ENROLLED HB 0551, Engrossed 1 2003 Legislature
   
1 A bill to be entitled
2          An act relating to South Indian River Water Control
3    District, Palm Beach County; amending ch. 2001-313, Laws
4    of Florida; providing for authority to acquire property
5    for recreational purposes within a specified area of the
6    district; providing an effective date.
7         
8          Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
9         
10          Section 1. Section 12 of section 3 of chapter 2001-313,
11    Laws of Florida, is amended to read:
12          Section 12. Authority to fund engineering studies, road
13    improvements, recreational lands.--The Board of Supervisors of
14    the South Indian River Water Control District in Palm Beach
15    County is hereby authorized, empowered, and permitted to expend
16    funds of the District to pay for engineering studies for the
17    purpose of planning a road improvement program, and to pay for
18    the construction, maintenance, improvement, and repair of
19    dedicated roads and road rights-of-way, including the swales
20    thereof, within the District where such construction,
21    maintenance, improvement, and repair is not performed by other
22    governmental bodies and to levy special assessments to acquire,
23    construct, and maintain said improvements on the basis of
24    parcels benefited rather than acres benefited for said purposes.
25    The Board of Supervisors of the South Indian River Water Control
26    District is further authorized, empowered, and permitted to
27    expend funds of the District to pay for engineering studies for
28    the purpose of planning facilities to provide potable water
29    distribution and wastewater collection systems to those lands
30    lying East of Canal 18 of the South Florida Water Management
31    District, and to the Northeast Quarter (NE 1/4) of the Northeast
32    Quarter (NE 1/4) plus the North one-half (N 1/2) of the North
33    one-half (N 1/2) of the Southeast Quarter (SE 1/4) of the
34    Northeast Quarter (NE 1/4) of Section 1, Township 41 South,
35    Range 41 East, in Palm Beach County, in cooperation with the
36    Town of Jupiter and the Loxahatchee River Environmental Control
37    District, and to pay for the construction, maintenance,
38    improvement, and repair of those facilities where such
39    construction, maintenance, improvement, and repair is not
40    performed by other governmental bodies, and to levy special
41    assessments, on the basis of parcels or front footage benefited,
42    acres benefited or other lawful basis, for said purposes, and to
43    transfer said facilities to the Town of Jupiter and the
44    Loxahatchee River Environmental Control District for operation
45    and maintenance. The Board of Supervisors of the South Indian
46    River Water Control District is further authorized to hold,
47    control, acquire by donation or purchase,receiveand maintain
48    real and personal property for recreational purposes for land
49    within the District lying East of Canal 18 of the South Florida
50    Water Management District only, and to make it available for the
51    use of the landowners. The Board of Supervisors is authorized
52    to expend funds of the District to pay for the maintenance of
53    such property, the cost of which shall be borne by the
54    landowners owning land lying East of Canal 18 of the South
55    Florida Water Management District.
56          Section 2. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law.