Florida Statute 177.26 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

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Title XII
MUNICIPALITIES

Chapter 177
LAND BOUNDARIES

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177.26 Declaration of policy.—The Legislature recognizes the desirability of confirmation of the mean high-water line, as recognized in the State Constitution and defined in s. 177.27(15) as the boundary between state sovereignty land and uplands subject to private ownership, as well as the necessity for uniform standards and procedures with respect to the establishment of local tidal datums and the determination of the mean high-water and mean low-water lines, and therefore directs that uniform standards and procedures be developed.

History.—s. 2, ch. 74-56; s. 2, ch. 91-56.

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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

...e necessity for uniform standards and procedures with respect to the establishment of local tidal datums and the determination of the mean high-water and mean low-water lines, and therefore directs that uniform standards and procedures be developed. § 177.26, Fla....