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    Florida Senate - 1999                            CS for SB 306

    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

15  read:

16         259.032  Conservation and Recreation Lands Trust Fund;

17  purpose.--

18         (11)

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

29  law.

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  1          STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
                       COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
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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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