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Fla. Stat. § 342.07 (2025)
Recreational and commercial working waterfronts; legislative findings; definitions.
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342.07 Recreational and commercial working waterfronts; legislative findings; definitions.—
(1) The Legislature recognizes that there is an important state interest in facilitating boating and other recreational access to the state’s navigable waters. This access is vital to tourists and recreational users and the marine industry in the state, to maintaining or enhancing the $57 billion economic impact of tourism and the $14 billion economic impact of boating in the state annually, and to ensuring continued access to all residents and visitors to the navigable waters of the state. The Legislature recognizes that there is an important state interest in maintaining viable water-dependent support facilities, such as public lodging establishments and boat hauling and repairing and commercial fishing facilities, and in maintaining the availability of public access to the navigable waters of the state. The Legislature further recognizes that the waterways of the state are important for engaging in commerce and the transportation of goods and people upon such waterways and that such commerce and transportation is not feasible unless there is access to and from the navigable waters of the state through recreational and commercial working waterfronts.
(2) As used in this section, the term “recreational and commercial working waterfront” means a parcel or parcels of real property which provide access for water-dependent commercial activities, including hotels and motels as defined in s. 509.242(1), or provide access for the public to the navigable waters of the state. Recreational and commercial working waterfronts require direct access to or a location on, over, or adjacent to a navigable body of water. The term includes water-dependent facilities that are open to the public and offer public access by vessels to the waters of the state or that are support facilities for recreational, commercial, research, or governmental vessels. These facilities include public lodging establishments, docks, wharfs, lifts, wet and dry marinas, boat ramps, boat hauling and repair facilities, commercial fishing facilities, boat construction facilities, and other support structures over the water. As used in this section, the term “vessel” has the same meaning as in s. 327.02. Seaports are excluded from the definition.
Notes of Decisions
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case, 2017–2017 · leading case: Treasure Coast Marina, LC, etc. v. the City of Fort Pierce, Florida, etc., 219 So. 3d 793 (Fla. 2017).
Treasure Coast Marina, LC, etc. v. the City of Fort Pierce, Florida, etc., 219 So. 3d 793 (Fla. 2017). “§ 342.07, Fla. Stat. (2016). 11 Moreover, the importance of public marinas and their nexus to providing transportation and commerce was enshrined in the Florida Constitution when the voters passed the “Assessment of Working Waterfront Property Based' Upon Current Use” amendment…”
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