"Surveyors and Mappers" have been officially REMOVED from the HB5005 De-Regulation bill! AWESOME!:-) 😉
Just read the e-mail from FSMS!:-) 🙂 🙂 Unfortunately, I also have a Community Association Manager license which I assume is still in the bill. 🙁
Have a great week!
Steve...read lines 716-726 and 998-1003 of the link. You guys may not be out of the woods yet. The problem with wording in any bill is that the original intent is many times not made clear and is subject to different interpretations by the powers that be at times beyond a bills passing. In California we have experienced that quite a bit with our ROS act.
As long as 'Surveyor' or 'Surveying' is mentioned in HB 5005 you guys are still on a shaky limb.
paul... waiting right now for a return call from my attorney.. he is involved with many condo associations and is looking into the reworking of the bill right now.
just got off the phone with my attorney.
He said it would be highly irregular for the committee to revert to full document AND vote on it in the same meeting.
Line 1000 is still confusing, and it may be that the text that is "stricken" should be re-instated..
I am calling off my trip... but will remain vigilant!
The parts on line 996 and line 998 mention section 558 of the florida statutes. That's not the chapter, and not the title. where is that section in the statutes? What chapter. What title. Are we design professionals now? Can we design a house like an architech now? ( I mean, we'd design it better, of course. ) Our company stopped doing drainage designs a few years back because somebody decided we weren't design profesionals. Is there a chance this bill is actually creating jobs for us?
Why not? If they could our work, why can't we do theirs?