The 2023 Florida Statutes (including Special Session C)

Title XVIII
PUBLIC LANDS AND PROPERTY

Chapter 253
STATE LANDS

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F.S. 253.47

253.47 Board of trustees may lease, sell, etc., bottoms of bays, lagoons, straits, etc., owned by state, for petroleum purposes.—The Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund of the state may lease for royalties or for other agreed compensation, or sell and otherwise dispose of the right to drill wells for the discovery and the production of petroleum and natural gas in the bottoms, owned by the state in its sovereign capacity, of the bays, lagoons, straits, sounds, gulf, streams and lakes within the state; provided, that such leases or sales shall not confer upon the person acquiring the same the right to enter upon any private property of another, nor the right to drill any well or otherwise place permanent or stationary obstruction in such waters or upon such bottoms within one-quarter of 1 mile of the shoreline of the lands of any upland owner, without first having the written consent of such upland owner so to do. The leases and sales so made shall convey to the lessee or vendee the rights of ingress and egress to, from, and over the bottoms leased or acquired, and the right to construct and maintain on and over such leased or acquired bottoms, in such manner as not to obstruct transportation, any structures, tanks, docks, stations and other equipment, as may be required for the proper development of such leases and the purposes for which the same are made.

History.—s. 1, ch. 12429, 1927; CGL 1445; s. 7, ch. 22858, 1945; s. 2, ch. 61-119; ss. 27, 35, ch. 69-106.

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Amendments to 253.47

Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 253.47

Level: Degree
Misdemeanor/Felony: First/Second/Third

Current data shows no reason an arrest or criminal charge should have occurred directly under Florida Statute 253.47.

Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

Cases from cite.case.law:

GETTY OIL COMPANY, v. STATE DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES N., 419 So. 2d 700 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1982)

. . . Section 253.47, F.S., authorized the Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund to lease . . .

J. J. L. v., 36 T.C. 577 (T.C. 1961)

. . . and 294(d) (2) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1939 for 1954 in the respective amounts of $67.50 and $253.47 . . .

J. TOM WATSON, v. SPESSARD L. HOLLAND, J. M. LEE, J. EDWIN LARSON, NATHAN MAYO, HOLLAND, LEE, LARSON, MAYO, a ARNOLD OIL EXPLORATIONS, INC. a, 155 Fla. 342 (Fla. 1944)

. . . The legislative Act of 1927, Chapter 12429 (see Section 253.47 F.S. 1941) is even more limited in its . . .