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    Florida Senate - 2005        (NP)                      SB 2660

    By Senator Baker





    20-999A-05                                          See HB 987

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to the Lake County Water

  3         Authority district; amending, codifying,

  4         reenacting, and repealing special acts relating

  5         to the district in conformity to s. 189.429,

  6         F.S.; providing district boundaries; providing

  7         purposes; providing for a governing body and

  8         prescribing its powers, duties, functions,

  9         membership, and organization; providing for

10         partisan election of board members; providing

11         duties of constitutional officers in Lake

12         County with respect to the authority; providing

13         a limit on the amount the authority may spend

14         to educate the public regarding water issues;

15         providing maximum millage limit; repealing

16         chapters 29222 (1953), 57-1484, 59-1466,

17         63-1507, 65-1787, 69-1209, 2000-492, and

18         2003-376, Laws of Florida, relating to the

19         district; providing for a referendum on whether

20         elections to the authority shall be partisan;

21         providing a ballot statement; providing

22         effective dates.

23  

24  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

25  

26         Section 1.  Pursuant to section 189.429, Florida

27  Statutes, this act constitutes the codification of all special

28  acts relating to the Lake County Water Authority district. It

29  is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this law to

30  provide a single act for the district. It is further the

31  intent of the Legislature to preserve all district authority,

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 1  including the authority to annually assess and levy taxes or

 2  assessments against all assessable property in the district.

 3         Section 2.  Chapters 29222 (1953), 57-1484, 59-1466,

 4  63-1507, 65-1787, 69-1209, 2000-492, and 2003-376, Laws of

 5  Florida, relating to the Lake County Water Authority, are

 6  codified, amended, reenacted, and repealed as provided in this

 7  act.

 8         Section 3.  The charter for the Lake County Water

 9  Authority district is re-created and reenacted to read:

10         Section 1.  Purpose.--For the purposes of controlling

11  and conserving the freshwater resources of Lake County;

12  fostering and improving the tourist business in the county by

13  improvements to streams, lakes, and canals in the county;

14  providing recreational facilities for tourists and citizens

15  and taxpayers of the county by a more efficient use of the

16  streams, lakes, and canals in the county; improving the fish

17  and aquatic wildlife of the county by improving the streams,

18  lakes, and canals in the county; and protecting the freshwater

19  resources of Lake County through assisting local governments

20  in treating of stormwater runoff by conserving fresh water to

21  improve the streams, lakes, and canals in the county, there is

22  created and incorporated a special taxing district extending

23  territorially throughout the present limits of Lake County,

24  Florida. The district shall be known and designated as the

25  "Lake County Water Authority," but shall hereafter in this

26  act, for convenience, be referred to as "the authority."

27         Section 2.  Territorial limits.--The territorial limits

28  of the authority shall be coterminous with the boundaries of

29  Lake County.

30         Section 3.  County purpose.--Each of the purposes for

31  which the authority is created is declared to be a county

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 1  purpose, for the accomplishment of which taxes upon all real

 2  and personal property within the territorial limits of the

 3  authority are by this act authorized to be levied, assessed,

 4  and collected.

 5         Section 4.  Governing board; elections; surety.--A

 6  governing body for the authority is created, consisting of

 7  seven members who are residents of Lake County, which body

 8  shall be known and designated as the "Board of Trustees of the

 9  Lake County Water Authority," but which shall be referred to

10  as "the board." Five of the members must each reside in a

11  geographic area identical to a county commission district, to

12  be elected by the electors of the county at large. Two of the

13  members will be elected by the electors of the county at large

14  without regard to their residence. On the second Tuesday

15  following the general election in 2000, the term of office of

16  each person serving on the board immediately before that date

17  expires, and the members of the board shall be elected by the

18  electors of Lake County in nonpartisan elections conducted by

19  the supervisor of elections pursuant to section 189.405,

20  Florida Statutes, in accordance with the Florida Election

21  Code, chapters 97 through 106, Florida Statutes, beginning

22  with the general election in 2000, for terms of 4 years

23  beginning on the second Tuesday following the general

24  election. For purposes of staggering terms, the members

25  elected in 2000 from odd-numbered areas and the at-large

26  member receiving the higher number of votes shall be elected

27  to 4-year terms and the members elected from even-numbered

28  areas and the at-large member receiving the lower number of

29  votes shall be elected to 2-year terms. Thereafter, each

30  member shall be elected for a term of 4 years, except that a

31  person may not be elected to more than two consecutive 4-year

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 1  terms. At the first meeting in December of each year or,

 2  during a year in which there is a general election, at a

 3  meeting held no later than 30 days after the general election

 4  if the meeting and the election of officers have been

 5  advertised properly, the board shall select one of their

 6  number as chair and one as vice chair of the board. The Clerk

 7  of the Circuit Court of Lake County shall act as secretary and

 8  treasurer of the board without any additional compensation. In

 9  the event the provision pertaining to the duties of the clerk

10  of the circuit court is for any reason held to be invalid, the

11  board may select one of its members to serve as its secretary

12  and treasurer, or it may appoint a nonmember of the board as

13  its secretary and treasurer, and such nonmember shall receive

14  compensation commensurate with the responsibilities as

15  determined by the board. The board shall select a nonmember to

16  serve as executive director of the authority, and such

17  nonmember shall receive compensation commensurate with the

18  responsibilities as determined by the board. The board shall

19  require a surety bond of any person, including the clerk of

20  the circuit court, who shall act as secretary and treasurer of

21  the board. The amount of the surety bond will be determined by

22  the board. This bond shall be in addition to any bond

23  furnished by such person as clerk of the circuit court or as a

24  member of the board. The premium of the bond shall be paid by

25  the board as a necessary expense of operation.

26         Section 5.  Surety bond.--Each member of the board,

27  before assuming his or her duties, shall give a good and

28  sufficient surety bond in the sum of $2,500 payable to the

29  Governor of the State of Florida and his or her successors in

30  office, conditioned upon the faithful performance of his or

31  her duties as a member of the board. Such bond must be

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 1  approved by and filed with the Chief Financial Officer of the

 2  State of Florida, and the premium or premiums for such bond

 3  shall be paid by the board as a necessary expense.

 4         Section 6.  Quorum; majority vote; entitlement to

 5  vote.--Four members of the board shall constitute a quorum for

 6  the transaction of business. A majority vote of all members

 7  present shall be necessary in order to authorize any action by

 8  the board. The chair shall be entitled to vote on all

 9  questions.

10         Section 7.  Board compensation.--Each member of the

11  board shall receive $25 per day as compensation for his or her

12  services when performing his or her duties.

13         Section 8.  Expenses.--Each member of the board and its

14  engineers, auditors, attorneys, agents, and employees shall be

15  paid their actual expenses incurred when engaged on business

16  of the authority, but such expenses shall not be paid unless

17  payment has been authorized and approved. The board may

18  authorize and approve the payment of any expense, or it may

19  delegate to the executive director the power to authorize such

20  payment as long as, at the time it makes the delegation, it

21  approves parameters, including, but not limited to, parameters

22  on the amount that may be expended, within which the executive

23  director may exercise that power. A separate delegation must

24  be made with respect to any expenditure or class of

25  expenditures.

26         Section 9.  Powers of board.--

27         (a)  The board has all the powers of a body corporate,

28  including, but not limited to, the power to sue and be sued;

29  to make contracts; to adopt and use a common seal and to alter

30  the same as deemed expedient; to buy, acquire by condemnation

31  or eminent domain in the manner prescribed for use by counties

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 1  in Florida, sell, own, use, control, operate, improve, and

 2  lease all land and personal property as the board deems

 3  necessary or proper in carrying out the provisions of this

 4  act; to appoint and employ, and dismiss at pleasure, such

 5  engineers, auditors, attorneys, and other employees and agents

 6  as the board may require, and to fix and pay the compensation

 7  thereof; to establish an office for the transaction of its

 8  business in Lake County and to pay all necessary costs and

 9  expenses incident to the administration and operation thereof;

10  and to pay all other costs and expenses reasonably necessary

11  or expedient in carrying out and accomplishing the purposes of

12  this act.

13         (b)  The authority may acquire by purchase, gift,

14  lease, condemnation, eminent domain, or any other manner such

15  lands within the territorial extent of the authority as are

16  reasonably necessary for constructing and maintaining the

17  works and making the improvements required to carry out the

18  intent of this act, including, without limitation, the right

19  to acquire by condemnation or eminent domain such lands and

20  any interest therein reasonably necessary for any such purpose

21  which may already be devoted to public use for county,

22  municipal, district, railroad, or public utility purposes

23  where and to the extent that the same may cross, intersect, or

24  be situate upon or within the area of such land hereinbefore

25  referred to. The authority shall also have the right to

26  acquire by purchase, gift, lease, condemnation, or eminent

27  domain, or in any other manner, land, timber, earth, rock, and

28  other materials or property, and property rights, including

29  riparian rights, in such amounts as are reasonably necessary

30  or useful in the development of the works or improvements

31  before referred to. Condemnation or eminent domain proceedings

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 1  shall be maintained by and in the name of the authority, and

 2  the procedure shall be, except insofar as is altered hereby,

 3  that prescribed for use by counties in Florida.

 4         (c)  The authority may take, exclusively occupy, use,

 5  and possess, insofar as is necessary for carrying out the

 6  provisions of this act, any areas of land owned by the state

 7  and within the territorial jurisdiction of the authority, not

 8  in use for state purposes, including, without limitation,

 9  swamps and overflowed lands, bottoms of streams, lakes, and

10  rivers, and the riparian rights thereto pertaining, and, when

11  so taken and occupied, due notice of such taking and occupancy

12  having been filed with the Trustees of the Internal

13  Improvement Trust Fund of the state by the authority, such

14  areas of land are granted to and shall be the property of the

15  authority. For the purposes of this section, the meaning of

16  the term "use" shall include the removal of material from and

17  the placing of material on any such land. In case it is held

18  by any court of competent jurisdiction that there are any

19  lands owned by the state which may not be so granted, the

20  provisions of this section shall continue in full force and

21  effect as to all other lands owned by the state and granted to

22  the authority under this section. The provisions of this

23  section are subject to all laws and regulations of the United

24  States of America with respect to navigable waters.

25         (d)  In addition to all other powers conferred upon the

26  board by this act, the board may enlarge, change, modify, or

27  improve any stream, lake, or canal within the territorial

28  limits of the authority and may clean out, straighten,

29  enlarge, or change the course of any waterway or canal,

30  natural or artificial, within the territorial limits of the

31  authority; may provide such canals, locks, levees, dikes,

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 1  dams, sluiceways, reservoirs, holding basins, floodways,

 2  pumping stations, buildings, bridges, highways, and other

 3  works and facilities that the board deems necessary; may cross

 4  any highway or railway with works of the district and hold,

 5  control, and acquire by donation, lease, purchase, or

 6  otherwise any land or personal property needed for carrying

 7  out the purpose of this act and may remove any building or

 8  other obstruction necessary for the construction, maintenance,

 9  and operation of such works. The improvements made or to be

10  made under this act are sometimes referred to in this act as

11  "the works" of the board. The board shall also have power to

12  operate any and all works and improvements of the authority.

13  The provisions of this section are subject to all laws and

14  regulations of the United States of America with respect to

15  navigable waters.

16         (e)  The board may take possession of and control, use,

17  operate, and maintain all streams, lakes, canals, dams, locks,

18  levees, dikes, sluiceways, reservoirs, holding basins,

19  floodways, pumping stations, buildings, bridges, highways,

20  navigation, and conservation works, and other works and

21  facilities within the territorial limits of the authority to

22  the extent only that such possession, control, and use have

23  been deemed by the board, in its sole discretion, to be useful

24  and necessary in carrying out the purposes of this act. Such

25  possession, control, and use are subject to the rights of

26  persons, firms, and corporations and the rights of Lake County

27  and municipalities, districts, and political bodies in Lake

28  County (which rights may be acquired by the authority by

29  condemnation or eminent domain as provided for by this act).

30         (f)  The authority shall control all streams, including

31  slow-moving streams, flowing from any of the water reservoirs

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 1  in Lake County, whether natural or constructed, into the

 2  system of lakes and streams in or adjacent to Lake County for

 3  the protection of the natural water reservoirs and the

 4  adjacent and neighboring areas.

 5         (g)  The board may grant licenses or permits for the

 6  construction and excavation of canals and ditches connecting

 7  with navigable waters; may establish, adopt, and administer

 8  rules governing the construction and excavation of canals and

 9  ditches with authority to prohibit any construction deemed by

10  the board to be detrimental to the best interests of the

11  public or purposes for which the authority was established;

12  may do any and all things hereinafter authorized or required

13  to be done; and may do any and all things, whether or not

14  included in the powers enumerated in this act, necessary to

15  accomplish the purposes of this act.

16         (h)  The board may enter into any agreement or contract

17  with the Federal Government or the state, or any agency,

18  political subdivision, or instrumentality of either; and

19  counties adjoining Lake County; and municipalities and taxing

20  districts in Lake County and in counties adjoining Lake County

21  for the purpose of carrying out, or which in the judgment of

22  the board may assist it in carrying out, the purposes of this

23  act.

24         Section 10.  Receipt or use of property.--Lake County

25  and all municipalities, districts, political bodies, and

26  political subdivisions of the state in Lake County are

27  severally authorized to grant, convey, or transfer to, and

28  permit the use of by, the authority upon such terms and

29  conditions as are agreeable to the governing bodies thereof

30  real and personal property belonging to them which is

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 1  necessary or useful to the authority in carrying out the

 2  purposes of this act.

 3         Section 11.  Authority funds; warrants.--All authority

 4  funds shall be deposited in a bank or banks or federal or

 5  state savings and loan association to be designated by the

 6  board, but before any authority moneys are deposited in such

 7  depositary or depositaries, security shall be furnished the

 8  authority ample to protect such deposits to the full extent

 9  and amount that such deposits are not otherwise protected or

10  insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or the

11  Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation. Funds of the

12  authority shall be paid out only upon warrant signed by the

13  treasurer of the authority and countersigned by the chair or

14  vice chair. No warrants shall be drawn or issued disbursing

15  any of the funds of the authority except for a purpose

16  authorized by this act and only when the account or

17  expenditure for which the same is to be given in payment has

18  been audited and approved by the board.

19         Section 12.  Budget; millage levied; procedure.--The

20  board shall determine, annually on or before October 1, by

21  resolution the amount of money that will be required to carry

22  out the purposes of this act for the next ensuing fiscal year

23  (which fiscal year shall be the same as that of Lake County)

24  and the millage, which shall not exceed one-half of one mill,

25  that will be required to be levied to produce the amount of

26  money set forth in the resolution; however, the determination

27  of the amount of money to be raised and the millage to be

28  levied may be delayed until the board receives the necessary

29  information. The authority shall allocate no more than 3.5

30  percent of its annual ad valorem budget for educational

31  programs to educate and teach the public about water issues.

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 1  Immediately upon the adoption of the resolution a certified

 2  copy thereof shall be furnished to the Board of County

 3  Commissioners of Lake County, and the Board of County

 4  Commissioners of Lake County shall, for the year named in the

 5  certified copy of the resolution, levy, assess, collect, and

 6  enforce taxes upon all taxable real and personal property

 7  within the authority. The procedure to be followed to

 8  accomplish the purpose of this section shall be as follows:

 9         (a)  Assessment of property shall be as provided by

10  general law.

11         (b)  The board shall by resolution determine the total

12  amount to be raised by taxation in such year upon the taxable

13  property within the authority and shall, in and by such

14  resolution, fix and determine the millage on each dollar

15  valuation of property on the assessment rolls, which, when

16  levied, will raise the amount so determined as the total

17  amount to be raised by taxation in that year, and in and by

18  such resolution the board shall direct the Board of County

19  Commissioners to levy, assess, and fix such millage as the

20  rate of taxation upon all the taxable real and personal

21  property within the authority.

22         (c)  A certified copy of such tax resolution executed

23  in the name of the authority by its chair or vice chair and

24  attested by its secretary, under its corporate seal, shall

25  immediately be delivered to the Board of County Commissioners

26  of Lake County.

27         (d)  It shall be the duty of the Board of County

28  Commissioners, each year: to levy, assess, and fix the millage

29  and the rate of taxation upon all the taxable real and

30  personal property within the authority as set forth in the

31  certified copy of the resolution of the board; to certify the

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 1  millage to the Department of Revenue of the State of Florida;

 2  and to order the property appraiser of the county to levy and

 3  assess, and the county tax collector to collect, a tax at the

 4  millage fixed by the Board of County Commissioners upon all of

 5  the taxable real and personal property within the authority

 6  for the year, and the levies and assessments shall be included

 7  in the tax roll and warrant of the property appraiser of the

 8  county for each fiscal year thereafter. The tax collector of

 9  the county shall collect such taxes so levied by the board of

10  county commissioners for the authority in lawful money of the

11  United States of America in the same manner and at the same

12  time as county taxes are collected and shall pay and remit the

13  same upon collection to the board.

14         (e)  The Property Appraiser, Tax Collector, and Board

15  of County Commissioners of Lake County and the Department of

16  Revenue shall, when requested by the board, prepare from their

17  official records and deliver to the board any and all

18  information that may be requested from time to time from them

19  regarding the tax valuations, levies, assessments, or

20  collections in such county.

21         Section 13.  Collection of taxes; enforcement.--All

22  taxes levied and assessed by the Board of County Commissioners

23  of Lake County for the authority (beginning with the year

24  1953) shall be collected and the enforcement thereof shall be

25  at the same time and in the same manner as other county taxes

26  are collected and enforced and when so collected shall be paid

27  over to the board for its use pursuant to this act.

28         Section 14.  Borrowing of funds; bond issuance.--

29         (a)  The board may borrow money at such time or times

30  as it deems necessary to carry out the purposes of this act

31  and to execute and deliver its promissory note or notes

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 1  therefor bearing interest as fixed by the board; however, the

 2  board shall not borrow any sum of money or give its promissory

 3  note therefor for a period of time longer than 1 year, and the

 4  total amount of money borrowed and outstanding may not exceed

 5  $35,000 at any one time.

 6         (b)  The board may issue bonds payable solely from

 7  revenues of the authority. The value of all such bonds

 8  outstanding at any time may not exceed an amount equal to

 9  one-third of the authority's anticipated revenues for the

10  period for which the bonds are outstanding. Revenue bonds may

11  not be issued unless their issuance has been approved by a

12  majority of those electors of the authority voting in a

13  referendum in which the ballot statement describes in detail

14  the purpose for which the bonds will be issued.

15         Section 15.  Financial statement.--At least once in

16  each year the board shall publish in some newspaper published

17  in Lake County a complete detailed statement of its financial

18  condition, including a list of all moneys received and

19  disbursed by the board during the preceding year.

20         Section 16.  Exemption of authority property.--All real

21  and personal property owned, leased, controlled, or used by

22  the authority is exempt from all county, municipal, taxing

23  district, and other ad valorem taxes and special assessments

24  for benefits.

25         Section 17.  Construction.--It is the intention of the

26  Legislature that the provisions of this act be liberally

27  construed to accomplish its purposes.

28         Section 18.  Plan; annual report.--

29         (a)  The authority shall prepare a plan that describes

30  the authority's goals for the ensuing 5 years. The plan must

31  include projects that will be undertaken within that period in

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 1  furtherance of its goals. The authority shall update the plan

 2  periodically.

 3         (b)  The authority shall prepare a report annually

 4  which includes an evaluation and assessment of the

 5  effectiveness of the authority's activities in the preceding

 6  year. The report must address both ongoing activities of the

 7  authority and the progress in meeting goals and projects

 8  enumerated in the 5-year plan. The report shall be submitted

 9  to the Legislature, the St. Johns River Water Management

10  District, and the Lake County Board of County Commissioners. 

11         Section 19.  Charter amendment.--The district's charter

12  may be amended only by the Legislature.

13         Section 4.  Chapters 29222 (1953), 57-1484, 59-1466,

14  63-1507, 65-1787, 69-1209, 2000-492, and 2003-376, Laws of

15  Florida, are repealed.

16         Section 5.  Section 4 of section 3 of this act is

17  amended to read:

18         Section 4.  Governing board; elections; surety.--A

19  governing body for the authority is created, consisting of

20  seven members who are residents of Lake County, which body

21  shall be known and designated as the "Board of Trustees of the

22  Lake County Water Authority," but which shall be referred to

23  as "the board." Five of the members must each reside in a

24  geographic area identical to a county commission district, to

25  be elected by the electors of the county at large. Two of the

26  members will be elected by the electors of the county at large

27  without regard to their residence. On the second Tuesday

28  following the general election in 2000, the term of office of

29  each person serving on the board immediately before that date

30  expires, and the members of the board shall be elected by the

31  electors of Lake County in partisan nonpartisan elections

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 1  conducted by the supervisor of elections pursuant to section

 2  189.405, Florida Statutes, in accordance with the Florida

 3  Election Code, chapters 97 through 106, Florida Statutes,

 4  beginning with the general election in 2000, for terms of 4

 5  years beginning on the second Tuesday following the general

 6  election. For purposes of staggering terms, the members

 7  elected in 2000 from odd-numbered areas and the at-large

 8  member receiving the higher number of votes shall be elected

 9  to 4-year terms and the members elected from even-numbered

10  areas and the at-large member receiving the lower number of

11  votes shall be elected to 2-year terms. Thereafter, each

12  member shall be elected for a term of 4 years, except that a

13  person may not be elected to more than two consecutive 4-year

14  terms. At the first meeting in December of each year or,

15  during a year in which there is a general election, at a

16  meeting held no later than 30 days after the general election

17  if the meeting and the election of officers have been

18  advertised properly, the board shall select one of their

19  number as chair and one as vice chair of the board. The Clerk

20  of the Circuit Court of Lake County shall act as secretary and

21  treasurer of the board without any additional compensation. In

22  the event the provision pertaining to the duties of the clerk

23  of the circuit court is for any reason held to be invalid, the

24  board may select one of its members to serve as its secretary

25  and treasurer, or it may appoint a nonmember of the board as

26  its secretary and treasurer, and such nonmember shall receive

27  compensation commensurate with the responsibilities as

28  determined by the board. The board shall select a nonmember to

29  serve as executive director of the authority, and such

30  nonmember shall receive compensation commensurate with the

31  responsibilities as determined by the board. The board shall

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 1  require a surety bond of any person, including the clerk of

 2  the circuit court, who shall act as secretary and treasurer of

 3  the board. The amount of the surety bond will be determined by

 4  the board. This bond shall be in addition to any bond

 5  furnished by such person as clerk of the circuit court or as a

 6  member of the board. The premium of the bond shall be paid by

 7  the board as a necessary expense of operation.

 8         Section 6.  The provisions of section 5 shall take

 9  effect only upon express approval by a majority vote of those

10  qualified electors of the Lake County Water Authority district

11  voting in a referendum to be called by the Lake County

12  Supervisor of Elections and to be held in conjunction with the

13  next general election, in accordance with the provisions of

14  law currently in force in the district. The question to be

15  placed on the ballot shall be in substantially the following

16  form:

17  

18  Shall the members of the Lake County Water Authority be

19  elected in partisan elections?

20  

21  Yes

22  

23  No

24         Section 7.  Except as otherwise provided for section 5

25  of this act, this act shall take effect upon becoming a law.

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