Florida Statutes
Part IV - Management and Storage of Surface Waters (Ss. 373.403-373.468)
373.423 - Inspection.


(1) During the construction or alteration of any stormwater management system, dam, impoundment, reservoir, appurtenant work, or works, the governing board or department pursuant to s. 403.091 shall make at its expense such periodic inspections as it deems necessary to ensure conformity with the approved plans and specifications included in the permit.
(2) If during construction or alteration the governing board or department finds that the work is not being done in accordance with the approved plans and specifications as indicated in the permit, it shall give the permittee written notice stating with which particulars of the approved plans and specifications the construction is not in compliance and shall order immediate compliance with such plans and specifications. The failure to act in accordance with the orders of the governing board or department after receipt of written notice shall result in the initiation of revocation proceedings in accordance with s. 373.429.
(3) Upon completion of the work, the executive director of the district or the Department of Environmental Protection or its successor agency shall have periodic inspections made of permitted stormwater management systems, dams, reservoirs, impoundments, appurtenant work, or works to protect the public health and safety and the natural resources of the state. No person shall refuse immediate entry or access to any authorized representative of the governing board or the department who requests entry for purposes of such inspection and presents appropriate credentials.
History.—s. 7, part IV, ch. 72-299; s. 21, ch. 73-190; s. 48, ch. 79-65; s. 13, ch. 84-341; s. 17, ch. 89-279; s. 269, ch. 94-356.

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Florida Statutes

Title XXVIII - Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, and Use

Chapter 373 - Water Resources

Part IV - Management and Storage of Surface Waters (Ss. 373.403-373.468)

373.403 - Definitions.

373.406 - Exemptions.

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.

373.41365 - Adoption and modification of rules to ensure financial assurances for long-term management of mitigation under ss. 373.4136 and 373.414.

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.

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

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

373.4149 - Miami-Dade County Lake Belt Plan.

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

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.

373.417 - Citation of rule.

373.418 - Rulemaking; preservation of existing authority.

373.4185 - List of flocculants permitted.

373.419 - Completion report.

373.421 - Delineation methods; formal determinations.

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

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

373.423 - Inspection.

373.426 - Abandonment.

373.427 - Concurrent permit review.

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

373.4275 - Review of consolidated orders.

373.428 - Federal consistency.

373.429 - Revocation and modification of permits.

373.430 - Prohibitions, violation, penalty, intent.

373.433 - Abatement.

373.436 - Remedial measures.

373.439 - Emergency measures.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

373.463 - Heartland headwaters annual report.

373.468 - The Harris Chain of Lakes restoration program.