Court Opinions
State Laws
|
Florida Laws: FL Statutes - Title XXXVII Chapter 633 Fire Prevention and Control
Legal Research Home >
Florida Laws > Insurance > Florida Laws: FL Statutes - Title XXXVII Chapter 633 Fire Prevention and Control
- 633.01 State Fire Marshal; powers and duties; rules.
(1) The Chief Financial Officer is designated as "State Fire Marshal." The State Fire Marshal has authority to adopt rules pursuant to ss. 120.536(1) and 120.54...
- 633.02 Agents; powers and duties; compensation.
The State Fire Marshal shall appoint such agents as may be necessary to carry out effectively the provisions of this chapter, who shall be reimbursed...
- 633.021 Definitions.
As used in this chapter: (1) "Board" means the Florida Fire Safety Board. (2) "Certificate" means a certificate of competency issued by the State Fire Marshal. (3) "Certification"...
- 633.0215 Florida Fire Prevention Code.
(1) The State Fire Marshal shall adopt, by rule pursuant to ss. 120.536(1) and 120.54, the Florida Fire Prevention Code which shall contain or incorporate by...
- 633.022 Uniform firesafety standards.
The Legislature hereby determines that to protect the public health, safety, and welfare it is necessary to provide for firesafety standards governing the construction and...
- 633.024 Legislative findings and intent; ensuring effective fire protection of vulnerable nursing home residents essential; retrofit of existing nursing homes expedited by limited state loan guarantee; funding through Insurance Regulatory Trust Fund.
(1) It is the intent of the Legislature to promote the essential public purpose of ensuring effective fire protection for the safety and welfare of nursing...
- 633.0245 State Fire Marshal Nursing Home Fire Protection Loan Guarantee Program.
(1) The State Fire Marshal, with the assistance of the Division of Treasury of the Department of Financial Services, may enter into an investment agreement concerning...
- 633.025 Minimum firesafety standards.
(1) The Florida Fire Prevention Code and the Life Safety Code adopted by the State Fire Marshal, which shall operate in conjunction with the Florida Building...
- 633.026 Informal interpretations of the Florida Fire Prevention Code.
The Division of State Fire Marshal shall by rule establish an informal process of rendering nonbinding interpretations of the Florida Fire Prevention Code. The Division...
- 633.027 Buildings with light-frame truss-type construction; notice requirements; enforcement.
(1) The owner of any commercial or industrial structure, or any multiunit residential structure of three units or more, that uses light-frame truss-type construction shall mark...
- 633.03 Investigation of fire; reports.
The State Fire Marshal shall investigate the cause, origin, and circumstances of every fire occurring in this state wherein property has been damaged or destroyed...
- 633.042 Reduced Cigarette Ignition Propensity Standard and Firefighter Protection Act.
(1) SHORT TITLE.--This section may be cited as the "Reduced Cigarette Ignition Propensity Standard and Firefighter Protection Act." (2) LEGISLATIVE FINDINGS AND INTENT.--The Legislature finds and declares...
- 633.0421 Preemption of reduced cigarette ignition propensity standard by state.
Effective upon this act becoming a law, and notwithstanding any other provision of law, local government units of this state may neither enact nor enforce...
- 633.052 Ordinances relating to firesafety; definitions; penalties.
(1) As used in this section: (a) A "firesafety inspector" is an individual certified by the Division of State Fire Marshal, officially assigned the duties of conducting...
- 633.061 Fire suppression equipment; license to install or maintain.
(1) It is unlawful for any organization or individual to engage in the business of servicing, repairing, recharging, testing, marking, inspecting, installing, or hydrotesting any fire...
- 633.065 Requirements for installation, inspection, and maintenance of fire suppression equipment.
(1) The requirements for installation of fire extinguishers and preengineered systems are as follows: (a) Fire equipment dealers shall be licensed under s. 633.061. (b) Equipment supplied shall...
- 633.071 Standard service tag required on all fire extinguishers and preengineered systems; serial number required on all portable fire extinguishers; standard inspection tags required on all fire protection systems.
(1) The State Fire Marshal shall adopt by rule specifications as to the size, shape, color, and information and data contained thereon of service tags to...
- 633.081 Inspection of buildings and equipment; orders; firesafety inspection training requirements; certification; disciplinary action.
The State Fire Marshal and her or his agents shall, at any reasonable hour, when the department has reasonable cause to believe that a violation...
- 633.082 Inspection of fire control systems, fire hydrants, and fire protection systems.
(1) The State Fire Marshal shall have the right to inspect any fire control system during and after construction to determine that such system meets the...
- 633.083 Sale or use of certain types of fire extinguishers prohibited; penalty.
(1)(a) It is unlawful to have for use any of the following types of fire extinguishers: 1. Carbon tetrachloride; 2. Chlorobromomethane; 3. Dibromodifluoromethane (commonly known as Halon 1202); 4. Dichlorodifluoromethane;...
- 633.085 Inspections of state buildings and premises; tests of firesafety equipment; building plans to be approved.
(1)(a) It is the duty of the State Fire Marshal and her or his agents to inspect, or cause to be inspected, each state-owned building on...
- 633.101 Hearings; investigations; investigatory powers of State Fire Marshal; costs of service and witness fees.
(1) The State Fire Marshal may in his or her discretion take or cause to be taken the testimony on oath of all persons whom he...
- 633.111 State Fire Marshal to keep records of fires; reports of agents.
The State Fire Marshal shall keep in her or his office a record of all fires occurring in this state upon which she or he...
- 633.115 Fire and Emergency Incident Information Reporting Program; duties; fire reports.
(1)(a) The Fire and Emergency Incident Information Reporting Program is created within the Division of State Fire Marshal. The program shall: 1. Establish and maintain an electronic...
- 633.121 Persons authorized to enforce laws and rules of State Fire Marshal.
The chiefs of county, municipal, and special-district fire departments; other fire department personnel designated by their respective chiefs; and personnel designated by local governments having...
- 633.13 State Fire Marshal; authority of agents.
The authority given the State Fire Marshal under this law may be exercised by his or her agents, either individually or in conjunction with any...
- 633.14 Agents; powers to make arrests, conduct searches and seizures, serve summonses, and carry firearms.
Agents of the State Fire Marshal shall have the same authority to serve summonses, make arrests, carry firearms, and make searches and seizures, as the...
- 633.15 State Fire Marshal; chapter and rules; force and effect.
This chapter and all rules promulgated by the State Fire Marshal hereunder shall have the same force and effect in each municipality, county, and special...
- 633.151 Impersonating State Fire Marshal, firefighters, or firesafety inspector; criminal penalties.
A person who falsely assumes or pretends to be the State Fire Marshal, an agent of the Division of State Fire Marshal, a firefighter as...
- 633.161 Violations; orders to cease and desist, correct hazardous conditions, preclude occupancy, or vacate; enforcement; penalties.
(1) If it is determined by the department that a violation specified in this subsection exists, the State Fire Marshal or her or his deputy may...
- 633.162 Fire suppression system contractors; disciplinary action.
(1) The violation of any provision of this chapter or any rule adopted and promulgated pursuant hereto or the failure or refusal to comply with any...
- 633.163 Administrative fine in lieu of suspension, revocation, or refusal to issue a license, permit, or certificate.
(1) If the State Fire Marshal finds that one or more grounds exist for the suspension, revocation, or refusal to issue, renew, or continue any license,...
- 633.167 Probation.
(1) If the State Fire Marshal finds that one or more grounds exist for the suspension, revocation, or refusal to issue, renew, or continue any license,...
- 633.171 Penalty for violation of law, rule, or order to cease and desist or for failure to comply with corrective order.
(1) Any person who violates any provision of this law, any order or rule of the State Fire Marshal, or any order to cease and desist...
- 633.175 Investigation of fraudulent insurance claims and crimes; immunity of insurance companies supplying information.
(1) The State Fire Marshal or an agent appointed pursuant to s. 633.02, any law enforcement officer as defined in s. 111.065, any law enforcement officer...
- 633.18 State Fire Marshal; hearings and investigations; subpoena of witnesses; orders of circuit court.
Any agent designated by the State Fire Marshal for such purposes, may hold hearings, sign and issue subpoenas, administer oaths, examine witnesses, receive evidence, and...
- 633.30 Standards for firefighting; definitions.
As used in this chapter, the term: (1) "Firefighter" means any person initially employed as a full-time professional firefighter by any employing agency, as defined herein,...
- 633.31 Firefighters Employment, Standards, and Training Council.
(1) There is created within the department a Firefighters Employment, Standards, and Training Council of 13 members. Two members shall be fire chiefs appointed by the...
- 633.32 Organization; meetings; quorum; compensation; seal.
(1) The council shall elect to 1-year terms a chair and a vice chair. No person shall serve more than two consecutive terms in either office....
- 633.33 Special powers; firefighter training.
The council shall have special powers in connection with the employment and training of firefighters to: (1) Recommend, for adoption by the division, uniform minimum standards...
- 633.34 Firefighters; qualifications for employment.
Any person applying for employment as a firefighter must: (1) Be a high school graduate or the equivalent, as the term may be determined by the...
- 633.35 Firefighter training and certification.
(1) The division shall establish a firefighter training program of not less than 360 hours, administered by such agencies and institutions as it approves for the...
- 633.351 Disciplinary action; firefighters; standards for revocation of certification.
(1) The certification of a firefighter shall be revoked if evidence is found that the certification was improperly issued by the division or if evidence is...
- 633.352 Retention of firefighter certification.
Any certified firefighter who has not been active as a firefighter, or as a volunteer firefighter with an organized fire department, for a period of...
- 633.353 Falsification of qualifications.
Any person who willfully and knowingly falsifies the qualifications of a new employee to the Bureau of Fire Standards and Training of the division is...
- 633.37 Payment of tuition by employing agency.
An employing agency is authorized to pay part or all of the costs of tuition of trainees in attendance at approved training programs. History.--s. 11,...
- 633.38 Inservice training and promotion; participation.
(1)(a) The division shall by rules and regulations prescribe curricula and standards for advanced and specialized training courses and training in addition to those prescribed in...
- 633.382 Firefighters; supplemental compensation.
(1) DEFINITIONS.--As used in this section, the term: (a) "Employing agency" means any municipality or any county, the state, or any political subdivision of the state, including...
- 633.39 Gifts and grants.
The division may accept for any of its purposes and functions any donations of property and grants of money from any governmental unit, public agency,...
- 633.41 Saving clause.
Firefighters employed on July 5, 1969, are not required to meet the provisions of ss. 633.34 and 633.35 as a condition of tenure or continued...
- 633.42 Additional standards authorized.
Nothing herein shall be construed to preclude an employing agency from establishing qualifications and standards for hiring, training, or promoting firefighters that exceed the minimum...
- 633.43 Florida State Fire College established.
There is hereby established a state institution to be known as the Florida State Fire College, to be located at or near Ocala, Marion County....
- 633.44 Purpose of fire college.
The purposes of ss. 633.43-633.49 and of the Florida State Fire College shall be: (1) To provide professional and volunteer firefighters with needful professional instruction and...
- 633.445 State Fire Marshal Scholarship Grant Program.
(1) All payments, gifts, or grants received pursuant to this section shall be deposited in the State Treasury to the credit of the Insurance Regulatory Trust...
- 633.45 Division of State Fire Marshal; powers, duties.
(1) The division shall: (a) Establish uniform minimum standards for the employment and training of firefighters. (b) Establish minimum curriculum requirements for schools operated by or for any...
- 633.46 Fees.
The division may fix and collect admission fees and other fees which it deems necessary to be charged for training given. All fees so collected...
- 633.461 Use of Insurance Regulatory Trust Fund.
The funds received from the Insurance Regulatory Trust Fund shall be used by the staff of the Florida State Fire College to provide all necessary...
- 633.47 Procedure for making expenditures.
No moneys shall be spent for and on behalf of the Florida State Fire College except upon a written voucher drawn by the division, stating...
- 633.48 Superintendent of college.
The division may employ a superintendent for the Florida State Fire College, who shall be especially trained and qualified in firefighting, fire prevention and fire...
- 633.49 Buildings, equipment, and other facilities; use.
The division shall have the power to prescribe and shall make the necessary rules and regulations for the use of buildings, equipment and other facilities...
- 633.50 Division powers and duties; Florida State Fire College.
(1) The division, in performing its duties related to the Florida State Fire College, specified in ss. 633.43-633.49, shall: (a) Enter into agreements with public or private...
- 633.511 Florida Fire Safety Board; membership.
(1) The Florida Fire Safety Board is created consisting of seven members who are citizens and residents of this state. One shall be the State Fire...
- 633.514 Board duties; meetings; officers; quorum; compensation; seal.
(1) The board shall act in an advisory capacity to the State Fire Marshal and shall meet regularly as the need presents itself. The board shall...
- 633.517 Authority of State Fire Marshal to adopt rules, administer oaths, and take testimony.
(1) The State Fire Marshal is authorized, with the advice of the board, to adopt rules pursuant to ss. 120.536(1) and 120.54 to implement the provisions...
- 633.521 Certificate application and issuance; permit issuance; examination and investigation of applicant.
(1) To obtain a certificate, an applicant shall submit to the State Fire Marshal an application in writing, on a form provided by the State Fire...
- 633.524 Certificate and permit fees; use and deposit of collected funds.
(1) The initial application fee for each class of certificate shall be $300. The biennial renewal fee for each class of certificate shall be $150. The...
- 633.527 Records concerning applicant; extent of confidentiality.
(1) Test material is made confidential by s. 119.071(1)(a). An applicant may waive in writing the confidentiality of his or her examination answer sheet for the...
- 633.531 Certificate effective statewide; not transferable.
When a certificateholder desires to engage in contracting in any area of the state, as a prerequisite therefor she or he shall only be required...
- 633.534 Issuance of certificate to individuals and business organizations.
(1) When an individual proposes to do business in her or his own name, certifications, when granted, shall be issued only to that individual. (2) If the...
- 633.537 Certificate; expiration; renewal; inactive certificate; continuing education.
(1) Certificates shall expire every 2 years at midnight on June 30. Effective with the June 30, 1998, renewal, all certificates must be renewed every 2...
- 633.539 Requirements for installation, inspection, and maintenance of fire protection systems.
(1) The requirements for installation of fire protection systems are as follows: (a) Contractors of fire protection systems shall be certified under s. 633.521. (b) Equipment shall be...
- 633.541 Contracting without certificate prohibited; violations; penalty.
(1) It is unlawful for any organization or individual to engage in the business of layout, fabrication, installation, inspection, alteration, repair, or service of a fire...
- 633.547 Disciplinary action; fire protection system contractors; grounds for denial, nonrenewal, suspension, or revocation of certificate or permit.
(1) The State Fire Marshal shall investigate the alleged illegal action of any fire protection system contractor or permittee certified under this chapter and hold hearings...
- 633.549 Violations subject to injunction.
Any person who operates as a contractor without a current certificate or who violates any part of this chapter or any rule, decision, order, direction,...
- 633.551 County and municipal powers; effect of ch. 75-240.
(1) Nothing in this act limits the power of a municipality or county to regulate the quality and character of work performed by contractors through a...
- 633.554 Application of law regulating contracting and contractors.
(1)(a) This chapter applies to any contractor performing work for the state or any county or municipality, as well as to contractors performing work pursuant to...
- 633.557 Exemptions; farm outbuildings; standpipe systems installed by plumbing contractors.
(1) This act does not apply to owners of property who are building or improving farm outbuildings. (2) A licensed plumbing contractor is not required to be...
- 633.60 Automatic fire sprinkler systems for one-family dwellings, two-family dwellings, and mobile homes.
(1) It is unlawful for any person to engage in the business or act in the capacity of a contractor of automatic fire sprinkler systems for...
- 633.70 Jurisdiction of State Fire Marshal over alarm system contractors and certified unlimited electrical contractors.
(1) When the State Fire Marshal, in the course of its activities pursuant to s. 633.01(2), determines that an alarm system contractor or a certified unlimited...
- 633.701 Requirements for fire alarm system equipment.
The requirements for fire alarm system equipment are: (1) Equipment supplied shall be approved by a nationally recognized testing laboratory, and installed in accordance with its...
- 633.702 Prohibited acts regarding alarm system contractors or certified unlimited electrical contractors; penalties.
(1) It shall be unlawful for any person, directly or through an agent, to sell, offer for sale, or give any make, type, or model of...
- 633.72 Florida Fire Code Advisory Council.
(1) There is created within the department the Florida Fire Code Advisory Council with 11 members appointed by the State Fire Marshal. The council shall advise...
- 633.801 Short title.
Sections 633.801-633.821 may be cited as the "Florida Firefighters Occupational Safety and Health Act." History.--s. 15, ch. 2002-404.
- 633.802 Definitions.
Unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the following definitions shall apply to ss. 633.801-633.821: (1) "Firefighter employee" means any person engaged in any employment, public or...
- 633.803 Legislative intent.
It is the intent of the Legislature to enhance firefighter occupational safety and health in the state through the implementation and maintenance of policies, procedures,...
- 633.804 Safety inspections and consultations; rules.
The division shall adopt rules governing the manner, means, and frequency of firefighter employer and firefighter employee safety inspections and consultations by all insurers and...
- 633.805 Division to make study of firefighter employee occupational diseases.
The division shall make a continuous study of firefighter employee occupational diseases and the ways and means for their control and prevention and shall adopt...
- 633.806 Investigations by the division; refusal to admit; penalty.
(1) The division shall make studies and investigations with respect to safety provisions and the causes of firefighter employee injuries in firefighter employee places of employment...
- 633.807 Safety; firefighter employer responsibilities.
Every firefighter employer shall furnish and use safety devices and safeguards, adopt and use methods and processes reasonably adequate to render such an employment and...
- 633.808 Division authority.
The division shall: (1) Investigate and prescribe by rule what safety devices, safeguards, or other means of protection must be adopted for the prevention of accidents...
- 633.809 Firefighter employers whose firefighter employees have a high frequency of work-related injuries.
The division shall develop a means by which the division may identify individual firefighter employers whose firefighter employees have a high frequency or severity of...
- 633.810 Workplace safety committees and safety coordinators.
(1) In order to promote health and safety in firefighter employee places of employment in this state: (a) Each firefighter employer of 20 or more firefighter employees...
- 633.811 Firefighter employer penalties.
If any firefighter employer violates or fails or refuses to comply with ss. 633.801-633.821, or with any rule adopted by the division under such sections...
- 633.812 Division cooperation with Federal Government; exemption from requirements for private firefighter employers.
(1) The division shall cooperate with the Federal Government so that duplicate inspections will be avoided while at the same time ensuring safe firefighter employee places...
- 633.813 Failure to implement a safety and health program; cancellations.
If a firefighter employer that is found by the division to have a high frequency or severity of work-related injuries fails to implement a safety...
- 633.814 Expenses of administration.
The amounts that are needed to administer ss. 633.801-633.821 shall be disbursed from the Insurance Regulatory Trust Fund. History.--s. 15, ch. 2002-404; s. 1414, ch.
- 633.815 Refusal to admit; penalty.
The division and authorized representatives of the division may enter and inspect any firefighter place of employment at any reasonable time for the purpose of...
- 633.816 Firefighter employee rights and responsibilities.
(1) Each firefighter employee of a firefighter employer covered under ss. 633.801-633.821 shall comply with rules adopted by the division and with reasonable workplace safety and...
- 633.817 Compliance.
Failure of a firefighter employer or an insurer to comply with ss. 633.801-633.821, or with any rules adopted under ss. 633.801-633.821, constitutes grounds for the...
- 633.818 False statements to insurers.
A firefighter employer who knowingly and willfully falsifies or conceals a material fact, who makes a false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or representation, or who...
- 633.819 Matters within jurisdiction of the division; false, fictitious, or fraudulent acts, statements, and representations prohibited; penalty; statute of limitations.
A person may not, in any matter within the jurisdiction of the division, knowingly and willfully falsify or conceal a material fact; make any false,...
- 633.820 Volunteer firefighters.
Sections 633.803-633.821 apply to volunteer firefighters and volunteer fire departments. History.--s. 15, ch. 2002-404.
- 633.821 Workplace safety.
(1) The division shall assist in making the firefighter employee place of employment a safer place to work and decreasing the frequency and severity of on-the-job...
Last modified: March 26, 2010
|
|
