Anchorage designed to resist uplift forces, securing wood to wood, shall be steel straps nailed to each member and shall be designed to resist uplift forces set forth by the design professional. Straps shall be approved under the criteria set by the certification agency. All anchors and relative nails shall be galvanized.
As an alternate to using straps described in this section, the building official may approve other anchorage submitted by a Florida-registered architect or a Florida registered professional engineer, proficient in structural design, provided that the information set forth in Section 2321.7, Items 1, 2 and 3 submitted in connection with such anchors and such anchors and the proposed assembly otherwise comply with the requirements of this code.