1.4.9 Additional Powers and Functions. The Board of Appeals is hereby authorized and empowered to hear and rule upon appeals from orders of the District in challenges brought pursuant to Section 633.208(3)(d), Florida Statutes, to amendments to the District's Code, and appeals from decisions of the District relating to false alarms.
1.4.10 Any decision of the Board shall be final and reviewable in the manner and within the time provided by the Florida Rules of Appellate Procedure only by a petition for writ of certiorari filed with the Circuit Court in Manatee County.
1.4.11.1 Any permit or approval authorized to be issued by the District pursuant to the Code shall be subject to immediate suspension, revocation, or denial by the District upon the District's determination that conditions exist which make the permitted activity imminently dangerous to life or property. The District's order immediately suspending or revoking a permit shall cite with particularity the facts supporting the suspension or revocation. The suspension or revocation shall be effective immediately upon notice to the permittee at the location indicated on the permittee's application. Upon such immediate suspension or revocation of a permit, the permittee shall be entitled to appeal the decision of the District at a subsequent hearing of the Board of Appeals. Upon the Board of Appeal's receipt of a written notice requesting a special meeting for a hearing with respect to an immediate permit suspension or revocation, the Board of Appeals shall set such a hearing for a date no later than five (5) working days from the Board of Appeal's receipt of the written notice unless the parties stipulate to a later date. The Board of Appeal's written decision shall be mailed by certified mail to the permittee within two (2) working days after the hearing. In all other respects, the procedures of Section 1.4.6 and 1.4.7 shall apply.
1.4.12.1 Equivalencies. In recognition that it is not the intent of the Code to prevent the use of systems, methods, or devices of equivalent or superior quality, strength, fire resistance, effectiveness, durability, and safety to those
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