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House Bill 0583c1




    Florida House of Representatives - 1997              CS/HB 583

        By the Committee on Environmental Protection and
    Representatives Argenziano and Stabins





  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to the Coastal Zone Protection

  3         Act of 1985; amending s. 161.54, F.S.;

  4         redefining the term "substantial improvement";

  5         providing an effective date.

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  7  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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  9         Section 1.  Subsection (12) of section 161.54, Florida

10  Statutes, is amended to read:

11         161.54  Definitions.--In construing ss. 161.52-161.58:

12         (12)  "Substantial improvement" means any repair,

13  reconstruction, rehabilitation, or improvement of a structure,

14  where the actual cost of the improvement or repair of the

15  structure to its predamage condition which equals or exceeds,

16  over a 5-year period, a cumulative total of 50 percent of the

17  market value of the structure either:

18         (a)  Before the improvement or repair is started; or

19         (b)  If the structure has been damaged and is being

20  restored, before the damage occurred.

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22  The cumulative total cost does not include nonstructural

23  interior finishings or roof coverings, except when determining

24  whether the structure has been substantially improved as a

25  result of a single improvement or repair. For the purposes of

26  this definition, "substantial improvement" is considered to

27  occur when the first alteration of any wall, ceiling, floor,

28  or other structural part of the building commences, whether or

29  not that alteration affects the external dimensions of the

30  structure.  The term does not, however, include either any

31  project for improvement of a structure to comply with existing

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  1  state or local health, sanitary, or safety code specifications

  2  which are solely necessary to assure safe living conditions or

  3  any alteration of a structure listed on the National Register

  4  of Historic Places or the State Inventory of Historic Places.

  5         Section 2.  This act shall take effect upon becoming a

  6  law.

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