2023 Florida Statutes
< Back to Statute SearchTitle XXVIII NATURAL RESOURCES; CONSERVATION, RECLAMATION, AND USE
Chapter 379
FISH AND WILDLIFE CONSERVATION
SECTION 295Use of explosives and other substances or force prohibited.
379.295 Use of explosives and other substances or force prohibited.—A person may not throw or place, or cause to be thrown or placed, any dynamite, lyddite, gunpowder, cannon cracker, acids, filtration discharge, debris from mines, Indian berries, sawdust, green walnuts, walnut leaves, creosote, oil, or other explosives or deleterious substance or force into the fresh waters of this state whereby fish therein are or may be injured. Nothing in this section may be construed as preventing the release of water slightly discolored by mining operations or water escaping from such operations as the result of providential causes. A person who violates this section commits a Level Two violation under s. 379.401.
History.—s. 29, ch. 13644, 1929; CGL 1936 Supp. 1977(29); s. 6, ch. 2016-107.
Note.—Former s. 372.75.