The production company had to seek dredge and fill permits from the State of Florida's Department of Environmental Regulation to sink the revised platform that controlled the shark on the sea bottom.

The current system was formed by the Florida Department of Transportation and began operation in 1989, originally to provide temporary commuter rail service while construction crews widened Interstate 95 and the parallel Florida's Turnpike.

Florida's Turnpike Enterprise ( FTE ) is a business unit of the Florida Department of Transportation ( FDOT ), employing private sector business practices to operate its 460-mile system of limited-access toll highways for the benefit of Florida's traveling public.

The road is owned and maintained by Florida's Turnpike Enterprise ( FTE ), Orlando-Orange County Expressway Authority ( OOCEA ) and the Florida Department of Transportation ( FDOT ).

SunPass is an electronic toll collection system in use by the State of Florida and was originally created by the Florida Department of Transportation's Florida's Turnpike.

On February 7, 2008, he left his post as secretary of Florida's Department of Corrections because, saying that he felt he had cleaned up the corruption left behind by Crosby.

* Yellow River Marsh Aquatic Preserve at Florida's Department of Environmental Protection

Florida's Turnpike and portions of tollways not inside Orange County are run by Florida's Turnpike Enterprise, a special district of the Florida Department of Transportation.

He was appointed to head up Florida's Department of Motor Vehicles in 1982, and mayor of Sunrise, Florida in 1984.

In fact, during outreach programs, the University of Florida's Department of Entomology and Nematology, which has such a permit, allows only males to be taken out of the laboratory.

* Map of Highlands Hammock State Park at Florida's Department of Environmental Protection

Also, Ocala's distance from the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico means the city has more days of sunshine than Florida's coastal cities.

Though Sunny Isles may have once been promoted as The Venice of America, for the 21st century it has continued its penchant for allusions to more well known locations and has re-imagined itself with the promotional moniker Florida's Riviera ( presumably referencing either the French Riviera or the Italian Riviera but certainly not Riviera Beach, Maryland nor Riviera Beach, Florida would only confuse the matter ).

A long time has passed since St. Marks last had appreciable importance, but this place on Apalachee Bay in Florida's Big Bend is a very old and historic Gulf port.

Miami International Airport has passenger and cargo flights to cities throughout the Americas and Europe, as well as the Canary Islands off the African coast, and cargo flights to Asia ; it is South Florida's main airport for long-haul international flights.

Florida's intestacy statute permits the heirs of a deceased spouse of the decedent to inherit, in the event that the decedent has no other heirs.

Terry Nichols Clark ( University of Chicago ) has used Florida's own data-sets to question the correlation between the presence of significant numbers of gay men in a city and the presence of high-technology knowledge industries.

Florida's ethnic diversity has led to myriad musical styles from punk rock to salsa and heavy metal being popular in various parts of the state.

Since President Theodore Roosevelt designated Florida's Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge as the first wildlife refuge in 1903, the System has grown to more than, 556 national wildlife refuges and other units of the Refuge System, plus 38 wetland management districts.

First introduced to North America in 1884, an estimated 50 kilograms per square metre of hyacinth once choked Florida's waterways, although the problem there has since been mitigated.

It is Florida's oldest post-secondary institution, and has been independent, nonsectarian, and coeducational from conception.

Although no one has been executed in this manner since 1999, prisoners awaiting execution on Florida's death row may still be electrocuted at their request.

The band ’ s style has changed over the years, as explained by Allmusic: " since their inception, Florida's Underoath have evolved from a run-of-the-mill Christian metalcore band into a fluid, dynamic, and energized rock group that adeptly blends emotive melody, charged punk rock rhythms, and a chunky, engaging bottom end.

The student-run newspaper, The Minaret, has won back-to-back awards as " Florida's Top College Paper ".

He has guided the successful expansion of Florida's varsity sports program over the past two decades, with the addition of women's soccer in 1995, softball in 1997, and women's lacrosse in 2010.

The area has long been inhabited, but like other of Florida's vernacular regions, a popular identity for the area did not emerge until the area saw its initial population boom in the 20th century.

For example, Florida's Supreme Court has held that a public nuisance is any thing that causes " annoyance to the community or harm to public health.

Four more conventions were held in other locations, and Florida joined the Union in 1845, but St. Joseph has the distinction of being where Florida's statehood began.

Throughout the court's history it has undergone many reorganizations as Florida's population has steadily grown.

Although he has been cast as a defensive forward in the NHL, he had his best scoring years in Miami and was one of the leaders in Florida's 1996 Stanley Cup run.

Florida's use of census and economic data, presented in works such as The Rise of the Creative Class ( 2002 ), Cities and the Creative Class ( 2004 ), and The Flight of the Creative Class ( 2007 ), as well as Bobos in Paradise by David Brooks ( whose " bobos " roughly correspond to Florida's Creative Class ), and NEO Power by Ross Honeywill ( whose NEOs deliver a more sophisticated level of evidence ), has shown that cities which attract and retain creative residents prosper, while those that do not stagnate.

Montgomery also disagrees with the cities that Florida designates as most creative, writing that London, not Manchester and Leicester, should be one of the top in the U. K. A critique of Florida's research and theoretical framework has been developed by Matteo Pasquinelli ( 2006 ) in the context of Italian Operaismo.

Florida's Yellowcard, which had been together since 1997, had its first hit in 2003 with its major-label debut, Ocean Avenue.

Miami Vice is to some degree credited with causing a wave of support for the preservation of Miami's famous Art Deco architecture in the mid 1980s-to-early 1990s ; quite a few of those buildings, among them many beachfront hotels, have been renovated since filming, making that part of South Beach one of South Florida's most popular places for tourists and celebrities.

A horseshoe-shaped district touching on largely African-American neighborhoods in Jacksonville, Gainesville, Orlando, and Ocala, the Third District seemed likely to send Florida's first African-American to Congress since Reconstruction, and Brown decided to run.

American planes observed the intensifying storm in the Atlantic Ocean since it was spotted, and warnings were issued for Florida's east coast when Hazel began to approach Jamaica.

Jeremy Foley is Florida's athletic director, having served in his present position since 1992.

* 1949-William C. Cramer prior to running in 1950 s a Republican for the Florida House of Representatives ; later Florida's first Republican U. S. representative since Reconstruction.

Two weeks later, however, Crouch was announced as the recipient of the award, edging out Florida's Rex Grossman and Miami's Ken Dorsey in the closest Heisman ballot since 1985.

It was the first BCS bowl berth for the Gators since the Orange Bowl that capped off the 2001 campaign, and Florida's first national championship appearance and victory since winning the 1997 Sugar Bowl.

* Allen West, Republican U. S. Representative for Florida's 22nd congressional district since 2011 and lieutenant colonel in the United States Army, taught U. S. history at Deerfield Beach High in the 2004 – 2005 school year.

Each of Viera's public schools has received " A " grades since Florida's grading process started, and each has received other state and national honors as well.

The expedition from West Florida never got off the ground, since Bernardo de Gálvez, the Governor of Spanish Louisiana, had moved rapidly to gain control of British outposts on the lower Mississippi, and was threatening action against West Florida's principal outposts of Mobile and Pensacola.

* Kendrick Meek ( Former Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 2003, representing Florida's 17th congressional district, US Senate Candidate 2010 )