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Florida Statutes, Title XVIII

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Title XVIII, Public Lands and Property

14 chapters · 480 sections in this title.

All chapters in Title XVIII480 Ch 253, State Lands99 Ch 255, Public Property and Publicly Owned B…89 Ch 258, State Parks and Preserves55 Ch 257, Public Libraries and State Archives42 Ch 265, Memorials, Museums, and Arts and Culture34 Ch 267, Historical Resources34 Ch 272, Capitol Center22 Ch 256, Flags20 Ch 259, Land Acquisitions for Conservation o…20 Ch 270, Public Lands18 Ch 260, Florida Greenways and Trails Act13 Ch 261, Off-highway Vehicle Safety and Recre…13 Ch 274, Tangible Personal Property Owned by …12 Ch 273, State-owned Tangible Personal Property9

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Fla. Stat. § 267.0743 State Historical Marker Council
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In order to enhance public participation and involvement in the identification and interpretation of subjects relating to the history and culture of Florida, there is created the “State Historical Marker Council.”(1) The council shall consist of three members who represent differ…
Fla. Stat. § 267.075 The Grove Advisory Council; creation; membership; purposes
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(1) The Call/Collins House, commonly known as “The Grove,” located in Tallahassee, Leon County, shall be utilized as a house museum of history for the educational benefit of the citizens of this state. The utilization of The Grove as a museum of history shall emphasize the lives …
Fla. Stat. § 267.076 Confidentiality of certain donor information related to publicly owned house museums designated as National Historic Landmarks
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Information that would identify a donor or prospective donor to a publicly owned house museum designated by the United States Department of the Interior as a National Historic Landmark who desires to remain anonymous is confidential and exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art.…
Fla. Stat. § 267.081 Publications
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(1) It is the duty of the division to:(a) Promote and encourage the writing of Florida history.(b) Collect, edit, publish, and print pamphlets, papers, manuscripts, documents, books, monographs, and other materials relating to Florida history. The division may establish a reasona…

Fla. Stat. § 267.11 Designation of archaeological sites

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The division may publicly designate an archaeological site of significance to the scientific study or public representation of the state’s historical, prehistoric, or aboriginal past as a “state archaeological landmark.” In addition, the division may publicly designate an interre…

Fla. Stat. § 267.115 Objects of historical or archaeological value

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The division shall acquire, maintain, preserve, interpret, exhibit, and make available for study objects which have intrinsic historical or archaeological value relating to the history, government, or culture of the state. Such objects may include tangible personal property of hi…

Fla. Stat. § 267.12 Research permits; procedure

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(1) As used in this section and s. 267.13, the term “water authority” means an independent special district created by special act whose purpose is to control and conserve freshwater resources. The term does not include any water management district created pursuant to s. 373.069…

Fla. Stat. § 267.13 Prohibited practices; penalties

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(1)(a) Any person who by means other than excavation conducts archaeological field investigations on, or removes or attempts to remove or defaces, destroys, or otherwise alters any archaeological site or specimen located upon, land owned or controlled by the state, land owned by …

Fla. Stat. § 267.135 Location of archaeological sites

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Any information identifying the location of an archaeological site held by the Division of Historical Resources of the Department of State is exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution, if the Division of Historical Resources finds that disclosure of …

Fla. Stat. § 267.14 Legislative intent

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It is hereby declared to be the public policy of the state to preserve archaeological sites and objects of antiquity for the public benefit and to limit exploration, excavation, and collection of such matters to qualified persons and educational institutions possessing the requis…

Fla. Stat. § 267.145 Florida network of public archaeology centers

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(1) The Department of State shall create, through a memorandum of agreement, a Florida network of public archaeology centers to help stem the rapid deterioration of this state’s buried past and to expand public interest in archaeology. The network of public archaeology centers sh…

Fla. Stat. § 267.17 Citizen support organizations; use of state administrative services and property; audit

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(1) CITIZEN SUPPORT ORGANIZATIONS.—The division may support the establishment of citizen support organizations to provide assistance, funding, and promotional support for the archaeology, museum, folklife, and historic preservation programs of the division. For the purposes of th…

Fla. Stat. § 267.172 Tallahassee; Florida Keys; contracts for historic preservation

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In order to continue the work performed by the Historic Tallahassee Preservation Board of Trustees and the Historic Florida Keys Preservation Board of Trustees, the Department of State may contract with not-for-profit corporations established for the purpose of advancing historic…

Fla. Stat. § 267.173 Historic preservation in West Florida; goals; contracts for historic preservation; powers and duties

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(1) It is the goal of the state to continue to ensure long-term preservation and interpretation of state-owned historic properties while facilitating an educational program at the University of West Florida that will be responsive to the state’s needs for professionals in histori…

Fla. Stat. § 267.1732 Direct-support organization

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(1) The University of West Florida shall authorize a direct-support organization to assist the university in carrying out its dual historic preservation and historic preservation education purposes and responsibilities for the City of Pensacola, Escambia County, and West Florida …

Fla. Stat. § 267.1735 Historic preservation in St. Augustine; goals; contracts for historic preservation; powers and duties

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(1) The goal for contracting with the University of Florida is to ensure long-term preservation and interpretation of state-owned historic properties in St. Augustine while facilitating an educational program at the University of Florida that will be responsive to the state’s nee…

Fla. Stat. § 267.1736 Direct-support organization

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(1) The University of Florida shall authorize a direct-support organization to assist the university in carrying out its dual historic preservation and historic preservation education purposes and responsibilities for the City of St. Augustine, St. Johns County, and the state und…

Fla. Stat. § 267.21 Historic Cemeteries Program

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(1) The Historic Cemeteries Program is created within the division. The State Historic Preservation Officer shall serve as the director of the program and shall, subject to legislative appropriation, employ three full-time employees to operate the program. The program shall have …

Fla. Stat. § 267.22 Historic Cemeteries Program Advisory Council

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(1) The Historic Cemeteries Program Advisory Council, an advisory council as defined in s. 20.03(7), is created within the division and shall consist of nine members appointed by the Secretary of State after considering the recommendations of the director of the division. The cou…

Fla. Stat. § 270.01 Grant to aid construction of certain railroads accepted

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The lands, rights and privileges granted to, and conferred upon, the state by the Act of Congress entitled “An Act granting public lands in alternate sections to the States of Florida and Alabama, to aid in the construction of certain railroads in said states,” approved May 17, 1…

Fla. Stat. § 270.02 Titles of purchasers and transferees of railroad companies confirmed

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To remove all doubt as to the title of the purchasers and transferees, and their assigns, from the several railroad companies, of the land granted by the United States to the state, to aid in the construction of certain railroads in this state, by Act of Congress, approved May 17…

Fla. Stat. § 270.07 Certain public lands not to be sold without advertisement

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Any lands in the state that are now, or may hereafter be, vested in the Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund of the state may not be sold, conveyed, or disposed of by the board of trustees until notice as provided in s. 253.115 has been given; however, this se…

Fla. Stat. § 270.08 Notice of sale of public lands

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When the Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund considers it expedient to sell any of the lands that are vested in the Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund of the state, it must give notice of the sale as provided in s. 253.115. This section …

Fla. Stat. § 270.10 Sections not to impair law relative to homesteads, preemptions, or grants of lands for certain purposes

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Sections 270.07 and 270.08 shall in nowise impair the law of the state relative to homesteads or preemptions, or the law relative to the granting of lands for the construction of highways, public roads and canals.History.—s. 4, ch. 5943, 1909; RGS 1225; CGL 1770; s. 1094, ch. 193…

Fla. Stat. § 270.11 Contracts for sale of public lands to reserve certain mineral rights; prohibition on exercise of right of entry in certain cases

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(1) Unless the applicable agency chooses not to reserve such interest and except as otherwise provided by law, in all contracts and deeds for the sale of land executed by the Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund or by any local government, water management dis…

Fla. Stat. § 270.16 Preservation of equity of state in lands sold; board of trustees may compromise unpaid balance

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In the sale of state lands or other state property, whether made in the name of the state or in the name of any state agency, when such sale is or has been made upon the basis of partial payment or payments upon said lands or other property and the remainder or balance of payment…

Fla. Stat. § 270.17 Foreclosure of mortgage for balance of purchase price on state lands

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The state, or any agency of the state in which was vested the primary title to said land or other property, may in case of nonpayment of the full purchase price upon said lands or other property sold by the state or its agency and subject to mortgage or other instrument of indebt…

Fla. Stat. § 270.18 Tax liens extinguished when lands revert to state; exception

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Reinstatement of title in the state or its agency shall, by foreclosure or otherwise, operate to extinguish all liens for all taxes or assessments to which the lands would not have been subject had the title been in the state or its agency; provided, however, that any tax certifi…

Fla. Stat. § 270.19 Reconveyance to state; extinguishes tax liens

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Reinstatement of title by reconveyance or by forfeiture covering land or other property for which the state or its agency holds mortgage, or other instrument of indebtedness, or the vesting of title to lands or other property in the state or in its agency in any other manner, sha…

Fla. Stat. § 270.20 When title reverts to state; lands go back to department from which it originated

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When title to lands or other property becomes vested in the state or its agency under ss. 270.16-270.19, such lands or other property shall be covered into that state fund or state department from which they originated or to which they may be conveyed. When title to lands or othe…

Fla. Stat. § 270.21 Transactions to which sections applicable

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The provisions of ss. 270.16-270.18 shall apply to all transactions of the state, or any agency thereof, of the kind described in said sections in which the state or its agency has an equity.History.—s. 6, ch. 15641, 1931; CGL 1936 Supp. 1771(11).

Fla. Stat. § 270.22 Proceeds of state lands to go into Internal Improvement Trust Fund; exception

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(1) Except as provided in subsection (2), the proceeds of state land, whether from sale, lease, rental, or the sale, lease, or rental of products in, on, or under such land, title to which has been or may be vested in the Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund b…

Fla. Stat. § 270.23 Disposition of proceeds of state lands

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After payments have been made to the State School Trust Fund, as provided by the constitution and by law, any balance shall be and remain a part of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund to be applied by the board of trustees of that fund to the payment of the expenses and the admin…

Fla. Stat. § 270.24 Payment of special assessments or levies upon state lands

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Where the lands of the state, title to which is vested in the Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund, are subject to special assessments or special levies of taxes imposed by authority of the Legislature, the board of trustees may pay such special assessments or…

Fla. Stat. § 270.25 Special assessments or levies shall remain liens subject to payment

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Special assessments or special levies heretofore imposed by legislative authority, which are now a lien upon the lands, title to which is in the Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund, shall continue as a lien subject to payment as provided for in s. 270.24; pro…

Fla. Stat. § 270.26 Lands to which sections do not apply

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The provisions of ss. 270.22-270.25 shall not apply to any lands, title to which has vested or which may vest in the Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund through any law foreclosing the lien for taxes until all such liens shall have been satisfied as provided …

Fla. Stat. § 270.27 Sale of unused public lands

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(1) The Department of Management Services is hereby authorized to sell, to the best possible advantage, any or all detached pieces or parcels of land held by the state for the use of any institution under the supervision and control of the department, whenever, in the judgment of…

Fla. Stat. § 272.03 Department of Management Services to supervise Capitol Center buildings; title in state

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(1) All state buildings now or hereafter constructed included in the Capitol Center at the state capital and the grounds and squares contiguous thereto shall be under the general control, custodianship, and supervision of the Department of Management Services.(2) Title to said bu…

Fla. Stat. § 272.04 Department to allocate space

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The Department of Management Services shall have authority to allocate space to house the various departments, agencies, boards, and commissions in said buildings, excepting, however, the new Supreme Court Building, for which authority shall be vested in the justices of the Supre…

Fla. Stat. § 272.05 Budgets for repair and maintenance; review

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The Department of Management Services and the Executive Office of the Governor shall be empowered to review, change, and modify the budgets of the departments, agencies, boards, and commissions relating to the repair, upkeep, and maintenance of said buildings.History.—s. 5, ch. 2…

Fla. Stat. § 272.06 Authority to contract for utility services

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The Department of Management Services may provide or enter into contracts to provide heating, power, lighting, cooling systems, and other necessary services or facilities for any or all of said buildings.History.—s. 6, ch. 25032, 1949; ss. 22, 35, ch. 69-106; s. 74, ch. 71-377; s…

Fla. Stat. § 272.07 Department may provide for parks, drives, and walkways

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The Department of Management Services may provide for the establishment of parks, drives, walkways, and parkways on said grounds and squares and for the supervision, regulation, and maintenance of the same, including traffic and parking thereon.History.—s. 7, ch. 25032, 1949; ss.…

Fla. Stat. § 272.08 Duty of repair, maintenance, and supervision

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Except when otherwise directed by the Department of Management Services, the official or officials now having the duty of repair, care, maintenance, and supervision of any of said buildings shall continue to exercise such authority.History.—s. 8, ch. 25032, 1949; ss. 22, 35, ch. …

Fla. Stat. § 272.09 Management, maintenance, and upkeep of Capitol Center

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(1) For purposes of this section, the term “Capitol Complex” means the portion of the Capitol Center commonly referred to as the Capitol, the Historic Capitol, the Senate Office Building, the House Office Building, the Knott Building, the Pepper Building, the Holland Building, th…

Fla. Stat. § 272.11 Capitol information center

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The Florida Tourism Industry Marketing Corporation shall establish, maintain, and operate a Capitol information center somewhere within the area of the Capitol Center and employ personnel or enter into contracts to maintain same.History.—s. 3, ch. 29843, 1955; ss. 22, 35, ch. 69-…

Fla. Stat. § 272.111 Legislative intent

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It is hereby declared to be the finding of the Legislature that the area described herein as the “Capitol Center” is a vital part of the past, present, and future of the State of Florida and that its development must be regulated in such a manner as to ensure the character and di…

Fla. Stat. § 272.12 Florida Capitol Center Planning District

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(1) There is hereby created the Florida Capitol Center Planning District, which may be referred to in this chapter as “Capitol Center” or “district.” The district shall extend to and include all lands within the following boundaries of the City of Tallahassee: Commence at the nor…

Fla. Stat. § 272.121 Capitol Center long-range planning

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(1) The Department of Management Services shall develop a comprehensive and long-range plan for the development of state-owned property within the Capitol Center. In developing this plan, the department shall consider:(a) The most efficient, expeditious, and economical method of …

Fla. Stat. § 272.122 Acquisition of land for state buildings and facilities in the Capitol Center

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The Department of Management Services is hereby authorized and directed to acquire both land and buildings now needed or to be needed for use, in whole or in part, by state government or any agency, board, bureau, or commission thereof. However, no building can be constructed or …

Fla. Stat. § 272.124 Department of Management Services; power to contract

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The Department of Management Services is authorized and empowered to make and enter into any contract or agreement, with any person or agency, public or private, to lease, buy, acquire, construct, hold, or dispose of real and personal property necessary to carry out the objects a…