Florida § 378.213 - Notice of former phosphate mine site.

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§ 378.213. Notice of former phosphate mine site.

(1) A landowner may record a notice in the official records of the county in which the land is located which identifies the landowner’s property as a former phosphate mine. The recorded notice must be in substantially the following form: NOTICE This property is a former phosphate mine as defined in s. 378.213(2), Florida Statutes. Such recording serves as notice that the land is a former phosphate mine. (2) As used in this section, the term “former phosphate mine” means an area of land upon which phosphate mining has been conducted and which may have been subject to a radiation survey in accordance with s. 404.0561 and state reclamation requirements of ss. 378.201-378.212, but does not include a phosphogypsum stack as defined in s. 403.4154(1)(d).

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Section 378.213 ("Notice of former phosphate mine site.") is part of the Florida Statutes, the codified statutory law of Florida. It sets out the legal rule or procedure described in the text above. Statutes are amended regularly, so always verify against the official source.

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