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FL Stat § 177.35 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XII - Municipalities|Chapter 177 - Land Boundaries|Part II - Coastal Mapping (Ss. 177.25-177.40)|177.35 - Standards and procedures; applicability.

177.35 Standards and procedures; applicability.—The establishment of local tidal datums and the determination of the location of the mean high-water line or the mean low-water line, whether by federal, state, or local agencies or private parties, shall be made in accordance with the standards and procedures set forth in ss. 177.37-177.39 and in accordance with supplementary regulations promulgated by the department.History.—s. 11, ch. 74-56.
FL Stat § 177.36 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XII - Municipalities|Chapter 177 - Land Boundaries|Part II - Coastal Mapping (Ss. 177.25-177.40)|177.36 - Work to be performed only by authorized personnel.

177.36 Work to be performed only by authorized personnel.—The establishment of local tidal datums and the determination of the location of the mean high-water line or the mean low-water line must be performed by qualified personnel licensed by the Board of Professional Surveyors and Mappers or by representatives of the United States Government when approved by the department.History.—s. 12, ch. 74-56; s. 50, ch. 83-217; s. 21, ch. 85-80; s. 107, ch. 94-119.
FL Stat § 177.37 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XII - Municipalities|Chapter 177 - Land Boundaries|Part II - Coastal Mapping (Ss. 177.25-177.40)|177.37 - Notification to department.

177.37 Notification to department.—Any surveyor undertaking to establish a local tidal datum and to determine the location of the mean high-water line or the mean low-water line shall submit a copy of the results thereof to the department within 90 days after the completion of such work, if the same is to be recorded or submitted to any court or agency of state or local government.History.—s. 13, ch. 74-56.
FL Stat § 177.38 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XII - Municipalities|Chapter 177 - Land Boundaries|Part II - Coastal Mapping (Ss. 177.25-177.40)|177.38 - Standards for establishment of local tidal datums.

177.38 Standards for establishment of local tidal datums.—(1) Unless otherwise allowed by this part or regulations promulgated hereunder, a local tidal datum shall be established from a series of tide observations taken at a tide station established in accordance with procedures approved by the department. In establishing such procedures, full consideration will be given to the national standards and procedures established by the National Ocean Service.(2) Records acquired at control tide stations, which are based on mean 19-year values, comprise the basic data from which tidal datums are determined.(3) Observations at a tide station other than a control tide station shall be reduced to mean 19-year values through comparison with simultaneous observations at the appropriate control tide stations. The observations shall be made continuously and shall extend over such period as shall be provided for in departmental regulations.(4) When a local tidal datum has been established, it shall be preserved by referring it to tidal bench marks in the manner prescribed by the department.(5) A local tidal datum may be established between two tide stations by interpolation when the time and mean range differences of the tide between the two tide stations are within acceptable standards as determined by the department. The methods for establishing the local tidal datum by interpolation shall be prescribed by regulations of the department. Local tidal datums established in this manner shall be recorded with the department.(6) A local tidal datum properly established through the use of continuous tide observations meeting the standards described in this section shall be presumptively correct when it differs from a local tidal datum established by interpolation.(7) The department may approve the use of tide observations made prior to July 1, 1974, for use in establishing local tidal datums.History.—s. 14, ch. 74-56; s. 16, ch. 98-20.
FL Stat § 177.39 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XII - Municipalities|Chapter 177 - Land Boundaries|Part II - Coastal Mapping (Ss. 177.25-177.40)|177.39 - Determination of mean high-water line or mean low-water line.

177.39 Determination of mean high-water line or mean low-water line.—The location of the mean high-water line or the mean low-water line shall be determined by methods which are approved by the department for the area concerned. Geodetic bench marks shall not be used unless approved by the department.History.—s. 15, ch. 74-56.
FL Stat § 177.40 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XII - Municipalities|Chapter 177 - Land Boundaries|Part II - Coastal Mapping (Ss. 177.25-177.40)|177.40 - Admissibility of maps and surveys.

177.40 Admissibility of maps and surveys.—No map or survey prepared after July 1, 1974, and purporting to establish local tidal datums or to determine the location of the mean high-water line or the mean low-water line shall be admissible as evidence in any court, administrative agency, political subdivision, or tribunal in this state unless made in accordance with the provisions of this part by persons described in s. 177.36.History.—s. 16, ch. 74-56.
FL Stat § 177.501 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XII - Municipalities|Chapter 177 - Land Boundaries|Part III - Restoration of Corners (Ss. 177.501-177.510)|177.501 - Short title.

177.501 Short title.—Sections 177.501-177.510 may be cited as the “Florida Public Land Survey Restoration and Perpetuation Act.”History.—s. 1, ch. 77-361.
FL Stat § 177.502 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XII - Municipalities|Chapter 177 - Land Boundaries|Part III - Restoration of Corners (Ss. 177.501-177.510)|177.502 - Declaration of policy.

177.502 Declaration of policy.—The Legislature finds and declares that it is the responsibility of the state, and in the public interest, to provide a means for the identification, restoration, and preservation of the controlling corner monuments established during the original cadastral surveys, to which the vast majority of titles to lands in Florida are related and on which they are dependent. All such monuments and evidence pertaining to the original government surveys and resurveys are recognized as historical and economic resources of the state and, as such, are vitally important to the orderly planning, management, use, conservation, and public enjoyment of Florida’s natural resources. In order to implement this policy, the department shall assume the responsibility for conducting a program of the identification, restoration, and preservation of such monuments.History.—s. 1, ch. 77-361; s. 77, ch. 81-259; s. 37, ch. 94-356.
FL Stat § 177.503 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XII - Municipalities|Chapter 177 - Land Boundaries|Part III - Restoration of Corners (Ss. 177.501-177.510)|177.503 - Definitions.

177.503 Definitions.—As used in ss. 177.501-177.510, the following words and terms shall have the meanings indicated unless the context clearly indicates a different meaning:(1) “Professional surveyor and mapper” or “surveyor and mapper” means a person authorized to practice surveying and mapping under the provisions of chapter 472.(2) “Department” means the Department of Environmental Protection.(3) “Corner” means a geographic position on the surface of the earth.(4) “Monument” means a manmade or natural object that is presumed to occupy the corner or is a reference to the position of a corner.(5) “Public land survey corner” means any corner actually established and monumented in the original public land survey or resurvey and those similar original corners subdividing Spanish land grants.(6) “Corner accessory” means any exclusively identifiable physical object whose spatial relationship to the corner is recorded. Accessories may be, but are not limited to, bearing trees, bearing objects, monuments, reference monuments, line trees, pits, mounds, blaze marks, steel or wooden stakes, or other such natural or manmade objects.(7) “Reference monument” means a monument that does not occupy the same geographical position as the corner itself, but whose spatial relationship to the corner is recorded and which serves to witness the corner.(8) “Township” has the meaning ascribed in 43 U.S.C. s. 751.(9) “Certified corner record” means a document prepared by a surveyor and mapper when a public land survey corner is used as control in his or her survey or resurvey.(10) “State cadastral surveyor” means the chief of the Bureau of Survey and Mapping, Division of State Lands of the department.History.—s. 1, ch. 77-361; s. 83, ch. 79-400; s. 3, ch. 91-56; s. 108, ch. 94-119; s. 38, ch. 94-356; s. 1456, ch. 95-147; s. 30, ch. 2020-2.
FL Stat § 177.504 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XII - Municipalities|Chapter 177 - Land Boundaries|Part III - Restoration of Corners (Ss. 177.501-177.510)|177.504 - Powers and duties of the department.

177.504 Powers and duties of the department.—(1) The provisions of this act shall be administered by the department through the state cadastral surveyor.(2) The functions, duties, and responsibilities of the department shall be:(a) To establish a program for identification, restoration, maintenance, and perpetuation of the public land survey corners.(b) To provide for the extension and densification throughout the state of the federally initiated precise geodetic horizontal and vertical control networks, whereby these basic framework surveys shall be extended to survey corners identified under this program to permit the general use of the coordinate systems. The information derived from this work shall meet the standards established by the National Geodetic Survey in order to be accepted and published by the National Geodetic Survey.(c) To provide for entering into agreements or contracts with agencies of the United States Government, the State of Florida, or other states, and with surveyors and mappers in private practice and others, as are deemed necessary or desirable properly to plan and execute projects within the scope and purpose of this act, including the preparation of necessary cadastral documents, maps, and photogrammetric and geodetic control data. The department or its designated contracting agency, in contracting with surveyors and mappers for professional services, shall give due consideration to their experience and knowledge of local conditions and the history of each particular area involved in the execution of this act.(d) To act as a public repository of survey corner information.History.—s. 1, ch. 77-361; s. 3, ch. 91-56; s. 109, ch. 94-119; s. 12, ch. 98-200; s. 49, ch. 2012-116.
FL Stat § 177.506 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XII - Municipalities|Chapter 177 - Land Boundaries|Part III - Restoration of Corners (Ss. 177.501-177.510)|177.506 - Records exchange and availability.

177.506 Records exchange and availability.—On request, all departments, boards, or agencies of state or local government shall furnish to the public or department certified copies of specified deeds, plats, or other land records which are in their custody. This service shall be free of cost when possible; otherwise, it shall be at the actual cost of reproduction of the records. On the same basis, the department shall furnish such certified records within its custody to the public or other agencies or departments of state or local government, upon request.History.—s. 1, ch. 77-361.
FL Stat § 177.507 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XII - Municipalities|Chapter 177 - Land Boundaries|Part III - Restoration of Corners (Ss. 177.501-177.510)|177.507 - Certification of corners.

177.507 Certification of corners.—(1) Every surveyor and mapper not under contract to the department for the execution of this act who, in any survey or resurvey made under his or her direction, identifies, recovers, reestablishes, remonuments, restores, or uses as control a public land survey corner or corner accessory must, within 90 days after completion of the survey, file with the department a certified corner record for each such corner or corner accessory, unless the corner or its accessories are substantially as described in a previously filed corner record. The record shall be signed, embossed with the official seal of the surveyor and mapper, and produced on material suitable for reproduction or microfilming. The 90-day limitation may be extended with permission of the department. All such certified corner records shall be accepted and filed with the department without further inspection or approval of any public body or officer, if prepared in accordance with the criteria set forth in subsection (3).(2) Each certified corner record shall contain the following minimum information:(a) A description of the corner which the monument marks.(b) A description of the monument.(c) Descriptions and angular and linear measurements to at least three readily identifiable accessories or reference monuments, unless the department agrees to fewer accessories.(d) A graphic illustration of the action by the surveyor and mapper showing field conditions and dimensions at, and in the vicinity of, the corner as well as descriptive language, where appropriate, listing pertinent details of the action of the surveyor and mapper.(3) In every case in which a certified corner record of a public land survey corner is filed under the provisions of this act, the surveyor and mapper must reconstruct or rehabilitate the monument of such corner and accessories to such corner, so as to make them as permanent as is reasonably possible and to facilitate their location in the future.(4) The department shall make its records available for public inspection during all usual office hours, and true full scale copies thereof shall be made available for a reasonable fee.(5) In order to provide a means to protect property owners and others concerned with matters of land titles and title insurance, the department has no authority under this act to determine private property rights, private ownership boundaries where these boundaries are not adjoining public lands, or locations of survey corners other than public land survey corners.History.—s. 1, ch. 77-361; s. 84, ch. 79-400; s. 3, ch. 91-56; s. 110, ch. 94-119; s. 1457, ch. 95-147.
FL Stat § 177.508 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XII - Municipalities|Chapter 177 - Land Boundaries|Part III - Restoration of Corners (Ss. 177.501-177.510)|177.508 - Private practice not affected.

177.508 Private practice not affected.—Nothing in this part restricts or limits the actions or practice of surveyors and mappers as provided in chapter 472.History.—s. 1, ch. 77-361; s. 111, ch. 94-119.
FL Stat § 177.509 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XII - Municipalities|Chapter 177 - Land Boundaries|Part III - Restoration of Corners (Ss. 177.501-177.510)|177.509 - Personnel requirements.

177.509 Personnel requirements.—A field supervisor who directs the field survey work required in the identification, restoration, and preservation of the public land survey corners must be a surveyor and mapper and shall direct not more than three field parties in a local geographic area during any one period of time.History.—s. 1, ch. 77-361; s. 112, ch. 94-119.
FL Stat § 177.510 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XII - Municipalities|Chapter 177 - Land Boundaries|Part III - Restoration of Corners (Ss. 177.501-177.510)|177.510 - Penalty for disturbing monuments.

177.510 Penalty for disturbing monuments.—Any person who willfully modifies, defaces, disturbs, removes, or destroys any monument or reference monument placed, or corner record filed, under the authority of this act without first obtaining written permission from the department is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083.History.—s. 1, ch. 77-361.
FL Stat § 189.01 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XIII - Planning and Development|Chapter 189 - Uniform Special District Accountability Act|Part I - General Provisions (Ss. 189.01-189.019)|189.01 - Short title.

189.01 Short title.—This chapter may be cited as the “Uniform Special District Accountability Act.”History.—s. 1, ch. 89-169; s. 6, ch. 2014-22.Note.—Former s. 189.401.
FL Stat § 189.011 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XIII - Planning and Development|Chapter 189 - Uniform Special District Accountability Act|Part I - General Provisions (Ss. 189.01-189.019)|189.011 - Statement of legislative purpose and intent.

189.011 Statement of legislative purpose and intent.—(1) It is the intent of the Legislature through the adoption of this chapter to provide general provisions for the definition, creation, and operation of special districts. It is the specific intent of the Legislature that dependent special districts shall be created at the prerogative of the counties and municipalities and that independent special districts shall only be created by legislative authorization as provided herein.(2) The Legislature finds that special districts serve a necessary and useful function by providing services to residents and property in the state. The Legislature finds further that special districts operate to serve a public purpose and that this is best secured by certain minimum standards of accountability designed to inform the public and appropriate local general-purpose governments of the status and activities of special districts. It is the intent of the Legislature that this public trust be secured by requiring each special district in the state to register and report its financial and other activities. The Legislature further finds that failure of a special district to comply with the minimum disclosure requirements set forth in this chapter may result in action against the special district.(3) Realizing that special districts are created to serve special purposes, the Legislature intends through the adoption of this chapter that special districts cooperate and coordinate their activities with the units of general-purpose local government in which they are located. The reporting requirements set forth in this chapter shall be the minimum level of cooperation necessary to provide services to the citizens of this state in an efficient and equitable fashion.History.—s. 2, ch. 89-169; s. 7, ch. 2014-22; s. 2, ch. 2016-22.Note.—Subsection (1) former s. 189.402(1); subsection (2) former s. 189.402(6); subsection (3) former s. 189.402(7).
FL Stat § 189.013 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XIII - Planning and Development|Chapter 189 - Uniform Special District Accountability Act|Part I - General Provisions (Ss. 189.01-189.019)|189.013 - Special districts; creation, dissolution, and reporting requirements.

189.013 Special districts; creation, dissolution, and reporting requirements.—All special districts, regardless of the existence of other, more specific provisions of applicable law, shall comply with the creation, dissolution, and reporting requirements set forth in this chapter.History.—s. 4, ch. 89-169; s. 5, ch. 97-255; s. 11, ch. 2014-22.Note.—Former s. 189.4031(1).
FL Stat § 189.014 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XIII - Planning and Development|Chapter 189 - Uniform Special District Accountability Act|Part I - General Provisions (Ss. 189.01-189.019)|189.014 - Designation of registered office and agent.

189.014 Designation of registered office and agent.—(1) Within 30 days after the first meeting of its governing body, each special district in the state shall designate a registered office and a registered agent and file such information with the local governing authority or authorities and with the department. The registered agent shall be an agent of the district upon whom any process, notice, or demand required or permitted by law to be served upon the district may be served. A registered agent shall be an individual resident of this state whose business address is identical with the registered office of the district. The registered office may be, but need not be, the same as the place of business of the special district.(2) The district may change its registered office or change its registered agent, or both, upon filing such information with the local governing authority or authorities and with the department.History.—s. 10, ch. 79-183; s. 15, ch. 81-167; s. 23, ch. 89-169; s. 18, ch. 97-255; s. 38, ch. 2014-22.Note.—Former s. 189.004; s. 189.416.
FL Stat § 189.015 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XIII - Planning and Development|Chapter 189 - Uniform Special District Accountability Act|Part I - General Provisions (Ss. 189.01-189.019)|189.015 - Meetings; notice; required reports.

189.015 Meetings; notice; required reports.—(1) The governing body of each special district shall file quarterly, semiannually, or annually a schedule of its regular meetings with the local governing authority or authorities. The schedule shall include the date, time, and location of each scheduled meeting. The schedule shall be published quarterly, semiannually, or annually in the manner required in this subsection. The governing body of an independent special district shall advertise the day, time, place, and purpose of any meeting other than a regular meeting or any recessed and reconvened meeting of the governing body, at least 7 days before such meeting as provided in chapter 50 in the county or counties in which the special district is located, unless a bona fide emergency situation exists, in which case a meeting to deal with the emergency may be held as necessary, with reasonable notice, so long as it is subsequently ratified by the governing body. No approval of the annual budget shall be granted at an emergency meeting. The notice shall be posted as provided in chapter 50. Any other provision of law to the contrary notwithstanding, and except in the case of emergency meetings, water management districts may provide reasonable notice of public meetings held to evaluate responses to solicitations issued by the water management district, as provided in chapter 50 by Internet publication or by publication in a newspaper in the county where the principal office of the water management district is located, or in the county or counties where the public work will be performed, no less than 7 days before such meeting.(2) All meetings of the governing body of the special district shall be open to the public and governed by the provisions of chapter 286.(3) Meetings of the governing body of the special district shall be held in a public building when available within the district, in a county courthouse of a county in which the district is located, or in a building in the county accessible to the public.History.—s. 10, ch. 79-183; s. 78, ch. 81-259; s. 24, ch. 89-169; s. 19, ch. 97-255; s. 33, ch. 99-378; s. 39, ch. 2014-22; s. 16, ch. 2021-17.Note.—Former s. 189.005; s. 189.417.
FL Stat § 189.017 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XIII - Planning and Development|Chapter 189 - Uniform Special District Accountability Act|Part I - General Provisions (Ss. 189.01-189.019)|189.017 - Rulemaking authority.

189.017 Rulemaking authority.—The department may adopt rules to implement the provisions of this chapter.History.—s. 59, ch. 89-169; s. 22, ch. 97-255; s. 67, ch. 2011-142; s. 46, ch. 2014-22.Note.—Former s. 189.425.