Florida Administrative Code › 61 - DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL REGULATION › 61G4 - Construction Industry Licensing Board › Chapter 61G4-12 - ORGANIZATION AND PURPOSE › Section 61G4-12.011 - Definitions

Current through Reg. 50, No. 138; July 16, 2024
(1) For purposes of Section
				489.105(3)(b),
				F.S., the term "story" is defined to mean that portion of a building included
				between the upper surface of a floor or average grade, finished or unfinished,
				open or enclosed, and the upper surface of the floor or roof next above and
				having a minimum clear height of seven (7) feet or more.
(2) For purposes of the exemption provided by
				Section 489.103(9),
				F.S., activities which are not casual, minor, or inconsequential, include, but
				are not limited to, any work affecting structural components, any work
				involving use of toxic or hazardous chemicals or substances, any work affecting
				access or egress to a structure, any work affecting accommodations for the
				physically disabled, any work for which a building permit is required and any
				work affecting life-safety matters as defined in the applicable building
				code.
(3) The terms "advertise" and
				"advertises" shall apply to business cards, business proposals, contracts,
				construction site signs, all newspapers, airwave transmission (other than
				internal company communications), any electronic media including Internet
				sites, phone directory, and other media including handbills, billboards,
				flyers, shopping and service guides (coupon offerings), magazines (including
				trade associations publications), classified advertisements, manufacturer's
				"authorized dealer" listings, and signs on vehicles. They shall not apply to
				balloons, pencils, pens, hats, articles of clothing, shirts, or other
				promotional novelties. Neither shall the terms apply to any single line phone
				directory listing; nor to free phone directory listings (regardless of page
				color) of one, two or three lines, which display nothing more than the proper
				name, company name, address, and telephone numbers in whole and in part in an
				unbolded or unhighlighted print or without further textual or pictorial
				elaboration or touting in its overall display.
(4) Main Sanitary Sewer Collection System:
				That part of a sewer system starting at the end of the building sewer and
				extending through and including the treatment plant whether the system is
				public or private, including any conveyance of sewage under pressure, and
				pumping facilities. The only exception to this definition are one, two, three
				or four family structures; in these structures the Main Sanitary Sewer
				Collection System begins at the lot line and extends through and includes the
				sewer treatment facilities.
(5)
				Building Drain: That part of the lowest piping of a drainage system which
				receives the discharge from soil pipe, waste pipe and other drainage pipes
				inside the perimeter walls of the building and conveys it to the building sewer
				5 feet outside the building's exterior wall.
(6) Building Sewer: That part of the
				horizontal piping of a drainage system which extends from the end of the
				building drain and which receives the discharge of the building drain and
				conveys it to a public sewer, private sewer, individual sewage-disposal system
				or to any other point of disposal.
(7) Main Water Distribution System: The water
				service line, water distribution systems and all appurtenances on public or
				private property which shall terminate no closer than 5 feet from a building or
				at the secondary meter whichever is further from the building. For the purpose
				of this definition master site meters and backflow preventers shall not
				constitute the secondary meter nor shall they be the contractor's point of work
				termination. One, two, three and four family structures shall have their Main
				Water Distribution System terminate at the meter.
(8) Storm Sewer System: The collection,
				conveyance and disposal of rain water from public or private property to the
				storm sewer system at a structure or other point of connection.
(9) "Services incidental thereto" shall for
				the purpose of Section
				489.103(1),
				F.S., only, mean all work on bridges, roads, streets, highways, and railroads
				except building construction and those subcontractor categories, defined in
				Sections 489.105(3)(d)-(q),
				F.S. However, notwithstanding the previous provision, services incidental
				thereto specifically includes storm drainage and excavation work necessary for
				the construction of bridges, roads, streets, highways, and railroads; and
				includes directly contracting with a governmental entity for work on bridges,
				roads, street, highways, and railroads when any building construction included
				in the contract is subcontracted to a contractor appropriately licensed under
				Chapter 489, Part I, F.S., to perform building construction or those
				subcontractor categories defined in Sections
				489.105(3)(d)-(q),
				F.S., and such building construction does not constitute more than fifty (50)
				percent of the total contract amount.
(10) A "credit report from a nationally
				recognized credit agency that reflects the financial responsibility of the
				applicant, certificateholder or registrant" shall, for the purposes of Section
				489.115(7),
				F.S., mean a current consumer credit report that provides a current consumer
				credit score derived from the Fair Isaac Corporation's (FICO) scoring method
				and:
(a) Payment history;
(b) Credit rating;
(c) Public filings in county, state and
				federal courts;
(d) Bankruptcies,
				business history, suits, liens, and judgments, all on a nationwide
				basis;