The Florida Senate

253.84  Acquisition of lands by the state.--Lands acquired or sought to be acquired by the state and its political subdivisions may contain cattle-dipping vats as defined in s. 376.301. The Legislature determines that it is in the public interest for the state and its political subdivisions to acquire cattle-dipping vats from willing sellers, where such vats are located on or within the boundaries of parcels or tracts acquired or being acquired by the state and its political subdivisions or on lands managed by a public interest organization for environmental mitigation purposes. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the state and special taxing districts as defined in s. 189.403(6) shall not exclude such cattle-dipping vats from any such individual acquisition or sequence of acquisitions using state funds in whole or in part or otherwise acquired pursuant to any permitting program under state law; and outparcels excluded from previous acquisitions which contain such cattle-dipping vats shall be acquired under existing state acquisition programs. The state and its political subdivisions shall not become liable under state law solely as an incident of such acquisition for any costs, damages, or penalties associated with the discharge, evaluation, contamination, assessment, or remediation for any substances or derivatives thereof that were used in the vat for the eradication of the cattle fever tick.

History.--s. 1, ch. 97-164.