Building Recertification in Miami Lakes

How it starts

Each year, the Town’s page explains, more properties reach the county’s ages, and their owners receive a Notice of Required Recertification to commence the process. The page counts the time for the reports from the date of that notice, so the letter itself is the document to keep at hand.

What the reports certify

After the notice, the owners submit written reports certifying that each building is structurally and electrically safe for its specified use and for continued occupancy. The Town’s page asks for a design professional with proven training and experience in the field that each report covers, structural or electrical.

The Town’s forms

Under its Forms heading the Town links two files that still carry the program’s former 40-year name, one electrical and one structural. Both open Miami-Dade County’s own report forms, issued by its Department of Regulatory and Economic Resources, so a Miami Lakes report is written on the county template.

Revised templates

The Town’s page notes that the county strengthened the program to inspect more building components and take a closer look at existing buildings. It adds that the Board of Rules and Appeals approved updated guidelines and report templates, which the page says it makes available below that note.

What the form asks

The structural form linked from Miami Lakes opens with a choice between the initial report and the amended report filed after repairs are complete. It then has the inspection marked on a scale that runs from passed, through maintenance needed, to a dangerous condition the Building Official must be told about, and it has a box for unpermitted work.

Who is exempt

The Town lists the kinds of residences that do not go through the process: single-family homes, duplexes, and small buildings within a set occupant load and floor area. Any other building in the Town that reaches the county’s age is covered.

Condominiums and state law

The Town’s page explains that a state law created milestone inspections for condominium and cooperative association buildings of three stories and more, and that the county amended its ordinance alongside it. It says the two together affect every existing building in Miami-Dade County.

Each application

The Building Department’s schedule of charges treats every recertification as an application it processes under the county code — the first one a building files and each later one alike. It sits in the same schedule as the department’s permits.

Building office Town of Miami Lakes Building Department 6601 Main Street Miami Lakes, FL 33014 Phone: (305) 827-4015

Read on the website of the Town of Miami Lakes Building Department: October 17, 2026