HB 0753

1	A bill to be entitled
2	An act relating to the Sebring Airport Authority,
3	Highlands County; codifying, amending, reenacting, and
4	repealing special acts relating to the authority; defining
5	the powers and duties of said authority; granting to the
6	authority power to acquire, lease, construct, reconstruct,
7	improve, extend, enlarge, equip, repair, maintain, and
8	operate airport and other facilities; providing for the
9	issuance of bonds of the authority, payable solely from
10	funds provided therefor under the act, to pay the cost of
11	acquiring, constructing, or reconstructing any facilities
12	and the cost of improvements, extensions, enlargements,
13	and equipment; granting to the authority power to acquire
14	necessary real and personal property and to exercise the
15	power of eminent domain; providing for the imposition and
16	collection of charges for the use of and for the services
17	furnished by any such facilities; authorizing the City of
18	Sebring to make grants and conveyances to the authority;
19	prescribing the powers and duties of the authority in
20	connection with the foregoing and the rights and remedies
21	of the holders of any bonds or revenue certificates issued
22	under the provisions of this act; providing an effective
23	date.
24
25	Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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27	Section 1.  Pursuant to section 189.429, Florida Statutes,
28	this act constitutes the codification of all special acts
29	relating to the Sebring Airport Authority. It is the intent of
30	the Legislature in enacting this law to provide a single,
31	comprehensive special act charter for the authority, including
32	all current legislative authority granted to the authority by
33	its several legislative enactments and any additional authority
34	granted by this act. It is further the intent to preserve all
35	authority powers and authority.
36	Section 2.  Chapters 67-2070, 82-382, 89-484, 91-415, 95-
37	526, and 2001-332, Laws of Florida, are codified, reenacted,
38	amended, and repealed as herein provided.
39	Section 3.  The Sebring Airport Authority is re-created and
40	the charter for the authority is re-created and reenacted to
41	read:
42	Section 1.  This act shall be known and may be cited as the
43	"Sebring Airport Authority Act."
44	Section 2.  There is hereby created an authority to be
45	known as the Sebring Airport Authority which shall be a body
46	politic and corporate. The Sebring Airport Authority is hereby
47	constituted a public instrumentality and the exercise of said
48	authority of the powers conferred by this act shall be deemed
49	and held to be the performance of essential governmental
50	functions.
51	Section 3.  (1)(a)  The Sebring Airport Authority shall
52	exercise its powers and jurisdiction over the property now known
53	as "Sebring Air Terminal" and/or "Sebring Industrial Air Park,"
54	as follows:
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56	The West Half (W1/2) of Section 4; All of Section 5,
57	less and except that portion of the North Half (N1/2)
58	lying West of the canal and the Railroad right-of-way
59	spur; the Southeast Quarter (SE1/4) of the Southeast
60	Quarter (SE1/4) of Section 6; All of Section 7, less
61	and except that portion of the West Half (W1/2) lying
62	northerly of State Road No. 623 and West of the canal;
63	All of Section 8; the West Half (W1/2) of Section 9;
64	and that part of Section 18 lying North and West of
65	the airport access road, less and except the following
66	land deeded to the Humane Society generally described
67	as being a 10-acre tract lying adjacent to the
68	westerly boundary of the Hendricks Field access road
69	and adjacent to and South of the north boundary of
70	Section 18, Township 35 South, Range 30 East, more
71	particularly described as follows: Commencing as a
72	point of beginning at the intersection of the westerly
73	boundary of Hendricks Field access road (said road
74	being 100 feet in width, being 50 feet on either side
75	of said center line) with the North boundary of
76	Section 18, Township 35 South, Range 30 East,
77	Highlands County, Florida, thence South 89°01'45" West
78	West along the North boundary of Section 18 a distance
79	of 505.70 feet to a point, thence South 01°54'30" East
80	East a distance of 908.84 feet to a point, thence
81	North 88°05'30" East a distance of 500.00 feet to a

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