"Basically, it's an available component for any
hard-wire fixture -- pendants, flush mounts, vanity lighting, chandeliers, outdoor lanterns."
But in an appeal to the Florida Supreme Court, the FBC won and since then, the
hard-wire alarm requirement has stood.
The design team intentionally gave the control room the feel of a
hard-wire system by installing heavy duty buttons and switches instead of keyboards.
Hard-wire mandates, Schwartz said, make it difficult for pool owners to entertain on their decks if they've selected alarms over fencing or covers.
The announcement comes just over a week after the council was praised for installing the
hard-wire alarms at a home in Parker Place, Ely, which police said had helped the ``safe evacuation'' of residents.
In February 2003, an administrative law judge sided with NSPI-Florida, saying that the
hard-wire requirement was "an invalid exercise of delegated legislative authority." The FBC appealed the judge's decision, and NSPI-Florida filed a joint answer brief in response.