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• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 369.20; Florida Aquatic Weed Control Act.
  (1) This act shall be known as the "Florida Aquatic Weed Control Act." (2) The Department of Environmental Protection shall direct the control, eradication, and ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 369.22; Nonindigenous aquatic plant control.
  (1) This section shall be known as the "Florida Nonindigenous Aquatic Plant Control Act." (2) For the purpose of this section, the following words and ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 369.25; Aquatic plants; definitions; permits; powers of department; penalties.
  (1) As used in this section, the term: (a) "Aquatic plant" means any plant, including a floating, emersed, submersed, or ditch bank species, growing in, ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 369.251; Invasive nonnative plants; prohibitions; study; removal; rules.
  (1) A person may not sell, transport, collect, cultivate, or possess any plant, including any part or seed, of the species Melaleuca quinquenervia, Schinus terebinthifolius, ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 369.252; Invasive exotic plant control on public lands.
  The department shall establish a program to: (1) Achieve eradication or maintenance control of invasive exotic plants on public lands when the scientific data indicate ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 369.255; Green utility ordinances for funding greenspace management and exotic plant control.
  (1) LEGISLATIVE FINDING.--The Legislature finds that the proper management of greenspace areas, including, without limitation, the urban forest, greenways, private and public forest preserves, ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 369.301; Short title.
  This part may be cited as the "Wekiva River Protection ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 369.303; Definitions.
  As used in this part: (1) "Council" means the East Central Florida Regional Planning Council. (2) "Counties" means Orange, Seminole, and Lake Counties. (3) "Department" ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 369.305; Review of local comprehensive plans, land development regulations, Wekiva River development permits, and amendments.
  (1) It is the intent of the Legislature that comprehensive plans and land development regulations of Orange, Lake, and Seminole Counties be revised to protect ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 369.307; Developments of regional impact in the Wekiva River Protection Area; land acquisition.
  (1) Notwithstanding the provisions of s. 380.06(15), the counties shall consider and issue the development permits applicable to a proposed development of regional ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 369.309; Airboats prohibited; exceptions; penalties.
  (1) The operation of an airboat on the Wekiva River System shall be prohibited. For the purposes of this section, an airboat is any boat, ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 369.314; Short title.
  This act may be cited as the "Wekiva Parkway Protection ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 369.315; Intent.
  (1) The Legislature finds that, in general, Florida springs whether found in urban or rural settings, public parks, or private lands, are threatened by actual ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 369.316; Wekiva Study Area.
  The Wekiva Study Area is defined to include the following land: Begin at the northwest corner of Section 6, Township 18 South, Range 28 East, ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 369.317; Wekiva Parkway.
  (1) The "Wekiva Parkway" means any limited access highway or expressway constructed between State Road 429 and Interstate 4 specifically incorporating the corridor alignment recommended ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 369.318; Studies.
  (1) The Department of Environmental Protection shall study the efficacy and applicability of water quality and wastewater treatment standards needed to achieve nitrogen reductions protective ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 369.319; Master stormwater management plan.
  Each local government within the Wekiva Study Area shall develop a master stormwater management plan that: assesses existing problems and deficiencies in the community; identifies ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 369.320; Wastewater facility plan.
  (1) Local governments within the Wekiva Study Area shall develop a wastewater facility plan for joint planning areas and utility service areas where central wastewater ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 369.321; Comprehensive plan amendments.
  Except as otherwise expressly provided, by January 1, 2006, each local government within the Wekiva Study Area shall amend its local government comprehensive plan to ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 369.322; Coordination of land use and water supply within the Wekiva Study Area.
  (1) In their review of local government comprehensive plan amendments for property located within the Wekiva Study Area pursuant to s. 163.3184, the Department ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 369.323; Compliance.
  Comprehensive plans and plan amendments adopted by the local governments within the Wekiva Study Area to implement this act shall be reviewed for compliance by ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 369.324; Wekiva River Basin Commission.
  (1) The Wekiva River Basin Commission is created to monitor and ensure the implementation of the recommendations of the Wekiva River Basin Coordinating Committee for ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 370.01; Definitions.
  In construing these statutes, where the context does not clearly indicate otherwise, the word, phrase, or term: (1) "Authorization" means a number issued by the ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 370.021; Administration; rules, publications, records; penalties; injunctions.
  (1) BASE PENALTIES.--Unless otherwise provided by law, any person, firm, or corporation who violates any provision of this chapter, or any rule of the ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 370.023; Administration of commission grant programs.
  (1) The Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is authorized to establish grant programs that are consistent with statutory authority and legislative appropriations. The commission is ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 370.025; Marine fisheries; policy and standards.
  (1) The Legislature hereby declares the policy of the state to be management and preservation of its renewable marine fishery resources, based upon the best ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 370.027; Rulemaking authority with respect to marine life.
  Marine aquaculture producers shall be regulated by the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. The Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission shall adopt rules, by March ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 370.028; Enforcement of commission rules; penalties for violation of rule.
  Rules of the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission shall be enforced by any law enforcement officer certified pursuant to s. 943.13. Except as provided ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 370.03; Water bottoms.
  (1) OWNERSHIP.--All beds and bottoms of navigable rivers, bayous, lagoons, lakes, bays, sounds, inlets, oceans, gulfs and other bodies of water within the jurisdiction ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 370.06; Licenses.
  (1) LICENSE ON PURSE SEINES.--There is levied, in addition to any other taxes thereon, an annual license tax of $25 upon each purse seine ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 370.0603; Marine Resources Conservation Trust Fund; purposes.
  (1) The Marine Resources Conservation Trust Fund within the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission shall serve as a broad-based depository for funds from various ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 370.0607; Marine information system.
  The Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission shall establish by rule a marine information system in conjunction with the licensing program to gather marine fisheries ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 370.06091; Memorandum of agreement relating to Fish and Wildlife Research Institute.
  A memorandum of agreement will be developed between the Department of Environmental Protection and the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission which will detail the responsibilities ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 370.06092; Harmful-Algal-Bloom Task Force.
  (1) There is established a Harmful-Algal-Bloom Task Force for the purpose of determining research, monitoring, control, and mitigation strategies for red tide and ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 370.06093; Harmful-algal-bloom program; implementation; goals; funding.
  (1)(a) The Fish and Wildlife Research Institute shall implement a program designed to increase the knowledge of factors that control harmful algal blooms, including ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 370.061; Confiscation, seizure, and forfeiture of property and products.
  (1) SEIZURE, FORFEITURE; PROCEDURE.--Nothing in this subsection affects the commission's authority to confiscate in any case illegal saltwater products, illegally taken saltwater products, ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 370.063; Special recreational spiny lobster license.
  There is created a special recreational spiny lobster license, to be issued to qualified persons as provided by this section for the recreational harvest of ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 370.07; Wholesale and retail saltwater products dealers; regulation.
  (1) DEFINITIONS; LICENSES AUTHORIZED.--Annual license or privilege taxes are hereby levied and imposed upon dealers in the state in saltwater products. It is unlawful ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 370.08; Fishers and equipment; regulation.
  (1) ILLEGAL POSSESSION OF SEINES AND NETS.--No person may have in his or her custody or possession in any county of this state any ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 370.081; Illegal importation or possession of nonindigenous marine plants and animals; rules and regulations.
  (1) It is unlawful to import or possess any marine plant or marine animal, not indigenous to the state, which, due to the stimulating effect ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 370.0821; St. Johns County; use of nets.
  (1) In addition to all other restrictions imposed by this section, the use of any type of net or seine, other than a common cast ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 370.09; Industrial hazards; oil deposits discharge prohibited.
  It is unlawful for any person to discharge, flow, drain or deposit oil or to suffer or permit oil to be discharged, flowed, drained or ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 370.092; Carriage of proscribed nets across Florida waters.
  (1) This section applies to all vessels containing or otherwise transporting in or on Florida waters any gill net or other entangling net and to ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 370.093; Illegal use of nets.
  (1) It is unlawful to take or harvest, or to attempt to take or harvest, any marine life in Florida waters with any net that ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 370.10; Crustacea, marine animals, fish; regulations; general provisions.
  (1) OWNERSHIP OF FISH, SPONGES, ETC.--All fish, shellfish, sponges, oysters, clams, and crustacea found within the rivers, creeks, canals, lakes, bayous, lagoons, bays, sounds, ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 370.101; Saltwater fish; regulations.
  (1) The Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is authorized to establish weight equivalencies when minimum lengths of saltwater fish are established by law, in those ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 370.102; State preemption of power to regulate.
  The power to regulate the taking or possession of saltwater fish, as defined in s. 370.01, is expressly reserved to the state. This section ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 370.103; Agreements with Federal Government for the preservation of saltwater fisheries; authority of commission.
  The Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is authorized and empowered to enter into cooperative agreements with the Federal Government or agencies thereof for the purpose ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 370.11; Fish; regulation.
  (1) CATCHING FOOD FISH FOR PURPOSES OF MAKING OIL PROHIBITED.--No person shall take any food fish from the waters under the jurisdiction of the ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 370.1103; Land-based commercial and recreational fishing activities; legislative findings and purpose; definitions; legal protection; local ordinances; prohibited activity.
  (1) LEGISLATIVE FINDINGS AND PURPOSE.--The Legislature finds that commercial and recreational fishing constitute activities of statewide importance and that the continuation of commercial and ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 370.1105; Saltwater finfish; fishing traps regulated.
  (1) It is unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation to set, lay, place, or otherwise attempt to fish for saltwater finfish with any trap ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 370.1107; Definition; possession of certain licensed traps prohibited; penalties; exceptions; consent.
  (1) As used in this section, the term "licensed saltwater fisheries trap" means any trap required to be licensed by the Fish and Wildlife Conservation ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 370.1121; Bonefish; regulation.
  (1) It is unlawful to take or attempt to take any bonefish (Albula vulpes) from any of the waters of the state for the purpose ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 370.12; Marine animals; regulation.
  (1) PROTECTION OF MARINE TURTLES.-- (a) This subsection may be cited as the "Marine Turtle Protection Act." (b) The Legislature intends, pursuant to the provisions ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 370.1201; Manatee protection; intent; conduct of studies; initiatives and plans.
  It is the intent of the Legislature that the commission request the necessary funding and staffing through a general revenue budget request to ensure that ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 370.1202; Enhanced manatee protection study.
  (1) The Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission shall implement and administer an enhanced manatee protection study designed to increase knowledge of the factors that determine ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 370.13; Stone crab; regulation.
  (1) FEES AND EQUITABLE RENT.-- (a) Endorsement fee.--The fee for a stone crab endorsement for the taking of stone crabs, as required by rule ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 370.135; Blue crab; regulation.
  (1)(a) No commercial harvester shall transport on the water, fish with or cause to be fished with, set, or place any trap designed for ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 370.14; Spiny lobster; regulation.
  (1) It is the intent of the Legislature to maintain the spiny lobster industry for the economy of the state and to conserve the stocks ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 370.1405; Crawfish reports by dealers during closed season required.
  (1) Within 3 days after the commencement of the closed season for the taking of saltwater crawfish, each and every seafood dealer, either retail or ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 370.142; Spiny lobster trap certificate program.
  (1) INTENT.--Due to rapid growth, the spiny lobster fishery is experiencing increased congestion and conflict on the water, excessive mortality of undersized lobsters, a ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 370.143; Retrieval of lobster, crawfish, and stone crab traps during closed season; commission authority; fees.
  (1) The Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is authorized to implement a trap retrieval program for retrieval of lobster, crawfish, and stone crab traps remaining ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 370.15; Shrimp; regulation.
  (1) GENERAL AUTHORITY; CONSERVATION.--The commission has authority to adopt rules pursuant to ss. 120.536(1) and 120.54 to implement the provisions of ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 370.151; Tortugas shrimp beds; penalties.
  (1) It is the intention of the Legislature that action should be taken to conserve the supply of shrimp in the large shrimp beds which ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 370.153; Regulation of shrimp fishing; Clay, Duval, Nassau, Putnam, Flagler, and St. Johns Counties.
  (1) DEFINITIONS.--When used in this section, unless the context clearly requires otherwise: (a) "Inland waters" means all creeks, rivers, bayous, bays, inlets, and canals. (...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 370.1535; Regulation of shrimp fishing in Tampa Bay; licensing requirements.
  (1) No person shall operate as a dead shrimp producer in any waters of Tampa Bay unless such person has procured from the Fish and ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 370.154; Shrimp regulations; closed areas; suspension of license, etc.
  Any person convicted of taking shrimp in a closed area who is punishable under s. 370.15(5) shall, in addition to the penalties set ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 370.155; Regulation of shrimp fishing in a designated area.
  It shall be unlawful to catch or take, or attempt to catch or take, with nets in excess of 18 feet on the cork line, ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 370.16; Noncultured shellfish harvesting.
  (1) PROTECTION OF SHELLFISH AQUACULTURE PRODUCTS.-- (a) The Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission shall assist in protecting shellfish aquaculture products produced on leased or granted ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 370.1601; Lease of state-owned water bottoms for growing oysters and clams.
  Effective July 1, 1988, persons wishing to lease state-owned water bottoms for the purpose of growing oysters and clams shall no longer be required ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 370.1603; Oysters produced in and outside state; labeling; tracing; rules.
  (1) No wholesale or retail dealer, as defined in s. 370.07(1), shall sell any oysters produced outside this state unless they are labeled ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 370.161; Oyster bottom land grants made pursuant to ch. 3293.
  (1) All grants previously issued by the several boards of county commissioners under the authority of chapter 3293, 1881, Laws of Florida, shall be subject ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 370.17; Sponges; regulation.
  (1) NONRESIDENT LICENSE; SPONGE FISHING.--Any nonresident of the state, who desires to engage in the business or occupation of sponge fishing, either for that ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 370.172; Spearfishing; definition; limitations; penalty.
  (1) For the purposes of this section, "spearfishing" means the taking of any saltwater fish through the instrumentality of a spear, gig, or lance operated ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 370.18; Compacts and agreements; generally.
  The Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission may enter into agreements of reciprocity with the fish commissioners or other departments or other proper officials of other ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 370.19; Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Compact; implementing legislation.
  (1) FORM.--The Governor of this state is hereby authorized and directed to execute a compact on behalf of the State of Florida with any ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 370.20; Gulf States Marine Fisheries Compact; implementing legislation.
  (1) FORM.--The Governor of this state is hereby authorized and directed to execute the compact on behalf of the State of Florida with any ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 370.21; Florida Territorial Waters Act; alien-owned commercial fishing vessels; prohibited acts; enforcement.
  (1) This act may be known and cited as the "Florida Territorial Waters Act." (2) It is the purpose of this act to exercise and ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 370.22; Venue for proceedings against citizens and residents charged with violations outside state boundaries.
  (1) In any proceeding against a resident or citizen of the state to enforce the provisions of this chapter with respect to alleged violations occurring ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 370.23; Sale of unlawfully landed product; jurisdiction.
  It is unlawful for any person to bring to port, sell, or offer to sell any saltwater life landed in violation of the provisions of ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 370.25; Artificial reef program; grants and financial and technical assistance to local governments.
  (1) An artificial reef program is created within the commission to enhance saltwater opportunities and to promote proper management of fisheries resources associated with artificial ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 370.26; Aquaculture definitions; marine aquaculture products, producers, and facilities.
  (1) As used in this section, the term: (a) "Marine aquaculture facility" means a facility built and operated for the purpose of producing marine aquaculture ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 370.27; State employment; priority consideration for qualified displaced employees of the saltwater fishing industry.
  All state agencies must give priority consideration to any job applicant who is able to document the loss of full-time employment in the commercial ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 370.28; Enterprise zone designation; communities adversely impacted by net limitations.
  (1) The Office of Tourism, Trade, and Economic Development is directed to identify communities suffering adverse impacts from the adoption of the constitutional amendment limiting ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 370.31; Commercial production of sturgeon.
  (1) INTENT.--The Legislature finds and declares that there is a need to encourage the continuation and advancement of work being done on aquaculture sturgeon ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.001; Definitions.
  In construing these statutes, when applied to saltwater and freshwater fish, shellfish, crustacea, sponges, wild birds, and wild animals, where the context permits, the word, ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.002; Right to hunt and fish.
  The Legislature recognizes that hunting, fishing, and the taking of game are a valued part of the cultural heritage of Florida and should be forever ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.0025; No net loss of hunting lands.
  (1) As used in this section, the term: (a) "Commission" means the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. (b) "Commission-managed lands" means those lands owned ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.01; Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
  (1) The Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission shall consist of seven members who shall be appointed by the Governor, subject to confirmation by the Senate, ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.021; Powers, duties, and authority of commission; rules, regulations, and orders.
  The Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission may exercise the powers, duties, and authority granted by s. 9, Art. IV of the Constitution of Florida, and ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.0215; Citizen support organizations; use of state property; audit.
  (1) The Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission may authorize the establishment of citizen support organizations to provide assistance, funding, and promotional support for the programs ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.0222; Private publication agreements; advertising; costs of production.
  (1) The Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission may enter into agreements to secure the private publication of public information brochures, pamphlets, audiotapes, videotapes, and related ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.0225; Freshwater organisms.
  (1) The Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, in order to manage the promotion, marketing, and quality control of all freshwater organisms produced in Florida and ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.023; J. W. Corbett and Cecil M. Webb Wildlife Management Areas.
  (1) The Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission of this state is neither authorized nor empowered to do the following as to the J. W. Corbett ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.025; Everglades recreational sites; definitions.
  (1) PURPOSE.--It is the intent of the Legislature to provide for the development and management of recreational sites in the water conservation areas of ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.03; Headquarters of commission.
  The Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is located at the state capital, and, when suitable adequate office space cannot be provided in the State Capitol ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.05; Duties of executive director.
  The executive director of the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission shall: (1) Keep full and correct minutes of the proceedings of said commission at its ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.07; Police powers of commission and its agents.
  (1) The Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, the executive director and the executive director's assistants designated by her or him, and each wildlife officer ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.071; Powers of arrest by agents of Department of Environmental Protection or Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
  Any certified law enforcement officer of the Department of Environmental Protection or the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, upon receiving information, relayed to her or ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.072; Endangered and Threatened Species Act.
  (1) SHORT TITLE.--This section may be cited as the "Florida Endangered and Threatened Species Act." (2) DECLARATION OF POLICY.--The Legislature recognizes that the ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.0725; Killing or wounding of any species designated as endangered, threatened, or of special concern; criminal penalties.
  It is unlawful for a person to intentionally kill or wound any fish or wildlife of a species designated by the Fish and Wildlife Conservation ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.073; Endangered and Threatened Species Reward Program.
  (1) There is established within the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission the Endangered and Threatened Species Reward Program, to be funded from the Nongame Wildlife ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.074; Fish and Wildlife Habitat Program.
  (1)(a) There is established within the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission the Fish and Wildlife Habitat Program for the purpose of acquiring, assisting other ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.09; State Game Trust Fund.
  The funds resulting from the operation of the commission and from the administration of the laws and regulations pertaining to birds, game, fur-bearing animals, ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.101; Administrative Trust Fund.
  (1) The Administrative Trust Fund is created within the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. (2) The fund is established for use as a depository for ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.102; Federal Grants Trust Fund.
  (1) The Federal Grants Trust Fund is created within the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. (2) The fund is established for use as a depository ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.103; Grants and Donations Trust Fund.
  (1) The Grants and Donations Trust Fund is created within the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. (2) The fund is established for use as a ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.105; Lifetime Fish and Wildlife Trust Fund.
  (1) There is established within the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission the Lifetime Fish and Wildlife Trust Fund to be used for the purpose of ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.106; Dedicated License Trust Fund.
  (1) There is established within the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission the Dedicated License Trust Fund. The fund shall be credited with moneys collected pursuant ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.107; Federal Law Enforcement Trust Fund.
  (1) The Federal Law Enforcement Trust Fund is created within the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. The commission may deposit into the trust fund receipts ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.12; Acquisition of state game lands.
  The Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, with the approval of the Governor, may acquire, in the name of the state, lands and waters suitable for ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.121; Control and management of state game lands.
  (1) The Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is authorized to make, adopt, promulgate, amend, repeal, and enforce all reasonable rules and regulations necessary for the ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.127; Conservation and Recreation Lands Program Trust Fund of the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
  (1) There is created a Conservation and Recreation Lands Program Trust Fund within the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. The purpose of the trust fund ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.16; Private game preserves and farms; penalty.
  (1) Any person owning land in this state may establish, maintain, and operate within the boundaries thereof, a private preserve and farm, not exceeding an ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.19; Preserves, refuges, etc., not tax exempt.
  No property acquired by purchase, lease, gift, contract to purchase or lease, or otherwise, under the provisions of this chapter, as state game lands, or ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.26; Imported fish.
  (1) No person shall import into the state or place in any of the fresh waters of the state any freshwater fish of any species ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.265; Regulation of foreign animals.
  (1) It is unlawful to import for sale or use, or to release within this state, any species of the animal kingdom not indigenous to ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.27; Silver Springs and Rainbow Springs, etc., closed to all fishing.
  It is unlawful for any person to take any fish within Marion County, from the waters of Rainbow Springs and Rainbow River (formerly known as ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.551; Competitive bidding for certain sale of licenses and permits and the issuance of authorization numbers.
  The commission is authorized to establish the following, using competitive bidding procedures: (1) A process and a vendor fee for the sale of licenses and ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.561; Recreational licenses, permits, and authorization numbers to take wild animal life, freshwater aquatic life, and marine life; issuance; costs; reporting.
  (1) This section applies to all recreational licenses and permits and to any authorization numbers issued by the commission for the use of such recreational ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.562; Recreational licenses and permits; exemptions from fees and requirements.
  (1) Hunting, freshwater fishing, and saltwater fishing licenses and permits shall be issued without fee to any resident who is certified or determined: (a) To ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.57; Recreational licenses, permits, and authorization numbers; fees established.
  (1) LICENSE, PERMIT, OR AUTHORIZATION NUMBER REQUIRED.--Except as provided in s. 372.562, no person shall take game, freshwater or saltwater fish, or fur-...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.5701; Deposit of license fees; allocation of federal funds.
  (1) Except as provided in ss. 372.105 and 372.106, all saltwater license and permit fees collected pursuant to s. 372.57 shall be ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.5702; Expenditure of funds.
  Any moneys available pursuant to s. 372.5701(1)(c) may be expended by the commission within Florida through grants and contracts for research with ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.5704; Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission license program for tarpon; fees; penalties.
  (1) The commission shall establish a license program for the purpose of issuing tags to individuals desiring to harvest tarpon (megalops atlantica) from the waters ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.5705; Fish pond license.
  The owner of a fish pond of more than 20 acres which is located entirely within her or his property may obtain a license from ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.571; Expiration of licenses and permits.
  Each license or permit issued under this chapter must be dated when issued. Each license or permit issued under this chapter remains valid for 12 ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.5711; Review of fees for licenses and permits; review of exemptions.
  The fees for licenses and permits established under this chapter, and exemptions thereto, shall be reviewed by the Legislature during its regular session every 5 ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.5712; Florida waterfowl permit revenues.
  (1) The commission shall expend the revenues generated from the sale of the Florida waterfowl permit as provided in s. 372.57(8)(a) or ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.5714; Waterfowl Advisory Council.
  (1) There is created a Waterfowl Advisory Council consisting of three members, one appointed by the Governor, one appointed by the Speaker of the House ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.5715; Florida wild turkey permit revenues.
  (1) The commission shall expend the revenues generated from the sale of the turkey permit as provided for in s. 372.57(8)(b) or ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.5717; Hunter safety course; requirements; penalty.
  (1) This section may be cited as the Senator Joe Carlucci Hunter Safety Act. (2)(a) Except as provided in paragraph (b), a person born ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.5718; Hunter safety course for juveniles.
  The Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission shall develop a hunter safety course for juveniles who are at least 5 years of age but less than ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.573; Management area permit revenues.
  The commission shall expend the revenue generated from the sale of the management area permit as provided for in s. 372.57(8)(g) or ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.574; Appointment of subagents for the sale of hunting, fishing, and trapping licenses and permits.
  (1) Subagents shall serve at the pleasure of the commission. The commission may establish, by rule, procedures for the selection and appointment of subagents. The ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.58; False statement in application for license or permit.
  Any person who swears or affirms to any false statement in any application for license or permit provided by this chapter, is guilty of violating ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.581; Entering false information on licenses or permits.
  Whoever knowingly and willfully enters false information on, or allows or causes false information to be entered on or shown upon any license or permit ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.59; License and permit not transferable.
  A person may not alter or change in any manner, or loan or transfer to another, any license or permit issued pursuant to the provisions ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.65; Freshwater fish dealer's license.
  (1) No person shall engage in the business of taking for sale or selling any frogs or freshwater fish, including live bait, of any species ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.651; Haul seine and trawl permits; freshwater lakes in excess of 500 square miles; fees.
  (1) The Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is authorized to issue permits for each haul seine or trawl used in freshwater lakes in the state ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.653; Required tagging of fish; lakes in excess of 500 square miles; tag fee; game fish taken in lakes of 500 square miles or less.
  (1)(a) No game fish taken from, or caught in, a lake in this state the area of which is in excess of 500 square ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.66; License required for fur and hide dealers.
  (1) It is unlawful for any person to engage in the business of a dealer or buyer in alligator skins or green or dried furs ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.661; Private hunting preserve license fees; exception.
  (1) Any person who operates a private hunting preserve commercially or otherwise shall be required to pay a license fee of $70 for each such ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.662; Unlawful sale, possession, or transporting of alligators or alligator skins.
  Whenever the sale, possession, or transporting of alligators or alligator skins is prohibited by any law of this state, or by the rules, regulations, or ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.663; Illegal killing, possessing, or capturing of alligators or other crocodilia or eggs; confiscation of equipment.
  (1) It is unlawful to intentionally kill, injure, possess, or capture, or attempt to kill, injure, possess, or capture, an alligator or other crocodilian, or ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.664; Prima facie evidence of intent to violate laws protecting alligators.
  Except as otherwise provided by rule of the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission for the purpose of the limited collection of alligators in designated areas, ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.6645; Unlawful to sell alligator products; penalty.
  (1) It is unlawful for any person to sell any alligator product manufactured in the form of a stuffed baby alligator or other baby crocodilia. (...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.665; Word "alligator" or "gator" not to be used in certain sales.
  It is unlawful for any person to use the word "gator" or "alligator" in connection with the sale of any product derived or made from ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.667; Feeding or enticement of alligators or crocodiles unlawful; penalty.
  (1) No person shall intentionally feed, or entice with feed, any wild American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) or American crocodile (Crocodylus acutus). However, the provisions of ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.6671; Alligator trapping program; definitions.
  Unless otherwise provided by a specific section or the context otherwise requires, as used in ss. 372.6671-372.6674, the following definitions shall apply: (...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.6672; Alligator management and trapping program implementation; commission authority.
  (1) In any alligator management and trapping program that the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission shall establish, the commission shall have the authority to adopt ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.6673; Taking and possession of alligators; trapping licenses; fees.
  (1)(a) No person shall take or possess any alligator or the eggs thereof without having first obtained from the commission a trapping license and ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.6674; Required tagging of alligators and hides; fees; revenues.
  The tags provided in this section shall be required in addition to any license required under s. 372.6673. (1) No person shall take any ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.6678; Alligator study requirements.
  The commission shall conduct studies of all areas of the state which it intends to open to alligator collection permits. The study shall include individual ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.671; Florida or wild panther; killing prohibited; penalty.
  (1) It is unlawful for a person to kill a member of the Florida "endangered species," as defined in s. 372.072(3), known as ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.672; Florida Panther Research and Management Trust Fund.
  (1) There is established within the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission the Florida Panther Research and Management Trust Fund to be used exclusively for the ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.673; Florida Panther Technical Advisory Council.
  (1) The Florida Panther Technical Advisory Council is established within the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. The council shall be appointed by the Governor and ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.70; Prosecutions; state attorney to represent state.
  (1) The prosecuting officers of the several courts of criminal jurisdiction of this state shall investigate and prosecute all violations of the laws relating to ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.701; Arrest by officers of the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission; recognizance; cash bond; citation.
  (1) In all cases of arrest by officers of the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and the Department of Environmental Protection, the person arrested shall ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.7015; Illegal killing, taking, possessing, or selling wildlife or game; fines; disposition of fines.
  In addition to any other penalty provided by law, any person who violates the criminal provisions of this chapter and rules adopted pursuant to this ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.7016; Voluntary Authorized Hunter Identification Program.
  (1) There is created the "Voluntary Authorized Hunter Identification Program" to assist landowners and law enforcement officials in better controlling trespass and illegal or unauthorized ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.705; Harassment of hunters, trappers, or fishers.
  (1) A person may not intentionally, within a publicly or privately owned wildlife management or fish management area or on any state-owned water body: (...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.72; Disposition of fines, penalties, and forfeitures.
  (1) All moneys collected from fines, penalties, proceeds from unclaimed bonds, or forfeitures of bail of persons convicted under this chapter shall be deposited in ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.73; Confiscation and disposition of illegally taken game.
  All game and freshwater fish seized under the authority of this chapter shall, upon conviction of the offender or sooner if the court so orders, ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.74; Cooperative agreements with U. S. Forest Service; penalty.
  The Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is authorized and empowered: (1) To enter into cooperative agreements with the United States Forest Service for the development ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.75; Use of explosives and other substances prohibited.
  No person may throw or place, or cause to be thrown or placed, any dynamite, lyddite, gunpowder, cannon cracker, acids, filtration discharge, debris from mines, ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.76; Search and seizure authorized and limited.
  The Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and its conservation officers shall have authority when they have reasonable and probable cause to believe that the provisions ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.761; Issuance of warrant for search of private dwelling.
  (1) A search warrant may be issued on application by a commissioned officer of the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission to search any private dwelling ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.77; Assent to provisions of Act of Congress of September 2, 1937.
  (1) The state hereby assents to the provisions of the Act of Congress entitled "An Act to provide that the United States shall aid the ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.7701; Assent to federal acts.
  (1) The state hereby assents to the provisions of the Federal Aid in Fish Restoration Act of August 9, 1950, as amended. The Fish and ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.771; Federal conservation of fish and wildlife; limited jurisdiction.
  (1) Consent of the State of Florida is hereby given, to the United States for acquisition of lands, waters, or lands and waters or interests ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.83; Penalties and violations; civil penalties for noncriminal infractions; criminal penalties; suspension and forfeiture of licenses and permits.
  (1)(a) LEVEL ONE VIOLATIONS.--A person commits a Level One violation if he or she violates any of the following provisions: 1. Rules or ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.831; Wildlife Violator Compact Act.
  The Wildlife Violator Compact is created and entered into with all other jurisdictions legally joining therein in the form substantially as follows: ARTICLE I Findings ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.8311; Compact licensing and enforcement authority; administrative review.
  (1) LICENSING AND ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITY.--For purposes of this act and the interstate Wildlife Violator Compact, the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is the licensing ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.84; Forfeiture or denial of licenses and permits.
  Any person convicted as aforesaid shall forfeit to the state any license or permit that may have been issued to her or him under the ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.85; Contaminating fresh waters.
  (1) It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, firm or corporation to cause any dyestuff, coal tar, oil, sawdust, poison, or deleterious substances ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.86; Possessing, exhibiting poisonous or venomous reptile; license required.
  No person, firm, or corporation shall keep, possess, or exhibit any poisonous or venomous reptile without first having obtained a special permit or license therefor ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.87; License fee; renewal, revocation.
  The Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is hereby authorized and empowered to issue a license or permit for the keeping, possessing, or exhibiting of poisonous ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.88; Bond required, amount.
  No person, party, firm, or corporation shall exhibit to the public either with or without charge, or admission fee any poisonous or venomous reptile without ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.89; Safe housing required.
  All persons, firms, or corporations licensed under this law to keep, possess, or exhibit poisonous or venomous reptiles shall provide safe, secure, and proper housing ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.90; Transportation.
  Poisonous or venomous reptiles may be transported only in the following fashion: The reptile, or reptiles shall be placed in a stout closely woven cloth ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.901; Inspection.
  Poisonous or venomous reptiles, held in captivity, shall be subject to inspection by an inspecting officer from the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. The inspecting ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.91; Who may open cages, pits, or other containers housing poisonous or venomous reptiles.
  No person except the licensee or her or his authorized employee shall open any cage, pit, or other container which contains poisonous or venomous ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.911; Rewards.
  The Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is authorized to offer rewards in amounts of up to $500 to any person furnishing information leading to the ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.92; Rules and regulations.
  The Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission may prescribe such other rules and regulations as it may deem necessary to prevent the escape of poisonous and ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.921; Exhibition or sale of wildlife.
  (1) In order to provide humane treatment and sanitary surroundings for wild animals kept in captivity, no person, firm, corporation, or association shall have, or ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.922; Personal possession of wildlife.
  (1) It is unlawful for any person or persons to possess any wildlife as defined in this act, whether indigenous to Florida or not, until ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.935; Captive wildlife; penalties for violations.
  (1)(a) NONCRIMINAL INFRACTIONS.--A person commits a noncriminal infraction if he or she violates any of the following provisions: 1. Rules or orders of ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.97; Jim Woodruff Dam; reciprocity agreements.
  The Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission of the state is hereby authorized to enter into an agreement of the reciprocity with the game and fish ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.971; St. Marys River; reciprocity agreements.
  The Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission of the state is hereby authorized to enter into an agreement of reciprocity with the game and fish commissioner ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.98; Possession of nutria; license; inspection; penalty for violation.
  (1) No person shall release, permit to be released, or be responsible for the release of, within the state, any animal of the species myocastor ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.981; Regulation of importation of caiman.
  The Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission shall promulgate regulations to control the importation of ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.988; Required clothing for persons hunting deer.
  It is a Level One violation under s. 372.83 for any person to hunt deer, or for any person to accompany another person hunting ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.99; Illegal taking and possession of deer and wild turkey; evidence; penalty.
  (1) Whoever takes or kills any deer or wild turkey, or possesses a freshly killed deer or wild turkey, during the closed season prescribed by ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.9901; Seizure of illegal hunting devices; disposition; notice; forfeiture.
  In order to protect the state's wildlife resources, any vehicle, vessel, animal, gun, light, or other hunting device used or attempted to be used ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.99021; Disposition of illegal fishing devices; exercise of police power.
  (1) In all cases of arrest and conviction for use of illegal nets or traps or fishing devices, as provided in this chapter, such illegal ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.99022; Illegal molestation of or theft from freshwater fishing gear.
  (1)(a) Any person, firm, or corporation that willfully molests any authorized and lawfully permitted freshwater fishing gear belonging to another without the express written ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.9903; Illegal possession or transportation of freshwater game fish in commercial quantities; penalty.
  (1) Whoever possesses, moves, or transports any black bass, bream, speckled perch, or other freshwater game fish in commercial quantities in violation of law or ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.9904; Seizure of illegal transportation devices; disposition; appraisal; forfeiture.
  (1) Any vehicle, vessel, or other transportation device used in the commission of the offense prohibited by s. 372.9903, except a vehicle, vessel, or ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.9905; Applicability of ss. 372.99, 372.9901, 372.9903, and 372.9904.
  The provisions of ss. 372.99, 372.9901, 372.9903, and 372.9904 relating to seizure and forfeiture of animals or of vehicles, vessels, or ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.991; Nongame Wildlife Trust Fund.
  (1) The Legislature recognizes the value of maintaining ecologically healthy and stable populations of a wide diversity of fish and wildlife species and recognizes the ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.992; Nongame Wildlife Advisory Council.
  (1) There is created the Nongame Wildlife Advisory Council, which shall consist of the following 11 members appointed by the Governor: one representative each from ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.993; Land-based commercial and recreational fishing activities; legislative findings and purpose; definitions; legal protection; local ordinances; prohibited activity.
  (1) LEGISLATIVE FINDINGS AND PURPOSE.--The Legislature finds that commercial and recreational fishing constitute activities of statewide importance and that the continuation of commercial and ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 372.995; Release of balloons.
  (1) The Legislature finds that the release into the atmosphere of large numbers of balloons inflated with lighter-than-air gases poses a danger and ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.012; Topographic mapping.
  (1) In order to accelerate topographic mapping in this state by the United States Geological Survey, the Department of Transportation is hereby authorized and directed ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.013; Short title.
  This chapter shall be known as the "Florida Water Resources Act of ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.016; Declaration of policy.
  (1) The waters in the state are among its basic resources. Such waters have not heretofore been conserved or fully controlled so as to realize ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.019; Definitions.
  When appearing in this chapter or in any rule, regulation, or order adopted pursuant thereto, the term: (1) "Alternative water supplies" means salt water; brackish ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.023; Scope and application.
  (1) All waters in the state are subject to regulation under the provisions of this chapter unless specifically exempted by general or special law. (2) ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.026; General powers and duties of the department.
  The department, or its successor agency, shall be responsible for the administration of this chapter at the state level. However, it is the policy of ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.033; Saltwater barrier line.
  (1) The department may, at the request of the board of county commissioners of any county, at the request of the governing board of any ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.036; Florida water plan; district water management plans.
  (1) FLORIDA WATER PLAN.--In cooperation with the water management districts, regional water supply authorities, and others, the department shall develop the Florida water plan. ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.0361; Regional water supply planning.
  (1) The governing board of each water management district shall conduct water supply planning for any water supply planning region within the district identified in ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.0391; Technical assistance to local governments.
  (1) The water management districts shall assist local governments in the development and future revision of local government comprehensive plan elements or public facilities report ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.0397; Floridan and Biscayne aquifers; designation of prime groundwater recharge areas.
  Upon preparation of an inventory of prime groundwater recharge areas for the Floridan or Biscayne aquifers, but prior to adoption by the governing board, the ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.042; Minimum flows and levels.
  (1) Within each section, or the water management district as a whole, the department or the governing board shall establish the following: (a) Minimum flow ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.0421; Establishment and implementation of minimum flows and levels.
  (1) ESTABLISHMENT.-- (a) Considerations.--When establishing minimum flows and levels pursuant to s. 373.042, the department or governing board shall consider changes and structural ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.043; Adoption and enforcement of rules by the department.
  The department has authority to adopt rules pursuant to ss. 120.536(1) and 120.54 to implement the provisions of this ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.044; Rules; enforcement; availability of personnel rules.
  The governing board of the district is authorized to adopt rules pursuant to ss. 120.536(1) and 120.54 to implement the provisions of ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.046; Interagency agreements.
  (1) The department may enter into interagency agreements with or among any other state agencies conducting programs or exercising powers related to or affecting the ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.047; Cooperation between districts.
  Any water management district is authorized to advise flood control districts or other water management districts of the state in processing matters with the federal ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.056; State agencies, counties, drainage districts, municipalities, or governmental agencies or public corporations authorized to convey or receive land from water management districts.
  (1)(a) When it is found to be in the public interest and for the public convenience and welfare, and for the public benefit, and ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.069; Creation of water management districts.
  (1) At 11:59 p.m. on December 31, 1976, the state shall be divided into the following water management districts: (a) Northwest Florida Water ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.0691; Transfer of areas.
  (1) At the time of change of boundaries of the respective districts under s. 373.069(3), 1976 Supplement to Florida Statutes 1975, all contractual ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.0693; Basins; basin boards.
  (1)(a) Any areas within a district may be designated by the district governing board as subdistricts or basins. The designations of such basins shall ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.0695; Duties of basin boards; authorized expenditures.
  (1) The various boards shall be responsible for discharging the following described functions in their respective basins: (a) The preparation of engineering plans for development ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.0697; Basin taxes.
  The respective basins may, pursuant to s. 9(b), Art. VII of the State Constitution, by resolution request the governing board of the district to ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.0698; Creation and operation of basin boards; other laws superseded.
  The provisions of ss. 373.0693-373.0697 shall govern the creation and operation of basin boards within any water management district, the provisions of ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.073; Governing board.
  (1)(a) The governing board of each water management district shall be composed of 9 members who shall reside within the district, except that the ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.076; Vacancies in the governing board; removal from office.
  (1) Vacancies occurring in the governing board of a district prior to the expiration of the affected term shall be filled for the unexpired term. (...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.079; Members of governing board; oath of office; staff.
  (1) Each member of the governing board of the district, before entering upon his or her official duties, shall take and subscribe to an oath, ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.0795; Severance pay for water management district employees.
  (1) As used in this section, "severance pay" means the actual or constructive compensation, in salary, benefits, or perquisites, of an officer or employee of ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.083; General powers and duties of the governing board.
  In addition to other powers and duties allowed it by law, the governing board is authorized to: (1) Contract with public agencies, private corporations, or ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.0831; Water resource development; water supply development.
  (1) The Legislature finds that: (a) The proper role of the water management districts in water supply is primarily planning and water resource development, but ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.084; District works, operation by other governmental agencies.
  The district may permit governing bodies of water conservation districts, drainage and other improvement districts, and federal, state and local governments, authorities or agencies to ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.085; Use of works or land by other districts or private persons.
  (1) The governing board has authority to prescribe the manner in which local works provided by other districts or by private persons will connect with ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.086; Providing for district works.
  (1) In order to carry out the works for the district, and for effectuating the purposes of this chapter, the governing board is authorized to ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.087; District works using aquifer for storage and supply.
  The governing board may establish works of the district for the purpose of introducing water into, or drawing water from, the underlying aquifer for storage ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.088; Application fees for certain real estate transactions.
  The governing board may adopt rules to provide for the assessment and collection of reasonable fees for the processing of applications for sale, easement, lease, ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.089; Sale or exchange of lands, or interests or rights in lands.
  The governing board of the district may sell lands, or interests or rights in lands, to which the district has acquired title or to which ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.093; Lease of lands or interest in land and personal property.
  The governing board of the district may lease any lands or interest in land, including but not limited to oil and mineral rights, to which ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.096; Releases.
  The governing board of the district may release any easement, reservation or right-of-way interests, conveyed to it for which it has no present ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.099; Execution of instruments.
  Any instruments of sale, lease, release, or conveyance executed pursuant to the provisions of this chapter shall be executed in the name of the district ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.103; Powers which may be vested in the governing board at the department's discretion.
  In addition to the other powers and duties allowed it by law, the governing board of a water management district may be specifically authorized by ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.106; Permit required for construction involving underground formation.
  (1) No construction may be begun on a project involving artificial recharge or the intentional introduction of water into any underground formation except as permitted ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.107; Citation of rule.
  In addition to any other provisions within this part or any rules promulgated hereunder, the permitting agency shall, when requesting information for a permit application ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.109; Permit application fees.
  When a water management district governing board, the department, or a local government implements a regulatory system under this chapter or one which has been ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.113; Adoption of rules by the governing board.
  In administering the provisions of this chapter the governing board has authority to adopt rules pursuant to ss. 120.536(1) and 120.54 to ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.1131; Consolidated action on permits.
  (1) Whenever the implementation of specific authority granted by this chapter, or whenever delegation of another program requiring permits or other authorizations, would result in ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.1135; Small business program.
  Each water management district, as created in this chapter, may implement a small business program designed to help small businesses, including those owned by women ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.114; Land and Water Adjudicatory Commission; review of district rules and orders; department review of district rules.
  (1) Except as provided in subsection (2), the Governor and Cabinet, sitting as the Land and Water Adjudicatory Commission, have the exclusive authority to review ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.116; Procedure for water use and impoundment construction permit applications.
  (1) Applications for water use permits, under part II of this chapter; for permits for construction or alteration of dams, impoundments, reservoirs, and appurtenant works, ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.117; Certification by professional engineer.
  (1) If an application for a permit or license to conduct an activity regulated under this chapter requires the services of a professional engineer as ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.1175; Signing and sealing by professional geologists.
  (1) If an application for a permit or license, or the performance of an activity regulated under this chapter, requires the services of a professional ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.118; General permits; delegation.
  (1) The governing board may adopt rules establishing a general permit system under this chapter for projects, or categories of projects, which have, either singly ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.119; Administrative enforcement procedures; orders.
  (1) Whenever the executive director of a water management district has reason to believe that a violation of any provision of this chapter or any ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.123; Penalty.
  Any person, real or artificial, that shall construct or enlarge, or cause to be constructed or enlarged, a canal or shall enlarge or deepen a ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.129; Maintenance of actions.
  The department, the governing board of any water management district, any local board, or a local government to which authority has been delegated pursuant to ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.136; Enforcement of regulations and orders.
  (1) The governing board may enforce its regulations and orders adopted pursuant to this chapter, by suit for injunction or other appropriate action in the ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.139; Acquisition of real property.
  (1) The Legislature declares it to be necessary for the public health and welfare that water and water-related resources be conserved and protected. The ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.1391; Management of real property.
  (1)(a) Lands titled to the governing boards of the districts shall be managed and maintained, to the extent practicable, in such a way as ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.1395; Limitation on liability of water management district with respect to areas made available to the public for recreational purposes without charge.
  (1) The purpose of this section is to encourage water management districts to make available land, water areas, and park areas to the public for ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.1401; Management of lands of water management districts.
  In addition to provisions contained in s. 373.1391(1) for soil and water conservation districts, the governing board of each water management district may ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.145; Information program regarding hydrologic conditioning and consumption of major surface and groundwater sources.
  In order to aid in the development of a better understanding of the unique surface and groundwater resources of this state, the water management districts ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.146; Publication of notices, process, and papers.
  (1) Whenever in this chapter the publication of any notice, process, or paper is required or provided for, unless otherwise provided by law, the publication ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.149; Existing districts preserved.
  The enactment of this act shall not affect the existence of the Central and Southern Florida Flood Control District created by chapter 25270, 1949, Laws ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.1501; South Florida Water Management District as local sponsor.
  (1) As used in this section and s. 373.026(8), the term: (a) "C-111 Project" means the project identified in the Central and ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.1502; Regulation of comprehensive plan project components.
  (1) SHORT TITLE.--This section may be cited as the "Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan Regulation Act." (2) FINDINGS; INTENT.-- (a) The Legislature finds that implementation ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.171; Rules.
  (1) In order to obtain the most beneficial use of the water resources of the state and to protect the public health, safety, and welfare ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.1725; Notice of intent by publication.
  In addition to rulemaking procedures required pursuant to chapter 120, the water management districts, when proposing to adopt, amend, or repeal any rule, shall provide ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.175; Declaration of water shortage; emergency orders.
  (1) The governing board of the district may by order declare that a water shortage exists within all or part of the district when insufficient ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.185; Local Xeriscape ordinances.
  (1) As used in this section, the term: (a) "Local government" means any county or municipality of the state. (b) "Xeriscape" or "Florida-friendly landscape" ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.196; Alternative water supply development.
  (1) The purpose of this section is to encourage cooperation in the development of water supplies and to provide for alternative water supply development. (a) ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.1961; Water production; general powers and duties; identification of needs; funding criteria; economic incentives; reuse funding.
  (1) POWERS AND DUTIES OF BOARD.--In the performance of, and in conjunction with, its other powers and duties, the governing board of a water ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.1962; Regional water supply authorities.
  (1) By interlocal agreement between counties, municipalities, or special districts, as applicable, pursuant to the Florida Interlocal Cooperation Act of 1969, s. 163.01, and ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.1963; Assistance to West Coast Regional Water Supply Authority.
  (1) It is the intent of the Legislature to authorize the implementation of changes in governance recommended by the West Coast Regional Water Supply Authority ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.199; Florida Forever Water Management District Work Plan.
  (1) Over the years, the Legislature has created numerous programs and funded several initiatives intended to restore, conserve, protect, and manage Florida's water resources ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.200; Seminole Tribe Water Rights Compact.
  Pursuant to the provisions of s. 285.165, the South Florida Water Management District is authorized to act in accordance with the Seminole Tribe Water ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.203; Definitions.
  (1) "Abandoned artesian well" is defined as an artesian well: (a) That does not have a properly functioning valve; (b) The use of which has ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.206; Artesian wells; flow regulated.
  Every person, stock company, association, corporation, county, or municipality owning or controlling the real estate upon which is located a flowing artesian well in this ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.207; Abandoned artesian wells.
  Each water management district shall develop a work plan which identifies the location of all known abandoned artesian wells within its jurisdictional boundaries and defines ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.209; Artesian wells; penalties for violation.
  (1) No owner, tenant, occupant, or person in control of an artesian well shall knowingly and intentionally: (a) Allow the well to flow continuously without ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.213; Certain artesian wells exempt.
  Nothing in ss. 373.203, 373.206, 373.209, or this section shall be construed to apply to an artesian well feeding a lake already ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.216; Implementation of program for regulating the consumptive use of water.
  The governing board of each water management district shall, no later than October 31, 1983, implement a program for the issuance of permits authorizing the ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.217; Superseded laws and regulations.
  (1) It is the intent of the Legislature to provide a means whereby reasonable programs for the issuance of permits authorizing the consumptive use of ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.219; Permits required.
  (1) The governing board or the department may require such permits for consumptive use of water and may impose such reasonable conditions as are necessary ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.223; Conditions for a permit.
  (1) To obtain a permit pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, the applicant must establish that the proposed use of water: (a) Is a ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.2234; Preferred water supply sources.
  The governing board of a water management district is authorized to adopt rules that identify preferred water supply sources for consumptive uses for which there ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.2235; Effect of prior land acquisition on consumptive use permitting.
  The fact that any applicant has acquired, by the exercise of eminent domain or otherwise, any land for the specific purpose of serving as a ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.224; Existing permits.
  Any permits or permit agreements for consumptive use of water executed or issued by an existing flood control, water management, or water regulatory district pursuant ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.226; Existing uses.
  (1) All existing uses of water, unless otherwise exempted from regulation by the provisions of this chapter, may be continued after adoption of this permit ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.227; Water conservation; legislative findings; legislative intent; objectives; comprehensive statewide water conservation program requirements.
  (1) The Legislature recognizes that the proper conservation of water is an important means of achieving the economical and efficient utilization of water necessary, in ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.228; Landscape irrigation design.
  (1) The Legislature finds that multiple areas throughout the state have been identified by water management districts as water resource caution areas, which indicates that ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.229; Application for permit.
  (1) All permit applications filed with the governing board or the department under this part and notice thereof required under s. 373.116 shall contain: (...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.2295; Interdistrict transfers of groundwater.
  (1) As used in this section, the term "interdistrict transfer and use" means a consumptive water use that involves the withdrawal of groundwater from a ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.22951; Validation of prior agreements between water management districts.
  Any agreements between water management districts entered into before the effective date of this act pursuant to s. 373.046 authorizing the issuance of permits ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.232; Citation of rule.
  In addition to any other provisions within this part or any rules promulgated hereunder, the permitting agency shall, when requesting information for a permit application ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.233; Competing applications.
  (1) If two or more applications which otherwise comply with the provisions of this part are pending for a quantity of water that is inadequate ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.236; Duration of permits; compliance reports.
  (1) Permits shall be granted for a period of 20 years, if requested for that period of time, if there is sufficient data to provide ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.239; Modification and renewal of permit terms.
  (1) A permittee may seek modification of any terms of an unexpired permit. (2) If the proposed modification involves water use of 100,000 gallons ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.243; Revocation of permits.
  The governing board or the department may revoke a permit as follows: (1) For any material false statement in an application to continue, initiate, or ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.244; Temporary permits.
  (1) The governing board of a water management district may issue, or may authorize its executive director to issue, temporary permits for the consumptive use ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.245; Violations of permit conditions.
  Holders of consumptive use permits who violate conditions of such permits shall be liable to abutting consumptive use permitholders for damages caused by such permit ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.246; Declaration of water shortage or emergency.
  (1) The governing board or the department by regulation shall formulate a plan for implementation during periods of water shortage. As a part of this ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.249; Existing regulatory districts preserved.
  The enactment of this chapter shall not affect any existing water regulatory districts pursuant to chapter 373, or orders issued by said regulatory districts, unless ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.250; Reuse of reclaimed water.
  (1) The encouragement and promotion of water conservation and reuse of reclaimed water, as defined by the department, are state objectives and considered to be ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.302; Legislative findings.
  The Legislature recognizes that the practice of constructing, repairing, and abandoning water wells, if conducted by incompetent contractors, is potentially threatening to the health of ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.303; Definitions.
  As used in this part, the term: (1) "Abandoned water well" means a well the use of which has been permanently discontinued. Any well shall ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.306; Scope.
  No person shall construct, repair, abandon, or cause to be constructed, repaired, or abandoned, any water well contrary to the provisions of this part and ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.308; Implementation of programs for regulating water wells.
  (1) The department shall authorize the governing board of a water management district to implement a program for the issuance of permits for the location, ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.309; Authority to adopt rules and procedures.
  (1) The department shall adopt, and may from time to time amend, rules governing the location, construction, repair, and abandonment of water wells and shall ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.313; Prior permission and notification.
  (1) Taking into consideration other applicable state laws, in any geographical area where the department determines such permission to be reasonably necessary to protect the ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.314; Citation of rule.
  In addition to any other provisions within this part or any rules promulgated hereunder, the permitting agency shall, when requesting information for a permit application ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.316; Existing installations.
  No well in existence on the effective date of this part shall be required to conform to the provisions of s. 373.313 or any ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.319; Inspections.
  (1) The department is authorized to inspect any water well or abandoned water well. Duly authorized representatives of the department may at reasonable times enter ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.323; Licensure of water well contractors; application, qualifications, and examinations; equipment identification.
  (1) Every person who wishes to engage in business as a water well contractor shall obtain from the water management district a license to conduct ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.324; License renewal.
  (1) A water well contractor shall submit an application for renewal of a license to the water management district which issued the license. (2) The ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.325; Inactive status.
  A license which has become inactive pursuant to s. 373.324 may be renewed or reactivated upon application to the water management district, as follows: (...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.326; Exemptions.
  (1) When the water management district finds that compliance with all requirements of this part would result in undue hardship, an exemption from any one ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.329; Fees for licensure.
  The department by rule shall establish fees to be paid for application for licensure, application for license renewal, and the penalty fee for renewal of ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.333; Disciplinary guidelines; adoption and enforcement; license suspension or revocation.
  (1) The department shall adopt by rule disciplinary guidelines applicable to each specific ground for disciplinary action which may be imposed by the water management ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.335; Clearinghouse.
  The department, in conjunction with the water management districts, shall establish a statewide clearinghouse which will allow each water management district to access information regarding ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.336; Unlawful acts; penalties.
  (1) It is unlawful for any person to: (a) Practice water well contracting without an active license issued pursuant to this part. (b) Construct, repair, ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.337; Rules.
  The department shall adopt rules pursuant to ss. 120.536(1) and 120.54 to implement the provisions of this part, providing each water management ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.342; Permits.
  (1) The governing board of any water management district which, pursuant to the authority delegated to it by the department under s. 373.308 or ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.403; Definitions.
  When appearing in this part or in any rule, regulation, or order adopted pursuant thereto, the following terms mean: (1) "Dam" means any artificial or ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.406; Exemptions.
  The following exemptions shall apply: (1) Nothing herein, or in any rule, regulation, or order adopted pursuant hereto, shall be construed to affect the right ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.407; Memorandum of agreement for an agricultural-related exemption.
  No later than July 1, 2007, the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services and each water management district shall enter into a memorandum of agreement ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.409; Headgates, valves, and measuring devices.
  (1) The department or the governing board may, by regulation, require the owner of any dam, impoundment, reservoir, appurtenant work, or works subject to the ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.413; Permits for construction or alteration.
  (1) Except for the exemptions set forth herein, the governing board or the department may require such permits and impose such reasonable conditions as are ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.4132; Dry storage facility permitting.
  The governing board or the department shall require a permit under this part, including s. 373.4145, for the construction, alteration, operation, maintenance, abandonment, or ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.4135; Mitigation banks and offsite regional mitigation.
  (1) The Legislature finds that the adverse impacts of activities regulated under this part may be offset by the creation, maintenance, and use of mitigation ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.4136; Establishment and operation of mitigation banks.
  (1) MITIGATION BANK PERMITS.--The department and the water management districts may require permits to authorize the establishment and use of mitigation banks. A mitigation ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.4137; Mitigation requirements for specified transportation projects.
  (1) The Legislature finds that environmental mitigation for the impact of transportation projects proposed by the Department of Transportation or a transportation authority established pursuant ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.4138; High Speed Rail Project; determination of mitigation requirements and costs.
  With respect to the High Speed Rail Project, any mitigation requirements and associated costs shall be determined by negotiation between the Department of Environmental Protection ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.4139; Local government transportation infrastructure mitigation requirements.
  (1) The Legislature finds that environmental mitigation for the impact of transportation projects proposed as part of a coordinated multijurisdiction initiative undertaken with substantial funding ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.414; Additional criteria for activities in surface waters and wetlands.
  (1) As part of an applicant's demonstration that an activity regulated under this part will not be harmful to the water resources or will ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.4141; Permits; processing.
  (1) Within 30 days after receipt of an application for a permit under this part, the department or the water management district shall review the ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.4142; Water quality within stormwater treatment systems.
  State surface water quality standards applicable to waters of the state, as defined in s. 403.031(13), shall not apply within a stormwater management ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.4143; Declaration of policy.
  It is the policy of the Legislature that the state provide efficient government services by consolidating, to the maximum extent practicable, federal and state permitting ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.4144; Federal environmental permitting.
  (1) The department is directed to develop, on or before October 1, 2005, a mechanism or plan to consolidate, to the maximum extent practicable, the ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.4145; Part IV permitting program within the geographical jurisdiction of the Northwest Florida Water Management District.
  (1) Within the geographical jurisdiction of the Northwest Florida Water Management District, taking into consideration the differing physical and natural characteristics of the area, the ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.4149; Miami-Dade County Lake Belt Plan.
  (1) The Legislature hereby accepts and adopts the recommendations contained in the Phase I Lake Belt Report and Plan, dated February 1997 and hereby accepts ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.41492; Miami-Dade County Lake Belt Mitigation Plan; mitigation for mining activities within the Miami-Dade County Lake Belt.
  (1) The Legislature finds that the impact of mining within the rock mining supported and allowable areas of the Miami-Dade County Lake Plan adopted ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.41495; Lake Belt Mitigation Trust Fund; bonds.
  (1) The Lake Belt Mitigation Trust Fund is hereby created, to be administered by the South Florida Water Management District. Funds shall be credited to ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.415; Protection zones; duties of the St. Johns River Water Management District.
  (1) Not later than November 1, 1988, the St. Johns River Water Management District shall adopt rules establishing protection zones adjacent to the watercourses in ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.416; Permits for maintenance or operation.
  (1) Except for the exemptions set forth in this part, the governing board or department may require such permits and impose such reasonable conditions as ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.417; Citation of rule.
  In addition to any other provisions within this part or any rules promulgated hereunder, the permitting agency shall, when requesting information for a permit application ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.418; Rulemaking; preservation of existing authority.
  (1) It is the intent of the Legislature that stormwater management systems be regulated under this part incorporating all of existing requirements contained in or ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.419; Completion report.
  Within 30 days after the completion of construction or alteration of any stormwater management system, dam, impoundment, reservoir, appurtenant work, or works, the permittee shall ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.421; Delineation methods; formal determinations.
  (1) The Environmental Regulation Commission shall adopt a unified statewide methodology for the delineation of the extent of wetlands as defined in s. 373.019(...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.4211; Ratification of chapter 17-340, Florida Administrative Code, on the delineation of the landward extent of wetlands and surface waters.
  Pursuant to s. 373.421, the Legislature ratifies chapter 17-340, Florida Administrative Code, approved on January 13, 1994, by the Environmental Regulation Commission, with ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.422; Applications for activities on state sovereignty lands or other state lands.
  If sovereignty lands or other lands owned by the state are the subject of a proposed activity, the issuance of a permit by the department ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.423; Inspection.
  (1) During the construction or alteration of any stormwater management system, dam, impoundment, reservoir, appurtenant work, or works, the governing board or department pursuant to ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.426; Abandonment.
  (1) Any owner of any stormwater management system, dam, impoundment, reservoir, appurtenant work, or works wishing to abandon or remove such work may first be ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.427; Concurrent permit review.
  (1) The department, in consultation with the water management districts, may adopt procedural rules requiring concurrent application submittal and establishing a concurrent review procedure for ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.4275; Review of consolidated orders.
  (1) Beginning on the effective date of the rules adopted under s. 373.427(1), review of any consolidated order rendered pursuant to s. 373....
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.428; Federal consistency.
  When an activity regulated under this part is subject to federal consistency review under s. 380.23, the final agency action on a permit application ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.429; Revocation and modification of permits.
  The governing board or the department may revoke or modify a permit at any time if it determines that a stormwater management system, dam, impoundment, ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.430; Prohibitions, violation, penalty, intent.
  (1) It shall be a violation of this part, and it shall be prohibited for any person: (a) To cause pollution, as defined in s. ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.433; Abatement.
  Any stormwater management system, dam, impoundment, reservoir, appurtenant work, or works which violates the laws of this state or which violates the standards of the ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.436; Remedial measures.
  (1) Upon completion of any inspection provided for by s. 373.423(3), the executive director or the department shall determine what alterations or repairs ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.439; Emergency measures.
  (1) The executive director, with the concurrence of the governing board, or the department shall immediately employ any remedial means to protect life and property ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.441; Role of counties, municipalities, and local pollution control programs in permit processing.
  (1) The department in consultation with the water management districts shall, by December 1, 1994, adopt rules to guide the participation of counties, municipalities, and ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.4415; Role of Miami-Dade County in processing permits for limerock mining in Miami-Dade County Lake Belt.
  The department and Miami-Dade County shall cooperate to establish and fulfill reasonable requirements for the departmental delegation to the Miami-Dade County Department of ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.443; Immunity from liability.
  No action shall be brought against the state or district, or any agents or employees of the state or district, for the recovery of damages ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.451; Short title; legislative findings and intent.
  (1) Sections 373.451-373.4595 may be cited as the "Surface Water Improvement and Management Act." (2) Legislative intent.--The Legislature finds that the ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.453; Surface water improvement and management plans and programs.
  (1)(a) Each water management district, in cooperation with the department, the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, the Department of Community Affairs, the Fish ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.459; Funds for surface water improvement and management.
  (1) Legislative appropriations provided to the water management districts for surface water improvement and management activities shall be available for detailed planning and plan and ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.4592; Everglades improvement and management.
  (1) FINDINGS AND INTENT.-- (a) The Legislature finds that the Everglades ecological system not only contributes to South Florida's water supply, flood control, and ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.45922; South Florida Water Management District; permit for completion of Everglades Construction Project; report.
  Within 60 days after receipt of any permit issued pursuant to s. 404 of the Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. s. 1344, for ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.45924; South Florida Water Management District; Everglades truth in borrowing.
  (1) Definitions.--As used in this section, unless the context otherwise indicates: (a) "Debt" means any evidence of indebtedness, including, but not limited to, an ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.45926; Everglades Trust Fund; allocation of revenues and expenditure of funds for conservation and protection of natural resources and abatement of water pollution.
  (1) LEGISLATIVE FINDINGS AND INTENT.--The Legislature finds and declares the following: (a) The Everglades ecological system is unique in the world and one of ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.4593; Florida Bay Restoration.
  (1) The Legislature declares that an emergency exists regarding Florida Bay due to an environmental crisis manifested in widespread die off of sea grasses, algae ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.45931; Alligator Alley tolls; Everglades and Florida Bay restoration.
  The South Florida Water Management District is authorized to expend funds from Alligator Alley tolls which have been deposited in the Everglades Fund of the ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.4595; Lake Okeechobee Protection Program.
  (1) FINDINGS AND INTENT.-- (a) The Legislature finds that Lake Okeechobee is one of the most important water resources of the state, providing many functions ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.45952; Lake Okeechobee Protection Trust Fund.
  (1) The Lake Okeechobee Protection Trust Fund is hereby created within the Department of Environmental Protection. (2) Funds to be credited to the trust fund ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.4596; State compliance with stormwater management programs.
  The state, through the Department of Management Services, the Department of Transportation, and other agencies, shall construct, operate, and maintain buildings, roads, and other facilities ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.4597; The Geneva Freshwater Lens Protection Act.
  (1) The Legislature finds that the Geneva Freshwater Lens, a single source water supply, is a unique and valuable water resource for the citizens of ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.461; Lake Apopka improvement and management.
  (1) FINDINGS AND INTENT.-- (a) The Legislature has expressed its intent that economically and technically feasible methods be developed to restore the Lake Apopka Basin ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.465; Lake Panasoffkee Restoration Council.
  There is created within the Southwest Florida Water Management District the Lake Panasoffkee Restoration Council. (1)(a) The council shall consist of seven voting members: ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.466; Lake Panasoffkee restoration program.
  (1) The Southwest Florida Water Management District, in conjunction with the Department of Environmental Protection, the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, the Sumter County Commission, ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.467; The Harris Chain of Lakes Restoration Council.
  There is created within the St. Johns River Water Management District, with assistance from the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and the Lake County Water ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.468; The Harris Chain of Lakes restoration program.
  (1) The Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and the St. Johns River Water Management District, in conjunction with the Department of Environmental Protection, pertinent local ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.470; Everglades restoration.
  (1) SHORT TITLE.--This section may be cited as the "Everglades Restoration Investment Act." (2) DEFINITIONS.--As used in this section, the term: (a) "Comprehensive ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.472; Save Our Everglades Trust Fund.
  (1) There is created within the Department of Environmental Protection the Save Our Everglades Trust Fund. Funds in the trust fund shall be expended to ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.501; Appropriation of funds to water management districts.
  (1) The department may allocate to the water management districts, from funds appropriated to the department, such sums as may be deemed necessary to defray ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.503; Manner of taxation.
  (1) It is the finding of the Legislature that the general regulatory and administrative functions of the districts herein authorized are of general benefit to ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.506; Costs of district.
  If it should appear necessary to procure funds with which to pay the expenses of a district, or to meet emergencies, before a sufficient sum ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.5071; Audit report; furnishing to governing board and clerks of circuit courts.
  The audit report required in s. 218.39 shall be furnished to the governing board of the district and the clerks of the circuit courts ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.536; District budget and hearing thereon.
  (1) FISCAL YEAR.--The fiscal year of districts created under the provisions of this chapter shall extend from October 1 of one year through September ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.539; Imposition of taxes.
  (1) Each year the governing board of the district shall certify to the property appraiser of the county in which the property is situate, timely ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.543; Land held by Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund; areas not taxed.
  (1) Land comprising part of the principal of the State School Trust Fund declared by the constitution to be "sacred and inviolate," or other real ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.546; Unit areas.
  The governing board may, in its discretion, adopt and effectuate unit areas embracing separate or combined drainage basins, or parts thereof, or areas of related ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.553; Treasurer of the board; payment of funds; depositories.
  (1) The governing board shall designate a treasurer who shall be custodian of all funds belonging to the board and to the district, and such ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.559; May borrow money temporarily.
  In order to provide for the works described by this chapter, the governing board is hereby authorized and empowered to borrow money temporarily, from time ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.563; Bonds.
  (1) The governing board is hereby authorized and empowered to borrow money on permanent loans and incur obligations from time to time on such terms ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.566; Refunding bonds.
  The governing board shall have authority to issue refunding bonds to take up any outstanding bonds of said district falling due and becoming payable, when, ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.569; Bond election.
  When required by the State Constitution, the governing board shall call an election of the freeholders in said district, in which said election the matter ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.573; Bonds to be validated.
  Whenever the governing board shall have authorized the issuance of bonds under the provisions of this chapter, the said board may, if it shall so ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.576; Sale of bonds.
  All of said bonds shall be executed and delivered to the treasurer of said district, who shall sell the same in such quantities and at ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.579; Proceeds from taxes for bond purposes.
  It shall be the duty of the treasurer as custodian of the funds belonging to the said board and to the district, out of the ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.583; Registration of bonds.
  (1) Whenever the owner of any coupon bond issued pursuant to the provisions of this chapter shall present such bond and all unpaid coupons thereof ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.584; Revenue bonds.
  (1) In addition to issuing general obligation bonds as provided in s. 373.563, districts may also, from time to time, issue revenue bonds to ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.586; Unpaid warrants to draw interest.
  If any warrant issued under this chapter is not paid when presented to the treasurer of the district because of lack of funds in the ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.59; Water Management Lands Trust Fund.
  (1) There is established within the Department of Environmental Protection the Water Management Lands Trust Fund to be used as a nonlapsing fund for the ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.5905; Reinstitution of payments in lieu of taxes; duration.
  If a water management district has made a payment in lieu of taxes to a governmental entity and subsequently suspended such payment, the water management ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.591; Management review teams.
  (1) To determine whether conservation, preservation, and recreation lands titled in the names of the water management districts are being managed for the purposes for ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.603; Power to enforce.
  The Department of Environmental Protection or the governing board of any water management district and any officer or agent thereof may enforce any provision of ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.604; Awards to employees for meritorious service.
  The governing board of any water management district may adopt and implement a program of meritorious service awards for district employees who make proposals which ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.605; Group insurance for water management districts.
  (1) The governing board of any water management district is hereby authorized and empowered to provide group insurance for its employees in the same manner ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.6055; Criminal history checks for certain water management district employees and others.
  (1) A water management district that has structures or facilities identified as critical infrastructure by the Regional Domestic Security Task Force created pursuant to s. ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.6065; Adoption benefits for water management district employees.
  (1) Any employee of a water management district is eligible to receive monetary benefits for child adoption to the same extent as is an employee ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.607; Minority business enterprise procurement goals; implementation of recommendations.
  Each water management district, as created in this chapter, may implement the recommendations from any study conducted pursuant to chapter 91-162, Laws of Florida, ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.608; Patents, copyrights, and trademarks.
  Each district may, in its own name: (1) Perform all things necessary to secure letters of patent, copyrights, and trademarks on any work products of ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.609; Enforcement; city and county officers to assist.
  It shall be the duty of every state and county attorney, sheriff, police officer, and other appropriate city and county official, upon request, to assist ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.610; Defaulting contractors.
  The district may suspend a contractor on a temporary or permanent basis from doing work with the district if such contractor has materially breached its ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.611; Modification or limitation of remedy.
  In order to promote the cost-effective procurement of commodities and contractual services by the water management districts, a district may enter into contracts to ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.613; Penalties.
  Any person who violates any provision of this law or any rule, regulation or order adopted or issued pursuant thereto is guilty of a misdemeanor ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.614; Unlawful damage to district property or works; penalty.
  The governing board of the district shall have the power, and is authorized, to offer and pay rewards of up to $1,000 to any ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.616; Liberal construction.
  The provisions of this chapter shall be liberally construed in order to effectively carry out its ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.6161; Chapter to be liberally construed.
  This chapter shall be construed liberally for effectuating the purposes described herein, and the procedure herein prescribed shall be followed and applied with such latitude ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.617; Judicial review relating to permits and licenses.
  (1) As used in this section, unless the context otherwise requires: (a) "Agency" means any official, officer, commission, authority, council, committee, department, division, bureau, board, ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.619; Recognition of water and sewer-saving devices.
  The Legislature urges all public-owned or investor-owned water and sewerage systems to reduce connection fees and regular service charges for customers who utilize ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.62; Water conservation; automatic sprinkler systems.
  Any person who purchases and installs an automatic lawn sprinkler system after May 1, 1991, shall install, and must maintain and operate, a rain sensor ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.621; Water conservation.
  The Legislature recognizes the significant value of water conservation in the protection and efficient use of water resources. Accordingly, consideration in the administration of ss. ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.63; Preference to State University System in award of projects or studies.
  Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the governing boards of the water management districts, in considering the awarding of projects or studies relating ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 373.71; Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin Compact.
  The states of Alabama, Florida and Georgia and the United States of America hereby agree to the following compact which shall become effective upon enactment ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 374.975; Inland navigation districts; legislative intent.
  (1) The Legislature hereby recognizes the continuing need for inland navigation districts to undertake programs necessary to accomplish the purposes of construction, maintenance, and operation ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 374.976; Authority to address impacts of waterway development projects.
  (1) Each inland navigation district is empowered and authorized to undertake programs intended to alleviate the problems associated with its waterway or waterways, including, but ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 374.977; Inland navigation districts; manatee protection speed zones, responsibility for sign posting.
  Each inland navigation district shall be responsible for posting and maintaining regulatory markers, as approved by the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, for manatee protection ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 374.978; District board; compensation.
  Members of inland navigation districts shall be reimbursed for per diem and travel expenses as provided in s. 112....
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 374.980; Legislative intent.
  (1) It is the intent of the Legislature to consolidate and codify in this part all current and applicable laws or acts relating to the ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 374.981; Short title.
  This part may be cited as the "Florida Inland Navigation District ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 374.982; District.
  An independent special taxing district to be known as the "Florida Inland Navigation District" is hereby created. The territorial boundaries of the district shall be ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 374.983; Governing body.
  (1) A governing body of the district is hereby created, and shall be known as and designated as the "Board of Commissioners of the Florida ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 374.984; Purpose; powers and duties.
  It is the purpose and intent of this act that the board perform and do all things which shall be requisite and necessary to comply ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 374.986; Taxing authority.
  (1) The tax assessor, tax collector, and board of county commissioners of each and every county in said district, shall, when requested by the board, ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 374.987; Financial matters.
  (1) The funds of the district shall be paid out only upon warrant signed by any two of the following board officers: the treasurer, the ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 374.988; Preservation of taxing authority.
  The enactment of this act shall not affect the taxing authority granted to the district or any contract or obligation of such district entered into ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 374.989; Construction.
  It is intended that the provisions of chapter 96-425, Laws of Florida, shall be liberally construed for accomplishing the work authorized and provided for ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 375.011; Short title.
  This act may be known and cited as the "Outdoor Recreation and Conservation Act of ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 375.021; Comprehensive multipurpose outdoor recreation plan.
  (1) The department is given the responsibility, authority, and power to develop and execute a comprehensive multipurpose outdoor recreation plan for this state with the ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 375.031; Acquisition of land; procedures.
  (1) The department is empowered and authorized to identify for acquisition lands, water areas, and related resources and to perform all other activities necessary or ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 375.032; Recreation; required purpose for purchase.
  No land shall be purchased under this act or any funds expended for any project unless a finding is made that recreation is the prime ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 375.041; Land Acquisition Trust Fund.
  (1) There is created a Land Acquisition Trust Fund to facilitate and expedite the acquisition of land, water areas, and related resources required to accomplish ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 375.044; Land Acquisition Trust Fund budget request.
  (1) The Department of Environmental Protection shall submit to the Legislature a 10-year comprehensive budget request for the Land Acquisition Trust Fund. (2) The ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 375.045; Florida Preservation 2000 Trust Fund.
  (1) There is created the Florida Preservation 2000 Trust Fund to carry out the purposes of ss. 259.032, 259.101, and 375.031. The ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 375.051; Issuance of revenue bonds subject to constitutional authorization.
  The acquisition of lands, water areas, and related resources by the department under this act is a public purpose for which revenue bonds may be ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 375.061; Construction.
  The provisions of this act shall be liberally construed in a manner to accomplish the purposes ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 375.065; Public beaches; financial and other assistance by Department of Environmental Protection to local governments.
  (1) The Department of Environmental Protection is authorized, within the limits of appropriations available to the department for such purposes, to utilize any one or ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 375.075; Outdoor recreation; financial assistance to local governments.
  (1) The Department of Environmental Protection is authorized to establish the Florida Recreation Development Assistance Program to provide grants to qualified local governmental entities to ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 375.251; Limitation on liability of persons making available to public certain areas for recreational purposes without charge.
  (1) The purpose of this act is to encourage persons to make available to the public land, water areas and park areas for outdoor recreational ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 375.311; Legislative intent.
  To protect and manage Florida's wildlife environment on lands conveyed for recreational purposes by private owners and public custodians, the Legislature hereby intends that ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 375.312; Definitions.
  As used in this act, unless the context requires otherwise: (1) "Motor vehicle" means any self-propelled vehicle, including every device in, upon, or by ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 375.313; Commission powers and duties.
  The commission shall: (1) Regulate or prohibit, when necessary, the use of motor vehicles on the public lands of the state in order to prevent ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 375.314; Damage to public lands.
  (1) Whoever damages public lands by the use of a motor vehicle is guilty of a misdemeanor of the second degree, punishable as provided in ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 376.011; Pollutant Discharge Prevention and Control Act; short title.
  Sections 376.011-376.17, 376.19-376.21 shall be known as the "Pollutant Discharge Prevention and Control ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 376.021; Legislative intent with respect to pollution of coastal waters and lands.
  (1) The Legislature finds and declares that the highest and best use of the seacoast of the state is as a source of public and ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 376.031; Definitions; ss. 376.011-376.21.
  When used in ss. 376.011-376.21, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the term: (1) "Barrel" means 42 U.S. gallons at 60 ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 376.041; Pollution of waters and lands of the state prohibited.
  The discharge of pollutants into or upon any coastal waters, estuaries, tidal flats, beaches, and lands adjoining the seacoast of the state in the manner ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 376.051; Powers and duties of the Department of Environmental Protection.
  (1) The powers and duties conferred by ss. 376.011-376.21 shall be exercised by the department and shall be deemed to be an ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 376.065; Operation of terminal facility without discharge prevention and response certificate prohibited; penalty.
  (1) Every owner or operator of a terminal facility shall obtain a discharge prevention and response certificate issued by the department. Terminal facilities which are ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 376.07; Regulatory powers of department; penalties for inadequate booming by terminal facilities.
  (1) The department shall adopt rules pursuant to ss. 120.536(1) and 120.54 to implement ss. 376.011-376.21. (2) The department ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 376.0705; Development of training programs and educational materials.
  The department shall encourage the development of training programs for personnel needed for pollutant discharge prevention and cleanup activities. The department shall work with accredited ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 376.071; Discharge contingency plan for vessels.
  (1) Any vessel operating in state waters with a storage capacity to carry 10,000 gallons or more of pollutants as fuel or cargo shall ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 376.09; Removal of prohibited discharges.
  (1) Any person discharging pollutants as prohibited by s. 376.041 shall immediately undertake to contain, remove, and abate the discharge to the department's ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 376.10; Personnel and equipment.
  The department shall establish and maintain at such ports within the state and other places as it shall determine such employees and equipment as in ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 376.11; Florida Coastal Protection Trust Fund.
  (1) The purpose of this section is to provide a mechanism to have financial resources immediately available for prevention of, and cleanup and rehabilitation after, ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 376.12; Liabilities and defenses of responsible parties; liabilities of third parties; financial security requirements for vessels; liability of cargo owners; notification requirements.
  (1) LIABILITY FOR CLEANUP COSTS.--Because it is the intent of ss. 376.011-376.21 to provide the means for rapid and effective cleanup ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 376.121; Liability for damage to natural resources.
  The Legislature finds that extensive damage to the state's natural resources is the likely result of a pollutant discharge and that it is essential ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 376.123; Claims against the Florida Coastal Protection Trust Fund.
  (1) A person making a claim against the fund may not have such claim approved during the pendency of a judicial or other proceeding by ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 376.13; Emergency proclamation; Governor's powers.
  (1) Whenever any emergency exists or appears imminent, arising from the discharge of oil, petroleum products or their byproducts, or any other pollutants, the Governor ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 376.14; Vessels; financial responsibility; claims against providers of financial responsibility; service of process against responsible parties.
  (1) Each owner or operator of a terminal facility or vessel, including any barge, using any port in Florida shall be required to establish and ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 376.15; Derelict vessels; removal from public waters.
  (1) It is unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation to store, leave, or abandon any derelict vessel as defined in s. 823.11(1) ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 376.16; Enforcement and penalties.
  (1) It is unlawful for any person to violate any provision of ss. 376.011-376.21 or any rule or order of the department ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 376.165; "Hold-harmless" agreements prohibited.
  Any agreement entered into after July 1, 1974, to "hold-harmless" a vessel or terminal facility from liability for the occurrence of a discharge prohibited ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 376.17; Reports to the Legislature.
  The department shall include in its recommendations to each regular session of the Legislature specific recommendations relating to the operation of ss. 376.011-376....
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 376.19; County and municipal ordinances; powers limited.
  Nothing in ss. 376.011-376.21 shall be construed to deny any county or municipality authority to exercise police powers by ordinance or law ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 376.20; Limitation on application.
  Nothing in ss. 376.011-376.21 shall be deemed to apply to the storage or transportation of liquefied petroleum gas or to industrial effluents ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 376.205; Individual cause of action for damages under ss. 376.011-376.21.
  The remedies in this act shall be deemed to be cumulative and not exclusive. Nothing in this act shall require pursuit of any claim against ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 376.207; Traps impregnated with pollutants prohibited.
  No person shall, within the territorial limits of the state, impregnate with a pollutant any lobster trap or other trap used to take saltwater products. ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 376.21; Construction of ss. 376.011-376.21.
  Sections 376.011-376.21, being necessary for the general welfare and the public health and safety of the state and its inhabitants, shall be ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 376.30; Legislative intent with respect to pollution of surface and ground waters.
  (1) The Legislature finds and declares: (a) That certain lands and waters of Florida constitute unique and delicately balanced resources and that the protection of ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 376.301; Definitions of terms used in ss.¹ 376.30-376.319, 376.70, and 376.75.
  When used in ss. 1376.30-376.319, 376.70, and 376.75, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the term: (1) "Aboveground hazardous substance ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 376.302; Prohibited acts; penalties.
  (1) It shall be a violation of this chapter and it shall be prohibited for any reason: (a) To discharge pollutants or hazardous substances into ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 376.303; Powers and duties of the Department of Environmental Protection.
  (1) The department has the power and the duty to: (a) Establish rules, including, but not limited to, construction standards, permitting or registration of tanks, ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 376.304; Review and analysis of disposal materials or byproducts; disposal at designated local government solid waste disposal facilities.
  (1) The Legislature finds and declares that it is in the public interest to facilitate the activities necessary and essential to clean up the release ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 376.305; Removal of prohibited discharges.
  (1) Any person discharging a pollutant as prohibited by 1ss. 376.30-376.319 shall immediately undertake to contain, remove, and abate the discharge to ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 376.306; Cattle-dipping vats; legislative findings; liability.
  (1) The Legislature finds that: (a) In excess of 3,200 cattle-dipping vats were constructed in the state as a result of local, state, ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 376.307; Water Quality Assurance Trust Fund.
  (1) The Water Quality Assurance Trust Fund is intended to serve as a broad-based fund for use in responding to incidents of contamination that ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 376.30701; Application of risk-based corrective action principles to contaminated sites; applicability; legislative intent; rulemaking authority; contamination cleanup criteria; limitations; reopeners.
  (1) APPLICABILITY.-- (a) This section shall not create or establish any new liability for site rehabilitation at contaminated sites. This section is intended to describe ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 376.30702; Contamination notification.
  (1) FINDINGS; INTENT; APPLICABILITY.--The Legislature finds and declares that when contamination is discovered by any person as a result of site rehabilitation activities conducted ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 376.3071; Inland Protection Trust Fund; creation; purposes; funding.
  (1) FINDINGS.--In addition to the legislative findings set forth in s. 376.30, the Legislature finds and declares: (a) That significant quantities of petroleum ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 376.30711; Preapproved site rehabilitation, effective March 29, 1995.
  (1)(a) The Legislature finds and declares that the petroleum contamination site rehabilitation program, as previously structured, has resulted in site rehabilitation proceeding at a ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 376.30713; Preapproved advanced cleanup.
  (1) In addition to the legislative findings provided in s. 376.30711, the Legislature finds and declares: (a) That the inability to conduct site rehabilitation ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 376.30714; Site rehabilitation agreements.
  (1) In addition to the legislative findings provided in s. 376.3071, the Legislature finds and declares: (a) The provisions of ss. 376.3071(5)(...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 376.30715; Innocent victim petroleum storage system restoration.
  A contaminated site acquired prior to July 1, 1990, which has ceased operating as a petroleum storage or retail business prior to January 1, 1985, ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 376.30716; Cleanup of certain sites.
  (1) As used in this section, the term: (a) "Exclusion zone" means the subsurface area within 10 feet of an underground storage tank, integral piping, ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 376.3072; Florida Petroleum Liability and Restoration Insurance Program.
  (1) There is hereby created the Florida Petroleum Liability and Restoration Insurance Program to be administered by the department. The program shall provide restoration funding ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 376.3073; Local programs and state agency programs for control of contamination.
  (1) The department shall, to the greatest extent possible and cost-effective, contract with local governments to provide for the administration of its departmental responsibilities ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 376.3075; Inland Protection Financing Corporation.
  (1) There is hereby created a nonprofit public benefit corporation to be known as the "Inland Protection Financing Corporation" for the purpose of financing the ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 376.3077; Unlawful to deposit motor fuel in tank required to be registered, without proof of registration display.
  It is unlawful for any owner, operator, or supplier to pump or otherwise deposit any motor fuel into a tank required to be registered under ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 376.3078; Drycleaning facility restoration; funds; uses; liability; recovery of expenditures.
  (1) FINDINGS.--In addition to the legislative findings set forth in s. 376.30, the Legislature finds and declares that: (a) Significant quantities of drycleaning ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 376.30781; Partial tax credits for rehabilitation of drycleaning-solvent-contaminated sites and brownfield sites in designated brownfield areas; application process; rulemaking authority; revocation authority.
  (1) The Legislature finds that: (a) To facilitate property transactions and economic growth and development, it is in the interest of the state to encourage ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 376.3079; Third-party liability insurance.
  (1) It is the intent of the Legislature that, if necessary, the department assist owners of drycleaning facilities and wholesale supply facilities in obtaining third-...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 376.308; Liabilities and defenses of facilities.
  (1) In any suit instituted by the department under 1ss. 376.30-376.319, it is not necessary to plead or prove negligence in any ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 376.309; Facilities, financial responsibility.
  (1) Each owner of a facility is required to establish and maintain evidence of financial responsibility. Such evidence of financial responsibility shall be the only ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 376.311; Penalties for a discharge.
  (1) The penalty provisions of this section do not apply to any discharge promptly reported and, where applicable, removed by an operator in accordance with ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 376.313; Nonexclusiveness of remedies and individual cause of action for damages under ¹ss. 376.30-376.319.
  (1) The remedies in 1ss. 376.30-376.319 shall be deemed to be cumulative and not exclusive. (2) Nothing in 1ss. 376.30-376....
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 376.315; Construction of ¹ss. 376.30-376.319.
  1Sections 376.30-376.319, being necessary for the general welfare and the public health and safety of the state and its inhabitants, shall be ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 376.317; Superseded laws; state preemption.
  (1) If any provision of 1ss. 376.30-376.319 or of the rules developed pursuant to such sections, which provision pertains to a facility ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 376.320; Applicability.
  The provisions of ss. 376.320-376.326 apply only to specified mineral acids when stored in aboveground tanks. The purpose of ss. 376.320-...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 376.321; Definitions; ss. 376.320-376.326.
  As used in ss. 376.320-376.326, the term: (1) "Aboveground" means that more than 90 percent of a tank volume is not buried ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 376.322; Powers and duties of the department.
  The department shall have the power and duty to: (1) Contract with local governments as needed to perform any of its duties under ss. 376....
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 376.323; Registration.
  All tanks shall be registered no later than July 1, 1992. Registrations shall be renewed annually. Registration fees shall not exceed $2,500 per facility. ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 376.324; Containment and integrity plan.
  (1) The owner or operator of each mineral acid storage tank shall prepare and have in place a containment and integrity plan (CIP) for the ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 376.325; Alternative to containment and integrity plan requirements.
  (1) As an alternative to the requirements of s. 376.324, an owner or operator may choose to provide the department with certification by a ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 376.326; Application of s. 376.317.
  Nothing in ss. 376.320-376.326 shall be construed to exclude aboveground storage tanks from the application of s. 376....
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 376.40; Petroleum exploration and production; purposes; funding.
  (1) FINDINGS.--The Legislature declares that the financial resources of the state in the form of a bond trust fund, the limits of which are ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 376.60; Asbestos removal program inspection and notification fee.
  The Department of Environmental Protection shall charge an inspection and notification fee, not to exceed $300 for a small business as defined in s. 288....
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 376.70; Tax on gross receipts of drycleaning facilities.
  (1) There is levied a gross receipts tax on each drycleaning facility and dry drop-off facility, as defined in s. 376.301, for the ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 376.71; Registration fee and gross receipts tax; exemptions.
  The registration fee and the gross receipts tax imposed under ss. 376.303(1)(d) and 376.70 do not apply to uniform rental companies ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 376.75; Tax on production or importation of perchloroethylene.
  (1) Beginning October 1, 1994, a tax of $5 per gallon is levied on the sale of perchloroethylene (tetrachloroethylene) in this state to a drycleaning ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 376.77; Short title.
  Sections 376.77-376.85 may be cited as the "Brownfields Redevelopment ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 376.78; Legislative intent.
  The Legislature finds and declares the following: (1) The reduction of public health and environmental hazards on existing commercial and industrial sites is vital to ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 376.79; Definitions relating to Brownfields Redevelopment Act.
  As used in ss. 376.77-376.85, the term: (1) "Additive effects" means a scientific principle that the toxicity that occurs as a result ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 376.80; Brownfield program administration process.
  (1) A local government with jurisdiction over the brownfield area must notify the department of its decision to designate a brownfield area for rehabilitation for ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 376.81; Brownfield site and brownfield areas contamination cleanup criteria.
  (1) It is the intent of the Legislature to protect the health of all people under actual circumstances of exposure. By July 1, 2001, the ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 376.82; Eligibility criteria and liability protection.
  (1) ELIGIBILITY.--Any person who has not caused or contributed to the contamination of a brownfield site on or after July 1, 1997, is eligible ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 376.83; Violation; penalties.
  (1) It is a violation of ss. 376.77-376.85, and it is prohibited for any person, to knowingly make any false statement, representation, ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 376.84; Brownfield redevelopment economic incentives.
  It is the intent of the Legislature that brownfield redevelopment activities be viewed as opportunities to significantly improve the utilization, general condition, and appearance of ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 376.85; Annual report.
  The Department of Environmental Protection shall prepare an annual report to the Legislature, beginning in December 1998, which shall include, but not be limited to ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 376.86; Brownfield Areas Loan Guarantee Program.
  (1) The Brownfield Areas Loan Guarantee Council is created to review and approve or deny by a majority vote of its membership, the situations and ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 377.01; Governor to enter into interstate compact to conserve oil and gas.
  The Governor of the state is hereby authorized and directed, for and in the name of the state, to join with other states in the ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 377.03; Extension of compact.
  The Governor of Florida is further authorized and empowered, for and in the name of the state, to execute agreements for the further extension of ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 377.04; Official report of state.
  The Governor shall be the official representative of the state on the Interstate Oil Compact Commission, provided for in the compact to conserve oil and ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 377.06; Public policy of state concerning natural resources of oil and gas.
  It is hereby declared to be the public policy of the state to conserve and control the natural resources of oil and gas in said ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 377.07; Division of Resource Management; powers, duties, and authority.
  The Division of Resource Management of the Department of Environmental Protection is hereby vested with power, authority, and duty to administer, carry out, and enforce ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 377.075; Division of Technical Services; geological functions.
  (1) PERSONNEL.--The Department of Environmental Protection shall, through the Division of Technical Services, establish the Florida Geological Survey and employ such suitable persons as ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 377.10; Certain persons not to be employed by division.
  No person in the employ of, or holding any official connection or position with any person, firm, partnership, corporation, or association of any kind, engaged ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 377.18; Common sources of oil and gas.
  All common sources of supply of oil and gas or either of them shall have the production therefrom controlled or regulated in accordance with the ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 377.19; Definitions.
  Unless the context otherwise requires, the words defined in this section shall have the following meanings when found in ss. 377.06, 377.07, and ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 377.20; Waste prohibited.
  Waste of oil or gas defined in this law is hereby ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 377.21; Jurisdiction of division.
  (1) The division shall have jurisdiction and authority over all persons and property necessary to administer and enforce effectively the provisions of this law and ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 377.22; Rules and orders.
  (1) The department shall provide, by rule, for ratable takings in all pools on a reasonable and equitable basis. (2) The department shall issue orders ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 377.23; Monthly reports to division.
  Every producer of oil or gas in the state shall submit to the division, on forms prescribed by the division, a monthly report of the ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 377.24; Notice of intention to drill well; permits; abandoned wells and dry holes.
  (1) Before any well in search of oil or gas shall be drilled, the person desiring to drill the same shall notify the division upon ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 377.2408; Application to conduct geophysical operations.
  (1) Before any geophysical operation in search of oil, gas, or minerals shall be conducted, the person desiring to conduct such operation shall make application ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 377.2409; Geophysical activities; confidential information; penalties.
  (1) Whenever geophysical activities are conducted on state-owned mineral lands, the person conducting such activities shall furnish to the division, acting as agent of ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 377.241; Criteria for issuance of permits.
  The division, in the exercise of its authority to issue permits as hereinafter provided, shall give consideration to and be guided by the following criteria: (...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 377.2411; Lawful right to drill, develop, or explore.
  Before applying for a drilling permit, the applicant or operator must acquire a lawful right to drill, explore, or develop from a majority of the ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 377.242; Permits for drilling or exploring and extracting through well holes or by other means.
  The department is vested with the power and authority: (1)(a) To issue permits for the drilling for, exploring for, or production of oil, gas, ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 377.2421; Division to review federal applications.
  (1) The division shall review all applications for federal oil leases in the territorial waters of the United States adjacent to Florida waters and shall ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 377.2424; Conditions for granting permits for geophysical operations.
  Exploration for oil, gas, or minerals by means of geophysical activities shall be exercised only pursuant to permit issued by the department, upon the applicant'...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 377.2425; Manner of providing security for geophysical exploration, drilling, and production.
  (1) Prior to granting a permit to conduct geophysical operations; drilling of exploratory, injection, or production wells; producing oil and gas from a wellhead; or ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 377.2426; Abandonment of geophysical holes.
  Each hole drilled as part of permitted geophysical operations shall be plugged promptly in the manner prescribed by the ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 377.243; Conditions for granting permits for extraction through well holes.
  (1) Prior to the application to the Division of Resource Management for the permit to drill for oil, gas, and related products referred to in ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 377.244; Conditions for granting permits for surface exploratory and extraction operations.
  (1) Exploration for and extraction of minerals under and by virtue of the authority of a grant of oil, gas, or mineral rights, or which, ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 377.245; Provision for distribution of earnings to lessees or owners of the fractional undivided mineral rights not owned by applicant for permit under ss. 377.243 and 377.244.
  Lessees or owners of the fractional undivided oil, gas or other mineral rights in lands described in permits issued under the provisions of ss. 377....
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 377.247; Designation and distribution of earnings owed to owners of mineral rights who are unknown or unlocated.
  (1) In the event that the operator of a well cannot locate the owner of a minority mineral interest within a drilling unit or the ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 377.25; Production pools; drilling units.
  (1) No rule, regulation or order of the division shall be such in terms or effect: (a) That it shall be necessary at any time ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 377.26; Location of wells.
  Whenever the division fixes the location of any well or wells on the surface, the point at which the maximum penetration of such well into ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 377.27; Drilling units.
  (1) When two or more separately owned tracts of land are embraced within an established drilling unit, the owners thereof may validly agree to integrate ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 377.28; Cycling, pooling, and unitization of oil and gas.
  (1) The department may consider the need for the operation as a unit of an entire field, or of any pool or pools, portion or ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 377.29; Agreements in interest of conservation.
  Agreements made in the interest of conservation of oil or gas, or both, or for the prevention of waste, between and among owners and operators, ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 377.30; Limitation on amount of oil or gas taken.
  (1) Whenever the total amount of oil or gas which all the pools in the state can produce exceeds the amount reasonably required to meet ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 377.31; Evidence of rules and orders.
  A certified copy of any division rule, regulation, or order shall be received in evidence in all courts of this state with the same effect ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 377.32; Issuance of subpoenas; service, etc.
  (1) The division is hereby empowered to issue subpoenas for witnesses, to require their attendance and the giving of testimony before it, and to require ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 377.33; Injunctions against division.
  (1) Any interested person adversely affected by any statute of this state with respect to conservation of oil or gas, or both, or by provisions ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 377.34; Actions and injunctions by division.
  (1) Whenever it shall appear that any person is violating, or threatening to violate, any statute of this state with respect to the conservation of ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 377.35; Suits, proceedings, appeals, etc.
  In all proceedings brought under authority of this law, or of any oil or gas conservation statute of this state, or of any rule, regulation, ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 377.36; False entries and statements; incomplete entries; penalties.
  Any person who, for the purpose of evading this law, or of evading any rule, regulation, or order made hereunder, shall intentionally make, or cause ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 377.37; Penalties.
  (1)(a) Any person who violates any provision of this law or any rule, regulation, or order of the division made under this chapter or ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 377.371; Pollution prohibited; reporting, liability.
  (1) No person drilling for or producing oil, gas, or other petroleum products shall pollute land or water; damage aquatic or marine life, wildlife, birds, ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 377.38; Illegal oil, gas, and other products; sale, purchase, acquisition, transportation, refining, processing, or handling prohibited.
  (1) The sale, purchase, or acquisition, or the transportation, refining, processing, or handling in any other way, of illegal oil, illegal gas, or illegal product ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 377.39; Seizure and sale of illegal oil, gas, or product.
  (1) Apart from, and in addition to, any other remedy or procedure which may be available to the division, or any liquidated damages which may ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 377.40; Negligently permitting gas and oil to go wild or out of control.
  (1) In order to protect further the gas fields and oil fields in the state, it is hereby declared to be unlawful for any person ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 377.41; Disposition of fines.
  Moneys collected as fines for violations of this part, implementing rules, or permit conditions shall be paid into the Minerals Trust Fund established pursuant to ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 377.42; Big Cypress Swamp Advisory Committee.
  (1) For purposes of this section, the Big Cypress watershed is defined as the area in Collier County and the adjoining portions of Hendry, Broward, ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 377.601; Legislative intent.
  (1) The Legislature finds that the ability to deal effectively with present shortages of resources used in the production of energy is aggravated and intensified ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 377.602; Definitions.
  As used in ss. 377.601-377.608: (1) "Energy resources" includes, but shall not be limited to: (a) Propane, butane, motor gasoline, kerosene, home ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 377.603; Energy data collection; powers and duties of the Department of Environmental Protection.
  (1) The department shall collect data on the extraction, production, importation, exportation, refinement, transportation, transmission, conversion, storage, sale, or reserves of energy resources in this ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 377.604; Required reports.
  Every person who produces, imports, exports, refines, transports, transmits, converts, stores, sells, or holds known reserves of any form of energy resources used as fuel ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 377.605; Use of existing information.
  The department shall utilize to the fullest extent possible any existing energy information already prepared for state or federal agencies. Every state, county, and municipal ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 377.606; Records of the department; limits of confidentiality.
  The information or records of individual persons, as defined herein, obtained by the department as a result of a report, investigation, or verification required by ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 377.607; Violations; penalties.
  Any person who willfully fails to submit information as required by ss. 377.601-377.608, or submits false information, is guilty of a misdemeanor ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 377.608; Prosecution of cases by state attorney.
  The state attorney shall prosecute all cases certified to him or her for prosecution by the department immediately upon receipt of the evidence transmitted by ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 377.701; Petroleum allocation.
  (1) The Department of Environmental Protection shall assume the state's role in petroleum allocation and conservation, including the development of a fair and equitable ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 377.703; Additional functions of the Department of Environmental Protection; energy emergency contingency plan; federal and state conservation programs.
  (1) LEGISLATIVE INTENT.--Recognizing that energy supply and demand questions have become a major area of concern to the state which must be dealt with ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 377.704; Appropriation of funds from settlement of petroleum overcharge litigation.
  There are and will be funds available to this state due to settlements of litigation brought by the United States Department of Energy against oil ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 377.705; Solar Energy Center; development of solar energy standards.
  (1) SHORT TITLE.--This act shall be known and may be cited as the Solar Energy Standards Act of 1976. (2) LEGISLATIVE FINDINGS AND INTENT.-- (...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 377.709; Funding by electric utilities of local governmental solid waste facilities that generate electricity.
  (1) LEGISLATIVE INTENT.--The Legislature declares that it is critical to encourage energy conservation in order to protect the health, prosperity, and general welfare of ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 377.71; Definitions; Southern States Energy Compact.
  As used in this act, unless the context requires otherwise: (1) "Compact" means the Southern States Energy Compact; (2) "Board" means the Southern States Energy ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 377.711; Florida party to Southern States Energy Compact.
  The Southern States Energy Compact is enacted into law and entered into by the state as a party, and is of full force and effect ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 377.712; Florida participation.
  (1)(a) The Governor shall appoint one member of the Southern States Energy Board. The member or the Governor may designate another person as the ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 377.801; Short title.
  Sections 377.801-377.806 may be cited as the "Florida Renewable Energy Technologies and Energy Efficiency ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 377.802; Purpose.
  This act is intended to provide matching grants to stimulate capital investment in the state and to enhance the market for and promote the statewide ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 377.803; Definitions.
  As used in ss. 377.801-377.806, the term: (1) "Act" means the Florida Renewable Energy Technologies and Energy Efficiency Act. (2) "Approved metering ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 377.804; Renewable Energy Technologies Grants Program.
  (1) The Renewable Energy Technologies Grants Program is established within the department to provide renewable energy matching grants for demonstration, commercialization, research, and development projects ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 377.806; Solar Energy System Incentives Program.
  (1) PURPOSE.--The Solar Energy System Incentives Program is established within the department to provide financial incentives for the purchase and installation of solar energy ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 377.901; Florida Energy Commission.
  (1) The Florida Energy Commission is created and shall be located within the Office of Legislative Services for administrative purposes. The commission shall be comprised ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 378.011; Land Use Advisory Committee.
  (1) There is hereby created a Land Use Advisory Committee which shall be composed of the following: (a) One member from the Bureau of Geology ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 378.021; Master reclamation plan.
  (1) The Department of Environmental Protection shall amend the master reclamation plan that provides guidelines for the reclamation of lands mined or disturbed by the ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 378.031; Reclamation or acquisition of nonmandatory lands; legislative intent.
  It is the intent of the Legislature to provide an economic incentive to encourage the reclamation of the maximum number of acres of eligible nonmandatory ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 378.032; Definitions.
  As used in ss. 378.032-378.038, the term: (1) "Approved reclamation program" means a reclamation program which has been approved by the Secretary ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 378.033; Nonmandatory Land Reclamation Committee; creation; composition.
  (1) The Nonmandatory Land Reclamation Committee is created within the department to serve as an advisory body on matters relating to nonmandatory land reclamation. The ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 378.034; Submission of a reclamation program request; procedures.
  (1) The department shall establish by rule procedures for a nonbinding preapplication review to assist a landowner in submitting a reclamation program request. (2) Landowners ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 378.035; Department responsibilities and duties with respect to Nonmandatory Land Reclamation Trust Fund.
  (1) The department shall administer the Nonmandatory Land Reclamation Trust Fund. (2)(a) The department shall verify that reclamation activities or portions thereof have been ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 378.036; Land acquisitions financed by Nonmandatory Land Reclamation Trust Fund moneys.
  (1) After July 1, 1986, moneys paid into the Nonmandatory Land Reclamation Trust Fund may be used by the department: (a) For acquisition of those ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 378.037; Chief Financial Officer; responsibilities and duties with respect to reimbursement of reclamation costs.
  (1) The Chief Financial Officer shall reimburse approved reclamation costs, less any amount reasonably retained to ensure completion of the approved reclamation program, subject to ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 378.038; Rulemaking.
  The department shall adopt reasonable rules which recognize the cost reimbursement limitations of s. 378.037(1)(b) to implement the provisions of this act, ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 378.101; Florida Institute of Phosphate Research.
  (1) There is created a Florida Institute of Phosphate Research, which is empowered: (a) To conduct or cause to be conducted such environmental studies related ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 378.102; Florida Institute of Phosphate Research; procurement of research services.
  (1) SHORT TITLE.--This section may be cited as the "Florida Institute of Phosphate Research Competitive Negotiation Act." (2) DEFINITIONS.--As used in this section, ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 378.201; Short title.
  This part may be cited as the "Phosphate Land Reclamation ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 378.202; Legislative intent.
  The Legislature finds that: (1) Florida is endowed with varied natural resources that provide recreational, environmental, and economic benefit to the people of this state. ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 378.203; Definitions.
  As used in this part, the term: (1) "Acres mined" means all acres on which mining operations have resulted in extraction of phosphate rock. (2) "...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 378.204; Applicability.
  The provisions of this part apply to land subject to the mandatory reclamation obligation for the severance of solid mineral phosphate rock set forth in ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 378.205; Administration; powers and duties of the department; agency review responsibility.
  (1) The department shall administer the provisions of this part and shall have the following powers and duties: (a) To issue conceptual reclamation plan approvals ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 378.207; Reclamation criteria and standards.
  (1) The department, by rule, shall adopt statewide criteria and standards for reclamation. Such rules shall recognize that surface mining takes place in diverse areas ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 378.208; Financial responsibility.
  (1) An operator of a mine shall provide appropriate financial assurance to the state that the reclamation of lands subject to the mandatory reclamation obligation ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 378.209; Timing of reclamation.
  (1) Reclamation should be completed within 2 years after the completion of mining operations, exclusive of a growing season required to ensure establishment of vegetation. ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 378.211; Violations; damages; penalties.
  (1) The department may institute a civil action in a court of competent jurisdiction for injunctive or other appropriate relief to enforce compliance with this ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 378.212; Variances.
  (1) Upon application, the secretary may grant a variance from the provisions of this part or the rules adopted pursuant thereto. Variances and renewals thereof ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 378.401; Short title.
  This part may be cited as the "Resource Extraction Reclamation ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 378.402; Legislative findings and intent.
  (1) The Legislature finds that Florida is endowed with varied natural resources that provide great recreational, environmental, and economic benefit to the people of the ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 378.403; Definitions.
  As used in this part: (1) "Agency" means an official, committee, department, commission, officer, division, authority, bureau, council, board, section, or unit of government within ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 378.404; Department of Environmental Protection; powers and duties.
  The department shall have the following powers and duties: (1) To adopt rules pursuant to ss. 120.536(1) and 120.54 to implement the ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 378.405; Reclamation review procedure.
  (1) All agency reviews conducted under this part are subject to this section. Within 30 days after receipt of an operator's conceptual reclamation plan, ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 378.406; Confidentiality of records; availability of information.
  (1)(a) Any information relating to prospecting, rock grades, or secret processes or methods of operation which may be required, ascertained, or discovered by inspection ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 378.407; Inspection.
  (1)(a) Any duly authorized representative of the department may at any reasonable time enter and inspect, for the purpose of ascertaining the state of ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 378.408; Injunctive relief.
  The secretary may institute civil action in a court of competent jurisdiction to seek injunctive relief to enforce compliance with the requirements of this ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 378.409; Civil liability.
  (1) Any operator who begins resource extraction without meeting the requirements of this part is liable to the state for any damages caused to the ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 378.411; Certification to receive notices of intent to mine, to review, and to inspect for compliance.
  (1) By petition to the secretary, a local government may request certification to receive notices of intent to mine, to review, and to conduct compliance ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 378.4115; County certification for limerock mining in the Miami-Dade County Lake Belt.
  The department and Miami-Dade County shall cooperate to establish and fulfill reasonable requirements for the departmental certification of the Miami-Dade County Department of ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 378.412; Relationship with other laws.
  It is the intent of the Legislature that ss. 378.202-378.804 supplement other laws regarding resource extraction. Nothing contained in such sections shall ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 378.501; Limestone; notice of intent to mine required.
  (1) No operator may begin the process of limestone resource extraction at a new mine without notifying the secretary of the intention to mine. (2) ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 378.502; Existing mines.
  After January 1, 1989, all operators of existing mines for limestone resource extraction shall meet the reclamation performance standards provided by s. 378.503 for ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 378.503; Limestone reclamation performance standards.
  (1) All reclamation activities shall be initiated at the earliest practicable time. (2) Reclamation activities shall be consistent with all applicable local government ordinances at ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 378.601; Heavy minerals.
  (1)(a) Each operator who intends to mine or extract heavy minerals at a new mine shall receive approval of the department of a conceptual ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 378.701; Fuller's earth clay; notice of intent to mine required.
  (1) No fuller's earth clay operator may begin the process of resource extraction at a new mine without notifying the secretary of the intention ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 378.702; Existing mines.
  On October 1, 1986, all operators of existing mines for fuller's earth clay resource extraction shall meet the performance standards provided by s. 378....
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 378.703; Fuller's earth clay reclamation performance standards.
  (1) All reclamation activities shall, to the extent feasible, be coordinated with resource extraction and in any event shall be initiated at the earliest practicable ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 378.801; Other resources; notice of intent to mine required.
  (1) No operator may begin the process of extracting clay, peat, gravel, sand, or any other solid substance of commercial value found in natural deposits ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 378.802; Existing mines.
  After January 1, 1989, all operators of existing mines for the extraction of resources as described in s. 378.801 shall meet the performance standards ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 378.803; Other resources reclamation performance standards.
  (1) Reclamation shall achieve the stormwater, drainage, wetlands, and other surface and groundwater requirements of the Department of Environmental Protection and the appropriate water management ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 378.804; Exemption.
  Any operator who extracts resources from 1 acre or less at any one site in a given year, not to exceed 5 acres over the ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 378.901; Life-of-the-mine permit.
  (1) As used in this section, the term: (a) "Bureau" means the Bureau of Mine Reclamation of the Division of Water Resource Management of the ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 380.012; Short title.
  Sections 380.012, 380.021, 380.031, 380.04, 380.05, 380.06, 380.07, and 380.08 shall be known and may be cited ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 380.021; Purpose.
  It is the legislative intent that, in order to protect the natural resources and environment of this state as provided in s. 7, Art. II ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 380.031; Definitions.
  As used in this chapter: (1) "Administration commission" or "commission" means the Governor and the Cabinet; and for purposes of this chapter the commission shall ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 380.032; State land planning agency; powers and duties.
  The state land planning agency shall have the power and the duty to: (1) Exercise general supervision of the administration and enforcement of this act ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 380.04; Definition of development.
  (1) The term "development" means the carrying out of any building activity or mining operation, the making of any material change in the use or ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 380.045; Resource planning and management committees; objectives; procedures.
  (1) Prior to recommending an area as an area of critical state concern pursuant to s. 380.05, the Governor, acting as the chief planning ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 380.05; Areas of critical state concern.
  (1)(a) The state land planning agency may from time to time recommend to the Administration Commission specific areas of critical state concern. In its ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 380.051; Coordinated agency review; Florida Keys area.
  (1)(a) In order to facilitate the planning and preparation of permit applications for projects in the Florida Keys area of critical state concern, and ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 380.055; Big Cypress Area.
  (1) SHORT TITLE.--This section shall be known and may be cited as "The Big Cypress Conservation Act of 1973." (2) LEGISLATIVE INTENT.--It is ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 380.0551; Green Swamp Area; designation as area of critical state concern.
  (1) The Green Swamp Area, the boundaries of which are described in 1chapter 22F-5, Florida Administrative Code, is hereby designated an area of critical ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 380.0552; Florida Keys Area; protection and designation as area of critical state concern.
  (1) SHORT TITLE.--This section may be cited as the "Florida Keys Area Protection Act." (2) LEGISLATIVE INTENT.--It is hereby declared that the intent ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 380.0555; Apalachicola Bay Area; protection and designation as area of critical state concern.
  (1) SHORT TITLE.--This act shall be known and cited as the "Apalachicola Bay Area Protection Act." (2) LEGISLATIVE INTENT.--It is hereby declared that ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 380.0558; Coral reef restoration.
  (1) DEFINITIONS.--As used in this section, the term: (a) "Coral reefs" means the assemblage of corals and other organisms that are actively building three-...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 380.06; Developments of regional impact.
  (1) DEFINITION.--The term "development of regional impact," as used in this section, means any development which, because of its character, magnitude, or location, would ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 380.061; The Florida Quality Developments program.
  (1) There is hereby created the Florida Quality Developments program. The intent of this program is to encourage development which has been thoughtfully planned to ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 380.065; Certification of local government review of development.
  (1) By petition to the Administration Commission, a local government may request certification to review developments of regional impact that are located within the jurisdiction ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 380.0651; Statewide guidelines and standards.
  (1) The statewide guidelines and standards for developments required to undergo development-of-regional-impact review provided in this section supersede the statewide guidelines and ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 380.0655; Expedited permitting process for marina projects reserving 10 percent or more boat slips for public use.
  The Department of Environmental Protection and, as appropriate, the water management districts created by chapter 373 shall adopt programs to expedite the processing of wetland ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 380.0661; Legislative intent.
  It is hereby declared that the intent of the Legislature is: (1) To provide a mechanism to equitably deal with the challenges of implementing comprehensive ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 380.0662; Definitions.
  As used in this act, unless the context indicates a different meaning or intent: (1) "Land authority" means the land authority created by a county ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 380.0663; Land authority; creation, membership, expenses.
  (1) Each county in which one or more areas of critical state concern are located is authorized to create, by ordinance, a public body corporate ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 380.0664; Quorum; voting; meetings.
  The powers of the land authority shall be vested in its members in office from time to time. A majority of the members of the ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 380.0665; Executive director; agents and employees.
  The appointment and removal of an executive director shall be by the members of the land authority. The executive director shall subsequently employ legal and ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 380.0666; Powers of land authority.
  The land authority shall have all the powers necessary or convenient to carry out and effectuate the purposes and provisions of this act, including the ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 380.0667; Advisory committee; acquisitions.
  (1) The land authority shall establish an advisory committee which shall make recommendations regarding land acquisition to the land authority in accordance with the criteria ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 380.0668; Bonds; purpose, terms, approval, limitations.
  (1) The issuance of revenue bonds to provide sufficient funds to achieve the purposes of this act; pay interest on bonds; pay expenses incident to ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 380.0669; State and local government liability on bonds.
  The bonds of the land authority shall not be a debt of the state or of any local government other than the land authority, and ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 380.0671; Annual report.
  The land authority shall submit to the Governor and the presiding officers of each house of the Legislature, within 6 months after the end of ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 380.0672; Conflicts of interest.
  (1) Nothing in this section shall be deemed or construed to limit the right of any member, officer, or employee of the land authority to ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 380.0673; Exemption from taxes and eligibility as investment.
  (1) The property of the land authority and the transactions and operations thereof and the income therefrom shall be exempt from taxation by the state ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 380.0674; Corporate existence.
  (1) The land authority and its corporate existence shall continue until terminated by law or action of the governing board of the county that established ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 380.0675; Inconsistent provisions of other laws superseded.
  Insofar as the provisions of this act are inconsistent with the provisions of any other law, general, special, or local, the provisions of this act ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 380.0677; Green Swamp Land Authority.
  (1) CREATION.--There is hereby created the Green Swamp Land Authority. (2) MISSION.--The mission of the Green Swamp Land Authority shall be to balance ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 380.0685; State park in area of critical state concern in county which creates land authority; surcharge on admission and overnight occupancy.
  The Department of Environmental Protection shall impose and collect a surcharge of 50 cents per person per day, or $5 per annual family auto entrance ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 380.07; Florida Land and Water Adjudicatory Commission.
  (1) There is hereby created the Florida Land and Water Adjudicatory Commission, which shall consist of the Administration Commission. The commission may adopt rules necessary ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 380.08; Protection of landowners' rights.
  (1) Nothing in this chapter authorizes any governmental agency to adopt a rule or regulation or issue any order that is unduly restrictive or constitutes ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 380.085; Judicial review relating to permits and licenses.
  (1) As used in this section, unless the context otherwise requires: (a) "Agency" means any official, officer, commission, authority, council, committee, department, division, bureau, board, ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 380.11; Enforcement; procedures; remedies.
  (1) JUDICIAL REMEDIES.-- (a) The state land planning agency, a state attorney, a county, and a municipality are each authorized to bring an action for ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 380.115; Vested rights and duties; effect of size reduction, changes in guidelines and standards.
  (1) A change in a development-of-regional-impact guideline and standard does not abridge or modify any vested or other right or any duty ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 380.12; Rights unaffected by ch. 75-22.
  Nothing in chapter 75-22, Laws of Florida, shall alter or affect rights previously vested under this ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 380.20; Short title.
  Sections 380.205-380.27 may be cited as the "Florida Coastal Management ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 380.205; Definitions.
  As used in ss. 380.205-380.27: (1) "Department" means the Department of Environmental Protection. (2) "Coastal zone" means that area of land and ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 380.21; Legislative intent.
  (1) The Legislature finds that: (a) The coast is rich in a variety of natural, commercial, recreational, ecological, industrial, and aesthetic resources, including, but not ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 380.22; Lead agency authority and duties.
  (1) The department shall be the lead agency pursuant to the Coastal Zone Management Act and shall compile and submit to the appropriate federal agency ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 380.23; Federal consistency.
  (1) When a federally licensed or permitted activity subject to federal consistency review requires a state license, the issuance or renewal of a state license ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 380.24; Local government participation.
  Units of local government abutting the Gulf of Mexico or the Atlantic Ocean, or which include or are contiguous to waters of the state where ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 380.25; Previous coastal zone atlases rejected.
  The legislative draft of the coastal management program submitted to the Legislature by the department dated March 1, 1978, and the previously prepared coastal zone ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 380.26; Establishment of coastal building zone for certain counties.
  The coastal building zone for counties not subject to s. 161.053 shall be as described in s. 161.54(1), after a public hearing ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 380.27; Coastal infrastructure policy.
  (1) No state funds shall be used for the purpose of constructing bridges or causeways to coastal barrier islands, as defined in s. 161.54(...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 380.276; Beaches and coastal areas; display of uniform warning and safety flags at public beaches; placement of uniform notification signs; beach safety education.
  (1) It is the intent of the Legislature that a cooperative effort among state agencies and local governments be undertaken to plan for and assist ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 380.285; Lighthouses; study; preservation; funding.
  The Department of Community Affairs and the Division of Historical Resources of the Department of State shall undertake a study of the lighthouses in the ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 380.501; Short title.
  This part may be cited as the "Florida Communities Trust ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 380.502; Legislative findings and intent.
  (1) The Legislature finds that the conservation of natural areas is vital to the state's economy and ecology. The Legislature further finds that rapid ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 380.503; Definitions.
  As used in ss. 380.501-380.515, unless the context indicates a different meaning or intent: (1) "Comprehensive plan" means a plan that meets ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 380.504; Florida Communities Trust; creation; membership; expenses.
  (1) There is created within the Department of Community Affairs a nonregulatory state agency and instrumentality, which shall be a public body corporate and politic, ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 380.505; Meetings; quorum; voting.
  The powers of the trust shall be vested in its governing body members. The governing body may delegate such powers to department staff as it ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 380.506; Support services.
  The department shall furnish administrative, personnel, and other support services necessary for the trust to accomplish the purposes of this ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 380.507; Powers of the trust.
  The trust shall have all the powers necessary or convenient to carry out the purposes and provisions of this part, including: (1) To make and ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 380.508; Projects; development, review, and approval.
  (1) The trust shall request appropriate state agencies, local governments, nonprofit organizations, and other public and private groups to assist in the formulation of criteria ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 380.510; Conditions of grants and loans.
  (1) The trust may seek repayment of funds loaned pursuant to this part on terms and conditions as it deems appropriate to carry out the ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 380.511; Florida Communities Trust Fund.
  (1) There is created the Florida Communities Trust Fund as a nonlapsing, revolving fund for projects, activities, acquisitions, and operating expenses necessary to carry out ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 380.5115; Florida Forever Program Trust Fund of the Department of Community Affairs.
  (1) There is created a Florida Forever Program Trust Fund within the Department of Community Affairs to further the purposes of this part as specified ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 380.512; Annual report.
  The trust shall submit to the Governor, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the President of the Senate, and the minority leaders of the ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 380.513; Corporate existence.
  The trust and its corporate existence shall continue until terminated by law. Upon termination of the agency, all its rights and properties in excess of ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 380.514; Inconsistent provisions of other laws superseded.
  If the provisions of this part are inconsistent with the provisions of any other law, general, special, or local, the provisions of this part shall ...
• Florida Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, And Use Code Section 380.515; Construction.
  The provisions of this part shall be liberally construed in a manner to accomplish its ...

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