Florida Senate - 2013                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 1410
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                    Senate             .             House              
                   Comm: WD            .                                
                  04/09/2013           .                                
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       The Committee on Community Affairs (Simpson) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with directory and title amendments)
    2  
    3         Between lines 1694 and 1695
    4  insert:
    5         (15)(a) For one-story or two-story structures that are less
    6  than 10,000 square feet, whose occupancy is defined in the
    7  Florida Building Code and the Florida Fire Prevention Code as
    8  business or mercantile, a fire official shall enforce the wall
    9  fire-rating provisions for occupancy separation as defined in
   10  the Florida Building Code.
   11         (b) A farming or ranching structure, as part of an
   12  operation that employs fewer than 25 full-time equivalent
   13  workers, calculated as cumulative hours worked divided by 40
   14  hours, which is not used by the public for direct sales or as an
   15  educational outreach facility, is exempt from the Florida Fire
   16  Prevention Code, including the national codes and Life Safety
   17  Code incorporated by reference. This paragraph does not include
   18  structures used for residential or assembly occupancies, as
   19  defined in the Florida Fire Prevention Code.
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   21  ====== D I R E C T O R Y  C L A U S E  A M E N D M E N T ======
   22         And the directory clause is amended as follows:
   23         Delete lines 1561 - 1562
   24  and insert:
   25         subsections (2), (4), (7), (9), (10), and (12) through (15)
   26  of that section are amended, and a new subsection (15) is added
   27  to that section, to read:
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   30         And the title is amended as follows:
   31         Between lines 118 and 119
   32  insert:
   33         requiring fire officials to enforce Florida Building
   34         Code provisions for occupancy separation for certain
   35         structures with certain occupancies; exempting certain
   36         farming and ranching structures from the code;