2019 Florida Statutes
The Florida Statutes are updated annually after the conclusion of a regular legislative session, typically published in July/August.
242 Sections found
| Chapter | Title |
|---|---|
| 373.012 | Topographic mapping. |
| 373.013 | Short title. |
| 373.016 | Declaration of policy. |
| 373.019 | Definitions. |
| 373.023 | Scope and application. |
| 373.026 | General powers and duties of the department. |
| 373.033 | Saltwater barrier line. |
| 373.036 | Florida water plan; district water management plans. |
| 373.0363 | Southern Water Use Caution Area Recovery Strategy. |
| 373.037 | Pilot program for alternative water supply development in restricted allocation areas. |
| 373.0397 | Floridan and Biscayne aquifers; designation of prime groundwater recharge areas. |
| 373.042 | Minimum flows and minimum water levels. |
| 373.0421 | Establishment and implementation of minimum flows and minimum water levels. |
| 373.043 | Adoption and enforcement of rules by the department. |
| 373.044 | Rules; enforcement; availability of personnel rules. |
| 373.046 | Interagency agreements. |
| 373.0465 | Central Florida Water Initiative. |
| 373.047 | Cooperation between districts. |
| 373.056 | State agencies, counties, drainage districts, municipalities, or governmental agencies or public corporations authorized to convey or receive land from water management districts. |
| 373.069 | Creation of water management districts. |
| 373.0691 | Transfer of areas. |
| 373.0693 | Basins; basin boards. |
| 373.0695 | Duties of basin boards; authorized expenditures. |
| 373.0697 | Basin taxes. |
| 373.0698 | Creation and operation of basin boards; other laws superseded. |
| 373.073 | Governing board. |
| 373.076 | Vacancies in the governing board; removal from office. |
| 373.079 | Members of governing board; oath of office; staff. |
| 373.083 | General powers and duties of the governing board. |
| 373.084 | District works, operation by other governmental agencies. |
| 373.085 | Use of works or land by other districts or private persons. |
| 373.086 | Providing for district works. |
| 373.087 | District works using aquifer for storage and supply. |
| 373.088 | Application fees for certain real estate transactions. |
| 373.089 | Sale or exchange of lands, or interests or rights in lands. |
| 373.093 | Lease of lands or interest in land and personal property. |
| 373.096 | Releases. |
| 373.099 | Execution of instruments. |
| 373.103 | Powers which may be vested in the governing board at the department’s discretion. |
| 373.106 | Permit required for construction involving underground formation. |
| 373.107 | Citation of rule. |
| 373.109 | Permit application fees. |
| 373.113 | Adoption of rules by the governing board. |
| 373.1131 | Consolidated action on permits. |
| 373.1135 | Small business program. |
| 373.114 | Land and Water Adjudicatory Commission; review of district rules and orders; department review of district rules. |
| 373.116 | Procedure for water use and impoundment construction permit applications. |
| 373.117 | Certification by professional engineer. |
| 373.1175 | Signing and sealing by professional geologists. |
| 373.118 | General permits; delegation. |
| 373.119 | Administrative enforcement procedures; orders. |
| 373.123 | Penalty. |
| 373.129 | Maintenance of actions. |
| 373.136 | Enforcement of regulations and orders. |
| 373.139 | Acquisition of real property. |
| 373.1391 | Management of real property. |
| 373.1395 | Limitation on liability of water management district with respect to areas made available to the public for recreational purposes without charge. |
| 373.1401 | Management of lands of water management districts. |
| 373.145 | Information program regarding hydrologic conditioning and consumption of major surface and groundwater sources. |
| 373.146 | Publication of notices, process, and papers. |
| 373.149 | Existing districts preserved. |
| 373.1501 | South Florida Water Management District as local sponsor. |
| 373.1502 | Regulation of comprehensive plan project components. |
| 373.171 | Rules. |
| 373.1725 | Notice of intent by publication. |
| 373.175 | Declaration of water shortage; emergency orders. |
| 373.185 | Local Florida-friendly landscaping ordinances. |
| 373.187 | Water management district implementation of Florida-friendly landscaping. |
| 373.199 | Florida Forever Water Management District Work Plan. |
| 373.200 | Seminole Tribe Water Rights Compact. |
| 373.203 | Definitions. |
| 373.206 | Artesian wells; flow regulated. |
| 373.207 | Abandoned artesian wells. |
| 373.209 | Artesian wells; penalties for violation. |
| 373.213 | Certain artesian wells exempt. |
| 373.216 | Implementation of program for regulating the consumptive use of water. |
| 373.217 | Superseded laws and regulations. |
| 373.219 | Permits required. |
| 373.223 | Conditions for a permit. |
| 373.2234 | Preferred water supply sources. |
| 373.2235 | Effect of prior land acquisition on consumptive use permitting. |
| 373.224 | Existing permits. |
| 373.226 | Existing uses. |
| 373.227 | Water conservation; legislative findings and intent; objectives; comprehensive statewide water conservation program requirements. |
| 373.228 | Landscape irrigation design. |
| 373.229 | Application for permit. |
| 373.2295 | Interdistrict transfers of groundwater. |
| 373.22951 | Validation of prior agreements between water management districts. |
| 373.232 | Citation of rule. |
| 373.233 | Competing applications. |
| 373.236 | Duration of permits; compliance reports. |
| 373.239 | Modification and renewal of permit terms. |
| 373.243 | Revocation of permits. |
| 373.244 | Temporary permits. |
| 373.246 | Declaration of water shortage or emergency. |
| 373.249 | Existing regulatory districts preserved. |
| 373.250 | Reuse of reclaimed water. |
| 373.302 | Legislative findings. |
| 373.303 | Definitions. |
| 373.306 | Scope. |
| 373.308 | Implementation of programs for regulating water wells. |
| 373.309 | Authority to adopt rules and procedures. |
| 373.313 | Prior permission and notification. |
| 373.314 | Citation of rule. |
| 373.316 | Existing installations. |
| 373.319 | Inspections. |
| 373.323 | Licensure of water well contractors; application, qualifications, and examinations; equipment identification. |
| 373.324 | License renewal. |
| 373.325 | Inactive status. |
| 373.326 | Exemptions. |
| 373.329 | Fees for licensure. |
| 373.333 | Disciplinary guidelines; adoption and enforcement; license suspension or revocation. |
| 373.335 | Clearinghouse. |
| 373.336 | Unlawful acts; penalties. |
| 373.337 | Rules. |
| 373.342 | Permits. |
| 373.403 | Definitions. |
| 373.406 | Exemptions. |
| 373.407 | Determination of qualification for an agricultural-related exemption. |
| 373.409 | Headgates, valves, and measuring devices. |
| 373.413 | Permits for construction or alteration. |
| 373.4131 | Statewide environmental resource permitting rules. |
| 373.4132 | Dry storage facility permitting. |
| 373.4133 | Port conceptual permits. |
| 373.4135 | Mitigation banks and offsite regional mitigation. |
| 373.4136 | Establishment and operation of mitigation banks. |
| 373.4137 | Mitigation requirements for specified transportation projects. |
| 373.4138 | High Speed Rail Project; determination of mitigation requirements and costs. |
| 373.4139 | Local government transportation infrastructure mitigation requirements. |
| 373.414 | Additional criteria for activities in surface waters and wetlands. |
| 373.4141 | Permits; processing. |
| 373.4142 | Water quality within stormwater treatment systems. |
| 373.4143 | Declaration of policy. |
| 373.4144 | Federal environmental permitting. |
| 373.4145 | Part IV permitting program within the geographical jurisdiction of the Northwest Florida Water Management District. |
| 373.4146 | State assumption of the federal Clean Water Act, section 404 dredge and fill permitting program. |
| 373.4149 | Miami-Dade County Lake Belt Plan. |
| 373.41492 | Miami-Dade County Lake Belt Mitigation Plan; mitigation for mining activities within the Miami-Dade County Lake Belt. |
| 373.41495 | Lake Belt Mitigation Trust Fund; bonds. |
| 373.415 | Protection zones; duties of the St. Johns River Water Management District. |
| 373.416 | Permits for maintenance or operation. |
| 373.417 | Citation of rule. |
| 373.418 | Rulemaking; preservation of existing authority. |
| 373.4185 | List of flocculants permitted. |
| 373.419 | Completion report. |
| 373.421 | Delineation methods; formal determinations. |
| 373.4211 | Ratification of chapter 17-340, Florida Administrative Code, on the delineation of the landward extent of wetlands and surface waters. |
| 373.422 | Applications for activities on state sovereignty lands or other state lands. |
| 373.423 | Inspection. |
| 373.426 | Abandonment. |
| 373.427 | Concurrent permit review. |
| 373.4271 | Conduct of challenge to consolidated environmental resource permit or associated variance or sovereign submerged lands authorization issued in connection with deepwater ports. |
| 373.4275 | Review of consolidated orders. |
| 373.428 | Federal consistency. |
| 373.429 | Revocation and modification of permits. |
| 373.430 | Prohibitions, violation, penalty, intent. |
| 373.433 | Abatement. |
| 373.436 | Remedial measures. |
| 373.439 | Emergency measures. |
| 373.441 | Role of counties, municipalities, and local pollution control programs in permit processing; delegation. |
| 373.4415 | Role of Miami-Dade County in processing permits for limerock mining in Miami-Dade County Lake Belt. |
| 373.443 | Immunity from liability. |
| 373.451 | Short title; legislative findings and intent. |
| 373.453 | Surface water improvement and management plans and programs. |
| 373.459 | Funds for surface water improvement and management. |
| 373.4591 | Improvements on private agricultural lands. |
| 373.4592 | Everglades improvement and management. |
| 373.45922 | South Florida Water Management District; permit for completion of Everglades Construction Project; report. |
| 373.45924 | South Florida Water Management District; Everglades truth in borrowing. |
| 373.45926 | Everglades Trust Fund; allocation of revenues and expenditure of funds for conservation and protection of natural resources and abatement of water pollution. |
| 373.4593 | Florida Bay Restoration. |
| 373.45931 | Alligator Alley tolls; Everglades and Florida Bay restoration. |
| 373.4595 | Northern Everglades and Estuaries Protection Program. |
| 373.4596 | State compliance with stormwater management programs. |
| 373.4597 | The Geneva Freshwater Lens Protection Act. |
| 373.4598 | Water storage reservoirs. |
| 373.461 | Lake Apopka improvement and management. |
| 373.462 | Legislative findings and intent. |
| 373.463 | Heartland headwaters annual report. |
| 373.467 | The Harris Chain of Lakes Restoration Council. |
| 373.468 | The Harris Chain of Lakes restoration program. |
| 373.470 | Everglades restoration. |
| 373.472 | Save Our Everglades Trust Fund. |
| 373.475 | Water storage facility revolving loan fund. |
| 373.501 | Appropriation of funds to water management districts. |
| 373.503 | Manner of taxation. |
| 373.506 | Costs of district. |
| 373.5071 | Audit report; furnishing to governing board and clerks of circuit courts. |
| 373.535 | Preliminary district budgets. |
| 373.536 | District budget and hearing thereon. |
| 373.539 | Imposition of taxes. |
| 373.543 | Land held by Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund; areas not taxed. |
| 373.546 | Unit areas. |
| 373.553 | Treasurer of the board; payment of funds; depositories. |
| 373.559 | May borrow money temporarily. |
| 373.563 | Bonds. |
| 373.566 | Refunding bonds. |
| 373.569 | Bond election. |
| 373.573 | Bonds to be validated. |
| 373.576 | Sale of bonds. |
| 373.579 | Proceeds from taxes for bond purposes. |
| 373.583 | Registration of bonds. |
| 373.584 | Revenue bonds. |
| 373.586 | Unpaid warrants to draw interest. |
| 373.59 | Payment in lieu of taxes for lands acquired for water management district purposes. |
| 373.5905 | Reinstatement of payments in lieu of taxes; duration. |
| 373.591 | Management review teams. |
| 373.603 | Power to enforce. |
| 373.604 | Awards to employees for meritorious service. |
| 373.605 | Group insurance for water management districts. |
| 373.6055 | Criminal history checks for certain water management district employees and others. |
| 373.607 | Minority business enterprise procurement goals; implementation of recommendations. |
| 373.608 | Patents, copyrights, and trademarks. |
| 373.609 | Enforcement; city and county officers to assist. |
| 373.610 | Defaulting contractors. |
| 373.611 | Modification or limitation of remedy. |
| 373.613 | Penalties. |
| 373.614 | Unlawful damage to district property or works; penalty. |
| 373.616 | Liberal construction. |
| 373.6161 | Chapter to be liberally construed. |
| 373.617 | Judicial review relating to permits and licenses. |
| 373.618 | Public service warnings, alerts, and announcements. |
| 373.619 | Recognition of water and sewer-saving devices. |
| 373.62 | Water conservation; automatic sprinkler systems. |
| 373.621 | Water conservation. |
| 373.63 | Preference to State University System in award of projects or studies. |
| 373.69 | Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin Compact. |
| 373.701 | Declaration of policy. |
| 373.703 | Water production; general powers and duties. |
| 373.705 | Water resource development; water supply development. |
| 373.707 | Alternative water supply development. |
| 373.709 | Regional water supply planning. |
| 373.711 | Technical assistance to local governments. |
| 373.713 | Regional water supply authorities. |
| 373.715 | Assistance to West Coast Regional Water Supply Authority. |
| 373.801 | Legislative findings and intent. |
| 373.802 | Definitions. |
| 373.803 | Delineation of priority focus areas for Outstanding Florida Springs. |
| 373.805 | Minimum flows and minimum water levels for Outstanding Florida Springs. |
| 373.807 | Protection of water quality in Outstanding Florida Springs. |
| 373.811 | Prohibited activities within a priority focus area. |
| 373.813 | Rules. |
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