Senate Bill sb2406

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    Florida Senate - 2003                                  SB 2406

    By Senator Bennett





    21-1283-03

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to the recreational trails

  3         system; amending s. 260.012, F.S.; encouraging

  4         state, regional, and local agencies to give

  5         additional priority points for acquisition in

  6         purchasing land that includes the Florida

  7         National Scenic Trail; providing an effective

  8         date.

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10  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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12         Section 1.  Subsection (6) of section 260.012, Florida

13  Statutes, is amended to read:

14         260.012  Declaration of policy and legislative

15  intent.--

16         (6)  It is the intent of the Legislature to officially

17  recognize the Florida National Scenic Trail as Florida's

18  official statewide trail from the Florida Panhandle to the

19  Everglades. It is also the intent of the Legislature to

20  encourage all state, regional, and local agencies that who

21  acquire lands to include in their land-buying efforts the

22  acquisition of sufficient legal interest in the lands over

23  which the trail passes to ensure its continued existence in a

24  permanent location and to give each parcel of land proposed to

25  be purchased which includes a portion of the trail additional

26  priority points for acquisition within the agency's

27  land-buying process.

28         Section 2.  This act shall take effect upon becoming a

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      additional priority points for acquisition in the
 4    purchase of land within the Florida National Scenic Trail
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