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1998 Florida Statutes

SECTION 045
Professional engineers performing building code inspector duties.

471.045  Professional engineers performing building code inspector duties.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a person who is currently licensed under this chapter to practice as a professional engineer may provide building inspection services described in s. 468.603(6) and (7) to a local government or state agency upon its request, without being certified by the Board of Building Code Administrators and Inspectors under 1part XIII of chapter 468. When performing these building inspection services, the professional engineer is subject to the disciplinary guidelines of this chapter and s. 468.621(1)(c)-(g). Any complaint processing, investigation, and discipline that arise out of a professional engineer's performing building inspection services shall be conducted by the Board of Professional Engineers rather than the Board of Building Code Administrators and Inspectors. A professional engineer may not perform plans review as an employee of a local government upon any job that the professional engineer or the professional engineer's company designed.

History.--s. 7, ch. 98-419.

1Note.--Building code administrators and inspectors are regulated under part XII of chapter 468.