Building Recertification in Bay Harbor Islands

Who handles it

Recertification matters in the Town go to the Building Department, whose page carries the Building & Zoning Department heading. The Chief Building Official presented the Town’s condo workshop on the program together with a council member, and appears as the presenter of the recertification cases on the Town’s Special Master agenda.

Engineers’ reports to the Town

A Town ordinance, summarized in the workshop slides, has each condominium, cooperative or homeowners’ association, and each apartment complex above the size it sets, designate a Responsible Person. That person files with the Town any engineer’s or architect’s report on the building’s structural, electrical or life-safety conditions, within the short count of business days the ordinance gives.

How that filing works

Filing, in the ordinance’s words as the slides give them, means hand delivery to the Town’s Chief Building Official, or to the Building Department when that official is absent. The report goes in on paper and, where a digital copy exists, in digital form as well — so a recertification report reaches the Town under this rule too.

Association registration

The same ordinance asks condominium and cooperative associations, multifamily owners and commercial and residential buildings to register with the Town’s Code Compliance unit on a Town form, and to update the registration each year. The slides list what it asks for, from the property manager to the officers, directors and insurance agent.

Repairs need permits

Several citations on the Town’s posted Special Master agenda read “Apply and obtain permit(s) for all repairs as indicated on your engineer’s report.” In Bay Harbor Islands, then, the repairs a recertification report lists are done under permit, and leaving them unpermitted can turn into a code case of its own.

If it is late

On that agenda, a building whose recertification report had not been turned in was cited under the Town Code chapter on minimum standards for buildings, and the department recommended a daily penalty until the building came into compliance. For another case, its recommendation was simply to submit the required engineering report to complete the recertification process.

Older names

The Town’s citation for a missing report still calls it by the building’s decade of age, the way the program’s former 40-year name did. For a Bay Harbor Islands building today the ages and days that count are Miami-Dade County’s, printed in the rows further down this page.

Building office Town of Bay Harbor Islands Building Department 1045 95th Street, Trailer 3 Bay Harbor Islands, FL 33154 Phone: (305) 993-1786

Read on the website of the Town of Bay Harbor Islands Building Department: October 17, 2026