Florida Senate - 2006 SENATOR AMENDMENT
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11 Senators Dockery and Bennett moved the following amendment:
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13 Senate Amendment
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18 Section 9. Section 259.106, Florida Statutes, is
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20 259.106 Babcock Ranch Preserve; Babcock Ranch, Inc.;
21 creation; membership; organization; meetings.--
22 (1) SHORT TITLE.--This section may be cited as the
23 "Babcock Ranch Preserve Act."
24 (2) DEFINITIONS.--As used in this section, the term:
25 (a) "Babcock Ranch Preserve" and "preserve" mean the
26 lands and facilities acquired in the purchase of the Babcock
27 Crescent B Ranch.
28 (b) "Babcock Ranch, Inc.," and "corporation" mean the
29 not-for-profit corporation created under this section to
30 operate and manage the Babcock Ranch Preserve as a working
31 ranch.
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1 (c) "Board of directors" means the governing board of
2 the not-for-profit corporation created under this section.
3 (d) "Commission" means the Fish and Wildlife
4 Conservation Commission.
5 (e) "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of
6 Agriculture.
7 (f) "Department" means the Department of Agriculture
8 and Consumer Services.
9 (g) "Financially self-sustaining" means having
10 management and operation expenditures not more than the
11 revenues collected from fees and other receipts for resource
12 use and development, and from interest and invested funds.
13 (h) "Management and operating expenditures" means
14 expenses of the corporation, including, but not limited to,
15 salaries and benefits of officers and staff, administrative
16 and operating expenses, costs of improvements to and
17 maintenance of lands and facilities of the Babcock Ranch
18 Preserve, and other similar expenses. Such expenditures shall
19 be made from revenues generated from the operation of the
20 ranch and not from funds appropriated by the Legislature
21 except as provided in this section.
22 (i) "Member" means a person appointed to the board of
23 directors of the not-for-profit corporation created under this
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25 (j) "Multiple use" means the management of all of the
26 renewable surface resources of the Babcock Ranch Preserve to
27 best meet the needs of the public, including the use of the
28 land for some or all of the renewable surface resources or
29 related services over areas large enough to allow for periodic
30 adjustments in use to conform to the changing needs and
31 conditions of the preserve while recognizing that a portion of
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1 the land will be used for some of the renewable surface
2 resources available on that land. The goal of multiple use is
3 the harmonious and coordinated management of the renewable
4 surface resources without impairing the productivity of the
5 land and considering the relative value of the renewable
6 surface resources, and not necessarily a combination of uses
7 to provide the greatest monetary return or the greatest unit
8 output.
9 (k) "Sustained yield of the renewable surface
10 resources" means the achievement and maintenance of a high
11 level of annual or regular periodic output of the various
12 renewable surface resources of the preserve without impairing
13 the productivity of the land.
14 (1) "Working ranch" means those activities necessary
15 to accomplish the goals of multiple use and sustained yield of
16 the renewable surface resources, considering historical
17 agricultural uses of the property and other compatible
18 agricultural uses of the property such as native horticulture
19 activities, all as may be approved in the land management plan
20 adopted under ss. 253.034 and 259.032.
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