Senate Bill sb1988

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    Florida Senate - 2005                                  SB 1988

    By Senator Saunders





    37-1503A-05                                             See HB

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to certification of water

  3         management activities and corrective actions;

  4         creating s. 373.1165, F.S.; authorizing the

  5         Department of Environmental Protection and the

  6         governing boards of water management districts

  7         to require certification of such activities and

  8         actions by certain professionals; providing for

  9         the cost of such certifications; providing for

10         implementation of certified activities and

11         actions; creating s. 373.1175, F.S.; providing

12         for requirements that a professional geologist

13         sign and seal specified documents; prescribing

14         responsibility for the costs of such signing

15         and sealing; providing an effective date.

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

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19         Section 1.  Section 373.1165, Florida Statutes, is

20  created to read:

21         373.1165  Certification by professionals regulated by

22  the Department of Business and Professional Regulation.--

23         (1)  Nothing in this section shall be construed as

24  specific authority for a water management district or the

25  department to require certification by a professional engineer

26  licensed under chapter 471, a professional landscape architect

27  licensed under part II of chapter 481, a professional

28  geologist licensed under chapter 492, or a professional

29  surveyor and mapper licensed under chapter 472 for an activity

30  that is not within the definition or scope of practice of the

31  regulated profession.

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    Florida Senate - 2005                                  SB 1988
    37-1503A-05                                             See HB




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

 2  conduct an activity regulated under this chapter, chapter 376,

 3  or any permitting program delegated to a water management

 4  district by a state agency, or to undertake corrective action

 5  of such activity or program ordered by the department or a

 6  water management district, which requires the services of a

 7  professional as enumerated in subsection (1), the department

 8  or governing board of a water management district may require,

 9  by rule, in conjunction with such an application or any

10  submittals required as a condition of granting a permit or

11  license, or in conjunction with the order of corrective

12  action, such certification by the professional as is necessary

13  to ensure that the proposed activity or corrective action is

14  designed, constructed, operated, and maintained in accordance

15  with applicable law and rules of the department or district

16  and in conformity with proper and sound design principles, or

17  other such certification by the professional as may be

18  necessary to ensure compliance with applicable law or rules of

19  the department or district. The department or governing board

20  of a water management district may further require as a

21  condition of granting a permit or license or in conjunction

22  with ordering corrective action that the professional certify

23  upon completion of the permitted or licensed activity or

24  corrective action that such activity or corrective action has,

25  to the best of his or her knowledge, been completed in

26  substantial conformance with the plans and specifications

27  approved by the department or board.

28         (3)  The cost of such certifications by the

29  professional shall be borne by the permittee or the person

30  ordered to correct the permitted activity.

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    Florida Senate - 2005                                  SB 1988
    37-1503A-05                                             See HB




 1         (4)  A permitted or licensed activity or corrective

 2  action that is required to be so certified upon completion of

 3  the activity or action may not be placed into use or operation

 4  until the professional's certificate is filed with the

 5  department or board.

 6         Section 2.  Section 373.1175, Florida Statutes, is

 7  created to read:

 8         373.1175  Signing and sealing by professional

 9  geologists.--

10         (1)  If an application for a permit or license, or the

11  performance of an activity regulated under this chapter,

12  requires the services of a professional geologist as provided

13  for in chapter 492, the department or governing board of a

14  water management district may require that a professional

15  geologist licensed under chapter 492 sign and seal any

16  documents and reports submitted in connection with the permit

17  application or regulated activity.

18         (2)  The cost of such signing and sealing by a

19  professional geologist shall be borne by the permit applicant

20  or permittee.

21         (3)  Nothing in this section shall be construed to

22  prevent or prohibit the practice by professional engineers

23  pursuant to chapter 471.

24         Section 3.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2005.

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