Florida Senate - 2013 (NP) SB 1178 By Senator Bullard 39-00899-13 20131178__ 1 A bill to be entitled 2 An act relating to the Central County Water Control 3 District, Hendry County; amending chapter 2000-415, 4 Laws of Florida; correcting the legal description of 5 the boundaries of the district; providing an effective 6 date. 7 8 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 9 10 Section 1. Section 1 of section 3 of chapter 2000-415, Laws 11 of Florida, is amended to read: 12 Section 3. The Central County Water Control District is re 13 created as an independent special water control district and the 14 charter for such district is re-created and reenacted to read: 15 Section 1. District created; boundaries; validation.— 16 (a) For the purpose of reclamation, drainage, irrigation, 17 water control, and development of lands hereinafter described 18 and to protect said lands from the effects of water by means of 19 the construction and maintenance of canals, ditches, levees, 20 dikes, pumping plants, and other drainage, irrigation, and water 21 control works and improvements, and to make the lands within 22 said district available and habitable for settlement and 23 agriculture, and for the public convenience, welfare, utility 24 and benefit, and for the other purposes stated in this act a 25 drainage district is hereby created and established in Hendry 26 County to be known as the Central County Water Control District, 27 the territorial boundaries of which shall be as follows: 28 Sections 13, 14, 15, the West 1/2 of Section 18, 29 Sections 22, 23, 24, 25, 26 and 27, the North 1/2 of 30 Section 34 except the SE 1/4 of the NE 1/4 of said 31 Section 34 and all of Sections 35 and 36 in Township 32 44 South, Range 32 East; and all of Sections 19, 29, 33 30, 31, 32, and a portion of Section 7 described as 34 that portion of The Woodland Subdivision recorded in 35 Plat Book 4, Page 1 of the Public Records of Hendry 36 County, Florida, in Township 44 South, Range 33 East 37 in Hendry County, Florida. 38 (b) It is hereby determined, declared, and enacted that 39 said lands in their present condition are wet and subject to 40 overflow, and at times subject to drought, and that the 41 drainage, irrigation, water control, reclamation, and protection 42 of said lands from the effects of water, and thereby the making 43 of said lands available for agricultural and settlement purposes 44 by drainage, irrigation, water control, reclamation, and 45 improvement, and the creation of said district with the powers 46 vested in it by this act, are in the interest of and conducive 47 to public welfare, health, and convenience. 48 (c) The proceedings had in the circuit court of Hendry 49 County in the cause styled “In re: Central County Drainage 50 District,” being Case No. 68-14, wherein a judgment was entered 51 on February 6, 1968, creating Central County Drainage District 52 under the provisions of chapter 298, Florida Statutes, known as 53 the general drainage law, and a judgment extending the 54 boundaries of said district which was entered on April 10, 1970, 55 are hereby validated, ratified, approved, and confirmed. 56 Section 2. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law.