Florida Florida Statutes
§ 177.28 — Legal significance of the mean high-water line
FS § 177.28Ch. 177
Statute text
View on source(1)Mean high-water line along the shores of land immediately bordering on navigable waters is recognized and declared to be the boundary between the foreshore owned by tspan>“Photogrammetry” means the science of making precise measurements from photographs.
(24)“Semidiurnal tides” means tides having a period of approximately one-half of a tidal day.
(25)“Tidal bench mark” means a standard disk or other acceptable fixed point in the general vicinity of a tide station, used for the purpose of preserving tidal information, to which the tide staff at the tide station and the tidal datums determined from the observations at the tide station are originally referred.
(26)“Tidal datum” means a plane of reference for elevations determined from the rise and fall of the tides.
(27)“Tidal day” means the time of the rotation of the earth with respect to the moon, or the interval between two successive upper transits of the moon over the meridian of a place.
(28)“Tide” means the periodic rising and falling of the waters of the earth that result from the gravitational attraction of the moon and the sun acting upon the rotating earth.
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Legislative history
s. 3, ch. 74-56; s. 3, ch. 91-56; s. 35, ch. 94-356; s. 15, ch. 98-20.