Florida Senate - 2014                          SENATOR AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for CS for SB 1018
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       Senator Detert moved the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Before line 118
    4  insert:
    5         Section 1. Subsection (1) of section 472.025, Florida
    6  Statutes, is amended to read:
    7         472.025 Seals.—
    8         (1) The board shall prescribe, by rule, a form of seal to
    9  be used by all registrants holding valid certificates of
   10  registration, whether the registrants are corporations,
   11  partnerships, or individuals. Each registrant shall obtain an
   12  impression-type metal seal in that form; and all final drawings,
   13  plans, specifications, plats, or reports prepared or issued by
   14  the registrant in accordance with the minimum technical
   15  standards of practice established set by the board shall be
   16  signed by the registrant, dated, and stamped with his or her
   17  seal. This signature, date, and seal shall be evidence of the
   18  authenticity of that to which they are affixed. Each registrant
   19  may in addition register his or her seal electronically in
   20  accordance with ss. 668.001-668.006. Drawings, plans,
   21  specifications, reports, or documents prepared or issued by a
   22  registrant may be transmitted electronically and may be signed
   23  by the registrant, dated, and stamped electronically with such
   24  seal in accordance with ss. 668.001-668.006.
   25         Section 2. Section 472.027, Florida Statutes, is amended to
   26  read:
   27         472.027 Minimum technical Standards of practice for
   28  surveying and mapping.—The board shall adopt rules establishing
   29  standards of relating to the practice for the profession of
   30  surveying and mapping to:
   31         (1) Assure competence in the practice of the profession;
   32         (2) Assure accuracy, completeness, and quality in the
   33  products provided;
   34         (3) Assure adequate and defensible real property boundary
   35  locations; and
   36         (4) Govern the following professional matters:
   37         (a) Conflicts of interest;
   38         (b) Client confidentiality;
   39         (c) Misuse, reuse, unauthorized use, or alteration of
   40  another professional’s product;
   41         (d) Fair dealing in all professional relationships and
   42  private and public sector contracts;
   43         (e) Retention of work products in hard copy or electronic
   44  or digital formats; and
   45         (f) Transfer and storage of files and file materials upon
   46  discontinuance of the practice of surveying and mapping which
   47  establish minimum technical standards to ensure the achievement
   48  of no less than minimum degrees of accuracy, completeness, and
   49  quality in order to assure adequate and defensible real property
   50  boundary locations and other pertinent information provided by
   51  surveyors and mappers under the authority of ss. 472.001
   52  472.037.
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   54  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   55  And the title is amended as follows:
   56         Delete line 3
   57  and insert:
   58         Consumer Services; amending s. 472.025, F.S.;
   59         conforming provisions to changes made by the act;
   60         amending s. 472.027, F.S.; requiring the Board of
   61         Professional Surveyors and Mappers to adopt rules
   62         establishing standards of practice for the profession
   63         of surveying and mapping, rather than minimum
   64         technical standards; providing requirements for such
   65         standards of practice; amending s. 493.6108, F.S.;