Miami-Dade Recertification
Opa-locka’s Building and Licensing Department issues the recertification notices and reviews the consultants’ reports. One team takes your Opa-locka building through the complete recertification.
- Engineer
- Juan Tercero, PE., M.Sc. · Florida PE 105256
Your city
How building recertification is handled in Opa-locka
In Opa-locka the recertification sits with the City of Opa-locka Building and Licensing Department, the office that also issues the city’s building permits and certificates of occupancy. Its page gives the program two lines — sending the notices and reviewing the reports — and no more, so this page is short, and whatever the city does not publish is confirmed with the department.
- The notice
- Among the department’s responsibilities, Opa-locka’s page lists issuing notices to building owners to comply with the structural and electrical inspection for recertification. The page does not say how the notice is delivered or what it encloses, so hold on to it: the county’s time to file runs from it.
- The review
- The same list puts the review of the consultants’ reports for recertification in the department’s hands, next to plan review and permitting. Opa-locka publishes no filing route, form or review time for those reports; each of the three is a question for the Building and Licensing Department before anything is handed in.
- Repair permits
- Opa-locka’s permit questions say every building permit application is turned in complete at the intake counter, checked for sufficiency, sent to the Zoning Department and then to plans examination for compliance with the Florida Building Code. The permit is issued in the name of whoever does the work, a licensed contractor or an owner-builder.
- Small repairs
- The same questions quote the Florida Building Code on repairs: altering or repairing any part of a building needs a permit first. Even maintenance small enough to go without a permit, the page adds, may not be carried out without the building official’s approval beforehand.
- Older names
- The department’s page still describes the program by its former name, speaking of 40-year-old buildings. It is Miami-Dade County’s building recertification, and the ages and days in force in Opa-locka are the county’s, in the rows further down.
Building office City of Opa-locka Building and Licensing Department 780 Fisherman Street Opa-locka, FL 33054 Phone: (305) 953-2868
Read on the website of the City of Opa-locka Building and Licensing Department:
When it applies
The deadlines that apply in Opa-locka
The schedule is Miami-Dade County’s, printed here for a building in Opa-locka; the date on your own notice is the one that counts.
- First due in Opa-locka: At 30 years — 25 for condominium and cooperative buildings of three or more stories within 3 miles of the coast.
- Then in Opa-locka: Every 10 years, for the life of the structure.
- Time to file in Opa-locka: 90 days from the Notice of Required Inspection.
- If repairs are needed in Opa-locka: 150 days from the Notice to finish repairs that need no permit and to obtain permits for the rest.
- Condominiums & co-ops in Opa-locka: The recertification serves as compliance with the state milestone inspection — no separate milestone report is filed.
Miami-Dade County’s rows, for Opa-locka. Source: Code of Miami-Dade County, Section 8-11(f) · Last verified:
Questions & answers
Questions boards in Opa-locka ask
Who sends the recertification notice in Opa-locka?
The City of Opa-locka Building and Licensing Department; its page lists issuing those notices among the department’s duties. Nothing on the page says how the notice travels, so a photo of whatever reached you is the quickest way for us to read what Opa-locka expects of the building and by when.
Who reviews the recertification report in Opa-locka?
The same department. Opa-locka’s page names the review of consultants’ reports for recertification as one of its duties. Its forms list carries permit applications but no recertification form, so before the complete package goes in we ask the department which forms and which route it expects.
How long do we have to recertify a building in Opa-locka?
Opa-locka’s page gives no count of its own. The county’s time starts from the notice — it is in the “Time to file” row above — and the time for repairs is under “If repairs are needed”. Keep the Opa-locka notice and the day it arrived; those two set the calendar.
Do repairs found in an Opa-locka recertification need permits?
Opa-locka’s permit questions quote the Florida Building Code: repairing any part of a building takes a permit from the building official, and even minor work that needs none still needs the building official’s prior approval. The application goes in complete at the department’s intake counter and passes through zoning and plans examination.
Is Opa-locka’s recertification the same as the 40-year recertification?
Yes. The department’s page still uses that former name, describing notices to owners of 40-year-old buildings. The program is Miami-Dade County’s, and the ages that apply now are under “First due” and “Then” above, earlier than the old name suggests.
One team
The complete recertification for a building in Opa-locka
Next step
Got a recertification notice from the City of Opa-locka Building and Licensing Department? Send a phone photo of it, or the address and the year built if nothing has arrived. We check with the department what it expects and reply 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.