The Florida Senate

589.19  Creation of certain state forests; naming of certain state forests.--

(1)  When the Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund, any state agency, or any agency created by state law, authorized to accept reforestation lands in the name of the state, approve the recommendations of the Division of Forestry in reference to the acquisition of land and acquire such land, the said board, state agency, or agency created by state law, may formally designate and dedicate any area as a reforestation project, or state forest, and where so designated and dedicated such area shall be under the administration of the division which shall be authorized to manage and administer said area according to the purpose for which it was designated and dedicated.

(2)  The first state forest acquired by the Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund in Baker County is to be named the John M. Bethea State Forest. This is to honor Mr. John M. Bethea who was Florida's fourth state forester and whose distinguished career in state government spanned 46 years and who is a native of Baker County.

History.--s. 2, ch. 16030, 1933; CGL 1936 Supp. 4151(10-b); s. 2, ch. 61-119; ss. 14, 27, 35, ch. 69-106; s. 35, ch. 2001-279.