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By the Committee on Natural Resources and Senator Bronson
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1 A bill to be entitled
2 An act relating to land management; amending s.
3 259.032, F.S.; providing for the use of
4 Conservation and Recreation Lands funds to
5 manage additional lands; authorizing the use of
6 certain equipment on conservation and
7 recreation lands; amending s. 372.57, F.S.;
8 providing for an exemption to the recreational
9 user permit fee; providing an effective date.
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11 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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13 Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subsection (11) of section
14 259.032, Florida Statutes, 1998 Supplement, is amended to
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16 259.032 Conservation and Recreation Lands Trust Fund;
17 purpose.--
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19 (b) An amount up to 1.5 percent of the cumulative
20 total of funds ever deposited into the Florida Preservation
21 2000 Trust Fund shall be made available for the purposes of
22 management, maintenance, and capital improvements, and for
23 associated contractual services, for lands acquired pursuant
24 to this section and s. 259.101 to which title is vested in the
25 board of trustees and other conservation and recreation lands
26 managed by and titled to a state agency which are contiguous
27 to lands acquired under this section and s. 259.101. Such
28 contiguous lands shall not be used to determine the amount of
29 management funds allocated to state agencies. Each agency with
30 management responsibilities shall annually request from the
31 Legislature funds sufficient to fulfill such responsibilities.
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1 Capital improvements shall include, but need not be limited
2 to, perimeter fencing, signs, firelanes, access roads and
3 trails, and minimal public accommodations, such as primitive
4 campsites, garbage receptacles, and toilets. Any equipment
5 purchased with funds provided pursuant to this paragraph may
6 be used for the purposes described in this paragraph on any
7 state lands acquired for conservation or recreation.
8 Section 2. Subsection (4) of section 372.57, Florida
9 Statutes, 1998 Supplement, is amended to read:
10 372.57 Licenses and permits; exemptions; fees.--No
11 person, except as provided herein, shall take game, freshwater
12 fish, or fur-bearing animals within this state without having
13 first obtained a license, permit, or authorization and paid
14 the fees hereinafter set forth, unless such license is issued
15 without fee as provided in s. 372.561. Such license, permit,
16 or authorization shall authorize the person to whom it is
17 issued to take game, freshwater fish, or fur-bearing animals
18 in accordance with law and commission rules. Such license,
19 permit, or authorization is not transferable. Each license or
20 permit must bear on its face in indelible ink the name of the
21 person to whom it is issued and other information requested by
22 the commission. Such license, permit, or authorization issued
23 by the commission or any agent must be in the personal
24 possession of the person to whom issued while taking game,
25 freshwater fish, or fur-bearing animals. The failure of such
26 person to exhibit such license, permit, or authorization to
27 the commission or its wildlife officers, when such person is
28 found taking game, freshwater fish, or fur-bearing animals, is
29 a violation of law. A positive form of identification is
30 required when using an authorization, a lifetime license, a
31 5-year license, or when otherwise required by the license or
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1 permit. The lifetime licenses and 5-year licenses provided
2 herein shall be embossed with the name, date of birth, the
3 date of issuance, and other pertinent information as deemed
4 necessary by the commission. A certified copy of the
5 applicant's birth certificate shall accompany all applications
6 for a lifetime license for residents 12 years of age and
7 younger. Each applicant for a license, permit, or
8 authorization shall provide the applicant's social security
9 number on the application form. Disclosure of social security
10 numbers obtained through this requirement shall be limited to
11 the purpose of administration of the Title IV-D child support
12 enforcement program and use by the commission, and as
13 otherwise provided by law.
14 (4) In addition to any license required by this
15 chapter, the following permits and fees for certain hunting,
16 fishing, and recreational uses, and the activities authorized
17 thereby, are:
18 (a) A Florida waterfowl permit to take wild ducks or
19 geese within this state or its coastal waters is $3.
20 (b)1. Management area permits to hunt, fish, or
21 otherwise use for outdoor recreational purposes, land owned,
22 leased, or managed by the commission or the State of Florida
23 for the use and benefit of the commission, up to $25 annually.
24 Permits, and fees thereof, for short-term use of land which is
25 owned, leased, or managed by the commission may be established
26 by rule of the commission for any activity on such lands.
27 Such permits and fees may be in lieu of or in addition to the
28 annual management area permit. Other than for hunting or
29 fishing, the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply on
30 any lands not owned by the commission, unless the commission
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1 shall have obtained the written consent of the owner or
2 primary custodian of such lands.
3 2. A recreational user permit fee to hunt, fish, or
4 otherwise use for outdoor recreational purposes, land leased
5 by the commission from private nongovernmental owners, except
6 for those lands located directly north of the Apalachicola
7 National Forest, east of the Ochlockonee River until the point
8 the river meets the dam forming Lake Talquin, and south of the
9 closest federal highway. The fee for this permit shall be
10 based upon economic compensation desired by the landowner,
11 game population levels, desired hunter density, and
12 administrative costs. The permit fee shall be set by
13 commission rule on a per-acre basis. On property currently in
14 the private landowner payment program, the prior year's
15 landowner payment shall be used to augment the landowner lease
16 fee so as to decrease the permit fee for the users of that
17 property. One minor dependent child per permittee may hunt
18 under the supervision of the permittee and is exempt from the
19 permit fee. The spouse and dependent children of a permittee
20 are exempt from the permit fee when engaged in outdoor
21 recreational activities other than hunting in the company of
22 the permittee. Notwithstanding any other provision of this
23 chapter, there are no other exclusions, exceptions, or
24 exemptions from this permit fee. The recreational user permit
25 landowner lease fee, less an administrative permit fee of up
26 to $25 per permit, shall be remitted to the landowner as
27 provided in the lease agreement for each area.
28 Section 3. This act shall take effect upon becoming a
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1 STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
2 SB 306
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4 The bill now clarifies that the extension of existing
management funding from the CARL TF to the three wildlife
5 management areas will not result in additional funding being
received by the Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission, and that
6 these lands newly-eligible for funding must be conservation
and recreation lands. The bill also authorizes the use of
7 equipment purchased with CARL TF funds on any lands acquired
for conservation or recreation.
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