Miami-Dade Recertification
Cutler Bay’s Building Division posts Miami-Dade’s recertification report forms and guidelines on its own forms page. One team delivers your Cutler Bay building’s complete recertification on those forms.
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- Juan Tercero, PE., M.Sc. · Florida PE 105256
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How building recertification is handled in Cutler Bay
In Cutler Bay the recertification sits with the Town’s Building Division, the office that also assesses potentially dangerous structures and posts unsafe notices. The Town has no page that walks through the program; its Building Forms page carries the county’s report forms, the two parking-lot certifications and the county’s general guidelines. The rows below rest on those documents and on the division’s own page.
- The Town’s forms
- The Building Forms page lists a structural and an electrical Building Recertification Inspection Report Form. Both carry the header of Miami-Dade’s Regulatory and Economic Resources Department, so a Cutler Bay report is written on the county’s own templates, each marked as the initial report or as the amended report once repairs are complete.
- Parking-lot forms
- Next to them, the Town’s list carries a certification of compliance with parking-lot guardrails and another with parking-lot illumination, both county forms. The guardrail form starts by asking whether the lot abuts a canal, lake or other body of water; each certification belongs in the package where it applies to the property.
- The guidelines
- The Town also posts the county’s General Considerations and Guidelines. They say the approved report forms must be used and proprietary ones are refused, that photos must be in color with enough resolution to show the conditions, and that each report carries the design professional’s cover letter stating the building is not unsafe for continued occupancy.
- Larger electrical services
- Where a building’s electrical service is large enough to reach the threshold in those guidelines, they call for an infrared thermography inspection with a written report on switchgear, panelboards, disconnects, transformers and the other listed equipment, carried out by a certified thermographer.
- Repairs and permits
- The guidelines on the Town’s site tell owners to hand in the initial report to the local jurisdiction right away and not to begin repairs without permits; work done under a permit earns more time to complete the recertification. Unpermitted additions the inspection finds must be named in the report even when they were built properly.
- After filing
- By those guidelines, the Building Official may audit a recertification report, inspect the building, and revoke a report already approved. The Building Division’s own page adds that it assesses potentially dangerous structures and posts unsafe notices as needed.
- How it is filed
- Cutler Bay’s pages do not say how a recertification report is delivered. Permits, inspections and plan reviews are handled at Town Hall by the Town’s contractor, CAP Government, and permit and inspection status can be followed online, so the route is a point we settle with the Building Division before the report goes in.
Building office Town of Cutler Bay Building Division 10720 Caribbean Blvd., Suite 110 Cutler Bay, FL 33189 Phone: (305) 234-4193
Read on the website of the Town of Cutler Bay Building Division:
When it applies
The deadlines that apply in Cutler Bay
The schedule is Miami-Dade County’s, printed here for a building in Cutler Bay; the date on your own notice is the one that counts.
- First due in Cutler Bay: At 30 years — 25 for condominium and cooperative buildings of three or more stories within 3 miles of the coast.
- Then in Cutler Bay: Every 10 years, for the life of the structure.
- Time to file in Cutler Bay: 90 days from the Notice of Required Inspection.
- If repairs are needed in Cutler Bay: 150 days from the Notice to finish repairs that need no permit and to obtain permits for the rest.
- Condominiums & co-ops in Cutler Bay: The recertification serves as compliance with the state milestone inspection — no separate milestone report is filed.
Miami-Dade County’s rows, for Cutler Bay. Source: Code of Miami-Dade County, Section 8-11(f) · Last verified:
Questions & answers
Questions boards in Cutler Bay ask
Who receives the recertification report in Cutler Bay?
The Town of Cutler Bay Building Division, at the Town Center, which runs permits, inspections and plan review through the Town’s contractor, CAP Government. The county guidelines it posts say the initial report goes to the local jurisdiction for processing; the Town’s pages describe no special route, so we confirm it with the division.
Which forms does Cutler Bay use for the recertification?
Miami-Dade’s. The Town’s Building Forms page links the county’s structural and electrical recertification report forms and its two parking-lot certifications, and the county guidelines on that page say proprietary forms are not accepted. The complete package we deliver for a Cutler Bay building is prepared on those forms.
What if the inspection finds work done without a permit in Cutler Bay?
The guidelines the Town posts call unpermitted additions found during recertification an unsafe situation that must be identified in the report, even if properly built, and make legalizing them a step before a successful report. They also suggest looking into code compliance cases on file, since earlier violations can affect the recertification.
How long do we have to recertify a building in Cutler Bay?
The days are Miami-Dade County’s, counted from the notice, and they sit in the rows above under “Time to file” and “If repairs are needed”. Cutler Bay’s own pages publish no timetable of their own, so keep the notice that reached the building and write down the day it arrived.
Is Cutler Bay’s building recertification the same as the state milestone inspection?
The county guidelines on the Town’s forms page describe Miami-Dade’s recertification as synonymous with the state’s milestone inspection program, folding both of its phases into one inspection and going beyond the state minimum. For a condominium or cooperative in Cutler Bay, the row above on condominiums says how the two relate.
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The complete recertification for a building in Cutler Bay
Next step
Send the recertification notice for your Cutler Bay building, or just its address and the year it was built, and we check what the Town of Cutler Bay Building Division will expect. You receive a proposal for the complete recertification, prepared on the county’s forms.
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.