CHAPTER 14 AMENDMENT

Safety and Health Committee · 2026-06-08 · ordinance

This document is an ordinance amending Chapter 14 of the Miami-Dade County Code related to Fire Prevention and Life Safety. It was introduced on March 3, 2026, and subsequently withdrawn. The ordinance proposed numerous changes including updating definitions, modifying requirements for owner's statements on fire investigations, amending appeal procedures for fire code violations, updating operating permit requirements, allowing recording of consent agreements and notices of violation, requiring notification upon correction of violations, authorizing utility disconnections for pending fire code violations, making technical amendments to the Florida Fire Prevention Code, updating the false fire alarm ordinance, regulating the sale of exempt fireworks, providing for the designation and posting of structures sharing a street address, updating emergency action plan requirements, mandating testing and maintenance of exit and emergency lighting, requiring reporting of fire protection system maintenance, regulating emergency power systems, and addressing water supplies for firefighting outside the Urban Development Boundary. It also proposed modifications to civil penalties. The Safety and Health Committee withdrew the ordinance on June 8, 2026, referencing Substitute Legislative File No. 261040.