Building Recertification in Miami Gardens

The notice

The city’s website does not say who sends the Notice of Required Inspection, or how it reaches the owner. On the site the notice appears only as a date to fill in: the city’s structural report form asks for the date of that notice, and its extension request has a line marked Notice Date. Keep the letter, so the date is at hand.

The city’s forms

Miami Gardens lists its own structural and electrical report forms — each titled with the city’s initials, CMG — in the Recertification group of its Documents and Forms page. The guidelines in that group are Miami-Dade County’s; they say the approved report forms must be used and that proprietary forms will not be accepted.

What goes with them

The city also posts two certifications for the parking lot — illumination and guardrails — which are filed where they apply to the property. The guidelines ask for a cover letter with each report, and the electrical form has a section for infrared thermography, where the building’s electrical service requires it, with the thermography report attached.

Filing the report

The page that lists these forms opens with one general instruction: building forms are to be completed and submitted as attachments to an online permit application in CSS, the city’s Citizen Self Service portal, as required. The site has no filing instruction written for the recertification report in particular, so we confirm with Building Services how yours is to be filed before anything goes in.

After filing

The city’s site does not describe its review or say how an owner learns the result. The county guidelines it posts say that recertification reports may be audited, that the building may be inspected at the discretion of the Building Official, and that the Building Official keeps the right to revoke an approved report.

Repairs

The guidelines Miami Gardens posts say that repairs the report identifies will most likely need permits, that proceeding without them may lead to a code violation, and that repairs under a permit afford additional time to comply. The city’s structural form has a box for the amended report, after completion of repairs, and asks whether the building can remain occupied while they are ongoing.

Extensions

The city has its own form, titled Recertification Extension Request. It is written as a letter from the owner, the owner’s agent or the contractor that gives the reasons for the request, and it is sworn before a notary. A line on it records the number of days granted; the site does not say where the form is sent.

Older names

The Building Services page still lists the program as “40 Year Re-Certifications”, and the city’s extension request still calls it the 40-year recertification. The report forms the city posts say building recertification, and that is the program meant. The ages and the days in force are the county’s, in the rows further down.

Building office City of Miami Gardens Building Services 18605 NW 27th Avenue Miami Gardens, FL 33056 Phone: (305) 622-8027

Read on the website of the City of Miami Gardens Building Services: October 9, 2026