Florida Statute 253.36 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XVIII
PUBLIC LANDS AND PROPERTY

Chapter 253
STATE LANDS

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253.36 Title to reclaimed marshlands, wetlands, or lowlands in board of trustees.—The title to all marsh, wet or lowlands as have become permanently reclaimed, title to which is in the state, is vested in the Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund to be held by the state and disposed of, as provided in this chapter.

History.—s. 1, ch. 7891, 1919; CGL 1425; s. 2, ch. 61-119; ss. 27, 35, ch. 69-106.

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Padgett v. Cent. & S. Fla. Flood Con. Dist., 178 So. 2d 900 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1965).

Cited 9 times | Published | District Court of Appeal of Florida

...We accept *903 the Padgetts' contention that all of those portions of their lands lying between the "Merriam meander," "state survey" or "official meander line" and the 17' contour line were subject to Chapter 7891, Laws of Florida, Acts of 1919 (Sections 253.36 et seq., Fla.Stats. F.S.A.), as well as Chapter 7861, which was adopted the same day and, as stated above, was expressly referred to in the 1935 deeds. [7] Section 1 of Chapter 7891 (Section 253.36, Fla.Stats., F.S.A.) vested in the Trustees of the Internal Improvement Fund title to "all marsh, wet or low lands as have become permanently reclaimed, title to which is now in the State of Florida." Section 2 (Section 253.37, Fla.Sta...

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Conoley v. Naetzker, 137 So. 2d 6 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1962).

Cited 5 times | Published | District Court of Appeal of Florida

...to produce evidence of this character to defeat or sustain a deed made by the trustees under the state's authority." *9 The evidence to which the Court referred related to water depth at the time the conveyance by the Trustees was made. By virtue of § 253.36, F.S.A., title to reclaimed lands is vested in the Trustees of the Internal Improvement Fund....

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State v. Everglades Drainage Dist., 20 So. 2d 397 (Fla. 1945).

Cited 4 times | Published | Supreme Court of Florida | 155 Fla. 403, 1945 Fla. LEXIS 525

trustees of the "Internal Improvement Fund uder Section 253.36, Florida Statutes, 1941, and Chapter 7861,

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