Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation

The Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation (DBPR) is the agency

Government agency

A government or state agency is a permanent or semi-permanent organization in the machinery of government that is responsible for the oversight and administration of specific functions, such as an intelligence agency. There is a notable variety of agency types...

of the government of Florida

Government of Florida

The government of Florida is a constitutional republic with three branches of government, including the executive branch consisting of the Governor of Florida and the other elected and appointed constitutional officers; the legislative branch, the Florida Legislature, consisting of the Senate and...

responsible for business

Business

A business is an organization engaged in the trade of goods, services, or both to consumers. Businesses are predominant in capitalist economies, where most of them are privately owned and administered to earn profit to increase the wealth of their owners. Businesses may also be not-for-profit...

and professional

Professional

A professional is a person who is paid to undertake a specialised set of tasks and to complete them for a fee. The traditional professions were doctors, lawyers, clergymen, and commissioned military officers. Today, the term is applied to estate agents, surveyors , environmental scientists,...

regulation

Regulation

Regulation is administrative legislation that constitutes or constrains rights and allocates responsibilities. It can be distinguished from primary legislation on the one hand and judge-made law on the other...

Organization

Professional Regulation
- Division of Certified Public Accounting - Regulates Certified Public Accountant
  Certified Public Accountant
  Certified Public Accountant is the statutory title of qualified accountants in the United States who have passed the Uniform Certified Public Accountant Examination and have met additional state education and experience requirements for certification as a CPA...
  
  s (CPAs); "processes applications for examination, licensure, reactivation, temporary permitting, and continuing education
  Continuing education
  Continuing education is an all-encompassing term within a broad spectrum of post-secondary learning activities and programs. The term is used mainly in the United States and Canada...
  
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- Bureau of Education and Testing - Oversees required licensure examinations and continuing education requirements.
- Division of Professions - "Responsible for the licensing of over 376,000 professionals"
  - Board of Architecture
    Architecture
    Architecture is both the process and product of planning, designing and construction. Architectural works, in the material form of buildings, are often perceived as cultural and political symbols and as works of art...
    
    and Interior Design
    Interior design
    Interior design describes a group of various yet related projects that involve turning an interior space into an effective setting for the range of human activities are to take place there. An interior designer is someone who conducts such projects...
  - Asbestos
    Asbestos
    Asbestos is a set of six naturally occurring silicate minerals used commercially for their desirable physical properties. They all have in common their eponymous, asbestiform habit: long, thin fibrous crystals...
    
    Licensing Unit
  - Athlete Agents
  - Board of Auctioneers
  - Barbers' Board
  - Florida State Boxing Commission - athletic commission
  - Building Code Administrators and Inspectors Board
  - Regulatory Council of Community Association Managers
  - Construction Industry Licensing Board
  - Board of Cosmetology
  - Electrical Contractors' Licensing Board
  - Board of Employee Leasing Companies
  - Board of Professional Geologists
  - Board of Landscape Architecture
  - Board of Pilot Commissioners
  - Pilotage Rate Review Board
  - Talent Agencies
  - Board of Veterinary Medicine
- Division of Real Estate
- Division of Regulation
  - Bureau of Complaints
  - Bureau of Unlicensed Activity
  - Bureau of Compliance
  - Bureau of Farm Labor
  - Bureau of Child Labor

Business Regulation
- Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco
  Florida Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco
  The Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco is the Florida state government agency which licenses and regulates the sale of alcoholic beverage and tobacco...
- Division of Florida Condominiums, Timeshares, and Mobile Homes
- Division of Hotels and Restaurants
- Division of Pari-Mutuel Wagering

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