ENROLLED HB 0255 2003 Legislature
   
1 A bill to be entitled
2          An act relating to Collier County; amending chapter 69-
3    1326, Laws of Florida, as amended; increasing the
4    borrowing power of the City of Naples Airport Authority;
5    providing an effective date.
6         
7          Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
8         
9          Section 1. Subsection (n) of section 4 of chapter 69-1326,
10    Laws of Florida, as amended by chapters 75-451 and 79-516, Laws
11    of Florida, is amended to read:
12          Section 4. The operation of the airport by the authority
13    shall be subject to existing leases, rights and privileges
14    heretofore granted by the City of Naples. The authority is
15    hereby authorized and empowered:
16          (n) To borrow money from time to time, provided that the
17    outstanding indebtedness on loans secured under the provisions
18    of this subsection does not exceed $15,000,000five million
19    dollars ($5,000,000.00)at any one time, from any state and
20    federal agency or agencies or private party or parties, both
21    individual and corporate, for the purpose of providing funds to
22    be used in the improving, extending, enlarging, equipping or
23    repairing the airport facilities; to secure such loan or loans
24    by executing a promissory note or notes therefor in the name of
25    said airport authority, which said notes shall be binding
26    obligations of said airport authority; to further secure such
27    promissory notes, the airport authority is authorized to
28    mortgage the project or facilities, excluding the land, for the
29    construction, repair or improvement of which said notes may be
30    executed. With regard to the issuance of any obligations in
31    excess of $2,000,000, the City Council of the City of Naples
32    shall act in an advisory capacity. However, the advice or
33    recommendations of the City Council shall in no event be binding
34    upon the authority and shall not be construed to impair or
35    inhibit the right to issue any such obligations.
36          Section 2. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law.