Senate Bill 0004

    Florida Senate - 2000                                     SB 4

    By Senator Diaz-Balart





    37-8-00

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to the Florida Building Code;

  3         amending s. 553.73, F.S.; providing that

  4         certain counties are exempt from the Florida

  5         Building Code adopted by the Florida Building

  6         Commission to the extent necessary to enforce

  7         more stringent windstorm standards than the

  8         standards provided by the Florida Building

  9         Code; providing an effective date.

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

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13         Section 1.   Paragraph (d) is added to subsection (4)

14  of section 553.73, Florida Statutes, 1998 Supplement, as

15  amended by section 40 of chapter 98-287, Laws of Florida, and

16  by section 61 of chapter 98-419, Laws of Florida, to read:

17         553.73  Florida Building Code.--

18         (4)

19         (d)  Notwithstanding any other provision of this

20  section, if a county has adopted, before May 1, 1999, a

21  building code, other than the Standard Building Code, which

22  provides windstorm standards that are more stringent than the

23  windstorm standards provided by the Florida Building Code

24  adopted by the Florida Building Commission, that county is

25  exempt from the Florida Building Code to the extent necessary

26  for the county to enforce the more stringent windstorm

27  standards.

28         Section 2.  This act shall take effect January 1, 2001.

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    Florida Senate - 2000                                     SB 4
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  3    Provides that if a county has adopted by May 1, 1999, a
      building code, other than the Standard Building Code,
  4    which contains windstorm standards more stringent than
      those provided by the Florida Building Code, that county
  5    is exempt from the Florida Building Code to the extent
      necessary to enforce the more stringent windstorm
  6    standards.

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