Florida Senate - 2013                             CS for SB 1122
       
       
       
       By the Committee on Community Affairs; and Senators Simpson and
       Dean
       
       
       
       578-03429-13                                          20131122c1
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to the Florida Fire Prevention Code;
    3         amending s. 633.0215, F.S.; providing that certain
    4         authorities in rural areas or small communities may
    5         decrease fire flow requirements; providing that fire
    6         officials shall enforce Florida Building Code
    7         provisions for occupancy separation for certain
    8         structures with certain occupancies; exempting certain
    9         farming and ranching structures from the code;
   10         providing an effective date.
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   12  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   14         Section 1. Subsection (16) is added to section 633.0215,
   15  Florida Statutes, to read:
   16         633.0215 Florida Fire Prevention Code.—
   17         (16)(a) Fire flow requirements may be decreased by the
   18  authority that has jurisdiction for isolated buildings or a
   19  group of buildings in rural areas or small communities, as
   20  defined in the Florida Fire Prevention Code, if that authority
   21  determines that the development of full fire flow requirements
   22  is impractical.
   23         (b) For one-story or two-story structures that are less
   24  than 10,000 square feet, whose occupancy is defined in the
   25  Florida Building Code and the Florida Fire Prevention Code as
   26  business or mercantile, a fire official shall enforce the wall
   27  fire-rating provisions for occupancy separation as defined in
   28  the Florida Building Code.
   29         (c) A farming or ranching structure, as part of an
   30  operation that employs fewer than 25 full-time equivalent
   31  workers, calculated as cumulative hours worked divided by 40
   32  hours, which is not used by the public for direct sales or as an
   33  educational outreach facility, is exempt from the Florida Fire
   34  Prevention Code, including the national codes and Life Safety
   35  Code incorporated by reference. This paragraph does not include
   36  structures used for residential or assembly occupancies, as
   37  defined in the Florida Fire Prevention Code.
   38         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2013.