House Bill hb0451

    Florida House of Representatives - 2002                 HB 451

        By Representative Atwater






  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to the Town of Palm Beach

  3         Shores, Palm Beach County; authorizing the town

  4         to exercise its police powers and jurisdiction

  5         extending 1,200 feet into the waters of the

  6         Atlantic Ocean adjacent to its established

  7         corporate limits; 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 Town of Palm Beach Shores, Palm Beach

12  County, is authorized to exercise its police powers and

13  jurisdiction 1,200 feet into the waters of the Atlantic Ocean

14  adjacent to its established corporate limits; however, the

15  exercise of such police powers and jurisdiction beyond the

16  corporate limits of the town shall extend only to the

17  abatement of nuisances, the enforcement of sanitary laws and

18  regulations, the regulation of zoning, and the suppression of

19  crime.

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

21  law.

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