Broward BSIP
Pompano Beach’s Building Official sends the notices by certified mail and receives the reports. One team delivers the complete BSIP inspection and report, on the forms the city names.
- Engineer
- Juan Tercero, PE., M.Sc. · Florida PE 105256
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How the Building Safety Inspection Program runs in Pompano Beach
In Pompano Beach the Building Safety Inspection Program (BSIP) runs through the Building Official, in the city’s Building Department. The city’s program page covers the notice, the report, repairs and extensions, and it lists a form of the city’s own, the Re-Inspection Affidavit. Here is what the city’s pages and that form say; the county’s deadlines are in the rows further down.
- The notice
- Pompano Beach’s page says the Building Official sends the Notice of Required Inspection by certified mail, to the owner or the association of each building due that calendar year. The notices go out each year, within the dates the page gives. The page counts the time to file from that notice; the time itself is in the rows below.
- Filing the report
- Pompano Beach’s program page says the written report is submitted to the Building Official and includes the Broward County Board of Rules and Appeals Structural and Electrical Safety Inspection Report Form. It names no portal, e-mail or file format for that report, so we confirm with the Building Department how to deliver it before it is filed.
- The city’s forms
- With the report, Pompano Beach’s page asks for the Board of Rules and Appeals’ structural and electrical report form. Its program page also lists a form of the city’s own: the Building Safety Inspection Program Re-Inspection Affidavit, on the letterhead of its Building Inspections Division. The department’s forms page describes it as the form for re-inspecting a building going through a required safety inspection.
- After filing
- Pompano Beach’s page does not describe how a report is reviewed or what closes the case. It does link to case status in the city’s online Code Compliance service, which shows a case and its next course of action. The Building Department’s contact page lists a Building Safety Compliance group, with a chief inspector, a compliance officer and a secretary.
- Repairs
- When repairs are needed, Pompano Beach’s page asks for a signed and sealed letter to the owner and the Building Official on whether the building may stay safely occupied meanwhile. That letter is valid for a limited time; a new one is issued if repairs go on. After the repairs, the areas noted in the original report are re-inspected and an amended report follows.
- The Re-Inspection Affidavit
- Pompano Beach’s affidavit records the re-inspection after the repairs. It cites the original report by its city permit or case number and marks the repairs as completed under the restoration permits it references, or as minor work that needed no permit. It goes to the Building Official electronically, with an electronic signature and seal, or by hand with an embossed or wet seal.
- Extensions
- Pompano Beach’s page says the Building Official may extend, up to a limit, the time to submit the report or to obtain permits. The request comes in writing from the licensed professional, with a signed and sealed statement that the building may stay occupied. Repairs that need longer can get a new time frame, with the Building Official’s approval, while the repair permit stays active.
- Who is exempt
- Pompano Beach’s page lists as exempt federal and State of Florida buildings, buildings on sovereign tribal lands, Broward County School Board schools, railroads, certain townhouses and, within limits the page gives, small dwellings and minor structures. It adds that elevated decks, balconies, docks and seawalls are part of the program when they are attached to a structure or support one.
Building office City of Pompano Beach Building Department Pompano City Hall, 3rd Floor 100 West Atlantic Boulevard Pompano Beach, FL 33060 Phone: (954) 786-4669
Read on the website of the City of Pompano Beach Building Department:
When it applies
The deadlines that apply in Pompano Beach
The schedule is the Broward County Board of Rules and Appeals’, printed here for a building in Pompano Beach; the date on your own notice is the one that counts.
- First due in Pompano Beach: At 25 years, counted from the certificate of occupancy.
- Then in Pompano Beach: Every 10 years.
- Time to file in Pompano Beach: 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 Pompano Beach: 180 days from the date of the report, under permit, unless the Building Official sets a different time.
- Condominiums & co-ops in Pompano Beach: The BSIP report serves as phase one and phase two of the state milestone inspection.
Broward County’s rows, for Pompano Beach. 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 Pompano Beach ask
Who sends the Building Safety Inspection Program notice in Pompano Beach?
The city’s Building Official. Pompano Beach’s page says the Notice of Required Inspection travels by certified mail to the owner or the association, and that the report comes back to the Building Official. A phone photo of that notice is all we need to read it and confirm what the Building Official is asking for, and by when.
How do we file the BSIP report in Pompano Beach?
Pompano Beach’s page says the report is submitted to the Building Official, with the Board of Rules and Appeals’ structural and electrical report form. It gives no portal, e-mail or file format for it. The city’s Re-Inspection Affidavit does carry a delivery instruction — electronically or by hand — but it speaks of that affidavit, not of the report. So we ask the Building Department how it wants the report before anything is filed.
Does Pompano Beach have its own forms for the BSIP?
It has one for the re-inspection that follows repairs: the Re-Inspection Affidavit, listed on the city’s program page and carrying the letterhead of its Building Inspections Division. For the report itself, Pompano Beach’s page names the Broward County Board of Rules and Appeals’ structural and electrical report form. The complete BSIP inspection and report we deliver goes on the forms that page names.
Can we get more time for the BSIP report or the repairs in Pompano Beach?
Pompano Beach’s page provides for it. The Building Official may issue an extension, capped on the page, to submit the report or to obtain permits when the licensed professional asks in writing and states, signed and sealed, that the building may stay occupied. For repairs that cannot be finished in time, a new time frame may be approved while a repair permit stays active. The county’s times are in the rows above.
What happens in Pompano Beach if the BSIP report is late?
Pompano Beach’s program page does not say. It covers the notice, the report, repairs and extensions, and says nothing on what follows a late report. Is the date on your notice already past? Send it to us all the same, and we read what the Building Official is asking for.
One team
The complete BSIP inspection and report for a building in Pompano Beach
Next step
Send the notice from Pompano Beach’s Building Official — a phone photo is enough — or, with no notice yet, the address and the year of the certificate of occupancy. We read what Pompano Beach asks for and by when, then reply with 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.