| 1 | The Local Government Council recommends the following: |
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| 3 | Council/Committee Substitute |
| 4 | Remove the entire bill and insert: |
| 5 | A bill to be entitled |
| 6 | An act relating to the North Springs Improvement District, |
| 7 | Broward County; codifying, amending, reenacting, and |
| 8 | repealing chapters 71-580, 84-398, 85-387, 87-505, 89-440, |
| 9 | 91-353, 92-245, 94-445, and 96-537, Laws of Florida, |
| 10 | relating to the district; providing legislative intent; |
| 11 | deleting gender-specific references; providing a district |
| 12 | charter; providing an effective date. |
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| 14 | Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: |
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| 16 | Section 1. In accordance with section 189.429, Florida |
| 17 | Statutes, this act constitutes the codification of all special |
| 18 | acts relating to the North Springs Improvement District. It is |
| 19 | the intent of the Legislature in enacting this law to provide a |
| 20 | single, comprehensive special act charter for the district, |
| 21 | including all current legislative authority granted to the |
| 22 | district by its several legislative enactments and any |
| 23 | additional authority granted by this act. |
| 24 | Section 2. Chapters 71-580, 84-398, 85-387, 87-505, 89- |
| 25 | 440, 91-353, 92-245, 94-445, and 96-537, Laws of Florida, |
| 26 | relating to the North Springs Improvement District are codified, |
| 27 | amended, reenacted, and repealed as herein provided. |
| 28 | Section 3. The charter for the North Springs Improvement |
| 29 | District is re-created and reenacted to read: |
| 30 | Section 1. Creation of the district ratified and approved; |
| 31 | change of name of district to North Springs Improvement |
| 32 | District.--The decree of the circuit court in and for the |
| 33 | Seventeenth Judicial Circuit in and for Broward County, Florida, |
| 34 | entered in Case Number 71-1724, creating and incorporating the |
| 35 | North Springs Drainage District as a public corporation of this |
| 36 | state, and all subsequent proceedings taken in the circuit court |
| 37 | concerning that district, are hereby ratified, confirmed, and |
| 38 | approved, except that the boundaries of said district shall be |
| 39 | as hereinafter described. The North Springs Drainage District |
| 40 | shall henceforth be known by the name of North Springs |
| 41 | Improvement District, an independent special district, and shall |
| 42 | continue to be a public corporation of this state and have |
| 43 | perpetual existence. All lawful debts, bonds, obligations, |
| 44 | contracts, franchises, promissory notes, audits, minutes, |
| 45 | resolutions, and other undertakings of the North Springs |
| 46 | Drainage District are hereby validated and shall continue to be |
| 47 | valid and binding on the North Springs Improvement District in |
| 48 | accordance with their respective terms, conditions, covenants, |
| 49 | and tenor. Any proceeding heretofore begun by the North Springs |
| 50 | Drainage District under chapter 298, Florida Statutes, or any |
| 51 | other law, for the construction of any improvements, works, or |
| 52 | facilities, for the assessment of benefits and damages or for |
| 53 | the borrowing of money shall not be impaired or avoided by this |
| 54 | act, but may be continued and completed in the name of the North |
| 55 | Springs Improvement District. |
| 56 | Section 2. Boundaries.--The boundaries of the district |
| 57 | shall be: |
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| 59 | A tract of land being Sections 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10, a |
| 60 | portion of Sections 3 and 4, all in Township 48 South, |
| 61 | Range 41 East, Broward County, Florida, and Sections |
| 62 | 31, 32 and 33, Township 47 South, Range 41 East, |
| 63 | Broward County, Florida, described as follows: |
| 64 | BEGINNING at the southwest corner of said Section 7; |
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| 66 | thence North 00°03'12" West (Bearings are relative to |