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Florida House of Representatives - 1999 HB 569
By Representative Putnam
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; providing a limitation
6 on state agency land management allocations;
7 amending s. 372.57, F.S.; providing for an
8 exemption to the recreational user permit fee;
9 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 lands managed by and titled to a
26 state agency which are contiguous to lands acquired under this
27 section and s. 259.101. Such contiguous lands shall not be
28 used to determine the amount of management funds allocated to
29 state agencies. Each agency with management responsibilities
30 shall annually request from the Legislature funds sufficient
31 to fulfill such responsibilities. Capital improvements shall
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1 include, but need not be limited to, perimeter fencing, signs,
2 firelanes, access roads and trails, and minimal public
3 accommodations, such as primitive campsites, garbage
4 receptacles, and toilets.
5 Section 2. Subsection (4) of section 372.57, Florida
6 Statutes, 1998 Supplement, is amended to read:
7 372.57 Licenses and permits; exemptions; fees.--No
8 person, except as provided herein, shall take game, freshwater
9 fish, or fur-bearing animals within this state without having
10 first obtained a license, permit, or authorization and paid
11 the fees hereinafter set forth, unless such license is issued
12 without fee as provided in s. 372.561. Such license, permit,
13 or authorization shall authorize the person to whom it is
14 issued to take game, freshwater fish, or fur-bearing animals
15 in accordance with law and commission rules. Such license,
16 permit, or authorization is not transferable. Each license or
17 permit must bear on its face in indelible ink the name of the
18 person to whom it is issued and other information requested by
19 the commission. Such license, permit, or authorization issued
20 by the commission or any agent must be in the personal
21 possession of the person to whom issued while taking game,
22 freshwater fish, or fur-bearing animals. The failure of such
23 person to exhibit such license, permit, or authorization to
24 the commission or its wildlife officers, when such person is
25 found taking game, freshwater fish, or fur-bearing animals, is
26 a violation of law. A positive form of identification is
27 required when using an authorization, a lifetime license, a
28 5-year license, or when otherwise required by the license or
29 permit. The lifetime licenses and 5-year licenses provided
30 herein shall be embossed with the name, date of birth, the
31 date of issuance, and other pertinent information as deemed
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1 necessary by the commission. A certified copy of the
2 applicant's birth certificate shall accompany all applications
3 for a lifetime license for residents 12 years of age and
4 younger. Each applicant for a license, permit, or
5 authorization shall provide the applicant's social security
6 number on the application form. Disclosure of social security
7 numbers obtained through this requirement shall be limited to
8 the purpose of administration of the Title IV-D child support
9 enforcement program and use by the commission, and as
10 otherwise provided by law.
11 (4) In addition to any license required by this
12 chapter, the following permits and fees for certain hunting,
13 fishing, and recreational uses, and the activities authorized
14 thereby, are:
15 (a) A Florida waterfowl permit to take wild ducks or
16 geese within this state or its coastal waters is $3.
17 (b)1. Management area permits to hunt, fish, or
18 otherwise use for outdoor recreational purposes, land owned,
19 leased, or managed by the commission or the State of Florida
20 for the use and benefit of the commission, up to $25 annually.
21 Permits, and fees thereof, for short-term use of land which is
22 owned, leased, or managed by the commission may be established
23 by rule of the commission for any activity on such lands.
24 Such permits and fees may be in lieu of or in addition to the
25 annual management area permit. Other than for hunting or
26 fishing, the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply on
27 any lands not owned by the commission, unless the commission
28 shall have obtained the written consent of the owner or
29 primary custodian of such lands.
30 2. A recreational user permit fee to hunt, fish, or
31 otherwise use for outdoor recreational purposes, land leased
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1 by the commission from private nongovernmental owners, except
2 for those lands located directly north of the Apalachicola
3 National Forest, east of the Ochlockonee River until the point
4 the river meets the dam forming Lake Talquin, and south of the
5 closest federal highway. The fee for this permit shall be
6 based upon economic compensation desired by the landowner,
7 game population levels, desired hunter density, and
8 administrative costs. The permit fee shall be set by
9 commission rule on a per-acre basis. On property currently in
10 the private landowner payment program, the prior year's
11 landowner payment shall be used to augment the landowner lease
12 fee so as to decrease the permit fee for the users of that
13 property. One minor dependent child per permittee may hunt
14 under the supervision of the permittee and is exempt from the
15 permit fee. The spouse and dependent children of a permittee
16 are exempt from the permit fee when engaged in outdoor
17 recreational activities other than hunting in the company of
18 the permittee. Notwithstanding any other provision of this
19 chapter, there are no other exclusions, exceptions, or
20 exemptions from this permit fee. The landowner lease fee, less
21 an administrative permit fee of up to $25 per permit, shall be
22 remitted to the landowner as provided in the lease agreement
23 for each area.
24 Section 3. This act shall take effect upon becoming a
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Authorizes the use of Conservation and Recreation Lands
4 funds to manage lands contiguous to CARL lands but titled
to a state agency other than the Board of Trustees of the
5 Internal Improvement Trust Fund. Provides that such
contiguous lands shall not be used to determine the
6 amount of management funds allocated to state agencies.
Provides for an exemption to the recreational user permit
7 fee to hunt, fish, or otherwise use recreational lands.
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