Florida Senate - 2009                                    SB 1910
       
       
       
       By Senator Gardiner
       
       
       
       
       9-01520-09                                            20091910__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to public swimming and bathing
    3         facilities; amending s. 514.025, F.S.; directing the
    4         Department of Health to assign specific functions
    5         relating to the regulation of such facilities to
    6         certain special districts that have qualified
    7         engineering personnel; providing an effective date.
    8         
    9  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
   10         
   11         Section 1. Section 514.025, Florida Statutes, is amended to
   12  read:
   13         514.025 Assignment of authority to county health
   14  departments or special districts.—
   15         (1) The department shall assign to county health
   16  departments or multipurpose special districts established by the
   17  Legislature, which that are staffed with qualified engineering
   18  personnel, the functions of reviewing applications and plans for
   19  the construction, development, or modification of public
   20  swimming pools or bathing places; of conducting inspections for
   21  and issuance of initial operating permits; and of issuing all
   22  permits. If the county health department or multipurpose special
   23  district is not assigned the functions of application and plan
   24  review and the issuance of initial operating permits, the
   25  department shall be responsible for such functions. The
   26  department shall make the determination concerning the
   27  qualifications of county health department or special district
   28  personnel to perform these functions and may make and enforce
   29  such rules pertaining thereto as it shall deem proper.
   30         (2) After the initial operating permit is issued, the
   31  county health departments or special districts shall assume full
   32  responsibility for routine surveillance of all public swimming
   33  pools and bathing places, including responsibility for a minimum
   34  of two routine inspections annually, complaint investigations,
   35  enforcement procedures, reissuance of operating permits, and
   36  renewal of operating permits.
   37         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2009.