Miami-Dade Recertification
Homestead’s Building Safety office, within Development Services, publishes the county’s recertification ordinance and the report templates. One team delivers your recertification complete, on those templates.
- Engineer
- Juan Tercero, PE., M.Sc. · Florida PE 105256
Your city
How building recertification is handled in Homestead
Homestead keeps its recertification page under City of Homestead Development Services, Building Safety, which the city’s other pages call the Building Department. The page says how the process starts and what owners must submit, and links the report templates approved by the Board of Rules and Appeals. For repairs, extensions and late reports, what the city publishes is the county ordinance, on its own letterhead.
- The notice
- Homestead’s page says owners receive a Notice of Required Recertification, and that the notice starts the process. The county ordinance, in the copy the city publishes, calls it the Notice of Required Inspection, says the Building Official provides it, and adds advance courtesy notices ahead of the recertification anniversary year.
- Filing the report
- Homestead’s recertification page does not say how the report is filed. Elsewhere the city names its online portal, EPL-B.U.I.L.D, and lists Building Recertification among the requests customers can submit and track there. We confirm the route with Homestead’s Building Department before the package goes in.
- The city’s forms
- Homestead’s page offers the guidelines and report templates approved by the Board of Rules and Appeals (BORA), and says they have been revised. The general guidelines it links are Miami-Dade County’s own document. The complete package goes on the templates that page lists.
- What goes with it
- The same list on Homestead’s page carries a parking-lot illumination certification and a parking-lot guardrails certification; they go in where they apply to the property. Homestead’s copy of the county ordinance says the report bears an impressed seal and signature unless it is submitted electronically with a verifiable digital signature.
- After filing
- Homestead’s recertification page does not describe how a report is reviewed or how the owner hears the result. Of its portal, the city says users can upload documents and track progress in one place. Homestead’s copy of the ordinance adds that the Building Official may revoke a recertification on determining that the report misrepresents the building’s actual conditions.
- Repairs
- The ordinance copy on Homestead’s letterhead says the Building Official is given a letter stating whether the building may continue to be safely occupied while it is under repair, and calls for an amended report stating that the building has been recertified. Repairs that need permits, it says, follow the Building Code and the timeline in the active permit.
- Extensions
- Homestead’s copy of the county ordinance says the Building Official may issue an extension, limited in length, to submit the report or to obtain the necessary permits, on a written request. The request must contain a signed and sealed statement that the building may continue to be occupied while it undergoes recertification.
- If it is late
- Homestead’s own page does not say what follows a late report. The county ordinance the city republishes says the Building Official may order a building’s electrical utilities disconnected on finding that the inaction leaves it uncertain whether the building may continue to be safely occupied — and must first notify the owner by certified mail and post a notice on the building.
Building office City of Homestead Development Services, Building Safety 100 Civic Court Homestead, FL 33030 Phone: (305) 224-4500
Read on the website of the City of Homestead Development Services, Building Safety:
When it applies
The deadlines that apply in Homestead
The schedule is Miami-Dade County’s, printed here for a building in Homestead; the date on your own notice is the one that counts.
- First due in Homestead: At 30 years — 25 for condominium and cooperative buildings of three or more stories within 3 miles of the coast.
- Then in Homestead: Every 10 years, for the life of the structure.
- Time to file in Homestead: 90 days from the Notice of Required Inspection.
- If repairs are needed in Homestead: 150 days from the Notice to finish repairs that need no permit and to obtain permits for the rest.
- Condominiums & co-ops in Homestead: The recertification serves as compliance with the state milestone inspection — no separate milestone report is filed.
Miami-Dade County’s rows, for Homestead. Source: Code of Miami-Dade County, Section 8-11(f) · Last verified:
Questions & answers
Questions boards in Homestead ask
What does a Notice of Required Recertification from Homestead mean?
It starts the process. The city’s page says owners of the properties that require certification receive that notice, and that they must submit written reports certifying each building is structurally and electrically safe for continued occupancy. How long Homestead owners have to file is the county’s rule, in the rows above. A phone photo of the notice is enough for us to confirm what the city asks for and by when.
How do we file a recertification report in Homestead?
Homestead’s recertification page does not say. The city’s pages about its online portal, EPL-B.U.I.L.D, list Building Recertification among the requests handled there, and the portal’s questions page says in general terms that applications and documents must be submitted online, though customers are still welcome to come in for assistance. Send us the notice and we confirm the route with the Building Department first.
Which buildings in Homestead do not go through recertification?
Homestead’s page names them: single-family homes, duplexes, and small buildings that stay within both an occupant-load limit and a floor-area limit printed on that page. For Homestead buildings that do go through it, the ages are the county’s, in the rows above. Not sure which group yours is in? Send the address and the year built, and we read the building’s history before we reply.
What happens in Homestead if the recertification report is late?
Homestead’s own page does not say. The county ordinance the city republishes says the Building Official may order the electrical utilities disconnected on determining that the inaction creates uncertainty about whether the building may continue to be safely occupied, and only after notice by certified mail and a notice posted on the building. If the date on your Homestead notice has already passed, send it all the same — a phone photo is enough.
Is Homestead’s recertification the same as the 40-year recertification?
Yes. Homestead’s recertification page still calls it the 40-year recertification process and still carries the earlier schedule. It is the same program — Miami-Dade County’s, under the ordinance the city republishes on its letterhead. The ages and the days in force today are the county’s, in the rows above; go by those and by the date on your notice.
One team
The complete recertification for a building in Homestead
Next step
Have a Notice of Required Recertification from Homestead? Photograph it with your phone and send it to us; without one, the address and the year built will do. We check what the Building Department wants and by when, then answer with a proposal for the complete recertification.
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.