PART I. STATE WATER RESOURCE PLAN

SECTION 373.012. Topographic mapping.

SECTION 373.013. Short title.

SECTION 373.016. Declaration of policy.

SECTION 373.019. Definitions.

SECTION 373.023. Scope and application.

SECTION 373.026. General powers and duties of the department.

SECTION 373.033. Saltwater barrier line.

SECTION 373.036. Florida water plan; district water management plans.

SECTION 373.0363. Southern Water Use Caution Area Recovery Strategy.

SECTION 373.037. Pilot program for alternative water supply development in restricted allocation areas.

SECTION 373.0397. Floridan and Biscayne aquifers; designation of prime groundwater recharge areas.

SECTION 373.042. Minimum flows and minimum water levels.

SECTION 373.0421. Establishment and implementation of minimum flows and minimum water levels.

SECTION 373.043. Adoption and enforcement of rules by the department.

SECTION 373.044. Rules; enforcement; availability of personnel rules.

SECTION 373.046. Interagency agreements.

SECTION 373.0465. Central Florida Water Initiative.

SECTION 373.047. Cooperation between districts.

SECTION 373.056. State agencies, counties, drainage districts, municipalities, or governmental agencies or public corporations authorized to convey or receive land from water management districts.

SECTION 373.069. Creation of water management districts.

SECTION 373.0691. Transfer of areas.

SECTION 373.0693. Basins; basin boards.

SECTION 373.0695. Duties of basin boards; authorized expenditures.

SECTION 373.0697. Basin taxes.

SECTION 373.0698. Creation and operation of basin boards; other laws superseded.

SECTION 373.073. Governing board.

SECTION 373.076. Vacancies in the governing board; removal from office.

SECTION 373.079. Members of governing board; oath of office; staff.

SECTION 373.083. General powers and duties of the governing board.

SECTION 373.084. District works, operation by other governmental agencies.

SECTION 373.085. Use of works or land by other districts or private persons.

SECTION 373.086. Providing for district works.

SECTION 373.087. District works using aquifer for storage and supply.

SECTION 373.088. Application fees for certain real estate transactions.

SECTION 373.089. Sale or exchange of lands, or interests or rights in lands.

SECTION 373.093. Lease of lands or interest in land and personal property.

SECTION 373.096. Releases.

SECTION 373.099. Execution of instruments.

SECTION 373.103. Powers which may be vested in the governing board at the department’s discretion.

SECTION 373.106. Permit required for construction involving underground formation.

SECTION 373.107. Citation of rule.

SECTION 373.109. Permit application fees.

SECTION 373.113. Adoption of rules by the governing board.

SECTION 373.1131. Consolidated action on permits.

SECTION 373.1135. Small business program.

SECTION 373.114. Land and Water Adjudicatory Commission; review of district rules and orders; department review of district rules.

SECTION 373.116. Procedure for water use and impoundment construction permit applications.

SECTION 373.117. Certification by professional engineer.

SECTION 373.1175. Signing and sealing by professional geologists.

SECTION 373.118. General permits; delegation.

SECTION 373.119. Administrative enforcement procedures; orders.

SECTION 373.123. Penalty.

SECTION 373.129. Maintenance of actions.

SECTION 373.136. Enforcement of regulations and orders.

SECTION 373.139. Acquisition of real property.

SECTION 373.1391. Management of real property.

SECTION 373.1395. Limitation on liability of water management district with respect to areas made available to the public for recreational purposes without charge.

SECTION 373.1401. Management of lands of water management districts.

SECTION 373.145. Information program regarding hydrologic conditioning and consumption of major surface and groundwater sources.

SECTION 373.146. Publication of notices, process, and papers.

SECTION 373.149. Existing districts preserved.

SECTION 373.1501. South Florida Water Management District as local sponsor.

SECTION 373.1502. Regulation of comprehensive plan project components.

SECTION 373.171. Rules.

SECTION 373.1725. Notice of intent by publication.

SECTION 373.175. Declaration of water shortage; emergency orders.

SECTION 373.185. Local Florida-friendly landscaping ordinances.

SECTION 373.187. Water management district implementation of Florida-friendly landscaping.

SECTION 373.199. Florida Forever Water Management District Work Plan.

SECTION 373.200. Seminole Tribe Water Rights Compact.

PART II. PERMITTING OF CONSUMPTIVE USES OF WATER

SECTION 373.203. Definitions.

SECTION 373.206. Artesian wells; flow regulated.

SECTION 373.207. Abandoned artesian wells.

SECTION 373.209. Artesian wells; penalties for violation.

SECTION 373.213. Certain artesian wells exempt.

SECTION 373.216. Implementation of program for regulating the consumptive use of water.

SECTION 373.217. Superseded laws and regulations.

SECTION 373.219. Permits required.

SECTION 373.223. Conditions for a permit.

SECTION 373.2234. Preferred water supply sources.

SECTION 373.2235. Effect of prior land acquisition on consumptive use permitting.

SECTION 373.224. Existing permits.

SECTION 373.226. Existing uses.

SECTION 373.227. Water conservation; legislative findings and intent; objectives; comprehensive statewide water conservation program requirements.

SECTION 373.228. Landscape irrigation design.

SECTION 373.229. Application for permit.

SECTION 373.2295. Interdistrict transfers of groundwater.

SECTION 373.22951. Validation of prior agreements between water management districts.

SECTION 373.232. Citation of rule.

SECTION 373.233. Competing applications.

SECTION 373.236. Duration of permits; compliance reports.

SECTION 373.239. Modification and renewal of permit terms.

SECTION 373.243. Revocation of permits.

SECTION 373.244. Temporary permits.

SECTION 373.246. Declaration of water shortage or emergency.

SECTION 373.249. Existing regulatory districts preserved.

SECTION 373.250. Reuse of reclaimed water.

PART III. REGULATION OF WELLS

SECTION 373.302. Legislative findings.

SECTION 373.303. Definitions.

SECTION 373.306. Scope.

SECTION 373.308. Implementation of programs for regulating water wells.

SECTION 373.309. Authority to adopt rules and procedures.

SECTION 373.313. Prior permission and notification.

SECTION 373.314. Citation of rule.

SECTION 373.316. Existing installations.

SECTION 373.319. Inspections.

SECTION 373.323. Licensure of water well contractors; application, qualifications, and examinations; equipment identification.

SECTION 373.324. License renewal.

SECTION 373.325. Inactive status.

SECTION 373.326. Exemptions.

SECTION 373.329. Fees for licensure.

SECTION 373.333. Disciplinary guidelines; adoption and enforcement; license suspension or revocation.

SECTION 373.335. Clearinghouse.

SECTION 373.336. Unlawful acts; penalties.

SECTION 373.337. Rules.

SECTION 373.342. Permits.

PART IV. MANAGEMENT AND STORAGE OF SURFACE WATERS

SECTION 373.403. Definitions.

SECTION 373.406. Exemptions.

SECTION 373.407. Determination of qualification for an agricultural-related exemption.

SECTION 373.409. Headgates, valves, and measuring devices.

SECTION 373.413. Permits for construction or alteration.

SECTION 373.4131. Statewide environmental resource permitting rules.

SECTION 373.4132. Dry storage facility permitting.

SECTION 373.4133. Port conceptual permits.

SECTION 373.4135. Mitigation banks and offsite regional mitigation.

SECTION 373.4136. Establishment and operation of mitigation banks.

SECTION 373.4137. Mitigation requirements for specified transportation projects.

SECTION 373.4138. High Speed Rail Project; determination of mitigation requirements and costs.

SECTION 373.4139. Local government transportation infrastructure mitigation requirements.

SECTION 373.414. Additional criteria for activities in surface waters and wetlands.

SECTION 373.4141. Permits; processing.

SECTION 373.4142. Water quality within stormwater treatment systems.

SECTION 373.4143. Declaration of policy.

SECTION 373.4144. Federal environmental permitting.

SECTION 373.4145. Part IV permitting program within the geographical jurisdiction of the Northwest Florida Water Management District.

SECTION 373.4146. State assumption of the federal Clean Water Act, section 404 dredge and fill permitting program.

SECTION 373.4149. Miami-Dade County Lake Belt Plan.

SECTION 373.41492. Miami-Dade County Lake Belt Mitigation Plan; mitigation for mining activities within the Miami-Dade County Lake Belt.

SECTION 373.41495. Lake Belt Mitigation Trust Fund; bonds.

SECTION 373.415. Protection zones; duties of the St. Johns River Water Management District.

SECTION 373.416. Permits for maintenance or operation.

SECTION 373.417. Citation of rule.

SECTION 373.418. Rulemaking; preservation of existing authority.

SECTION 373.4185. List of flocculants permitted.

SECTION 373.419. Completion report.

SECTION 373.421. Delineation methods; formal determinations.

SECTION 373.4211. Ratification of chapter 17-340, Florida Administrative Code, on the delineation of the landward extent of wetlands and surface waters.

SECTION 373.422. Applications for activities on state sovereignty lands or other state lands.

SECTION 373.423. Inspection.

SECTION 373.426. Abandonment.

SECTION 373.427. Concurrent permit review.

SECTION 373.4271. Conduct of challenge to consolidated environmental resource permit or associated variance or sovereign submerged lands authorization issued in connection with deepwater ports.

SECTION 373.4275. Review of consolidated orders.

SECTION 373.428. Federal consistency.

SECTION 373.429. Revocation and modification of permits.

SECTION 373.430. Prohibitions, violation, penalty, intent.

SECTION 373.433. Abatement.

SECTION 373.436. Remedial measures.

SECTION 373.439. Emergency measures.

SECTION 373.441. Role of counties, municipalities, and local pollution control programs in permit processing; delegation.

SECTION 373.4415. Role of Miami-Dade County in processing permits for limerock mining in Miami-Dade County Lake Belt.

SECTION 373.443. Immunity from liability.

SECTION 373.451. Short title; legislative findings and intent.

SECTION 373.453. Surface water improvement and management plans and programs.

SECTION 373.459. Funds for surface water improvement and management.

SECTION 373.4591. Improvements on private agricultural lands.

SECTION 373.4592. Everglades improvement and management.

SECTION 373.45922. South Florida Water Management District; permit for completion of Everglades Construction Project; report.

SECTION 373.45924. South Florida Water Management District; Everglades truth in borrowing.

SECTION 373.45926. Everglades Trust Fund; allocation of revenues and expenditure of funds for conservation and protection of natural resources and abatement of water pollution.

SECTION 373.4593. Florida Bay Restoration.

SECTION 373.45931. Alligator Alley tolls; Everglades and Florida Bay restoration.

SECTION 373.4595. Northern Everglades and Estuaries Protection Program.

SECTION 373.4596. State compliance with stormwater management programs.

SECTION 373.4597. The Geneva Freshwater Lens Protection Act.

SECTION 373.4598. Water storage reservoirs.

SECTION 373.461. Lake Apopka improvement and management.

SECTION 373.462. Legislative findings and intent.

SECTION 373.463. Heartland headwaters annual report.

SECTION 373.468. The Harris Chain of Lakes restoration program.

PART V. FINANCE AND TAXATION

SECTION 373.470. Everglades restoration.

SECTION 373.472. Save Our Everglades Trust Fund.

SECTION 373.475. Water storage facility revolving loan fund.

SECTION 373.501. Appropriation of funds to water management districts.

SECTION 373.503. Manner of taxation.

SECTION 373.506. Costs of district.

SECTION 373.5071. Audit report; furnishing to governing board and clerks of circuit courts.

SECTION 373.535. Preliminary district budgets.

SECTION 373.536. District budget and hearing thereon.

SECTION 373.539. Imposition of taxes.

SECTION 373.543. Land held by Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund; areas not taxed.

SECTION 373.546. Unit areas.

SECTION 373.553. Treasurer of the board; payment of funds; depositories.

SECTION 373.559. May borrow money temporarily.

SECTION 373.563. Bonds.

SECTION 373.566. Refunding bonds.

SECTION 373.569. Bond election.

SECTION 373.573. Bonds to be validated.

SECTION 373.576. Sale of bonds.

SECTION 373.579. Proceeds from taxes for bond purposes.

SECTION 373.583. Registration of bonds.

SECTION 373.584. Revenue bonds.

SECTION 373.586. Unpaid warrants to draw interest.

SECTION 373.59. Payment in lieu of taxes for lands acquired for water management district purposes.

SECTION 373.5905. Reinstatement of payments in lieu of taxes; duration.

SECTION 373.591. Management review teams.

PART VI. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

SECTION 373.603. Power to enforce.

SECTION 373.604. Awards to employees for meritorious service.

SECTION 373.605. Group insurance for water management districts.

SECTION 373.6055. Criminal history checks for certain water management district employees and others.

SECTION 373.607. Minority business enterprise procurement goals; implementation of recommendations.

SECTION 373.608. Patents, copyrights, and trademarks.

SECTION 373.609. Enforcement; city and county officers to assist.

SECTION 373.610. Defaulting contractors.

SECTION 373.611. Modification or limitation of remedy.

SECTION 373.613. Penalties.

SECTION 373.614. Unlawful damage to district property or works; penalty.

SECTION 373.616. Liberal construction.

SECTION 373.6161. Chapter to be liberally construed.

SECTION 373.617. Judicial review relating to permits and licenses.

SECTION 373.618. Public service warnings, alerts, and announcements.

SECTION 373.619. Recognition of water and sewer-saving devices.

SECTION 373.62. Water conservation; automatic sprinkler systems.

SECTION 373.621. Water conservation.

SECTION 373.63. Preference to State University System in award of projects or studies.

SECTION 373.69. Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin Compact.

PART VII. WATER SUPPLY POLICY, PLANNING, PRODUCTION, AND FUNDING

SECTION 373.701. Declaration of policy.

SECTION 373.703. Water production; general powers and duties.

SECTION 373.705. Water resource development; water supply development.

SECTION 373.707. Alternative water supply development.

SECTION 373.709. Regional water supply planning.

SECTION 373.711. Technical assistance to local governments.

SECTION 373.713. Regional water supply authorities.

SECTION 373.715. Assistance to West Coast Regional Water Supply Authority.

PART VIII. FLORIDA SPRINGS AND AQUIFER PROTECTION ACT

SECTION 373.801. Legislative findings and intent.

SECTION 373.802. Definitions.

SECTION 373.803. Delineation of priority focus areas for Outstanding Florida Springs.

SECTION 373.805. Minimum flows and minimum water levels for Outstanding Florida Springs.

SECTION 373.807. Protection of water quality in Outstanding Florida Springs.

SECTION 373.811. Prohibited activities within a priority focus area.

SECTION 373.813. Rules.