SECTION 253.001. Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund; duty to hold lands in trust.

SECTION 253.002. Department of Environmental Protection, water management districts, Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, and Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; duties with respect to state lands.

SECTION 253.01. Internal Improvement Trust Fund established.

SECTION 253.02. Board of trustees; powers and duties.

SECTION 253.025. Acquisition of state lands.

SECTION 253.0251. Alternatives to fee simple acquisition.

SECTION 253.027. Emergency archaeological property acquisition.

SECTION 253.03. Board of trustees to administer state lands; lands enumerated.

SECTION 253.031. Land office; custody of documents concerning land; moneys; plats.

SECTION 253.0325. Modernization of state lands records.

SECTION 253.033. Inter-American Center property; transfer to board; continued use for government purposes.

SECTION 253.034. State-owned lands; uses.

SECTION 253.0341. Surplus of state-owned lands.

SECTION 253.0345. Special events; submerged land leases.

SECTION 253.0346. Lease of sovereignty submerged lands for marinas, boatyards, and marine retailers.

SECTION 253.0347. Lease of sovereignty submerged lands for private residential docks and piers.

SECTION 253.035. Coastal anchorage areas.

SECTION 253.036. Forest management.

SECTION 253.037. Use of state-owned land for correctional facilities.

SECTION 253.04. Duty of board to protect, etc., state lands; state may join in any action brought.

SECTION 253.05. Prosecuting officers to assist in protecting state lands.

SECTION 253.111. Riparian owners of land.

SECTION 253.115. Public notice and hearings.

SECTION 253.12. Title to tidal lands vested in state.

SECTION 253.121. Conveyances of such lands heretofore made, ratified, confirmed, and validated.

SECTION 253.1221. Bulkhead lines; reestablishment.

SECTION 253.1241. Studies.

SECTION 253.1252. Citation of rule.

SECTION 253.126. Legislative intent.

SECTION 253.127. Enforcement.

SECTION 253.128. Enforcement; board or agency under special law.

SECTION 253.1281. Review by board.

SECTION 253.129. Confirmation of title in upland owners.

SECTION 253.135. Construction of ss. 253.12, 253.126, 253.127, 253.128, and 253.129.

SECTION 253.14. Rights of riparian owners; board of trustees to defend suit.

SECTION 253.141. Riparian rights defined; certain submerged bottoms subject to private ownership.

SECTION 253.21. Board of trustees may surrender certain lands to the United States and receive indemnity.

SECTION 253.29. Board of trustees to refund money paid where title to land fails.

SECTION 253.34. Transfer of notes owned by board.

SECTION 253.36. Title to reclaimed marshlands, wetlands, or lowlands in board of trustees.

SECTION 253.37. Survey to be made; sale of lands; preference to buyers.

SECTION 253.38. Riparian rights not affected.

SECTION 253.381. Unsurveyed marshlands; sale to upland owners.

SECTION 253.382. Oyster beds, minerals, and oils reserved to state.

SECTION 253.39. Surveys approved by chief cadastral surveyor validated.

SECTION 253.40. To what lands applicable.

SECTION 253.41. Plats and field notes filed in office of Board of Trustees of Internal Improvement Trust Fund.

SECTION 253.42. Board of trustees may exchange lands.

SECTION 253.43. Convey by deed.

SECTION 253.431. Agents may act on behalf of board of trustees.

SECTION 253.44. Disposal of lands received.

SECTION 253.45. Sale or lease of phosphate, clay, minerals, etc., in or under state lands.

SECTION 253.451. Construction of term “land the title to which is vested in the state.”

SECTION 253.47. Board of trustees may lease, sell, etc., bottoms of bays, lagoons, straits, etc., owned by state, for petroleum purposes.

SECTION 253.51. Oil and gas leases on state lands by the board of trustees.

SECTION 253.511. Reports by lessees of oil and mineral rights, state lands.

SECTION 253.512. Applicants for lease of gas, oil, or mineral rights; report as to lease holdings.

SECTION 253.52. Placing oil and gas leases on market by board.

SECTION 253.53. Sealed bids required.

SECTION 253.54. Competitive bidding.

SECTION 253.55. Limitation on term of lease.

SECTION 253.56. Responsibility of bidder.

SECTION 253.57. Royalties.

SECTION 253.571. Proof of financial responsibility required of lessee prior to commencement of drilling.

SECTION 253.60. Conflicting laws.

SECTION 253.61. Lands not subject to lease.

SECTION 253.62. Board of trustees authorized to convey certain lands without reservation.

SECTION 253.66. Change in bulkhead lines, Pinellas County.

SECTION 253.665. Grant of easements, licenses, and leases.

SECTION 253.67. Definitions.

SECTION 253.68. Authority to lease or use submerged lands and water column for aquaculture activities.

SECTION 253.69. Application to lease submerged land and water column.

SECTION 253.70. Public notice.

SECTION 253.71. The lease contract.

SECTION 253.72. Marking of leased areas; restrictions on public use.

SECTION 253.73. Rules; ss. 253.67-253.75.

SECTION 253.74. Penalties.

SECTION 253.75. Studies and recommendations by the department and the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission; designation of recommended traditional and other use zones; supervision of aquaculture operations.

SECTION 253.763. Judicial review relating to permits and licenses.

SECTION 253.77. State lands; state agency authorization for use prohibited without consent of agency in which title vested; concurrent processing requirements.

SECTION 253.781. Retention of state-owned lands along former Cross Florida Barge Canal route; creation of Cross Florida Greenways State Recreation and Conservation Area; authorizing transfer to the Federal Government for inclusion in Ocala National Forest.

SECTION 253.782. Retention of state-owned lands in and around Lake Rousseau and the Cross Florida Barge Canal right-of-way from Lake Rousseau west to the Withlacoochee River.

SECTION 253.7821. Cross Florida Greenways State Recreation and Conservation Area assigned to the Department of Environmental Protection.

SECTION 253.7822. Boundaries of the Cross Florida Greenways State Recreation and Conservation Area; coordination of management activities.

SECTION 253.7823. Disposition of surplus lands; compensation of counties located within the Cross Florida Canal Navigation District.

SECTION 253.7824. Sale of products; proceeds.

SECTION 253.7825. Recreational uses.

SECTION 253.7827. Transportation and utility crossings of greenways lands.

SECTION 253.7828. Impairment of use or conservation by agencies prohibited.

SECTION 253.783. Expenditures for acquisition of land for a canal connecting the waters of the Atlantic Ocean with the Gulf of Mexico via the St. Johns River prohibited.

SECTION 253.784. Contracts.

SECTION 253.785. Liberal construction of act.

SECTION 253.80. Murphy Act lands; costs and attorney fees for quieting title.

SECTION 253.81. Murphy Act; tax certificates barred.

SECTION 253.82. Title of state or private owners to Murphy Act lands.

SECTION 253.83. Construction of recodification.

SECTION 253.86. Management and use of state-owned or other uplands; rulemaking authority.

SECTION 253.87. Inventory of state, federal, and local government conservation lands by the Department of Environmental Protection.

SECTION 253.90. Southeast Florida Coral Reef Ecosystem Conservation Area.