Florida Statute 481.231 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XXXII
REGULATION OF PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS

Chapter 481
ARCHITECTURE, INTERIOR DESIGN, AND LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

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481.231 Effect of part locally.—

(1) This part does not repeal, amend, limit, or otherwise affect any specific provision of any local building code or zoning law or ordinance that has been duly adopted, now or hereafter enacted, which is more restrictive, with respect to the services of registered architects or registered interior designers, than this part; provided, however, that a licensed architect shall be deemed registered as an interior designer for purposes of offering or rendering interior design services to a county, municipality, or other local government or political subdivision.

(2) Counties or municipalities which issue building permits shall not issue permits if it is apparent from the application for the building permit that the provisions of this part have been violated; provided, however, that this subsection shall not authorize the withholding of building permits in cases involving the exceptions and exemptions set out in s. 481.229.

History.—ss. 13, 19, ch. 79-273; ss. 2, 3, ch. 81-318; ss. 20, 23, 24, ch. 88-383; s. 4, ch. 91-429; s. 308, ch. 94-119; s. 9, ch. 95-389; s. 54, ch. 2020-160.

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Ago (Fla. Att'y Gen. 1994).

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...landscape architecture services under a design-build project does not constitute an exclusive prohibition against a municipality requiring that landscape plans be signed and sealed by a licensed landscape architect. This conclusion is reinforced by section 481.231 (1), Florida Statutes, stating: Nothing in this part shall be construed to repeal, amend, limit, or otherwise affect any specific provision of any local building code or zoning law or ordinance that has been duly adopted, now or herea...

...(e.s.) 7 Section 471.037 (1), Florida Statutes, contains a substantially similar provision applicable to local laws affecting the services of registered engineers. 8 This office in Attorney General Opinion 73-263 (interpreting the predecessor statutes to section 481.231 and section 471.037 , Florida Statutes) concluded that a local government's building code could be more restrictive with respect to the services provided by registered architects and registered engineers, only to the extent that the p...

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