§148.3. Application for lease

            Any person, firm, or corporation desiring to lease any land or bodies of any lakes, bays or coves, sea, arms of the sea, or other navigable waters and beds thereof under the provisions of this Subpart shall present to the lessor a written application, together with a cash deposit of one hundred dollars. The application shall set forth the name, current physical address, telephone number, email address, and contact person of the applicant, a reasonably definite legal description of the location in the form required by the lessor, the amount of acreage that the applicant desires to lease, a request that the acreage described therein be leased to the applicant under the provisions of this Subpart, and all other information required by the lessor. The application shall be held confidential by the lessor until advertisement. Applications shall be mailed or delivered to the lessor at its official office or business domicile or submitted by such other means as may be authorized by the lessor. The deposit of one hundred dollars shall be returned to the applicant if he makes an unsuccessful bid after a sum sufficient to pay the advertising costs have been deducted.

            Acts 1995, No. 88, §1, eff. June 12, 1995; Acts 2008, No. 315, §1; Acts 2024, 3rd Ex. Sess., No. 17, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2025.