Florida Statute 161.181 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XI
COUNTY ORGANIZATION AND INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS

Chapter 161
BEACH AND SHORE PRESERVATION

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161.181 Recording of resolution and survey of board of trustees.—If no review is taken within the time prescribed from the decision of the board of trustees or, if review be timely taken, in the absence of a final decision of a court of competent jurisdiction preventing the implementation of a beach erosion control project or invalidating, abolishing, or otherwise preventing the establishment and recordation of the erosion control line as provided herein, the board of trustees shall file in the public records of the county or counties in which the erosion control line lies, a copy of its resolution approving the beach erosion control project and locating the erosion control line and shall also file and cause to be recorded in the book of plats of said county or counties a survey showing the area of beach to be protected and the location of the erosion control line.

History.—s. 5, ch. 70-276; s. 1, ch. 70-439; s. 3, ch. 79-233.

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Save Our Beaches, Inc. v. Florida Dep't of Env't Prot., 27 So. 3d 48 (Fla. 1st DCA 2006).

Cited 1 times | Published | Florida 1st District Court of Appeal | 2006 WL 1112700

...on control line." The Board of Trustees "shall approve or disapprove the erosion control line for a beach restoration project," and in locating the line "shall be guided by the existing line of mean high water." See § 161.161(5), Fla. Stat. (2005). Section 161.181 provides that, if no review is taken, or if the Board's decision is upheld on review, the Board shall file its resolution approving the erosion control line in the public records and record the survey showing the area of beach to be p...

...landowners any property gained by accretion: (1) Upon the filing of a copy of the board of trustees' resolution and the recording of the survey showing the location of the erosion control line and the area of the beach to be protected as provided in s. 161.181, title to all lands seaward of the erosion control line shall be deemed to be vested in the state by right of its sovereignty, and title to all lands landward of such line shall be vested in the riparian upland owners whose lands either ab...