Chapter 253 STATE LANDS
- 253.001 Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund; duty to hold lands in trust.
- 253.002 Department of Environmental Protection, water management districts, Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, and Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; duties with respect to state
- 253.01 Internal Improvement Trust Fund established.
- 253.02 Board of trustees; powers and duties.
- 253.025 Acquisition of state lands for purposes other than preservation, conservation, and recreation.
- 253.027 Emergency archaeological property acquisition.
- 253.03 Board of trustees to administer state lands; lands enumerated.
- 253.031 Land office; custody of documents concerning land; moneys; plats.
- 253.0325 Modernization of state lands records.
- 253.033 Inter-American Center property; transfer to board; continued use for government purposes.
- 253.034 State-owned lands; uses.
- 253.0341 Surplus of state-owned lands to counties or local governments.
- 253.0345 Special events; submerged land leases.
- 253.035 Coastal anchorage areas.
- 253.036 Forest management.
- 253.037 Use of state-owned land for correctional facilities.
- 253.04 Duty of board to protect, etc., state lands; state may join in any action brought.
- 253.05 Prosecuting officers to assist in protecting state lands.
- 253.111 Notice to board of county commissioners before sale.
- 253.115 Public notice and hearings.
- 253.12 Title to tidal lands vested in state.
- 253.121 Conveyances of such lands heretofore made, ratified, confirmed, and validated.
- 253.1221 Bulkhead lines; reestablishment.
- 253.1241 Studies.
- 253.1252 Citation of rule.
- 253.126 Legislative intent.
- 253.127 Enforcement.
- 253.128 Enforcement; board or agency under special law.
- 253.1281 Review by board.
- 253.129 Confirmation of title in upland owners.
- 253.135 Construction of ss. 253.12, 253.126, 253.127, 253.128, and 253.129.
- 253.14 Rights of riparian owners; board of trustees to defend suit.
- 253.141 Riparian rights defined; certain submerged bottoms subject to private ownership.
- 253.21 Board of trustees may surrender certain lands to the United States and receive indemnity.
- 253.29 Board of trustees to refund money paid where title to land fails.
- 253.34 Transfer of notes owned by board.
- 253.36 Title to reclaimed marshlands, wetlands, or lowlands in board of trustees.
- 253.37 Survey to be made; sale of lands; preference to buyers.
- 253.38 Riparian rights not affected.
- 253.381 Unsurveyed marshlands; sale to upland owners.
- 253.382 Oyster beds, minerals, and oils reserved to state.
- 253.39 Surveys approved by chief cadastral surveyor validated.
- 253.40 To what lands applicable.
- 253.41 Plats and field notes filed in office of Board of Trustees of Internal Improvement Trust Fund.
- 253.42 Board of trustees may exchange lands.
- 253.43 Convey by deed.
- 253.431 Agents may act on behalf of board of trustees.
- 253.44 Disposal of lands received.
- 253.45 Sale or lease of phosphate, clay, minerals, etc., in or under state lands.
- 253.451 Construction of term “land the title to which is vested in the state.”
- 253.47 Board of trustees may lease, sell, etc., bottoms of bays, lagoons, straits, etc., owned by state, for petroleum purposes.
- 253.51 Oil and gas leases on state lands by the board of trustees.
- 253.511 Reports by lessees of oil and mineral rights, state lands.
- 253.512 Applicants for lease of gas, oil, or mineral rights; report as to lease holdings.
- 253.52 Placing oil and gas leases on market by board.
- 253.53 Sealed bids required.
- 253.54 Competitive bidding.
- 253.55 Limitation on term of lease.
- 253.56 Responsibility of bidder.
- 253.57 Royalties.
- 253.571 Proof of financial responsibility required of lessee prior to commencement of drilling.
- 253.60 Conflicting laws.
- 253.61 Lands not subject to lease.
- 253.62 Board of trustees authorized to convey certain lands without reservation.
- 253.66 Change in bulkhead lines, Pinellas County.
- 253.665 Grant of easements, licenses, and leases.
- 253.67 Definitions.
- 253.68 Authority to lease or use submerged lands and water column for aquaculture activities.
- 253.69 Application to lease submerged land and water column.
- 253.70 Public notice.
- 253.71 The lease contract.
- 253.72 Marking of leased areas; restrictions on public use.
- 253.73 Rules; ss. 253.67-253.75.
- 253.74 Penalties.
- 253.75 Studies and recommendations by the department and the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission; designation of recommended traditional and other use zones; supervision of aquaculture operation
- 253.763 Judicial review relating to permits and licenses.
- 253.77 State lands; state agency authorization for use prohibited without consent of agency in which title vested; concurrent processing requirements.
- 253.781 Retention of state-owned lands along former Cross Florida Barge Canal route; creation of Cross Florida Greenways State Recreation and Conservation Area; authorizing transfer to the Federal Gov
- 253.782 Retention of state-owned lands in and around Lake Rousseau and the Cross Florida Barge Canal right-of-way from Lake Rousseau west to the Withlacoochee River.
- 253.7821 Cross Florida Greenways State Recreation and Conservation Area assigned to the Office of the Executive Director.
- 253.7822 Boundaries of the Cross Florida Greenways State Recreation and Conservation Area; coordination of management activities.
- 253.7823 Disposition of surplus lands; compensation of counties located within the Cross Florida Canal Navigation District.
- 253.7824 Sale of products; proceeds.
- 253.7825 Recreational uses.
- 253.7827 Transportation and utility crossings of greenways lands.
- 253.7828 Impairment of use or conservation by agencies prohibited.
- 253.783 Additional powers and duties of the department; disposition of surplus lands; payments to counties.
- 253.784 Contracts.
- 253.785 Liberal construction of act.
- 253.80 Murphy Act lands; costs and attorney fees for quieting title.
- 253.81 Murphy Act; tax certificates barred.
- 253.82 Title of state or private owners to Murphy Act lands.
- 253.83 Construction of recodification.
- 253.86 Management and use of state-owned or other uplands; rulemaking authority.