Florida Administrative Code

(1) The Commission will approve an ordinance creating a year-round boating restricted area when the documentation provided reflects competent substantial evidence that such a restriction is necessary to protect public safety throughout the entire year. When vessel traffic studies…

(1) This chapter is consistent with and conforms to 33 C.F.R. part 62 - The navigable waters of the United States and non-navigable State waters (which together include all waters of this state), are marked to assist navigation using the United States Aids to Navigation System, a…

The provisions of this chapter prescribe the procedures by which the Division of Law Enforcement's Boating and Waterways Section permits and regulates the placement of markers in, on, and over the waters of this state and the shores thereof. This chapter also provides for the des…

For purposes of this chapter and Chapters 68C-22 and 68D-24, F.A.C., the following definitions shall apply: (1) Types of markers: (a) "Aid to navigation" means a device external to a vessel intended to assist an operator in determining position or safe course, or to warn of dange…

(1) Except as provided in subsection 68D-23.112(4), F.A.C., no person, municipality, county or other governmental entity shall place, cause to be placed, or maintain in place any marker in, on or over the waters of the state or the shores thereof without a permit from the Boating…

(1) Upon receipt of a completed application, the Boating and Waterways Section will determine: (a) For all markers, whether or not: 1. The proposed markers conform to the United States Aids to Navigation System and this chapter. 2. The proposed markers, if placed in the proposed …

(1) All persons placing or maintaining in place any markers must comply with the following requirements: (a) Placement of these markers must be exactly as requested in the application. Any deviation will require that the permittee apply to have the permit amended. (b) The permitt…

(1) The following are adopted and incorporated by reference: (a) The United States Aids to Navigation System, Part 62 of Title 33 of the Code of Federal Regulations (April 1, 2010); (b) The United States Coast Guard Aids to Navigation Manual - Administration (COMDTINST M16500.7A,…

(1) A marker placed in, on or over the waters of the state or shores thereof may be displayed as a buoy bearing letters, numbers or a symbol on its surface, or as a sign mounted on a buoy, piling or other structure, or as a sign on the shore. (2) Buoyed signs and markers must ext…

(1) All information, danger, and regulatory markers shall be white in color and shall display international orange symbols. (2) When a buoy is used as an information, danger, or regulatory marker, it shall be white with horizontal bands of international orange placed completely a…

(1) Each person holding a permit to place and maintain one or more markers must inspect all markers for which the permit was issued triennially (every three years). (2) The required inspection must be documented in writing and must include the following: (a) The name of the permi…

This chapter shall be enforced by the division and its officers, the sheriffs of the various counties and their deputies, municipal police officers, and any other law enforcement officer as defined in Section 943.10, F.S., as provided in Section 327.70, F.S., all of whom shall ha…

(1) Nothing herein shall apply to the United States Government or its agencies, nor to any aid to navigation, marker, mooring buoy, or other similar device placed thereby. (2) Persons establishing private aids to navigation other than regulatory markers and mooring buoys on water…

When used in these rules, the following words shall have the indicated meanings unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (1) Slow Speed Minimum Wake and Slow Down Minimum Wake indicate a boating restricted area which has been established to protect the safety of the public…

(1) Appropriate boating restricted areas are established for the purpose of regulating the speed and operation of vessel traffic for the safety of the public. (2) Such boating restricted areas shall be marked in accordance with Chapter 68D-23, F.A.C., Florida Intracoastal Waterwa…

(1) The Commission may establish a springs protection zone restricting speed and operation or that prohibits or modifies the allowable means of anchoring, mooring, beaching, or grounding of vessels within a first, second, or third magnitude spring or spring group, and associated …

For the purpose of protecting and preventing harm to Nichols Spring in Sumter County, the following springs protection zone is established: An area within which anchoring, mooring, beaching, and grounding are prohibited, as delineated by a line where the spring run at Nichols Spr…

For the purpose of protecting and preventing harm to Weeki Wachee Springs in Hernando County, the following springs protection zone within which anchoring, mooring, beaching, and grounding of vessels are prohibited is established as follows: within an area of Weeki Wachee Springs…

(1) Owners of private submerged lands that are adjacent to Outstanding Florida Waters, as defined in Section 403.061, F.S., or an aquatic preserve established under Sections 258.39-258.399, F.S., may apply to the Commission to have a boating restricted area established on the pri…

For the sole purpose of protecting seagrass and contiguous seagrass habitat upon privately-owned submerged lands, the following boating restricted areas are established in the vicinity of Dutchman Key in Pasco County: (1) North Key: an external propeller limitation zone starting …

(1) For the purpose of regulating the speed and operation of vessel traffic in and adjacent to the Intracoastal Waterway within Sarasota County, Florida, the following Boating Restricted Areas are established: (a) Idle Speed No Wake Zones - 1. Stickney Point Bridge - All waters l…

Rulemaking Authority 327.04, 327.46 FS. Law Implemented 327.46 FS. History-New 11-13-83, Formerly 16N-24.06, Amended 3-12-87, 12-7-89, Formerly 16N-24.006, Amended 9-28-98, Formerly 62N-24.006, Repealed 7-21-13.

(1) For the purpose of regulating speed and operation of vessel traffic on and adjacent to the Florida Intracoastal Waterway in Broward County, Florida, the following year-round boating restricted areas are established. The boating restricted areas exclude all associated tributar…

(1) The following year-round zones are established regulating the speed and operation of vessel traffic on and adjacent to the Florida Intracoastal Waterway within Pinellas County. The zones exclude all associated tributaries, creeks, canals, channels, backwaters, boat basins and…

(1) For the purpose of regulating the speed and operation of vessel traffic on the Okeechobee Waterway, the following Boating Restricted Areas are established: (a) SE Ocean Boulevard - A Slow Speed Minimum Wake boating restricted area from shoreline to shoreline, in and adjacent …

(1) For the purpose of regulating the speed and operation of vessel traffic on and adjacent to the Intracoastal Waterway in the vicinities of Golden Beach, the North East 192nd Street Bridge, Biscayne Creek, Bakers Haulover Inlet, the Broad Causeway Bridge, the 79th Street Causew…

(1) For the purpose of regulating the speed and operation of vessel traffic on and adjacent to the Florida Intracoastal Waterway within Manatee County, the following Boating Restricted Area is established: (a) Slow Down Minimum Wake Zone - All waters lying within the channel of t…

(1) For the purpose of regulating the speed and operation of vessel traffic on and adjacent to the Apalachicola River within Franklin County, the following Boating Restricted Area is established: (a) Slow Down Minimum Wake Zone - All waters lying within the Apalachicola River, fr…

(1) For the purpose of regulating the speed and operation of vessel traffic on and adjacent to the Florida Intracoastal Waterway within Duval County, the following Boating Restricted Areas are established: (a) Slow Down Minimum Wake Zones. 1. Sisters Creek - All waters in and adj…

(1) For the purpose of regulating speed and operation of vessel traffic on the Intracoastal Waterway within Palm Beach County, Florida, the following boating restricted areas are established: (a) Jupiter Inlet - A Slow Speed Minimum Wake zone from shoreline to shoreline, in and a…

(1) For the purpose of regulating the speed and operation of vessel traffic on the St. Johns River in Lake, Seminole and Volusia Counties, Florida the following boating restricted areas are established. The boating restricted areas exclude all associated tributaries, creeks, cana…

(1) For the purpose of regulating the speed and operation of vessel traffic on and adjacent to the Intracoastal Waterway within Nassau County, Florida, the following Boating Restricted Area is established: (a) Fernandina Beach - An Idle Speed No Wake Zone zone from shoreline to s…

(1) For the purpose of regulating the speed and operation of vessel traffic during flood events, the Suwannee and Santa Fe River Boating Restricted Areas are established, which shall include all associated and navigable tributaries, creeks, coves, bends, and backwaters unless oth…

For the purpose of providing for public safety, the following boating restricted areas are established: (1) A no entry area starting from the northeast (Lake Talquin) side of the spillway of the Jackson Bluff Dam, bounded by a line running northeast approximately 75 feet to GPS p…

(1) For the purpose of regulating the speed and operation of vessel traffic on and adjacent to the Intracoastal Waterway in Charlotte County, Florida, the following Boating Restricted Areas are established: (a)1. Cape Haze - A Slow Speed Minimum Wake boating restricted area from …

For the purpose of regulating the speed and operation of vessel traffic during flood conditions on the Withlacoochee River within Citrus, Hernando, Marion, and Sumter Counties, the following Boating Restricted Areas are established, which shall include all associated and navigabl…

(1) For the purpose of regulating the speed and operation of vessel traffic on and adjacent to the Florida Intracoastal Waterway within Escambia County, the following Boating Restricted Area is established: Florida Intracoastal Waterway between a line drawn perpendicular to the c…

(1) For the purpose of regulating speed and operation of vessel traffic on the Florida Intracoastal Waterway in Flagler County the following boating restricted area is established: (a) SR 100 Bridge - A Slow Speed Minimum Wake boating restricted area shoreline to shoreline, in an…

(1) For the purpose of regulating the speed and operation of vessel traffic on and adjacent to the Florida Intracoastal Waterway within Lee County, the following Boating Restricted Area is established: Caloosahatchee River at the Alva Bridge - All waters of the Florida Intracoast…

(1) For the purpose of regulating the speed and operation of vessel traffic on and adjacent to the Intracoastal Waterway in Martin County, Florida, the following Boating Restricted Areas are established: (a) Jensen Beach Causeway - A Slow Speed Minimum Wake boating restricted are…

(1) For the purpose of regulating the anchoring of vessels in and adjacent to the Newfound Harbor Channel (also known as Pine Channel) within Monroe County, the following boating restricted area is established: Newfound Harbor Channel (Pine Channel) - Anchoring of all sailboats a…

For the purpose of regulating the speed and operation of vessel traffic on the Florida Intracoastal Waterway within Okaloosa County, Florida, the following boating restricted area is established: (1) Slow Speed Minimum Wake Zone. (a) Brooks Bridge - A Slow Speed Minimum Wake zone…

(1) The following slow speed minimum wake year-round zones are established regulating the speed and operation of vessel traffic on and adjacent to the Florida Intracoastal Waterway within St. Johns County. The zones exclude all associated tributaries, creeks, canals, channels, ba…

(1) For the purpose of regulating the speed and operation of vessel traffic on the Florida Intracoastal Waterway (ICW) bordering eastern Volusia County, including the Indian River and the Halifax River, the following Boating Restricted Areas are established: (a)1. Ormond Beach: A…

For the purpose of regulating the speed and operation of vessel traffic in Little Hickory Bay in Collier County, Florida, the following boating restricted area is created: (1) Slow Speed, Minimum Wake Zone, from shoreline to shoreline within the mangrove islands, which lie approx…

(1) Any livery offering vessels for lease or rent must ensure that all individuals who rent or lease a vessel, as well as each potential operator of a rented or leased vessel, have received pre-rental and pre-ride instruction in the following topics prior to operation: (a) Operat…

(1) As provided in Section 327.54(3)(f), F.S., a livery must display the boating safety information forms provided in this rule, as applicable, in a place visible to the renting public. Each such applicable boating safety information form shall be displayed in a size no smaller t…

(1) Requests for issuance of a livery permit, as provided in Section 327.54, F.S., shall be submitted to the Commission via email to liverypermit@myfwc.com or to Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Boating and Waterways Section/Livery Permit, 620 South Meridian Street, Tal…

(1) Pursuant to section 327.391 F.S., all Airboat Operator Courses developed for the purposes of training airboat operators carrying passengers for hire must be approved by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. This chapter establishes the minimum standards for a…

Rulemaking Authority 327.04, 327.39, 327.395, 327.54, 327.731 FS. Law Implemented 327.39, 327.395, 327.54, 327.731 FS. History-New 6-9-05, Repealed 8-1-24.