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2007 Florida Statutes
                        Chapter 253
STATE LANDS Entire Chapter
    
    STATE LANDS Entire Chapter
CHAPTER 253
                STATE LANDS
            
                        253.001
                        
                    Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund; duty to hold lands in trust. 
                    
                        253.002
                        
                    Department of Environmental Protection, water management districts, and Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; duties with respect to state lands. 
                    
                        253.01
                        
                    Internal Improvement Trust Fund established. 
                    
                        253.02
                        
                    Board of trustees; powers and duties. 
                    
                        253.025
                        
                    Acquisition of state lands for purposes other than preservation, conservation, and recreation. 
                    
                        253.027
                        
                    Emergency archaeological property acquisition. 
                    
                        253.03
                        
                    Board of trustees to administer state lands; lands enumerated. 
                    
                        253.031
                        
                    Land office; custody of documents concerning land; moneys; plats. 
                    
                        253.0325
                        
                    Modernization of state lands records. 
                    
                        253.033
                        
                    Inter-American Center property; transfer to board; continued use for government purposes. 
                    
                        253.034
                        
                    State-owned lands; uses. 
                    
                        253.0341
                        
                    Surplus of state-owned lands to counties or local governments. 
                    
                        253.0345
                        
                    Special events; submerged land leases. 
                    
                        253.035
                        
                    Coastal anchorage areas. 
                    
                        253.036
                        
                    Forest management. 
                    
                        253.037
                        
                    Use of state-owned land for correctional facilities. 
                    
                        253.04
                        
                    Duty of board to protect, etc., state lands; state may join in any action brought. 
                    
                        253.05
                        
                    Prosecuting officers to assist in protecting state lands. 
                    
                        253.111
                        
                    Notice to board of county commissioners before sale. 
                    
                        253.115
                        
                    Public notice and hearings. 
                    
                        253.12
                        
                    Title to tidal lands vested in state. 
                    
                        253.121
                        
                    Conveyances of such lands heretofore made, ratified, confirmed, and validated. 
                    
                        253.1221
                        
                    Bulkhead lines; reestablishment. 
                    
                        253.1241
                        
                    Studies. 
                    
                        253.1252
                        
                    Citation of rule. 
                    
                        253.126
                        
                    Legislative intent. 
                    
                        253.127
                        
                    Enforcement. 
                    
                        253.128
                        
                    Enforcement; board or agency under special law. 
                    
                        253.1281
                        
                    Review by board. 
                    
                        253.129
                        
                    Confirmation of title in upland owners. 
                    
                        253.135
                        
                    Construction of ss. 253.12, 253.126, 253.127, 253.128, and 253.129. 
                    
                        253.14
                        
                    Rights of riparian owners; board of trustees to defend suit. 
                    
                        253.141
                        
                    Riparian rights defined; certain submerged bottoms subject to private ownership. 
                    
                        253.21
                        
                    Board of trustees may surrender certain lands to the United States and receive indemnity. 
                    
                        253.29
                        
                    Board of trustees to refund money paid where title to land fails. 
                    
                        253.34
                        
                    Transfer of notes owned by board. 
                    
                        253.36
                        
                    Title to reclaimed marshlands, wetlands, or lowlands in board of trustees. 
                    
                        253.37
                        
                    Survey to be made; sale of lands; preference to buyers. 
                    
                        253.38
                        
                    Riparian rights not affected. 
                    
                        253.381
                        
                    Unsurveyed marshlands; sale to upland owners. 
                    
                        253.382
                        
                    Oyster beds, minerals, and oils reserved to state. 
                    
                        253.39
                        
                    Surveys approved by chief cadastral surveyor validated. 
                    
                        253.40
                        
                    To what lands applicable. 
                    
                        253.41
                        
                    Plats and field notes filed in office of Board of Trustees of Internal Improvement Trust Fund. 
                    
                        253.42
                        
                    Board of trustees may exchange lands. 
                    
                        253.43
                        
                    Convey by deed. 
                    
                        253.431
                        
                    Agents may act on behalf of board of trustees. 
                    
                        253.44
                        
                    Disposal of lands received. 
                    
                        253.45
                        
                    Sale or lease of phosphate, clay, minerals, etc., in or under state lands. 
                    
                        253.451
                        
                    Construction of term "land the title to which is vested in the state." 
                    
                        253.47
                        
                    Board of trustees may lease, sell, etc., bottoms of bays, lagoons, straits, etc., owned by state, for petroleum purposes. 
                    
                        253.51
                        
                    Oil and gas leases on state lands by the board of trustees. 
                    
                        253.511
                        
                    Reports by lessees of oil and mineral rights, state lands. 
                    
                        253.512
                        
                    Applicants for lease of gas, oil, or mineral rights; report as to lease holdings. 
                    
                        253.52
                        
                    Placing oil and gas leases on market by board. 
                    
                        253.53
                        
                    Sealed bids required. 
                    
                        253.54
                        
                    Competitive bidding. 
                    
                        253.55
                        
                    Limitation on term of lease. 
                    
                        253.56
                        
                    Responsibility of bidder. 
                    
                        253.57
                        
                    Royalties. 
                    
                        253.571
                        
                    Proof of financial responsibility required of lessee prior to commencement of drilling. 
                    
                        253.60
                        
                    Conflicting laws. 
                    
                        253.61
                        
                    Lands not subject to lease. 
                    
                        253.62
                        
                    Board of trustees authorized to convey certain lands without reservation. 
                    
                        253.66
                        
                    Change in bulkhead lines, Pinellas County. 
                    
                        253.665
                        
                    Grant of easements, licenses, and leases. 
                    
                        253.67
                        
                    Definitions. 
                    
                        253.68
                        
                    Authority to lease or use submerged lands and water column for aquaculture activities. 
                    
                        253.69
                        
                    Application to lease submerged land and water column. 
                    
                        253.70
                        
                    Public notice. 
                    
                        253.71
                        
                    The lease contract. 
                    
                        253.72
                        
                    Marking of leased areas; restrictions on public use. 
                    
                        253.73
                        
                    Rules; ss. 253.67-253.75. 
                    
                        253.74
                        
                    Penalties. 
                    
                        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. 
                    
                        253.763
                        
                    Judicial review relating to permits and licenses. 
                    
                        253.77
                        
                    State lands; state agency authorization for use prohibited without consent of agency in which title vested; concurrent processing requirements. 
                    
                        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. 
                    
                        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. 
                    
                        253.7821
                        
                    Cross Florida Greenways State Recreation and Conservation Area assigned to the Office of the Executive Director. 
                    
                        253.7822
                        
                    Boundaries of the Cross Florida Greenways State Recreation and Conservation Area; coordination of management activities. 
                    
                        253.7823
                        
                    Disposition of surplus lands; compensation of counties located within the Cross Florida Canal Navigation District. 
                    
                        253.7824
                        
                    Sale of products; proceeds. 
                    
                        253.7825
                        
                    Recreational uses. 
                    
                        253.7826
                        
                    Canal structures. 
                    
                        253.7827
                        
                    Transportation and utility crossings of greenways lands. 
                    
                        253.7828
                        
                    Impairment of use or conservation by agencies prohibited. 
                    
                        253.7829
                        
                    Management plan for retention or disposition of former Cross Florida Barge Canal lands; authority to manage lands until disposition. 
                    
                        253.783
                        
                    Additional powers and duties of the department; disposition of surplus lands; payments to counties. 
                    
                        253.784
                        
                    Contracts. 
                    
                        253.785
                        
                    Liberal construction of act. 
                    
                        253.80
                        
                    Murphy Act lands; costs and attorney fees for quieting title. 
                    
                        253.81
                        
                    Murphy Act; tax certificates barred. 
                    
                        253.82
                        
                    Title of state or private owners to Murphy Act lands. 
                    
                        253.83
                        
                    Construction of recodification. 
                    
                        253.86
                        
            Management and use of state-owned or other uplands; rulemaking authority.