Florida/Georgia Personal Injury & Workers Compensation

...Admin. Code R. 62B-36.002(4). [8] It is important to note that the question of a fixed boundary at the ECL only applies to the beaches "of the Atlantic Ocean, the Gulf of Mexico, and the bays, lagoons and other tidal reaches thereof." Specifically, section 161.151, Florida Statutes (2005), defines an ECL, or "erosion control line," as the line determined in accordance with the provisions of ss....

...Further, despite the majority's efforts to marginalize this right, contact with the water demands protection under Florida law because it is part of our system of private-property ownership. [25] See Save Our Beaches, 31 Fla. L. Weekly at D1173, ___ So.2d at ___. [26] § 161.151(3), Fla....

...Finally, the court ruled that many of the issues raised by appellants, such as the quality of the sand to be used in the restoration and where the erosion control line for the project would be located, were collateral to the bond validation proceedings and thus not appropriate for determination in such proceedings. See § 161.151(3), Fla....

...nd owners, of which Wallace is one, whose lands either abut the ECL or would have abutted the line if it had been located directly on the mean high water line when the beach renourishment project began. See § 161.191(1), Fla. Stat. (1997); see also § 161.151(3), Fla....

renourishment. 7 See, s. 161.161(4), F.S. 8 Id. 9 Section 161.151(3), F.S., defines `[e]rosion control line'

...e used instead of the ECL.” Id. § 62B-33.024(2)(d)3. The ECL is “the line ,.. which represents the landward extent of the claims of the state in its capacity as sovereign titleholder of the submerged bottoms and shores of the Atlantic Ocean.” § 161.151(3), Fla....

on the date of the recording of the survey. Section 161.151. The line, then, is by definition the mean