(1) The Lake Belt Mitigation Trust Fund is hereby created, to be administered by the South Florida Water Management District. Funds shall be credited to the trust fund as provided in s. 373.41492, to be used for the purposes set forth therein.
(2) The South Florida Water Management District may issue revenue bonds pursuant to s. 373.584, payable from revenues from the Lake Belt Mitigation fee imposed under s. 373.41492.
(3) Net proceeds from the Lake Belt Mitigation fee and any revenue bonds issued under subsection (2) shall be deposited into the trust fund and, together with any interest earned on such moneys, shall be applied to Lake Belt mitigation projects as provided in s. 373.41492.
(4) The Lake Belt Mitigation Trust Fund is a trust fund as described in s. 19(f)(3), Art. III of the State Constitution, and therefore is not subject to termination pursuant to s. 19(f)(2), Art. III of the State Constitution.
History.—ss. 1, 2, 3, 4, ch. 98-260; s. 1, ch. 99-297; s. 4, ch. 2015-141.
Structure Florida Statutes
Title XXVIII - Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, and Use
Part IV - Management and Storage of Surface Waters (Ss. 373.403-373.468)
373.407 - Determination of qualification for an agricultural-related exemption.
373.409 - Headgates, valves, and measuring devices.
373.413 - Permits for construction or alteration.
373.4131 - Statewide environmental resource permitting rules.
373.4132 - Dry storage facility permitting.
373.4133 - Port conceptual permits.
373.4134 - Water quality enhancement areas.
373.4135 - Mitigation banks and offsite regional mitigation.
373.4136 - Establishment and operation of mitigation banks.
373.4137 - Mitigation requirements for specified transportation projects.
373.4138 - High Speed Rail Project; determination of mitigation requirements and costs.
373.4139 - Local government transportation infrastructure mitigation requirements.
373.414 - Additional criteria for activities in surface waters and wetlands.
373.4141 - Permits; processing.
373.4142 - Water quality within stormwater treatment systems.
373.4143 - Declaration of policy.
373.4144 - Federal environmental permitting.
373.4149 - Miami-Dade County Lake Belt Plan.
373.41495 - Lake Belt Mitigation Trust Fund; bonds.
373.415 - Protection zones; duties of the St. Johns River Water Management District.
373.416 - Permits for maintenance or operation.
373.418 - Rulemaking; preservation of existing authority.
373.4185 - List of flocculants permitted.
373.421 - Delineation methods; formal determinations.
373.422 - Applications for activities on state sovereignty lands or other state lands.
373.427 - Concurrent permit review.
373.4275 - Review of consolidated orders.
373.428 - Federal consistency.
373.429 - Revocation and modification of permits.
373.430 - Prohibitions, violation, penalty, intent.
373.443 - Immunity from liability.
373.451 - Short title; legislative findings and intent.
373.453 - Surface water improvement and management plans and programs.
373.459 - Funds for surface water improvement and management.
373.4591 - Improvements on private agricultural lands.
373.4592 - Everglades improvement and management.
373.45924 - South Florida Water Management District; Everglades truth in borrowing.
373.4593 - Florida Bay Restoration.
373.45931 - Alligator Alley tolls; Everglades and Florida Bay restoration.
373.4595 - Northern Everglades and Estuaries Protection Program.
373.4596 - State compliance with stormwater management programs.
373.4597 - The Geneva Freshwater Lens Protection Act.
373.4598 - Water storage reservoirs.
373.4599 - Water storage north of Lake Okeechobee.
373.461 - Lake Apopka improvement and management.
373.462 - Legislative findings and intent.