HB 1485 2003
1	A bill to be entitled
2	An act relating to Alachua County; amending chapter 98-
3	502, Laws of Florida; increasing the Alachua County
4	Library District Governing Board from five to six members
5	to add a School Board of Alachua County member; providing
6	severability; 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 2 of chapter 98-502, Laws of Florida,
11	is amended to read:
12	Section 2. Alachua County Library District; establishment;
13	boundaries; governing board.--
14	(1) ESTABLISHMENT.--There is hereby created the Alachua
15	County Library District, which is an independent special taxing
16	district created for the purpose of providing the only library
17	system services and facilities for all citizens of Alachua
18	County, excluding the school library system, pursuant to this
19	act.
20	(2) BOUNDARIES.--The Alachua County Library District shall
21	be composed of all areas of Alachua County, Florida.
22	(3) GOVERNING BOARD.--The Governing Board of the Alachua
23	County Library District, hereinafter referred to as the
24	“governing board,” shall be composed of three members of the
25	Board of County Commissioners of Alachua County, to be selected
26	by the board, andtwo members of the Gainesville City
27	Commission, to be selected by the commission, and one member of
28	the School Board of Alachua County to be selected by the school
29	board,who, when acting together as the governing board, shall
30	sit not as county or city commissioners or school board members,
31	but as members of the governing board of the district.
32	Section 2. If any provision of this act or its application
33	to any person or circumstance is held invalid, such invalidity
34	shall not affect other provisions or applications of the act
35	than can be given affect without the invalid provision of
36	application, and to this end the provisions of this act are
37	declared severable.
38	Section 3. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law.