HB 1709

1	A bill to be entitled
2	An act relating to the Coral Springs Improvement
3	District, Broward County; providing for codification
4	of special laws regarding special districts pursuant
5	to s. 189.429, Florida Statutes, relating to the Coral
6	Springs Improvement District; codifying, amending, and
7	reenacting chapters 70-617 and 89-419, Laws of
8	Florida; providing legislative intent; deleting
9	gender-specific references; providing a district
10	charter; repealing chapters 70-617 and 89-419, Laws of
11	Florida, relating to the Coral Springs Improvement
12	District; providing severability; providing an
13	effective date.
14
15	Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
16
17	Section 1.  Intent.--In accordance with section 189.429,
18	Florida Statutes, this act constitutes the codification of all
19	special acts relating to the Coral Springs Improvement District.
20	It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this law to
21	provide a single, comprehensive special act charter for the
22	district, including all current legislative authority granted to
23	the district by its several legislative enactments and any
24	additional authority granted by this act.
25	Section 2.  Codification.--Chapters 70-617 and 89-419, Laws
26	of Florida, relating to the Coral Springs Improvement District
27	are codified, reenacted, amended, and repealed as herein
28	provided.
29	Section 3.  The charter for the Coral Springs Improvement
30	District is re-created and re-enacted to read:
31	Section 1.  Creation of the district ratified and approved;
32	change of name of district to Coral Springs Improvement
33	District.--The decree of the circuit court in and for the
34	seventeenth judicial circuit of the State of Florida, entered in
35	chancery No. 66-1301, on the 8th day of September, 1966,
36	creating and incorporating the Coral Springs Drainage District
37	as a public corporation of this state, and all subsequent
38	proceedings taken in the circuit court concerning that district,
39	are hereby ratified, confirmed, and approved, except that the
40	boundaries of said district shall be as hereinafter described.
41	The Coral Springs Drainage District shall henceforth be known by
42	the name of Coral Springs Improvement District, and shall
43	continue to be a public corporation of this state and have
44	perpetual existence. All lawful debts, bonds, obligations,
45	contracts, franchises, promissory notes, audits, minutes,
46	resolutions, and other undertakings of the Coral Springs
47	Drainage District are hereby validated and shall continue to be
48	valid and binding on the Coral Springs Improvement District in
49	accordance with their respective terms, conditions, covenants,
50	and tenor. Any proceeding heretofore begun by the Coral Springs
51	Drainage District under chapter 298, Florida Statutes, or any
52	other law, for the construction of any improvements, works, or
53	facilities, for the assessment of benefits and damages, or for
54	the borrowing of money shall not be impaired or avoided by this
55	act, but may be continued and completed in the name of the Coral
56	Springs Improvement District.
57	Section 2.  Exclusion of lands and new boundaries.--The
58	following described lands formerly within the boundaries of the
59	district are excluded:
60
61	The North one-half of Section 26, Township 48 South,
62	Range 41 East, Broward County, Florida.
63
64	The boundaries of the district are:
65
66	Beginning at the Northwest corner of Section 30,
67	Township 48 South, Range 41, East; thence Southerly
68	along the West line of said Section 30 and along the
69	West line of Section 31 of said Township 48 South,
70	Range 41 East to an intersection with the North
71	right-of-way line of the Pompano Canal (C-14); thence
72	Easterly along the said North right-of-way line,
73	through said Section 31 and Sections 32, 33 and 34 of
74	said Township 48 South, Range 41 East to an
75	intersection with the East line of said Section 34;
76	thence Northerly along the said East line of Section
77	34 and along the East line of Section 27, Township 48
78	South, Range 41 East, to the Northeast corner of said
79	Section 27; thence Westerly along the North line of
80	said Section 27 and along the North lines of Sections
81	28, 29 and 30 of said Township 48 South, Range 41 East
82	to the said Northwest corner of Section 30 and the
83	Point of Beginning; said lands situate, lying and
84	being in Broward County, Florida, which said boundary
85	embraces and includes these certain tracts or parcels
86	of land described as follows, to wit:
87
88	All of Sections 27 and 29; and Tracts 1 through 19
89	inclusive, Tracts 22 through 27 inclusive, Tracts 30
90	through 32 inclusive, and those portions of Tracts 20,
91	21, 28 and 29 lying North of the North right-of-way
92	line of the Pompano Canal (C-14) of the subdivision of
93	Section 31; and Tracts 1 through 18 inclusive, Tracts
94	22 through 26 inclusive, Tracts 31 and 32, and those
95	portions of Tracts 19, 20, 21, 27 and 30 lying North
96	of the North right-of-way line of the Pompano Canal
97	(C-14) of the subdivision of Section 33, all according
98	to the Florida Fruit Lands Company's Subdivision Map
99	No. 2, recorded in Plat Book 1, Page 102, of the
100	public records of Palm Beach County, Florida, together
101	with all the platted road rights-of-way contained
102	therein; and all of Sections 28 and 30; and those
103	portions of Sections 32 and 34 lying North of the
104	North right-of-way line of the Pompano Canal (C-14).
105
106	All of said property situate, lying and being in
107	Township 48 South, Range 41 East, Broward County,
108	Florida.
109
110	Section 3.  Applicability of certain provisions of chapter
111	298, Florida Statutes, to the Coral Springs Improvement
112	District; inconsistent laws inapplicable.--The provisions of
113	chapter 298, Florida Statutes, and all amendments thereto, now
114	existing or hereafter enacted, are declared to be applicable to
115	the Coral Springs Improvement District insofar as not
116	inconsistent with the provisions of this act or any subsequent
117	special acts relating to the Coral Springs Improvement District.
118	Notwithstanding the foregoing, the provisions of sections
119	298.07, 298.11, 298.12, 298.14, 298.15, 298.17, 298.18, 298.19,
120	298.20, 298.23, 298.24, 298.25, 298.35, 298.37, 298.38, 298.39,
121	298.40, 298.401, 298.41, 298.42, 298.44, 298.45, 298.46, 298.48,
122	298.52, 298.54, 298.56, 298.57, 298.61, 298.69, 298.70, 298.71,
123	298.72, 298.73, and 298.74, Florida Statutes, and amendments
124	thereto, shall not be applicable to the Coral Springs
125	Improvement District.
126	Section 4.  Definitions.--Unless the context shall indicate
127	otherwise, the following words as used in this act shall have
128	the following meanings:
129	(1)  "Assessable improvements" includes, without
130	limitation, any and all drainage and land reclamation works and
131	facilities, sewer systems, storm sewers and drains, water
132	systems, streets, roads, or other projects of the district, or
133	that portion or portions thereof, local in nature and of special
134	benefit to the premises or lands served thereby, and any and all
135	modifications, improvements, and enlargements thereof.
136	(2)  "Board" means the Board of Supervisors of the Coral
137	Springs Improvement District, or if such board shall be
138	abolished, the board, body, or commission succeeding to the
139	principal functions thereof or to whom the powers given by this
140	act to the board shall be given by law.
141	(3)  "Bond" includes "certificate," and provisions

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