Florida Code — 253
Browse 99 sections in division 253 of the Florida code. Each section page includes the full statutory text, official source links, and citation guidance.
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- § 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 lands.
- § 253.01. Internal Improvement Trust Fund established.
- § 253.02. Board of trustees; powers and duties.
- § 253.025. Acquisition of state lands.
- § 253.0251. Alternatives to fee simple acquisition.
- § 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.
- § 253.0345. Special events; submerged land leases.
- § 253.0346. Lease of sovereignty submerged lands for marinas, boatyards, mooring fields, and marine manufacturers and retailers.
- § 253.0347. Lease of sovereignty submerged lands for private residential docks and piers.
- § 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. Riparian owners of land.
- § 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 operations.
- § 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 Government for inclusion in Ocala National Forest.
- § 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 Department of Environmental Protection.
- § 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. Expenditures for acquisition of land for a canal connecting the waters of the Atlantic Ocean with the Gulf of America via the St. Johns River prohibited.
- § 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.
- § 253.87. Inventory of state, federal, and local government conservation lands by the Department of Environmental Protection.
- § 253.90. Southeast Florida Coral Reef Ecosystem Conservation Area.