Legal Report

June 27, 2007

DCA07-DEC-060 by Emil Veksenfeld, PE

The request is general and lacks facts and circumstances necessary to issue a Declaratory Statement. Recommend dismissal.

DCA07-DEC-081 by William A. Gates

Recommend deferral to the local board of rules and appeals.

DCA07-DEC-085 by Walter A. Tillit, Jr, PE, TilTeco Inc.

Deferred by the POC to allow the petitioner to revise the request for specific facts and circumstances.

DCA07-DEC-096 by Richard C. Bliss, VP, The Landing Group of Tampa, Inc.

The petition subject is outside the Commission's authority and thus recommend dismissal.

DCA07-DEC-105 by Leonard Devine, Palm Beach County Building Department

•  To the question , Would an office that is enclosed by ceiling-height partitions be considered a space per the FBC? , the answer is: YES, the code considers an office with ceiling-height partitions to be a space.

•  To the question, Is it the intent of this code section to require some form of control to either manually or automatically control lighting within this building with an individual override for each space (i.e. each room within the building, including mechanical, electrical, individual offices, conference rooms, training rooms, storage rooms with lighting, and open office space)?, the answer is YES, the intent of the code is for all rooms in the building to have an override for any time-of-day scheduled shut-off control.

•  To the question, In the case of this building, would it be permissible to use just two overrides per floor in lieu of installing at least one override control in each space? , the answer is NO, each space enclosed by ceiling-height partitions must have an override control unless controlled by a signal from another control or alarm system that indicates occupied or unoccupied status.