FL H0957

Defines "light-frame truss-type construction" as buildings with repetitive wood or steel framing, including open-web steel joists with web members less than 2½ inches wide and conventional light-frame wood with web members less than 2 inches by 8 inches in roof or floor elements.

Requires owners of commercial, industrial, and multiunit residential structures (3+ units) using light-frame truss-type construction to identify the structure with an approved sign or symbol to warn emergency personnel.

Allows signs or symbols to be installed at principal entrances of locations with similarly designed structures in clear view of arriving emergency apparatus.

Directs the State Fire Marshal to adopt rules establishing sign dimensions, colors, posting timelines, and locations for marked structures.

Makes non-compliant owners subject to penalties under section 633.161, with enforcement by the State Fire Marshal and local fire officials.

Effective date: July 1, 2011.