Building Recertification in Sunny Isles Beach

The notice

The city’s page says owners of properties that require recertification receive a Notice of Required Recertification, which starts the process; further on it writes Notice of Required Inspection. It does not say who sends it in Sunny Isles Beach, or how. Keep the letter: the page counts the owner’s time from its date, and the days in force are in the rows further down.

Filing the report

The city’s list of what to submit names a structural inspection report and an electrical inspection report, each signed and sealed, with copies, and asks that every form carry an original signature and a seal. The page names no portal or counter for the package, so we confirm with Sunny Isles Beach’s Building Department how it wants it delivered.

The city’s forms

The Building Department’s documents page has a section headed Building Recertification Forms, with a structural form, an electrical form and a general considerations and guidelines document. Those guidelines say the forms provided must be used and that proprietary forms are not accepted. The city ties both reports to the minimum inspection guidelines required by the Miami-Dade County Board of Rules and Appeals.

What goes with it

The same section posts two parking-lot documents, one on guardrails and one on illumination; each belongs in the package only where it applies to the property.

Repairs

Before any repair, the city’s page says, the owner hires a Florida licensed contractor and obtains permits from the Building Department; its permits page says every application is filed online, through a portal account. Once every permit passes final inspection, the recertification page calls for a signed and sealed report stating that the repairs are complete and the building is safe for continued use.

Extensions

The city’s page says the Building Official may grant an extension, up to a limit it states, to submit the report or to obtain the permits. It takes a written request from the professional, with a signed and sealed statement that the building may continue to be occupied while it undergoes recertification. Sunny Isles Beach’s page does not say where that request is sent.

If it is late

Sunny Isles Beach’s page says a property whose recertification is not obtained in time is referred to the Unsafe Structures Section and an enforcement case is opened. That section then monitors the process, and the page lists posting the building unsafe, a Notice of Violation, referral to the Unsafe Structures Board and orders to vacate among its steps.

A second notice

The same city page covers the recertification of structural glazing: owners of threshold buildings with an exterior façade of structural sealant glazing must have that façade inspected at intervals, and they receive a notice with its own name, the Notice of Required Recertification of Structural Glazing for Threshold Buildings. Read the title on your letter to see which of the two you hold.

Building office City of Sunny Isles Beach Building Department Government Center, 3rd Floor 18070 Collins Avenue Sunny Isles Beach, FL 33160 Phone: (305) 947-2150

Read on the website of the City of Sunny Isles Beach Building Department: October 9, 2026