Florida Statutes|Chapter 253

Section 253.001  -  Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund; duty to hold lands in trust.

Section 253.002  -  Department of Environmental Protection, water management districts, Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, and Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; duties with respect to state lands.

Section 253.01  -  Internal Improvement Trust Fund established.

Section 253.02  -  Board of trustees; powers and duties.

Section 253.025  -  Acquisition of state lands.

Section 253.0251  -  Alternatives to fee simple acquisition.

Section 253.027  -  Emergency archaeological property acquisition.

Section 253.03  -  Board of trustees to administer state lands; lands enumerated.

Section 253.031  -  Land office; custody of documents concerning land; moneys; plats.

Section 253.0325  -  Modernization of state lands records.

Section 253.033  -  Inter-American Center property; transfer to board; continued use for government purposes.

Section 253.034  -  State-owned lands; uses.

Section 253.0341  -  Surplus of state-owned lands.

Section 253.0345  -  Special events; submerged land leases.

Section 253.0346  -  Lease of sovereignty submerged lands for marinas, boatyards, and marine retailers.

Section 253.0347  -  Lease of sovereignty submerged lands for private residential docks and piers.

Section 253.035  -  Coastal anchorage areas.

Section 253.036  -  Forest management.

Section 253.037  -  Use of state-owned land for correctional facilities.

Section 253.04  -  Duty of board to protect, etc., state lands; state may join in any action brought.

Section 253.05  -  Prosecuting officers to assist in protecting state lands.

Section 253.111  -  Riparian owners of land.

Section 253.115  -  Public notice and hearings.

Section 253.12  -  Title to tidal lands vested in state.

Section 253.121  -  Conveyances of such lands heretofore made, ratified, confirmed, and validated.

Section 253.1221  -  Bulkhead lines; reestablishment.

Section 253.1241  -  Studies.

Section 253.1252  -  Citation of rule.

Section 253.126  -  Legislative intent.

Section 253.127  -  Enforcement.

Section 253.128  -  Enforcement; board or agency under special law.

Section 253.1281  -  Review by board.

Section 253.129  -  Confirmation of title in upland owners.

Section 253.135  -  Construction of ss. 253.12, 253.126, 253.127, 253.128, and 253.129.

Section 253.14  -  Rights of riparian owners; board of trustees to defend suit.

Section 253.141  -  Riparian rights defined; certain submerged bottoms subject to private ownership.

Section 253.21  -  Board of trustees may surrender certain lands to the United States and receive indemnity.

Section 253.29  -  Board of trustees to refund money paid where title to land fails.

Section 253.34  -  Transfer of notes owned by board.

Section 253.36  -  Title to reclaimed marshlands, wetlands, or lowlands in board of trustees.

Section 253.37  -  Survey to be made; sale of lands; preference to buyers.

Section 253.38  -  Riparian rights not affected.

Section 253.381  -  Unsurveyed marshlands; sale to upland owners.

Section 253.382  -  Oyster beds, minerals, and oils reserved to state.

Section 253.39  -  Surveys approved by chief cadastral surveyor validated.

Section 253.40  -  To what lands applicable.

Section 253.41  -  Plats and field notes filed in office of Board of Trustees of Internal Improvement Trust Fund.

Section 253.42  -  Board of trustees may exchange lands.

Section 253.43  -  Convey by deed.

Section 253.431  -  Agents may act on behalf of board of trustees.

Section 253.44  -  Disposal of lands received.

Section 253.45  -  Sale or lease of phosphate, clay, minerals, etc., in or under state lands.

Section 253.451  -  Construction of term “land the title to which is vested in the state.”

Section 253.47  -  Board of trustees may lease, sell, etc., bottoms of bays, lagoons, straits, etc., owned by state, for petroleum purposes.

Section 253.51  -  Oil and gas leases on state lands by the board of trustees.

Section 253.511  -  Reports by lessees of oil and mineral rights, state lands.

Section 253.512  -  Applicants for lease of gas, oil, or mineral rights; report as to lease holdings.

Section 253.52  -  Placing oil and gas leases on market by board.

Section 253.53  -  Sealed bids required.

Section 253.54  -  Competitive bidding.

Section 253.55  -  Limitation on term of lease.

Section 253.56  -  Responsibility of bidder.

Section 253.57  -  Royalties.

Section 253.571  -  Proof of financial responsibility required of lessee prior to commencement of drilling.

Section 253.60  -  Conflicting laws.

Section 253.61  -  Lands not subject to lease.

Section 253.62  -  Board of trustees authorized to convey certain lands without reservation.

Section 253.66  -  Change in bulkhead lines, Pinellas County.

Section 253.665  -  Grant of easements, licenses, and leases.

Section 253.67  -  Definitions.

Section 253.68  -  Authority to lease or use submerged lands and water column for aquaculture activities.

Section 253.69  -  Application to lease submerged land and water column.

Section 253.70  -  Public notice.

Section 253.71  -  The lease contract.

Section 253.72  -  Marking of leased areas; restrictions on public use.

Section 253.73  -  Rules; ss. 253.67-253.75.

Section 253.74  -  Penalties.

Section 253.75  -  Studies and recommendations by the department and the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission; designation of recommended traditional and other use zones; supervision of aquaculture operations.

Section 253.763  -  Judicial review relating to permits and licenses.

Section 253.77  -  State lands; state agency authorization for use prohibited without consent of agency in which title vested; concurrent processing requirements.

Section 253.781  -  Retention of state-owned lands along former Cross Florida Barge Canal route; creation of Cross Florida Greenways State Recreation and Conservation Area; authorizing transfer to the Federal Government for inclusion in Ocala National Forest.

Section 253.782  -  Retention of state-owned lands in and around Lake Rousseau and the Cross Florida Barge Canal right-of-way from Lake Rousseau west to the Withlacoochee River.

Section 253.7821  -  Cross Florida Greenways State Recreation and Conservation Area assigned to the Department of Environmental Protection.

Section 253.7822  -  Boundaries of the Cross Florida Greenways State Recreation and Conservation Area; coordination of management activities.

Section 253.7823  -  Disposition of surplus lands; compensation of counties located within the Cross Florida Canal Navigation District.

Section 253.7824  -  Sale of products; proceeds.

Section 253.7825  -  Recreational uses.

Section 253.7827  -  Transportation and utility crossings of greenways lands.

Section 253.7828  -  Impairment of use or conservation by agencies prohibited.

Section 253.783  -  Expenditures for acquisition of land for a canal connecting the waters of the Atlantic Ocean with the Gulf of Mexico via the St. Johns River prohibited.

Section 253.784  -  Contracts.

Section 253.785  -  Liberal construction of act.

Section 253.80  -  Murphy Act lands; costs and attorney fees for quieting title.

Section 253.81  -  Murphy Act; tax certificates barred.

Section 253.82  -  Title of state or private owners to Murphy Act lands.

Section 253.83  -  Construction of recodification.

Section 253.86  -  Management and use of state-owned or other uplands; rulemaking authority.

Section 253.87  -  Inventory of state, federal, and local government conservation lands by the Department of Environmental Protection.

Section 253.90  -  Southeast Florida Coral Reef Ecosystem Conservation Area.