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By the Committees on Fiscal Resource, 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 a state agency and titled to either the board of
27 trustees or a state agency which are contiguous to lands
28 acquired under this section and s. 259.101. Such contiguous
29 lands shall not be used to determine the amount of management
30 funds allocated to state agencies. Each agency with management
31 responsibilities shall annually request from the Legislature
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1 funds sufficient to fulfill such responsibilities. Capital
2 improvements shall include, but need not be limited to,
3 perimeter fencing, signs, firelanes, access roads and trails,
4 and minimal public accommodations, such as primitive
5 campsites, garbage receptacles, and toilets. Any equipment
6 purchased with funds provided pursuant to this paragraph may
7 be used for the purposes described in this paragraph on any
8 state lands acquired for conservation or recreation.
9 Section 2. Subsection (4) of section 372.57, Florida
10 Statutes, 1998 Supplement, is amended to read:
11 372.57 Licenses and permits; exemptions; fees.--No
12 person, except as provided herein, shall take game, freshwater
13 fish, or fur-bearing animals within this state without having
14 first obtained a license, permit, or authorization and paid
15 the fees hereinafter set forth, unless such license is issued
16 without fee as provided in s. 372.561. Such license, permit,
17 or authorization shall authorize the person to whom it is
18 issued to take game, freshwater fish, or fur-bearing animals
19 in accordance with law and commission rules. Such license,
20 permit, or authorization is not transferable. Each license or
21 permit must bear on its face in indelible ink the name of the
22 person to whom it is issued and other information requested by
23 the commission. Such license, permit, or authorization issued
24 by the commission or any agent must be in the personal
25 possession of the person to whom issued while taking game,
26 freshwater fish, or fur-bearing animals. The failure of such
27 person to exhibit such license, permit, or authorization to
28 the commission or its wildlife officers, when such person is
29 found taking game, freshwater fish, or fur-bearing animals, is
30 a violation of law. A positive form of identification is
31 required when using an authorization, a lifetime license, a
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1 5-year license, or when otherwise required by the license or
2 permit. The lifetime licenses and 5-year licenses provided
3 herein shall be embossed with the name, date of birth, the
4 date of issuance, and other pertinent information as deemed
5 necessary by the commission. A certified copy of the
6 applicant's birth certificate shall accompany all applications
7 for a lifetime license for residents 12 years of age and
8 younger. Each applicant for a license, permit, or
9 authorization shall provide the applicant's social security
10 number on the application form. Disclosure of social security
11 numbers obtained through this requirement shall be limited to
12 the purpose of administration of the Title IV-D child support
13 enforcement program and use by the commission, and as
14 otherwise provided by law.
15 (4) In addition to any license required by this
16 chapter, the following permits and fees for certain hunting,
17 fishing, and recreational uses, and the activities authorized
18 thereby, are:
19 (a) A Florida waterfowl permit to take wild ducks or
20 geese within this state or its coastal waters is $3.
21 (b)1. Management area permits to hunt, fish, or
22 otherwise use for outdoor recreational purposes, land owned,
23 leased, or managed by the commission or the State of Florida
24 for the use and benefit of the commission, up to $25 annually.
25 Permits, and fees thereof, for short-term use of land which is
26 owned, leased, or managed by the commission may be established
27 by rule of the commission for any activity on such lands.
28 Such permits and fees may be in lieu of or in addition to the
29 annual management area permit. Other than for hunting or
30 fishing, the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply on
31 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 16-year-old or younger dependent child per
18 permittee may hunt under the supervision of the permittee and
19 is exempt from the permit fee. The spouse and dependent
20 children of a permittee are exempt from the permit fee when
21 engaged in outdoor recreational activities other than hunting
22 in the company of the permittee. Notwithstanding any other
23 provision of this chapter, there are no other exclusions,
24 exceptions, or exemptions from this permit fee. The
25 recreational user permit landowner lease fee, less an
26 administrative permit fee of up to $25 per permit, shall be
27 remitted to the landowner as provided in the lease agreement
28 for each area.
29 Section 3. This act shall take effect upon becoming a
30 law.
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1 STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
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4 The bill clarifies that in addition to certain lands managed
by and titled to a state agency being eligible to use CARL
5 funds, lands titled to either the board of trustees or a state
agency are also eligible to use CARL funds.
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The bill also clarifies that the exemption provided in the
7 bill from a recreational user permit fee to a supervised
dependent child or a permittee, is for dependents 16-years old
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