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 Orlando
 Code of Ordinances
 Title I. CHARTER
 Chapter 10. PARKING COMMISSION

  § 3. Official Designation; Rights and Powers.  

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  • The Orlando Parking Commission created by the ordinance authorized under this Act shall be officially known and designated as "The Orlando Parking Commission, a commission of the government of the City of Orlando, Florida," which said commission shall have and may exercise all powers necessary or convenient for the carrying out the purposes authorized by this Act, including, but without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the following rights or powers, to wit:

    (a)

    Said parking commission shall have the power and authority in its own name to acquire, purchase, hold, lease or lessee and use any franchise, property, real, personal or mixed, tangible or intangible, or any interest therein, necessary or desirable for carrying out the purpose of said commission and to sell, lease as lessor, transfer and dispose of any property or interest therein at any time required by it. The authority herein granted shall include the power to acquire such property to exchange for other property to be used for parking facility purposes. The power to acquire such property in the manner and for the purposes hereinabove provided shall be without reference to the value of the property so acquired or the purchase price paid therefor.

    (b)

    To do all things necessary to properly police and control the parking problem of the City of Orlando.

    (c)

    To conduct research of the parking problem of said city.

    (d)

    To establish a permanent coordinated system of parking facilities.

    (e)

    Any certificates of indebtedness issued for the purposes of said commission shall be issued in the name of the City of Orlando and authorized only by ordinance of said city.

    (f)

    Said commission shall have authority to adopt a seal and any documents necessary to be executed by said commission shall be signed in the name of the commission by the chairman and secretary thereof under the seal of the commission, or shall be signed by such other officials of the commission designated by a majority vote of the commission.

    (g)

    The power of eminent domain may be exercised by the City of Orlando to accomplish any and all of the purposes of said commission.

    (h)

    The powers of said commission shall be as provided in the ordinance creating the commission and in addition thereto without limitation by said ordinance said commission, when created, shall have all of the powers and authority authorized by this Act.

(Laws of Fla. ch. 26089(1949), § 3; Laws of Fla. ch. 31095(1955), § 1)