The 2023 Florida Statutes (including Special Session C)

Title XXVI
PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION

Chapter 342
WATERWAY AND WATERFRONT IMPROVEMENT

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F.S. 342.07

342.07 Recreational and commercial working waterfronts; legislative findings; definitions.—

(1) The Legislature recognizes that there is an important state interest in facilitating boating and other recreational access to the state’s navigable waters. This access is vital to tourists and recreational users and the marine industry in the state, to maintaining or enhancing the $57 billion economic impact of tourism and the $14 billion economic impact of boating in the state annually, and to ensuring continued access to all residents and visitors to the navigable waters of the state. The Legislature recognizes that there is an important state interest in maintaining viable water-dependent support facilities, such as public lodging establishments and boat hauling and repairing and commercial fishing facilities, and in maintaining the availability of public access to the navigable waters of the state. The Legislature further recognizes that the waterways of the state are important for engaging in commerce and the transportation of goods and people upon such waterways and that such commerce and transportation is not feasible unless there is access to and from the navigable waters of the state through recreational and commercial working waterfronts.

(2) As used in this section, the term “recreational and commercial working waterfront” means a parcel or parcels of real property which provide access for water-dependent commercial activities, including hotels and motels as defined in s. 509.242(1), or provide access for the public to the navigable waters of the state. Recreational and commercial working waterfronts require direct access to or a location on, over, or adjacent to a navigable body of water. The term includes water-dependent facilities that are open to the public and offer public access by vessels to the waters of the state or that are support facilities for recreational, commercial, research, or governmental vessels. These facilities include public lodging establishments, docks, wharfs, lifts, wet and dry marinas, boat ramps, boat hauling and repair facilities, commercial fishing facilities, boat construction facilities, and other support structures over the water. As used in this section, the term “vessel” has the same meaning as in s. 327.02. Seaports are excluded from the definition.

History.—s. 13, ch. 2005-157; s. 8, ch. 2006-172; s. 6, ch. 2006-220; s. 8, ch. 2014-70.

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Amendments to 342.07

Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 342.07

Level: Degree
Misdemeanor/Felony: First/Second/Third

Current data shows no reason an arrest or criminal charge should have occurred directly under Florida Statute 342.07.

Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

Cases from cite.case.law:

TREASURE COAST MARINA, LC, v. CITY OF FORT PIERCE,, 219 So. 3d 793 (Fla. 2017)

. . . recognized the importance of the waterfront and the role of public marinas in furthering those interests: 342.07 . . . and from the navigable waters of the state through recreational and commercial working waterfronts. § 342.07 . . .

PAYNE a a v. CITY OF MIAMI, a LLC, a, 53 So. 3d 258 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2010)

. . . that encourage the preservation of recreational and commercial working waterfronts as defined in s. 342.07 . . . that encourage the preservation of recreational and commercial working waterfronts as defined in s. 342.07 . . .

PAYNE a a v. CITY OF MIAMI, a LLC,, 52 So. 3d 707 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2010)

. . . must encourage the preservation of recreational and commercial working waterfronts as defined in s. 342.07 . . .

In CIRRUS LOGIC SECURITIES LITIGATION., 946 F. Supp. 1446 (N.D. Cal. 1996)

. . . C., AICPA Professional Standards, Auditing Accounting Estimates § 342.07.) . . .

HELVERING, v. GENERAL UTILITIES OPERATING CO., 74 F.2d 972 (4th Cir. 1935)

. . . of Tax Appeals involving income tax of the respondent for the calendar year 1928 in the sum of $128,-342.07 . . .