HURLEY, Judge.
The issue is whether a violation of Section 399.02(6)(b), Florida Statutes (1981) (which requires proper maintenance of elevators), constitutes negligence per se. We hold that it does and, therefore, we approve the trial court's instruction to this effect and we affirm.
An instruction that a violation of a given statute is negligence per se is appropriate in two circumstances: (1) when the statute is of the "strict liability" type...
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