Senate Bill sb0630

    Florida Senate - 2003                                   SB 630

    By Senator Lawson





    6-706-03

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to the Department of

  3         Environmental Protection; amending s. 403.8163,

  4         F.S.; removing an obsolete reference to the

  5         Division of Beaches and Shores of the

  6         Department of Environmental Protection;

  7         providing an effective date.

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

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11         Section 1.  Section 403.8163, Florida Statutes, is

12  amended to read:

13         403.8163  Sites for disposal of spoil from maintenance

14  dredge operations; selection.--Lands created by spoil or used

15  as dredge spoil sites must be given priority consideration as

16  sites for disposal of spoil in maintenance dredge operations,

17  except when the Division of Beaches and Shores of the

18  Department of Environmental Protection determines that the

19  spoil, or some substantial portion thereof, may be placed as

20  compatible sediment into the littoral system of an adjacent

21  sandy beach or coastal barrier dune system for the

22  preservation and protection of such beach or dune system.

23         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2003.

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26                          SENATE SUMMARY

27    Removes an obsolete reference to the Division of Beaches
      and Shores, which was abolished in 1994.
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