| 1 | Representative Davis, M. offered the following: |
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| 3 | Amendment |
| 4 | Remove line(s) 174-203 and insert: |
| 5 | (1)(a) A person may not knowingly operate a vessel, or |
| 6 | authorize the operation of a vessel, in violation of the |
| 7 | restrictions of a safety zone, security zone, regulated |
| 8 | navigation area, or naval vessel protection zone as defined in |
| 9 | and established pursuant to 33 C.F.R. part 165. |
| 10 | (b) The intent of this section is to provide for state and |
| 11 | local law enforcement agencies to operate in federally |
| 12 | designated exclusion zones specified in paragraph (a). State and |
| 13 | local law enforcement personnel may enforce these zones at the |
| 14 | request of a federal authority if necessary to augment federal |
| 15 | law enforcement efforts and if there is a compelling need to |
| 16 | protect the residents and infrastructure of this state. Requests |
| 17 | for state and local law enforcement personnel to enforce these |
| 18 | zones must be made to the Department of Law Enforcement through |
| 19 | the Florida Mutual Aid Plan described in s. 23.1231. |
| 20 | (2) A person who knowingly operates a vessel, or |
| 21 | authorizes the operation of a vessel, in violation of the |
| 22 | restrictions of such a safety zone, security zone, regulated |
| 23 | navigation area, or naval vessel protection zone commits a |
| 24 | misdemeanor of the first degree, punishable as provided in s. |
| 25 | 775.082 or s. 775.083. |
| 26 | (3) A person who continues to operate, or authorize the |
| 27 | operation of, a vessel in violation of the restrictions of such |
| 28 | a safety zone, security zone, regulated navigation area, or |
| 29 | naval vessel protection zone after being warned against doing |
| 30 | so, or who refuses to leave or otherwise cease violating the |
| 31 | restrictions of such a safety zone, security zone, regulated |
| 32 | navigation area, or naval vessel protection zone after having |
| 33 | been ordered to do so by a law enforcement officer or by |
| 34 | competent military authority, commits a felony of the third |
| 35 | degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. |
| 36 | 775.084. |
| 37 | (4) A person who knowingly enters a safety zone, security |
| 38 | zone, |