Nassau County, FL Historic Preservation: Historic-Cultural Monuments (2026)

Sec. 5-16 establishes the Amelia Island Historical Restoration and Preservation Commission as a body corporate whose purpose is to acquire, restore, preserve, maintain, reconstruct, reproduce and operate ancient or historic landmarks, sites, cemeteries, graves, military works, monuments, locations, remains and buildings of historical or antiquarian interest located in the City of Fernandina Beach, Nassau County and the surrounding territory. Under Sec. 00 surety bond. Sec. 5-18 requires an annual organizational meeting to elect a chairman, vice-chairman and secretary-treasurer, and forbids any business outside a regularly called meeting with a quorum and recorded minutes.

Sec. 5-19 makes the state treasurer the ex officio treasurer of the commission, holding its funds in a special account subject to the same rules as other state funds. Sec. 5-20 gives the commission broad corporate powers: to sue and be sued, to acquire and dispose of real and personal property, to demolish or clear buildings from slum areas for parks or low-income housing, to fix admission charges for its facilities, to contract with the City of Fernandina Beach or the county for police, fire, water and sanitation services, and to borrow money and issue revenue certificates payable from facility revenue. This is a special-act body codified into the county code rather than a standard local historic-district zoning overlay.