CHAPTER 1013

1013.01 Definitions. The following terms shall be defined as follows for the purpose of this chapter: (1) “Ancillary plant” is comprised of the building, site, and site improvements necessary to provide such facilities as vehicle maintenance, warehouses, maintenance, or administrative buildings necessary to provide support services to an educational program. (2) “Auxiliary facility” means the spaces located at educational plants which are not designed for student occupant stations. (3) “Board,” unless otherwise specified, means a district school board, a Florida College System institution board of trustees, a university board of trustees, and the Board of Trustees for the Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind. The term “board” does not include the State Board of Education or the Board of Governors. (4) “Capital project,” for the purpose of s. 9(a)(2), Art. XII of the State Constitution, as amended, means sums of money appropriated from the Public Education Capital Outlay and Debt Service Trust Fund to the state system of public education and other educational agencies as authorized by the Legislature. (5) “Core facilities” means the media center, cafeteria, toilet facilities, and circulation space of an educational plant. (6) “Educational facilities” means the buildings and equipment, structures, and special educational and research use areas that are built, installed, or established to serve primarily the educational purposes and secondarily the social and recreational purposes of the community and which may lawfully be used as authorized by the Florida Statutes and approved by boards. (7) “Educational plant” comprises the educational facilities, site, and site improvements necessary to accommodate students, faculty, administrators, staff, and the activities of the educational program of each plant. (8) “Educational plant survey” means a systematic study of present educational and ancillary plants and the determination of future needs to provide an appropriate educational program and services for each student based on projected capital outlay FTE’s approved by the Department of Education. (9) “Feasibility study” means the examination and analysis of information related to projected educational facilities to determine whether they are reasonable and possible. (10) “Long-range planning” means devising a systematic method based on educational information and needs, carefully analyzed, to provide the facilities to meet the goals and objectives of the educational agency for a period of 5 years. (11) “Low-energy usage features” means engineering features or devices that supplant or minimize the consumption of fossil fuels by heating equipment and cooling equipment. Such features may include, but are not limited to, high efficiency chillers and boilers, thermal storage tanks, solar energy systems, waste heat recovery systems, and facility load management systems. (12) “Maintenance and repair” means the upkeep of educational and ancillary plants, including, but not limited to, roof or roofing replacement short of complete replacement of membrane or structure; repainting of interior or exterior surfaces; resurfacing of floors; repair or replacement of glass; repair of hardware, furniture, equipment, electrical fixtures, and plumbing fixtures; and repair or resurfacing of parking lots, roads, and walkways. The term “maintenance and repair” does not include custodial or groundskeeping functions, or renovation except for the replacement of equipment with new equipment of equal systems meeting current code requirements, provided that the replacement item neither places increased demand upon utilities services or structural supports nor adversely affects the function of safety to life systems. (13) “Need determination” means the identification of types and amounts of educational facilities necessary to accommodate the educational programs, student population, faculty, administrators, staff, and auxiliary and ancillary services of an educational agency. (14) “New construction” means any construction of a building or unit of a building in which the entire work is new or an entirely new addition connected to an existing building or which adds additional square footage to the space inventory. (15) “Passive design elements” means architectural features that minimize heat gain, heat loss, and the use of heating and cooling equipment when ambient conditions are extreme and that permit use of the facility without heating or air-conditioning when ambient conditions are moderate. Such features may include, but are not limited to, building orientation, landscaping, earth bermings, insulation, thermal windows and doors, overhangs, skylights, thermal chimneys, and other design arrangements. (16) “Public education capital outlay (PECO) funded projects” means site acquisition, renovation, remodeling, construction projects, and site improvements necessary to accommodate buildings, equipment, other structures, and special educational use areas that are built, installed, or established to serve primarily the educational instructional program of the district school board, Florida College System institution board of trustees, or university board of trustees. (17) “Remodeling” means the changing of existing facilities by rearrangement of spaces and their use and includes, but is not limited to, the conversion of two classrooms to a science laboratory or the conversion of a closed plan arrangement to an open plan configuration. (18) “Renovation” means the rejuvenating or upgrading of existing facilities by installation or replacement of materials and equipment and includes, but is not limited to, interior or exterior reconditioning of facilities and spaces; air-conditioning, heating, or ventilating equipment; fire alarm systems; emergency lighting; electrical systems; and complete roofing or roof replacement, including replacement of membrane or structure. As used in this subsection, the term “materials” does not include instructional materials. (19) “Satisfactory educational facility” means a facility that has been recommended for continued use by an educational plant survey or that has been classified as satisfactory in the state inventory of educational facilities. (20) “Site” means a space of ground occupied or to be occupied by an educational facility or program. (21) “Site development” means work that must be performed on an unimproved site in order to make it usable for the desired purpose or work incidental to new construction or to make an addition usable. (22) “Site improvement” means work that must be performed on an existing site to improve its utilization, correct health and safety deficiencies, meet special program needs, or provide additional service areas. (23) “Site improvement incident to construction” means the work that must be performed on a site as an accompaniment to the construction of an educational facility. (24) “Satellite facility” means the buildings and equipment, structures, and special educational use areas that are built, installed, or established by private business or industry in accordance with chapter 6A-2, Florida Administrative Code, to be used exclusively for educational purposes to serve primarily the students of its employees and that are staffed professionally by the district school board. History. — s. 797, ch. 2002-387; s. 166, ch. 2007-217; s. 199, ch. 2011-5; s. 10, ch. 2026-237. 1013.02 Purpose; rules and regulations. (1) The purpose of this chapter is to authorize state and local officials to cooperate in establishing and maintaining educational plants that will provide for public educational needs throughout the state. (2)(a) The State Board of Education shall adopt rules pursuant to ss. 120.536(1) and 120.54 to implement the provisions of this chapter for school districts and Florida College System institutions. (b) The Board of Governors shall adopt regulations pursuant to its regulation development procedure to implement the provisions of this chapter for state universities. History. — s. 798, ch. 2002-387; s. 167, ch. 2007-217; s. 27, ch. 2010-78; s. 200, ch. 2011-5. 1013.03 Functions of the department and the Board of Governors. The functions of the Department of Education as it pertains to educational facilities of school districts and Florida College System institutions and of the Board of Governors as it pertains to educational facilities of state universities shall include, but not be limited to, the following: (1) Establish recommended minimum and maximum square footage standards for different functions and areas and procedures for determining the gross square footage for each educational facility to be funded in whole or in part by the state, including public broadcasting stations but excluding postsecondary special purpose laboratory space. The gross square footage determination standards may be exceeded when the core facility space of an educational facility is constructed or renovated to accommodate the future addition of classrooms to meet projected increases in student enrollment. The department and the Board of Governors shall encourage multiple use of facilities and spaces in educational plants. (2) Establish, for the purpose of determining need, equitably uniform utilization standards for all types of like space, regardless of the level of education. These standards shall also establish, for postsecondary education classrooms, a minimum room utilization rate of 40 hours per week and a minimum station utilization rate of 60 percent. These rates shall be subject to increase based on national norms for utilization of postsecondary education classrooms. (3) Require boards to submit other educational plant inventories data and statistical data or information relevant to construction, capital improvements, and related costs. (4) Require each board and other appropriate agencies to submit complete and accurate financial data as to the amounts of funds from all sources that are available and spent for construction and capital improvements. The commissioner shall prescribe the format and the date for the submission of this data and any other educational facilities data. If any district does not submit the required educational facilities fiscal data by the prescribed date, the Commissioner of Education shall notify the district school board of this fact and, if appropriate action is not taken to immediately submit the required report, the district school board shall be directed to proceed pursuant to s. 1001.42(13)(b). If any Florida College System institution or university does not submit the required educational facilities fiscal data by the prescribed date, the same policy prescribed in this subsection for school districts shall be implemented. (5) Administer, under the supervision of the Commissioner of Education, the Public Education Capital Outlay and Debt Service Trust Fund and the School District and Community College District Capital Outlay and Debt Service Trust Fund. (6) Develop, review, update, revise, and recommend a mandatory portion of the Florida Building Code for educational facilities construction and capital improvement by Florida College System institution boards and district school boards. (7) Provide training, technical assistance, and building code interpretation for requirements of the mandatory Florida Building Code for the educational facilities construction and capital improvement programs of the Florida College System institution boards and district school boards and, upon request, approve phase III construction documents for remodeling, renovation, or new construction of educational plants or ancillary facilities, except that university boards of trustees shall approve specifications and construction documents for their respective institutions pursuant to guidelines of the Board of Governors. The Department of Management Services may, upon request, provide similar services for the Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind and shall use the Florida Building Code and the Florida Fire Prevention Code. (8) Provide minimum criteria, procedures, and training to boards to conduct educational plant surveys and document the determination of future needs. (9) Make available to boards technical assistance, awareness training, and research and technical publications relating to lifesafety, casualty, sanitation, environmental, maintenance, and custodial issues; and, as needed, technical assistance for survey, planning, design, construction, operation, and evaluation of educational and ancillary facilities and plants, facilities administrative procedures review, and training for new administrators. (10)(a) Review and validate surveys proposed or amended by the boards and recommend to the Commissioner of Education, or the Chancellor of the State University System, as appropriate, for approval, surveys that meet the requirements of this chapter. 1. The term “validate” as applied to surveys by school districts means to review inventory data as submitted to the department by district school boards; provide for review and inspection, where required, of student stations and aggregate square feet of inventory changed from satisfactory to unsatisfactory or changed from unsatisfactory to satisfactory; compare new school inventory to allocation limits provided by this chapter; review cost projections for conformity with cost limits set by s. 1013.64(6); compare total capital outlay full-time equivalent enrollment projections in the survey with the department’s projections; review facilities lists to verify that student station and auxiliary facility space allocations do not exceed the limits provided by this chapter and related rules; review and confirm the application of uniform facility utilization factors, where provided by this chapter or related rules; utilize the documentation of programs offered per site, as submitted by the board, to analyze facility needs; confirm that need projections for career and adult educational programs comply with needs documented by the Department of Education; and confirm the assignment of full-time student stations to all space except auxiliary facilities, which, for purposes of exemption from student station assignment, include the following: a. Cafeterias. b. Multipurpose dining areas. c. Media centers. d. Auditoriums. e. Administration. f. Elementary, middle, and high school resource rooms, up to the number of such rooms recommended for the applicable occupant and space design capacity of the educational plant in the State Requirements for Educational Facilities, beyond which student stations must be assigned. g. Elementary school skills labs, up to the number of such rooms recommended for the applicable occupant and space design capacity of the educational plant in the State Requirements for Educational Facilities, beyond which student stations must be assigned. h. Elementary school art and music rooms. The Commissioner of Education may grant a waiver from the requirements of this subparagraph if a district school board determines that such waiver will make possible a substantial savings of funds or will be advantageous to the welfare of the educational system. The district school board shall present a full statement to the commissioner which sets forth the facts that warrant the waiver. If the commissioner denies a request for a waiver, the district school board may appeal such decision to the State Board of Education. 2. The term “validate” as applied to surveys by Florida College System institutions and universities means to review and document the approval of each new site and official designation, where applicable; review the inventory database as submitted by each board to the department, including noncareer, and total capital outlay full-time equivalent enrollment projections per site and per college; provide for the review and inspection, where required, of student stations and aggregate square feet of space changed from satisfactory to unsatisfactory; utilize and review the documentation of programs offered per site submitted by the boards as accurate for analysis of space requirements and needs; confirm that needs projected for career and adult educational programs comply with needs documented by the Department of Education; compare new facility inventory to allocations limits as provided in this chapter; review cost projections for conformity with state averages or limits designated by this chapter; compare student enrollment projections in the survey to the department’s projections; review facilities lists to verify that area allocations and space factors for generating space needs do not exceed the limits as provided by this chapter and related rules; confirm the application of facility utilization factors as provided by this chapter and related rules; and review, as submitted, documentation of how survey recommendations will implement the detail of current campus master plans and integrate with local comprehensive plans and development regulations. (b) Recommend priority of projects to be funded. (11) Prepare the commissioner’s comprehensive fixed capital outlay legislative budget request and provide annually an estimate of the funds available for developing required 3-year priority lists. This amount shall be based upon the average percentage for the 5 prior years of funds appropriated by the Legislature for fixed capital outlay to each level of public education: public schools, Florida College System institutions, and universities. (12) Perform any other functions that may be involved in educational facilities construction and capital improvement which shall ensure that the intent of the Legislature is implemented. History. — s. 799, ch. 2002-387; s. 17, ch. 2003-391; s. 135, ch. 2004-357; s. 168, ch. 2007-217; s. 35, ch. 2008-108; s. 201, ch. 2011-5; s. 18, ch. 2012-133. 1013.04 School district educational facilities plan performance and productivity standards; development; measurement; application. (1) The Office of Educational Facilities shall develop and adopt measures for evaluating the performance and productivity of school district educational facilities plans. The measures may be both quantitative and qualitative and must, to the maximum extent practical, assess those factors that are within the districts’ control. The measures must, at a minimum, assess performance in the following areas: (a) Frugal production of high-quality projects. (b) Efficient finance and administration. (c) Optimal school and classroom size and utilization rate. (d) Safety. (e) Core facility space needs and cost-effective capacity improvements that consider demographic projections. (f) Level of district local effort. (2) The office shall establish annual performance objectives and standards that can be used to evaluate district performance and productivity. (3) The office shall conduct ongoing evaluations of district educational facilities program performance and productivity, using the measures adopted under this section. If, using these measures, the office finds that a district failed to perform satisfactorily, the office must recommend to the district school board actions to be taken to improve the district’s performance. History. — s. 25, ch. 2002-296; s. 800, ch. 2002-387; s. 13, ch. 2010-70. 1013.041 Statewide inventory of unimproved real property owned by school districts. (1) DEFINITIONS. — As used in this section, the term: (a) “Department” means the Department of Education. (b) “District” means each school district as defined in s. 1001.30. (c) “Unimproved real property” means any parcel of land owned in whole or in part by a district that does not contain any vertical improvements, including, but not limited to, buildings, permanent structures, or constructed facilities. (2) DATA COLLECTION REQUIREMENTS. — (a) Each district shall annually, by a date established by the department, submit to the department a complete inventory of all unimproved real property owned by the district as of June 30 of that year. (b) For each parcel of unimproved real property, the district must provide all of the following data to the department in a format prescribed by the department: 1. The parcel identification number. 2. The acreage of the parcel. 3. The address or descriptive location of the parcel. 4. The date of acquisition of the parcel by the district. 5. The current use of the parcel, if any. 6. The fair market value of the parcel, calculated using: a. The most recent market value assessed by the county property appraiser; or b. A district-commissioned appraisal completed within the previous 24 months. (3) STATEWIDE REPORT. — The department shall compile the data collected pursuant to subsection (2) into a statewide report, which must include: (a) The total statewide acreage of all unimproved real property owned by districts. (b) The aggregate statewide fair market value of such property. (c) A district-by-district breakdown of such unimproved real property, including: 1. The total number of parcels per district. 2. The total acreage per district. 3. The total fair market value of such parcels per district. 4. Each parcel’s identification number and acreage. (d) Any trends or findings the department determines relevant to effective statewide land use or long-range facilities planning. (4) PUBLICATION. — The department shall publish the statewide report on its website by December 1, 2026, and every 3 years thereafter. History. — s. 1, ch. 2026-122. PART II USE AND MANAGEMENT OF EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES 1013.10 Use of buildings and grounds. 1013.101 Shared use agreements. 1013.11 Postsecondary institutions assessment of physical plant safety. 1013.12 Casualty, safety, sanitation, and firesafety standards and inspection of property. 1013.13 Submittal of facility construction design documents to jurisdictional public safety agencies; School Mapping Data Grant Program. 1013.14 Proposed purchase of real property by a board; confidentiality of records; procedure. 1013.15 Lease, rental, and lease-purchase of educational plants, ancillary plants, and auxiliary facilities and sites. 1013.16 Construction of facilities on leased property; conditions. 1013.17 University leasing in affiliated research and development park. 1013.171 University lease agreements; land, facilities. 1013.18 Radio and television facilities. 1013.19 Purchase, conveyance, or encumbrance of property interests above surface of land; joint-occupancy structures. 1013.20 Standards for relocatables used as classroom space; inspections. 1013.22 Obscenity on educational buildings or vehicles. 1013.23 Energy efficiency contracting. 1013.24 Right of eminent domain. 1013.25 When university or Florida College System institution board of trustees may exercise power of eminent domain. 1013.26 Department of Legal Affairs to represent university board in condemnation proceedings. 1013.27 Purchase of land by municipality. 1013.28 Disposal of property. 1013.10 Use of buildings and grounds. The board may permit the use of educational facilities and grounds for any legal assembly or for community use centers or may permit the same to be used as voting places in any primary, regular, or special election. The board shall adopt rules, regulations, or policies and procedures necessary to protect educational facilities and grounds when used for such purposes. History. — s. 803, ch. 2002-387; s. 28, ch. 2010-78. 1013.101 Shared use agreements. (1) LEGISLATIVE FINDINGS AND INTENT. — The Legislature finds that greater public access to recreation and sports facilities is needed to reduce the impact of obesity, diabetes, and other chronic diseases on personal health and health care expenditures. Public schools are equipped with taxpayer-funded indoor and outdoor recreation facilities that offer easily accessible opportunities for physical activity for residents of the community. The Legislature also finds that it is the policy of the state for district school boards to allow the shared use of school buildings and property by adopting policies allowing for shared use and implementing shared use agreements with local governmental entities and nonprofit organizations. The Legislature intends to increase the number of school districts that open their playground facilities to community use outside of school hours. (2) DEFINITIONS. — As used in this section, the term: (a) “High-need communities” means communities in which at least 50 percent of children are eligible to receive free or reduced-price meals at the school that will be the subject of the shared use agreement. (b) “Shared use” means allowing access to school playground facilities by community members for recreation or another purpose of importance to the community through a shared use agreement or a school district or school policy that opens school facilities, including, but not limited to charter schools and Florida College System institutions, for use by government or nongovernmental entities or the public. (c) “Shared use agreement” means a written agreement between a school district, a charter school, or a Florida College System institution, and a government or nongovernmental entity which defines the roles, responsibilities, terms, and conditions for community use of a school-owned facility for recreation or other purposes. (3) PROMOTION OF COMMUNITY USE OF SHARED FACILITIES. — The department shall provide technical assistance to school districts, including, but not limited to, individualized assistance, the creation of a shared use technical assistance toolkit containing useful information for school districts, and the development of a publicly accessible online database of shared use resources and existing shared use agreements. History. — s. 66, ch. 2017-116. 1013.11 Postsecondary institutions assessment of physical plant safety. The president of each postsecondary institution shall conduct or cause to be conducted an annual assessment of physical plant safety. An annual report shall incorporate the assessment findings and recommendations for the improvement of safety on each campus. The annual report shall be submitted to the respective governing or licensing board of jurisdiction no later than January 1 of each year. Each board shall compile the individual institutional reports and convey the aggregate institutional reports to the Commissioner of Education or the Chancellor of the State University System, as appropriate. History. — s. 804, ch. 2002-387; s. 181, ch. 2007-5; s. 169, ch. 2007-217; s. 32, ch. 2010-70; s. 183, ch. 2010-102. 1013.12 Casualty, safety, sanitation, and firesafety standards and inspection of property. (1) FIRESAFETY. — The State Board of Education shall adopt and administer rules prescribing standards for the safety and health of occupants of educational and ancillary plants as a part of State Requirements for Educational Facilities or the Florida Building Code for educational facilities construction as provided in s. 1013.37, except that the State Fire Marshal in consultation with the Department of Education shall adopt uniform firesafety standards for educational and ancillary plants and educational facilities, as provided in s. 633.206(1)(b), and a firesafety evaluation system to be used as an alternate firesafety inspection standard for existing educational and ancillary plants and educational facilities. The uniform firesafety standards and the alternate firesafety evaluation system shall be administered and enforced by fire officials certified by the State Fire Marshal under s. 633.216. These standards must be used by all public agencies when inspecting public educational and ancillary plants, and the firesafety standards must be used by county, municipal, or independent special fire control district inspectors when performing firesafety inspections of public educational and ancillary plants and educational facilities. In accordance with such standards, each board shall prescribe policies and procedures establishing a comprehensive program of safety and sanitation for the protection of occupants of public educational and ancillary plants. Such policies must contain procedures for periodic inspections as prescribed in this section or chapter 633 and for withdrawal of any educational and ancillary plant, or portion thereof, from use until unsafe or unsanitary conditions are corrected or removed. (2) PERIODIC INSPECTION OF PROPERTY BY DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARDS. — (a) Each board shall provide for periodic inspection, other than firesafety inspection, of each educational and ancillary plant at least once during each fiscal year to determine compliance with standards of sanitation and casualty safety prescribed in the rules of the State Board of Education. (b) Each school cafeteria must post in a visible location and on the school website the school’s semiannual sanitation certificate and a copy of its most recent sanitation inspection report. (c) Under the direction of the fire official appointed by the board under s. 1013.371(2), firesafety inspections of each educational and ancillary plant located on property owned or leased by the board, or other educational facilities operated by the board, must be made no sooner than 1 year after issuance of a certificate of occupancy and annually thereafter. Such inspections shall be made by persons certified by the Division of State Fire Marshal under s. 633.216 to conduct firesafety inspections in public educational and ancillary plants. The board shall submit a copy of the firesafety inspection report to the county, municipality, or independent special fire control district providing fire protection services to the school facility within 10 business days after the date of the inspection. Alternate schedules for delivery of reports may be agreed upon between the school district and the county, municipality, or independent special fire control district providing fire protection services to the site in cases in which delivery is impossible due to hurricanes or other natural disasters. Regardless, if immediate life-threatening deficiencies are noted in the report, the report shall be delivered immediately. In addition, the board and any other authority conducting the fire safety inspection shall certify to the State Fire Marshal that the annual inspection has been completed. The certification shall be made electronically or by such other means as directed by the State Fire Marshal. (d) In each firesafety inspection report, the board shall include a plan of action and a schedule for the correction of each deficiency. If immediate life-threatening deficiencies are noted in any inspection, the board shall take action to promptly correct the deficiencies or withdraw the educational or ancillary plant from use until such time as the deficiencies are corrected. (3) INSPECTION OF EDUCATIONAL PROPERTY BY OTHER PUBLIC AGENCIES. — (a) A safety or sanitation inspection of any educational or ancillary plant may be made at any time by the Department of Education or any other state or local agency authorized or required to conduct such inspections by either general or special law. Each agency conducting inspections shall use the standards adopted by the Commissioner of Education in lieu of, and to the exclusion of, any other inspection standards prescribed either by statute or administrative rule. The agency shall submit a copy of the inspection report to the board. (b) One firesafety inspection of each educational or ancillary plant located on the property owned or leased by the board, or other educational or ancillary plants operated by the school board, and each public college may be conducted no sooner than 1 year after the issuance of the certificate of occupancy and annually thereafter by the county, municipality, or independent special fire control district in which the plant is located using the standards adopted by the State Fire Marshal. The board or public college shall cooperate with the inspecting authority when a firesafety inspection is made by a governmental authority under this paragraph. (c) In each firesafety inspection report prepared pursuant to this subsection, the county, municipality, or independent special fire control district, in conjunction with the board, shall include a plan of action and a schedule for the correction of each deficiency. If immediate life-threatening deficiencies are noted in any inspection, the local county, municipality, or independent special fire control district, in conjunction with the fire official appointed by the board, shall take action to require the board to promptly correct the deficiencies or withdraw the educational or ancillary plant from use until the deficiencies are corrected, subject to review by the State Fire Marshal who shall act within 10 days to ensure that the deficiencies are corrected or withdraw the plant from use. (4) CORRECTIVE ACTION; DEFICIENCIES OTHER THAN FIRESAFETY DEFICIENCIES. — Upon failure of the board to take corrective action within a reasonable time, the agency making the inspection, other than a local fire official, may request the commissioner to: (a) Order that appropriate action be taken to correct all deficiencies in accordance with a schedule determined jointly by the inspecting authority and the board; in developing the schedule, consideration must be given to the seriousness of the deficiencies and the ability of the board to obtain the necessary funds; or (b) After 30 calendar days’ notice to the board, order all or a portion of the educational or ancillary plant withdrawn from use until the deficiencies are corrected. (5) INSPECTIONS OF CHARTER SCHOOLS NOT LOCATED ON BOARD-OWNED OR LEASED PROPERTY OR OTHERWISE OPERATED BY A SCHOOL BOARD. — (a) A safety or sanitation inspection of any educational or ancillary plant may be made at any time by a state or local agency authorized or required to conduct such inspections by general or special law. The agency shall submit a copy of the inspection report to the charter school sponsor. (b) One firesafety inspection of each charter school that is not located in facilities owned or leased by the board or a public college must be conducted each fiscal year by the county, municipality, or independent special fire control district in which the charter school is located using the standards adopted by the State Fire Marshal. Upon request, the inspecting authority shall provide a copy of each firesafety report to the board in the district in which the facility is located. (c) In each firesafety inspection report and formulated in consultation with the charter school, the inspecting authority shall include a plan of action and a schedule for the correction of each deficiency. If any immediate life-threatening deficiency is noted in any inspection, the inspecting authority shall take action to require the charter school to promptly correct each deficiency or withdraw the educational or ancillary plant from use until such time as all deficiencies are corrected. (d) If the charter school fails to take corrective action within the period designated in the plan of action to correct any firesafety deficiency noted under paragraph (c), the county, municipality, or independent special fire control district shall immediately report the deficiency to the State Fire Marshal and the charter school sponsor. The State Fire Marshal has enforcement authority with respect to charter school educational and ancillary plants and educational facilities as provided in chapter 633 for any building or structure. (6) INSPECTIONS OF PUBLIC POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION FACILITIES. — (a) Firesafety inspections of public college facilities, including charter schools located on board-owned or board-leased facilities or otherwise operated by public college boards, shall be made in accordance with the Florida Fire Prevention Code, as adopted by the State Fire Marshal. Notwithstanding s. 633.202, provisions of the code relating to inspections of such facilities are not subject to any local amendments as provided by s. 1013.371. Each public college facility shall be inspected annually by persons certified under s. 633.216. (b) After each required firesafety inspection, the inspecting authority shall develop a plan of action to correct each deficiency identified. The public college shall provide a copy of each firesafety inspection report to the county, municipality, or independent special fire control district in which the facility is located. (c) Firesafety inspections of state universities shall comply with the Florida Fire Prevention Code, as adopted by the State Fire Marshal under s. 633.202. (7) CORRECTIVE ACTION; FIRESAFETY DEFICIENCIES. — If a school board, public college board, or charter school fails to correct any firesafety deficiency noted under this section within the time designated in the plan of action, the inspecting authority shall immediately report the deficiency to the State Fire Marshal, who has enforcement authority with respect to educational and ancillary plants and educational facilities as provided in chapter 633 for any other building or structure. (8) ADDITIONAL STANDARDS. — In addition to any other rules adopted under this section or s. 633.206, the State Fire Marshal in consultation with the Department of Education shall adopt and administer rules prescribing the following standards for the safety and health of occupants of educational and ancillary plants: (a) The designation of serious life-safety hazards, including, but not limited to, nonfunctional fire alarm systems, nonfunctional fire sprinkler systems, doors with padlocks or other locks or devices that preclude egress at any time, inadequate exits, hazardous electrical system conditions, potential structural failure, and storage conditions that create a fire hazard. (b) The proper placement of functional smoke and heat detectors and accessible, unexpired fire extinguishers. (c) The maintenance of fire doors without doorstops or wedges improperly holding them open. History. — s. 1, ch. 2002-287; s. 805, ch. 2002-387; s. 4, ch. 2003-3; s. 170, ch. 2007-217; s. 29, ch. 2008-235; s. 106, ch. 2009-21; s. 29, ch. 2010-78; s. 202, ch. 2011-5; s. 4, ch. 2011-79; s. 158, ch. 2013-183; s. 189, ch. 2014-17. 1013.13 Submittal of facility construction design documents to jurisdictional public safety agencies; School Mapping Data Grant Program. (1) Each district school superintendent must provide to the law enforcement agency and fire department that has jurisdiction over each educational facility a copy of the floor plans and other relevant documents for each educational facility in the district, as defined in s. 1013.01. After the initial submission of the floor plans and other relevant documents, the district superintendent of schools shall submit, by October 1 of each year, revised floor plans and other relevant documents for each educational facility in the district that was modified during the preceding year. (2) In order to facilitate efficient emergency responses, the School Mapping Data Grant Program is created within the Department of Education. Each school district, in consultation with local law enforcement and public safety agencies, may apply to receive funds from the program to provide school mapping data for each public school, including charter schools, in the district. The school district shall use the funds to satisfy all or some of the requirements of this section, which may include procuring a vendor to provide such data. The entity producing the data is responsible for providing the data to the school district and local law enforcement and public safety agencies for use in response to emergencies and for conducting drills required under s. 1006.07(4). (a) School mapping data must be provided in an electronic or a digital format to assist first responders in responding to emergencies at schools. (b) The school mapping data provided must: 1. Be compatible with software platforms used by local, state, and federal public safety agencies that provide emergency services to the specific school for which the data is provided without requiring such agencies to purchase additional software or requiring a fee to view or access the data. 2. Be compatible with security software platforms in use by the specific school for which the data is provided without requiring the local law enforcement agencies or school districts to purchase additional software or requiring a fee to view or access the data. 3. Be in a printable format and, if requested in addition to paragraph (a), be in a digital file format that can be integrated into interactive mobile platforms in use. 4. Be verified for accuracy by a walk-through of school buildings and grounds. 5. Be oriented true north. 6. Be overlaid on current aerial imagery. 7. Contain site-specific labeling that matches the structure of school buildings, including room labels, hallway names, and external door or stairwell numbers and locations of hazards, critical utility locations, key boxes, automated external defibrillators, and trauma kits. 8. Contain site-specific labeling that matches the school grounds, including parking areas, athletic fields, surrounding roads, and neighboring properties. 9. Be overlaid with gridded x and y coordinates. (3) Each Florida College System institution president must provide to the law enforcement agency and fire department that has jurisdiction over the Florida College System institution a copy of the floor plans and other relevant documents for each educational facility as defined in s. 1013.01. After the initial submission of the floor plans and other relevant documents, the Florida College System institution president shall submit, by October 1 of each year, revised floor plans and other relevant documents for each educational facility that was modified during the preceding year. History. — s. 806, ch. 2002-387; s. 203, ch. 2011-5; s. 1, ch. 2023-99. 1013.14 Proposed purchase of real property by a board; confidentiality of records; procedure. (1)(a) In any case in which a board, pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, seeks to acquire by purchase any real property for educational purposes, every appraisal, offer, or counteroffer must be in writing and is exempt from the provisions of s. 119.07(1) until an option contract is executed or, if no option contract is executed, until 30 days before a contract or agreement for purchase is considered for approval by the board. If a contract or agreement for purchase is not submitted to the board for approval, the exemption from s. 119.07(1) shall expire 30 days after the termination of negotiations. The board shall maintain complete and accurate records of every such appraisal, offer, and counteroffer. For the purposes of this section, the term “option contract” means an agreement by the board to purchase a piece of property, subject to the approval of the board at a public meeting after 30 days’ public notice. (b) Before acquisition of the property, the board shall obtain at least one appraisal by an appraiser approved pursuant to s. 253.025(8) for each purchase in an amount greater than $100,000 and not more than $500,000. For each purchase in an amount in excess of $500,000, the board shall obtain at least two appraisals by appraisers approved pursuant to s. 253.025(8). If the agreed to purchase price exceeds the average appraised value, the board is required to approve the purchase by an extraordinary vote. (2) Nothing in this section shall be interpreted as providing an exemption from, or an exception to, s. 286.011. History. — s. 807, ch. 2002-387; s. 48, ch. 2016-233. 1013.15 Lease, rental, and lease-purchase of educational plants, ancillary plants, and auxiliary facilities and sites. (1) A board may lease any land, facilities, or educational plants owned by it to any person or entity for such term, for such rent, and upon such terms and conditions as the board determines to be in its best interests; any such lease may provide for the optional or binding purchase of the land, facilities, or educational plants by the lessee upon such terms and conditions as the board determines are in its best interests. A determination that any such land, facility, or educational plant so leased is unnecessary for educational purposes is not a prerequisite to the leasing or lease-purchase of such land, facility, or educational plant. Before entering into or executing any such lease, a board shall consider approval of the lease or lease-purchase agreement at a public meeting, at which a copy of the proposed agreement in its final form shall be available for inspection and review by the public, after due notice as required by law. (2)(a) A district school board may rent or lease educational plants, ancillary plants, and auxiliary facilities and sites as defined in s. 1013.01. Educational plants, ancillary plants, and auxiliary facilities and sites rented or leased for 1 year or less shall be funded through the operations budget or funds derived from millage proceeds pursuant to s. 1011.71(2). A lease contract for 1 year or less, when extended or renewed beyond a year, becomes a multiple-year lease. Operational funds or funds derived from millage proceeds pursuant to s. 1011.71(2) may be authorized to be expended for multiple-year leases. All leased educational plants, ancillary plants, and auxiliary facilities and sites must be inspected before occupancy by the authority having jurisdiction. 1. All newly leased spaces must be inspected and brought into compliance with the Florida Building Code pursuant to chapter 553 and the life safety codes pursuant to chapter 633, before occupancy, using the board’s operations budget or funds derived from millage proceeds pursuant to s. 1011.71(2). 2. Plans for renovation or remodeling of leased space shall conform to the Florida Building Code and the Florida Fire Prevention Code for educational occupancies or other occupancies, as appropriate and as required in chapters 553 and 633, before occupancy. 3. All leased facilities must be inspected annually for firesafety deficiencies in accordance with the applicable code and have corrections made in accordance with s. 1013.12. Operational funds or funds derived from millage proceeds pursuant to s. 1011.71(2) may be used to correct deficiencies in leased space. 4. When the board declares that a public emergency exists, it may take up to 30 days to bring the leased facility into compliance with the requirements of State Board of Education rules. (b) A board is authorized to lease-purchase educational plants, ancillary plants, and auxiliary facilities and sites as defined in s. 1013.01, and a district school board is authorized to lease-purchase educational plants, ancillary plants, and auxiliary facilities and sites. The lease-purchase of educational plants, ancillary plants, and auxiliary facilities and sites must, where applicable, comply with s. 1013.37, subject to the authorization in s. 1013.385 to exempt certain facilities from the requirements of that section; must be advertised for and receive competitive proposals and be awarded to the best proposer; and must be funded using current or other funds specifically authorized by law to be used for such purpose. 1. A district school board, by itself, or through a direct-support organization formed pursuant to s. 1001.453 or nonprofit educational organization or a consortium of district school boards, may, in developing a lease-purchase of educational plants, ancillary plants, and auxiliary facilities and sites provide for separately advertising for and receiving competitive bids or proposals on the construction of facilities and the selection of financing to provide the lowest cost funding available, so long as the board determines that such process would best serve the public interest and the available revenues are limited to those authorized in s. 1011.71(2). 2. All activities and information, including lists of individual participants, associated with agreements made pursuant to this section shall be subject to the provisions of chapter 119 and s. 286.011. (c)1. The term of any lease-purchase agreement, including the initial term and any subsequent renewals, shall not exceed the useful life of the educational facilities and sites for which the agreement is made, or 30 years, whichever is less. 2. The initial term or any renewal term of any lease-purchase agreement shall expire on June 30 of each fiscal year, but may be automatically renewed annually, subject to a board making sufficient annual appropriations therefor. Under no circumstances shall the failure of a board to renew a lease-purchase agreement constitute a default or require payment of any penalty or in any way limit the right of a board to purchase or utilize educational plants, ancillary plants, and auxiliary facilities and sites similar in function to the educational plants, ancillary plants, and auxiliary facilities and sites that are the subject of the said lease-purchase agreement. Educational plants, ancillary plants, and auxiliary facilities and sites being acquired pursuant to a lease-purchase agreement shall be exempt from ad valorem taxation. 3. No lease-purchase agreement entered into pursuant to this subsection shall constitute a debt, liability, or obligation of the state or a board or shall be a pledge of the faith and credit of the state or a board. 4. Any lease-purchase agreement entered into pursuant to this subsection shall stipulate an annual rate which may consist of a principal component and an interest component, provided that the maximum interest rate of any interest component payable under any such lease-purchase agreement, or any participation or certificated portion thereof, shall be calculated in accordance with and be governed by the provisions of s. 215.84. (3) Lease or lease-purchase agreements entered into by university boards of trustees shall comply with the provisions of ss. 1013.171 and 1010.62. (4)(a) A board may rent or lease existing buildings, or space within existing buildings, originally constructed or used for purposes other than education, for conversion to use as educational facilities. Such buildings rented or leased for 1 year or less shall be funded through the operations budget or funds derived from millage pursuant to s. 1011.71(2). A rental agreement or lease contract for 1 year or less, when extended or renewed beyond a year, becomes a multiple-year rental or lease. Operational funds or funds derived from millage proceeds pursuant to s. 1011.71(2) may be authorized to be expended for multiple-year rentals or leases. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this section, if a building was constructed in conformance with all applicable building and life safety codes, it shall be deemed to meet the requirements for use and occupancy as an educational facility subject only to the provisions of this subsection. (b) Before occupying a rented or a leased existing building, or space within an existing building, pursuant to this subsection, a school board shall, in a public meeting, adopt a resolution certifying that the following circumstances apply to the building proposed for occupancy: 1. Growth among the school-age population in the school district has created a need for new educational facilities in a neighborhood where there is little or no vacant land. 2. There exists a supply of vacant space in existing buildings that meet state minimum building and life safety codes. 3. Acquisition and conversion to use as educational facilities of an existing building or buildings is a cost-saving means of providing the needed classroom space as determined by the difference between the cost of new construction, including land acquisition and preparation and, if applicable, demolition of existing structures, and the cost of acquisition through rental or lease and conversion of an existing building or buildings. 4. The building has been examined for suitability, safety, and conformance with state minimum building and life safety codes. The building examination shall consist, at a minimum, of a review of existing documents, building site reconnaissance, and analysis of the building conducted by, or under the responsible charge of, a licensed structural engineer. 5. A certificate of evaluation has been issued by an appropriately licensed design professional which states that, based on available documents, building site reconnaissance, current knowledge, and design judgment in the professional’s opinion, the building meets the requirements of state minimum building and life safety codes, provides safe egress of occupants from the building, provides adequate firesafety, and does not pose a substantial threat to life to persons who would occupy the building for classroom use. 6. The plans for conversion of the building were prepared by an appropriate design professional licensed in this state and the work of conversion was performed by contractors licensed in this state. 7. The conversion of the building was observed by an appropriate design professional licensed in this state. 8. The building has been reviewed, inspected, and granted a certificate of occupancy by the local building department. 9. All ceilings, light fixtures, ducts, and registers within the area to be occupied for classroom purposes were constructed or have been reconstructed to meet state minimum requirements. History. — s. 808, ch. 2002-387; s. 171, ch. 2007-217; s. 31, ch. 2024-159. 1013.16 Construction of facilities on leased property; conditions. (1) A board may construct or place educational facilities and ancillary facilities on land that is owned by any person after the board has acquired from the owner of the land a long-term lease for the use of this land for a period of not less than the life expectancy of the permanent facilities constructed thereon. (2) A board may enter into a short-term lease for the use of land owned by any person on which temporary or relocatable facilities are to be utilized. (3) Leases executed by a university board of trustees pursuant to this section are subject to s. 1010.62. History. — s. 809, ch. 2002-387; s. 172, ch. 2007-217; s. 32, ch. 2024-159. 1013.17 University leasing in affiliated research and development park. A university is exempt from the requirements of s. 255.25(3), (4), and (8) when leasing educational facilities in a research and development park with which the university is affiliated and when the Board of Governors certifies in writing that the leasing of such educational facilities is in the best interests of the university and that the exemption from competitive bid requirements would not be detrimental to the state. Leases entered into pursuant to this section are subject to the provisions of s. 1010.62. History. — s. 810, ch. 2002-387; s. 173, ch. 2007-217. 1013.171 University lease agreements; land, facilities. (1) Each university board of trustees is authorized to negotiate and enter into agreements to lease land under its jurisdiction to for-profit and nonprofit corporations, registered by the Secretary of State to do business in this state, for the purpose of erecting thereon facilities and accommodations necessary and desirable to serve the needs and purposes of the university, as determined by the systemwide strategic plan adopted by the Board of Governors. Such agreement will be for a term not in excess of 99 years or the life expectancy of the permanent facilities constructed thereon, whichever is shorter, and shall include as a part of the consideration provisions for the eventual ownership of the completed facilities by the state. The Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund upon request of the university board of trustees shall lease any such property to the university for sublease as heretofore provided. (2) Each university board of trustees is authorized to enter into agreements with for-profit and nonprofit corporations, registered by the Secretary of State to do business in this state, whereby income-producing buildings, improvements, and facilities necessary and desirable to serve the needs and purposes of the university, as determined by the systemwide strategic plan adopted by the Board of Governors, are acquired by purchase or lease-purchase by the university. When such agreements provide for lease-purchase of facilities erected on land that is not under the jurisdiction of the university, the agreement shall include as a part of the consideration provisions for the eventual ownership of the land and facility by the state. Agreements for lease-purchase shall not exceed 30 years or the life expectancy of the permanent facility constructed, whichever is shorter. The university board of trustees may enter into an agreement for the lease-purchase of a facility under this section for a term greater than 1 year. Each university board of trustees is authorized to use any auxiliary trust funds, available and not otherwise obligated, to pay rent to the owner should income from the facilities not be sufficient in any debt payment period. The trust funds used for payment of rent shall be reimbursed as soon as possible to the extent that income from the facilities exceeds the amount necessary for such debt payment. (3) Each university board of trustees may: (a) Construct educational facilities on land that is owned by a direct-support organization, as defined in s. 1004.28, or a governmental agency at the federal, state, county, or municipal level, if the university has acquired a long-term lease for the use of the land. The lease must be for at least 40 years or the expected time the facilities to be constructed on the land are expected to remain in a condition acceptable for use, whichever is longer. (b) Acquire a short-term lease from one of the entities listed in paragraph (a) for the use of land, if adequate temporary or relocatable facilities are available on the land. (c) Enter into a short-term lease for the use of land and buildings upon which capital improvements may be made. If sufficient land is not available from any of the entities listed in paragraph (a), a university may acquire a short-term lease from a private landowner or developer. (4) Agreements as provided in this section shall be entered into with an offeror resulting from publicly announced competitive bids or proposals, except that the university may enter into an agreement with an entity enumerated in paragraph (3)(a) for leasing land or with a direct-support organization as provided in s. 1004.28, which shall enter into subsequent agreements for financing and constructing the project after receiving competitive bids or proposals. Any facility constructed, lease-purchased, or purchased under such agreements, whether erected on land under the jurisdiction of the university or not, shall conform to the construction standards and codes applicable to university facilities. Each university board of trustees shall adopt such regulations as are necessary to carry out its duties and responsibilities imposed by this section. (5) Agreements executed by the State Board of Education prior to January 1, 1980, for the purposes listed herein shall be validated, and said board’s capacity to act in such cases ratified and confirmed. (6) Agreements entered into pursuant to this section are subject to the provisions of s. 1010.62. History. — s. 811, ch. 2002-387; s. 174, ch. 2007-217; s. 23, ch. 2011-177. 1013.18 Radio and television facilities. (1) A board may acquire, by purchase, license, permanent easement, or gift, suitable lands and other facilities, either within or without the boundaries of the district, for use in providing educational radio or television transmitting sites and may erect such buildings, antennas, transmission equipment, towers, or other structures as ar