[Enlargement, improvement and extension.]

Tampa Related Laws, art. XXI, § 21.07

in effect

Sec. 21.07. - [Enlargement, improvement and extension.] [(A)] The City of Tampa, Florida, is hereby authorized and empowered: (a) to construct enlargements, improvements and extensions of the waterworks system of the City, either within or without or partly within and partly without the corporate limits of the City, including the acquisition of any privately owned waterworks system now serving any portion of the City and territory adjacent thereto, either by purchase or by the exercise of the power of eminent domain, under the provisions of any general or special law applicable to the City of Tampa, and such power of eminent domain may be exercised both as to those portions of said private waterworks system lying within the corporate limits of the City of Tampa, and in territory adjacent thereto outside of said corporate limits; (b) to issue negotiable water revenue bonds of the City, payable solely from water revenues, to pay the cost of such construction or acquisition; and (c) to fix and collect rates and other charges for water furnished by the waterworks system of the City including all enlargements, improvements or extensions thereof. [(B)] Water revenue bonds. The Board of Representatives [City Council] of the City of Tampa, or other board or body in which the general legislative powers of the City may at the time be vested, shall have the power and is hereby authorized at one time or from time to time to provide by resolution for the issuance of negotiable water revenue bonds of the City for the purpose of paying all or any part of the cost of constructing enlargements, improvements and extensions of the waterworks system of the City and of paying the cost of acquiring any such privately owned waterworks system. The issuance of such water revenue bonds, the maturities and other details thereof, the rights of the holders thereof and the duties of said City and of said Board [Council] in respect of the same shall be governed by the provisions of Chapter 21593, Special Laws of Florida, 1941 [division 2 of this article], as amended, insofar as the same may be applicable. [(C)] Alternative method. This Act [section] shall be deemed to provide an additional and alternative method for the doing of the things authorized hereby and shall be regarded as supplemental and additional to powers conferred by other laws, and shall not be regarded as in derogation of any powers now existing. Bonds may be issued under the provisions of this Act [section] notwithstanding and without regard to any limitation prescribed by any other law on the amount of water revenue bonds which may be issued or on the amount of indebtedness which may be incurred by the City, and bonds issued under the provisions of this Act [section] shall not be considered in computing the amount of indebtedness which the City of Tampa may incur under any other law. (Laws of Fla. 1947, Ch. 24929, §§ 1—3; Compiled Charter 1958, §§ 792—794)

Source: City of Tampa, Code of Ordinances and Charter and Related Laws (Municode Library, library.municode.com)URL: https://library.municode.com/fl/tampa/codes/code_of_ordinances?nodeId=CHRELA_PTBRELA_ARTXXIUTATSY_DIV1GE_S21.07ENIMEXFetched: 10/28/2026