2003 Florida Senate SB 2042
By Senator Smith a bill to be entitled:
An act relating to state reserves; creating s. 258.166, F.S.; establishing the Rodman Reservoir State Reserve; directing the Division of Recreation and Parks of the Department of Environmental Protection to develop multipurpose recreational opportunities and provide supervision of the area; allowing public hunting; authorizing the Division of State Lands to acquire adjacent or contiguous property; requiring the Division of State Lands to notify persons with easements in the area; requiring a report; providing an effective date.
Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
Section 1. Section 258.166, Florida Statutes, is created to read: 258.166 Rodman Reservoir State Reserve designated.--There is designated and established a state reserve to be known as Rodman Reservoir State Reserve, in Marion and Putnam Counties, which shall include all state-owned lands within the floodplain of the Oklawaha River and those hereafter acquired by the state from Eureka Dam in Marion County to Buckman Lock in Putnam County. Those lands are deemed and held to be a state reserve, under the supervision of the Division of Recreation and Parks of the Department of Environmental Protection. The division is charged with the duty of providing for the development of multipurpose recreational opportunities at this reserve and
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Florida Senate - 2003 SB 2042
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the care, upkeep, maintenance, and beautification of the Rodman Reservoir State Reserve, including all those dams, locks, and other structures transferred by the Federal Government to the state. Any action that would substantially alter the reserve as it existed on January 1, 2003, must be approved by law.
(1) Public hunting is allowed in the state reserve as authorized by the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
(2) The Division of State Lands of the Department of Environmental Protection may acquire in the name of the Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund any additional property adjacent or contiguous to the Rodman Reservoir State Reserve from private owners or from the United States Government for improved management and recreational opportunities.
(3) The Division of State Lands shall identify, contact, and inform all property owners who hold easements located within the taking line of the Rodman Reservoir of the designation of this area as a state reserve.
(4) By January 1, 2004, the Division of State Lands shall submit a report to the Executive Office of the Governor, the President of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives which: