R9K-Discuss Advisory Group To Review Citys Beachfront Management Plang MIAMIBEACH
City of Miomi Beoch, l200 Convention Center Drive, Miomi Beoch, Florido 33139, www.miomibeochfl.gov
COMMISSION MEMORANDUM
Mayor Philip Levine and Members o the City C
FROM: Jimmy L. Morales, City Manager
DATE: April 15,2015
SUBJECT: DISCUSSION ON CREATING AND APPOINTING MEMBERS
TO AN ADVISORY GROUP IN ACCORDANCE WITH
CHAPTER 259.032(10) OF THE FLORTDA STATUTES TO
REVIEW AND PROVIDE INPUT ON THE CITY'S
BEACHFRONT MANAGEMENT PLAN AND COMMENCUING
UPON EXECUTION OF A RESOLUTION AND CONCLUDING
UPON FINAL STATE APPROVAL OF THE BEACHFRONT
MANAGEMENT PLAN.
The City of Miami Beach leases the property eastward of the erosion control line (ECL)
from the State of Florida. As part of this lease agreement, the City is required to submit a
land management plan every 10 years for the State's approval. The City's land
management plan, also known as the City's Beachfront Management Plan, must outline
the property's uses, management activities, and planned projects. As such, the Plan
details the City's concession operation rules and regulations, special event permit
requirements, dune management strategy, and other key beach management activities.
The City is in the process of preparing the latest update to the Plan. In accordance with
Chapter 259.032(10) of the Florida Statutes, the City must create an advisory group of
community stakeholders to review the draft Plan and provide comments at a minimum of
one public meeting. Specifically, the advisory group shall include, at a minimum,
representatives of:
. The lead land managing agency;. Co-managingentities;. Local private property owners;. The appropriate soil and water conservation district;. A local conservation organization; and,. A local elected official.
CONCLUSION
The Administration recommends the creation of advisory group and the appointment of
its members in accordance with Chapter 259.032(10) of the Florida Statutes at the
discretion of the City Commission.
Attachments:
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Titte XVlll Chapter 259
LAND ACQUISITIONS FOR CONSERVATION OR
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259.O32 Conservation and Recreation Lands Trust Fund; purpose.-
(1) lt is the poticy of the state that the citizens of this state shatI be assured pubtic ownership of
natural areas for purposes of maintaining this state's unique naturaI resources; protecting air, [and, and
water quatity; promoting water resource devetopment to meet the needs of natural systems and citizens
of this state; promoting restoration activities on pubtic lands; and providing [ands for natural resource
based recreation. ln recognition of this policy, it is the intent of the Legistature to provide such pubtic
lands for the peopte residing in urban and metropotitan areas of the state, as wetl as those residing in
less populated, rural areas. lt is the further intent of the Legistature, with regard to the lands described
in paragraph (3)(c), that a high priority be given to the acquisition, restoration, and management of
such lands in or near counties exhibiting the greatest concentration of poputation and, with regard to
the [ands described in subsection (3), that a high priority be given to acquiring lands or rights or
interests in lands that advance the goals and objectives of the Fish and Witdtife Conservation
Commission's approved species or habitat recovery ptans, or lands within any area designated as an area
of critical state concern under s. 380.05 which, in the judgment of the advisory council estabtished
pursuant to s. 259.035, or its successor, cannot be adequately protected by application of land
devetopment regulations adopted pursuant to s. 380.05. Finatty, it is the Legistature's intent that lands
acquired through this program and any successor programs be managed in such a way as to protect or
restore their natural resource vatues, and provide the greatest benefit, including pubtic access, to the
citizens of this state.
(2)(a) The Conservation and Recreation Lands Trust Fund is estabtished within the Department of
Environmenta[ Protection. The fund shat[ be used as a nonlapsing, revotving fund exctusivety for the
purposes of this section. The fund shatl be credited with proceeds from the fottowing excise taxes:
1. The excise taxes on documents as provided in s. 201.15; and
2. The excise tax on the severance of phosphate rock as provided in s. 21 1 .3't03.
The Department of Revenue shall credit to the fund each month the proceeds from such taxes as
provided in this paragraph.
(b) There shatl annuatty be transferred from the Conservation and Recreation Lands Trust Fund to
the Land Acquisition Trust Fund that amount, not to exceed 520 mittion annualty, as shatl be necessary
to pay the debt service on, or fund debt service reserve funds, rebate obligations, or other amounts with
respect to bonds issued pursuant to s. 375.051 to acquire tands on the established priority list devetoped
pursuant to ss. 259.101(4) and 259.105; however, no moneys transferred to the Land Acquisition Trust
Fund pursuant to this paragraph, or earnings thereon, shatt be used or made avaitabte to pay debt
service on the Save Our Coast revenue bonds. Amounts transferred annuatty from the Conservation and
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Recreation Lands Trust Fund to the Land Acquisition Trust Fund pursuant to this paragraph shall have the
highest priority over other payments or transfers from the Conservation and Recreation Lands Trust
Fund, and no other payments or transfers shat[ be made from the Conservation and Recreation Lands
Trust Fund until such transfers to the Land Acquisition Trust Fund have been made. Moneys in the
Conservation and Recreation Lands Trust Fund also shatl be used to manage lands and to pay for retated
costs, activities, and functions pursuant to the provisions of this section.
(3) The Governor and Cabinet, sitting as the Board of Trustees of the lnternal lmprovement Trust
Fund, may altocate moneys from the fund in any one year to acquire the fee or any [esser interest in
lands for the following pubtic purposes:
(a) To conserve and protect environmentalty unique and irreptaceabte [ands that contain native,
relatively unaltered ftora and fauna representing a natural area unique to, or scarce within, a region of
this state or a larger geographic area;
(b) To conserve and protect lands within designated areas of critical state concern, if the proposed
acquisition relates to the natural resource protection purposes of the designation;
(c) To conserye and protect native species habitat or endangered or threatened species,
emphasizing long-term protection for endangered or threatened species designated G-1 or G-2 by the
Ftorida Natural Areas lnventory, and especiatty those areas that are special locations for breeding and
reproduction;
(d) To conserve, protect, manage, or restore important ecosystems, landscapes, and forests, if the
protection and conservation of such lands is necessary to enhance or protect significant surface water,
groundwater, coastat, recreationat, timber, or fish or wildtife resources which cannot otherwise be
accomptished through [ocaI and state regutatory programs;
(e) To promote water resource devetopment that benefits natural systems and citizens of the state;
(f) To facilitate the restoration and subsequent heatth and vitatity of the Ftorida Evergtades;
(g) To provide areas, inctuding recreationat trails, for natural resource based recreation and other
outdoor recreation on any part of any site compatibte with conservation purposes;
(h) To preserve significant archaeotogicaI or historic sites;
(i) To conserve urban open spaces suitabte for greenways or outdoor recreation which are
compatibte with conservation purposes; or
(j) To preserve agricultura[ lands under threat of conversion to devetopment through [ess-than-fee
acquisitions.
(41 Lands acquired under this section shatt be for use as state-designated parks, recreation areas,
preseryes, reseryes, historic or archaeotogical sites, geotogic or botanicaI sites, recreationaI traits,
forests, witderness areas, witdtife management areas, urban open space, or other state-designated
recreation or conseryation lands; or they shatt quatify for such state designation and use if they are to
be managed by other governmental agencies or nonstate entities as provided for in this section.
(5) The board of trustees may attocate, in any year, an amount not to exceed 5 percent of the
money credited to the fund in that year, such atlocation to be used for the initiation and maintenance of
a natural areas inventory to aid in the identification of areas to be acquired pursuant to this section.
(6) Moneys in the fund not needed to meet obtigations incurred under this section shatl be deposited
with the Chief Financial Officer to the credit of the fund and may be invested in the manner provided by
taw. lnterest received on such investments shatl be credited to the Conservation and Recreation Lands
Trust Fund.
(7) The board of trustees may enter into any contract necessary to accomptish the purposes of this
section. The [ead land managing agencies designated by the board of trustees also are directed by the
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Legislature to enter into contracts or interagency agreements with other governmentaI entities,
including [oca[ soil and water conservation districts, or private land managers who have the expertise to
perform specific management activities which a lead agency lacks, or which woutd cost more to provide
in-house. Such activities shat[ inctude, but not be timited to, controtted burning, road and ditch
maintenance, mowing, and witdtife assessments.
(8) Lands to be considered for purchase under this section are subject to the setection procedures of
s. 259.035 and retated rules and shatl be acquired in accordance with acquisition procedures for state
lands provided for in s. 259.041, except as otherwise provided by the Legistature. An inhotding or an
addition to a project setected for purchase pursuant to this chapter is not subject to the selection
procedures of s. 259.035 if the estimated vatue of such inhotding or addition does not exceed 5500,000.
When at least 90 percent of the acreage of a project has been purchased pursuant to this chapter, the
project may be removed from the list and the remaining acreage may continue to be purchased. Moneys
from the fund may be used for titte work, appraisal fees, environmental audits, and survey costs retated
to acquisition expenses for lands to be acquired, donated, or exchanged which quatify under the
categories of this section, at the discretion of the board. When the Legislature has authorized the
Department of Environmental Protection to condemn a specific parcel of land and such parcel has
already been approved for acquisition under this section, the [and may be acquired in accordance with
the provisions of chapterT3 or chapter 74, and the fund may be used to pay the condemnation award
and at[ costs, inctuding a reasonable attorney's fee, associated with condemnation.
(9) Att tands managed under this chapter and s. 253.034 shatl be:
(a) Managed in a manner that witt provide the greatest combination of benefits to the pubtic and to
the resources.
(b) Managed for pubtic outdoor recreation which is compatibte with the conservation and protection
of pubtic lands. Such management may inctude, but not be timited to, the fotlowing pubtic recreationat
uses: fishing, hunting, camping, bicycting, hiking, nature study, swimming, boating, canoeing, horseback
riding, diving, modet hobbyist activities, birding, saiting, jogging, and other retated outdoor activities
compatibte with the purposes for which the lands were acquired.
(c) Managed for the purposes for which the lands were acquired, consistent with paragraph (11)(a).
(d) Concurrent with its adoption of the annual Conservation and Recreation Lands tist of acquisition
projects pursuant to s. 259.035, the board of trustees shalt adopt a management prospectus for each
project. The management prospectus shat[ delineate:
1. The management goats for the property;
2. The conditions that wi[[ affect the intensity of management;
3. An estimate of the revenue-generating potentiaI of the property, if appropriate;
4. A timetabte for imptementing the various stages of management and for providing access to the
pubtic, if appticabte;
5. A description of potential muttipte-use activities as described in this section and s. 253.034;
6. Provisions for protecting existing infrastructure and for ensuring the security of the project upon
acquisition;
7. The anticipated costs of management and projected sources of revenue, inctuding legistative
appropriations, to fund management needs; and
8. Recommendations as to how many emptoyees witl be needed to manage the property, and
recommendations as to whether [oca[ governments, votunteer groups, the former landowner, or other
interested parties can be invotved in the management.
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(e) Concurrent with the approva[ of the acquisition contract pursuant to s. 259.041 (3)(c) for any
interest in lands except those lands being acquired under the provisions of s. 259.1052, the board of
trustees shatl designate an agency or agencies to manage such [ands. The board sha[[ evatuate and
amend, as appropriate, the management poticy statement for the project as provided by s. 259.035,
consistent with the purposes for which the lands are acquired. For any fee simple acquisition of a parcel
which is or wit[ be leased back for agricuttura[ purposes, or any acquisition of a less-than-fee interest in
[and that is or witl be used for agricultural purposes, the Board of Trustees of the lnternal lmprovement
Trust Fund shat[ first consider having a soiI and water conservation district, created pursuant to chapter
582, manage and monitor such interests.
(f) State agencies designated to manage [ands acquired under this chapter except those [ands
acquired under s. 259.1052 may contract with [oca[ governments and soil and water conservation
districts to assist in management activities, including the responsibitity of being the lead land manager.
Such tand management contracts may inctude a provision for the transfer of management funding to the
local government or soi[ and water conservation district from the Conservation and Recreation Lands
Trust Fund in an amount adequate for the [oca[ government or soiI and water conservation district to
perform its contractual land management responsibitities and proportionate to its responsibilities, and
which otherwise would have been expended by the state agency to manage the property.
(g) Immediately fottowing the acquisition of any interest in lands under this chapter, the Department
of Environmental Protection, acting on behatf of the board of trustees, may issue to the lead managing
entity an interim assignment letter to be effective until the execution of a formal lease.
(10)(a) State, regionat, or [oca[ governmenta[ agencies or private entities designated to manage
lands under this section shatl devetop and adopt, with the approva[ of the board of trustees, an
individua[ management ptan for each project designed to conserye and protect such lands and their
associated naturaI resources. Private sector invotvement in management ptan devetopment may be used
to expedite the ptanning process.
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ffity owners, the appropriaf,q,;git and.water conservation district, a locat conservation organizatiory
orygroupsha[tconductat[eastonepub[ichearingwithinthe
county in which the parce[ or project is [ocated. For those parcets or projects that are within more than
one county, at least one areawide pubtic hearing shatt be acceptabte and the lead managing agency shatl
invite a [oca[ etected officiat from each county. The areawide pubtic hearing shatl be hetd in the county
in which the core parcets are located. Notice of such pubtic hearing shatl be posted on the parcel or
project designated for management, advertised in a paper of general circutation, and announced at a
scheduled meeting of the [oca[ governing body before the actual pubtic hearing. The management
prospectus required pursuant to paragraph (9)(d) shatt be availabte to the pubtic for a period of 30 days
prior to the public hearing.
(c) Once a ptan is adopted, the managing agency or entity shat[ update the ptan at least every 1 0
years in a form and manner prescribed by rute of the board of trustees. Such updates, for parcets over
160 acres, shatl be devetoped with input from an advisory group. Such ptans may include transfers of
leasehotd interests to appropriate conseryation organizations or governmental entities designated by the
Land Acquisition and Management Advisory CounciI or its successor, for uses consistent with the
purposes of the organizations and the protection, preservation, conservation, restoration, and proper
management of the lands and their resources. Votunteer management assistance is encouraged,
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inctuding, but not limited to, assistance by youths participating in programs sponsored by state or [oca[
agencies, by votunteers sponsored by environmental or civic organizations, and by individuats
participating in programs for committed detinquents and adutts.
(d)1. For each project for which lands are acquired after Juty 1, 1995, an individua[ management
ptan shat[ be adopted and in place no [ater than 1 year after the essentiaI parceI or parcets identified in
the priority list devetoped pursuant to ss. 259.101(4) and 259.105 have been acquired. The Department
of Environmental Protection shatl distribute only 75 percent of the acquisition funds to which a budget
entity or water management district woutd otherwise be entitted from the Preservation 2000 Trust Fund
to any budget entity or any water management district that has more than one-third of its management
ptans overdue.
2. The requirements of subparagraph 1. do not apply to the individual management ptan for the
Babcock Crescent B Ranch being acquired pursuant to s. 259.1052. The management ptan for the ranch
shatt be adopted and in place no later than 2 years fotlowing the date of acquisition by the state.
(e) lndividual management ptans shatl conform to the appropriate poticies and guidetines of the
state land management plan and shatl inctude, but not be limited to:
1. A statement of the purpose for which the tands were acquired, the projected use or uses as
defined in s. 253.034, and the statutory authority for such use or uses.
2. Key management activities necessary to achieve the desired outcomes, including, but not timited
to, providing pubtic access, preserving and protecting naturat resources, protecting cuttural and
historicaI resources, restoring habitat, protecting threatened and endangered species, controlting the
spread of nonnative ptants and animals, performing prescribed fire activities, and other appropriate
resource management.
3. A specific description of how the managing agency ptans to identify, locate, protect, and
preserye, or otherwise use fragile, nonrenewabte natural and cuttural resources.
4. A priority schedute for conducting management activities, based on the purposes for which the
[ands were acquired.
5. A cost estimate for conducting priority management activities, to inctude recommendations for
cost-effective methods of accomptishing those activities.
6. A cost estimate for conducting other management activities which woutd enhance the natural
resource vatue or pubtic recreation vatue for which the lands were acquired. The cost estimate shatl
include recommendations for cost-effective methods of accomplishing those activities.
7. A determination of the pubtic uses and pubtic access that woutd be consistent with the purposes
for which the lands were acquired.
(f) The Division of State Lands shat[ submit a copy of each individuat management ptan for parcets
which exceed 160 acres in size to each member of the Acquisition and Restoration Counci[, which shatt:
1. Within 60 days after receiving a ptan from the division, review each plan for comptiance with the
requirements of this subsection and with the requirements of the rutes estabtished by the board
pursuant to this subsection.
2. Consider the propriety of the recommendations of the managing agency with regard to the future
use or protection of the property.
3. After its review, submit the ptan, atong with its recommendations and comments, to the board of
trustees, with recommendations as to whether to approve the plan as submitted, approve the ptan with
modifications, or reject the ptan.
(g) The board of trustees shat[ consider the individuat management ptan submitted by each state
agency and the recommendations of the Acquisition and Restoration CounciI and the Division of State
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Lands and sha[[ approve the plan with or without modification or reject such ptan. The use or possession
of any tands owned by the board of trustees which is not in accordance with an approved individua[
management ptan is subject to termination by the board of trustees.
By Juty 1 of each year, each governmenta[ agency and each private entity designated to manage [ands
shatl report to the Secretary of Environmental Protection on the progress of funding, staffing, and
resource management of every project for which the agency or entity is responsible.
(1 1 )(a) The Legislature recognizes that acquiring lands pursuant to this chapter serves the pubtic
interest by protecting [and, air, and water resources which contribute to the pubtic heatth and wetfare,
providing areas for natural resource based recreation, and ensuring the survival of unique and
irreptaceabte ptant and animal species. The Legistature intends for these lands to be managed and
maintained for the purposes for which they were acquired and for the pubtic to have access to and use
of these lands where it is consistent with acquisition purposes and woutd not harm the resources the
state is seeking to protect on the public's behatf.
(b) An amount of not less than 1.5 percent of the cumutative total of funds ever deposited into the
Ftorida Preservation 2000 Trust Fund and the Ftorida Forever Trust Fund shatt be made avaitable for the
purposes of management, maintenance, and capital improvements not etigibte for funding pursuant to s.
1 1 (e), Art. Vll of the State Constitution, and for associated contractual services, for lands acquired
pursuant to this section, s.259.101, s. 259.105, s.259.1052, or previous programs for the acquisition of
lands for conservation and recreation, including state forests, to which titte is vested in the board of
trustees and other conservation and recreation lands managed by a state agency. Of this amount,
5250,000 shatt be transferred annuatty to the Ptant lndustry Trust Fund within the Department of
Agricutture and Consumer Services for the purpose of imptementing the Endangered or Threatened
Native Flora Conservation Grants Program pursuant to s. 581.'185(11). Each agencywith management
responsibitities shatl annua[[y request from the Legistature funds sufficient to futfitt such responsibitities
to imptement individuaI management ptans. For the purposes of this paragraph, capitaI improvements
sha[[ inctude, but need not be timited to, perimeter fencing, signs, firetanes, access roads and traits,
and minimat pubtic accommodations, such as primitive campsites, garbage receptactes, and toilets. Any
equipment purchased with funds provided pursuant to this paragraph may be used for the purposes
described in this paragraph on any conservation and recreation lands managed by a state agency. The
funding requirement created in this paragraph is subject to an annual evatuation by the Legistature in
order to ensure that such requirement does not impact the respective trust fund in a manner that woutd
prevent the trust fund from meeting other minimum requirements.
(c) At[ revenues generated through muttipte-use management or compatibte secondary-use
management shatl be returned to the lead agency responsibte for such management and shatt be used to
pay for management activities on a[[ conservation, preservation, and recreation [ands under the
agency's jurisdiction. ln addition, such revenues shatl be segregated in an agency trust fund and shall
remain avaitable to the agency in subsequent fiscal years to support land management appropriations.
For the purposes of this paragraph, compatibte secondary-use management shat[ be those activities
described in subsection (9) undertaken on parcets designated as singte use pursuant to s. 253.034(2)(b).
(d) Up to one-fifth of the funds provided for in paragraph (b) shatt be reserved by the board of
trustees for interim management of acquisitions and for associated contractuaI services, to ensure the
conservation and protection of natural resources on project sites and to altow limited public
recreational use of lands. lnterim management activities may include, but not be timited to, resource
assessments, control of invasive, nonnative species, habitat restoration, fencing, [aw enforcement,
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controtled burning, and public access consistent with preliminary determinations made pursuant to
paragraph (9)(g). The board of trustees shall make these interim funds available immediately upon
purchase.
(e) The department shatl set [ong-range and annua[ goats for the control and removal of nonnative,
invasive ptant species on pubtic lands. Such goats shatl differentiate between aquatic plant species and
uptand ptant species. ln setting such goals, the department may rank, in order of adverse impact,
species that impede or destroy the functioning of natural systems. Notwithstanding paragraph (a), up to
one-fourth of the funds provided for in paragraph (b) may be used by the agencies receiving those funds
for control and removal of nonnative, invasive species on public lands.
1(f) For the 2014-2015 fiscatyear onty, moneys in the Conservation and Recreation Lands Trust Fund
may be transferred to the Ftorida Forever Trust Fund for the Ftorida Forever program and to the Save
Our Evergtades Trust Fund to support Evergtades restoration projects inctuded in the final report of the
Setect Committee on lndian River Lagoon and Lake Okeechobee Basin, dated November 8,2013,
pursuant to nonoperating budget authority under s. 216.181(121. This subsection expires Juty 1 ,2015.
(12)(a) Beginning Juty'1, 1999, the Legistature shatl make availabte sufficient funds annuatly from
the Conservation and Recreation Lands Trust Fund to the department for payment in lieu of taxes to
quatifying counties and [oca[ governments as defined in paragraph (b) for atl actua[ tax losses incurred
as a result of board of trustees acquisitions for state agencies under the Florida Forever program or the
Ftorida Preservation 2000 program during any year. Reserved funds not used for payments in [ieu of
taxes in any year sha[[ revert to the fund to be used for land management in accordance with the
provisions of this section.
(b) Payment in lieu of taxes shatl be availabte:
1. To atl counties that have a poputation of 150,000 or fewer. Poputation levets shatl be determined
pursuant to s. 1 1.031.
2. To all [oca[ governments located in etigibte counties.
3. To Gtades County, where a privatety owned and operated prison leased to the state has recentty
been opened and where privately owned and operated juvenite justice facitities leased to the state have
recently been constructed and opened, a payment in lieu of taxes, in an amount that offsets the loss of
property tax revenue, which funds have atready been appropriated and attocated from the Department
of Correction's budget for the purpose of reimbursing amounts equal to lost ad vatorem taxes.
(c) lf insufficient funds are avaitable in any year to make futl payments to a[[ quatifying counties and
local governments, such counties and [oca[ governments shatl receive a pro rata share of the moneys
avaitabte.
(d) The payment amount shatl be based on the average amount of actua[ taxes paid on the property
for the 3 years preceding acquisition. Applications for payment in lieu of taxes shatt be made no later
than January 31 of the year fotlowing acquisition. No payment in [ieu of taxes shatl be made for
properties which were exempt from ad vatorem taxation for the year immediately preceding
acquisition.
(e) lf property which was subject to ad vatorem taxation was acquired by a tax-exempt entity for
uttimate conveyance to the state under this chapter, payment in lieu of taxes shatt be made for such
property based upon the average amount of taxes paid on the property for the 3 years prior to its being
removed from the tax rotts. The department sha[[ certify to the Department of Revenue those properties
that may be etigibte under this provision. Once etigibitity has been established, that county or [oca[
government shatl receive annual payments for each tax loss untiI the quatifying county or local
government exceeds the poputation threshotd pursuant to this section.
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(f) Payment in lieu of taxes pursuant to this subsection shal[ be made annuatty to quatifying counties
and [oca[ governments after certification by the Department of Revenue that the amounts apptied for
are reasonabty appropriate, based on the amount of actual taxes paid on the etigibte property. With the
assistance of the [oca[ government requesting payment in lieu of taxes, the state agency that acquired
the [and is responsibte for preparing and submitting apptication requests for payment to the Department
of Revenue for certification.
(g) lf the board of trustees conveys to a [oca[ government titte to any land owned by the board, any
payments in lieu of taxes on the land made to the [oca[ government sha[[ be discontinued as of the date
of the conveyance.
For the purposes of this subsection, "tocal government" inctudes municipatities, the county school
board, mosquito control districts, and any other [oca[ government entity which levies ad vatorem taxes,
with the exception of a water management district.
(13) Moneys credited to the fund each yearwhich are not used for management, maintenance, or
capitalimprovements pursuant to subsection (11); for payment in lieu of taxes pursuant to subsection
(12); or for the purposes of subsection (5), shalt be avaitabte for the acquisition of land pursuant to this
section.
(14) The board of trustees may adopt rules to further define the categories of land for acquisition
under this chapter.
(15) Within 90 days after receiving a certified letter from the owner of a property on the
Conservation and Recreation Lands list or the priority [ist estabtished pursuant to s. 259.105 objecting to
the property being inctuded in an acquisition project, where such property is a project or part of a
project which has not been listed for purchase in the current year's land acquisition work ptan, the
board of trustees shatl detete the property from the list or from the boundary of an acquisition project
on the [ist.
History.-s.8,ch.79-255; s.16, ch.80-356; s.5, ch.81-35; s.1, ch.81-2'10; s.165, ch.81-259; s.1, ch.82-152; s.2, ch.
83-80; s.'1, ch.83-114;s.10, ch.84-330; s.13, ch.86-178i s.6, ch. 86-294; s. 1, ch.87-96;s.1, ch.88-387; s.'13, ch.89-
116; s. 1, ch.89-276; s. 2, ch. 90-1; s. 8, ch.90-2'17; s. 1, ch. 91-62; s.5, ch.91-420; s. 2, ch. 97-288; s. 45, ch. 93-206; s. 4,
ch.94:197; s.'1, ch.94-2'12; s.1, ch.94-240; s.65, ch.94-356; s.5, ch.95-349; ss.19,20, ch.95-430; s.3, ch.96-389; s.19,
ch.96-420; s.23, ch.97-94;ss.27,29,ch.97-153; s.6, ch.97-164; ss.26,38, ch.98-46; s.'10, ch.99-4;s.34, ch.99-13; ss.
28,33,53, ch.99-278; s.13, ch.99-247; s.20, ch.99-292; s.7, ch.2000-170; s.61, ch.20OO-171; s.45, ch.2001-61;s.7,
ch. 7002-2; s. 28, ch. 2002-402; s. I 5, ch. 2003-6; s. 280, ch. 2003-261; s. 6, ch. 2003-394; s. 1 8, ch. 2004-5; ss. 42, 75, ch.
2004-269; s. 41, ch. 2005-71; ss. 31, 42, ch. 2006-26; s. 4, ch. 2006-231; s. 5, ch. 2008-5; s. 9, ch. 2008-229; s. 21, ch. 2009-
21; s. 36, ch. 2013-15; s. 37, ch. 7014-53.
1Note.-section 37, ch. 2014-53, added paragraph (f) to subsection (11) "ti]n order to imptement Specific Appropriations
'l 583 and 1627A and sections 53 and 54 of the 2014-201 5 General Appropriations Act. "
Note.- Former s. 253.023.
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