315.02 Definitions. ---
As used in this law, the following words and terms shall
have the following meanings:
(1) The term "port district" or the word
"district" shall mean any district created by or pursuant to
the provisions of any general or special law and authorized to own
or operate any port facilities.
(2) The term "port authority" or the word
"authority" shall mean any port authority in Florida created by
or pursuant to the provisions of any general or special law or any
district or board of county commissioners acting as a port
authority under or pursuant to the provisions of any general or
special law.
(3) The word "county" shall mean any county and
the word "municipality" shall mean any municipality in
Florida.
(4) The word "unit" shall mean any county, port
district, port authority or municipality.
(5) The term "governing body" shall mean the board
or body in which the general legislative powers of a unit shall be
vested.
(6) The term "port facilities" shall mean and
shall include harbor, shipping, and port facilities, and
improvements of every kind, nature, and description, including, but
without limitation, channels, turning basins, jetties,
breakwaters, public landings, wharves, docks, markets, parks,
recreational facilities, structures, buildings, piers, storage
facilities, public buildings and plazas, anchorages, utilities,
bridges, tunnels, roads, causeways, and any and all property and
facilities necessary or useful in connection with the foregoing,
and any one or more or any combination thereof and any extension,
addition, betterment or improvement of any thereof.
(7) The word "cost" as applied to any port
facilities shall mean and shall include the cost of acquisition or
construction, the cost of all labor, materials, machinery and
equipment, the cost of all lands, property, rights, easements and
franchises acquired, financing charges, interest prior to and
during construction and for 1 year after completion of
construction, cost of plans and specifications, surveys and
estimates of cost and of revenues, cost of engineering and legal
services, all other expenses necessary or incident to determining
the feasibility or practicability of such construction, the cost of
acquiring or improving, enlarging and extending existing port
facilities and preparing the same for sale or lease to provide
funds for financing port facilities under the provisions of this
law if, in the determination of the governing body, such
acquisition, such improvement, enlargement and extension or such
preparation for sale or lease are necessary to such financing,
administrative expenses and such other expenses as may be necessary
or incident to any financing herein authorized. Any obligation or
expense heretofore or hereafter incurred by a unit in connection
with any of the foregoing items of cost may be regarded as a part
of such cost and reimbursed to the unit out of the proceeds of port
facilities bonds issued under the provisions of this
law.
History: s. 2, ch. 59-411; s. 1, ch. 67-317.
