HB 1217

1	A bill to be entitled
2	An act relating to the City of Bradenton Beach, Manatee
3	County; amending chapter 28915, Laws of Florida, 1953;
4	amending the city's boundaries; authorizing the city to
5	exercise its law enforcement authority 500 feet into the
6	waters of the Gulf of Mexico adjacent to its established
7	corporate limits and within Sarasota Bay from the eastern
8	municipal boundary of the city to the west right-of-way
9	line of the Intracoastal Waterway; providing an effective
10	date.
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12	Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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14	Section 1.  Section 6 of Article I of chapter 28915, Laws
15	of Florida, 1953, is amended to read:
16	ARTICLE I
17	GENERAL PROVISIONS
18	Section 6.  (1)(a)  The boundaries of the area which shall
19	be included in the territory of the City of Bradenton Beach, in
20	Manatee County, Florida, shall be as follows:
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22	All lands on Anna Maria Island lying south of a line
23	with a point of beginning at the intersection of
24	Sarasota Bay (Intracoastal Waterway) and the southerly
25	boundary of Sunrise Park Re-Plat (Plat Book 11, Page
26	94 of the Public Records of Manatee County, Florida)
27	thence continuing westerly along the southerly
28	boundary thereof and its westerly extension and the
29	southerly boundary of Sunrise Park (Plat Book 10, Page
30	31 of the Public Records of Manatee County, Florida)
31	and its westerly extension thereof and along the south
32	line of Block 33, Lots 20 and 1 of Ilexhurst
33	Subdivision (Plat Book 1, Page 154 of the Public
34	Records of Manatee County, Florida) to the west right-
35	of-way line of State Road 789 (also known as Gulf
36	Drive); thence northerly along the west right-of-way
37	line of said State Road 789 (Gulf Drive) approximately
38	50 feet; thence westerly approximately 100 feet along
39	the south line of former Block 34, Lot 19 of Ilexhurst
40	Subdivision (Plat Book 1, Page 154 of the Public
41	Records of Manatee County, Florida); thence northerly
42	approximately 100 feet along the west line of former
43	Block 34, Lots 19 and 18 of said Ilexhurst Subdivision
44	(this portion of Ilexhurst Subdivision is now re-
45	platted as Ocean Park Terrace Condominium Book 12,
46	Page 161 of the Public Records of Manatee County,
47	Florida); thence westerly along the north line of
48	Ocean Park Terrace (Condominium Book 12, Page 161 of
49	the Public Records of Manatee County, Florida) and its
50	westerly extension to the shoreline of the Gulf of
51	Mexico; thence southerly along the shoreline of the
52	Gulf of Mexico to the southern terminus of Anna Maria
53	Island; thence easterly around the southerly tip of
54	Anna Maria Island; thence northerly along the
55	shoreline of Anna Maria Island including United States
56	Government Lot #1, Section 10-35-26 (Coffee Shell
57	Island) to the point of beginning.
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59	Such property otherwise described as Anna Maria Island
60	lying south of the Holmes Beach city limits.
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62	(b)  Additionally, upon approval by the City Commission,
63	the municipal boundary of the City shall be automatically
64	expanded to include an area adjacent and contiguous to the
65	current city boundary within Sarasota Bay and designated as the
66	Bradenton Beach Mooring Field, more specifically described as:
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68	Beginning at the intersection of the centerline of 8th
69	Street South and Sarasota Bay (Intracoastal Waterway)
70	thence run east a distance of 1,500.00 feet; thence
71	northerly parallel to the Intracoastal Waterway
72	Channel to a point on the southerly right-of-way line
73	of Cortez Road; thence westerly along said southerly
74	right-of-way line a distance of 1,400.00 feet to the
75	mean high water line of Sarasota Bay (Intracoastal
76	Waterway); thence southerly along the mean high water
77	line of said Sarasota Bay (Intracoastal Waterway) to
78	the point of beginning.
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80	Lying and being in Sections 3, 4, 9 and 10, Township
81	35 South, Range 16 East, Manatee County, Florida.
82	All lands on Anna Maria Key lying South of the South
83	Boundary of the Subdivision of Ilexhurst as recorded
84	in Plat Book 1 Page 154 of the Public Records of
85	Manatee County, Florida; said line being the Northern
86	Boundary line of Township Thirty-five (35) South,
87	Range Sixteen (16) East, Manatee County, Florida.
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89	(c)  Provided, however, that the said City shall have the
90	power to change its boundaries in the manner hereinafter or as
91	authorized otherwise by the laws of the State of Florida
92	provided.
93	(2)  The City of Bradenton Beach, Manatee County, is
94	authorized to exercise its law enforcement authority 500 feet
95	into the waters of the Gulf of Mexico adjacent to its
96	established corporate limits and within Sarasota Bay from the
97	eastern municipal boundary of the City to the west right-of-way
98	line of the Intracoastal Waterway.
99	Section 2.  This act shall take effect upon becoming a law.

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