Bill Text: FL S0762 | 2015 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Sale or Exchange of Surplus Lands
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2015-05-01 - Died in Environmental Preservation and Conservation [S0762 Detail]
Download: Florida-2015-S0762-Introduced.html
Florida Senate - 2015 SB 762
By Senator Simpson
18-00494A-15 2015762__
1 A bill to be entitled
2 An act relating to the sale or exchange of surplus
3 lands; amending s. 373.089, F.S.; extending the
4 timeframe within which a certified appraisal may be
5 obtained for lands to be sold as surplus; revising the
6 procedures a water management district must follow for
7 publishing a notice of intention to sell surplus
8 lands; providing that parcels no longer essential or
9 necessary for conservation purposes and valued below a
10 certain threshold may be sold directly to the highest
11 bidder; authorizing districts to include restrictions
12 on future use of land sold; reenacting ss.
13 259.101(6)(a), 373.139(6), and 380.0677(9), F.S., to
14 incorporate the amendments made by this act to s.
15 373.089, F.S., in references thereto; providing an
16 effective date.
17
18 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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20 Section 1. Subsections (1) and (3) of section 373.089,
21 Florida Statutes, are amended, and subsection (8) is added to
22 that section, to read:
23 373.089 Sale or exchange of lands, or interests or rights
24 in lands.—The governing board of the district may sell lands, or
25 interests or rights in lands, to which the district has acquired
26 title or to which it may hereafter acquire title in the
27 following manner:
28 (1) Any lands, or interests or rights in lands, determined
29 by the governing board to be surplus may be sold by the
30 district, at any time, for the highest price obtainable;
31 however, in no case shall the selling price be less than the
32 appraised value of the lands, or interests or rights in lands,
33 as determined by a certified appraisal obtained within 360 120
34 days before the sale.
35 (3) Before selling any surplus land, or interests or rights
36 in land, it shall be the duty of the district to cause a notice
37 of intention to sell to be published in a newspaper published in
38 the county in which the land, or interests or rights in the
39 land, is situated once each week for 3 successive weeks. (three
40 insertions being sufficient), The first publication of the
41 required notice must occur at least which shall be not less than
42 30 days, but not nor more than 360 45 days, before prior to any
43 sale, and must include which notice shall set forth a
44 description of lands, or interests or rights in lands, to be
45 offered for sale.
46 (8) Notwithstanding this section, if a parcel of land is no
47 longer essential or necessary for conservation purposes and is
48 valued at $25,000 or less as determined by a certified appraisal
49 obtained within 360 days before any sale, the governing board
50 may, after sending notice of its intention to sell the parcel to
51 adjacent property owners by certified mail and publishing the
52 required notice on its website, receive sealed offers for the
53 parcel and sell the parcel directly to the highest bidder. The
54 district may include a restriction on the future use of such
55 parcel as a term and condition of the sale.
56 Section 2. Paragraph (a) of subsection (6) of s. 259.101,
57 subsection (6) of s. 373.139, and subsection (9) of s. 380.0677,
58 Florida Statutes, are reenacted for the purpose of incorporating
59 the amendments made by this act to s. 373.089, Florida Statutes,
60 in references thereto.
61 Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2015.
