Chapter 253 - STATE LANDS
- Section 253.001 - Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund; duty to hold lands in trust
- Section 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
- Section 253.01 - Internal Improvement Trust Fund established
- Section 253.02 - Board of trustees; powers and duties
- Section 253.025 - Acquisition of state lands
- Section 253.0251 - Alternatives to fee simple acquisition
- Section 253.027 - Emergency archaeological property acquisition
- Section 253.03 - Board of trustees to administer state lands; lands enumerated
- Section 253.031 - Land office; custody of documents concerning land; moneys; plats
- Section 253.0325 - Modernization of state lands records
- Section 253.033 - Inter-American Center property; transfer to board; continued use for government purposes
- Section 253.034 - State-owned lands; uses
- Section 253.0341 - Surplus of state-owned lands
- Section 253.0345 - Special events; submerged land leases
- Section 253.0346 - Lease of sovereignty submerged lands for marinas, boatyards, mooring fields, and marine retailers
- Section 253.0347 - Lease of sovereignty submerged lands for private residential docks and piers
- Section 253.035 - Coastal anchorage areas
- Section 253.036 - Forest management
- Section 253.037 - Use of state-owned land for correctional facilities
- Section 253.04 - Duty of board to protect, etc., state lands; state may join in any action brought
- Section 253.05 - Prosecuting officers to assist in protecting state lands
- Section 253.111 - Riparian owners of land
- Section 253.115 - Public notice and hearings
- Section 253.12 - Title to tidal lands vested in state
- Section 253.121 - Conveyances of such lands heretofore made, ratified, confirmed, and validated
- Section 253.1221 - Bulkhead lines; reestablishment
- Section 253.1241 - Studies
- Section 253.1252 - Citation of rule
- Section 253.126 - Legislative intent
- Section 253.127 - Enforcement
- Section 253.128 - Enforcement; board or agency under special law
- Section 253.1281 - Review by board
- Section 253.129 - Confirmation of title in upland owners
- Section 253.135 - Construction of ss. 253.12, 253.126, 253.127, 253.128, and 253.129
- Section 253.14 - Rights of riparian owners; board of trustees to defend suit
- Section 253.141 - Riparian rights defined; certain submerged bottoms subject to private ownership
- Section 253.21 - Board of trustees may surrender certain lands to the United States and receive indemnity
- Section 253.29 - Board of trustees to refund money paid where title to land fails
- Section 253.34 - Transfer of notes owned by board
- Section 253.36 - Title to reclaimed marshlands, wetlands, or lowlands in board of trustees
- Section 253.37 - Survey to be made; sale of lands; preference to buyers
- Section 253.38 - Riparian rights not affected
- Section 253.381 - Unsurveyed marshlands; sale to upland owners
- Section 253.382 - Oyster beds, minerals, and oils reserved to state
- Section 253.39 - Surveys approved by chief cadastral surveyor validated
- Section 253.40 - To what lands applicable
- Section 253.41 - Plats and field notes filed in office of Board of Trustees of Internal Improvement Trust Fund
- Section 253.42 - Board of trustees may exchange lands
- Section 253.43 - Convey by deed
- Section 253.431 - Agents may act on behalf of board of trustees
- Section 253.44 - Disposal of lands received
- Section 253.45 - Sale or lease of phosphate, clay, minerals, etc., in or under state lands
- Section 253.451 - Construction of term "land the title to which is vested in the state."
- Section 253.47 - Board of trustees may lease, sell, etc., bottoms of bays, lagoons, straits, etc., owned by state, for petroleum purposes
- Section 253.51 - Oil and gas leases on state lands by the board of trustees
- Section 253.511 - Reports by lessees of oil and mineral rights, state lands
- Section 253.512 - Applicants for lease of gas, oil, or mineral rights; report as to lease holdings
- Section 253.52 - Placing oil and gas leases on market by board
- Section 253.53 - Sealed bids required
- Section 253.54 - Competitive bidding
- Section 253.55 - Limitation on term of lease
- Section 253.56 - Responsibility of bidder
- Section 253.57 - Royalties
- Section 253.571 - Proof of financial responsibility required of lessee prior to commencement of drilling
- Section 253.60 - Conflicting laws
- Section 253.61 - Lands not subject to lease
- Section 253.62 - Board of trustees authorized to convey certain lands without reservation
- Section 253.66 - Change in bulkhead lines, Pinellas County
- Section 253.665 - Grant of easements, licenses, and leases
- Section 253.67 - Definitions
- Section 253.68 - Authority to lease or use submerged lands and water column for aquaculture activities
- Section 253.69 - Application to lease submerged land and water column
- Section 253.70 - Public notice
- Section 253.71 - The lease contract
- Section 253.72 - Marking of leased areas; restrictions on public use
- Section 253.73 - Rules; ss. 253.67-253.75
- Section 253.74 - Penalties
- Section 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
- Section 253.763 - Judicial review relating to permits and licenses
- Section 253.77 - State lands; state agency authorization for use prohibited without consent of agency in which title vested; concurrent processing requirements
- Section 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
- Section 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
- Section 253.7821 - Cross Florida Greenways State Recreation and Conservation Area assigned to the Department of Environmental Protection
- Section 253.7822 - Boundaries of the Cross Florida Greenways State Recreation and Conservation Area; coordination of management activities
- Section 253.7823 - Disposition of surplus lands; compensation of counties located within the Cross Florida Canal Navigation District
- Section 253.7824 - Sale of products; proceeds
- Section 253.7825 - Recreational uses
- Section 253.7827 - Transportation and utility crossings of greenways lands
- Section 253.7828 - Impairment of use or conservation by agencies prohibited
- Section 253.783 - Expenditures for acquisition of land for a canal connecting the waters of the Atlantic Ocean with the Gulf of Mexico via the St. Johns River prohibited
- Section 253.784 - Contracts
- Section 253.785 - Liberal construction of act
- Section 253.80 - Murphy Act lands; costs and attorney fees for quieting title
- Section 253.81 - Murphy Act; tax certificates barred
- Section 253.82 - Title of state or private owners to Murphy Act lands
- Section 253.83 - Construction of recodification
- Section 253.86 - Management and use of state-owned or other uplands; rulemaking authority
- Section 253.87 - Inventory of state, federal, and local government conservation lands by the Department of Environmental Protection
- Section 253.90 - Southeast Florida Coral Reef Ecosystem Conservation Area