Broward BSIP
Tamarac opens each BSIP case with a Broward County uniform permit application and follows it by the number the city assigns. One team delivers your building’s complete BSIP inspection and report.
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How the Building Safety Inspection Program runs in Tamarac
In Tamarac the Building Safety Inspection Program (BSIP) belongs to the City of Tamarac Building Department, which files it with its flood and safety information. The Building Official issues the notice; the process then starts with a building permit application and a current ownership record from the county’s Property Appraiser, and the number the application receives goes back to the department by e-mail. Below is what Tamarac’s own pages say, one subject at a time; the county’s deadlines are in the rows further down.
- The notice
- Tamarac’s page says the Building Official issues a Notice of Required Inspection to the building owner or association once the property becomes due. Behind that notice is a county list: each June, the page says, the Broward County Board of Rules and Appeals names the properties due, both those reaching their first inspection and those due again.
- Opening the application
- The first document Tamarac asks for is the Building Permit Application, and the copy its program page links is the Broward County Uniform Building Permit Application. On that copy the description of work is already printed as a building safety inspection engineer report, with blanks left for the inspection cycle and the year.
- Proof of ownership
- Along with the application, Tamarac wants current ownership documentation from the Broward County Property Appraiser for the property under review, and its page links the Property Appraiser’s records for it. An old printout kept in the association’s files does not meet that word “current”.
- The application number
- Once the application is in and the city has assigned it a number, Tamarac’s page asks that the number be e-mailed to the Building Department, at the program address the page gives, so the department can track compliance. The page lays this out as three plain steps: submit the application, keep the number, send it.
- The report forms
- Tamarac does not host the report forms. Its page sends owners to the Broward County Board of Rules and Appeals for the official forms, checklists and supporting documentation, and says the inspections must conform to the Board’s minimum guidelines, General Considerations & Guidelines for Building Safety Inspections.
- Whose rules apply
- A policy notice on Tamarac’s page states that the Board of Rules and Appeals’ policy for the program supersedes a State of Florida Senate bill as to the requirements that apply within Broward County. For a Tamarac building, then, the county program governs; its ages and times are the ones in the rows below.
- What the page omits
- Tamarac’s program page does not say where the reports themselves are uploaded, how they are reviewed, what follows a late filing or how repairs are permitted. The department’s Online Services page describes ePermits and Electronic Plan Review for submitting documents in general, so we confirm the route for the reports with the Building Department before they go in.
Building office City of Tamarac Building Department 6011 Nob Hill Road, First Floor Tamarac, FL 33321-6200 Phone: (954) 597-3420
Read on the website of the City of Tamarac Building Department:
When it applies
The deadlines that apply in Tamarac
The schedule is the Broward County Board of Rules and Appeals’, printed here for a building in Tamarac; the date on your own notice is the one that counts.
- First due in Tamarac: At 25 years, counted from the certificate of occupancy.
- Then in Tamarac: Every 10 years.
- Time to file in Tamarac: 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 Tamarac: 180 days from the date of the report, under permit, unless the Building Official sets a different time.
- Condominiums & co-ops in Tamarac: The BSIP report serves as phase one and phase two of the state milestone inspection.
Broward County’s rows, for Tamarac. 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 Tamarac ask
Who sends the BSIP notice in Tamarac?
Tamarac’s Building Official. The city’s page says the Notice of Required Inspection goes to the building owner or association when the property becomes due, after the Board of Rules and Appeals hands over its yearly list. Send us that notice — a picture taken with a phone will do — and we read what Tamarac is asking for and by when.
What do we file first for the BSIP in Tamarac?
A building permit application, on the Broward County uniform form that Tamarac’s page links, with current ownership documentation from the Broward County Property Appraiser. When the application receives its number, the page asks that the number be e-mailed to the Building Department for compliance tracking. The inspection reports follow on the Board’s forms.
Where are the BSIP report forms for a Tamarac building?
With the Broward County Board of Rules and Appeals: Tamarac’s page sends owners to the Board for the official forms, the required checklists and the supporting documentation. The complete BSIP inspection and report we deliver is prepared on those forms, following the Board’s guidelines that the city’s page names.
How long do we have to file the BSIP report in Tamarac?
The times are Broward’s and appear above, under “Time to file” and “If repairs are needed”. Tamarac’s page adds that the Board’s policy for the program governs within Broward County over a State of Florida Senate bill. The page describes no extension, so the date in your notice is the one to plan around.
Is Tamarac’s BSIP the program people still call the 40-year inspection?
Yes. The uniform permit application Tamarac links still prints the 40-year label first among the cycles in its description of work, next to the current first inspection and the later ones. It is a single program, and the ages that apply today are the county’s, shown in the rows above.
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The complete BSIP inspection and report for a building in Tamarac
Next step
Send the notice from Tamarac’s Building Official, or a phone picture of it; with no notice yet, send the address and the year the certificate of occupancy was issued. We check what the City of Tamarac Building Department expects and answer 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.