Florida Senate - 2019                                    SB 1500
       
       
        
       By Senator Simmons
       
       
       
       
       
       9-01330A-19                                           20191500__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to mineral rights; amending s. 270.11,
    3         F.S.; releasing mineral rights reserved by a local
    4         government, water management district, or other agency
    5         of the state for specified parcels of property;
    6         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 (2) of section
   11  270.11, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
   12         270.11 Contracts for sale of public lands to reserve
   13  certain mineral rights; prohibition on exercise of right of
   14  entry in certain cases.—
   15         (2)
   16         (b) The right of entry in respect to any interest in
   17  phosphate, minerals, and metals or any interest in petroleum
   18  heretofore or hereafter reserved in favor of the Board of
   19  Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund, or the State
   20  Board of Education, or a local government, water management
   21  district, or other agency of the state is hereby released for as
   22  to any parcel of property that is, or ever has been, a
   23  contiguous tract of less than 20 acres in the aggregate under
   24  the same ownership.
   25         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2019.