HB 1387

1	A bill to be entitled
2	An act relating to the City of North Lauderdale, Broward
3	County; extending and enlarging the corporate limits of
4	the City of North Lauderdale to include specified
5	unincorporated lands within said corporate limits;
6	providing for referendum; 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.  The area known as the Commercial Boulevard
11	annexation area is described as follows:
12	PORTIONS OF SECTION 18, TOWNSHIP 49 SOUTH, RANGE 42 EAST
13	BROWARD COUNTY FLORIDA; TOGETHER WITH ALL OF THE
14	FOLLOWING PLATS RECORDED IN THE PUBLIC RECORDS OF BROWARD
15	COUNTY, FLORIDA. DARGEL-MINNET PLAT, PLAT BOOK 104, PAGE
16	16,"GUARDIAN PLAT", PLAT BOOK 111, PAGE 50, "TAMARAC MINI
17	STORAGE PLAT No. 1" PLAT BOOK 112, PAGE 2, "THE POINT",
18	PLAT BOOK 119, PAGE 28, "K.M.R. PLAT", PLAT BOOK 127,
19	PAGE 4, SAID PORTIONS BEING MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED
20	AS FOLLOWS:
21	BEGINNING AT THE NORTH WEST PLAT CORNER OF TRACT "A",
22	"TAMARAC MINI STORAGE PLAT NO. 1", PLAT BOOK 112,
23	ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF; THENCE SOUTH 88?20'25"
24	EAST ALONG THE NORTH LINE OF SAID TRACT "A" 1323.66 FEET
25	TO AN INTERSECTION WITH THE EAST LINE OF THE SOUTHEAST
26	QUARTER (SW 1/4) OF SAID SECTION 18; THENCE, ALONG SAID
27	EAST LINE, SOUTH 00?11'46" EAST, 1121.18 FEET TO AN
28	INTERSECTION WITH THE NORTHERLY RIGHT-OF-WAY LINE FOR
29	COMMERCIAL BOULEVARD (N.W. 50th STREET); THENCE ALONG
30	SAID RIGHT-OF-WAY LINE, NORTH 88?32'02" WEST, 859.70 FEET
31	TO AN INTERSECTION WITH THE EASTERLY LINE OF "TAMARAC
32	BUSINESS CENTER", ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF AS
33	RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK 61, PAGE 27, OF THE PUBLIC RECORDS
34	OF BROWARD COUNTY, FLORIDA; THENCE, NORTH 00?29'16 WEST
35	ALONG THE EASTERLY LINE OF SAID "TAMARAC BUSINESS CENTER"
36	446.72 FEET TO THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF SAID "TAMARAC
37	BUSINESS CENTER PLAT"; THENCE, NORTH 88?29'17" WEST ALONG
38	THE NORTHERLY LINE OF SAID "TAMARAC BUSINESS CENTER PLAT"
39	462.40 FEET TO AN INTERSECTION WITH THE SOUTHERLY
40	EXTENSION OF THE WEST LINE OF SAID "TAMARAC MINI STORAGE
41	PLAT"; THENCE ALONG SAID SOUTHERLY EXTENSION AND WESTERLY
42	LINE, NORTH 00?07'30" WEST, 678.60 TO THE POINT OF
43	BEGINNING.
44	SAID LANDS SITUATE IN BROWARD COUNTY, FLORIDA.
45	Section 2.  An election shall be scheduled by the Board of
46	County Commissioners of Broward County in accordance with the
47	provisions of law relating to elections currently in force in
48	Broward County on November 2, 2004. Only registered voters
49	residing in the Commercial Boulevard annexation area may vote in
50	said election. A mail ballot may be used in said election. The
51	item that shall appear on the ballot of the election of November
52	2, 2004, shall be as follows:
53	Shall the Commercial Boulevard annexation area be annexed
54	into the City of North Lauderdale effective September 15,
55	2005, or September 15, 2006?
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57	Select one below:
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59	All of the Commercial Boulevard annexation area shall be
60	annexed into the City of North Lauderdale effective
61	September 15, 2005.
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63	All of the Commercial Boulevard annexation area shall be
64	annexed into the City of North Lauderdale effective
65	September 15, 2006.
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67	Section 3.  All of the Commercial Boulevard annexation
68	area, as defined herein, shall be deemed a part of the City of
69	North Lauderdale effective on the date which receives a majority
70	of the votes in the election described in section 2.
71	Section 4.  As of the effective date of annexation,
72	whichever date receives a majority of the votes in the election
73	described in section 2, the City of North Lauderdale shall have
74	all powers and responsibilities as provided in section 171.062,
75	Florida Statutes, except as provided in this act.
76	Section 5.  Upon annexation into the City of North
77	Lauderdale, the following shall govern the areas described in
78	the Commercial Boulevard annexation area as provided in this
79	act: for any use, building, or structure that is legally in
80	existence at the time the Commercial Boulevard annexation area
81	becomes a part of the City of North Lauderdale, such use shall
82	not be made a prohibited use by the City of North Lauderdale, on
83	the property of said use, for as long as the use shall continue
84	and is not voluntarily abandoned.
85	Section 6.  Subsequent to the effective date of this act,
86	no change in land use designation or zoning shall be effective
87	within the limits of the lands subject to annexation herein,
88	until the Commercial Boulevard annexation area has been annexed
89	into the City of North Lauderdale, pursuant to this act.
90	Section 7.  All public roads and the public rights-of-way
91	associated therewith on the Broward County road system, lying
92	within the limits of the lands subject to annexation herein, as
93	described in section 1, are transferred from Broward County
94	jurisdiction to the jurisdiction of the City of North
95	Lauderdale, except for those portions of Commercial Boulevard
96	lying within the annexation area. All rights, title, interests,
97	and responsibilities for any transferred roads, including, but
98	not limited to, the ownership, operation, maintenance, planning,
99	design, and construction of said roads and to the right-of-way
100	associated therewith shall transfer from the jurisdiction and
101	ownership of Broward County to the jurisdiction and ownership of
102	the City of North Lauderdale upon the effective date of the
103	annexation.
104	Section 8.  Subsequent to the effective date of this
105	annexation, any resident in the area to be annexed by this act
106	into the City of North Lauderdale shall be deemed to have met
107	any residency requirements for candidacy.
108	Section 9.  Upon the effective date of the annexation, the
109	City of North Lauderdale shall be responsible for and embodied
110	with all municipal powers granted in chapter 166, Florida
111	Statutes, over territory hereby annexed.
112	Section 10.  Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to
113	affect or abrogate the rights of parties to any contracts,
114	whether the same be between Broward County and a third party or
115	between nongovernmental entities, which contracts are in effect
116	prior to the effective date of annexation.
117	Section 11.  This act shall take effect upon becoming law.

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