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Florida Senate - 2001 SB 1514
By Senator Bronson
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1 A bill to be entitled
2 An act relating to the Fish and Wildlife
3 Conservation Commission; amending s. 372.57,
4 F.S.; eliminating requirements for the use of
5 certain fees to subsidize the private landowner
6 payment program; providing an effective date.
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8 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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10 Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subsection (4) of section
11 372.57, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
12 372.57 Licenses and permits; exemptions; fees.--No
13 person, except as provided herein, shall take game, freshwater
14 fish, or fur-bearing animals within this state without having
15 first obtained a license, permit, or authorization and paid
16 the fees hereinafter set forth, unless such license is issued
17 without fee as provided in s. 372.561. Such license, permit,
18 or authorization shall authorize the person to whom it is
19 issued to take game, freshwater fish, or fur-bearing animals
20 in accordance with law and commission rules. Such license,
21 permit, or authorization is not transferable. Each license or
22 permit must bear on its face in indelible ink the name of the
23 person to whom it is issued and other information requested by
24 the commission. Such license, permit, or authorization issued
25 by the commission or any agent must be in the personal
26 possession of the person to whom issued while taking game,
27 freshwater fish, or fur-bearing animals. The failure of such
28 person to exhibit such license, permit, or authorization to
29 the commission or its wildlife officers, when such person is
30 found taking game, freshwater fish, or fur-bearing animals, is
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1 required when using an authorization, a lifetime license, a
2 5-year license, or when otherwise required by the license or
3 permit. The lifetime licenses and 5-year licenses provided
4 herein shall be embossed with the name, date of birth, date of
5 issuance, and other pertinent information as deemed necessary
6 by the commission. A certified copy of the applicant's birth
7 certificate shall accompany each application for a lifetime
8 license for a resident 12 years of age or younger. Each
9 applicant for a license, permit, or authorization shall
10 provide the applicant's social security number on the
11 application form. Disclosure of social security numbers
12 obtained through this requirement shall be limited to the
13 purpose of administration of the Title IV-D child support
14 enforcement program and use by the commission, and as
15 otherwise provided by law.
16 (4) In addition to any license required by this
17 chapter, the following permits and fees for certain hunting,
18 fishing, and recreational uses, and the activities authorized
19 thereby, are:
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 recreational
16 user permit fee so as to decrease the permit fee for the users
17 of that property. One minor dependent child, 16 years old or
18 under, per permittee may hunt under the supervision of the
19 permittee and is exempt from the permit fee. The spouse and
20 dependent children of a permittee are exempt from the permit
21 fee when engaged in outdoor recreational activities other than
22 hunting in the company of the permittee. Notwithstanding any
23 other provision of this chapter, there are no other
24 exclusions, exceptions, or exemptions from this permit fee.
25 The recreational user permit fee, less an administrative
26 permit fee of up to $25 per permit, shall be remitted to the
27 landowner as provided in the lease agreement for each area.
28 Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2001.
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2 SENATE SUMMARY
3 Revises provisions relating to the permit fee for
property in the private landowner payment program under
4 the jurisdiction of the Fish and Wildlife Conservation
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