Florida HB 611: Motor Vehicle Racing

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HB 611 2026

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A bill to be entitled 1
An act relating to landscape irrigation; creating s. 2
373.1861, F.S.; providing a short title; creating s. 3
373.1862, F.S.; providing legislative intent and 4
purpose; providing applicability; creating s. 5
373.1863, F.S.; defining terms; creating s. 373.1864, 6
F.S.; providing legislative findings; prohibiting a 7
person from taking certain actions regarding a 8
landscape irrigation system unless such person is a 9
licensed irrigation contractor or the property owner; 10
authorizing specified entities to adopt more stringent 11
standards for a property owner who installs a 12
landscape irrigation system; specifying that only a 13
licensed irrigation contractor may connect an 14
irrigation system to a water supply; providing 15
requirements for a licensed irrigation contractor to 16
obtain a landscape irrigation permit; requiring a 17
licensed irrigation contractor to create a landscape 18
irrigation plan design drawing; providing requirements 19
for such plan design drawings; providing requirements 20
for landscape irrigation plans; requiring a licensed 21
irrigation contractor to submit the landscape 22
irrigation system permit application and plan to 23
specified entities before building construction 24
commences; requiring a licensed irrigation contractor 25

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to provide specified entities with certain information 26
before being issued a landscape irrigation permit; 27
creating s. 373.1865, F.S.; providing a purpose for 28
landscape irrigation system standards; requiring that 29
landscape irrigation systems be divided into specified 30
zones; providing requirements for such zones; 31
requiring that landscape irrigation systems be 32
designed to use the lowest quality water; providing 33
spacing requirements for landscape irrigation system 34
sprinklers; providing requirements for landscape 35
irrigation equipment, capacity, and accessories; 36
prohibiting high-volume irrigation areas from 37
exceeding a certain percentage of the total irrigated 38
area; authorizing the use of low-volume irrigation 39
areas in certain circumstances; prohibiting the 40
installation of risers; requiring a minimum distance 41
between distribution equipment and impervious 42
surfaces; requiring that landscape irrigation systems 43
use micro-irrigation in landscape beds under certain 44
circumstances; creating s. 373.1866, F.S.; creating a 45
landscape irrigation watering schedule; providing a 46
limitation for landscape irrigation watering; 47
providing a timeframe within which the owner of a new 48
irrigation system must adopt the watering schedule; 49
requiring a licensed irrigation contractor who 50

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installs an irrigation system to provide the owners or 51
users of such system with certain information; 52
authorizing a local government to grant a variance 53
from the watering schedule under certain 54
circumstances; prohibiting a local government from 55
granting a variance under certain circumstances; 56
providing exceptions from landscape irrigation 57
watering schedules; providing requirements for a spray 58
sprinkler body; prohibiting a person from taking 59
certain actions regarding a sprinkler body, beginning 60
on a specified date; creating s. 373.1867, F.S.; 61
providing for the enforcement of the act; providing 62
for fines and penalties; providing that regular 63
maintenance and replacement of certain components is 64
not a violation of the act under certain 65
circumstances; prohibiting enforcement officials from 66
providing more than one written warning before 67
assessing a fine; authorizing a local government to 68
take certain action to enforce this section; creating 69
s. 373.1868, F.S.; providing for severability; 70
prohibiting a government entity from adopting or 71
attempting to enforce any law, rule, or regulation in 72
conflict with the act; creating s. 373.1869, F.S.; 73
authorizing the department to adopt rules to implement 74
the act; amending s. 373.62, F.S.; conforming 75

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provisions to changes made by the act; deleting 76
obsolete provisions; conforming a provision to changes 77
made by the act; amending s. 489.105, F.S.; defining 78
the term "irrigation contractor"; amending s. 489.107, 79
F.S.; revising the membership of the Construction 80
Industry Licensing Board; conforming cross-references; 81
amending s. 489.111, F.S