Florida Senate - 2019                             CS for SB 1500
       
       
        
       By the Committee on Environment and Natural Resources; and
       Senator Simmons
       
       
       
       
       592-03514-19                                          20191500c1
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to right of entry; amending s. 270.11,
    3         F.S.; releasing right of entry 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.
    7          
    8  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
    9  
   10         Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subsection (2) and subsection
   11  (3) of section 270.11, Florida Statutes, are 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) A local government, a water management district, or an
   17  agency of the state may, at its discretion, sell or release
   18  reserved interest in any parcel of land, except that such sale
   19  or release shall be made upon petition of the purchaser for such
   20  interest and with a statement of reasons justifying such sale or
   21  release.
   22         (3) The right of entry in respect to any interest in
   23  phosphate, minerals, and metals or any interest in petroleum
   24  heretofore or hereafter reserved in favor of the Board of
   25  Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund, or the State
   26  Board of Education, a local government, a water management
   27  district, or other agency of the state is hereby released for as
   28  to any parcel of property that is, or ever has been, a
   29  contiguous tract of less than 20 acres in the aggregate under
   30  the same ownership.
   31         (3) A local government, water management district, or
   32  agency of the state may, at its discretion, sell or release
   33  reserved interest in any parcel of land, except that such sale
   34  or release shall be made upon petition of the purchaser for such
   35  interest and with a statement of reasons justifying such sale or
   36  release.
   37         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2019.