The Florida Senate

331.323  Cooperative agreements with the state, counties, and municipalities.--

(1)  The state and the counties, municipalities, and other political subdivisions, public bodies, and agencies thereof, or any of them, whether now existing or hereafter created, are authorized to aid and cooperate with the authority in carrying out any of the purposes and projects of the authority, to enter into cooperative agreements with the authority, to provide in any such cooperative agreement for the making of loans, gifts, grants, or contributions to the authority and the granting and conveyance to the authority of real or personal property of any kind or nature, or any interest therein, for the carrying out of the purpose and projects of the authority; to covenant in any such cooperative agreement to pay all or any part of the costs of acquisition, planning, development, construction, reconstruction, extension, improvement, operation, and maintenance of any projects of the authority; and to pay all or any part of the principal and interest on any bonds of the authority.

(2)  The state and the counties, municipalities, and other political subdivisions, public bodies, and agencies thereof, or any of them, whether now existing or hereafter created, and the authority created by this act, are further authorized to enter into cooperative agreements to provide for the furnishing by the authority to the state or any county, municipality, or other political subdivision, public body, or agency thereof of any of the facilities and services of the authority, or by the state or any county, municipality, or other political subdivision, public body, or agency thereof to the authority and to persons within the spaceport territory of facilities and services of the type that the authority is authorized to furnish or undertake, or such other facilities and services as may be determined necessary or desirable by the board for the carrying out of the purposes of this act. Without limitation of the foregoing, such cooperative agreements may provide for the furnishing by any county, municipality, or other political subdivision of fire and police protection for the authority and persons and property within the authority, and for the providing to the authority of any services deemed necessary or desirable by the board for the proper functioning of the authority.

(3)  Without limitation of the foregoing, the board may undertake and finance any of the projects of the authority, in whole or in part, jointly with any municipality or municipalities, now existing or hereafter created, or in any other manner combine the projects of the authority with the projects of such municipality or municipalities.

(4)  Any agreement of the type authorized by this section may be made and entered into pursuant to this act for such time or times, not exceeding 40 years.

History.--ss. 23, 61, ch. 89-300; ss. 7, 8, ch. 90-192.