HB 1565 2003
1	A bill to be entitled
2	An act relating to Broward County; extending the corporate
3	limits of the City of Hollywood or the Town of Pembroke
4	Park; providing for annexation of specified unincorporated
5	lands; providing for an election; providing for effective
6	date of annexation; providing for continuation of certain
7	Broward County regulations; providing for the transfer of
8	public roads and rights-of-way; providing an effective
9	date.
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11	Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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13	Section 1. South Central Broward as herein described shall
14	include all unincorporated lands bounded on the south by the
15	boundary of Broward County with Miami-Dade County, on the east
16	by the right-of-way forming a part of I-95, on the north by the
17	inclusion of all the rights-of-way of Pembroke Road, and on the
18	west by the inclusion of all of the right-of-way of State Road
19	7.
20	Section 2. An election shall be scheduled by the Board of
21	County Commissioners of Broward County in accordance with the
22	provisions of law relating to elections currently in force in
23	Broward County on November 4, 2003. Only registered voters
24	residing in the unincorporated area within South Central Broward
25	County as described in this act may vote in said election. A
26	mail ballot shall not be used in said election. The item that
27	shall appear on the ballot of the election of November 4, 2003,
28	shall be as follows:
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30	Shall South Central Broward be annexed into
31	either the City of Hollywood or the Town of
32	Pembroke Park?
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34	Select one below:
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36	All of the unincorporated areas of South
37	Central Broward shall be annexed into the
38	Town of Pembroke Park.
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40	All of the unincorporated areas of South
41	Central Broward shall be annexed in phases
42	into the City of Hollywood.
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44	Section 3. All of the unincorporated portions of South
45	Central Broward as defined herein shall be deemed a part of the
46	municipality receiving a majority of the votes in the election
47	described in section 2, effective September 15, 2004.
48	Section 4. The municipality receiving the majority of
49	votes in the election as described in section 2 shall have all
50	powers and responsibilities as provided in section 171.062,
51	Florida Statutes, except as provided in this act, as of the
52	effective dates of annexations as provided in section 3.
53	Section 5. Upon annexation into a municipality, the
54	following shall govern the areas described in South Central
55	Broward as provided in this act: for any use, building, or
56	structure that is legally in existence at the time a portion of
57	South Central Broward becomes a part of a municipality, such use
58	shall not be made a prohibited use by the municipality, on the
59	property of said use, for as long as the use shall continue and
60	is not voluntarily abandoned.
61	Section 6. Subsequent to the effective date of this act,
62	no change in land use designation or zoning shall be effective
63	within the limits of the lands subject to annexation herein,
64	until said portion of South Central Broward has been annexed
65	into a municipality pursuant to this act.
66	Section 7. All public roads and the public rights-of-way
67	associated therewith, lying within the limits of the lands
68	subject to annexation herein, as described in section 1, are
69	transferred from Broward County jurisdiction to the jurisdiction
70	of the annexing municipality. All rights, title, interests, and
71	responsibilities for any transferred roads, including, but not
72	limited to, the ownership, operations, maintenance, planning,
73	design, and construction of said roads and to the rights-of-way
74	associated therewith shall transfer from Broward County
75	jurisdiction and ownership to the jurisdiction and ownership of
76	the annexing municipality upon the effective date of the
77	annexation.
78	Section 8. Subsequent to the effective date of this
79	annexation, any resident in the area to be annexed by this act
80	into the annexing municipality shall be deemed to have met any
81	residency requirements for candidacy.
82	Section 9. Nothing in this act shall be construed to
83	affect or abrogate the rights of parties to any contracts,
84	whether the same be between Broward County and a third party or
85	between nongovernmental entities, which contracts are in effect
86	prior to the effective date of annexation.
87	Section 10. This act shall take precedence over any other
88	enacted law.
89	Section 11. This act shall take effect upon becoming a
90	law.