Broward BSIP
Oakland Park takes the BSIP package under its own submittal cover sheet, on the latest county forms only. Both inspections, structural and electrical, come complete from one team, with the report.
- Engineer
- Juan Tercero, PE., M.Sc. · Florida PE 105256
Your city
How the Building Safety Inspection Program runs in Oakland Park
In Oakland Park the Building Safety Inspection Program (BSIP) is run by the Building & Permitting Division, which keeps a staff position for it. The city publishes a submittal form of its own that lists what goes into the package and where reports are submitted online, and it posts the county’s report forms beside it. Here is what Oakland Park’s pages and forms say; the county’s deadlines are shown in the rows further down.
- The city’s submittal form
- Oakland Park asks for its own Building Safety Inspection Submittal Form as the cover sheet of the package. It takes the site address, the year built, the present use and the square footage, with the owner’s details and those of the engineer or architect; a box marked for official use records the building’s place on the Board of Rules and Appeals list.
- What the package holds
- Under that cover sheet, Oakland Park’s form lists Broward County’s structural and electrical inspection report forms — only the latest forms of the Board of Rules and Appeals will be approved, it says — and a written letter from the Florida-licensed engineer or architect stating that each building is structurally and electrically safe for continued occupancy.
- Filing the report
- The submittal form points to the city’s online self-service portal as the site for submitting reports online. Oakland Park’s Building & Permitting page also receives permit applications in person at the division’s office, and the division’s FAQ lists an online submissions help desk next to the program’s own phone line.
- The report forms
- Oakland Park’s Building Permit Applications & Forms page carries the Building Safety Inspection forms, structural and electrical, and the Building & Permitting page links both too. The structural form says the report is based on the minimum inspection guidelines of the Broward County Board of Rules and Appeals, and it has the inspector mark whether repairs are required.
- Who runs it
- On the city’s side the program belongs to the Building & Permitting Division. The staff directory lists an administrative assistant whose title names the Building Safety Inspections Program, and a city budget message explained that position: the volume of these inspections had increased considerably.
- If it is not filed
- Oakland Park has brought building safety inspection cases before its Special Magistrate. Hearing agendas have carried a section titled with the program’s former 40-year name, listing property after property under the county code section for the program. The division’s FAQ also lists a contact for building safety inspection orders imposing a penalty or lien.
- Older names
- Oakland Park’s documents use more than one name. The current submittal form has a box for each inspection age the program now reaches, while older hearing agendas and the budget message still call it the 40-year program. The ages in force are the county’s, in “First due” and “Then”.
Building office City of Oakland Park Building and Permitting Division Sky South Building 1100 Park Lane East, 1st Floor Oakland Park, FL 33334 Phone: (954) 630-4350
Read on the website of the City of Oakland Park Building and Permitting Division:
When it applies
The deadlines that apply in Oakland Park
The schedule is the Broward County Board of Rules and Appeals’, printed here for a building in Oakland Park; the date on your own notice is the one that counts.
- First due in Oakland Park: At 25 years, counted from the certificate of occupancy.
- Then in Oakland Park: Every 10 years.
- Time to file in Oakland Park: 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 Oakland Park: 180 days from the date of the report, under permit, unless the Building Official sets a different time.
- Condominiums & co-ops in Oakland Park: The BSIP report serves as phase one and phase two of the state milestone inspection.
Broward County’s rows, for Oakland Park. 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 Oakland Park ask
How do we file the BSIP report in Oakland Park?
With the city’s Building Safety Inspection Submittal Form on top, then Broward County’s structural and electrical report forms and the professional’s letter on the building’s safety. Oakland Park’s form gives its self-service portal as the site for submitting reports online. The complete BSIP inspection and report we deliver comes in the order that form lists.
Which BSIP report forms does Oakland Park accept?
Only the latest inspection forms of the Broward County Board of Rules and Appeals, the city’s submittal form says, for both the structural and the electrical report. Oakland Park posts both on its Building Permit Applications & Forms page, next to the submittal form itself, so a copy saved from an earlier cycle is not the one to reuse.
Who answers BSIP questions in Oakland Park?
The city’s submittal form sends every inquiry about the Building Safety Inspection Program to a phone line of its own, and the staff directory lists an administrative assistant assigned to the program in the Building & Permitting Division. For general permit matters, the division’s main number is the one printed with the office on this page.
What happens in Oakland Park if the BSIP report is never filed?
The city’s pages do not list the steps, but its records show where such cases go: Special Magistrate agendas have listed building safety inspection matters property by property, and the Building & Permitting FAQ gives a contact for orders imposing a penalty or lien under the program. If the date on your Oakland Park notice has passed, send it to us without waiting.
How long does an Oakland Park owner have to file the BSIP report?
The time is the county’s and is printed in “Time to file”; Oakland Park’s own pages do not restate it or describe a way to extend it. If the inspection turns up repairs, “If repairs are needed” gives the time for those. The city’s submittal form records the date the package goes in, so keep a copy of it with the filing.
One team
The complete BSIP inspection and report for a building in Oakland Park
Next step
Send what Oakland Park sent you — a phone photo works — or, with nothing yet, the address and the year built. We read it against the city’s submittal form and the county’s rows, and return a proposal for the complete BSIP inspection and report.
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.