Bill Text: FL S0192 | 2024 | Regular Session | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Anchoring Limitation Areas
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (? 2-1)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-03-04 - Laid on Table, refer to CS/CS/HB 437 [S0192 Detail]
Download: Florida-2024-S0192-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Anchoring Limitation Areas
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (? 2-1)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-03-04 - Laid on Table, refer to CS/CS/HB 437 [S0192 Detail]
Download: Florida-2024-S0192-Comm_Sub.html
Florida Senate - 2024 CS for SB 192 By the Committee on Environment and Natural Resources; and Senator Garcia 592-02426-24 2024192c1 1 A bill to be entitled 2 An act relating to anchoring limitation areas; 3 amending s. 327.4108, F.S.; revising anchoring 4 limitation areas in certain sections of Biscayne Bay 5 in Miami-Dade County; revising documentation and 6 evidence criteria for proving the location of a vessel 7 within an anchoring limitation area; providing an 8 effective date. 9 10 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 11 12 Section 1. Section 1. Paragraph (c) of subsection (1) and 13 paragraph (b) of subsection (6) of section 327.4108, Florida 14 Statutes, are amended to read: 15 327.4108 Anchoring of vessels in anchoring limitation 16 areas.— 17 (1) The following densely populated urban areas, which have 18 narrow state waterways, residential docking facilities, and 19 significant recreational boating traffic, are designated as and 20 shall be considered to be grandfathered-in anchoring limitation 21 areas, within which a person may not anchor a vessel at any time 22 during the period between one-half hour after sunset and one 23 half hour before sunrise, except as provided in subsections (4) 24 and (5): 25 (c) The sections of Biscayne Bay in Miami-Dade County that 26 are within 200 yards of any part of the shore of the City of 27 Miami Beach lying between State Road A1A and State Road 112:281.Rivo Alto Island and Di Lido Island.292.San Marino Island and San Marco Island.303.San Marco Island and Biscayne Island. 31 (6) 32 (b)1. For a vessel in an anchoring limitation area 33 established pursuant to subsection (2), upon an inquiry by a law 34 enforcement officer or agency, a vessel owner or operator must 35 be given an opportunity to provide proof that the vessel has not 36 exceeded the limitations described in subsection (2). Such proof 37 may include any of the following: 38 a. Documentation showing that the vessel was in another 39 location at least 1 nautical mile away within a period of less 40 than 45 days before the inquiry. 41 b. Electronic evidence, including, but not limited to, 42 navigational devices or tracking devices permanently affixed to 43 the vessel that show the vessel was in another location at least 44 1 nautical mile away within a period of less than 45 days before 45 the inquiry. 46 2. If a vessel owner or operator fails or refuses to 47 provide proof that the vessel has not exceeded the limitations 48 described in subsection (2), the law enforcement officer or 49 agency may issue a citation for a violation of this section. 50 Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2024.