Florida Senate - 2014                                     SB 640
       
       
        
       By Senator Braynon
       
       
       
       
       
       36-00368A-14                                           2014640__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to public health trusts; amending s.
    3         154.11, F.S.; authorizing public health trusts to
    4         lease certain real property; providing an effective
    5         date.
    6          
    7  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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    9         Section 1. Paragraph (f) of subsection (1) of section
   10  154.11, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
   11         154.11 Powers of board of trustees.—
   12         (1) The board of trustees of each public health trust shall
   13  be deemed to exercise a public and essential governmental
   14  function of both the state and the county and in furtherance
   15  thereof it shall, subject to limitation by the governing body of
   16  the county in which such board is located, have all of the
   17  powers necessary or convenient to carry out the operation and
   18  governance of designated health care facilities, including, but
   19  without limiting the generality of, the foregoing:
   20         (f) To lease, either as lessee or lessor, or rent for any
   21  number of years and upon any terms and conditions real property,
   22  except that the board shall not lease or rent, as lessor, any
   23  real property other than office space controlled by a public
   24  health trust, except in accordance with the requirements of s.
   25  125.35, Florida Statutes [F. S. 1973].
   26         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2014.