HB 1657

1	A bill to be entitled
2	An act relating to the Downtown Development Authority of
3	the City of Fort Lauderdale, Broward County; codifying,
4	amending, reenacting, and repealing chapters 65-1541, 67-
5	1385, 69-1056, 75-371, 80-501, 85-393, 87-507, 89-431, 92-
6	247, 93-392, and 95-531, Laws of Florida; providing
7	severability; providing an effective date.
8
9	Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
10
11	Section 1.  Pursuant to section 189.429, Florida Statutes,
12	this act constitutes the codification of all special acts
13	relating to the Downtown Development Authority of the City of
14	Fort Lauderdale. It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting
15	this law to provide a single, comprehensive special act charter
16	for the authority, including all current legislative authority
17	granted to the authority by its several legislative enactments
18	and any additional authority granted by this act. It is further
19	the intent of this act to preserve all authority of the
20	authority.
21	Section 2.  Chapters 65-1541, 67-1385, 69-1056, 75-371, 80-
22	501, 85-393, 87-507, 89-431, 92-247, 93-392, and 95-531, Laws of
23	Florida, are codified, reenacted, amended, and repealed as
24	herein provided.
25	Section 3.  The charter for the Downtown Development
26	Authority of the City of Fort Lauderdale is reenacted and re-
27	created to read:
28	Section 1.  Definitions.--As used in this act, the
29	following terms shall have the meaning ascribed to them in this
30	section unless the context shall clearly requires otherwise:
31	(1)  "Authority" means the Downtown Development Authority
32	of the City of Fort Lauderdale.
33	(2)  "Board" means the governing body of the authority
34	selected as herein provided.
35	(3)  "Director" means the chief executive officer of the
36	authority selected by the board as herein provided.
37	(4)  "City" means the City of Fort Lauderdale.
38	(5)(a)  "Downtown" means the lands described in section 2
39	not being used as a residence.
40	(b)  "Not being used as a residence" means all residential
41	lands not being used as a residence or that portion of
42	nonresidential lands not being used as a residence.  The
43	determination of when land is being used as a residence shall be
44	made and certified by the Executive Director of the Downtown
45	Development Authority at the time the books close for a Downtown
46	Development Authority election or, if the Downtown Development
47	Authority does not hold an election in a particular year, as of
48	January 1 of that year.
49	(c)  "Residence" means a building in which one or more
50	natural persons live.
51	(d)  "Residential" means lands zoned by the City of Fort
52	Lauderdale as R-1-A, R-1, R-1-P, R-2-A, R-2, R-3-A/RM-25, R-3-9,
53	RM-15, R-3/RM-30, R-3-C, R-4/RM-60, or R-4-C.
54	(6)  "Planning board" means the city planning and zoning
55	board.
56	(7)  "Bonds" means any bonds, including refunding bonds,
57	notes, interim certificates, certificates of indebtedness,
58	debentures, and other obligations.
59	(8)  "Public facility" means any street, park, parking lot,
60	playground, right-of-way, structure, waterway, bridge, lake,
61	pond, canal, utility lines or pipes, and building, including
62	access routes to any of the foregoing, designed and dedicated to
63	use by the public generally, or used by any public agency with
64	or without charge, whether or not the same is revenue producing.
65	(9)  "Assessable improvements" includes, without
66	limitation, any and all land redevelopment and revitalization
67	works and facilities, sewer systems, storm sewers and drains,
68	water systems, streets, roads, or other products of the
69	authority, or that portion or portions thereof, local in nature
70	and of special benefit to the premises or lands served thereby,
71	and any and all modifications, improvements, and enlargements
72	thereof.
73	(10)  "Cost," when used with reference to any project,
74	includes, but is not limited to, the expense of determining the
75	feasibility or practicability of acquisition, construction, or
76	reconstruction; the cost of surveys, estimates, plans, designs,
77	and specifications; the cost of improvements and engineering,
78	fiscal, and legal expenses and charges; the cost of all labor,
79	materials, machinery, and equipment; the cost of all lands,
80	properties, rights, easements, and franchises acquired; federal,
81	state, and local taxes and assessments; financing charges; the
82	creation of initial reserve and debt service funds; working
83	capital; interest charges incurred or estimated to be incurred
84	on money borrowed prior to and during construction and
85	acquisition and for such period of time after completion of
86	construction or acquisition as the board may determine; the cost
87	of issuance of bonds pursuant to this act, including
88	advertisements and printing, the cost of any referendum held
89	pursuant to this act, and all other expenses of issuance of
90	bonds; discount, if any, on the sale or exchange of bonds;
91	administrative expenses; such other expenses as may be necessary
92	or incidental to the acquisition, construction, or
93	reconstruction of any project or to the financing thereof, or
94	the development of any lands within the authority; and
95	reimbursement of any public or private body, person, firm, or
96	corporation for any moneys advanced in connection with any of
97	the foregoing items of cost.  Any obligation or expense incurred
98	prior to the issuance of bonds in connection with the
99	acquisition, construction, or reconstruction of any project or
100	improvements thereon, or in connection with any other
101	development of land that the board shall determine to be
102	necessary or desirable in carrying out the purposes of this act,
103	may be treated as a part of such cost.
104	(11)  "Project"  means any development, improvement,
105	property, utility, facility, works road, sidewalk, enterprise,
106	service, or convenience, including, without limitation, public
107	transportation facilities and services, now existing or
108	hereafter undertaken or established, that under the provisions
109	of this act the authority is authorized to construct, acquire,
110	undertake, or furnish for its own use or for the use of any
111	other person, firm, or corporation owning, leasing, or otherwise
112	using the same, for any profit or nonprofit purpose or activity,
113	and shall include, without limitation, such repairs,
114	replacements, additions, extensions, and betterments of and to
115	any project as may be deemed necessary or desirable by the board
116	to place or to maintain such project in proper condition for the
117	safe, efficient, and economic operation thereof.
118	(12)  "Public body" means the state or any municipality,
119	board, commission, authority, district, department, or any other
120	subdivision or public body of the state.
121	(13)  "Federal Government" means the United States of
122	America or any agency or instrumentality, corporation, or
123	otherwise of the United States of America.
124	(14)  "Slum area" means an area in which there is a
125	predominance of buildings or improvements, whether residential
126	or nonresidential, which by reason of dilapidation,
127	deterioration, age, or obsolescence, inadequate provision for
128	ventilation, light, air, sanitation, or open spaces, high
129	density of population and overcrowding, or the existence of
130	conditions which endanger life or property by fire and other
131	causes or any combination of such factors is conducive to ill
132	health, transmission of disease, infant mortality, juvenile
133	delinquency, or crime, and is detrimental to the public health,
134	safety, morals, or welfare.
135	(15)  "Blighted area" means an area which by reason of the
136	presence of a substantial number of slum, deteriorated, or
137	deteriorating structures, predominance of defective or
138	inadequate street layout, faulty lot layout in relation to size,
139	adequacy, accessibility, or usefulness, unsanitary or unsafe
140	conditions, deterioration of site or other improvements,
141	diversity of ownership, tax or special assessment delinquency
142	exceeding the fair value of the land, defective or unusual
143	conditions of title, or the existence of conditions which
144	endanger life or property by fire and other causes, or any
145	combination of such factors, substantially impairs or arrests
146	the sound growth of a community, retards the provision of
147	housing accommodations, or constitutes an economic or social
148	liability and is a menace to the public health, safety, morals,
149	or welfare in its present condition and use.
150	(16)  "Renewal project" means undertakings and activities
151	of the authority in a renewal area for the elimination and
152	prevention of the development or spread of slums and blight, and
153	may involve slum clearance and redevelopment in a renewal area,
154	or rehabilitation or conservation in a renewal area, or any
155	combination or part thereof in accordance with a renewal plan.
156	Such undertakings and activities may include:
157	(a)  Acquisition of a slum area or a blighted area or
158	portion thereof.
159	(b)  Demolition and removal of buildings and improvements.
160	(c)  Installation, construction, or reconstruction of
161	streets, utilities, parks, playgrounds, and other improvements
162	necessary for carrying out in the renewal area the renewal
163	objectives of this act in accordance with the renewal plan.
164	(d)  Disposition of any property acquired in the renewal
165	area, including sale, initial leasing, or retention by the
166	authority itself, at its fair value for uses in accordance with
167	the renewal plan.
168	(e)  Carrying out plans for a program of voluntary or
169	compulsory repair and rehabilitation of buildings or other
170	improvements in accordance with the renewal plan.
171	(f)  Acquisition of any other real property in the renewal
172	area where necessary to eliminate unhealthful, unsanitary, or
173	unsafe conditions, lessen density, eliminate obsolete or other
174	uses detrimental to the public welfare, or otherwise to remove
175	or prevent the spread of blight or deterioration, or to provide
176	land for needed public facilities.
177	(17)  "Renewal area" means a slum area or a blighted area
178	or a combination thereof which the authority designates as
179	appropriate for a renewal project.
180	(18)  "Renewal plan" means a plan, as it exists from time
181	to time, for a renewal project, which plan:
182	(a) Shall conform to the general plan for the municipality
183	as a whole.
184	(b) Shall be sufficiently complete to indicate such land
185	acquisition, demolition, and removal of structures,
186	redevelopment, improvements, and rehabilitation as may be
187	proposed to be carried out in the renewal area; zoning and
188	planning changes, if any; land uses; maximum densities; building
189	requirements; and the plan's relationship to definite local
190	objectives respecting appropriate land uses, improved traffic,
191	public transportation, public utilities, recreational and
192	community facilities, and other public improvements.
193	(19)  "Real property" shall include lands, including
194	improvements and fixtures thereon, and property of any nature
195	appurtenant thereto, or used in connection therewith, and every
196	estate, interest, right, and use, legal or equitable, therein
197	including terms for years and liens by way of judgment,
198	mortgage, or otherwise.
199	(20)  "Obligee" shall include any bondholder, agents, or
200	trustees for any bondholders, or lessor demising to the
201	authority property used in connection with a renewal project, or
202	any assignee or assignees of such lessor's interest or any part
203	thereof, and the Federal Government when it is a party to any
204	contract with the municipality.
205	(21)  "Person" means any individual, firm, partnership,
206	corporation, company, association, joint stock association, or
207	body politic, and shall include any trustee, receiver, assignee,
208	or other person acting in a similar representative capacity.
209	(22)  "Area of operation" means the downtown.
210	(23)  "Public officer" means any officer who is in charge
211	of any department or branch of government relating to health,
212	fire, or building regulations, or to other activities concerning
213	dwellings in the area.
214	Section 2.  The boundaries of the authority shall include
215	the following lands in the City of Fort Lauderdale, Broward
216	County:
217	1.  All lands not being used as a residence lying
218	north of New River, east of Southwest and Northwest
219	Fourth Avenue, south of Northwest and Northeast Second
220	Street and west of Northeast and Southeast Sixth
221	Avenue;
222	2.  All lands not being used as a residence lying
223	north of Northwest Second Street, east of the Florida
224	East Coast Railroad, south of Northwest Fourth Street,
225	and west of North Andrews Avenue;
226	3.  All lands not being used as a residence lying
227	within one hundred fifty feet of and being in common
228	ownership with any of said boundary streets and
229	avenues (excluding, however, all lands lying east of
230	Southeast Sixth Avenue);
231	4.  All lands not being used as a residence lying
232	south of Northeast Fourth Street and within one
233	hundred fifty feet of and being in common ownership
234	with Northeast Third Avenue and Northeast Sixth
235	Avenue.  For the purposes of definition, the words,
236	"common ownership" contained herein shall be
237	"contiguous to and owned by the same entity; and
238	5.  All lands not being used as a residence lying
239	north of Northeast Second Street, east of Northeast
240	Second Avenue, south of Northeast Sixth Street, and
241	west of Federal Highway, together with all lands not
242	being used as a residence lying north of Southeast
243	Seventh Street, east of the F.E.C. Railroad Tracks,
244	south of Southeast Sixth Court, and west of Federal
245	Highway, as legally described as follows:
246	PARCEL I
247	All of Blocks 1, 2, 4, 29 and 30, and portions of
248	Blocks 33 and 34, NORTH LAUDERDALE AMENDED, according
249	to the plat thereof recorded in Plat Book 1, Page 182,
250	of the public records of Dade County, Florida;
251	TOGETHER WITH all of the Blocks 2, 31, and 32, NORTH
252	LAUDERDALE AMENDED RE-SUB, according to the plat
253	thereof recorded in Plat Book 5, Page 25, of the
254	public records of Broward County, Florida; ALSO
255	TOGETHER WITH  portions of Blocks A and B, GEORGE M.
256	PHIPPENS SUB., according to the plat thereof recorded
257	in Plat Book B, Page 146, of the public records of
258	Dade County, Florida; ALSO TOGETHER WITH portions of
259	Blocks A and B, FORT LAUDERDALE LAND AND DEVELOPMENT
260	CO., SUB., according to the plat thereof recorded in
261	Plat Book 1, Page 56, of the public records of Dade
262	County, Florida; AND ALSO TOGETHER WITH portions of
263	Northeast 3rd Street, Northeast 4th Street, Northeast
264	5th Street, Northeast 5th Avenue, and Northeast 5th
265	Terrace, lying adjacent to said Blocks, and being all
266	more fully described as follows:
267	Beginning at the Northwest corner of Lot 26, of said
268	Block 4, thence due South, on the West lines of said
269	Blocks 4 and 29, and extensions thereof, a distance of
270	1300.00 feet; thence due East, on the North right-of-
271	way line of said Northeast 4th Street, a distance 83.99
272	feet; thence due South, a distance of 50.00 feet;
273	thence due East, on the South right-of way line of
274	said Northeast 4th Street, a distance of 392 feet;
275	thence South 00(01'00" West, on the West lines of Lots
276	20 and 19, Block A, and the West line of Lot 20, Block
277	B, of said GEORGE M. PHIPPENS SUB., and extensions
278	thereof, a distance of 495.00 feet; thence South
279	89(57'46" East, on the South lines of Lots 20, 18, 16,
280	14, 12, 10, 8, 6, 4, and 2, Block B, of said GEORGE M.
281	PHIPPENS SUB., and the Easterly extension thereof, a
282	distance of 720.17 feet; thence North 00(01'54" West,
283	on the Southerly extension of the East line of Lot 20,
284	Block A, of said FORT LAUDERDALE LAND AND DEVELOPMENT
285	CO., SUB. and the Northerly extension thereof, a
286	distance of 205.47 feet, thence due West, on the North
287	right-of-way line of said Northeast 3rd Street, a
288	distance of 25.00 feet; thence North 00(01'00" East, on
289	the East lines of Lots 7 and 20, Block B, of said FORT
290	LAUDERDALE LAND AND DEVELOPMENT CO. SUB., and
291	extensions thereof, a distance of 289.15 feet; thence
292	due East, on the South right-of-way line of Northeast
293	4th Street, a distance of 169.75 feet; thence North
294	00(17'27" East, on the West right-of way line of U.S.
295	Highway No. 1; a distance of 1323.87 feet to the Point
296	of Beginning less the following described land:  Lots
297	20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25 and 26, Block "B", FORT
298	LAUDERDALE LAND AND DEVELOPMENT CO. Subdivision of
299	Lots 1 and 2, Block 1, Fort Lauderdale, according to
300	the plat thereof, recorded in Plat Book 1, Page 56, of
301	the public records of Dade County, Florida, and Lots 2
302	and 4, Block "A", GEORGE M. PHIPPEN'S SUBDIVISION of
303	Lots 3, 4, 5 and 6, Block 1, and Lots 3, 4, 5, 6, 7,
304	8, 9 and 10, Block 14, TOWN OF FORT LAUDERDALE,
305	according to the plat thereof, recorded in Plat Book
306	B, Page 146, of the public records of Dade County,
307	Florida.
308	PARCEL II
309	Lots 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17,
310	18, 19, 20 and 21, HARCOURT, according to the plat
311	thereof, as recorded in Plat Book 2, Page 9, of the
312	public records of Broward County, Florida; AND the
313	west one-half (W () of Federal Highway  (US No. 1),
314	lying East of and adjacent to said Lots 4, 5, 6, 7, 9,
315	9, 10, 11 and 12; AND the East one-half (E () of S.E.
316	5th Terrace, lying West of and adjacent to said Lots
317	14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 and 21.
318	TOGETHER WITH:
319	Lots 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12, HENRY
320	SHACKELFORD AMENDED PLAT SUBDIVISION OF LOTS 2 & 3,
321	BLOCK 57, TOWN OF FORT LAUDERDALE, according to the
322	plat thereof, as recorded in Plat Book 3, Page 3, of
323	the public records of Dade County, Florida; AND  the
324	West one-half of S.E. 5th Terrace, lying East of
325	adjacent to and referenced Lots; AND the East one-half
326	of S.E. 5th Avenue, lying West of adjacent of above
327	referenced Lots.
328	TOGETHER WITH:
329	Lots 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12, RE-AMENDED PLAT
330	OF HENRY  SHACKELFORD'S SUBDIVISION OF LOTS 2 & 3,
331	BLOCK 57, TOWN OF FORT LAUDERDALE, according to the
332	plat thereof, as recorded in Plat Book 3, Page 3 of
333	the public records of Dade County, Florida; AND  the
334	West one-half of S.E. 5th Avenue, lying East of
335	adjacent to and referenced Lots; AND the East one-half
336	of S.E. 4th Avenue, lying West of adjacent to the above
337	referenced Lots.
338	AND ALSO TOGETHER WITH:
339	Lots 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9, MRS. DAISY
340	SHACKELFORD'S AMENDED NEW SUBDIVISION OF LOT 4, BLOCK
341	57, TOWN OF FORT LAUDERDALE, according to the plat
342	thereof, as recorded in Plat Book 1, Page 165, of the
343	public records of Dade County, Florida, AND  10.00
344	foot Alley adjacent to said Lot 6 and Lots 7, 8 & 9;
345	AND the West one-half of (W () of S.E. 4th Avenue,
346	lying East of and adjacent to above referenced Lots.
347	AND ALSO TOGETHER WITH:
348	Lots 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12, SOUTH FLORIDA
349	DREDGING COMPANY DIVISION OF LOT 5, BLOCK 57, TOWN OF
350	FORT LAUDERDALE, according to the plat thereof, as
351	recorded in Plat Book 3, Page 27, of the public
352	records of Broward County, Florida; AND 10.00 foot
353	Alley adjacent to Lot 9 and Lots 10, 11 and 12; AND
354	5.50 foot Alley lying East of and adjacent to above
355	referenced Lots; AND the East one-half (E() of S.E. 3rd
356	Avenue, lying West of and adjacent to said Lots.
357	AND ALSO TOGETHER WITH:
358	The South 80.00 feet of Lots 2, 4 and 6, Block 3, all
359	of Blocks 4, 5 and 6, SUBDIVISION OF BLOCK 56, TOWN OF
360	FORT LAUDERDALE, according to the plat thereof, as
361	recorded in Plat Book 1, Page 63, of the public
362	records of Dade County, Florida; AND  the West one-
363	half (W() of S.E. 3rd Avenue, lying East of and
364	adjacent to above referenced South 80.00 feet of Lot 2
365	and said Block 6; AND  the East one-half (E () of S.E.
366	1st Avenue, lying West of and adjacent to above
367	referenced Block 4; AND  the North one-half (N() of
368	S.E. 6th Court, lying South of and adjacent to said
369	Lots 2, 4 and 6, Block 3; AND  the South one-half of
370	S.E. 6th Court, lying North of and adjacent to said
371	Blocks 4, 5 and 6.
372	AND ALSO TOGETHER WITH:
373	Lots 17, 18, 19, 20 and 21, Block 55, TOWN OF FORT
374	LAUDERDALE, according to the plat thereof, as recorded
375	in Plat Book "B", Page 40, of the public records of
376	Dade County, Florida, AND Parcel "A"; AND the East
377	one-half of Andrews Avenue, lying West of and adjacent
378	to said Parcel "A"; AND all that certain 14.00 foot
379	Alley within said Block 55, lying North and East of
380	said Parcel "A"; AND all that certain irregular Alley,
381	lying North of said Parcel "A" and South of said Lot
382	17.
383	AND ALSO TOGETHER WITH;
384	Lots 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17,
385	18, 19, 20 and 21, Block 54, TOWN OF FORT LAUDERDALE,
386	according to the plat thereof, as recorded in Plat
387	Book "B", Page 40, of the public records of Dade
388	County, Florida; AND  the West one-half (W() of
389	Andrews Avenue, lying East of and adjacent to said
390	Lots 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 and 21; AND  the
391	East one-half of S.W. 1st Avenue lying West of and
392	adjacent to said Lots 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12;
393	AND all that certain 14.00 foot Alley in said Block
394	54, lying adjacent to above referenced Lots.
395	AND ALSO TOGETHER WITH:
396	Lots 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17,
397	18, 19 and Lot 20, less the North 25.00 feet thereof,
398	Block 53, TOWN OF FORT LAUDERDALE, according to the
399	plat thereof, as recorded in Plat Book "B", Page 40,
400	of the public records of Dade County, Florida; AND
401	the West one-half of (W() of S.W. 1st Avenue, lying
402	East of and adjacent to said Lots 13, 14, 15, 16, 17,
403	18, 19 and Lot 20, less the North 25.00 feet thereof;
404	AND all of S.W. Flagler Avenue lying West of and
405	adjacent to said Lots 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12;
406	AND  the East one-half (E() of the Florida East Coast
407	Railroad Right-of-Way, lying West of said S.W. Flagler
408	Avenue and South of the Westerly extension of the
409	North line of said Lot 4 and North of the Westerly
410	extension of the Northerly right of way line of S.W.
411	7th Street.
412	Said lands situate, lying and being in the City of
413	Fort Lauderdale, Broward County, Florida, and
414	containing 24.8679 Acres more or less.
415	6.(a)  All lands not being used a residence lying
416	south of New River, east of the Florida East Coast
417	Railroad, north of Southeast Sixth Street and
418	Southwest Sixth Street, and west of Southeast Sixth
419	Avenue.
420	(b)  All lands not being used a residence lying
421	south of Southeast and Southwest Sixth Streets, east
422	of the Florida East Coast Railroad, and west of
423	Southeast Sixth Avenue, which are situated within one
424	hundred fifty feet (150') of and are in contiguous
425	proprietorship with Southeast or Southwest Sixth
426	Street, upon approval of the majority of those voting
427	in a referendum in which those participating are
428	limited to the electors of the downtown (including
429	also the lands added to the downtown by this act) who
430	at the time of the referendum are owners of freeholds
431	in the downtown (as hereby expanded), not wholly
432	exempt from taxation, and who are then duly registered
433	for a Downtown Development Authority referendum,
434	according to law.  For the purposes of such
435	referendum, the electors who register only as owners
436	of freeholds which are situated within the lands
437	authorized to be added to the downtown by this act may
438	be separately registered and their votes cast in
439	separate ballot boxes or voting machines (as the case
440	may be) and separately tabulated, in case on or more
441	other questions are being voted upon at such
442	referendum, and such separate registrants shall thus
443	be permitted to vote upon such other question or
444	questions.  If this law is approved at such
445	referendum, such separately registered electors shall
446	be incorporated into the permanent registration of
447	electors of the Downtown Development Authority and
448	their votes then counted on any other question or
449	questions voted upon at such referendum.
450	7.  All of lots 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22,
451	23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35,
452	38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47 and 48, and
453	portions of Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11,
454	12, 13, 36 and 37, Block 19, BRYAN SUBDIVISION of
455	Blocks 5, 8 and 19, of the Town of Fort Lauderdale, as
456	recorded in Plat Book 1, Page 18, of the public
457	records of Dade County, Florida, together with
458	portions of those certain 10 foot alleys, lying within
459	said Block 19,
460	TOGETHER WITH all of Lots 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and
461	10, AND A PORTION OF Lot 1, Block 18, TOWN OF FORT
462	LAUDERDALE, as recorded in Plat Book 8, Page 40, of
463	the public records of Dade County, Florida, together
464	with that portion of a 14-foot alley lying within said
465	Block 18,
466	ALSO TOGETHER WITH all of Lots 1 and 2, T.M. BRYAN
467	SUBDIVISION of Lots 11 and 12, Block 18, Town of Fort
468	Lauderdale, as recorded in Plat Book 3, Page 12, of
469	the public records of Dade County, Florida,
470	ALSO TOGETHER WITH all of Lots 6, 7, 8 and 9, and
471	portions of Lots 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5, Block 1, all of
472	Lots 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 and portions of Lots 1, 2,
473	3, 4 and 5, Block 2 KELLY'S RESUBDIVISION, as recorded
474	in Plat Book 16, Page 50, of the public records of
475	Broward County, Florida,
476	ALSO TOGETHER WITH all of Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8,
477	9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22,
478	23, 24, A, B and C, HULDA S. HOLMES SUBDIVISION of
479	Block 23, Fort Lauderdale, as recorded in Plat Book 7,
480	Page 26, of the public records of Broward County,
481	Florida,
482	ALSO TOGETHER WITH Lots 1, 2, 3, and 4, and a portion
483	of Lot 5, Block 24, TOWN OF FORT LAUDERDALE, as
484	recorded in Plat Book 8, Page 40, of the public
485	records of Dade County, Florida,
486	ALSO TOGETHER WITH all of Lots 1, 2, 3, and 4, F.H.
487	BENTON'S SUBDIVISION in Block 24, Town of Fort
488	Lauderdale, as recorded in Plat Book 3, Page 30, of
489	the public records of Broward County, Florida,
490	together with all that portion of a 10 foot driveway
491	and cul-de-sac of said F. H. BENTON'S SUBDIVISION,
492	ALSO TOGETHER WITH all of Lots 1 and 2, Canal 2 and
493	Canal 3 and portions of Lots 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 13
494	and Canal No. 1, L.H. BRYAN'S SUBDIVISION of Block 32,
495	of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, as recorded in Plat Book
496	3, Page 78, of the public records of Dade County,
497	Florida,
498	AND ALSO TOGETHER WITH portions of S.W. Fifth Avenue,
499	S.W. Sixth Avenue, S.W. Second Street, S.W. Second
500	Court, Las Olas Boulevard, N.W. River Drive and North
501	River Street, lying within or adjacent to the above
502	said Blocks and being all more fully described as
503	follows:
504	Commencing at the Northwest corner of Lot 24 of said
505	Block 18, TOWN OF FORT LAUDERDALE, thence South 0( 07'
506	30" East, along the East line of said alley within
507	Block 18, a distance of 15.00 feet to the Point of
508	Beginning; thence continuing South  0( 07' 24"  East,
509	along the East line of said alley a distance of
510	585.04 feet; thence South 89( 59' 02" East, a distance
511	of 40.97 feet, thence South 0( 07' 24" East, along the
512	Northerly extension of the East line of the said F.H.
513	BENTON'S SUBDIVISION, and along the said East line, a
514	distance of 316.49 feet to a point on the existing
515	bulkhead forming the Northerly limits of New River;
516	thence Westerly and Southerly along the said existing
517	bulkhead and extensions thereof, the following 11
518	courses and distances: thence North 87( 04' 09" West, a
519	distance of 37.36 feet; thence South 86( 43' 52" West,
520	a distance of 13.74 feet, thence South 77( 14' 35"
521	West, a distance of 50.12 feet, thence South 73( 43'
522	38" West, a distance of 43.15 feet; thence South 54(
523	27' 01" West a distance of 67.25 feet; thence South 45(
524	58" 48' East, a distance of 7.62 feet; thence South 35(
525	35' 21" West, a distance of 175.30 feet; thence South
526	7( 34' 31' West, a distance of 51.26 feet; thence South
527	2( 01' 02" West, a distance of 25.35 feet, thence South
528	7( 22' 59" West, a distance of 205.31 feet, thence
529	South 29( 18' 46" West, a distance of 92.94 feet to the
530	Point of Termination of the said 11 courses and
531	distances; thence North 89( 59' 37" West, along the
532	Easterly extension of the South line of Canal No. 3 of
533	L.H. BRYAN'S SUBDIVISION and along the said South line
534	and extensions thereof, a distance of 211.49 feet to a
535	point on the Easterly right-of-way line of S.W.
536	Seventh Avenue and a point on a curve; thence
537	Northwesterly along the said Easterly right-of-way
538	line and along a curve to the right, whose tangent
539	bears North 54( 00' 36" West, with a radius of 630.35
540	feet and a central angle of  18( 52' 41", an arc
541	distance of 207.69 feet to a point of compound curve;
542	thence Northwesterly along the said Easterly right-of-
543	way line and along a curve to the  right, with a
544	radius of 513.96 feet and a central angle of 35( 00'
545	00", an arc distance of 313.96 feet to a point of
546	tangency; thence North 0( 07' 55" West, along the said
547	Easterly right-of-way line and along the line 20.00
548	feet East of and parallel with the West line of said
549	Block 1 and 2 of said KELLY'S SUBDIVISION and along
550	the line of 20.00 feet East of and parallel with the
551	West line of said Block 19, BRYAN SUBDIVISION of
552	Blocks 5, 8 and 19, a distance of 1008.08 feet to a
553	point of curve; thence Northeasterly along a curve to
554	the right, with a radius of 25.00 feet and a central
555	angle of 90( 07' 55", an arc distance of 39.33 feet to
556	a point of tangency; thence due East, along the South
557	right-of-way line of Broward Boulevard and along the
558	line 15.00 feet South of and parallel with the North
559	line of said Block 19, BRYAN SUBDIVISION of Blocks 5,
560	8 and 19 and said Block 18, TOWN OF FORT LAUDERDALE, a
561	distance of 898 .88 feet to the Point of Beginning.
562	All of the above said land situate, lying and being in
563	the City of Fort Lauderdale, Broward County, Florida,
564	and containing 22.8328 acres more or less.
565
566	Section 3.  (1)  It is the policy of the state to make it
567	possible for the city to revitalize and preserve property values
568	and prevent deterioration in the downtown area by a system of
569	self-help to correct the blight of such deterioration which has
570	developed there.  The authority hereby created is intended to
571	provide a vehicle whereby property owners who will benefit
572	directly from the results of such a program will bear the
573	substantial cost thereof and thereby local problems may be
574	solved on the local level through the use of machinery provided
575	by local government.
576	(2)  The Legislature hereby finds and declares that the
577	downtown area is a blighted area and that portions therein are
578	slums.  The area constitutes a serious and growing menace,
579	injurious to the public health and the safety, morals, and
580	welfare of the residents, occupants, workers, and property
581	owners of the area; the existence of such slum and blighted
582	conditions contributes substantially and increasingly to the
583	spread of disease and crime, constitutes an economic and social
584	liability imposing onerous municipal burdens which decrease the
585	tax base and reduce tax revenues, substantially impair or arrest
586	the sound growth of said area, retards the provision of housing
587	accommodations, aggravates traffic problems, and substantially
588	impairs or arrests the elimination of traffic hazards and the
589	improvement of traffic facilities; and the prevention and
590	elimination of such slums and blight is a matter of public
591	policy and concern in order that the said area shall not
592	continue to be endangered by being a focal center of disease and
593	juvenile delinquency and consume an excessive proportion of the
594	tax revenue of the city because of the extra services required
595	for police, fire, accident, hospitalization, and other forms of
596	public protection, services, and facilities.
597	(3)  It is further found and declared that certain portions
598	of the slums and blighted areas require acquisition, clearance,
599	and disposition subject to use restrictions, as provided in this
600	act, since the prevailing condition of deterioration and
601	obsolescence makes impracticable the reclamation thereof by
602	conservation or rehabilitation; that other portions of the
603	downtown may, through the means provided in this act, be
604	susceptible of conservation or rehabilitation in such a manner
605	and the conditions and evils hereinbefore enumerated may be
606	eliminated, remedied, or prevented; and that salvable slum and
607	blighted areas can be conserved and rehabilitated through
608	appropriate public action as herein authorized, and the
609	cooperation and voluntary action of the owners and tenants of
610	the property in such area.
611	(4)  Among the many causes of such slums and blight are the
612	following: automobile traffic flow strangled by outmoded street
613	patterns, proliferation of uncoordinated uses and parking areas,
614	unsuitable topography, faulty lot layouts, fragmentation of land
615	uses and parking areas necessitating frequent automobile
616	movement, lack of separation of pedestrian areas from auto
617	traffic, low level access bridge, frequent bridge openings, air
618	pollution, and excessive noise levels from strangled auto
619	traffic.  Voluntary cooperation for coordinated development is
620	impracticable because of fragmentary ownership, distant absentee
621	ownership, and unusual conditions of title and other conditions.
622	(5)  The public safety is endangered by the tendency of the
623	area to attract and be infested with vagrants, drunkards,
624	perverts, and roving gangs of vandals.  The area has in recent
625	months narrowly averted involvement in ghetto riots and
626	disorders.  In the nighttime the area is dangerous.  The area is
627	a business ghetto plagued with vacant and deteriorating
628	buildings which are neglected and produce a depressing
629	atmosphere.  Many businesses of all types have left the area for
630	new locations in suburban shopping centers and few businesses
631	have entered to take their places.  The oldest commercial
632	structures in the city are in this area and are obsolete, of
633	inferior construction, and incompatible with modern functional
634	design as is featured in competitive shopping centers.
635	(6)  The area now has few residences and most of the
636	residences which do exist are undersized and of inferior
637	construction which would not be permitted for new construction
638	under the city's building code.  Many former residents have left
639	the area and few suitable residence facilities exist.  The area
640	is predominately commercial and is occupied primarily by day
641	workers who sleep in suburban homes outside the downtown area.
642	Market studies show that many of these day workers and other
643	people would prefer to reside in the downtown area if blighting
644	influences were removed and suitable residence facilities
645	provided.  However, the total environment of man is the
646	determinant of the quality of life and each segment of
647	environment affects the public health, safety, and morals.  The
648	problems of residential and commercial slums and blight are one
649	and the same problem and the public health, morals, and welfare
650	are no less concerned with the commercial areas where the day
651	workers spend most of their daylight hours than with residential
652	areas where the same individuals spend their nighttime hours.
653	It is therefore a necessary and proper function of government to
654	remove slums, blight, and blighting influences from commercial
655	areas.  The police power is inadequate to accomplish this
656	purpose.  The only effective device for removal of the slums and
657	blight of the downtown area is the planning and implementation
658	of planning for appropriate land use, beautification, continuity
659	of planning and aesthetic and technical design concepts, the
660	removal of deteriorated and obsolescent structures, and the
661	reduction of fragmentary control of properties in the area.  To
662	implement such plans requires the exercise of the power of
663	eminent domain so as to assemble land in pursuance of a
664	coordinated program for redevelopment, as authorized by this
665	act, all of which is declared to be a public purpose and for a
666	public use.
667	(7)  The Legislature further finds and declares that the
668	provisions of this act and the powers afforded to the governing
669	board of the authority are essential to guide and accomplish the
670	coordinated, balanced, and harmonious development of the
671	downtown in accordance with existing and future needs; to
672	promote the health, safety, morals, and general welfare of the
673	area and its inhabitants, visitors, property owners, and
674	workers; to establish, maintain, and preserve aesthetic values
675	and preserve and foster the development and display of
676	attractiveness; to prevent overcrowding and congestion; to
677	regulate auto traffic and provide pedestrian safety; to secure
678	safety from fire, storm, panic, riot, vandals, and other
679	dangers; to conserve and provide adequate light and air; and to
680	provide a way of life which combines the conveniences and
681	amenities of modern living with the traditions and pleasures of
682	the past.
683	Section 4.  There is hereby created and established the
684	Downtown Development Authority of the City of Fort Lauderdale,
685	which authority shall have all the powers herein provided, and
686	which shall be a body corporate as well as politic, with power
687	to sue and be sued in all the courts of this state, and with
688	power to adopt and use a corporate seal.
689	Section 5.  The affairs of the authority shall be under the
690	direct supervision and control of a board of seven members.  Two
691	members shall serve for terms expiring at the end of each year
692	during the period commencing 1976 and ending 1978.  One member
693	shall serve for a term expiring at the end of 1975.  Thereafter,
694	members shall be appointed to serve for regular terms of 4 years
695	from the expiration of the terms of their predecessors.  The
696	terms of incumbent members at the time this law takes effect
697	shall not be affected by this law. A member's term shall
698	automatically expire and his or her office shall be deemed
699	vacant for purposes of appointment of a new member if, while in
700	office, he or she shall cease to be qualified for membership
701	under section 6.  Every board member shall continue to hold
702	office until his or her successor has been appointed and has
703	qualified. All appointments of the board shall be made by the
704	city commission.  Appointments made to fill a vacancy during a
705	term of office shall be for the unexpired term only.
706	Section 6.  (1)  Each member of the board shall reside in
707	or have his or her principal place of business in the city.  He
708	or she shall be a landowner in the downtown, a leasehold tenant
709	required by the terms of his or her lease to pay taxes currently
710	on downtown lands, or an officer, director, or managing agent of
711	a corporation which owns downtown lands or an interest in
712	downtown lands or which corporation is a leasehold tenant
713	required by the terms of its lease to pay taxes currently on
714	downtown lands.  No officer or employee of the city shall be
715	eligible to serve as a member of the board while holding other
716	offices in the city or while employed by the city.  Before
717	assuming the duties of the office, each member shall qualify by
718	taking and subscribing to the oath of office required of
719	officials of the city and by posting a bond in the penal sum of
720	$10,000 payable to the city for use and benefit of the
721	authority, to be approved by the city commission and filed with
722	the city clerk.  The premium on such bond shall be deemed an
723	operating expense of the authority, payable from funds available
724	to it for expenses of operation.
725	(2)  The board shall adopt and promulgate rules governing
726	its procedures and shall hold regular meetings no less often
727	than one a month.  Special meetings may be held when called in
728	the manner provided in the rules of the board.  All meetings of
729	the board shall be open to the public.  Each member of the board
730	shall be paid a salary of $1 per year for services on the board,
731	unless the city commission shall otherwise designate such salary
732	and provide from the general funds of the city for such salary.
733	(3)  Pursuant to notice and an opportunity to be heard, an
734	appointed member of the board may be removed for cause by the
735	city commission.  Any such removal shall be subject to review by
736	the circuit court of the circuit having jurisdiction.
737	Section 7.  The board, subject to the provisions hereof and
738	subject to other applicable provisions of law, shall have all
739	powers customarily vested in the board of directors of a
740	corporation for profit.  It shall exercise supervisory control
741	over the activities of the director and the staff of the
742	authority in carrying out the functions authorized hereby.
743	Section 8.  The board shall have the power to:
744	(1)  Employ engineers, contractors, consultants, attorneys,
745	auditors, agents, employees, and representatives as the board
746	may from time to time determine on such terms and conditions as
747	the board may approve and fix their compensations and duties.
748	(2)  Adopt bylaws, rules, resolutions, and orders
749	prescribing the powers, duties, and functions of the officers of
750	the authority, the conduct of the business of the authority, the
751	maintenance of the records, and the form of all other documents
752	and records of the authority.  The board may adopt
753	administrative rules and regulations with respect to any
754	projects of the authority on such notice and public hearing, if
755	any, as the board may determine.
756	(3)  Maintain an office at such place or places as it may
757	designate.
758	(4)  Execute all contracts and other documents, adopt all
759	proceedings, and perform all acts determined by the board to be
760	necessary or desirable to carry out the purposes of this act.
761	The board may authorize one or more members of the board to
762	execute contracts and other documents on behalf of the board.
763	(5)  Establish and create such departments, boards, or
764	other agencies as from time to time the board may deem necessary
765	or advisable.
766	(6)  Examine and authorize any officer or agent of the
767	authority to examine the county tax rolls with respect to the
768	assessed valuation of the real and personal property within the
769	downtown area.
770	(7)  Appoint a director and other staff members who shall
771	be employed upon recommendation of the director, prescribe their
772	duties, and fix their compensation which shall be paid from
773	funds available to the authority in the same manner as city
774	employees are paid.
775	(8)  Prepare analyses of economic changes taking place upon
776	the downtown area.
777	(9)  Study and analyze the impact of metropolitan growth
778	upon the downtown area.
779	(10)  Plan and propose within the downtown area
780	improvements of all kinds, including, among other things, the
781	renovation, repair, remodeling, reconstruction, or other changes
782	in existing buildings which may be necessary or appropriate to
783	the execution of any such plan which in the opinion of the board
784	will aid in the economic growth of the downtown area.
785	(11)  Implement any plan of development in the downtown
786	area as shall in its judgment be necessary to carry out its
787	functions, provided it is not inconsistent with the city's
788	general plan.
789	(12)  Make and enter into all contracts necessary or
790	incidental to the exercise of its powers and the performance of
791	its duties.
792	(13)  Establish, operate, lease, license, grant, or convey
793	in the downtown area such public facilities as shall in its
794	opinion be feasible and desirable in the implementation of any
795	plan conceived and executed by the board.  Public facilities
796	shall also include pedestrian malls, historical buildings or
797	monuments, and cultural, educational, and recreational
798	facilities.
799	(14)  Develop long-range plans designed to halt
800	deterioration of downtown property values.
801	(15)  Borrow money at interest on a short-term basis to pay
802	expenses of operation and to issue evidences of indebtedness for
803	such loans.
804	(16)  Retain and fix the compensation of general counsel to
805	advise the board in the proper performance of its duties.  The
806	general counsel shall be a practicing attorney with not less
807	than 10 years' experience in the practice of law in the state.
808	He or she shall represent the authority in all suits of actions
809	brought by or against the authority involving the jurisdiction,
810	power, duties, functions, or activities of the authority under
811	the terms of this act.  At the request of the city, he or she
812	may also represent the city in any such matters in case the city
813	becomes or desires to become a party to such action.
814	(17)  Incur all or part of the expense of any public
815	improvement made by the city, county, state, or Federal
816	Government, or any agency of them, in exercising powers granted
817	to the authority.
818	(18)  Lend, grant, or contribute funds to the city, county,
819	or Federal Government, or any agency of them.
820	(19)  Enter into agreements with the city, county, state,
821	or other public body respecting action to be taken in the
822	exercise of any of the powers granted to the authority or in
823	furtherance of the objectives of the authority.
824	Section 9.  In addition to and not in limitation of the
825	other powers of the authority under law, the authority shall
826	have the following powers:
827	(1)  OWNERSHIP AND DISPOSITION OF PROPERTY.--To acquire
828	property, real, personal, or mixed, within or without the
829	downtown, in fee simple or any lesser interest or estate, by
830	purchase, gift, devise, or lease, upon such terms and conditions
831	as the board may deem necessary or desirable, and by
832	condemnation, provided the board determines that the use or
833	ownership of such property is necessary in the furtherance of a
834	designated lawful purpose authorized under this law, to acquire
835	title to submerged lands and riparian rights and easements or
836	rights-of-way, with or without restrictions and within or
837	without the limits of the downtown; to make purchase money
838	mortgages and trust deeds and other forms of encumbrance on any
839	property acquired by the authority and to purchase property
840	subject to purchase money mortgages or other encumbrances and to
841	assume such other encumbrances; to mortgage, hold, manage,
842	control, lease, sell, dedicate, grant, or otherwise dispose of
843	the same and of any of the assets and properties of the
844	authority, or any interest therein, including easements and
845	licenses, with or without consideration.
846	(2)  LEASE OF FACILITIES.--Whenever deemed necessary or
847	desirable by the board, to lease as lessor or lessee to or from
848	any person, firm, corporation, association, or body, public or
849	private, any projects of the type that the authority is
850	authorized to undertake and facilities or property of any nature
851	for the use of the authority and to carry out any of the
852	purposes of the authority, subject to limitation of this act.
853	(3)  REVITALIZATION.--To adopt a plan for the development,
854	redevelopment, and revitalization of the downtown, and to modify
855	same, and to undertake and carry out such plan, provided it is
856	not inconsistent with the city's general plan.
857	(4)  AIRPORT FACILITIES.--To own, acquire, construct,
858	reconstruct, equip, operate, maintain, extend, and improve
859	airport facilities of all kinds, including, but not limited to,
860	land fields, hangars, shops, terminals, buildings, and all other
861	facilities necessary or desirable for the landing, taking off,
862	operating, servicing, repairing, and parking of aircraft and
863	helicopters, and the unloading and handling of passengers, mail,
864	express, and freight, together with all necessary appurtenances
865	and equipment and all properties, rights, easements, and
866	franchises relating thereto and deemed necessary or convenient
867	by the board in connection therewith.
868	(5)  RECREATIONAL FACILITIES.--To own, acquire, construct,
869	reconstruct, equip, operate, maintain, extend, and improve
870	parks, playgrounds, picnic grounds, camping facilities, golf
871	courses, athletic fields, marinas, piers, wharves, docks,
872	harbors, boating and fishing facilities, swimming pools, bathing
873	beaches and other water recreational facilities, stadiums,
874	auditoriums, civic centers, aquariums, libraries, museums,
875	recreational centers, convention halls and facilities, radio and
876	television transmission and receiving stations, community
877	antenna television systems, and cultural, recreational, and
878	educational buildings, facilities, and projects of all kinds and
879	descriptions.
880	(6)  PARKING FACILITIES.--To own, acquire, construct,
881	reconstruct, equip, operate, maintain, extend, and improve
882	parking facilities, including lots and parking garages, and to
883	install parking meters.
884	(7)  ADVERTISING.--To undertake a program of advertising to
885	the public in promoting the business, facilities, and
886	attractions within the downtown and the projects of the
887	authority and to expend monies and undertake such activities to
888	carry out such advertising and promotional programs as the board
889	from time to time may determine.
890	(8)  TRANSPORTATION.--To own, acquire, construct,
891	reconstruct, equip, operate, maintain, extend, and improve
892	common, private, or contract carriers, buses, vehicles,
893	railroads, monorails, airplanes, helicopters, boats, and other
894	transportation facilities whether now or hereafter invented or
895	developed, including, without limitation, novel and experimental
896	facilities such as moving platforms and sidewalks as may be
897	determined from time to time by the board to be useful or
898	appropriate to meet the transportation requirements of the
899	authority and activities conducted within the downtown and to
900	extend such transportation facilities to areas outside the
901	downtown in order to provide transportation to and from the
902	downtown.
903	(9)  ISSUANCE OF BONDS.--To issue general obligation bonds,
904	revenue bonds, assessment bonds, or any other bonds or
905	obligations authorized by the provisions of this act or any
906	other law or any combination of the foregoing to pay all or part
907	of the cost of the acquisition, construction, reconstruction,
908	extension, repair, improvement, maintenance, or operation of any
909	project or combination of projects; to provide for any facility,
910	service, or other activity of the authority; and to provide for
911	the retirement or refunding of any bonds or obligations of the
912	authority or for any combination of the foregoing purposes.
913	(10)  OTHER POWERS.--In addition to the other powers
914	specifically provided in this act, the authority shall have the
915	power to own, acquire, construct, reconstruct, equip, operate,
916	maintain, extend, and improve such other projects as the board
917	may in its discretion find necessary or desirable to accomplish
918	the purposes of this act and to exercise all powers necessary,
919	convenient, or proper to carry out the purposes of this act.  In
920	connection with any of the projects the authority is authorized
921	to undertake pursuant to the powers and the authorities vested
922	in it by this act, and in order to promote the development and
923	utilization of new concepts, designs, and ideas, the authority
924	shall have the power to examine into, develop, and utilize new
925	concepts, designs, and ideas and to own, acquire, construct,
926	reconstruct, equip, operate, maintain, extend, and improve such
927	experimental public facilities and services.
928	(11)  ROADS, BRIDGES, LIGHTING, AND RELATED OR SIMILAR
929	FACILITIES.--The authority shall have the right and power to
930	acquire, open, extend, construct, reconstruct, pave, operate,
931	improve, and maintain highways, streets, toll roads and bridges,
932	alleys, sidewalks, promenades, boardwalks, malls, esplanades,
933	bridges, tunnels, interchanges, underpasses, overpasses,
934	causeways, and public thoroughfares of all kinds and
935	descriptions (hereinafter collectively and severally referred to
936	as "public roads") and connections to and extension of any and
937	all existing public roads within the downtown area, deemed
938	necessary or convenient by the board to provide access to and
939	efficient development of the territory within the downtown, and
940	to construct and maintain sidewalks and street lights along
941	public roads in the downtown and toll plaza signs and street
942	signs, provided that nothing in this law shall be construed to
943	give the authority control over city property.
944	(12)  CITY COORDINATION.--No authority plan or project
945	shall be inconsistent with the city general plan or any other
946	city project, franchise, or facility.  In any case of conflict
947	of jurisdiction, power, or function, the city charter shall
948	prevail over this law.  Only the city shall have the right under
949	this law to object to any plan or project of the authority upon
950	the ground of said inconsistency.
951	Section 10.  The board may employ and fix the compensation
952	of the following who, in addition to the general counsel, shall
953	serve at the pleasure of the board:
954	(1)  A director, who shall be a person of good moral
955	character and possessed of a reputation for integrity,
956	responsibility, and business ability.  No member of the board
957	shall be eligible to hold the position of director.  Before
958	entering upon his or her duties of his or her office, the
959	director shall take and subscribe to the oath and furnish bond
960	as required of members of the board.  He or she shall be the
961	chief executive officer of the authority and may be employed on
962	either a full-time or part-time basis, at the board's
963	discretion.  He or she shall not engage in any other business or
964	profession while serving as director unless the board's approval
965	is obtained, but he or she may serve as a director or officer of
966	any civil organization or corporation which has goals or
967	purposes the same as, or similar to, those of the authority.
968	Subject to the approval of the board, and direction by it when
969	necessary, he or she shall have general supervision over and be
970	responsible for the preparation of plans and the performance of
971	the functions of the authority in the manner authorized herein.
972	He or she shall attend all meetings of the board.  In the
973	absence of the director, the board may designate a qualified
974	person to perform the duties of the office as acting director.
975	The director shall furnish the board with such information or
976	reports governing the operation of the authority as the board
977	from time to time may require.
978	(2)  Upon recommendation of the director, such clerical,
979	technical, and professional assistance, including, but not
980	limited to, engineering, planning, economic research, and other
981	fields as shall in the opinion of the board be necessary to
982	provide for the efficient performance of the functions of the
983	board.
984	(3)  A treasurer, who shall keep the financial records of
985	the authority and who, together with the director, shall approve
986	all vouchers for the expenditure of funds of the authority.  He
987	or she shall perform such other duties as may be delegated to
988	him or her by the board.
989	(4)  A secretary, who shall maintain custody of the
990	official seal and of all records, books, documents, or other
991	papers not required to be maintained by the treasurer.  He or
992	she shall attend all meetings of the board and keep a record of
993	all its proceedings.  He or she shall perform such other duties
994	as may be delegated to him or her by the board.
995	Section 11.  The director shall prepare and submit for the
996	approval of the board a budget for the operation of the
997	authority for the next fiscal year.  The budget shall conform to
998	the fiscal year of the city and shall contain the information
999	required of all city departments.  After approval by the board,
1000	a copy of the budget shall be delivered to the city by the
1001	director with a statement of the millage required therefor as
1002	determined by the board, which millage shall be levied by the
1003	city commission not to exceed the limits fixed by law.  The
1004	operations of the authority shall be financed from any lawful
1005	source, including the following sources:
1006	(1)  Moneys borrowed and to be repaid from other funds
1007	received under the authority of this act.
1008	(2)  Donations and contributions to the authority for the
1009	performance of its functions from any source, public or private.
1010	(3)  Revenues from the rental, operation, or sale of
1011	assets, facilities, and projects of the authority.
1012	(4)  Proceeds of special assessments and an ad valorem tax
1013	of property in the downtown area.
1014	Section 12.  The city commission is authorized to levy an
1015	ad valorem tax on all downtown real and personal property not
1016	exceeding 1 mill on the dollar valuation (as such valuations are
1017	assessed for the general ad valorem roll of the city) of such
1018	property for the purpose of financing the operation of the
1019	authority provided that no tax under this law shall be levied
1020	upon property which is exempt from taxation by general or
1021	constitutional law.  The city tax collector shall transmit funds
1022	so collected to the appropriate officer of the city responsible
1023	for the handling of the public money who shall deposit same in
1024	the city treasury to the credit of the authority.  Such money
1025	shall be used for no purpose other than those purposes
1026	authorized herein and only upon approval of the board, pursuant
1027	to vouchers signed by the director and the treasurer of the
1028	authority.  The funds of the authority shall be secured as other
1029	public funds are secured.  Other moneys received by the
1030	authority shall forthwith be deposited in the city treasury to
1031	the credit of the authority, subject to disbursement as herein
1032	authorized.
1033	Section 13.  The city commission shall have the power to
1034	assess against the funds of the authority, for the use and
1035	benefit of the general fund of the city, a reasonable pro rata
1036	share of such funds for the cost of handling and auditing, which
1037	assessment when made shall be paid annually by the board
1038	pursuant to an appropriate item in the budget.
1039	Section 14.  No board member nor any employee of the board
1040	shall vote or otherwise participate in any matter in which he or
1041	she has a financial interest, either direct or indirect.  Such
1042	indirect financial interest shall not, however, be deemed to
1043	include that indirect financial interest which would accrue to
1044	all members of the board solely by virtue of being lessees or
1045	owners of property in the downtown area, it being the intent
1046	hereof that the prohibition herein shall apply in the event a
1047	specific indirect financial interest accrues to one rather than
1048	to all members.  When such interest shall appear, it shall be
1049	the duty of the board member or employee to make such interest
1050	known and he or she shall thenceforth refrain from voting on or
1051	otherwise participating in the particular transaction involving
1052	such interest.  Willful violation of the provisions hereof shall
1053	constitute malfeasance on the part of the board and shall be
1054	grounds for instant dismissal of any employee.  The board may,
1055	in its rules of procedure, provide for automatic forfeiture of
1056	office by a board member for violation hereof.  Any transaction
1057	involving a conflict of interest, wherein a violation of this
1058	section is involved, may be rendered void at the option of the
1059	board.
1060	Section 15.  On December 31, 2030, this law shall expire
1061	and all assets of the authority shall on or before that date be
1062	transferred by the authority to the city.  Any assets remaining
1063	in the hands of the authority on December 31, 2030, shall
1064	automatically devolve upon and become the property of the city.
1065	In the event there shall be any indebtedness outstanding against
1066	the authority, the city may continue to levy whatever portion
1067	shall be necessary of the tax authorized by this law to retire
1068	such indebtedness.
1069	Section 16.  Bonds.--The board is authorized and empowered
1070	in order to provide for and carry out the work of this act to
1071	raise funds by the issuance of bonds of the same types and in
1072	the same manner with the same power and authority and subject to
1073	the same limitations as is now provided by statute for the
1074	issuance of bonds by the city, provided that the board and its
1075	staff and agents shall perform all of the governmental functions
1076	to be done with regard to the bonds.  The aggregate amount of
1077	the bonded indebtedness shall at no time exceed 15 percent of
1078	the assessed valuation of the taxable property in the downtown
1079	area at the time of issuance.  The term of the bonds may exceed
1080	beyond the life of the authority if the city shall have agreed
1081	to service and pay the bonds after the expiration of the
1082	authority.  In that event, after the authority expires, the city
1083	shall continue to levy and collect the same special tax which is
1084	authorized by this law to be levied and collected for the
1085	authority and use the revenue therefrom for the retirement of
1086	the bonds and expense necessary in connection with servicing the
1087	bonds until the bonds are retired.  Any excess revenue remaining
1088	after retirement of the bonds shall be transferred to the
1089	general revenue fund of the city and such special tax shall not
1090	be levied in any subsequent year.
1091	Section 17.  Eminent domain.--The board shall have the
1092	right to acquire by condemnation any interest in real property,
1093	including a fee simple title thereto, which it may deem
1094	necessary for the action of the authority or for the performance
1095	of its lawful functions under this act.  Said authority may
1096	exercise the power of eminent domain in the manner provided in
1097	chapters 73 and 74, Florida Statutes, and acts amendatory
1098	thereof or supplementary thereto, or it may exercise the power
1099	of eminent domain in the manner now or which may be hereafter
1100	provided by any other statutory provision for the exercise of
1101	the power of eminent domain.  Property already devoted to a
1102	public use may be acquired in like manner. However, no real
1103	property belonging to the state, or any political subdivision
1104	thereof, may be acquired without consent.
1105	Section 18.  (1)  CALLING REFERENDA.--Whenever by law or
1106	for the convenience of administration of the authority a
1107	referendum of electors is needed for the authority, the board
1108	shall pass a resolution calling and providing for a referendum
1109	to be held in the downtown within 3 months after the date of the
1110	resolution.  The resolution shall provide for one or more
1111	polling or voting places.  The board shall cause notice of said
1112	referendum to be given by publishing said notice for 2
1113	consecutive weeks in a newspaper published in the city which is
1114	of general circulation in the downtown area.  The first
1115	publication shall occur not more than 42 and not less than 21
1116	days prior to the date of the referendum.  Said notice shall
1117	designate the polling place or places for said referendum.  The
1118	board shall make all necessary arrangements for holding the
1119	referendum and shall declare the result thereof.  The board
1120	shall appoint such inspectors and clerks for each polling place
1121	as it deems necessary.  Form of the ballot at such referendum
1122	shall be determined by the board.
1123	(2)  CANVAS OF RETURNS; CERTIFICATES OF REFERENDUM.--The
1124	result of the voting of each polling place when ascertained
1125	shall be certified by return in duplicate, signed by the clerk
1126	and by the majority of inspectors of referendum and transmitted
1127	to the board at a meeting to be held on a day following the
1128	referendum. At said meeting, the board shall canvas the returns
1129	and the result as shown by such returns shall be by the board
1130	declared to be the result of the referendum.  One copy of the
1131	board's declaration, including a copy of the returns of each
1132	polling place, shall be promptly filed with the city clerk,
1133	together with a copy of proof of publication of the notice of
1134	the referendum.
1135	(3)  LEGISLATIVE FINDINGS.--The Legislature finds that the
1136	activities and functions of the authority are essentially public
1137	works and are not concerned with political or governmental
1138	purposes.  For these reasons the authority is denied police
1139	powers.  The right to participate in referenda of the authority
1140	is more of a private or property right than a public or
1141	political right.  It is the purpose of the Legislature to grant
1142	to those who will have to pay the costs of the improvements a
1143	voice commensurate with that cost.
1144	(4)  ELECTORS OF DOWNTOWN, VOTING.--The referendum shall be
1145	conducted with written ballots unless the board by resolution
1146	prescribes the use of voting machines.  At the referendum, the
1147	duly registered owner of each freehold within the downtown shall
1148	represent one share and the owner of each share shall be
1149	entitled to one vote for each $10,000 or fraction thereof of the
1150	nonexempt assessed valuation of the freehold within the
1151	downtown, according to the last certified tax assessment roll of
1152	Broward County at the time of the referendum.  In case record
1153	title to land is in a trustee, the trustee shall be deemed the
1154	owner for the purposes of this law.  Ownership shall not include
1155	reversions, remaindermen, trustees other than persons owning a
1156	freehold estate as of deed of record, or mortgagees, but they
1157	shall be represented by the owner of the freehold estate.  In
1158	case of undivided multiple ownership of any sort, a majority (in
1159	value) of the registered owner may, by written proxy, designate
1160	one person to serve as elector for that share and unless an
1161	elector be so designated by the majority, the vote of that share
1162	shall not be accepted.  In case of ownership by a corporation,
1163	the corporation may, by proxy, designate an elector to vote the
1164	ownership of the corporation.  Electors may vote by proxy in
1165	writing.  An executed copy of each proxy shall be filed with the
1166	clerk by the elector at time of voting under that proxy.
1167	(5)  REGISTRATION OF ELECTORS.--The director shall be the
1168	registration officer for the authority and shall register all
1169	persons (including corporations) applying to him or her who are
1170	qualified as full or part owners of a freehold in the downtown
1171	area which is not wholly exempt from taxation.  At the time of
1172	registration the applicant shall exhibit to the director
1173	evidence of ownership satisfactory to the director, including,
1174	in addition, an accurate reference to the official record book
1175	and page or other precise place in the public records of Broward
1176	County, which the evidence of ownership shall have been duly
1177	recorded.  No application for registration shall be accepted
1178	whose evidence of ownership is not recorded in the public
1179	records (including court records) of Broward County.  The board
1180	may designate one or more deputies to be the registration
1181	officer in the absence or illness of the director.  In case of
1182	application for registration for a share or partial undivided
1183	interest in a share already registered in the name of another,
1184	the registration officer, upon being satisfied by the evidence
1185	exhibited that the ownership has been duly transferred to the
1186	new applicant, shall mail a notice of cancellation of
1187	registration to the existing registrant at the address shown on
1188	the official registration record as the address of the
1189	registrant's place of residence (or corporation's principal
1190	place of business) notifying the registrant that the
1191	registration will be canceled unless, within 10 days after the
1192	mailing of such notice, the registrant shall appear in person or
1193	by representative in person before the registration officer and
1194	show by evidence satisfactory to the registration officer that
1195	the registrant still owns all or a part of the share in
1196	question.  If no objection in person is received by the
1197	registration officer within such 10-day period, he or she shall
1198	promptly so notify the new applicant by mail whose registration
1199	will be accepted upon renewal of the application within 10 days
1200	after the mailing of such notice.  In case timely objection is
1201	duly made by the existing registrant, the registration officer
1202	shall determine the true ownership on the basis of the evidence
1203	reasonably available to him or her and reject or accept the
1204	applicant as the circumstances warrant, promptly notifying the
1205	existing registrant of the decision.  No application for change
1206	of registration for any share shall be accepted within 15 days
1207	of the referendum unless accompanied by written consent of the
1208	existing registrant, duly acknowledged in the manner required by
1209	law for instruments recorded in the public records of the
1210	county, and unless applied for before the day of the referendum.
1211	If it shall be made known to the director that an existing
1212	registrant has died or he or she has parted with his or her
1213	title to the downtown, the director shall issue a notice of
1214	cancellation in the same manner as is provided in the case of a
1215	new applicant for an existing registrant and the registration
1216	shall be canceled in the same manner in the absence of
1217	objection, except that the time for objection in such case shall
1218	be 30 days.
1219	(6)  EMPLOYMENT OF OUTSIDE AGENCIES.--The board may pay
1220	reasonable compensation to the Broward County Supervisor of
1221	Elections and the Broward County Property Appraiser for services
1222	rendered to the authority in connection with registration for
1223	and conduct of a referendum.  The board may also employ the
1224	services of an abstract or title company for assistance in
1225	ascertaining the identity of ownership.
1226	Section 19.  The authority may provide for the construction
1227	or reconstruction of assessable improvements and for the levying
1228	of special assessments upon benefited property for the payment
1229	thereof under the provisions of this section.
1230	(1)  The initial proceeding under this section shall be the
1231	passage by the board of a resolution ordering the construction
1232	or reconstruction of such assessable improvements indicating the
1233	location by terminal points, routes, or otherwise, and either
1234	giving a description of the improvements by their material,
1235	nature, character, and size or giving two or more descriptions
1236	with the directions that the material, nature, character, and
1237	size shall be subsequently determined in conformity with one of
1238	such descriptions.  Assessable improvements need not be
1239	continuous and may be in more than one locality or street.  The
1240	resolution ordering any such improvement may give any short and
1241	convenient designation to each improvement ordered thereby, and
1242	the property against which assessments are to be made for the
1243	cost of such improvement may be designated as an assessment
1244	district, followed by a letter or number or name to distinguish
1245	it from the other assessment districts, after which it shall be
1246	sufficient to refer to such improvement and property by such
1247	designation in all proceedings and assessments, except in the
1248	notices required by this section.
1249	(2)  As soon as possible after the passage of such
1250	resolution, the director shall prepare or cause to be prepared
1251	in duplicate plans and specifications for each improvement
1252	ordered thereby and an estimate of the cost thereof.  Such cost
1253	shall include, in addition to the items of cost as defined in
1254	this act, the cost of relaying streets, sidewalks, and other
1255	public facilities or conveniences necessarily torn up or damaged
1256	and the following items of incidental expenses:
1257	(a)  Printing and publishing notices and proceedings.
1258	(b)  Costs of abstracts of title.
1259	(c)  Any other expense necessary or proper in conducting
1260	the proceedings and work provided for in this section, including
1261	the estimated amount of discount, if any, upon the sale of
1262	assessment bonds or any other obligations issued hereunder for
1263	which such special assessments are to be pledged.  If the
1264	resolution shall provide alternative descriptions of material,
1265	nature, character, and size, such estimate shall include an
1266	estimate of the cost of the improvement of each such
1267	description.
1268
1269	The director shall also prepare or cause to be prepared in
1270	duplicate a tentative apportionment of the estimated total cost
1271	of the improvement as between the district and each lot or
1272	parcel of land subject to special assessment under the
1273	resolution, such apportionment to be made in accordance with the
1274	provisions of the resolution and in relation to apportionment of
1275	cost provided herein for the preliminary assessment roll.  Such
1276	tentative apportionment of total estimated cost shall not be
1277	held to limit or restrict the duties of the director in the
1278	preparation of such preliminary assessment roll.  One of the
1279	duplicates of such plans, specifications, and estimates and such
1280	tentative apportionment shall be filed with the board and the
1281	other duplicate shall be retained by the director in his or her
1282	files, all thereof to remain open to public inspection.  In
1283	performing the duties of assessment and apportionment of costs,
1284	the director may employ and utilize such technical consultants
1285	as may be necessary, including, but not limited, to engineers,
1286	architects, planners, economists, and appraisers.
1287	(3)  The board upon the filing with it of such plans,
1288	specifications, estimates, and tentative apportionment of cost
1289	shall publish once in a newspaper or newspapers published or of
1290	general circulation in the downtown a notice stating that at a
1291	meeting of the board on a certain day and hour, not earlier than
1292	15 days from such publication, the board will hear objections of
1293	all interested persons to the confirmation of such resolution,
1294	which notice shall state in brief and general terms a
1295	description of the proposed assessable improvements with the
1296	location thereof, and shall also state that plans,
1297	specifications, estimates, and tentative apportionment of cost
1298	thereof are on file with the board.  The board shall keep a
1299	record in which shall be inscribed, at the request of any
1300	person, firm, or corporation having or claiming to have any
1301	interest in any lot or parcel of land or property, the name and
1302	post office address of such person, firm, or corporation,
1303	together with a brief description or designation of such lot or
1304	parcel, and it shall be the duty of the board to mail a copy of
1305	such notice to such person, firm, or corporation at such address
1306	at least 10 days before the time for the hearing as stated in
1307	such notice, but the failure of the board to keep such record or
1308	so to inscribe any name or address or to mail any such notice
1309	shall not constitute a valid objection to holding the hearing as
1310	provided in this section or to any other action taken under the
1311	authority of this section.
1312	(4)  At the time named in such notice, or to which an
1313	adjournment may be taken by the board, the board shall receive
1314	any objections of interested persons and may then or thereafter
1315	repeal or confirm such resolution with such amendments, if any,
1316	as may be desired by the board and which do not cause any
1317	additional property to be specially assessed.
1318	(5)  All objections to any such resolution on the ground
1319	that it contains items which cannot be properly assessed against
1320	property, or that it is, for any default or defect in the
1321	passage or character of the resolution or the plans or
1322	specifications or estimates, void or voidable in whole or in
1323	part, or that it exceeds the power of the board, shall be made
1324	in writing in person or by attorney, and filed with the board at
1325	or before the time or adjourned time of such hearing.  Any
1326	objections against the making of any assessable improvements not
1327	so made shall be considered waived, and if any objection shall
1328	be made and overruled or shall not be sustained, the
1329	confirmation of the resolution shall be the final adjudication
1330	of the issues presented unless proper steps shall be taken in
1331	the Circuit Court for the Seventeenth Circuit to secure relief
1332	within 20 days.
1333	(6)  Whenever any resolution providing for the construction
1334	or reconstruction of assessable improvements and for the levying
1335	of special assessments upon benefited property for the payment
1336	thereof shall have been confirmed, as hereinabove provided, or
1337	at any time thereafter, the board may issue assessment bonds
1338	payable out of such assessments when collected.  Said bonds
1339	shall mature not later than 2 years after the last installment
1340	in which said special assessments may be paid, as provided in
1341	subsection (10), and may bear interest.  Such assessment bonds
1342	shall be executed, shall have such provisions for redemption
1343	prior to maturity, shall be sold in the manner and be subject to
1344	all of the applicable provisions contained in this act for
1345	revenue bonds, except as the same are inconsistent with the
1346	provisions of this section.  The amount of such assessment bonds
1347	for any assessable improvement, after the confirmation of the
1348	initial resolution, shall not exceed 80 percent of the estimated
1349	amount of the cost of such assessable improvements which are to
1350	be specially assessed against the land or property to be
1351	specially benefited thereby, as shown in the estimates of the
1352	director of the authority referred to in subsection (2).  The
1353	amount of such assessment bonds for any assessable improvement
1354	to be issued, after the confirmation of the preliminary
1355	assessment roll provided for in subsection (9), including any
1356	assessment bonds theretofore issued, shall not exceed the amount
1357	of special assessments actually confirmed and levied by the
1358	board as provided in subsection (9). Such assessment bonds shall
1359	be payable from the proceeds of the special assessments levied
1360	for the assessable improvement for which such assessment bonds
1361	are issued, provided, however, that the director may pledge the
1362	full faith and credit of the authority for the payment of the
1363	principal of and interest on such assessment bonds if the
1364	issuance of such assessment bonds shall be approved in the
1365	manner provided by law.
1366	(7)  After the passage of the resolution authorizing the
1367	construction or reconstruction of assessable improvements has
1368	been confirmed as provided in subsection (4), the authority may
1369	proceed with the construction or reconstruction work in
1370	accordance with the provisions of this act.  Promptly after the
1371	completion of the work, the director for the authority, who is
1372	hereby designated as the official of the authority to make
1373	preliminary assessment of benefits from assessable improvements
1374	shall prepare a preliminary assessment roll and file the same
1375	with the board, which roll shall contain the following:
1376	(a)  A description of the lots and parcels of land or
1377	property within the authority which will benefit from such
1378	assessable improvements and the amount of such benefits to each
1379	such lot or parcel of land or property, and the preliminary
1380	assessment.  Such lots and parcels shall include the property of
1381	the county or counties and any school district or other
1382	political subdivision within the authority.  There shall also be
1383	given the name of the owner of record of each lot or parcel
1384	where practicable, and a statement of the method of assessment
1385	used by the director.
1386	(b)  The total cost of the improvement and the amount of
1387	incidental expense.
1388
1389	In making such preliminary assessments, the director may use any
1390	method of determining the amount of special benefits accruing to
1391	each lot or parcel of land or property from such assessable
1392	improvements as shall be approved by the board.  Such special
1393	benefits may be based on an area assessment where benefits from
1394	such assessable improvements are equal or nearly equal for lands
1395	of property in a particular area, front footage, square footage
1396	of structures, cubic measurement of structures, potential uses,
1397	or any other factors which the board deems fair and equitable as
1398	between the different lots or parcels of land or property
1399	benefited.  It shall be the duty of the director in making such
1400	preliminary assessment roll to view all lots or parcels of land
1401	or property to be assessed, and to determine, for the
1402	preliminary assessment roll, the amount of benefit which each
1403	lot or parcel of land or property will receive from such
1404	assessable improvements, under the method or methods prescribed
1405	by the board, or any combination thereof.
1406	(8)  The preliminary roll shall be advisory only and shall
1407	be subject to the action of the board as hereinafter provided.
1408	Upon the filing with the board of the preliminary assessment
1409	roll, the board shall publish at least once in a newspaper or
1410	newspapers published or of general circulation within the
1411	downtown, a notice stating that at a meeting of the board to be
1412	held on a certain day and hour, not less than 15 days from the
1413	date of such publication, which meeting may be a regular,
1414	adjourned, or special meeting, all interested persons may appear
1415	and file written objections to the confirmation of such roll.
1416	Such notice shall state the class of the assessable improvements
1417	and the location thereof by terminal points, route, or
1418	otherwise. The board shall also mail a copy of such notice to
1419	the persons, firms, or corporations referred to in subsection
1420	(3) at least 10 days before the time for the meeting as stated
1421	in such notice, but the failure of the board to mail any such
1422	notice shall not constitute a valid objection to holding such
1423	meeting or to any other action taken under the authority of this
1424	section.
1425	(9)  At the time and place stated in such notice, the board
1426	shall meet and receive the objections in writing of all
1427	interested persons as stated in such notice.  The board may
1428	adjourn the hearing from time to time.  After the completion
1429	thereof the board shall either annul or sustain or modify in
1430	whole or in part the preliminary assessment as indicated on such
1431	roll, either by confirming the preliminary assessment against
1432	any or all lots or parcels described therein or by canceling,
1433	increasing, or reducing the same, according to the special
1434	benefits which the board decides each such lot or parcel has
1435	received or will receive on account of such improvement.  If any
1436	property which may be chargeable under this section shall have
1437	been omitted from the preliminary roll, or if the preliminary
1438	assessment shall not have been made against it, the board may
1439	place on such roll an apportionment to such property.  The board
1440	shall not confirm any assessment in excess of the special
1441	benefits to the property assessed, and the assessments so
1442	confirmed shall be in proportion to the special benefits.  The
1443	assessment so made shall be final and conclusive as to each lot
1444	or parcel assessed unless proper steps be taken within 30 days
1445	in the Circuit Court for the Seventeenth Circuit to secure
1446	relief.  If the assessment against any property shall be
1447	sustained or reduced or abated by the court, the board shall
1448	note that fact on the assessment roll opposite the description
1449	of the property affected thereby.  The amount of the special
1450	assessment against any lot or parcel which may be reduced or
1451	abated by the court, unless the assessment upon the entire
1452	authority be reduced or abated, or the amount by which such
1453	assessment is so reduced or abated, may by resolution of the
1454	board be made chargeable against the authority at large; or, at
1455	the discretion of the board, a new assessment roll may be
1456	prepared and confirmed in the manner hereinbefore provided for
1457	the preparation and confirmation of the original assessment
1458	roll.
1459	(10)  Any assessment may be paid at the office of the board
1460	within 60 days after the confirmation thereof, without interest.
1461	Thereafter all assessments shall be payable at such times, over
1462	such period of years not exceeding 20 years, and in such annual
1463	or other installments with interest at such rate not exceeding 8
1464	percent per annum on the principal amount of such  assessments
1465	from the expiration of said 60 days, as the board shall
1466	determine by resolution.  The board may provide that any
1467	assessment may be paid at any time before due together with
1468	interest accrued thereon to the date of prepayment, if such
1469	prior payment shall be permitted by the proceedings authorizing
1470	any assessment bonds or other obligations for the payment of
1471	which such special assessments have been pledged.
1472	(11)  All such special assessments shall be collected by
1473	the city tax collector, or by such other officer or agent as the
1474	board may designate, at such time or times as the board shall
1475	specify in the proceedings authorizing or confirming the special
1476	assessments, and if no other time is specified then at the same
1477	time as general city taxes are collected in the city.
1478	(12)  All assessments shall constitute a lien upon the
1479	property so assessed from the date of confirmation of the
1480	resolution ordering the improvement, of the same nature and to
1481	the same extent as the lien for general city taxes falling due
1482	in the same year or years in which such assessment or
1483	installments thereof fall due, and any assessment or installment
1484	not paid when due shall be collectible with such interest and
1485	with a reasonable attorney's fee and costs, but without
1486	penalties, by the authority by proceedings in the Circuit Court
1487	for the Seventeenth Circuit to foreclose the lien of
1488	assessments, as a lien for mortgages is or may be foreclosed
1489	under the laws of the state, provided that any such proceedings
1490	to foreclose shall embrace all installments of principal
1491	remaining unpaid with accrued interest thereon, which
1492	installments shall, by virtue of the institution of such
1493	proceedings, immediately become due and payable.  Nevertheless,
1494	if prior to any sale of the property under decree of foreclosure
1495	in such proceedings, payment be made of the installment or
1496	installments which are shown to be due under the provisions of
1497	the resolution passed pursuant to subsections (9) and (10), and
1498	all costs including interest and attorney's fees, such payment
1499	shall have the effect of restoring the remaining installments to
1500	their original maturities, and the proceedings shall be
1501	dismissed.  It shall be the duty of the authority to enforce the
1502	prompt collection of assessments by the means herein provided,
1503	and such duty may be enforced at the suit of any holder of bonds
1504	issued under this act in the Circuit Court for the Seventeenth
1505	Circuit by mandamus or other appropriate proceedings or action.
1506	Not later than 30 days after any installments are due and
1507	payable, it shall be the duty of the board to direct the
1508	attorney or attorneys whom the board shall then designate to
1509	institute action within 2 months after such direction to enforce
1510	the collection of all special assessments for assessable
1511	improvements made under this section and remaining due and
1512	unpaid at the time of such direction.  Such action shall be
1513	prosecuted in a manner and under the conditions in and under
1514	which mortgages are foreclosed under the laws of the state.  It
1515	shall be lawful to join in one action the collection of
1516	assessments against any or all property assessed by virtue of
1517	the same assessment roll unless the court shall deem such
1518	joinder prejudicial to the interests of any defendant.  The
1519	court shall allow a reasonable attorney's fee for the attorney
1520	or attorneys of the authority, and the same shall be collectible
1521	as a part of or in addition to the costs of the action.  At the
1522	sale pursuant to decree in any such action, the authority may be
1523	a purchaser to the same extent as an individual person or
1524	corporation, except that the part of the purchase price
1525	represented by the assessments sued upon and the interest
1526	thereon need not be paid in cash.  Property so acquired by the
1527	authority may be sold or otherwise disposed of, the proceeds of
1528	such disposition to be placed in the fund provided by subsection
1529	(13) of this section, provided, however, that no sale or other
1530	disposition thereof shall be made unless the notice calling for
1531	bids therefor to be received at a stated time and place shall
1532	have been published at least once in a newspaper or newspapers
1533	published or of general circulation in the downtown.
1534	(13)  All assessments and charges made under the provisions
1535	of this section for the payment of all or any part of the cost
1536	of any assessable improvements for which assessment bonds shall
1537	have been issued under the provisions of this law, or which have
1538	been pledged as additional security for any other bonds or
1539	obligations issued under this act, shall be maintained in a
1540	special fund or funds and be used only for the payment of
1541	principal or interest on such assessment bonds or other bonds or
1542	obligations.
1543	(14)  Subject to the terms of any bonds or other obligation
1544	payable from or secured by the assessments provided for herein,
1545	the board may at any time and from time to time modify, in whole
1546	or in part, or revoke any plan or specification for any
1547	assessable improvement.  In connection with the revision of any
1548	such plan or specification, benefits may be reassessed or
1549	additional assessments made in accordance with the provisions
1550	and procedures of this section.  The board may at any time
1551	approve and make effective technical changes and modifications
1552	of any plan for any improvement not affecting the determination
1553	of assessed benefits or the security of bond owners.
1554	Section 20.  Encouragement of private enterprise.--The
1555	authority, to the greatest extent it determines to be feasible
1556	in carrying out the provisions of this act, shall afford maximum
1557	opportunity, consistent with the sound needs of said authority
1558	as a whole, to the rehabilitation or redevelopment of the
1559	renewal area by private enterprise.  The authority shall give
1560	consideration to this objective in exercising its powers under
1561	this act, including the approval of renewal plans (consistent
1562	with the general plan of the city), the enforcement of
1563	restrictions, regulations, and agreements relating to the use of
1564	land and the use and occupancy of buildings and improvements,
1565	the disposition of any property acquired, and the provision of
1566	necessary public improvements.
1567	Section 21.  Workable program.--The authority for the
1568	purposes of this act may cooperate with the city, or with
1569	Broward County, in the formulation of a workable program for
1570	community improvements, utilizing appropriate private and public
1571	resources to eliminate and prevent the development or spread of
1572	slums and urban blight, to encourage needed urban
1573	rehabilitation, to provide for the redevelopment of slum and
1574	blighted areas, or to undertake such of the aforesaid activities
1575	or other feasible municipal activities as may be suitably
1576	employed to achieve the objectives of such workable program.
1577	Such workable program may include, without limitation,
1578	provisions for:  the prevention of the spread of blight into
1579	areas of the authority which are free from blight through
1580	diligent enforcement of housing, zoning, and occupancy controls
1581	and standards; the rehabilitation or conservation of slum and
1582	blighted areas or portions thereof by replanning, removing
1583	congestion, providing parks, playgrounds, and other public
1584	improvements, by encouraging voluntary rehabilitation, and by
1585	compelling the repair and rehabilitation of deteriorated or
1586	deteriorating structures; and the clearance and redevelopment of
1587	slum and blighted areas or portions thereof.
1588	Section 22.  Renewal projects and plans.--
1589	(1)  The authority shall not approve a renewal project for
1590	a renewal area unless the board has, by resolution, determined
1591	such area to be a slum area or a blighted area or a combination
1592	thereof and designated such area as appropriate for a renewal
1593	project.  Said board shall not approve a renewal plan until a
1594	general plan for the downtown has been prepared.  For this
1595	purpose and other authority purposes, authority is hereby vested
1596	in said authority to prepare, to adopt, and to revise from time
1597	to time a general plan for the physical development of the
1598	downtown as a whole (giving due regard to the environs and
1599	metropolitan surroundings), provided, however, that the
1600	Legislature finds that all of the requirements of a general plan
1601	for the physical development of the downtown have been fulfilled
1602	by the Plans and Proposals of either Concepts A or B of the 1967
1603	Fort Lauderdale Central Area Study prepared for the authority by
1604	Victor Gruen, Architect, F.A.I.A.  The authority may revise said
1605	general plan from time to time and may adopt another general
1606	plan.
1607	(2)  The authority may prepare or cause to be prepared a
1608	renewal plan, or any person or agency, public or private, may
1609	submit such a plan to said authority.  Prior to its approval of
1610	a renewal project, the board shall submit such plan to the
1611	planning board of the city for review and recommendations as to
1612	its conformity with the general plan for the development of the
1613	city as a whole.  The planning board shall submit its written
1614	recommendations with respect to the proposed renewal plan to the
1615	authority within 30 days after receipt of the plan for review.
1616	Upon receipt of the recommendations of the planning board, or,
1617	if no recommendations are received within said 30 days, then
1618	without such recommendations, said authority may proceed with
1619	the hearing on the proposed renewal project prescribed herein.
1620	No person other than the city shall be entitled to raise the
1621	question of inconsistency of any plan with the general plan of
1622	the city.
1623	(3)  The authority shall hold a public hearing on a renewal
1624	project, after public notice thereof by publication in a
1625	newspaper having a general circulation in the area of operation
1626	of the authority.  The notice shall describe the time, date,
1627	place, and purpose of the hearing, shall generally identify the
1628	renewal area covered by the plan, and shall outline the general
1629	scope of the renewal project under consideration.
1630	(4)  Following such hearing, the authority may approve a
1631	renewal project if it finds that:
1632	(a)  A feasible method exists for the location of families
1633	who will be displaced from the renewal area in decent, safe, and
1634	sanitary dwelling accommodations within their means and without
1635	undue hardship to such families.
1636	(b)  The renewal plan conforms to the general plan of the
1637	municipality as a whole.
1638	(c)  The renewal plan will afford maximum opportunity,
1639	consistent with the sound needs of the municipality as a whole,
1640	for the rehabilitation or redevelopment of the renewal area by
1641	private enterprise.
1642	(5)  A renewal plan may be modified at any time, provided
1643	that if modified after the lease or sale by the authority of
1644	real property in the renewal project area, such modification may
1645	be conditioned upon such approval of the owner, lessee, or
1646	successor in interest as the authority may deem advisable and in
1647	any event shall be subject to such rights at law or in equity as
1648	a lessee or purchaser, or his or her successor or successors in
1649	interest, may be entitled to assert.
1650	(6)  Upon the approval by the authority of a renewal plan
1651	or of any modification thereof, such plan or modification shall
1652	be deemed to be in full force and effect for the respective
1653	renewal area and the authority may then cause such plan or
1654	modification to be carried out in accordance with its terms.
1655	(7)  Notwithstanding any other provisions of this act,
1656	where the authority certifies that an area is in need of
1657	redevelopment or rehabilitation as a result of a flood, fire,
1658	hurricane, earthquake, storm, or other catastrophe respecting
1659	which the Governor has certified the need for disaster
1660	assistance under Public Law 875, Eighty-first Congress, or other
1661	federal law, the board may approve a renewal plan and a renewal
1662	project with respect to such area without regard to the
1663	provisions of subsection (4) of this section and the provisions
1664	of this section requiring a general plan for the city and the
1665	public hearing on the renewal project.
1666	Section 23.  Powers.--The authority shall have all the
1667	powers necessary or convenient to carry out and effectuate the
1668	purposes and provisions of this act, including the following
1669	powers in addition to others herein granted:
1670	(1)  To undertake and carry out renewal projects within its
1671	area of operation; to make and execute contracts and other
1672	instruments necessary or convenient to the exercise of its
1673	powers under this act; and to disseminate slum clearance and
1674	renewal information.
1675	(2)  To provide or to arrange or contract for the
1676	furnishing or repair by any person or agency, public or private,
1677	of services, privileges, works, streets, roads, public
1678	utilities, or other facilities for or in connection with a
1679	renewal project; to install, construct, and reconstruct streets,
1680	utilities, parks, playgrounds, and other public improvements;
1681	and to agree to any conditions that it may deem reasonable and
1682	appropriate attached to federal financial assistance and imposed
1683	pursuant to federal law relating to the determination of
1684	prevailing salaries or wages or compliance with labor standards,
1685	in the undertaking or carrying out of a renewal project, and to
1686	include in any contract let in connection with such a project
1687	provisions to fulfill such of said conditions as it may deem
1688	reasonable and appropriate.
1689	(3)  Within its area of operation, to enter into any
1690	building or property in any renewal area in order to make
1691	inspections, surveys, appraisals, soundings, or test borings,
1692	and to obtain an order for this purpose from a court of
1693	competent jurisdiction in the event entry is denied or resisted;
1694	to acquire by purchase, lease, option, gift, grant, bequest,
1695	devise, eminent domain, or otherwise any real property (or
1696	personal property for its administrative purposes) together with
1697	any improvements thereon; to hold, improve, clear, or prepare
1698	for redevelopment any such property; to dispose of any real
1699	property; to insure or provide for the insurance of any real or
1700	personal property or operation of the authority against any
1701	risks or hazards, including the power to pay premiums on any
1702	such insurance; and to enter into any contracts necessary to
1703	effectuate the purposes of this act provided, however, that no
1704	statutory provision with respect to the acquisition, clearance,
1705	or disposition of property by public bodies shall restrict the
1706	authority in the exercise of such functions with respect to a
1707	renewal project, unless the Legislature shall specifically so
1708	state.
1709	(4)  To invest any renewal project funds held in reserves
1710	or sinking funds or any such funds not required for immediate
1711	disbursement, in property or securities in which banks may
1712	legally invest funds subject to their control, and to redeem
1713	such bonds as have been issued pursuant to this act at the
1714	redemption price established therein or to purchase such bonds
1715	at less than redemption price, all such bonds so redeemed or
1716	purchased to be canceled.
1717	(5)  To borrow money and to apply for and accept advances,
1718	loans, grants, contributions, and any other form of financial
1719	assistance from the Federal Government, the state, county, city,
1720	or other public body, or from any sources, public or private,
1721	for the purposes of this act, and to give such security as may
1722	lawfully be required and to enter into and carry out contracts
1723	in connection therewith.  The authority may include in any
1724	contract for financial assistance with the Federal Government
1725	for a renewal project such conditions imposed pursuant to
1726	federal laws as the authority may deem reasonable and
1727	appropriate and which are not inconsistent with the purposes of
1728	this act.
1729	(6)  Within its area of operation, to make or have made all
1730	surveys and plans necessary to the carrying out of the purposes
1731	of this act and to contract with any person, public or private,
1732	in making and carrying out such plans and to adopt or approve,
1733	modify and amend such plans.  Such plans may include, without
1734	limitation:
1735	(a)  A general plan for the locality as a whole.
1736	(b)  Renewal plans.
1737	(c)  Preliminary plans outlining renewal activities for
1738	neighborhoods to embrace two or more renewal areas.
1739	(d)  Plans for carrying out a program of voluntary or
1740	compulsory repair and rehabilitation of buildings and
1741	improvements.
1742	(e)  Plans for the enforcement of state and local laws,
1743	codes, and regulations relating to the use of land and the use
1744	and occupancy of buildings and improvements and to the
1745	compulsory repair, rehabilitation, demolition, or removal of
1746	buildings and improvements.
1747	(f)  Appraisals, title searches, surveys, studies, and
1748	other plans and work necessary to prepare for the undertaking of
1749	renewal projects.  The authority is authorized to develop, test,
1750	and report methods and techniques, and carry out demonstrations
1751	and other activities, for the prevention and the elimination of
1752	slums and blight and to apply for, accept, and utilize grants of
1753	funds from the Federal Government for such purposes.
1754	(7)  To prepare plans for the relocation of persons,
1755	including families, business concerns, and others, displaced by
1756	a renewal project, and to make relocation payments to or with
1757	respect to such persons for moving expenses and losses of
1758	property for which reimbursement or compensation is not
1759	otherwise made, including the making of such payments financed
1760	by the Federal Government.
1761	(8)  To appropriate such funds and make such expenditures
1762	as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this act, and
1763	to levy taxes and assessments for such purposes, subject to
1764	millage limitations of this act and the State Constitution.
1765	(9)  To plan or replan streets, roads, sidewalks, ways, or
1766	other places and to plan or replan any part of the downtown.
1767	(10)  Within its area of operation, to organize,
1768	coordinate, and direct the administration of the provisions of
1769	this act as they apply to such authority in order that the
1770	objective of remedying slum and blighted areas and preventing
1771	the causes thereof within such authority may be most effectively
1772	promoted and achieved, and to establish such new office or
1773	offices of the authority or to reorganize existing offices in
1774	order to carry out such purpose most effectively.
1775	(11)  To exercise all or any part or combination of powers
1776	herein granted.
1777	Section 24.  Disposal of property in renewal area.-
1778	(1)  The authority may sell, lease, or otherwise transfer
1779	real property or any interest therein acquired by it, and may
1780	enter into contracts with respect thereto, in a renewal area for
1781	residential, recreational, commercial, industrial, or other uses
1782	or for public use, or may retain such property or interest for
1783	public use, in accordance with the renewal plan, subject to such
1784	covenants, conditions, and restrictions, including covenants
1785	running with the land, as may be deemed to be necessary or
1786	desirable to assist in preventing the development or spread of
1787	future slums or blighted areas or to otherwise carry out the
1788	purposes of this act, provided that such sale, lease, other
1789	transfer, or retention, and any agreement relating thereto, may
1790	be made only after the approval of the renewal plan by the
1791	board.  The purchasers or lessees and their successors and
1792	assigns shall be obligated to devote such real property only to
1793	the uses specified in the renewal plan, and may be obligated to
1794	comply with such other requirements as the authority may
1795	determine to be in the renewal plan, and may be obligated to
1796	comply with such other requirements as the authority may
1797	determine to be in the public interest, including the obligation
1798	to begin within a reasonable time any improvements on such real
1799	property required by the renewal plan.  Such real property or
1800	interest shall be sold, leased, otherwise transferred, or
1801	retained at not less than its fair value for uses in accordance
1802	with the renewal plan. In determining the fair value of real
1803	property for uses in accordance with the renewal plan, the
1804	authority shall take into account and give consideration to the
1805	uses provided in such plan; the restrictions upon, and the
1806	covenants, conditions, and obligations assumed by, the purchaser
1807	or lessee or by the authority retaining the property; and the
1808	objectives of such plan for the prevention of the recurrence of
1809	a slum or blighted areas. The authority in any instrument of
1810	conveyance to a private purchaser or lessee may provide that
1811	such purchaser or lessee, shall be without power to sell, lease,
1812	or otherwise transfer the real property without the prior
1813	written consent of the authority until he or she has obligated
1814	himself or herself to construct thereon.  Real property acquired
1815	by the authority which, in accordance with the provisions of the
1816	renewal plan, is to be transferred shall be transferred as
1817	rapidly as feasible in the public interest consistent with the
1818	carrying out of the provisions of the renewal plan.  Any
1819	contract for such transfer and the renewal plan (or such part or
1820	parts of such contract or plan as the authority may determine)
1821	may be recorded in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court
1822	of Broward County.
1823	(2)  The authority may dispose of real property in a
1824	renewal area to private persons only under such reasonable
1825	competitive bidding procedures as it shall prescribe or as
1826	hereinafter provided in this subsection.  The authority may, by
1827	public notice by publication in a newspaper having a general
1828	circulation in the community (30 days prior to the execution of
1829	any contract to sell, lease, or otherwise transfer real property
1830	and prior to the delivery of any instrument of conveyance with
1831	respect thereto under the provisions of this section) invite
1832	proposals from and make available all pertinent information to
1833	private redevelopers or any persons interested in undertaking to
1834	redevelop or rehabilitate a renewal area, or any part thereof.
1835	Such notice shall identify the area, or portion thereof, and
1836	shall state that proposals shall be made by those interested
1837	within 30 days after the date of publication of said notice, and
1838	that such further information as is available may be obtained at
1839	such office as shall be designated in said notice.  The
1840	authority shall consider all such redevelopment or
1841	rehabilitation proposals and the financial and legal ability of
1842	the persons making such proposals to carry them out, and may
1843	negotiate with any persons for proposals for the purchase,
1844	lease, or other transfer of any real property acquired by the
1845	authority in the renewal area.  The authority may accept such
1846	proposal as it deems to be in the public interest and in
1847	furtherance of the purposes of this act,  provided that a
1848	notification of intention to accept such proposal shall be filed
1849	with the board not less than 30 days prior to such acceptance.
1850	Thereafter, the authority may execute such contract in
1851	accordance with the provisions of subsection (1) and deliver
1852	deeds, leases, and other instruments and take all steps
1853	necessary to effectuate such contract.
1854	(3)  The authority may temporarily operate and maintain
1855	real property acquired in a renewal area pending the disposition
1856	of the property as authorized in this act, without regard to the
1857	provisions of subsection (1), for such uses and purposes as may
1858	be deemed desirable even though not in conformity with the
1859	renewal plan.
1860	Section 25.  Issuance of bonds.-
1861	(1)  The authority shall have the power to issue bonds from
1862	time to time in its discretion to finance the undertaking of any
1863	renewal project under this act, including without limiting the
1864	generality thereof, the payment of principal and interest upon
1865	any advances for surveys and plans, and shall also have power to
1866	issue refunding bonds for the payment or retirement of such
1867	bonds previously issued by it.  Such bonds may be made payable
1868	as to bond principal and interest, from the income, proceeds,
1869	revenues, and funds of the authority derived from or held in
1870	connection with its undertaking and carrying out of renewal
1871	projects under this act, provided, however, that payment of such
1872	bonds, both as to principal and interest, may be further secured
1873	by a pledge of any loan, grant, or contribution from the Federal
1874	Government or other source, in aid of any renewal projects of
1875	the authority under this act.
1876	(2)  Bonds issued under this section shall not constitute
1877	an indebtedness within the meaning of any constitutional or
1878	statutory debt limitation or restriction, and shall not be
1879	subject to the provisions of any other law or charter relating
1880	to the authorization, issuance, or sale of bonds.  Bonds issued
1881	under the provisions of this act are declared to be issued for
1882	an essential public and governmental purpose and, together with
1883	interest thereon and income therefrom, shall be exempted from
1884	all taxes.
1885	(3)  Bonds issued under this section shall be authorized by
1886	resolution or ordinance of the board and may be issued in one or
1887	more series and shall bear such date or dates, be payable upon
1888	demand or mature at such time or times, bear such interest, be
1889	in such denomination or denominations, be in such form either
1890	coupon or registered, carry such conversion or registration
1891	privileges, have such rank or priority, be executed in such
1892	manner, be payable in such medium of payment, at such place or
1893	places, and be subject to such terms of redemption (with or
1894	without premium), be secured in such manner, and have such other
1895	characteristics as may be provided by such resolution or trust
1896	indenture or mortgage issued pursuant thereto.
1897	(4)  Such bonds may be sold at not less than par at public
1898	sales held after notice published prior to such sale in a
1899	newspaper having a general circulation in the area of operation
1900	and in such other medium of publications as the authority may
1901	determine or may be exchanged for other bonds on the basis of
1902	par, provided that such bonds may be sold to the Federal
1903	Government at private sale at not less than par and, in the
1904	event less than all of the authorized principal amount of such
1905	bonds is sold to the Federal Government, the balance may be sold
1906	at private sale at not less than par at an interest cost to the
1907	authority not to exceed the interest cost to the authority of
1908	the portion of the bonds sold to the Federal Government.
1909	(5)  In case any of the public officials of the authority
1910	whose signatures appear on any bonds or coupons issued under
1911	this act shall cease to be such officials before the delivery of
1912	such bonds, such signatures shall, nevertheless, be valid and
1913	sufficient for all purposes, the same as if such officials had
1914	remained in office until such delivery.  Any provisions of any
1915	law to the contrary notwithstanding, any bonds issued pursuant
1916	to this act shall be fully negotiable.
1917	(6)  In any suit, action, or proceeding involving the
1918	validity or enforceability of any bond issued under this act or
1919	the security therefor, any such bond reciting in substance that
1920	it has been issued by the authority in connection with a renewal
1921	project, as herein defined, shall be conclusively deemed to have
1922	been issued for such purpose and such project shall be
1923	conclusively deemed to have been planned, located, and carried
1924	out in accordance with the provisions of this act.
1925	Section 26.  Bonds as legal investments.--All banks, trust
1926	companies, bankers, savings banks and institutions, building and
1927	loan associations, savings and loan associations, investment
1928	companies, and all other persons carrying on a banking or
1929	investment business; all insurance companies, insurance
1930	associations, and other persons carrying on an insurance
1931	business; and all executors, administrators, curators, trustees,
1932	and other fiduciaries may legally invest any sinking funds,
1933	moneys, or other funds belonging to them or within their control
1934	in any bonds or other obligations issued by the authority
1935	pursuant to this act, provided that such bonds and other
1936	obligations shall be secured by an agreement between the issuer
1937	and the Federal Government in which the issuer agrees to borrow
1938	from the Federal Government and the Federal Government agrees to
1939	lend to the issuer, prior to the maturity of such bonds or other
1940	obligations, moneys in an amount which (together with any other
1941	moneys irrevocably committed to the payment of interest on such
1942	bonds or other obligations) will suffice to pay the principal of
1943	such bonds or other obligations with interest to maturity
1944	thereon, which moneys under the terms of said agreement are
1945	required to be used for the purpose of paying the principal of
1946	and the interest on such bonds or other obligations at their
1947	maturity.  Such bonds and other obligations shall be authorized
1948	security for all public deposits.  It is the purpose of this
1949	section to authorize any persons, political subdivisions, and
1950	officers, public or private, to use any funds owned or
1951	controlled by them for the purpose of any such bonds or other
1952	obligations.  Nothing contained in this section with regard to
1953	legal investments shall be construed as relieving any person of
1954	any duty of exercising reasonable care in selecting securities.
1955	Section 27.  Exemption from execution.--All property of the
1956	authority, including funds, owned or held by it for the purposes
1957	of this act shall be exempt from levy and sale by virtue of an
1958	execution, and no execution or other judicial process shall
1959	issue against the same, nor shall judgment against the authority
1960	be a charge or lien upon such property, provided, however, that
1961	the provisions of this section shall not apply to or limit the
1962	right of obligees to pursue any remedies for the enforcement of
1963	any pledge or lien given pursuant to this act by the authority
1964	on its rents, fees, grants, or revenues from renewal projects.
1965	Section 28.  Cooperation by public bodies.--
1966	(1)  For the purpose of aiding in the planning,
1967	undertaking, or carrying out of a renewal project located within
1968	the area in which it is authorized to act, any public body may,
1969	upon such terms, with or without consideration, as it may
1970	determine:
1971	(a)  Dedicate, sell, convey, or lease any of its interest
1972	in any property or grant easements, licenses, or other rights or
1973	privileges therein to the authority.
1974	(b)  Incur the entire expense of any public improvements
1975	made by such public body in exercising the powers granted in
1976	this section.
1977	(c)  Do any and all things necessary to aid or cooperate in
1978	the planning or carrying out of a renewal plan.
1979	(d)  Lend, grant, or contribute funds to said authority.
1980	(e)  Enter into agreements (which may extend over any
1981	period, notwithstanding any provision or rule of law to the
1982	contrary) with said authority or other public body respecting
1983	action to be taken pursuant to any of the powers granted by this
1984	act, including the furnishing of funds or other assistance in
1985	connection with a renewal project.
1986	(f)  Cause public buildings and public facilities,
1987	including parks and playgrounds, recreational, community,
1988	educational, water, sewer, or drainage facilities, or any other
1989	works which it is otherwise empowered to undertake or to be
1990	furnished, furnish, dedicate, close, vacate, pave, install,
1991	grade, regrade, plan, or replan streets, roads, sidewalks, ways,
1992	or other places; plan or replan or zone or rezone any part of
1993	the public body or make exceptions from building regulations;
1994	and cause administrative and other services to be furnished to
1995	the authority.
1996
1997	If at any time title to or possession of any renewal project is
1998	held by any public body or governmental agency, other than the
1999	authority, which is authorized by law to engage in the
2000	undertaking, carrying out, or administration of renewal projects
2001	(including any agency or instrumentality of the United States of
2002	America), the provisions of the agreements referred to in this
2003	section shall inure to the benefit of, any may be enforced by,
2004	such public body or governmental agency.
2005	(2)  Any sale, conveyance, lease, or agreement provided for
2006	in this section may be made by a public body without appraisal,
2007	public notice, advertisement, or public bidding.
2008	(3)  For the purpose of aiding in the planning,
2009	undertaking, or carrying out of a renewal project of the
2010	authority hereunder, the city may (in addition to its other
2011	powers and upon such terms, with or without consideration, as it
2012	may determine) do and perform any or all of the actions or
2013	things which, by the provisions of subsection (1), a public body
2014	is authorized to do or perform, including the furnishing of
2015	financial and other assistance.
2016	(4)  For the purposes of this section, or for the purpose
2017	of aiding in the planning, undertaking, or carrying out of a
2018	renewal project of the authority, said authority may in addition
2019	to any other authority to issue bonds pursuant to this act issue
2020	and sell its general obligation bonds. Any bonds issued by the
2021	authority pursuant to this section shall be issued in the manner
2022	and within the limitations prescribed by the laws of this state
2023	for the issuance and authorization of bonds by such authority
2024	for public purposes generally, except as to constitutional
2025	requirements.
2026	Section 29.  Title of purchaser.--Any instrument executed
2027	by the authority and purporting to convey any right, title, or
2028	interest in any property under this act shall be conclusively
2029	presumed to have been executed in compliance with the provisions
2030	of this act insofar as title or other interest of any bona fide
2031	purchaser, lessee, or transferee of such property is concerned.
2032	Section 30.  Maximum millage.--The maximum millage of the
2033	ad valorem tax authorized to be levied to finance the operation
2034	of the authority may be increased by the board so as to be any
2035	rate not exceeding 10 mills which shall have been approved by
2036	vote of the majority of those voting in a referendum in which
2037	those participating are limited to the electors of the downtown
2038	who at the time of the referendum are owners of freeholds in the
2039	downtown not wholly exempt from taxation and who are then duly
2040	registered for an authority referendum as authorized by this
2041	act.
2042	Section 31.  Severability.--If any section, clause,
2043	sentence, or provision of this act or the application of such
2044	section, clause, sentence, or provision to any person or bodies
2045	or under any circumstances shall be held to be inoperative,
2046	invalid, or unconstitutional, the invalidity of such section,
2047	clause, sentence, or provision shall not be deemed, held, or
2048	taken to affect the validity or constitutionality of any of the
2049	remaining parts of this act, or the application of any of the
2050	provisions of this act to persons, bodies, or in circumstances
2051	other than those as to which it or any part thereof shall have
2052	been inoperative, invalid, or unconstitutional, and it is
2053	intended that this act shall be construed and applied as if any
2054	section, clause, sentence, or provision held inoperative,
2055	invalid, or unconstitutional had not been included in this act.
2056	Section 32.  Liberal construction.--The provisions of this
2057	act shall be liberally construed to effect its purposes and
2058	shall be deemed cumulative, supplemental and alternative
2059	authority for the exercise of the powers provided herein.
2060	Section 33.  This act shall be known and may be cited as
2061	the "Fort Lauderdale Downtown Development Authority Law."
2062	Section 34.  (1)  TRUST FUND; CREATION, DURATION, USE, AND
2063	TERMINATION.--
2064	(a)  There is established a fund to be known as the
2065	Redevelopment Trust Fund of the Downtown Development Authority
2066	of the City of Fort Lauderdale.  In addition to any other funds
2067	available to the authority, funds allocated to and deposited
2068	into said redevelopment trust fund may be used by the authority,
2069	subject to prior approval by the board of trustees and pursuant
2070	to the provisions of this act, to finance or refinance all or
2071	part of the cost of construction or acquisition of any project
2072	now or hereafter undertaken by the authority individually or
2073	with or by any other governmental entity.
2074	(b)  Anything to the contrary notwithstanding, the
2075	redevelopment trust fund shall not come into existence until
2076	this act has been approved by an ordinance adopted by the Board
2077	of County Commissioners of Broward County and by an ordinance
2078	adopted by the City Commission of the City of Fort Lauderdale.
2079	Upon the final adoption and passage of such ordinance by the
2080	Board of County Commissioners of Broward County and the City
2081	Commission of the City of Fort Lauderdale, the redevelopment
2082	trust fund shall thereafter continue in full force and effect in
2083	accordance with all of the terms and provisions this act.
2084	(c)  If the Downtown Development Authority of the City of
2085	Fort Lauderdale ceases to exist, the redevelopment trust fund
2086	shall be dissolved, and all funds previously deposited therein
2087	by a taxing authority together with a pro rata share of any
2088	interest having accrued thereon shall be returned to such taxing
2089	authority, after the indebtedness outstanding against the
2090	authority is retired and any expenses incurred in servicing the
2091	indebtedness is paid, provided, however, that in no event shall
2092	the redevelopment trust fund continue to exist after the payment
2093	in full of such indebtedness and expenses incurred in servicing
2094	the indebtedness.
2095	(d)  The term of bonds issued in accordance with section 16
2096	of this act, for which the development trust fund has been
2097	pledged, may extend beyond the life of the redevelopment trust
2098	fund if the City of Fort Lauderdale and Broward County have
2099	agreed to service and pay such bonds after the expiration of the
2100	fund.  In such an event, after the redevelopment trust fund
2101	expires, the county shall continue to levy and collect the tax
2102	authorized by this law and use the revenue therefrom to retire
2103	the bonds and to pay any expenses necessary for servicing the
2104	bonds until the bonds are retired.  Any excess revenue remaining
2105	after the bonds are retired, together with a pro rata share of
2106	any interest having accrued thereon, shall be returned to the
2107	taxing authorities.
2108	(2)  FUNDING.--The funding of the redevelopment trust fund
2109	shall take place annually commencing with the ad valorem taxes
2110	levied and assessed for the year 1980, or the year in which the
2111	ordinances provided for in paragraph (b) of subsection (2) are
2112	adopted by the County Commission of Broward County and the City
2113	Commission of the City of Fort Lauderdale, whichever shall occur
2114	last.  The funding of the redevelopment trust fund shall not
2115	exceed that amount equal to the difference between:
2116	(a)  The amount of ad valorem taxes levied each year by or
2117	for all taxing authorities, except school districts and the
2118	authority, on its buildings, fixtures, and other improvements
2119	upon taxable real property contained within the geographic
2120	boundaries of the renewal area; and
2121	(b)  The amount of ad valorem taxes which would have been
2122	produced at the rate upon which the ad valorem taxes are levied
2123	each year or for all taxing authorities, except school districts
2124	and the authority, upon the total of the assessed value of all
2125	building fixtures, and other improvements upon taxable real
2126	property in the renewal area, which building, fixtures, and
2127	improvements appeared and were listed upon the most recent tax
2128	assessment roll used by each taxing authority, except school
2129	districts and the authority, prior to the effective date of this
2130	act.  Taxes levied and assessed on the real property upon which
2131	such buildings, fixtures, and improvements are located shall not
2132	be included in the annual funding calculation of the
2133	redevelopment trust fund.
2134	(3)  ANNUAL APPROPRIATION.--
2135	(a)  For the first 5 years during which the redevelopment
2136	trust fund is in existence, each taxing authority, except school
2137	districts and the authority, shall annually appropriate from any
2138	available funds a sum which is not less in amount than the
2139	increment of ad valorem tax revenues, as defined and determined
2140	in subsection (3) accruing to said taxing authority.
2141	(b)  During each year subsequent to the fifth year of the
2142	existence of the redevelopment trust fund, each taxing
2143	authority, except school districts and the authority, shall, on
2144	a pro rata basis, appropriate to said fund a sum which is no
2145	less than the amount determined by the board to be necessary
2146	during the next fiscal year in order to provide for payment of
2147	any bonds, loans, advances, undertakings, or indebtedness, plus
2148	interest accruing thereon, or any other financial obligation
2149	approved by the board and to the payment of which redevelopment
2150	trust funds have been pledged or committed. The redevelopment
2151	trust fund budget for each fiscal year shall be prepared and
2152	approved by the board and trustees and a copy thereof shall be
2153	furnished to each taxing authority, except school districts, at
2154	least 30 days prior to the first day of such fiscal year.  The
2155	ad valorem tax revenues as defined and determined in subsection
2156	(3) accruing to such authorities.
2157	(c)  The obligation of the taxing authorities, except
2158	school districts and the authority, to make annual
2159	appropriations to the fund shall continue so long as the
2160	authority exists, or until all bonds, loans, advances, and
2161	indebtedness, or interest thereof, incurred by the authority
2162	under this act, and for which redevelopment trust funds have
2163	been pledged have been paid, provided that such obligation shall
2164	be imposed on the annual tax increment calculated in accordance
2165	with subsection (3) is greater than zero.
2166	(4)  BOARD OF TRUSTEES.--
2167	(a)  The redevelopment Trust Fund of the Downtown
2168	Development Authority of the City of Fort Lauderdale shall be
2169	subject to the jurisdiction, administration, and control of a
2170	board of trustees consisting of five members.
2171	(b)   Within 30 days after the board of County
2172	Commissioners of Broward County adopts the ordinance approving
2173	the act, the board of County Commissioners of Broward County
2174	shall appoint two of its members to the board of trustees, the
2175	City Commission of the City of Fort Lauderdale shall appoint two
2176	members of its commission to the board of trustees, and the
2177	Downtown Development Authority of the City of Fort Lauderdale,
2178	shall appoint one member of the board of trustees.  All
2179	appointments shall be by resolution.  The terms of office of a
2180	member of the board of trustees shall be 1 year from the date of
2181	appointment.  A vacancy occurring during a term shall be filled
2182	for the unexpired portion of the terms by the governing body
2183	which made the original appointment.  A member of the board of
2184	trustees shall continue to serve until his or her successor has
2185	been appointed.  Decisions of the board of trustees shall be
2186	made on the affirmative vote of a majority of its members.
2187	(c)  The board of trustees shall control, operate, and
2188	administer the Redevelopment Trust Fund of the Downtown
2189	Development Authority of the City of Fort Lauderdale as provided
2190	in this section.  No project for which redevelopment trust funds
2191	are to be used shall be undertaken unless first approved by a
2192	resolution of the board of trustees.  Any such project shall be
2193	acquired, constructed, and operated in accordance with the
2194	provisions of such resolution and shall not be conveyed by the
2195	authority to any person unless such conveyance is first approved
2196	by a resolution of the board of trustees.  The board of trustees
2197	may attach such conditions to the approval of such project as
2198	the board of trustees deems necessary.  The authority shall not
2199	pledge funds in the redevelopment trust fund for the payment of
2200	any bond, loan, advance, or indebtedness, unless the authority
2201	has, by a resolution, pledged said funds for the time during
2202	which any such bond, loan, advance, or indebtedness, or any
2203	interest thereon, remains unpaid.
2204	(5)  REVENUE BONDS AND NOTES.--
2205	(a)  Revenue bonds and notes of every issue under this
2206	section shall be payable solely out of revenues deposited in the
2207	authority's development trust fund.  The lien created by such
2208	revenue bonds and notes shall not attach until the revenues
2209	referred to herein are deposited in the authority's
2210	redevelopment trust fund at the times and to the extent that
2211	such revenues accrue.  The holders of such revenue bonds and
2212	notes shall have no right to require or compel the imposition of
2213	any tax or the establishment of any rate of taxation for which
2214	to provide for the payment of such revenue bonds and notes.
2215	(b)  Revenue bonds and notes issued under the provisions of
2216	this section shall not constitute a debt, liability, or
2217	obligation of the authority, Broward County, the City of Fort
2218	Lauderdale, or the state or any political subdivision thereof,
2219	or a pledge of the faith or credit of Broward County, the City
2220	of Fort Lauderdale, or the state or any political subdivision
2221	thereof, but shall be payable solely from the redevelopment
2222	trust fund as provided for in this section.  All such revenue
2223	bonds and notes shall contain on the face thereof a statement to
2224	the effect that the authority shall not be obligated to pay the
2225	same or the interest thereon except from the redevelopment trust
2226	fund of the authority held for that purpose and that neither the
2227	faith nor credit nor the taxing power of the authority, Broward
2228	County, the City of Fort Lauderdale, or the state or any
2229	political subdivision thereof is pledged to the payment of
2230	principal or interest on such revenue bonds and notes.
2231	(c)  Revenue bonds and notes issued under the provisions of
2232	this section shall not be included in the computation of any
2233	limitation or the amount of bonded indebtedness which the
2234	authority may incur under other sections of this act.
2235	(6)  REVENUE BONDS, PLEDGE OF REDEVELOPMENT TRUST FUNDS AND
2236	BONDS AS LEGAL INVESTMENTS.--Bonds issued under this section
2237	shall be authorized by resolution of the board of trustees.
2238	They may be issued in one or more series and shall bear such
2239	date or dates, be payable upon demand or mature at such time or
2240	times, bear interest at such rate or rates, be in such
2241	denomination or denominations, be either with or without coupon
2242	or registered, carry such conversion or registration privileges,
2243	have such rank or priority, be executed in such manner, be
2244	payable in such medium of payment at such place or places, be
2245	subject to such terms of redemption (with or without premium),
2246	be secured in such manner, and have such other characteristics
2247	as may be provided by such resolution or trust indenture or
2248	mortgage issued pursuant thereto.  Bonds issued under this
2249	section may be sold in such manner, either at public or private
2250	sale, and for such price as the board of trustees may determine
2251	will effectuate the purpose of this section.
2252	Section 4.  If any provision of this act or the application
2253	thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the
2254	invalidity shall not affect the provisions or applications of
2255	the acts which can be given effect without the invalid provision
2256	or application, and to this end the provisions of this act are
2257	declared severable.
2258	Section 5.  Chapters 65-1541, 67-1385, 69-1056, 75-371, 80-
2259	501, 85-393, 87-507, 89-431, 92-247, 93-392, and 95-531, Laws of
2260	Florida, are repealed.
2261	Section 6.  This act shall take effect upon becoming a law.

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