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COASTAL PETROLEUM CO. v. CHILES

Nos. 95-2225, 95-2628.

672 So.2d 571 (1996)

COASTAL PETROLEUM COMPANY and Almeria T. Cottingham, Anne M. Clark, Helen T. Kerr, Hugh C. MacFarlane, William W. Arnold and Charles E. Arnold, Appellants, v. Lawton CHILES, Governor, et al., as and constituting the Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund of Florida; and the Department of Environmental Protection, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

April 4, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert J. Angerer and Robert J. Angerer, Jr. of Angerer and Angerer, Tallahassee, for Appellant Coastal Petroleum Company; John K. Aurell of MacFarlane, Ausley, Ferguson & McMullen, Tallahassee, and Charles W. Pittman and Susan W. Fox of MacFarlane, Ausley, Ferguson & McMullen, Tampa, for Appellants Almeria T. Cottingham, Anne M. Clark, Helen T. Kerr, Hugh C. MacFarlane, William W. Arnold, and Charles E. Arnold.

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, and Denis Dean, Assistant Attorney General, Tallahassee, for Appellees.

ALLEN, Judge.

Coastal Petroleum Company (Coastal) and other interested persons appeal from final orders of the appellee Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund (the trustees) whereby the trustees relied upon section 253.571, Florida Statutes, in requiring a surety bond as a condition precedent to Coastal's drilling for oil and gas. Because the trustees' retroactive application of the statute to a preexisting oil and gas lease impairs obligations under...

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