Fla. Stat. § 258.021: Power of eminent domain; procedure.

Whenever the Division of Recreation and Parks shall find it necessary to acquire private property for state parks, or rights-of-way for state parks, or for exercising any of the powers and duties authorized and prescribed by law to be exercised and performed by the division, the division is hereby empowered and authorized to exercise the right of eminent domain and to proceed to condemn said property in the same manner as provided by law for the condemnation of private property by counties.

History.—s. 28, ch. 29615, 1955; ss. 25, 35, ch. 69-106.