The Florida Senate

¹553.07  Plumbing permits; inspection fee, amount, disposition; exception.--The board of county commissioners of each county, except within municipalities and legislatively created governing, service, or sanitary districts which have been exempted from county plumbing inspection by the board of county commissioners, may charge and collect a reasonable fee for the cost of inspection, which fee shall not be less than $1.50 for each plumbing permit issued for each building and $1 for each fixture up to and including the first eight fixtures and 50 cents for each fixture thereafter installed in connection with such plumbing work in such county. The permit shall be issued in triplicate, the original going to the plumbing contractor, one copy to be retained by the issuing officer, who should be the plumbing inspector in the county, and one copy to be filed in the records of the county depositor. All such fees shall be paid at the time of the application for a permit to do such work and prior to the installation of any plumbing material, and all such fees collected under this part shall be deposited by the plumbing inspector in the county depository and shall be used for the inspection of plumbing and the enforcement of this part in such county.

History.--s. 7, ch. 26904, 1951; s. 1, ch. 28181, 1953; s. 6, ch. 89-139; s. 68, ch. 98-287; s. 108, ch. 2000-141.

¹Note.--Repealed July 1, 2001, by s. 68, ch. 98-287, as amended by s. 108, ch. 2000-141.