| 1 | The Local Government Council recommends the following: |
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| 3 | Council/Committee Substitute |
| 4 | Remove the entire bill and insert: |
| 5 | A bill to be entitled |
| 6 | An act relating to the Sebring Airport Authority, |
| 7 | Highlands County; codifying, amending, reenacting, and |
| 8 | repealing special acts relating to the authority; defining |
| 9 | the powers and duties of said authority; granting to the |
| 10 | authority power to acquire, lease, construct, reconstruct, |
| 11 | improve, extend, enlarge, equip, repair, maintain, and |
| 12 | operate airport and other facilities; providing for the |
| 13 | issuance of bonds of the authority, payable solely from |
| 14 | funds provided therefor under the act, to pay the cost of |
| 15 | acquiring, constructing, or reconstructing any facilities |
| 16 | and the cost of improvements, extensions, enlargements, |
| 17 | and equipment; granting to the authority power to acquire |
| 18 | necessary real and personal property and to exercise the |
| 19 | power of eminent domain; providing for the imposition and |
| 20 | collection of charges for the use of and for the services |
| 21 | furnished by any such facilities; authorizing the City of |
| 22 | Sebring to make grants and conveyances to the authority; |
| 23 | prescribing the powers and duties of the authority in |
| 24 | connection with the foregoing and the rights and remedies |
| 25 | of the holders of any bonds or revenue certificates issued |
| 26 | under the provisions of this act; providing an effective |
| 27 | date. |
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| 29 | Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: |
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| 31 | Section 1. Pursuant to section 189.429, Florida Statutes, |
| 32 | this act constitutes the codification of all special acts |
| 33 | relating to the Sebring Airport Authority. It is the intent of |
| 34 | the Legislature in enacting this law to provide a single, |
| 35 | comprehensive special act charter for the authority, including |
| 36 | all current legislative authority granted to the authority by |
| 37 | its several legislative enactments and any additional authority |
| 38 | granted by this act. It is further the intent to preserve all |
| 39 | authority powers and authority. |
| 40 | Section 2. Chapters 67-2070, 82-382, 89-484, 91-415, 95- |
| 41 | 526, and 2001-332, Laws of Florida, are codified, reenacted, |
| 42 | amended, and repealed as herein provided. |
| 43 | Section 3. The Sebring Airport Authority is re-created and |
| 44 | the charter for the authority is re-created and reenacted to |
| 45 | read: |
| 46 | Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the |
| 47 | "Sebring Airport Authority Act." |
| 48 | Section 2. There is hereby created an authority to be |
| 49 | known as the Sebring Airport Authority which shall be a body |
| 50 | politic and corporate. The Sebring Airport Authority is hereby |
| 51 | constituted a public instrumentality and the exercise of said |
| 52 | authority of the powers conferred by this act shall be deemed |
| 53 | and held to be the performance of essential governmental |
| 54 | functions. |
| 55 | Section 3. (1)(a) The Sebring Airport Authority shall |
| 56 | exercise its powers and jurisdiction over the property now known |
| 57 | as "Sebring Regional Airport and Industrial Park," as follows: |
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| 59 | The West Half (W1/2) of Section 4; All of Section 5, |
| 60 | less and except that portion of the North Half (N1/2) |
| 61 | lying West of the canal and the Railroad right-of-way |
| 62 | spur; the Southeast Quarter (SE1/4) of the Southeast |
| 63 | Quarter (SE1/4) of Section 6; All of Section 7, less |
| 64 | and except that portion of the West Half (W1/2) lying |
| 65 | northerly of State Road No. 623 and West of the canal; |
| 66 | All of Section 8; the West Half (W1/2) of Section 9; |
| 67 | and that part of Section 18 lying North and West of |
| 68 | the airport access road, less and except the following |
| 69 | land deeded to the Humane Society generally described |
| 70 | as being a 10-acre tract lying adjacent to the |
| 71 | westerly boundary of the Hendricks Field access road |
| 72 | and adjacent to and South of the north boundary of |
| 73 | Section 18, Township 35 South, Range 30 East, more |
| 74 | particularly described as follows: Commencing as a |
| 75 | point of beginning at the intersection of the westerly |
| 76 | boundary of Hendricks Field access road (said road |
| 77 | being 100 feet in width, being 50 feet on either side |
| 78 | of said center line) with the North boundary of |
| 79 | Section 18, Township 35 South, Range 30 East, |
| 80 | Highlands County, Florida, thence South 89°01'45" West |
| 81 | West along the North boundary of Section 18 a distance |
| 82 | of 505.70 feet to a point, thence South 01°54'30" East |
| 83 | East a distance of 908.84 feet to a point, thence |
| 84 | North 88°05'30" East a distance of 500.00 feet to a |