Florida Senate - 2012                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 1132
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  02/02/2012           .                                
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       The Committee on Budget Subcommittee on General Government
       Appropriations (Hays) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Between lines 145 and 146
    4  insert:
    5         Section 4. Section 604.50, Florida Statutes, is reordered
    6  and amended to read:
    7         604.50 Nonresidential farm buildings, and farm fences, and
    8  farm signs.—
    9         (1) Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, any
   10  nonresidential farm building, or farm fence, or farm sign is
   11  exempt from the Florida Building Code and any county or
   12  municipal code or fee, except for code provisions implementing
   13  local, state, or federal floodplain management regulations.
   14         (2) As used in this section, the term:
   15         (c)(a) “Nonresidential farm building” means any temporary
   16  or permanent building or support structure that is classified as
   17  a nonresidential farm building on a farm under s. 553.73(9)(c)
   18  or that is used primarily for agricultural purposes, is located
   19  on land that is an integral part of a farm operation or is
   20  classified as agricultural land under s. 193.461, and is not
   21  intended to be used as a residential dwelling. The term may
   22  include, but is not limited to, a barn, greenhouse, shade house,
   23  farm office, storage building, or poultry house.
   24         (a)(b) “Farm” has the same meaning as provided in s.
   25  823.14.
   26         (b) “Farm sign” means a sign erected, used, or maintained
   27  on a farm by the owner or lessee of the farm which relates
   28  solely to farm produce, merchandise, or service sold, produced,
   29  manufactured, or furnished on the farm.
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   32         And the title is amended as follows:
   33         Delete lines 2 - 9
   34  and insert:
   35         An act relating to agriculture; amending s. 823.14,
   36         F.S.; revising definitions relating to the Florida
   37         Right to Farm Act to include beekeeping; amending s.
   38         586.02, F.S.; revising the definition of the term
   39         “apiary” and adding a definition for the term
   40         “apiculture”; amending s. 586.10, F.S.; providing that
   41         authority to regulate honeybee colonies is preempted
   42         to the state; reordering and amending s. 604.50, F.S.;
   43         providing an exemption from the Florida Building Code
   44         for farm signs; providing an effective date.