§ 4-7-118. Improvements; extensions; public information.

(a)

In order to carry out the purpose and intent of any laws that heretofore have been, or hereafter may be[,] enacted by the United States Congress authorizing and directing the secretary of the army to make examinations, surveys, and studies of the intracoastal waterway from Caloosahatchee River to Anclote Key, Florida, or other Florida west coast waterways, the district is authorized to collect, compile and to furnish to the secretary of the army, his officers and agents, appropriate information bearing on the advantages, benefits and increased usefulness that may be expected to accrue to the public and to the counties traversed by said waterway by reason of any improvement or extension thereof, that has previously been or may subsequently be authorized by said United States Congress.

(b)

The district is authorized to expend its funds for publicizing to other governmental agencies the completion by the United States of all or any portion of the intracoastal waterway and related waterways and its availability and utility to water craft, and to distribute information as to route, channel, depth and facilities of said waterway and such other information and data as may, in the opinion of the board, be desirable or useful to give the public full information regarding said waterway and to promote its use in navigation.

(Laws of Fla., Ch. 61-1590, § 15; Laws of Fla., Ch. 81-337, § 1)