Senate Bill sb2942

    Florida Senate - 2003        (NP)                      SB 2942

    By Senator Bullard





    39-1566-03                                              See HB

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to Central County Water Control

  3         District, Hendry County; amending ch. 2000-415,

  4         Laws of Florida; requiring that the supervisors

  5         of the district be elected by a vote of

  6         qualified electors residing in the district;

  7         establishing procedures and extending certain

  8         supervisor terms for the implementation of this

  9         act; providing an effective date.

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11  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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13         Section 1.  Section 9 of section 3 of chapter 2000-415,

14  Laws of Florida, is amended to read:

15         Section 9. Board of supervisors membership.--

16         (1)  Definition.--As used in this section, the term

17  "qualified elector" means any person at least 18 years of age

18  who is a citizen of the United States, a permanent resident of

19  Florida, and a resident of the district who registers with the

20  Supervisor of Elections of Hendry County in accordance with

21  the election laws of this state.

22         (2)  Composition of board of supervisors.--

23         (a)  The number of members of the district board of

24  supervisors shall be 5.  At each annual meeting of the

25  district, two supervisors will be elected for 3-year terms,

26  except that in elections held at the annual meetings in 2000

27  and every third year thereafter on supervisor will be elected

28  for a 3-year term.

29         (b)  The board members shall be elected by the

30  qualified electors of the district in accordance with the laws

31  of Florida governing nonpartisan elections.

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    Florida Senate - 2003        (NP)                      SB 2942
    39-1566-03                                              See HB




 1         (c)  Supervisors shall be qualified electors of the

 2  district.

 3         (3)  Terms of office.--

 4         (a)  Each supervisor elected by qualified electors

 5  shall serve a term of 4 years.

 6         (b)  The terms of each supervisor of the district

 7  holding office on the effective date of this act shall be

 8  extended until the second Tuesday following the next general

 9  election held after said supervisor's term would have

10  otherwise expired.

11         (c)  If a vacancy occurs in a seat occupied by a

12  governing board member, the remaining members of the board of

13  supervisors shall, within 60 days after receipt of a

14  resignation or notice of a member's death or other

15  disqualification, appoint a person who would be eligible to

16  hold the office until the next general election held at least

17  160 days after the appointment.  At such election, a

18  supervisor shall be elected for the remainder of the term of

19  the vacating member.

20         Section 2.  Section 1 of this act shall take effect

21  only upon its approval by a majority vote of the qualified

22  electors of the district, as defined in this act, to be held

23  at the district's annual meeting in April 2003, except that

24  this section shall take effect upon becoming a law.

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