Broward BSIP
Sunrise’s Building Division takes the Building Safety Inspection Program reports in person or through its Customer Self-Service Portal; one team delivers the complete BSIP inspection and report.
- Engineer
- Juan Tercero, PE., M.Sc. · Florida PE 105256
Your city
How the Building Safety Inspection Program runs in Sunrise
In Sunrise the Building Safety Inspection Program (BSIP) goes through the city’s Building Division, which receives the reports. Each year the Broward County Board of Rules and Appeals sends the city the list of buildings that are due, and Sunrise publishes a submittal checklist and an application of its own. What follows comes from those documents, from the city’s pages and from the agendas of Sunrise’s Special Magistrate.
- The notice
- The city says the list of buildings due reaches Sunrise each year from the Broward County Board of Rules and Appeals, and that it rests on the construction year in the Broward County Property Appraiser’s records. Cases on the Special Magistrate’s agenda describe a formal notice issued by the Building Official, which sets the deadline.
- Filing the report
- The reports are submitted to the Building Division, in person or electronically through the city’s Customer Self-Service Portal, which asks for an account to be created first. Sunrise’s checklist asks for one application per building and, on the portal, a separate submission for each.
- Paper or PDF
- In person, Sunrise’s checklist asks for an original copy of each report with a seal and a wet signature. On the portal, each item of the checklist is a separate file in unprotected PDF and each report is digitally signed and sealed; a report the city’s Plans Examiners cannot digitally verify is not accepted.
- The city’s forms
- Sunrise has its own application for the program and asks that it be completely filled out, including the tracking number from the notification. The reports themselves go on the current Building Safety Inspection Report forms, which the city says can be downloaded from the county’s website. Document Central, on the city’s site, also lists a structural and an electrical BSIP inspection form.
- What goes with it
- Sunrise’s application lists two report forms for the package: the structural and the electrical. The checklist asks that each be completely filled out, with either “No Repairs Required” or “Repairs are Required” checked on its cover page. The application also has a Repairs Required Submittal box, which asks for the permit numbers of the repairs.
- Repairs
- When either report is marked “Repairs Required”, Sunrise’s plan reviewers decide whether permits are required, based on the repairs the report outlines. Once the permits are obtained and the repairs made, a new report marked “No Repairs Required” is submitted to the city. The city says that once it reviews and accepts that report, the building is in compliance with the program.
- If it is late
- Enforcement cases in Sunrise are heard before a Special Magistrate, and the hearing agenda has a block for the Building Safety Inspection Program under the Building Division. The properties listed there are described as having exceeded the deadline to comply with the program. The agendas also cite the requirement that the deficiencies found be repaired and re-inspected within a time counted from the report’s date.
- Older names
- Some older repair cases on one of the Special Magistrate’s agendas still call the report form “40 Year”, a name from the earlier schedule. The program is the one Sunrise now calls the Building Safety Inspection Program, and the ages and days in force are the county’s, in the rows further down.
Building office City of Sunrise Building Division 10770 W. Oakland Park Boulevard Sunrise, FL 33351 Phone: (954) 572-2354
Read on the website of the City of Sunrise Building Division:
When it applies
The deadlines that apply in Sunrise
The schedule is the Broward County Board of Rules and Appeals’, printed here for a building in Sunrise; the date on your own notice is the one that counts.
- First due in Sunrise: At 25 years, counted from the certificate of occupancy.
- Then in Sunrise: Every 10 years.
- Time to file in Sunrise: 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 Sunrise: 180 days from the date of the report, under permit, unless the Building Official sets a different time.
- Condominiums & co-ops in Sunrise: The BSIP report serves as phase one and phase two of the state milestone inspection.
Broward County’s rows, for Sunrise. 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 Sunrise ask
Who sends the BSIP notice in Sunrise?
Sunrise’s Building Official: the Special Magistrate’s agenda describes a formal notice issued by the Building Official, which sets the deadline. The list of buildings due reaches the city each year from the Broward County Board of Rules and Appeals. Keep the notification: the city’s application asks for its tracking number, and Sunrise only accepts reports for buildings that have been notified that a report is due.
How do we file the BSIP report in Sunrise?
With the Building Division, in person or electronically through the Customer Self-Service Portal after creating an account. Either way, each building has its own application. Sunrise’s checklist sets the format: originals with a seal and a wet signature in person; on the portal, separate unprotected PDF files, with each report digitally signed and sealed. The complete BSIP package we deliver goes on the forms Sunrise asks for.
What if our building in Sunrise should not be on the BSIP list?
The city’s questions and answers give a telephone number to call if you believe there has been an error. They explain that the list rests on the construction year in the Broward County Property Appraiser’s records, and they name what is exempt: one- and two-family dwellings, federal and State of Florida buildings, Broward County School Board schools, buildings under the floor area the city gives, and buildings on Indian Reservations.
What happens in Sunrise when the BSIP report says repairs are required?
The city’s plan reviewers decide whether permits are required, based on the repairs the report outlines. Once the permits are obtained and the repairs made, a new report marked “No Repairs Required” goes to the city; Sunrise’s application has a Repairs Required Submittal box that asks for the permit numbers. The city says the building is in compliance once it reviews and accepts that report.
What happens in Sunrise if the BSIP report is late?
Late-report cases appear on the agenda of Sunrise’s Special Magistrate: it has a block for the Building Safety Inspection Program under the Building Division, and it describes the properties there as having exceeded the deadline to comply. The same agenda states what the program requires of the owner: the Building Safety Inspection Certification Forms, submitted to the Building Official. For more on a hearing, the city refers people to the Clerk to the Special Magistrate.
One team
The complete BSIP inspection and report for a building in Sunrise
Next step
Send the notice from Sunrise’s Building Official — a phone photo is enough — or, with no notice yet, the address and the year of the certificate of occupancy. We confirm what the Building Division asks for and by when, and 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.