Florida Senate - 2024                                     SB 188
       
       
        
       By Senator Brodeur
       
       
       
       
       
       10-00316-24                                            2024188__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to trespass on commercial agricultural
    3         property; amending s. 810.09, F.S.; providing enhanced
    4         criminal penalties for trespass with specified intent
    5         on certain commercial agricultural property; defining
    6         the term “commercial agricultural property”; providing
    7         an effective date.
    8          
    9  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   11         Section 1. Paragraph (k) is added to subsection (2) of
   12  section 810.09, Florida Statutes, to read:
   13         810.09 Trespass on property other than structure or
   14  conveyance.—
   15         (2)
   16         (k)1. The offender commits a felony of the third degree,
   17  punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084,
   18  if the offender trespasses with the intent to commit a crime on
   19  commercial agricultural property that is legally posted and
   20  identified by signs in letters of not less than 2 inches in
   21  height at each pedestrian and vehicle entrance in substantially
   22  the following manner: “THIS AREA IS A DESIGNATED COMMERCIAL
   23  AGRICULTURAL PROPERTY AND ANYONE WHO TRESPASSES ON THIS PROPERTY
   24  COMMITS A FELONY.”
   25         2. For purposes of this paragraph, the term “commercial
   26  agricultural property” means property that is cleared of its
   27  natural vegetation or fenced for the purposes of planting,
   28  growing, harvesting, processing, or storing plant or animal
   29  commercial commodities intended for human consumption.
   30         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2024.