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Select Year: i 2021 Go The 2021 Florida Statutes Title XXIV Chapter 327 View Entire Chapter VESSELS VESSEL SAFETY 327.4108 Anchoring of vessels in anchoring limitation areas.— (1) The following densely populated urban areas, which have narrow state waterways, residential docking facilities, and significant recreational boating traffic, are designated as and shall be considered to be grandfathered -in anchoring limitation areas, within which a person may not anchor a vessel at any time during the period between one-half hour after sunset and one-half hour before sunrise, except as provided in !subsections (4) and (5): (a) The section of Middle River lying between Northeast 21st Court and the Intracoastal Waterway in Broward County. (b) Sunset Lake in Miami -Dade County. (c) The sections of Biscayne Bay in Miami -Dade County lying between: 1. Rivo Alto Island and Di Lido Island. 2. San Marino Island and San Marco Island. 3. San Marco Island and Biscayne Island. (2)(a) Notwithstanding s. 327.60(2)(f), a county, except for Monroe County, may establish, in accordance with this subsection, an anchoring limitation area adjacent to urban areas that have residential docking facilities and significant recreational boating traffic. The aggregate total of anchoring limitation areas in a county may not exceed 10 percent of the county's detineated navigable -in -fact waterways. As used in this subsection, the term "navigable -in -fact waterways" means waterways that are navigable in their natural or unimproved condition over which useful commerce or public recreation of a substantial and permanent character is or may be conducted in the customary mode of trade and travel on water. The term does not include lakes or streams that are theoretically navigable; have a potential for navigability; or are temporary, precarious, and unprofitable, but the term does include takes or streams that have practical usefulness to the public as highways for transportation. Each anchoring limitation area must meet at[ of the following requirements: 1. Be less than 100 acres in size. For purposes of this subsection, the calculated size of the anchoring limitation area does not include any portion of the marked channel of the Florida Intracoastal Waterway contiguous to the anchoring limitation area; 2. Not include any mooring field or marina; and 3. Be clearly marked with all of the following: a. Signs that provide reasonable notice to boaters identifying the duration of time beyond which anchoring is limited and identifying the county ordinance by which the anchoring limitation area was created. b. Buoys. The county that has created an anchoring limitation area shall install and maintain buoys marking the boundary of the anchoring limitation area. The signs and buoys must be permitted and installed in accordance with ss. 327.40 and 327.41 and commission rule. (b) Except as provided in subsections (4) and (5), a person may not anchor a vessel for more than 45 337