HB 0613 2003
1	A bill to be entitled
2	An act relating to water management district agreements
3	regarding the Orlando Utilities Commission, Orange County;
4	amending chapter 13198 (1927), Laws of Florida; requiring
5	an agreement designating a single water management
6	district for the commission; requiring the agreement to be
7	reached by a date certain; 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. Section 1 of chapter 13198 (1927), Laws of
12	Florida, is amended to read:
13	Section 1. Water Supply Development and Protection.--
14	(1)The City of Orlando is hereby authorized and empowered
15	by its duly constituted authorities to exercise the right of
16	eminent domain to appropriate property, except State or Federal,
17	for the purpose of obtaining, constructing and maintaining water
18	works, reservoirs, any and all such lands, waters, and lands
19	adjacent to waters, as in the judgment of the governing
20	authority of the City of Orlando may be necessary for the full
21	and complete police protection of any such water supply of the
22	City of Orlando to safe-guard the health, sanitation and
23	interest of said City in supplying the said City and its
24	inhabitants a wholesome and pure water supply for all purposes.
25	(2) For purposes of consumptive water use permitting
26	pursuant to chapter 373, Florida Statutes, any water supply
27	production and distribution facilities owned or controlled by
28	the Orlando Utilities Commission within Orange County are to be
29	regulated by a single permit issued by a single water management
30	district. The affected districts shall designate a single
31	affected district by interagency agreement consistent with
32	section 373.046, Florida Statutes, to regulate the Orlando
33	Utilities Commission exclusively under rules of the designated
34	district and to issue any permit for consumptive use of water
35	under Part II of the Florida Water Resources Act of 1972, as
36	amended, as set forth in chapter 373, Florida Statutes. In the
37	event that the affected districts do not enter into such an
38	interagency agreement by August 1, 2003, or 90 days after this
39	act becomes a law, whichever is sooner, the Orlando Utilities
40	Commission may designate a single affected water management
41	district to regulate its facilities until such time as the
42	required interagency agreement is entered into. This section is
43	not intended to conflict with the exclusive authority of the
44	Florida Water Resources Act to regulate the consumptive use of
45	water as provided in section 373.217, Florida Statutes. In the
46	event that a general law is enacted that has the effect of
47	directing the affected water management districts to enter into
48	an interagency agreement by a date certain designating a single
49	water management district to regulate the Orlando Utilities
50	Commission's water production and distribution facilities, the
51	general law shall control. Until such a comprehensive revision
52	to general law is enacted, this section shall control in the
53	event of a conflict.
54	Section 2. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law.