July 1, 2001.

24         Section 3.  Upon dissolution of the West Lauderdale

25  Water Control District, all powers, duties, responsibilities,

26  obligations, assets, revenues, and functions of the district

27  shall be transferred to and performed by the Bonaventure

28  Development District, as created by Weston Ordinance 98-61.

29         Section 4.  Upon dissolution, the West Lauderdale Water

30  Control District shall deliver all books and records of the

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  1  district and pay over all funds and moneys of the district to

  2  the Bonaventure Development District.

  3         Section 5.  Upon dissolution of the West Lauderdale

  4  Water Control District, the Bonaventure Development District

  5  shall assume all liabilities of the West Lauderdale Water

  6  Control District both known and unknown at the time of

  7  dissolution. All assets, including real, personal, and

  8  intangible property, belonging to the West Lauderdale Water

  9  Control District and all rights and interest therein and all

10  easements and rights-of-way belonging to the district shall

11  become the assets and property of the Bonaventure Development

12  District.

13         Section 6.  All contracts to which the West Lauderdale

14  Water Control District is a party shall remain in full force

15  and effect for the period provided in the contract, except

16  that the board of the Bonaventure Development District shall

17  be substituted for the district as a party to such contracts.

18  The board of the Bonaventure Development District shall be

19  entitled to all benefits and subject to all liabilities under

20  contracts and shall have the same rights and liabilities to

21  perform, to require performance of, and to modify or terminate

22  such contracts as the district.

23         Section 7.  All moneys and other revenues accruing from

24  the operations, facilities, or assets transferred to the

25  Bonaventure Development District by the West Lauderdale Water

26  Control District may be used by the Bonaventure Development

27  District only for purposes relating to drainage within the

28  district as authorized by law, and subject to the same

29  restrictions imposed by law, for which such moneys and

30  revenues could have been used by the West Lauderdale Water

31  Control District had they not been dissolved and their assets

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  1  and liabilities not been transferred to the Bonaventure

  2  Development District by this act.

  3         Section 8.  This act shall take effect upon becoming a

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