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Otis TOLBERT, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
    No. 4D99-3239.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.
    Aug. 22, 2001.
    Carey Haughwout, Public Defender, and Steven H. Malone, Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.
    Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and August A. Bonavita, Assistant Attorney General,- West Palm Beach, for appellee.
   PER CURIAM.

We affirm appellant’s judgment of conviction on Count I, sexual activity with a child, and Count II, lewd assault. However, we reverse appellant’s sixteen-year aggregate sentence on both counts because, as the state concedes, it is an improper general sentence. See Parks v. State, 765 So.2d 35 (Fla.2000); Carter v. State, 689 So.2d 455 (Fla. 5th DCA 1997); Cruz v. State, 674 So.2d 802 (Fla. 3d DCA 1996). Additionally, the sixteen-year sentence on Count II unlawfully exceeds the statutory maximum of fifteen years for that offense and is greater than the lowest permissible sentence on appellant’s sentencing guidelines scoresheet. '§§ 800.04, 775.082(3)(c), 921.0024(2), Fla. Stat. (2000).

REVERSED and REMANDED for further proceedings.

POLEN, C.J., STEVENSON and TAYLOR, JJ., concur.