Bill Text: FL S0554 | 2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

Florida Senate Bill 554 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: State Parks and Preserves [EPSC]

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2010-04-30 - Died in Committee on Environmental Preservation and Conservation [S0554 Detail]

Download: Florida-2010-S0554-Introduced.html

 
Florida Senate - 2010                                     SB 554 
 
By Senator Constantine 
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1                        A bill to be entitled 
2         An act relating to state parks and preserves; amending 
3         s. 258.42, F.S.; deleting obsolete provisions 
4         regarding the establishment of rules by the Department 
5         of Environmental Protection; providing an effective 
6         date. 
7 
8  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 
9 
10         Section 1. Subsection (1) of section 258.42, Florida 
11  Statutes, is amended to read: 
12         258.42 Maintenance of preserves.—The Board of Trustees of 
13  the Internal Improvement Trust Fund shall maintain such aquatic 
14  preserves subject to the following provisions: 
15         (1)(a) No further sale, lease, or transfer of sovereignty 
16  submerged lands shall be approved or consummated by the trustees 
17  except when such sale, lease, or transfer is in the public 
18  interest. 
19         (b) For purposes of this subsection, aquaculture is in the 
20  public interest and aquaculture leases may be authorized in 
21  aquatic preserves pursuant to the provisions in ss. 253.68 
22  253.75. By March 1, 1997, The Department of Environmental 
23  Protection is further directed to establish rules for freshwater 
24  aquatic preserves and urban aquatic preserves. 
25         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2010.