House Bill hb0993

    Florida House of Representatives - 2001                 HB 993

        By Representative Lee






  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to the St. Johns River Water

  3         Management District; amending s. 373.073, F.S.;

  4         revising requirements for membership of the

  5         district governing board; providing an

  6         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.  Paragraph (c) of subsection (2) of section

11  373.073, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:

12         373.073  Governing board.--

13         (2)  Membership on governing boards shall be selected

14  from candidates who have significant experience in one or more

15  of the following areas, including, but not limited to:

16  agriculture, the development industry, local government,

17  government-owned or privately owned water utilities, law,

18  civil engineering, environmental science, hydrology,

19  accounting, or financial businesses. Notwithstanding the

20  provisions of any other general or special law to the

21  contrary, vacancies in the governing boards of the water

22  management districts shall be filled according to the

23  following residency requirements, representing areas

24  designated by the United States Water Resources Council in

25  United States Geological Survey, River Basin and Hydrological

26  Unit Map of Florida--1975, Map Series No. 72:

27         (c)  St. Johns River Water Management District:

28         1.  One member shall reside in the area generally

29  designated as the "St. Mary River Basin-Coastal area between

30  St. Marys and St. Johns Rivers" hydrologic units.

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    Florida House of Representatives - 2001                 HB 993

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  1         2.  One member shall reside in the area generally

  2  designated as the "St. Johns River Basin below Oklawaha

  3  River-Coastal area between the St. Johns River and Ponce de

  4  Leon Inlet" hydrologic units.

  5         3.  One member shall reside in the area generally

  6  designated as the "Oklawaha River Basin" hydrologic unit.

  7         4.  One member shall reside in the area generally

  8  designated as the "St. Johns River Basin above the Oklawaha

  9  River" hydrologic unit.

10         5.  One member shall reside in the area generally

11  designated as the "Coastal area between Ponce de Leon Inlet

12  and Sebastian Inlet-Coastal area Sebastian Inlet to St. Lucie

13  River" hydrologic units.

14         6.  One member shall reside in Duval County.

15         7.6.  Three Four members shall be appointed at large,

16  except that no county shall have more than two members on the

17  governing board.

18         Section 2.  This act shall take effect upon becoming a

19  law.

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22                          HOUSE SUMMARY

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      Requires that one member of the governing board of the
24    St. Johns River Water Management District reside in Duval
      County, and reduces the member of at-large members from
25    four to three.

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