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Florida Senate - 2000 CS for SB 1064
By the Committee on Regulated Industries and Senators Forman
and Myers
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1 A bill to be entitled
2 An act relating to fire protection systems;
3 amending s. 471.025, F.S.; requiring
4 professional engineers to seal all final bid
5 documents; amending s. 633.021, F.S.; providing
6 a definition of the term "layout"; providing an
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9 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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11 Section 1. Section 471.025, Florida Statutes, is
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13 471.025 Seals.--
14 (1) The board shall prescribe, by rule, a form of seal
15 to be used by registrants holding valid certificates of
16 registration. Each registrant shall obtain an impression-type
17 metal seal in the form aforesaid and may, in addition,
18 register his or her seal electronically in accordance with ss.
19 282.70-282.75. All final drawings, specifications, plans,
20 reports, or documents prepared or issued by the registrant and
21 being filed for public record and final bid documents provided
22 to the owner or the owner's representative shall be signed by
23 the registrant, dated, and stamped with said seal. Such
24 signature, date, and seal shall be evidence of the
25 authenticity of that to which they are affixed. Drawings,
26 specifications, plans, reports, final bid documents, or
27 documents prepared or issued by a registrant may be
28 transmitted electronically and may be signed by the
29 registrant, dated, and stamped electronically with said seal
30 in accordance with ss. 282.70-282.75.
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1 (2) It is unlawful for any person to stamp, seal, or
2 digitally sign any document with a seal or digital signature
3 after his or her certificate of registration has expired or
4 been revoked or suspended, unless such certificate of
5 registration has been reinstated or reissued. When the
6 certificate of registration of a registrant has been revoked
7 or suspended by the board, it shall be mandatory that the
8 registrant, within a period of 30 days after the revocation or
9 suspension has become effective, surrender his or her seal to
10 the secretary of the board and confirm to the secretary the
11 cancellation of the registrant's digital signature in
12 accordance with ss. 282.70-282.75. In the event the
13 registrant's certificate has been suspended for a period of
14 time, his or her seal shall be returned to him or her upon
15 expiration of the suspension period.
16 (3) No registrant shall affix or permit to be affixed
17 his or her seal, name, or digital signature to any plan,
18 specification, drawing, final bid document, or other document
19 that which depicts work which he or she is not licensed to
20 perform or which is beyond his or her profession or specialty
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22 Section 2. Present subsections (13) through (26) of
23 section 633.021, Florida Statutes, are redesignated as
24 subsections (14) through (27), respectively, and a new
25 subsection (13) is added to that section to read:
26 633.021 Definitions.--As used in this chapter:
27 (13) "Layout" as used in this chapter means the layout
28 of risers, cross mains, branch lines, sprinkler heads, sizing
29 of pipe, hanger locations, and hydraulic calculations in
30 accordance with the design concepts established through the
31 provisions of s. 553.79(6)(c).
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1 Section 3. This act shall take effect upon becoming a
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4 STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
5 Senate Bill 1064
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7 The Committee Substitute for Senate Bill 1064, requires
professional engineers to sign, date, and seal final bid
8 documents provided to the owner or the owner's representative,
and defines "layout" for purposes of the fire prevention and
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