NOTICE OF PROPOSED RULE DEVELOPMENT

FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL REGULATION
Florida Building Commission

RULE NO.:                              RULE TITLE: 

61G20-1.002                           Alternative Design Method for Screen Enclosures                  

 

PURPOSE AND EFFECT:  The purpose and effect of the proposed rule is to comply with Ch. 2012-13, Laws of Florida, which directed the Florida Building Commission to establish a workgroup to assist the commission in developing a rule for implementing an alternative design method for screen enclosures which allows for the removal of a section of the screen to accommodate high-wind events consistent with the provisions of the Florida Building Code. 

SUBJECT AREA TO BE ADDRESSED:  Alternative Design methods for screen enclosures

SPECIFIC AUTHORITY:  212 – 13 (Section 19), Florida Law.

LAW IMPLEMENTED:   212 – 13 (Section 19), Florida Law.

A RULE DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP WILL BE HELD AT THE DATE, TIME AND PLACE SHOWN BELOW:

DATE AND TIME:  August 7, 2012, 8:30 a.m., or as soon thereafter as the matter is brought before the Commission in accordance with its agenda.

Place:  Embassy Suites Hotel, 3705 Spectrum Boulevard, Tampa, Florida 33612.   An

agenda and other information may be obtained at: 

http://www.floridabuilding.org/fbc/meetings/1_meetings.htm

Any person requiring special accommodation at the workshop because of a disability or physical impairment should contact Mo Madani, Planning Manager, Department of Business and Professional Regulation, 2555 Shumard Oak Boulevard, Sadowski Building, Tallahassee, Florida 32399-2100, (850)487-1824, at least seven days before the date of the workshop.  If you are hearing or speech impaired, please contact the Department of Business and Professional Regulation using the Florida Dual Party Relay System which can be reached at 1-800-955-8770 (Voice) or 1-800-955-9771 (TDD).

THE PERSON TO BE CONTACTED REGARDING THE PROPOSED RULE DEVELOPMENT IS:  Mo Madani, Planning Manager, Department of Business and Professional Regulation, 2555 Shumard Oak Boulevard, Sadowski Building, Tallahassee, Florida 32399-2100, (850) 487-1824.

THE PRELIMINARY TEXT OF THE PROPOSED RULE DEVELOPMENT IS AVAILABLE AT NO CHARGE FROM THE CONTACT PERSON LISTED ABOVE.