Florida Senate - 2019                      CS for CS for SB 1500
       
       
        
       By the Committees on Appropriations; and Environment and Natural
       Resources; and Senator Simmons
       
       
       
       
       576-04188-19                                          20191500c2
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to right of entry; amending s. 270.11,
    3         F.S.; revising when a local government, a water
    4         management district, or an agency of the state is
    5         required to sell or release reserved interest in a
    6         parcel of land; releasing right of entry reserved by a
    7         local government, water management district, or other
    8         agency of the state for specified parcels of property;
    9         providing an effective date.
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   11  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   13         Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subsection (2) and subsection
   14  (3) of section 270.11, Florida Statutes, are amended to read:
   15         270.11 Contracts for sale of public lands to reserve
   16  certain mineral rights; prohibition on exercise of right of
   17  entry in certain cases.—
   18         (2)
   19         (b) A local government, a water management district, or an
   20  agency of the state may, at its discretion, sell or release
   21  reserved interest in any parcel of land, except that such sale
   22  or release shall be made upon petition of the owner of the
   23  parcel of land with a statement of reasons justifying such sale
   24  or release.
   25         (3) The right of entry in respect to any interest in
   26  phosphate, minerals, and metals or any interest in petroleum
   27  heretofore or hereafter reserved in favor of the Board of
   28  Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund, or the State
   29  Board of Education, a local government, a water management
   30  district, or other agency of the state is hereby released for as
   31  to any parcel of property that is, or ever has been, a
   32  contiguous tract of less than 20 acres in the aggregate under
   33  the same ownership.
   34         (3) A local government, water management district, or
   35  agency of the state may, at its discretion, sell or release
   36  reserved interest in any parcel of land, except that such sale
   37  or release shall be made upon petition of the purchaser for such
   38  interest and with a statement of reasons justifying such sale or
   39  release.
   40         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2019.