Florida Statute 177.28 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XII
MUNICIPALITIES

Chapter 177
LAND BOUNDARIES

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F.S. 177.28

177.28 Legal significance of the mean high-water line.—

(1) Mean high-water line along the shores of land immediately bordering on navigable waters is recognized and declared to be the boundary between the foreshore owned by the state in its sovereign capacity and upland subject to private ownership. However, no provision of this part shall be deemed to constitute a waiver of state ownership of sovereignty submerged lands, nor shall any provision of this part be deemed to impair the title to privately owned submerged lands validly alienated by the State of Florida or its legal predecessors.

(2) No provision of this part shall be deemed to modify the common law of this state with respect to the legal effects of accretion, reliction, erosion, or avulsion.

History.—s. 4, ch. 74-56.

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Trepanier v. County of Volusia

965 So. 2d 276, 2007 WL 2682133

District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: Sep 14, 2007 | Docket: 1508980

Cited 8 times | Published

high water line is subject to private ownership. § 177.28(1), Fla. Stat. (2005). See also Clement v. Watson