Florida Statutes Part I - Parks (Ss. 258.001-258.158)

• 258.001 - Park Regions.
  For the purpose of administering this chapter, regulating the public parks, monuments and memorials of this state, the state is divided into five park regions...
• 258.004 - Duties Of Division.
  (1) It shall be the duty of the Division of Recreation and Parks of the Department of Environmental Protection to supervise, administer, regulate, and control the...
• 258.007 - Powers Of Division.
  (1) The Division of Recreation and Parks shall have power to acquire in the name of the state any property, real or personal, by purchase, grant,...
• 258.008 - Prohibited Activities; Penalties.
  (1) Except as provided in subsection (3), any person who violates or otherwise fails to comply with the rules adopted under this chapter commits a noncriminal...
• 258.014 - Fees For Use Of State Parks.
  (1) The Division of Recreation and Parks shall have the power to charge reasonable fees, rentals or charges for the use or operation of facilities and...
• 258.0145 - Military, Law Enforcement, And Firefighter State Park Fee Discounts.
  The Division of Recreation and Parks shall provide the following discounts on park fees to persons who present written documentation satisfactory to the division which...
• 258.015 - Citizen Support Organizations; Use Of Property; Audit.
  (1) DEFINITIONS.—For the purpose of this section, a “citizen support organization” means an organization which is:(a) A Florida corporation not for profit incorporated under the provisions of...
• 258.016 - Senior/disabled Citizen Camping Permit.
  The Division of Recreation and Parks is authorized to issue a senior/disabled citizen camping permit. This permit shall be available free of charge to Florida...
• 258.0165 - Defibrillators In State Parks.
  (1) Each state park is encouraged to have on the premises at all times a functioning automated external defibrillator.(2) State parks that provide automated external defibrillators shall...
• 258.017 - Dedication Of State Park Lands For Public Use.
  The Division of Recreation and Parks is authorized and empowered, from time to time, by resolution, to dedicate and reserve for the use of the...
• 258.021 - Power Of Eminent Domain; Procedure.
  Whenever the Division of Recreation and Parks shall find it necessary to acquire private property for state parks, or rights-of-way for state parks, or for...
• 258.027 - Division To Take Over Certain Functions.
  The Division of Recreation and Parks is vested with all rights, powers, duties, privileges, and authority relating to park matters heretofore vested in and exercised...
• 258.034 - State Park Trust Fund Created.
  There is created a “State Park Trust Fund” to which shall be credited all money deposited in the State Treasury by appropriations, or from any...
• 258.037 - Policy Of Division.
  It shall be the policy of the Division of Recreation and Parks: To promote the state park system for the use, enjoyment, and benefit of...
• 258.041 - Cooperation Of Division With Counties, Etc.
  The Division of Recreation and Parks may cooperate with counties in county and state park work, and in this connection county commissioners may acquire, by...
• 258.08 - Guide Meridian And Base Parallel Park Located.
  Guide meridian and base parallel park, a park for the perpetuation and preservation of the point or place from which the state was surveyed, is...
• 258.081 - Stephen Foster State Folk Culture Center.
  The division shall maintain and operate the Stephen Foster State Folk Culture Center facility in such manner that the performing arts component of the Florida...
• 258.083 - John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park; Taking Or Damaging Of Coral Prohibited.
  (1) It is unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation to bring into or transport through any part of the state, including its waters, any coral...
• 258.09 - Rauscher Park Designated.
  There is designated and established as a state park to be known as Rauscher Park, in Escambia County, the lands lying between the Big Lagoon...
• 258.10 - Division Of Recreation And Parks To Supervise And Maintain Rauscher Park.
  After the conveyance of said lands and such additional land as may, from time to time, be acquired, under the provisions of s. 258.09, said...
• 258.11 - Land Ceded For Royal Palm State Park; Proviso.
  Section fifteen, and the north half of section twenty-two of township fifty-eight south, range thirty-seven east, situated in Miami-Dade County, is ceded to the Florida...
• 258.12 - Additional Lands Ceded For Royal Palm State Park.
  For the use and benefit of all the people of the state, the state cedes to the Florida Federation of Women’s Clubs the south half...
• 258.14 - Royal Palm State Park And Endowment Lands Exempt From Taxation.
  The lands described in ss. 258.11 and 258.12 as the Royal Palm State Park, and the lands conveyed, and to be conveyed to the Florida...
• 258.15 - St. Michael’s Cemetery Designated A State Park.
  (1) St. Michael’s Cemetery in Pensacola is designated and declared to be a state park.(2) The Division of Recreation and Parks of the Department of Environmental Protection...
• 258.156 - Savannas State Reserve.
  As used in this act:(1) “Savannas” means the Savannas State Reserve located in St. Lucie and Martin Counties, generally described as lying within sections 1, 2,...
• 258.157 - Prohibited Acts In Savannas State Reserve.
  (1) It is unlawful for any person, except an on-duty law enforcement or conservation officer, to operate a vehicle or A.T.V. in the Savannas unless such...
• 258.158 - Exemption From S. 588.15.
  The state is exempt from the provisions of s. 588.15 with respect to any property within the state park system that has free-roaming animal populations.History.—s....

Last modified: September 23, 2016