§ 4-7-111. Eminent domain.

(a)

The district is authorized to exercise the right of eminent domain, and may condemn for the use of said district or other proper public agencies all lands, easements, rights-of-way, areas for deposit of spoil material, and property rights of every description required for the public purposes and powers of said district herein granted. The district is authorized to secure possession of lands, easements, rights-of-way, areas for deposit of spoil material, and other property rights, prior to final judgment pursuant to the procedure hereinafter provided. Such condemnation proceedings shall be maintained by and in the name of the West Coast Inland Navigation District, a special taxing district under the laws of the State of Florida, and the procedure shall be that prescribed in Chapters 73 and 74, Florida Statutes, and any other procedure as otherwise from time to time is provided by law; and said district and its board is hereby vested with authority to pay any judgment or compensation awarded in any such proceedings out of any funds available for such purposes. The district is authorized to condemn lands owned by public utility companies and governmental agencies, provided no condemnation action may be maintained against a state or federal agency without the consent of such agency.

(b)

In [the] event the property sought to be condemned is in more than one (1) county, the suit may be instituted in either county, but required notice shall be published in all counties affected.

(c)

The delegation of the power of eminent domain as herein provided shall not be held to be an exclusive right to accomplish the purposes herein outlined and nothing herein provided shall be construed as prohibiting any other federal or state agency from exercising such powers as they respectively hold to carry out any of the purposes of this act [this article].

(Laws of Fla., Ch. 61-1590, § 7)

Editor's note

Laws of Fla., Ch. 61-1590, § 8, was repealed by Laws of Fla., Ch. 79-435, § 5.