No. SB 1020
Filed under Local Government.
Regulation of Chickees; Defining the term “chickee”; prohibiting counties and municipalities, respectively, from enacting ordinances, regulations, or policies that prevent construction of chickees under certain circumstances or that are more restrictive than federal floodplain management regulations; providing that later incorporation of certain features into an existing chickee requires a permit; providing criminal penalties for persons who are not members of specific tribes and who construct chickees in an attempt to circumvent the Florida Building Code, etc.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDCounties and municipalities can no longer block a chickee from being built in a side yard or near another structure, as long as it sits at least 10 feet away, nor apply floodplain rules to chickees stricter than the federal standard.
The Building Code exemption for tribal-built chickees now explicitly allows a wooden deck and metal fasteners like nails and hurricane straps, and adding electrical or plumbing later needs a permit without voiding that exemption.
A non-tribal member who builds a chickee specifically to dodge the Building Code commits a first-degree misdemeanor.
A chickee at least 20 feet from another building-code structure, or one with contractor-approved fireproofing, is now exempt from the Florida Fire Prevention Code as well.
AIA county or municipality may not enact an ordinance, regulation, or policy that prevents, or has the effect of preventing, a chickee from being built in a side yard at least 10 feet from any property line, or near another structure at least 10 feet away.
AIA county or municipality may not enact any ordinance, regulation, or policy concerning chickees that is more restrictive than federal floodplain management regulations.
AIA person who is not a member of the Miccosukee or Seminole tribe and builds a chickee specifically to get around the Florida Building Code now commits a first-degree misdemeanor.
AIThe tribal-chickee building-code exemption now expressly allows a wooden deck and nonwood fasteners like nails, screws, bolts, and hurricane straps, without that hardware disqualifying the structure from the exemption.
AIIf electrical, plumbing, or another nonwood feature is added to an existing tribal chickee later, that addition needs its own permit, but it does not strip the chickee's building-code-exempt status or require a permit for the chickee itself.
AIA chickee at least 20 feet from any other Building-Code-covered structure, or one with contractor-approved fireproofing, is exempt from the Florida Fire Prevention Code, regardless of any other law.