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Fla. Stat. § 163.357 (2025)
Governing body as the community redevelopment agency.
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163.357 Governing body as the community redevelopment agency.—
(1)(a) As an alternative to the appointment of not fewer than five or more than seven members of the agency, the governing body may, at the time of the adoption of a resolution under s. 163.355, or at any time thereafter by adoption of a resolution, declare itself to be an agency, in which case all the rights, powers, duties, privileges, and immunities vested by this part in an agency will be vested in the governing body of the county or municipality, subject to all responsibilities and liabilities imposed or incurred.
(b) The members of the governing body shall be the members of the agency, but such members constitute the head of a legal entity, separate, distinct, and independent from the governing body of the county or municipality. If the governing body declares itself to be an agency which already exists, the new agency is subject to all of the responsibilities and liabilities imposed or incurred by the existing agency.
(c) A governing body which consists of five members may appoint two additional persons to act as members of the community redevelopment agency. The terms of office of the additional members shall be for 4 years, except that the first person appointed shall initially serve a term of 2 years. Persons appointed under this section are subject to all provisions of this part relating to appointed members of a community redevelopment agency.
(d) As provided in an interlocal agreement between the governing body that created the agency and one or more taxing authorities, one or more members of the board of commissioners of the agency may be representatives of a taxing authority, including members of that taxing authority’s governing body, whose membership on the board of commissioners of the agency would be considered an additional duty of office as a member of the taxing authority governing body.
(2) Nothing in this part prevents the governing body from conferring the rights, powers, privileges, duties, and immunities of a community redevelopment agency upon any entity in existence on July 1, 1977, which has been authorized by law to function as a downtown development board or authority or as any other body the purpose of which is to prevent and eliminate slums and blight through community redevelopment plans. Any entity in existence on July 1, 1977, which has been vested with the rights, powers, privileges, duties, and immunities of a community redevelopment agency is subject to all provisions and responsibilities imposed by this part, notwithstanding any provisions to the contrary in any law or amendment thereto which established the entity. Nothing in this act shall be construed to impair or diminish any powers of any redevelopment agency or other entity as referred to herein in existence on the effective date of this act or to repeal, modify, or amend any law establishing such entity, except as specifically set forth herein.
History.—s. 2, ch. 77-391; s. 75, ch. 79-400; s. 2, ch. 83-231; s. 5, ch. 84-356; s. 3, ch. 2006-307.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 9
cases, 1980–2014 · leading case: Lozman v. City of Riviera Beach, 39 F. Supp. 3d 1392 (S.D. Fla. 2014).
Lozman v. City of Riviera Beach, 39 F. Supp. 3d 1392 (S.D. Fla. 2014). “See § 163.357(1), Fla. Stat. (2013). On this tenet, it moves for summary judgment on all claims to the extent premised on conduct of CRA'members, as described in the Plaintiffs Second Amended Complaint at paragraphs 1, 15-18, 2(c), 28(d), 28(g), 28(i), 48(b), and 66.”
State v. Miami Beach Redevelopment Agency, 392 So. 2d 875 (Fla. 1980). “§ 163.357. The agency's authority includes "all the powers necessary or convenient to carry out and effectuate the purposes and provisions of this part," except that the governing body of the county or municipality retains the power to: (1) designate an area as a slum or…”
Wade v. Brown, 928 So. 2d 1260 (Fla. 4th DCA 2006). “…to appointing independent members to make up the CRA, the “governing body” may declare itself to be the CRA. See § 163.357, Fla. Stat.”
City of Riviera Beach v. Riviera Beach Citizens Task Force, 87 So. 3d 18 (Fla. 4th DCA 2012). “In accordance with section 163.357, the city council declared its own members to be the commissioners of the CRA, although the CRA is a separate legal entity.”
Lyes v. City of Riviera Beach, 166 F.3d 1332 (11th Cir. 1999). “” Fla. Stat. Ann. § 163.357 (b) (West 1990).”
Klauber v. City of Sarasota, 235 F. Supp. 2d 1263 (M.D. Fla. 2002). “Section 163.357(l)(a) of the act authorizes the Sarasota City Commissioners to constitute the membership of the CRA.”
Fulmore v. Charlotte Cnty., 928 So. 2d 1281 (Fla. 2d DCA 2006). “The Board declared itself to be the governing body of the Redevelopment Agency, as it was authorized to do under section 163.357. The redevelopment area was first platted almost forty years ago.”
Lyes v. City of Riviera Beach, FL (11th Cir. 1997). “” Fla. Stat. Ann. § 163.357 (b) (West 1990).”
Lyes v. City of Riviera Beach, FL (11th Cir. 1997). “" Fla. Stat. Ann. § 163.357 (b) (West 1990).”
— 163.357(1) — 1 case
Lozman v. City of Riviera Beach, 39 F. Supp. 3d 1392 (S.D. Fla. 2014). “See § 163.357(1), Fla. Stat. (2013). On this tenet, it moves for summary judgment on all claims to the extent premised on conduct of CRA'members, as described in the Plaintiffs Second Amended Complaint at paragraphs 1, 15-18, 2(c), 28(d), 28(g), 28(i), 48(b), and 66.”
— 163.357(l)(a) — 1 case
Klauber v. City of Sarasota, 235 F. Supp. 2d 1263 (M.D. Fla. 2002). “Section 163.357(l)(a) of the act authorizes the Sarasota City Commissioners to constitute the membership of the CRA.”
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