Florida Senate - 2006                      COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
    Bill No. SB 1894
                        Barcode 794972
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11  The Committee on Regulated Industries (Wise) recommended the
12  following amendment to amendment (345568):
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14         Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 
15         On page 3, between lines 7 and 8,
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18         Section 4.  Subsection (5) is added to section 489.516,
19  Florida Statutes, to read:
20         489.516  Qualifications to practice; restrictions;
21  prerequisites.--
22         (5)  Notwithstanding any other provision to the
23  contrary, a certified electrical contractor, registered alarm
24  system contractor I, registered alarm system contractor II, or
25  alarm system contractor I or alarm system contractor II that
26  is a certified alarm system contractor is exempt from any
27  local law, ordinance, or code that requires a contractor to be
28  listed or placarded by a nationally recognized testing
29  laboratory or to be certified by any regionally or nationally
30  recognized certification organization. However, a county,
31  municipality, or special district may require any such
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Florida Senate - 2006 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT Bill No. SB 1894 Barcode 794972 1 electrical contractor or alarm system contractor to provide, 2 at the final inspection of a fire alarm system, the 3 documentation required by NFPA No. 72, "National Fire Alarm 4 Code," for installation and monitoring. This subsection does 5 not prohibit a county, municipality, or special district from 6 requiring compliance with the Florida Fire Prevention Code or 7 with NFPA No. 72. 8 9 10 ================ T I T L E A M E N D M E N T =============== 11 And the title is amended as follows: 12 On page 4, line 19, after the semicolon, 13 14 insert: 15 amending s. 489.516, F.S.; exempting certain 16 electrical and alarm system contractors from 17 ordinances or codes of local governments or 18 special districts requiring various types of 19 recognition by certain national entities; 20 authorizing local governments or special 21 districts to require such contractors to 22 provide certain documentation at the final 23 inspection of an alarm system; reserving the 24 authority of local governments and special 25 districts to require compliance with the 26 Florida Fire Prevention Code and NFPA No. 72; 27 28 29 30 31 2 8:09 AM 04/25/06 s1894c-ri05-tj9