Broward BSIP
Lauderdale Lakes sends a certified letter when the BSIP reaches a building, and asks the engineer or architect filing the report to register with the city first. One team assembles the complete inspection package.
- Engineer
- Juan Tercero, PE., M.Sc. · Florida PE 105256
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How the Building Safety Inspection Program runs in Lauderdale Lakes
In Lauderdale Lakes the Building Safety Inspection Program sits with the Building Division of the Development Services Department. The city gathers what owners need in one Building Safety Program Packet: a yearly calendar, a summary, its own application, a registration form for engineers and architects, and the county’s policy and report forms. What follows is what that packet and the city’s pages say.
- The certified letter
- The city’s summary says an owner whose property the program affects receives a certified letter explaining what to do. The packet’s yearly calendar puts the notices in summer: the Board of Rules and Appeals passes each city building data from the Property Appraiser, and the Building Officials notify the owners due in the coming calendar year.
- Engineer registration
- Before an engineer or architect can submit a report in Lauderdale Lakes, the packet says they must register with the city, sending a copy of their current state license with a notarized application. Faxed copies are not accepted, only originals, and the registration is renewed every year before the city’s new fiscal year begins.
- The city’s application
- The Building Safety Inspection Application in the packet asks for the site name, address, legal description and subdivision, the owner’s contact details, and the engineer’s or architect’s state number and Certificate of Competency number. It is notarized, and its office section records a pass or a fail for each report, structural and electrical, on its own line.
- Forms with the filing
- The packet’s summary lists the forms to complete at submittal: the Building Safety Inspection Submittal Form and the Building Safety Inspection Forms, structural and electrical. The county’s two report forms are printed in the packet itself, after the Board of Rules and Appeals’ policy.
- Where to send it
- The packet describes no upload or portal for the reports. Every page carries the Building Division’s street address and its permits mailbox, and the summary tells owners to write to that mailbox or call the division with questions — so we confirm with the division how it wants the package delivered.
- Permits for repairs
- The application warns that a separate building permit is needed if the Building Official deems it necessary after reading the report, and that a licensed and insured contractor must obtain it. The city’s summary counts the repair period from the date of the report; the period itself is the county’s, shown lower on this page.
- Milestone inspections
- The packet adds a note for buildings that also owe the state’s milestone inspection: in Lauderdale Lakes, the building safety inspection counts as compliance with both of its phases. Associations do not need a second, separate report for the state.
- Who is exempt
- The city’s summary exempts U.S. Government and State of Florida buildings, buildings on Indian reservations, Broward County School Board schools, one- and two-family dwellings, certain townhouses as the Florida Building Code defines them, and minor structures below the floor area it states.
Building office City of Lauderdale Lakes Building Division 3521 NW 43rd Avenue Lauderdale Lakes, FL 33319 Phone: (954) 535-2480
Read on the website of the City of Lauderdale Lakes Building Division:
When it applies
The deadlines that apply in Lauderdale Lakes
The schedule is the Broward County Board of Rules and Appeals’, printed here for a building in Lauderdale Lakes; the date on your own notice is the one that counts.
- First due in Lauderdale Lakes: At 25 years, counted from the certificate of occupancy.
- Then in Lauderdale Lakes: Every 10 years.
- Time to file in Lauderdale Lakes: 180 days from receiving the Notice of Required Inspection. Older guides still say 90 days; the policy in force since August 9, 2024 gives 180. Your city’s letter states its own date.
- If repairs are needed in Lauderdale Lakes: 180 days from the date of the report, under permit, unless the Building Official sets a different time.
- Condominiums & co-ops in Lauderdale Lakes: The BSIP report serves as phase one and phase two of the state milestone inspection.
Broward County’s rows, for Lauderdale Lakes. Source: Broward County Board of Rules and Appeals, Policy #05-05 · Florida Building Code, Broward County Amendments, Section 110.15 · Last verified:
Questions & answers
Questions boards in Lauderdale Lakes ask
Our engineer is not registered in Lauderdale Lakes — can the report still be filed?
Not under the city’s packet. It says an engineer or architect must register with the City of Lauderdale Lakes in order to submit a Building Safety Inspection Report, and the registration form needs a notarized signature and original documents. The registration lapses with the city’s fiscal year, so it is worth checking before the report is finished.
What does the Lauderdale Lakes certified letter mean for our building?
That the city’s Building Official has the building on that year’s list. The summary says the letter carries information about what you need to do, and the packet’s calendar shows the lists reaching the city from the Board of Rules and Appeals, built from Property Appraiser data. With the letter in hand, we can tell you what Lauderdale Lakes expects of your building and how much time is left.
Why does the Lauderdale Lakes packet show a different time to file?
The packet’s calendar prints a period to return the reports that is shorter than the one now in force. The period that applies is Broward’s — see “Time to file” — while repairs follow “If repairs are needed”. Work from the date on your certified letter.
Does the Lauderdale Lakes city code still call it the 40-year inspection?
Its code enforcement does. Lauderdale Lakes’ Special Magistrate dockets cite a section of the city code that has owners conduct a 40-year structural and electrical safety inspection — the program’s former name — while the Building Division’s packet calls it the Building Safety Inspection Program. It is one program either way, with the ages shown in the row “First due”.
What happens in Lauderdale Lakes if the BSIP is ignored?
Cases go before the city’s Special Magistrate. A docket on the city’s site lists a first-time hearing on a property cited under the city code’s safety-inspection section. The packet does not describe the steps before a hearing. A building already past its date should not wait: the letter, and anything else the city has mailed, is what we need to see first.
One team
The complete BSIP inspection and report for a building in Lauderdale Lakes
Next step
Send the certified letter from Lauderdale Lakes — a photo is enough for us to start — or, if nothing has arrived, the street address and when the building was finished. We check what the Building Division wants, the engineer registration included, and answer with a proposal for every part of the BSIP package.
Next step
A county notice in your hand, a building that worries you or a new project — describe it and attach what you have. A phone photo of the letter is enough. You hear back from the engineer, with questions or with a written proposal.
The proposal is free. We usually reply within two hours.