Senate Bill sb1878c1

    Florida Senate - 2004                           CS for SB 1878

    By the Committee on Regulated Industries; and Senator Saunders





    315-2448-04

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to registered professionals;

  3         amending s. 373.117, F.S.; providing

  4         requirements for certification by appropriate

  5         registered professionals of water resource

  6         activities for which a permit or license and

  7         such certification are required; providing an

  8         effective date.

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

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12         Section 1.  Section 373.117, Florida Statutes, is

13  amended to read:

14         373.117  Certification by appropriate registered

15  professionals professional engineer.--

16         (1)  If an application for a permit or license to

17  conduct an activity regulated under this chapter requires the

18  services of appropriate registered professionals a

19  professional engineer as regulated and defined by law chapter

20  471, the department or governing board of a water management

21  district may require, as a condition of granting a permit or

22  license, that one or more professionals a professional

23  engineer licensed under law chapter 471 certify upon

24  completion of the permitted or licensed activity that such

25  activity has been completed in substantial conformance with

26  the plans and specifications approved by the department or

27  board.

28         (2)  The cost of such certification by appropriate

29  registered professionals a professional engineer shall be

30  borne by the permittee.

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    Florida Senate - 2004                           CS for SB 1878
    315-2448-04




 1         (3)  No permitted or licensed activity which is

 2  required to be so certified shall be placed into use or

 3  operation until the appropriate registered professionals'

 4  certificates or seals and signatures are professional

 5  engineer's certificate is filed with the department or board.

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

 7  law.

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 9          STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
                       COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
10                         Senate Bill 1878

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12  The committee substitute deletes language that included
    professional geologists in the provision of the Consultants
13  Competitive Negotiation Act. It changes the provision that
    added professional geologists to the types of services
14  required for certification of any activity regulated under the
    Florida Water Resources Act of 1972.  The commmittee
15  substitute now provides that the services may be performed by
    "appropriate registered professionals."
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