Florida Senate - 2013                                     SB 264
       
       
       
       By Senator Hays
       
       
       
       
       11-00217-13                                            2013264__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to smoke detectors; amending s.
    3         633.025, F.S.; requiring a battery-operated smoke
    4         detector installed on or after a specified date to
    5         contain a built-in battery capable of powering it for
    6         at least 10 years; providing exemptions; providing an
    7         effective date.
    8  
    9  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   11         Section 1. Present subsections (9), (10), and (11) of
   12  section 633.025, Florida Statutes, are renumbered as subsections
   13  (10), (11), and (12), respectively, and a new subsection (9) is
   14  added to that section, to read:
   15         633.025 Minimum firesafety standards.—
   16         (9) Any battery-operated smoke detector installed on or
   17  after January 1, 2014, must contain a built-in battery capable
   18  of powering the smoke detector for at least 10 years. However,
   19  an electrically operated smoke detector, a fire alarm system
   20  containing a smoke detector, a fire alarm device connecting to a
   21  panel, or a device using a low-power radio frequency wireless
   22  communication signal is exempt from the battery requirements of
   23  this section.
   24         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2013.