Sec. 254-1. - Goodlette Road designated.

That portion of county road 851 running north from state road 90 (US 41) through Section 3, Township 50 South, range 25 East, Sections 34, 27, 22, 15, 10, and 3, Township 49 South, range 25 East and Sections 34 and 27, Township 48 South, Range 25 East to the intersection of CR 846 (Immokalee Road) in Collier County, Florida, is hereby named Goodlette-Frank Road.

(Laws of Fla. ch. 71-409, § 1; Laws of Fla. ch. 94-478, § 1)

Sec. 254-2. - Reserved.

Editor's note—

Laws of Florida, ch. 94-478, § 2, approved May 11, 1994, repealed § 254-2, which pertained to designation of Goodlette Road. See the Code Comparative Table.

Sec. 254-3. - Ted Smallwood, Sr. Causeway designated.

(a)

That part of state road 29 in Collier County from Everglades City to Chokoloskee Island shall be named and designated the Ted Smallwood, Sr. Causeway and shall be so designated on all state road department maps and other official maps and plats of Collier County.

(b)

The state road department is authorized to place along said causeway suitable markers denominating said highway the Ted Smallwood, Sr. Causeway.

(Laws of Fla. ch. 57-2031, §§ 1, 2)

Sec. 254-4. - Establishment of welcome station.

There is authorized the establishment and maintenance of a state and county tourist center consisting of a gateway welcome station to the Everglades National Park with a model Seminole Indian village and museum for trail Seminole Indians, with a panorama depicting their history and the development of the Everglades at Carnestown, Collier County, at the intersection of the Tamiami Trail (U.S. No. 41) and state road 29 extending from Everglades to Chokoloskee. Provided however that all cost of land acquisition for this proposed station shall be paid by the board of county commissioners of Collier County. The state acting through the Florida Development Commission and the state road department, and Collier County, acting through the board of county commissioners thereof, are authorized to do all things necessary to establish and maintain said center. The said agencies are authorized to enter into necessary agreements for said purposes, and to make such expenditures as may be necessary to effectuate the provisions of this section.

(Laws of Fla. ch. 63-700, §§ 1, 2)

Sec. 254-5. - Golden Gate Estates subdivision; extinguishing of certain perimeter and bisecting easements.

(a)

(1) This act does not apply to any public easement, including any public right-of-way. This act applies to all perimeter easements and to all bisecting easements, except those necessary to retain legal access to the nearest public road right-of-way, in each of the Golden Gate Estates subdivisions, which easements were reserved, dedicated, conveyed, or otherwise created by the Gulf American Corporation, the Central Bank and Trust Company, the Gulf American Corporation Properties, Inc., or the Avatar Properties, Inc. Most, if not all, of these perimeter easements are 30 feet wide. Most, if not all, of these bisecting easements are 60 feet wide. Most, if not all, of these easements were "reserved" by one or more of the above-listed entities between 1961 and 1969, and include all of the easements that are referred to in that "release" recorded in O.R. Book 1059, Page 631, or referred to in that "release" recorded in O.R. Book 1082, Page 326, Official Records of Collier County.

(2)

All such perimeter easements and all such bisecting easements, except those necessary to retain legal access to the nearest public road right-of-way, shall be extinguished and be void as of midnight, December 31, 1999, except to the extent that an easement in actual use is claimed as follows: A notice of claim of right to the easement, as described in s. 712.06, Florida Statutes, must be recorded in the official records of Collier County, not later than December 31, 1999. Each such claim shall be limited to that length of the easement in actual use as a road, for drainage, or as a location of one or more utility facilities. The notice must describe the boundaries of the easement that is actually being used. A valid notice shall be claimed only by an owner of the fee of any lot or other parcel of land over which any part of the easement in actual use exists, or by an owner of any drainage facilities or any utility facilities then located within the respective easement area. A separate notice of claim must be recorded for each claimed easement.

(b)

This act does not modify any effect that chapter 712, Florida Statutes, could have over any of these easements, including possible extinguishment wholly independent of this law.

(c)

A copy of this law shall be published prior to July 1, 1997, and prior to July 1 for the next three years by the Collier County Administrator and in a newspaper of general circulation within the Golden Gate Estates subdivision areas.

(Laws of Fla. ch. 97-346, §§ 1—3)