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The 2003 Florida Statutes

Title XXXV
AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE, AND ANIMAL INDUSTRY
Chapter 590
FOREST PROTECTION
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Section 590.50, Florida Statutes 2003

590.50  Sale of cypress products prohibited without permit.--No person shall sell or offer for sale articles made from unfinished cross-sectional slabs cut from buttresses of trees of the species Taxodium distichum, commonly known as cypress, without first obtaining a permit from the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, pursuant to s. 590.02. This section does not apply to the owner of the property on which the cypress trees were grown.

History.--s. 1, ch. 79-238; s. 1, ch. 84-347.

Note.--Former s. 581.188.