House Bill 0993c1

    Florida House of Representatives - 2000              CS/HB 993

        By the Committee on Business Regulation & Consumer Affairs
    and Representatives Brown, Futch, Trovillion, Pruitt, Argenio,
    Greenstein and Patterson




  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to construction documents;

  3         amending s. 471.025, F.S.; adding a

  4         circumstance under which engineering documents

  5         must be sealed; amending s. 633.021, F.S.;

  6         adding a definition of "layout"; providing an

  7         effective date.

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

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11         Section 1.  Subsection (1) of section 471.025, Florida

12  Statutes, is amended to read:

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 all final bid documents

22  provided to the owner or the owner's representative shall be

23  signed by the registrant, dated, and stamped with said seal.

24  Such 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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CODING: Words stricken are deletions; words underlined are additions.






    Florida House of Representatives - 2000              CS/HB 993

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  1         Section 2.  Subsections (14) through (26) of section

  2  633.021, Florida Statutes, are renumbered as subsections (15)

  3  through (27), and a new subsection (14) is added to said

  4  section, to read:

  5         633.021  Definitions.--As used in this chapter:

  6         (14)  "Layout" as used in this chapter means the layout

  7  of risers, cross mains, branch lines, sprinkler heads, sizing

  8  of pipe, hanger locations, and hydraulic calculations in

  9  accordance with the design concepts established through the

10  provisions of s. 553.79(6)(c).

11         Section 3.  This act shall take effect upon becoming a

12  law.

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