(a) The department of tourist development, in consultation with the department of economic and community development, department of environment and conservation, and department of safety and homeland security, shall promulgate rules designating tourism development zones in this state as economic protection zones for the purposes of protecting and stimulating economic activity within the tourism development zones.
(b) The rules must:(1) Apply uniformly to tourism development zones in this state;(2) Regulate ingress and egress into businesses and public property in a manner that facilitates access to tourists and residents;(3) Regulate unlawful loitering, sitting, camping, or sleeping on public property in a manner that maintains ingress and egress into places of business and maintains clear and unobstructed streets, alleys, sidewalks, parks, plazas, parking lots, driveways, rights-of-way, public buildings, or other locations open to or accessible by the public for the purpose of facilitating vehicular and pedestrian traffic; and(4) Be promulgated in accordance with the Uniform Administrative Procedures Act, compiled in title 4, chapter 5.
(1) Apply uniformly to tourism development zones in this state;
(2) Regulate ingress and egress into businesses and public property in a manner that facilitates access to tourists and residents;
(3) Regulate unlawful loitering, sitting, camping, or sleeping on public property in a manner that maintains ingress and egress into places of business and maintains clear and unobstructed streets, alleys, sidewalks, parks, plazas, parking lots, driveways, rights-of-way, public buildings, or other locations open to or accessible by the public for the purpose of facilitating vehicular and pedestrian traffic; and
(4) Be promulgated in accordance with the Uniform Administrative Procedures Act, compiled in title 4, chapter 5.
(c) This chapter does not supersede or alter the regulatory authority of the department of transportation over state highway rights-of-way or limit the statutory authority of the department of transportation to regulate activities within the jurisdiction of the department of transportation.